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As genealogists, we frequently reference the deaths of ancestors. This is different kind of death, however:
GeoCities seems to be on its last breaths:
Current GeoCities customers:
I don't have a site at GeoCities, so why do I care if they are shutting down their free accounts?
You do not need to know any user names or passwords to copy publicly-available web sites. In fact, you can even copy web sites that you do not own…
I clicked on his link for Windows users, and in that post he recommends an open-source (free!) program called HTTrack Website Copier. Ok, Dick knows what he's talking about, so I'll give it a try.
I downloaded the first version listed, WinHTTrack : Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP (also included: command line version).
That took maybe two minutes to download with my DSL connection. Then I installed the program, another minute maybe. I ran the program as is with its default settings, entered the address of my cousin's site and pressed <next>, then <finish>.
I sat back and watched for a few seconds as the program began to download the website's files. I expected this to take quite some time, so I started playing with my cellphone as I waited. After about 2 minutes, the program made a wierd noise and announced that the mirroring operation was completed!
I clicked on <Browse Mirrored Website>….
…and there on my hard drive, in a folder that I had created in my McBurnett surname folder, was her entire Geocities site, snug as a bug! All of the links worked (she used GedHTree to display her gedcom as html), all the data was there, everything.
I am thrilled, let me tell you. And this just might be the simplest "geeky" thing that I've ever done. My cat could have done it, I swear! Her entire site added up to only 10 MB on my hard drive.
So folks, if you have a GeoCities site of your own, or use someone else's site in your research, don't wait to take action. It would truly be a tragedy to lose all of these sites and all of their wonderful genealogical data!


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Aston Villa out of Premier League relegation zone with 2-1 win over West Ham
Christian Benteke and Charles N'Zogbia combined to lift Aston Villa out of the drop zone with a 2-1 win over West Ham.
By Rob Parrish - Follow me on Twitter @skysportsrobp
Last Updated: 10/02/13 7:39pm
Benteke showed no sign of nerves as he rolled home from the penalty spot to break the deadlock with 16 minutes to go after N'Zogbia had been tripped in the area by Mark Noble.
And the former Wigan and Newcastle man then stepped up to curl home an outstanding free-kick to double the advantage for Paul Lambert's men four minutes later.
There was a nervy finish in store for the home supporters as Ashley Westwood could only loop a header from Joe Cole's dangerous curling cross over Brad Guzan and into his own net with three minutes to go.
And in the last of four added minutes, the Villa goalkeeper was called into action to make a crucial save, blocking a close range shot from Kevin Nolan at his near post.
The victory sees Villa climb to 17th in the Premier League table, pushing Reading down into the bottom three but only one point adrift of the Midlands side.
The first half at Villa Park was an instantly forgettable affair, with the only incident of note coming in the opening exchanges, when Andreas Weimann produced one of the misses of the season in only the second minute.
Benteke fired in a shot from range, which Jussi Jaaskelainen failed to deal with, and it looked as though all Weimann had to do was roll the ball into the gaping goal, but he somehow fired wide of the target to widespread disbelief.
That incident seemed to shake the confidence of the young Austrian, and it was no surprise when he was replaced as part of a double change in the 63rd minute, with Darren Bent joining the fray.
The England international has struggled for opportunities this season, but he was immediately into the action, although perhaps not as he had expected, clearing off the line from Andy Carroll following Matt Taylor's corner.
Sam Allardyce's side looked to hit Carroll whenever possible, but the England international was well marshalled in the main by Ciaran Clark, who also produced two crucial clearances from under his own bar in a much-improved second half.
All the real drama was reserved for the closing 16 minutes, with Benteke and N'Zogbia putting the Holte End in full voice despite the dramatic conclusion, with Villa recording their first Premier League victory since the 3-1 win away to Liverpool on 15 December.

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This is probably what i'd do to myself if I had to watch Bill Walker play an entire season as the starting small forwardFollow @tarmosino


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In his 1912 silent film La Conquête du Pôle ("The Conquest of the Pole"), pioneering French director Georges Méliès introduced audiences to one of the most underrated monsters in movie history — the man-eating ice giant of the North Pole.
The film, which is based on Jules Verne's 1866 novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, follows a trajectory similar to that of Méliès's most famous film, 1902's Le Voyage Dans La Lune, which drew inspiration from Verne's From the Earth to the Moon. In La Conquête du Pôle, Professor Maboul (played by Méliès himself) leads an expedition to the North Pole, where his travelers run afoul of a hungry ice giant. Of course, Maboul's crew's first instinct is to pelt the creature with snowballs. Can you blame the giant for chowing down on them?
This scene is beyond awesome. I love how he slowly rises out of the ground like an old-school Nintendo boss. His gaze is so soulless and strange, and apparently he was a giant marionette.
You can watch the entire 30-minute film (including some gonzo flying sequences) over at Europa Film Treasures. Thanks for the link, Alain!
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The man who voiced Charlie Brown on holiday TV specials has been arrested for stalking.
56-year-old Peter Robbins was apprehended Sunday evening at a border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico according to the U-T San Diego.
Robbins was reportedly wanted by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department for a felony warrant.
Information on San Diego County Jail's website says Robbins faces five felonies which include stalking and making a threat of death or bodily harm to another.
Robbins' bail is set at $550,000. He awaits a hearing Wednesday morning.
As a child, Robbins voiced the iconic "Peanuts" character through the '60s in cartoons including "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual to perennial herb (sometimes short-lived, dying after flowering once)
Stem generally erect
Leaves: lower generally tapered or petioled, often wavy-margined, generally pinnately lobed, ± dentate, lobes and teeth spine-tipped, margin generally spiny-ciliate, glabrous to tomentose; upper generally sessile, ± reduced
Inflorescence: heads discoid, 1many; involucre cylindric to spheric; phyllaries many, graduated in several series, outer spine-tipped; receptacle flat, long-bristly
Flowers generally many; corollas ± bilateral, white to red or purple, tube long, slender, lobes linear; anther bases sharply sagittate, tips oblong; style tip with slightly swollen node, appendage (above node) long, cylindric, branches very short
Fruit ovoid, glabrous; scar slightly angled; pappus bristles many, plumose, ± persistent or falling in ring
Species in genus: ± 200 species: North America, Eurasia
Etymology: (Greek: thistle)
Taxa difficult, incompletely differentiated, hybridize.
Biennial (or short-lived perennial herb) 725 dm, gray-tomentose with appressed felt-like hairs
Stem 1several, generally much-branched
Leaves tomentose (both surfaces) or becoming ± greenish above; basal 311 dm, petiole spiny-toothed, blade coarsely dentate to deeply 12 X lobed and dentate, main spines 310 mm; cauline smaller, expanded to ear-like, decurrent bases, shallowly to deeply lobed, spines often 712+ mm
Inflorescence: heads severalmany, clusters ± leafy, panicle-like; peduncles 14 cm; involucres 1.53 cm, 24.5 cm diam, ovoid to hemispheric; phyllaries often with dark purple patch near tip, tightly appressed, outer phyllaries ovate, inner lanceolate, outer and middle tipped by spreading spines 17 mm, inner with tips flat, acuminate, dark purple
Flowers: corollas 1821 mm, ± dark purple or white, tube 89 mm, throat 56 mm, ± = lobes
Fruit 56 mm, dark-brown to black, generally not flattened; pappus 1520 mm
Ecology: Wet places
Elevation: < 2200 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Klamath Ranges, North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, n Sierra Nevada, n Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, n South Coast Ranges, Modoc Plateau
Distribution outside California: s Oregon
Closely related to C. mohavense & C. hydrophilum.
