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In between sulking with Nokia and billing customers for imaginary debts, Orange UK has changed the voice used for its menus and automated systems, opting for something a little more matey and a little less BBC.
While other operators test femtocells, broadcast video, or prepare to do battle with the imminent iPhone, Orange has re-recorded all its voice prompts with something "designed to be friendly and engaging". Apparently, "the new Voice of Orange reflects social trends and preferences towards a more informal tone of voice".
Orange said customers were polled on a range of accents, tones, and voices before "Ruth" was selected. Orange won't confirm who supplied the voice, but our information is that it was actor Ruth Gibson, who apparently supplies a range of accents.
After sticking with the old voice for 13 years there's little harm in making a change, though one has to wonder at the list of priorities in the Orange HQ these days. ®


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Last Saturday, the sun finally shone after a very bone chilling week. I grabbed my camera and headed over to the St Roch Cemetery, one that I had never visited (only 12 min from our bed and breakfast in New Orleans). Many people visit the cemeteries to experience these beautiful places filled with above grounds tombs and the history of the people and their city. The architecture itself makes the visit worth it. You actually do feel like you're walking through the streets of a neighborhood and the tombs are little houses.
This cemetery is very unique – it was built to celebrate the living. New Orleans, in 1867, was under a fierce yellow fever epidemic. There was little the city could do to halt the raging spread of the disease. Rev Peter Thevis fervently prayed to Saint Roch, a saint from medieval times who ministered to victims of the plague. His congregation was spared and he saw fit to the create the cemetery with his famous chapel. The Chapel is unquestionably the most unique in the city. It's very small with a few pews and a hand – carved and painted wooden Gothic altar with a figure of Christ lying below the altar table. Most intriguing is the small room off to the side of the alter, where hundreds of small mementos of the cures credited to St Roch. From the walls are suspended leg braces and crutches, false teeth, artificial limbs, hands and feet, heads and ears. These objects are intended to "testify to the cures attributed to prayers offered to St Roch." They actually returned to the shrine with a replica of the afflicted part of the body that had been healed. Sadly, there is a lock and chain across the chapel entrance these days but one can steal a peek through the small window and witness this objects.

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Chess Pastebin API - Libraries
Chess Pastebin is a webservice for sharing the outcome of chess games with friends. As a pastebin, anyone can add documentation of his or her chess game, without logging in or submitted additional personal information. Players simply copy the text documenting all the moves of the chess they wish to share, and plug it into the pastebin. Each move becomes hyperlinked for other users to see the players' positions on the board. The RESTful API exposes the website's game-posting functionality. It will return a unique ID for each game for recall. Developers must request an API key from the site's manager.


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Shared memory as an MPI transport (part 2)
In my last post, I discussed the rationale for using shared memory as a transport between MPI processes on the same server as opposed to using traditional network API loopback mechanisms.
The two big reasons are:
- Short message latency is lower with shared memory.
- Using shared memory frees OS and network hardware resources (to include the PCI bus) for off-node communication.
Let's discuss common ways in which MPI implementations use shared memory as a transport.
First, let's talk about point-to-point communication — direct messages between a pair of MPI process peers. Here are a few ways that MPI implementations have implemented shared memory as a transport for point-to-point IPC.
Copy in / copy out (CICO). CICO techniques were used all the way back in MPI-1 (mid-1990's). At startup, a chunk of shared memory is setup between two processes. Directional queues are setup in this shared memory; the sending process copies a message from its process memory space into the shared memory queue. The receiving process will notice this message and copy it out of the shared memory queue into its own memory space.
By definition, the shared memory between the processes is limited in size; it's typically much smaller than the memory available to each MPI process. As a direct consequence, large MPI messages need to be segmented and copied through shared memory a chunk at a time. The receiver must drain large message segments before the next one can be copied into the shared memory.
Such segmenting is typically done in a pipelined fashion so that the sender can be copying in segment A while the receiver is copying out segment B simultaneously. Allowing the sender and receiver to overlap their copies dramatically improves the efficiency of large message transfers.
Direct memory mapping. Some operating systems support direct mapping of peer processes. As such, no intermediate shared memory chunk may be necessary: process X can copy directly to the receiving buffer in process Y.
This technique can get a little tricky if the virtual memory addressing isn't the same between the two processes, but it can definitely be more efficient than CICO because only one memory copy is required.
An interesting side note is on modern server architectures, memory bandwidth and memory copying speeds are so high that a well-tuned pipelined CICO method can be nearly as efficient as a single memory copy from direct mapping. The real win for direct memory mapping is that it uses half as much bandwidth as CICO. As such, the performance win for direct mapping may not become blatantly obvious until you have lots of MPI processes all sending lots of data through shared memory simultaneously.
Asynchronous transfer. Sometimes, additional hardware or software can effect asynchronous transfer of large messages "in the background" — even when the user application is not in an MPI function. Various experiments over the years have tried using hardware such as Intel's I/OAT chipset, InfiniBand HCAs, and even kernel software threads to keep large transfers progressing without involvement from the MPI application.
However, remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch: co-opting existing hardware meant for other purposes for same-node asynchronous transfer all come at some cost (e.g., using InfiniBand HCAs for asynchronous transfer means that the message will need to traverse the PCI bus — perhaps even twice). As such, whether these techniques actually provide a consistent performance benefit or not is hugely dependent upon the MPI application's communication patterns and the architecture of the underlying hardware.
Dedicated, asynchronous memory copying hardware is really required to make this idea work. Such hardware has existed in proprietary parallel architectures for a long time, and has proven quite successful. Think of such setups as having a dedicated communications co-processor (such as OpenFabrics-based RDMA NICs) that just happens to use shared memory as its transport.
That's enough for one blog post… and let's not forget that we didn't even talk about using shared memory as a transport for MPI's collective communication! That's a whole topic unto itself; there's no need to be bound by the same abstractions as point-to-point messages when optimizing collective communication implementations.
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Dr. David J. Hufford, a senior fellow at the Samueli Institute exploring wellness and whole-person healing through science, will share his latest work and research findings on spiritual experiences and their relationship to health at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 23, in the Dixon House library at St. Paul's Church, 22 E. Chestnut Hill Ave.
The talk is free and open to the public. Those in attendance will be given the opportunity to participate in a large study, looking at the relationship of dramatic spiritual experiences to people's belief, practice and life orientation.
Hufford has spent his entire career looking into the relationship of spirituality and health in all its different dimensions. As a professor of neural and behavioral science, he saw the tendency to explain away dramatic spiritual experience as a problem of psychopathology. His work has been one of correcting what he has called "this serous misunderstanding."
In addition to the presentation and a question and answer period, a voluntary questionnaire will be made available for those who wish to participate in Hufford's study. The questionnaire is anonymous and no identifying information will be gathered.
Persons who would like to participate should indicate this by calling the church office at 215-242-2055 or by emailing email@example.com so that Hufford can have sufficient questionnaires available. More information will be available on the church's website www.stpaulschestnuthill.org.
Hufford retired from the College of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University in 2007 after 33 years as a professor of neural and behavioral science and family medicine and as chair of Medical Humanities.


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The Appoquinimink Library has been lending out books for free since 1963, but its history goes back much further.
The older you get, the more tempting it becomes to fib about your age.
So it's understandable if some longtime Middletown residents were skeptical when the Appoquinimink Library celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 2.
"Well, it is true that there's been a library in Middletown – in one form or another – for more than 100 years," explained adult services librarian Susan Hengel. "But it didn't become a true public lending library until 1963, so from that perspective, we're still only 50 years old."
According to state records, the New Castle County-run library in the Pettinaro office complex at 651 N. Broad St. can trace its roots back to 1901 when the Middletown New Century Club launched the town's first paid membership library.
That building, located near the Everett Theatre, was destroyed by a fire in 1922, and the library briefly moved to a new home on South Broad Street before closing in 1926.
For decades afterwards, library services in the area were provided exclusively by bookmobiles operated by the New Castle County Free Public Library.
It wasn't until July 1963 that the library finally re-opened, this time at the Old Academy Building on North Broad Street under the auspices of the Appoquinimink School District.
For the first time, books were lent out for free to anyone who lived in the district, while those who lived elsewhere were required to pay a $1 annual membership fee.
About 150 books were lent out in just the first week of operation, according to an article published in the Middletown Transcript on July 11, 1963.
"We've definitely grown a whole lot since then," Hengel said this week. "These days, I'd say we probably lend out about 150 books in an hour."
In the last year, the Appoquinimink Library averaged about 8,200 patron visits per month, with an annual circulation of 186,327 items. That's roughly the equivalent of every one of the library's 62,500 books, periodicals, audio books, DVDs and music CDs being checked out at least three times.
In addition to lending media, the library also hosts numerous community programs and activities, including a family film night, a Lego club, a knitting circle, a quilters group, financial literacy classes, e-book tutorials, a book discussion group and the wildly popular Summer Reading Club for students.
"We currently have 680 children registered for our Summer Reading Club, which breaks the record we set just last year," said library specialist Barbara Keesey.
The Appoquinimink Library was moved to its current, 11,000-square-foot location in 2007, after spending nearly a decade at Middletown High School.
Several years ago, New Castle County developed a proposal to merge the existing library into a 25,000-square-foot regional facility to be built just north of Middletown by 2014, followed by the addition of a new community library in Townsend by 2016.
However, county officials now say those plans are unlikely to come to fruition.
"It's probably not going to happen," County Executive Tom Gordon said this week. "What we might do instead is [build] a community library near the growth area north of Middletown and keep the Appoquinimink Library where it is. Smyrna is talking about building a library too, and it's possible the community might be better served with three smaller libraries rather than one large one, but we're still in the early discussion phase and anything is possible."
New Castle Councilman Bill Powers (D-Townsend) said he supports the idea of keeping the Appoquinimink Library in Middletown.
"It changes with each administration, but in recent years there's been a push to move it out of Middletown," he said. "I'm fighting to keep it right where it is, because there are a lot of kids in these neighborhoods who depend on the library and won't be able to access it if it's outside of town."
Regardless of where it's located, principal library assistant Mary Borecki said the library will continue to hold a special place in her heart.
"Other people talk about having a bucket list; well, I have a barrel list and it's full of all the books I want to read," said Borecki, who was hired as a page in 1989 and since become the library's longest-tenured employee. "What makes the library great is that it's a place for people like me who are enthusiastic about their love of reading and want somewhere they can go to talk about books or to find the latest work by a certain author. I think that's why it's been here so long and why it will continue to be an important part of the community."