Stem < 2.5 m
Leaves: cauline generally shallowly lobed or not, spines generally < 7 mm
Inflorescence: heads generally 23 cm
Chromosomes: 2n=30,34
Ecology: Habitat of sp.
Elevation: 10002200 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, n North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, n Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau
Distribution outside California: s Oregon
Synonyms: var. canescens (Petr.) J.T. Howell; C. breweri A. Gray
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|"Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!"
A combination of family commitments and it just being too damn hot (or humid, or both) have meant I haven't been to the club for weeks and painting has been a write-off. Why try painting when the paint on your brush dries up before it touches a figure? A slight exaggeration, but it's been consistently hotter and muggier since summer officially finished at the end of February, and that kind of weather is not conducive to painting, as you probably know all too well.
Anyway, things are looking up; I'll be going to the club this weekend and will probably play French this time. Several new players have been investing in British armies, so I'll give them some target practice. The Italians I painted up late last year will probably get their maiden run on the battlefield (queue routing markers!).
Because there's been a flurry of British regiments being created, there have been quite a few questions being asked on numbers and basing, and I realise my regiments are undermanned. My focus for when I get my mojo back will be to upgrade my British line regiments from 10 to 12 figures and Highlanders from 12 to 15 figures. I'm also planning to retire some of my older units and replace them with Hagen metal figures (marching and action) and the new Strelets Highlander range. The problem is, though, both ranges have problems: the Hagen figures don't have elite company figures, while the Strelets figures don't have centre company figures! I had ordered some Hagen marching light infantry to use as elite company figures, but when I got the parcel in the mail I found that they'd been replaced with extra centre company marching figures, instead. Consequently, I've used Milliput to make shoulder wings on a few figures. I'll see how they look once I start painting them. I've also laboriously carved off the shoulder wings from the majority of the Highlander figures, too.
Also, I will need to re-base my Spanish infantry, which I mistakenly based on the larger 2-rank base, instead of the standard 3-rank continental infantry. Plus, I plan to boost the numbers of Spanish infantry so that I can field a complete 1500 point Spanish army! "Why?", I hear you ask; well, I have a soft spot for the hapless Spaniards who kept getting up after being knocked down again and again! They embody the image of the plucky underdog, which appeals to my sense of justice. Plus, I have an ambition to win a game with them one day; if I can do that, then I know I'll have made it as a player! That's the same reason I'm still plugging away with the Neapolitan project, too.


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The UAE's central bank aims to develop its monetary policy framework by launching a discount window to enable banks to borrow intra-day and overnight funds, it said on Monday, adding the country's economic outlook was encouraging.
"This facility will improve liquidity management practices within the UAE and support money markets if there are liquidity shortfalls," the central bank said in its inaugural financial stability review.
"It will also support the development of collateralised debt markets and long-term capital markets as commercial banks will be inclined to invest in securities that are defined as eligible securities - this process will facilitate the implementation of Basel III liquidity standards," it said.
The central bank did not say when it planned to launch the window, which will be called "the marginal lending facility" (MLF). officials were not immediately available for comment.
It said the MLF will be an electronic platform which will be integrated with a domestic Central Securities Depository (CSD) and the UAE Fund Transfer System and will have interfaces with international depositories.
"Banks under the supervision of the Central Bank may sign up to such a facility and will have to maintain eligible collateral with approved CSDs," it said.
Traders and analysts said the central bank was not under immediate pressure to introduce the new facility because the market was currently flush with funds, but that the MLF could be important in preserving money market stability in future.
During the financial crisis of late 2008, the UAE's central bank provided AED25bn (US$6.8bn) in special collateralised loans to the banking system.
But a discount window, similar to those used in developed money markets, could allow more flexible management by the central bank.
"We see any broadening and deepening of monetary tools as positive," said Monica Malik, chief economist at EFG-Hermes in Dubai. "We are currently not seeing any system-wide shortage in liquidity, although it is important to have the tools in place."
Reflecting the current liquidity surplus, the benchmark three-month Emirates interbank offered rate (EIBOR) was fixed at 1.304 percent on Monday, a level equal to a more-than-eight-year low seen in mid-August.
The central bank said growth prospects of the OPEC member's US$338bn economy were encouraging and banks operating in the country were well-equipped to deal with major stress scenarios and contingencies.
"As regards the prospects for 2012, the UAE economy may achieve better results than the International Monetary Fund estimate of 3.5 percent growth," it said.
Dubai, the Gulf trade and financial hub, may achieve 4 percent growth or more and an equal performance is expected for Abu Dhabi, which accounts for almost all of the UAE's oil production.
Increased spending in northern emirates of the seven-member UAE federation and expectations of high oil prices, which are currently above US$114 per barrel, were among the reasons for the bank's upbeat outlook.
The UAE economy grew by 4.2 percent in 2011 but the global slowdown, partly due to the debt crisis in the euro zone, is expected to take toll this year. A Reuters poll in July forecast 3.2 percent growth in 2012.
The central bank, which pegs its dirham currency to the US dollar, said inflation would remain moderate in line with the IMF's estimate of 1.5 percent for the year.
It also noted that it considered the UAE banking system more mature and stable, adding lenders did not currently hold any debt issued by peripheral European countries.
The country exposure of banks operating in the UAE - loans and advances excluding interbank - amounts to AED93.9bn or 5.1 percent of their total assets, it said, putting the European share at 15 percent.
"Banks operating in the UAE have managed to diversify their funding into the Middle East and Asia," it said.
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Study: Many breast cancer patients opt for unnecessary preventative mastectomies
Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy in order to lower her chances of developing breast cancer has put the topic of women preemptively removing their breasts in order to avoid the disease in the spotlight. But experts are concerned that many women may have gotten the wrong message -- and opted for surgery that won't really help them.
About 232,340 women will get breast cancer in 2013, according to government statistics. Almost 40,000 women will die this year from the disease.}
Jolie explained in a New York Times op-ed last May that she had a strong familial history of cancer, and that genetic testing indicated her risk of developing breast cancer was 87 percent. The actress also added that she had a 50 chance of developing ovarian cancer, and would opt to have her ovaries removed at a later date.
"Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could," she wrote. "I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex."
It's a decision that many women with breast cancer in one breast also choose to make. An increasing number opt to have the healthy, unaffected breast removed in a procedure called a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) to prevent the disease from spreading. In the 1990s, about 4% to 6% of women who got a mastectomy opted to have the other breast removed as well; in more recent years, researchers estimate the rate has tripled or even quadrupled.