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In talking with former sufferers, many of whom had been so debilitated they doubted they could ever recover, it is common to find that they look back on the illness as a time of profound learning. They report that CFS served as a teacher and an opportunity for re-evaluating their values, purposes, and whole way of life.
Though it may be hard to believe at first, there is a consensus here: in retrospect, the lessons learned were of such great value that they were worth the price. Following are some of the insights offered by former patients.
One of the most common discoveries is that we can actually pay attention and listen to ourselves much more deeply than before. Some experience this as listening to inner guidance. Others describe it as listening to the body, as trusting yourself, or as accepting yourself. Consider Tina:
"Getting sick was the best thing that ever happened to me... My body just had to stop me. I wasn't paying enough attention to my life, my stress, my job and my unhappiness to do anything about it, until I got so sick that I literally could not do anything and had to stop... I've learned that I always lose when I don't listen to myself, when I don't trust myself. I just have to do things from my heart or my intuition. Otherwise things just go wrong."
Tremendous strides in self-acceptance are very common. As Debbie states,"I feel now that whoever I am and whatever state I am in, I'm okay, I love myself... My wants and needs are valid, and I say what they are. I may not always get it right now, but I no longer wait for someone else to give me permission or encouragement to have what I want or need."
Much of the suffering brought by CFS is as a result of having to cope with the limitations on our ability to do things. It stands to reason that to the degree that you define yourself by your actions, youwill suffer more. Consider for example Gail's perspective:
"The big revelation for me was that I am not what I do. I discovered that it didn't matter to my husband whether I could do anything or not. Even though I wasn't doing a thing for anybody, there were still people around that loved me. That was a new awakening for me...
"I felt like I was a big zero, but other people were seeing something in me that I couldn't see. I began to think that maybe there was something left, maybe I had something within me that I could give. If people could see something in me deeper than my everyday roles, there must be something there and I needed to look for it."
Related to the lessons about being versus doing is a more general re-examination of values about living. Bernice offers us the following reflections:
"It's made me more compassionate, more understanding. It's made me slow down and get off the rat race and start looking at what's real important in life. I think had I not gotten ill, I wouldn't be spending as much time with my children. I'd be at work, and I wouldn't have learned meditation."For Kris it was a simple message about living in the moment: "I'velearned to pay more attention to the present, and worry less about the past and future."
Debbie reports shifts in several values: "I am now happy, and I don't even think I knew what it was to be happy before...
I've come to believe that what's most important is the quality of relationships--honesty, truthfulness, communication. I say exactly what I feel and what I want. Some people think I'm selfish, but I'm just being honest."
And Gini reveals a deeper reverence for life: "I've learned to cherish life a lot more than I did before, with a lot less taking for granted. Icherish my husband more too, our intimacy and our everyday life."
After recovery people often report a new calmness, greater feeling of inner strength, or new confidence in inner resources. Perhaps these changes come from having plumbed the depths of despair and made the journey back to balance. Linda offers her observation:
"If you survive something like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and don't commit suicide, you have a greater inner strength than you ever had. It was like a trial by fire. That's what I experienced.
"For me, that inner strength came from seeing that life goes on and I didn't need to do a whole lot to survive. Now that I have the energy to do anything I want, I don't have to do all the mundane things that I thought I had to do."
Some who would never have considered meditation discover how nourishing and healing it can be to simply become quiet and look within. This theme is voiced by Bernice, who states: "I'm realizing that the purpose of this disease is for me to go within, learn a lot more about myself, and make some incredible changes in order to survive emotionally. I realize that I came from a very dysfunctional background, that there is a lot of learned fear and guilt that seem to be blocking the natural healing energy within me.
"The lesson boils down to my drowning in self-doubt, self-hatred and guilt all my life. The illness has forced me to realize those are the very things that are preventing me from getting well. The healing energy's there—I mean, if I cut my finger it heals. It's there, but I was blocking it."
Times of adversity inevitably bring people more in touch with the spiritual dimensions of life. One result can be a change in the frequency or quality of prayer. This is supported by Gini, who tells us, "I would say overall my spirituality is more alive. We pray on a daily basis. I get the feeling that I can cope with whatever comes, like there is somebody there who is stronger than I am."
It may also mean a wholesale reappraisal of one's spiritual values and belief system. This was the case for Gail, who says: "I had to really look at my religious side and what I believed in. I found that it didn't work for me any more. And so I started searching for other things of a spiritual nature. I found that meditation did work for me, going inside to find answers, relaxing, quieting my mind, to find my higher self."
Or it may be of a simpler impact, as described by Debbie: "I am healing myself by getting in touch with my true spirit." In all of these cases,the patients agreed that the illness brought them to a greater recognition of the place of spirituality in their lives.
What can be concluded from these patients' experiences? They serve to remind us not only that there is hope for recovery, but also that the saying "broken bones heal stronger" applies in a way to CFS as well.