But researchers behind an Annals of Internal Medicine study published on Sept. 17 say the evidence shows CPM does little to improve survival rates for most women -- and that many who choose to undergo the surgery actually overestimated their risk of dying from breast cancer.
For the survey, researchers talked to 123 women aged 40 or younger who were diagnosed with cancer in one breast but opted to get both breasts removed. Most of the women had stage 1 or stage 2 cancer, and 60 percent of their tumors were estrogen receptor-positive, meaning the tumors grew more in the presence of estrogen.
The vast majority -- 98 percent -- said that they had both breasts removed because they wanted to decrease their risk of cancer spreading to the other breast. Ninety-four percent of the women also said they believed removing the healthy breast would give them a better chance at overall survival, and 95 percent said the procedure would give them "peace of mind."
However, almost all the women overestimated their actual risk of getting cancer in the other breast.
An accompanying editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine states that doctors need to find a better way to share existing studies and statistics about cancer risks and the benefits and downsides of CPM to help patients decide whether they want the procedure. The authors found it concerning that many women knew CPM wouldn't help their survival, but chose to go through with the procedure anyway for those reasons.
Women in the survey said that their doctors were their most important sources of information when it came to learning about breast cancer, but only one-third said that following their doctor's recommendation was the reason behind their decision to have CPM.
Ninety percent of the women said they did not regret their decision and would do it again. Still, many did point out that the outcomes of the surgery were worse than they were expecting. Thirty-three percent said they underestimated the number of procedures and surgeries they would need, and 28 percent said they didn't expect the numbness or tingling in the chest they experienced.
"Additional clarification of conficting responses -- specifically, the inconsistencies between the importance of improved survival as a reason for choosing CPM and the acknowledgment that CPM is not associated with better survival outcome -- would be helpful," the authors of the study wrote. The editorial suggested there is a "teachable opportunity" for doctors to help their patients make informed decisions based on accurate data.


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Avid and Abbey Road Studios Launch Competition to Uncover Music Industry's Hidden Talent
Avid and Abbey Road Studios Launch Competition to Uncover Music Industry's Hidden Talent
Global talent competition aimed at aspiring artists, musicians and producers
ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NAMM (Hall A, Booth #6400),Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) the makers of the industry-leading audio production and recording system Pro Tools®, alongside the legendary Abbey Road Studios, today announced the launch of a song competition to celebrate 25 years of bringing award-winning products to the music industry.
The Abbey Road Studios and Avid Song Contest gives aspiring artists, musicians and producers across the globe the chance for their work to be judged by an illustrious panel of music industry figures, as well as fans online, during the voting period from March 14 - March 21, 2013. The three winning artists, chosen by judges, will receive the ultimate package which includes a track of their choice being mixed and mastered online by Abbey Road Studios as well as an Avid Pro Tools|HD Native system.
"The hardest thing for an aspiring musician is to get their songs heard by the right people," said Greg Wells, competition judge and multiple Grammy-nominated producer, mixer and songwriter. "This competition is the perfect way for artists to get their music out there and I'm really looking forward to listening to an eclectic mix of songs."
About the Competition
Artists can upload their original song to "Submit a Track" from today until March 13, 2013, with the winners of the Judges choice, Fans choice and Judges choice runner-up being announced on April 10, 2013. Voting for the Fans choice award runs from March 14 - March 21, 2013.
Judges choice award
- The judging panel will be made up of industry professionals including multiple Grammy-winning producer, mixer and songwriter Greg Wells (Adele, Katy Perry); musician, producer and A&R representative John Feldmann (Goldfinger, Good Charlotte); and Grammy-winning producer Tricky Stewart (Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Rihanna). They will choose their three favorite songs, with the winning entrants getting an original song mixed and mastered by Abbey Road's Online Mixing & Mastering Services as well as a full Pro Tools|HD Native recording system from Avid.
Fans choice award
- Fans around the world can also vote for their favorite song, with the winning entrant receiving an Avid Mbox® audio interface with Pro Tools 10 software.
"Avid and Abbey Road Studios have a shared passion for the creation of music, so we're delighted to be teaming up to give aspiring musicians the chance to showcase their original work to three of the music industry's most respected figures, as well as providing a platform for their work to reach a global audience," said W. Sean Ford, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Avid. "The industry-standard technology in Pro Tools is designed to enhance the creative process, and through new more accessible offerings such as Abbey Road's Online Mixing and Mastering Services, it's becoming easier for aspiring musicians to benefit from this technology and add a professional finish to their work."
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Avid creates the digital audio and video technology used to make the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world - from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings, and television shows, to live concert tours and news broadcasts. Some of Avid's most influential and pioneering solutions include Media Composer®, Pro Tools®, Interplay®, ISIS®, VENUE, Sibelius® and System 5. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, SoundCloud; or subscribe to Avid Buzz.
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London's Abbey Road Studios is the most famous recording complex in the world and an iconic symbol of British music. Opened in 1931, the studios have been at the heart of the industry for over 80 years and home to countless landmark recordings and pioneering advances in recording technology. Many of the world's most famous artists have recorded some of their greatest work at Abbey Road Studios including The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Hollies, Oasis, Elbow, Lady Gaga and Adele.
As one of the world's premiere locations for movie scoring since the 1980s, films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Braveheart, the Lord of The Rings Trilogy and The King's Speech have been recorded there. The list continues with many other major titles including Shrek, Harry Potter, Skyfall and The Hobbit.
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Thank you, Captain Babbitt, and thank you all for inviting me to this prestigious occasion. I congratulate all of your Air Safety Award recipients.
As you may know, I fly between Washington, D.C. and my home in Chattanooga, Tennessee several times a month and have, on many occasions, made acquaintance with ALPA pilots along the way. Just last week, I was flying up here to Washington and got a nice note from the flight crew, Captain Jim Allen and First Officer Robert Ioan of USAir. I was touched by a message they sent back to me expressing their appreciation for everything I and the National Transportation Safety Board have done to make transportation safer for everyone.
Let me use this occasion to send a return note from me to you. I appreciate everything ALPA has done for transportation safety for the last half century, I appreciate all the help we get from ALPA in our investigations – particularly the support provided by Keith Hagy and his staff – and I look forward to working even more closely with ALPA in the future toward our common goal of eliminating aviation accidents.
May I digress here for just a minute to talk about one of your honorees, Captain John Cox of USAir. You might not know that he is the only Safety Board-recognized "Average Pilot." That came about at our second public hearing on the USAir flight 427 accident that I chaired. After hearing from Boeing and FAA test pilots on the wake vortex tests we conducted, Captain Cox was called as a witness. As he approached the podium, I noted that I have been called an average Safety Board Chairman, so he must be here to represent the average pilot. On a later occasion, after I spent a day flying with him, my staff met us at National Airport and presented Captain Cox with an NTSB plaque designating him "the Average Pilot." I'll have more to say about that concept later.
To gauge our success over the years, you only need look at the safety record of our nation's aviation system. We've heard all the "gee whiz" statistics about how many thousands of years you'd have to fly every day of the year before the odds of being killed in an airline accident catch up with you; about how even in a bad year there is one fatality for every 2 million passengers carried safely; and that in a relatively good year like 1997 there were more than 300 million passengers carried safely for every passenger fatality.
A more telling statistic is the accident rate, which, if it held steady for the last 30 years, would have resulted in a major hull loss every week. That, of course, has not happened because the industry gets safer and safer every year. In 1996 – a year with several high profile accidents – the fatal accident rate for the nation's scheduled airlines per million aircraft miles was 1/24th that of the rate in 1960, and one-third that of 1981.
That remarkable improvement was the result of more than just NTSB recommendations or FAA regulations: it took a concerted effort by all of us, government, industry and organizations such as ALPA to get that job done.
Through ALPA's participation in our investigations, you have shared your wealth of up-to-date operational experience with procedures, techniques and equipment. Through the years, you have been able to identify problem areas directly affecting pilots, such as:
• Approach design.
• ATC procedures.
• Unusual attitude recovery.
• Wind shear, and
• Wake turbulence.
Moreover, ALPA pilots and ALPA safety committees have routinely identified and proposed remedial actions for a variety of aviation safety issues. For example, ALPA experts have always worked closely with the NTSB and other aviation community specialists on air traffic control issues, forecasting and dissemination of severe weather information, instrument approach design and procedures, human performance, survival factors and airport safety.
I am particularly proud of the work ALPA and the Safety Board have accomplished together during my tenure as Chairman of the NTSB. The last 4 years have been extremely busy, and we have tackled safety issues to help pilots ensure the safety of their operations.
When I became Chairman, I had no inkling about the level of activity the NTSB was about to enter. July 1994 saw the end of an unprecedented 27-month period in which the major U.S. scheduled airlines incurred no passenger fatalities: a billion passengers carried safely to their destinations.
The USAir accident in Charlotte, North Carolina changed all that. It was closely followed by another USAir crash near Pittsburgh; and then crashes involving American Eagle in Roselawn, Indiana; another American Eagle near Raleigh-Durham; American Airlines in Colombia; ValuJet in the Everglades; Delta Air Lines in Pensacola; TWA flight 800; United Express in Quincy, Illinois; Comair in Michigan; and Korean Air in Guam. And, we've also lost two FedEx widebody planes and had another major cargo accident in Miami.
We could not have investigated these accidents without the support and expertise of your organization and others. ALPA's participation in our major aviation investigations has led to many changes in hardware and operations that have helped keep the accident rate on a declining line for more than 3 decades. For example, ALPA joined us in supporting the installation on our nation's airliners of Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning Systems, especially following the tragic American Airlines crash in Colombia in December 1995. Since then, the industry has announced it will voluntarily install EGPWS without waiting for federal regulations. This will give pilots a state-of-the-art tool to help rid the world's airline system of controlled-flight-into-terrain accidents.
During the investigation of the 1994 crash of an ATR-72 in Roselawn, Indiana, ALPA actively supported the tanker icing tests that led to changes in the design of that aircraft and in our understanding of flight in icing conditions. ALPA assisted us with engineering expertise to develop factual information about the airframe icing-related problems with the ATR 42 and 72. You provided the Safety Board with valuable documentation that identified an icing problem with the airplane and expressed the concerns of your membership to the FAA about certification and operation of the airplane in icing conditions.
Just as that investigation was beginning, the Safety Board completed a safety study on commuter airlines, and concluded that they should be included under the same operating regulations as the major airlines. The phrase, "One Level of Safety," was coined by ALPA, and ALPA's support of the NTSB's efforts enabled us to achieve significant changes in commuter air carrier regulations. I count passage of the new regulations that adopted this concept as one of the highlights of my years as Chairman.
I don't have time to go into detail about investigations before my time at the Board in which ALPA's assistance proved invaluable. Just a brief list of issues that were dealt with by ALPA and the Safety Board in the past is impressive:
• first-generation Ground Proximity Warning Systems,
• wind shear detection and pilot training,
• air traffic control communications,
• airport signage and lighting, and
• training and maintenance procedures for propeller engines.
And ALPA is also assisting with a number of our major current investigations:
The investigation of TWA flight 800 is on-going, and it's unclear when we will be ready to issue a final report, although I suspect it will be sometime in 1999. What is important is that, with the help of ALPA and all the other parties to our investigation, we have learned much about what happened that tragic night and have identified mechanisms that would make such an accident less likely in the future.
So far, we have spent over $30 million on this investigation – not counting what the FBI spent when they were investigating the accident. Those funds were used in the mammoth recovery of victims and wreckage from the bottom of the ocean, the largest aircraft reconstruction in the world, and the many detailed and cutting edge tests going on in laboratories around the world.
ALPA has been with us all along in this investigation – living on the recovery boats, working on the reconstruction, and participating in the laboratory examinations. We have made important discoveries. We learned early on that heat from the air conditioning packs can push the vapors in the center wing fuel tank above their flammable limits, while adjacent wing tanks remain below the temperature required for flammability. That discovery resulted in four safety recommendations issued in December 1996, calling for the FAA to correct the problems.
We have not given up trying to find an ignition source, and our problem has been the large number of potential sources found. We are still painstakingly working through the numerous scenarios.
But even without a known ignition source, we have accomplished a great deal. Based in large part on NTSB recommendations and support of organizations like ALPA, the industry and FAA have a greater and more realistic understanding of the potential danger of fuel/air mixtures in nearly empty fuel tanks. Although we all now agree that much has to be done to further reduce ignition sources, the question has become whether in the final analysis all of them can be eliminated.
At last count, including both final or proposed actions directly related to TWA flight 800 and those in related areas – such as with the Boeing 737 wiring conduits – there have been no fewer than 18 airworthiness directives or notices of proposed rulemakings, 37 Boeing/Douglas Service Bulletins and All Base Messages, and 20 vendor service bulletins, such as for the fuel pumps.
And, one of the major by-products of our work on the TWA accident results from the concern of our investigators about aging electrical components and wiring. The FAA is on the verge of inaugurating an "aging wiring" program, similar to what happened for aircraft structures after the Safety Board investigated an accident involving an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 in 1988.
Recently, the Aviation Regulation Advisory Committee reported on our fuel flammability recommendations. Although we haven't had a chance to study the report as carefully as we need to, we're disappointed that the ARAC did not offer actions aimed at the existing fleet. Nevertheless, there is now recognition by all concerned that it is better not to have volatile vapors in fuel tanks, somewhat of a sea change over the last two years.
Next Thursday, we will hold a Board Meeting to discuss a final report on the January 9, 1997 crash of Comair flight 3272 in Monroe County, Michigan. This investigation has again raised concerns about operating turboprop aircraft in icing conditions, and with ALPA's help and encouragement, the Safety Board conducted flight tests at Embraer to learn more about flying characteristics of those aircraft in icing conditions. I urge you to look for an abstract of our final report on our web site, www.ntsb.gov, which should be available following our meeting on August 27th.
We are also completing what is currently the longest investigation in our history, that dealing with the crash of USAir flight 427 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania almost 4 years ago. All 132 persons aboard the Boeing 737 died. Our investigation has been hampered by the limited number of parameters – 11 – recorded by the airplane's flight data recorder. As you're probably aware, many newer airplanes, including 737s, record over 100 parameters. This is an issue on our Most Wanted list, and my number one priority as NTSB Chairman.
ALPA has been instrumental during this investigation in assisting the Board conduct wake vortex flight tests; it was ALPA pilots – including Captain John Cox – at the controls of the test aircraft. As a result of those tests and flight simulations, as well as extensive laboratory tests, the Safety Board has issued safety recommendations addressing both pilot training and aircraft components.
We found that pilots may not have been adequately trained and periodically tested to respond to sudden events that can cause an airplane to assume an unusual attitude. In another important safety improvement brought about by the collaboration between the Safety Board and ALPA, this training is now given to airline pilots.
Additionally, the investigation has uncovered several safety concerns in the Boeing 737 rudder system components. As you know, in response to an airworthiness directive issued August 4, 1997, the entire Boeing 737 fleet, over 2,800 airplanes, is being modified with an improved rudder PCU servo valve. In addition, in August 1997, the FAA published a final rule that requires installation of a newly designed rudder-limiting device and yaw damper system by August 2000. Although we are pleased with this action, we are concerned that the FAA is not requiring the installation until the year 2000.
We also hope to complete our investigation into the crash of Korean Air flight 801 on Guam late this year or early next. Among the issues being examined in this investigation are controlled-flight-into-terrain accidents, airline procedures and training in that area, and air traffic control procedures. Although ALPA is not a party to the investigation, you have been extremely helpful to us in our examination of the instrument approach procedure design. One of your captains with extensive experience in this area provided valuable data during testimony at our public hearing in March.
In closing, let me restate something I said at the outset. You might remember that I spoke of Captain John Cox, the so-called "average pilot." But the fact is, when an engine fails two seconds after rotation, or a landing gear stubbornly refuses to come down, or an airliner's electrical system goes on the blink, there is no average pilot. The fact that our airline system and its safety record are the envy of the world tells me that every one of the men and women at the controls of America's air carrier aircraft are professionals who routinely exhibit extraordinary skills.
I value my brief meetings with your membership during my travels around the country, and thank you all for making my job a little easier, whether it is by preventing an accident through skillful airmanship, or by helping the Safety Board during difficult investigations.
I do not for a moment forget the fact that, before many of the safety improvements we've talked about came into being, a tragic accident occurred that exposed a safety problem in our system. I have dedicated my years at the Safety Board to ensuring to the best of my ability that not one more person should die once we've identified ways to eliminate a potential danger. I also know that you are equally dedicated to eliminating potential accident causes, and I thank you for your help in the past, and I pledge my help to you, in turn.
Thank you for the opportunity to join you tonight on this wonderful occasion, when you honor the best among you.
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Ever since Diaz began publishing short stories in venues as prestigious as The New Yorker, he has been touted as a major new talent, and his debut collection affirms this claim. Born and raised in Santo Domingo, Diaz uses the contrast between his island homeland and life in New York City and New Jersey as a fulcrum for his trenchant tales. His young male narrators are teetering into precarious adolescence. For these sons of harsh or absent fathers and bone-weary, stoic mothers, life is an unrelenting hustle. In Santo Domingo, they are sent to stay with relatives when the food runs out at home; in the States, shoplifting and drugdealing supply material necessities and a bit of a thrill in an otherwise exhausting and frustrating existence. There is little affection, sex is destructive, conversation strained, and even the brilliant beauty of a sunset is tainted, its colors the product of pollutants. Keep your eye on Diaz; his first novel is on the way. --Booklist


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To diagnose aplastic anemia, your doctor may recommend:
Once you've received a diagnosis of aplastic anemia, you may need additional tests to determine an underlying cause.
Treatments for aplastic anemia may include observation for mild cases, blood transfusions and medications for more-serious cases, and in severe cases, bone marrow transplantation. Severe aplastic anemia, in which your blood cell counts are extremely low, is life-threatening and requires immediate hospitalization for treatment.
Treatment for aplastic anemia usually involves blood transfusions to control bleeding and relieve anemia symptoms. Blood transfusions aren't a cure for aplastic anemia. But they do relieve signs and symptoms by providing blood cells that your bone marrow isn't producing. A transfusion may include:
While there's generally no limit to the number of blood cell transfusions you can have, complications can sometimes arise with multiple transfusions. Transfused red blood cells contain iron that can accumulate in your body and can damage vital organs if an iron overload isn't treated. Medications can help your body get rid of excess iron.
Over time, your body may develop antibodies to transfused blood cells, making them less effective at relieving symptoms. The use of immunosuppressant medication makes this complication less likely.
A stem cell transplant to rebuild the bone marrow with stem cells from a donor may offer the only successful treatment option for people with severe aplastic anemia. A stem cell transplant, which is also called a bone marrow transplant, is generally the treatment of choice for people who are younger and have a matching donor — most often a sibling.
If a donor is found, your diseased bone marrow is first depleted with radiation or chemotherapy. Healthy stem cells from the donor are filtered from the blood. The healthy stem cells are injected intravenously into your bloodstream, where they migrate to the bone marrow cavities and begin generating new blood cells. The procedure requires a lengthy hospital stay. After the transplant, you'll receive drugs to help prevent rejection of the donated stem cells.
A stem cell transplant carries risks. There's a chance that your body may reject the transplant, leading to life-threatening complications. In addition, not everyone is a candidate for transplantation or can find a suitable donor.
For people who can't undergo a bone marrow transplant or for those whose aplastic anemia may be due to an autoimmune disorder, treatment may involve drugs that alter or suppress the immune system (immunosuppressants).
Drugs such as cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral, Sandimmune) and anti-thymocyte globulin are examples. These drugs suppress the activity of immune cells that are damaging your bone marrow. This helps your bone marrow recover and generate new blood cells. Cyclosporine and anti-thymocyte globulin are often used in combination.
Corticosteroids, such as methylprednisolone (Medrol, Solu-Medrol), are often given at the same time as these drugs.
Immune-suppressing drugs can be very effective at treating aplastic anemia. The downside is that these drugs further weaken your immune system. It's also possible that after you stop taking these drugs, aplastic anemia may return.
Certain drugs — including colony-stimulating factors, such as sargramostim (Leukine), filgrastim (Neupogen) and pegfilgrastim (Neulasta), and epoetin alfa (Epogen, Procrit) — may help stimulate the bone marrow to produce new blood cells. Growth factors are often used in combination with immune-suppressing drugs.
Having aplastic anemia weakens your immune system. You have fewer white blood cells in circulation to fight off germs. This leaves you susceptible to infections.
At the first sign of infection, such as a fever, see your doctor. You don't want the infection to get worse, because it could prove life-threatening. If you have severe aplastic anemia, your doctor may give you antibiotics or antiviral medications to help prevent infections.
Aplastic anemia caused by radiation and chemotherapy treatments for cancer usually improves once you complete those treatments. The same is true for most other drugs that induce aplastic anemia.
Pregnant women with aplastic anemia are treated with blood transfusions. For many women, pregnancy-related aplastic anemia improves once the pregnancy ends. If that doesn't happen, treatment is still necessary.
If you have aplastic anemia, take care of yourself by:
Tips to help you and your family better cope with your illness include:
If you have signs or symptoms of aplastic anemia, start by making an appointment with your family doctor or a general practitioner. If your doctor suspects aplastic anemia, you'll likely be referred to a doctor who specializes in treating blood disorders (hematologist). If aplastic anemia comes on suddenly, you may begin treatment in the emergency room.
Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment, and what to expect from your doctor.
Preparing a list of questions ahead of time can help you make the most of your time together. For aplastic anemia, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask questions during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions, such as:
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TMC wrote:migya wrote:TMC wrote:Hey, easy there, mate. I agree with most of the things you're saying about society having to change and not allow those in power to do whatever they want. I even agree with the need to "revolt", but talking about how certain people, no matter how selfish they look, "need to be killed" is just too extreme.
Migya, mate, you know I love you, but there's no way to justify those comments, and further comments like those won't be tolerated on the board.
We were/are having a conversation on this subject. I'm not making threats to any one individual, but am calling it like it is. If that isn't allowed on the forum now, especially a comment as broad as this one, as I didn't point out anybody on the forum, then please say so. You have to look at the cotext I wrote that in, that being that those i'm talking about being the orchestrators of the deaths of many. The death penality does exist in the U.S. as well, so the killing of killers is not foreign to those that live there
Well, it is offensive to me.
I'm not saying everything is great. Of course change is needed, but force has to be applied at the barest minimum possible in every situation, and it certainly doesn't require comments like "they have to be killed".
In any case, any kind of change will have to take place without violence, because if not, that very same violence will neglect any development for society. We'll have to find other ways to revolt, or nothing good will come from that.
Thing is, in every revolution there's violence, always is. The government doesn't want to be overthrown and sends the police and army to fight for it. It takes police and soldiers/officials in the army, to turn against the government and admit there has to be a change. The way the situation in the world right now is, there will be alot of violence and death for any change to happen, even if there is no major proteting, there will be killing on the part of the governments against the people, it is happening all the time


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This Google map application is great. It seem most US citizens are already locked up in camps shown above, i.e. in a little hut with a big garage in the middle of now where (e.g. Texas). No shops, one little school maybe in the vicinity. No place to go and vote. Etc. No place for sports. By clicking on the real Google map you will get a view of the hut/garage, etc. Quite fantastic. What a dump!
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Well. That beats me. Sorry - I'm at a loss as to figuring this out. Can anyone spoon-feed me with the answer to this? Thanks!
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[...] And the welder, with the DC Comics 'Joker' safety-visor...are they welding some search filters?
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It's "Homeland" meets "The Real Housewives" — and it's hands down the best serialized show on TV.
It's "Dallas" in military drag, in which a ridiculously retro social order (who knew that "socialites" and "hostesses" even existed anymore, never mind in Tampa) slams into the high-tech world of cyberstalking — only to reveal a story as old as the written word: The Case of the Compromising Love Letter.
Honestly, when will cheating couples finally learn to keep their declarations of passion out of anything that could conceivably be stolen by a lady's maid, discovered by a suspicious spouse or unearthed by a cyber sleuth? Never, one hopes, or much of the world's great literature, not to mention detective fiction, would collapse.
Stripped to its essentials, the Petraeus affair is a familiar enough narrative: Married man in power falls for a wide-eyed, admiring acolyte to the detriment of career, family and reputation. Happens all the time, or at least every six months or so — Clinton, Edwards, Sanford, Schwarzenegger, just to name a few. But it's the brushwork that makes the masterpiece, and the details of the Petraeus scandal transfix the eye each and every time a new one is revealed.
First there's the man himself, square-jawed, yes, but not terribly handsome, with those protruding ears and that receding hairline, still radiating competence nonetheless and more than that, a Middle American super-dad decency that almost belies his four-star status. Then there's Paula Broadwell, the Harvard-educated biographer whose book was so unapologetically gushing that Jon Stewart, interviewing her before the scandal broke, asked her if David H. Petraeus was "awesome or incredibly awesome."
And, oh, the shivery meta-media pleasure of watching Stewart now review those softball questions knowing what we/he knows now, or finding the whole original extended-version episode in which Broadwell banters with her cuckolded husband as they do his and her sets of push-ups for charity.
Still, if the narrative had been confined to Petraeus and Broadwell, even with his universally beloved status and his resignation mere days after a contentious election, the nation might simply have shared a raised-eyebrow pause and moved on.
But then we met Honorary Counsel Jill Kelley and there was no turning back.
It's one thing for the head of the CIA to have an affair, even with a woman crazy enough to send anonymous emails to someone she perceives to be a rival; it's another to learn that powerful generals regularly hang out with a woman who looks like she could go six rounds with NeNe Leakes. It was Kelley and her strange nexus of irritation and influence that lifted the Petraeus scandal out of the ho-hum arrogance/stupidity of men who think they will never get caught and the women who love them.
Reading descriptions of Kelley's champagne and caviar parties, her Gasparilla Pirate Fest parties and sky diving with the troops, it is difficult not to envision a Lebanese American version of Joan Collins in "Dynasty" or perhaps Madeleine Stowe in "Revenge," the grasping, scheming lovely who everyone instantly sees through, except whichever schmuck she happens to be making a play for at the time.
Who, in this case, appears to have included some of the military's top male brass — trained intelligence officers who supposedly are able to spot a potential terrorist across a crowded room but who, apparently, don't know a nakedly ambitious social climber when they're posin' for pictures with her.
This is why we cannot get enough of the Petraeus story: It has something for everyone. A fallen hero, a troubled smart girl, a cast of characters who seem destined for the Bravo or Lifetime. (What am I bid on the potential for Jill Kelley announcing a reality project in the near future? She has an identical twin for heaven's sake!)
But it's more than the story's multiple narrative touchstones that compel us. There is something heartbreaking about it being Petraeus, who, unlike Clinton or Edwards or our former governor, has not cultivated a noticeable sexual swagger or a million-dollar smile.
So he must have, we imagine, simply fallen in love. And for all our carefully nurtured cynicism, our tales of the sexting and hook-up generation, we remain a nation in love with love, particularly forbidden love.
Our books, our films, our television series steer us again and again to the thundering, fatal majesty of a love that makes all other concerns — jobs, friends, the respect of peers — superfluous.
It's no accident that two of the winter's biggest films are the final "Twilight" and "Anna Karenina," in which, spoiler alert, people actually die for love.
In real life, similar choices often lead to climaxes far less romantic, denouements much bleaker, like the grimy napkin-littered space of a trendy dance club in the unforgiving light of midmorning. Petraeus reminds us, once again, that the choices we make, even when seeking the magic of the moment, have consequences.
And in a country with laws and mores still beholden to our Puritan founders, the only thing we like better than a good, juicy, twisty love story is a good, juicy, twisty love story with a moral at the end.


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Progress in the understanding of complex systems like the brain can only be achieved by integrating models on many different scales. The research performed at the institute for Computational and Systems Neuroscience develops such multi-scale models of the brain, combining data-driven development of brain theory with the bottom-up approach of directly simulated structured networks, and the top down approach, mapping functional models of higher brain function to spiking dynamics.
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Investigation of mechanisms underlying neural computation through the development of models on the level of networks of spiking neurons. This group applies a predominantly top-down approach to discover functional constraints on structure, plasticity and dynamics, particularly with respect to learning and memory. Secondary focus on simulation technology for high-performance computers.
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Mooloolaba Weaves Magic for Triathlon Festival
Not even a forecasted edge of a tropical cyclone could diminish the swell of interest in the annual Subaru Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival.
The Sunshine Coast lived up to its name with another successful mix of events, stars and weekend warriors for the Subaru Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival, which has been part of the Queensland sporting landscape for over two decades.
The weekend event comprised seven events, including the Asics Twilight Sprint and Fun Run, Superkids Triathlon, Ocean Swim, ITU World Cup, Subaru Cycle Crit, Triathlon Oceania World Cup and Age Group race.
The highlight was the ITU World Cup victory by Spain's rising star Mario Mola, who ran under 14 minutes for the 5km run of the sprint distance to beat the challenge from training partner Richard Murray.
"The race was great for me. I was surprised with my swim today. I felt really good from the moment we hit the water, so that gave me a lot of confidence to push all my energy and strength into the run," said Mola. "The energy just came on the run and I had that bit of power which gave me the win and I couldn't be happier."
Third home was Switzerland's 33-year-old Athens Olympic bronze medallist, Sven Riederer, who showed he still had plenty of speed in his legs.
Australian-based American Gwen Jorgensen produced a stunning victory in the women's World Cup over the sprint distance (750m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run) to show the world she was well and truly back in business. She dominated the 5 km run, staged over four 1.25km laps in and around the Mooloolaba beach front, pulling away from fellow American Katie Hursey and Japan's Ai Ueda.
Two-time World Champion Emma Moffatt was the highest placed Australian in sixth.
The Festival saw the successful talent transfer of former surf livesaving star Kelly Ann Perkins to triathlon, finishing second in the Oceania Cup run over the standard distance. The Sunshine Coast athlete, who comes under the guidance of coach Craig Walton, confirmed her promise, finishing behind Australian-based Canadian Sarah-Anne Brault, with Kiwi Penny Hayes third.
"Going for a five hour bike ride is a whole different step up from Surf Ironman, that's for sure, but I am adapting slowly, Perkins said. "I know it's going to take a few years but I am really happy with how it's going so far. The major difference is the leg dominance of triathlon. My past training has involved all upper body so with the cycling and running it's taking a little more to get used to."
Rising Aussie star Jake Birtwhistle took the men's race. The 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival champion won in 1:52.07 over Victorian Nathan Buschkuehl (1:52.26).
The established open water star George O'Brien claimed the 1km Ocean Swim over fellow leading Australian ocean swimmers Sam Sheppard and Ridge Grimsey, the youngest of the trio of Grimsey brothers who are all classy international athletes.
Enjoying glassy conditions, Australian open water age group champion Chelsea Gubecka won the women's race.
Team Drapac cycling professional Jack Anderson proved too experienced in winning the Subaru Criterium from fellow Australian cycling professionals Ryan Cavanagh and Jack Beckinsale. The breakaway group worked well together out in front, and despite several teams trying to close the gap, the margin continually hovered at around 30 seconds, with the break managing to stay clear with the experienced Anderson getting the better of the young local favourite Cavanagh in the final sprint.
Nearly 700 runners kicked off the Festival with the popular 5 km fun run won by London Olympian Emma Jackson in the women's race and talented runner Jackson Elliot in the men's.


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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Professor Athula Ginige
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CBEADS: A Framework for developing evolutionary Web ApplicationsZeit: Mon 15.5.2006, 15:30, 60 Minuten
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ZusammenfassungWe are now faced with a new challenge when developing software applications. This is due to application requirements keep evolving rapidly. This is especially true for Web based Software applications. Sometimes the requirements have evolved considerably by the time system is developed making the system obsolete even before the system is deployed. In situations where requirements are evolving, traditional software development approaches that require the system to be fully specified as the first step in the development process are not suitable. We looked at various software development methodologies and adopted the concept that software is a medium to capture knowledge rather than a product. This led us to change our thinking from looking at methodologies to develop applications to developing a framework within which applications can evolve. After analysing essential characteristics such a framework should have we developed CBEADS: Component Based E-Application Development/Deployment Shell. Apart from authentication, role based access control, role and user management functions, CBEADS has the ability to create new functions within its framework so that it can evolve. Each function typically represents a use case. These functions can be grouped to form large complex applications. Next we extended the capabilities of CBEADS by adding a set of smart tools. This is based on the concept of meta-applications. At present we have developed smart business objects, interface generator and a workflow engine. By configuring the meta-applications we can quickly develop the required application. This is much faster than developing the application. When requirements evolve you change the relevant parameters to enable the application to evolve with the changing requirements. Using CBEADS together with these tools we have been able to rapidly develop some very large and complex applications. In this seminar I will explain the concepts, how we arrived at the CBEADS architecture, and demonstrate an application developed using CBEADS.
VortragenderAthula Ginige is the Professor of Information Technology at University of Western Sydney. He is also the Director of Advanced enterprise Information Management Systems (AeIMS) research group. He graduated with B.Sc. first class honours from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England. He is now a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and a member of editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering. He is also a Program Co-chair of the 6th International Conference on Web Engineering. Athula has carried out extensive research in the areas of robotics, computer vision, image coding, multimedia systems, development of large scale Web based information systems, information structures for interactive flexible learning modules, new information retrieval strategies for the Web and, eTransformation strategies and supporting technologies for small to medium size enterprises (SMEs). He has also been involved in design and development of various web based information systems and eBusiness systems that are used by various commercial organisations today. He has over 100 Journal and Conference publications. He has given many invited talks, seminar presentations and tutorials at various local and international conferences on video coding, multimedia information systems, Web Engineering, Emerging Information Society and eBusiness. In 2001, together with a colleague he guest edited 2 special issues of IEEE Multimedia on Web Engineering. He has also served in many conference organising and program committees. In 2002 and 2003 he organised and chaired the Web Engineering workshop in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. He was the national president of the Australian Pattern recognition Society (APRS) from 1994 to 1995. He has also served on the editorial board of IEEE Multimedia. At present he is leading a project group looking at ways of eTransforming small to medium size enterprises in Western Sydney region in Australia. As part of this project he has led many research groups that have developed an eTransformation Methodology for small to medium size enterprises, CBEADS; a Component Based eApplication Development Shell and an eTransformation Road map that can be used to plan the eTransformation strategy
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At long last, the Federal Aviation Administration is taking a second look at whether the use of portable electronic devices — or PEDs, as the feds call them — should be allowed at all times during commercial aircraft flights. That would include during takeoff and landing, when their use is currently banned.
The FAA is assembling a working group that will study the issue, and the process will begin with a period of public commentary. Yep, the flying public will get to weigh in on whether they'll be allowed keep playing Angry Birds in Space before the aircraft passes 10,000 feet on its ascent.
In its announcement, the FAA conceded that many passengers want to use their devices at all times, and that it's time to study whether that's wise:
"With so many different types of devices available, we recognize that this is an issue of consumer interest," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "Safety is our highest priority, and we must set appropriate standards as we help the industry consider when passengers can use the latest technologies safely during a flight."
One type of usage will not be up for reconsideration. The FAA says it "will not consider the airborne use of cell phones for voice communications during flight."
Amen. Regardless of whether that's safe, it would just be terribly annoying to have multiple people in the close confines of an aircraft yammering on their cell phones. Smart move, FAA!
Safety will be the primary concern in the use of other devices, and that goes beyond simply whether the electromagnetic radiation from a cabin full of iPads could disrupt a plane's avionics. There's also the issue of passengers paying attention during safety briefings, and when crew members have to get the attention of passengers quickly in an emergency.
The working group of representatives from both government and industry will make recommendations to the FAA, which will then decide whether to change the rules.
You have to give some credit for the FAA's decision to study the question to New York Times reporter Nick Bilton, who's been hammering the agency on the issue. While he hasn't written about the this most recent move, he did speak up on Twitter when the FAA made its announcement.
Well wouldya look at that: FAA is (finally) forming a committee to study use of electronics on planes: is.gd/zGkmqc
— Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) August 27, 2012
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• Fax: Fax comments to Docket Operations at 202-493-2251.
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Jacob Namminga, one of our radiation safety advisors, spoke to me via Skype about today's sampling trip in a rural area of Japan, to the north west of the Fukushima nuclear plant. We'll be reporting the details of our findings once they are compiled and have been checked, but I asked Jacob to provide some reflections on what today's trip was like. This is what he had told me.
Jacob Namminga
We are staying in a place in Yonezawa, 45 km from Fukushima city called the Smile hotel. It has a giant yellow smiley on it, which under the circumstances is a bit surreal. We have Internet, the electricity is working. We have it rather easy compared to some of the people here who are refugees, having had to leave their homes and who are living just a few kilometres away. We brought a lot of food in from Osaka and try to eat that and avoid local foods and especially milk.
We went to a community centre the other day, a sports hall where 500 refugees were staying. There were mattresses and cardboard boxes that the people were arranging to try to make their own space. But they have no privacy; they all sleep in one common area. Of the 500 people there, I was told about 200 were refugees from the tsunami, and 300 were refugees from the radioactivity.
Refugees in gymnasium
As we found out today, the radiation levels are high in Fukushima city -- our measurements confirmed levels that have been reported in newspapers and by the government -- in some places so high that you would get your "maximum annual dose" (if you believe in such things) in about 8 days. It's a bit strange to see people biking and going about their business.
Woman and child
At 9am we set out from Yonezawa, and drove for one and a half hours toward the region we wanted to make our measurements.
We do not stay in the high radiation areas longer than necessary in order to minimize our own dosages.
It was a beautiful day today with lots of sun. My face is actually a little red -- though that's from solar radiation, and not the radioactivity from the plant.
We kept our measurement gear on, but we had to turn off the audio bleeps on the Geiger counter, its constant sound was driving us nuts. The alarms of the devices can't be turned off, and in particularly high radiation areas they'd all go off. There was one place we hit such a high reading that we didn't even stop there. It was windy and dry, and the dust and snow can carry radioactive particles. So if you step out of the car and get dust or snow on you, you might bring radioactive particles into the car and you don't want that. We moved on quickly.
We met the police at a blockade about 35 km out from the Fukushima nuclear plant, and they let us do measurements. Cars were still going in and out that didn't appear to be relief workers or firemen -- it may be people are getting permission to go in and get their belongings, but I'm speculating. It was not busy, but it wasn't deserted: there were still people going in and out.
My biggest impression of the day was that this is a truly beautiful place – the mountains are breathtaking, and if you don't look at the Geiger counters, it's quite a nice place to be. But you look at the Geiger counters and you realise there's a danger, and that you can't see it with your eyes.
Brian Fitzgerald is a Story Advisor at Greenpeace International.
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Why so slow with the datas? People don't trust the
Japanese authorities for the same reason. We want
to know what the team has foun...
Why so slow with the datas? People don't trust the
Japanese authorities for the same reason. We want
to know what the team has found, soon.
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Thanx. "Make haste to waste"©FITZIEism.com
28 March, 2011 at 0:26
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Берегите себя, ребята.
28 March, 2011 at 1:02
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Надеюсь, с вами все будет в порядке и вы сделаете все, что нужно!
28 March, 2011 at 7:50
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Oh how sad...
But you did t publish a single reading...
I guess because the numbers aren't scary enough so best fluff it up?
Oh how sad...
But you did t publish a single reading...
I guess because the numbers aren't scary enough so best fluff it up?
Numbers please!
No numbers no credit..
28 March, 2011 at 8:57
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There is already too much dis-information from official agencies. Would be nice if GreenPeace would not replicate this "best practice" by be...
There is already too much dis-information from official agencies. Would be nice if GreenPeace would not replicate this "best practice" by being specific what levels of radiation you're exactly measuring where.
28 March, 2011 at 13:28
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Take care and thank you. God bless you.
28 March, 2011 at 19:55
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Hi guys, Excellent idea of Greenpeace to really act!!
Don't make the same mistake as all officials do. That is: not giving the actual data with ...
Hi guys, Excellent idea of Greenpeace to really act!!
Don't make the same mistake as all officials do. That is: not giving the actual data with the conclusions. Therefore please, publish all the measurements with the conclusions. It is THE ONLY WAY TO BE AND TO STAY CREDIBLE, don't become like the others. Good luck to the team and supportteam!!
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Thanks to the efforts of Truth, and people like yourselves who are un-covering, perhaps, humankind can start to see the
repercussions of Nucl...
Thanks to the efforts of Truth, and people like yourselves who are un-covering, perhaps, humankind can start to see the
repercussions of Nuclear Power.
Imagine how many nuclear power plants exactly like these in Japan, are also loaded with "spent" fuel, across this PLANET.
All with no plan for disposal, and no place to dispose of this "spent" fuel!
The "Spent" is "Costing" everyone!!
This can no longer be about money,....it is about LIFE,.. every living being !!!
28 March, 2011 at 22:38
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big business/governments are not to be trusted; thank you for putting your health at risk. I trust your readings and it is needed to have at least an impartial source of this data. I have a gieger counter and will do samples in the Northwest remote locations later this year. Citizens need to step in where governments fail. However, where can this information be distributed to the public. Is there a citizens monitoring website aviable? thanks again for the young people of this planet.
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