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A few years ago, the startup scene in London was non-existent.
Now, it's bustling. Joanna Shields, CEO of London's Tech City Investment Organization and former Facebook VP of EMEA told reporters this morning, "The energy is intoxicating."
Techstars London's managing director Jon Bradford agreed. The pair sat on a panel this morning at Google's campus in East London and explained what's changed in their city: the attitude.
"What's different today than two or three years ago is the startup ecosystem in London has a vibrant community," Bradford said.
Techstars is one of the top startup accelerator programs in the world. It was founded by David Cohen in Boulder, Colorado and has spread to multiple cities throughout the United States. London is the first city the program has expanded to overseas.
Bradford says Techstars noticed the change in England's perception towards entrepreneurs, and thinks it's a great place to find international innovators.
"Being a startup in London today is really normal," he said. "Previously it was, 'Look at that freak. He's working for himself and chances are it isn't going to work.' It's pretty cool. People stare at this building [Google Campus] and they say, 'Look at them, they work for other people, and it's weird.'
"Techstars looks at London as much more internationally friendly country than the U.S. itself," Bradford said. "They're looking at how to get to more exciting international teams, not just UK teams. And there's access to government here. They will actually sit and listen to what's asked of them."
The startup scene in London recognizes its still behind U.S. hubs, such as New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Silicon Valley. But London is undoubtedly up-and-coming.
Facebook opened its first international office in London at the request of its employees. Spotify has a big presence in London. Yammer, Stripe, General Assembly and BuzzFeed all have office space in London too. Google is also opening a major £1bn space in London's King's Cross area that will be 750,000 square feet. Its East London campus has only been open one year, but it has already held 166 events for about 60,000 people in the tech community.
London startups are starting to get national recognition. Summly, founded by a 17-year-old in England, was recently acquired for $20-30 million. Today another London startup, Mendeley, was acquired for about $100 million.
Disclosure: London & Partners, a not-for-profit backed by London's mayor, paid for me to visit London and explore its Tech City.


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Holy Cross/Immaculate Heart of Mary offers informal and active learning opportunities for Chicago-area youth of Mexican and Mexican-American heritage. Today's invited guests have attained good attendance and participation in Holy Cross/Immaculate Heart of Mary's summer camp programs, which feature activities in educational support, mentoring, life skills and recreation.
Courtesy of the players' charitable foundation, the children will receive round-trip transportation to the game, meet the players, and receive free tickets, food, beverages and souvenirs.
This season, Buses for Baseball will provide transportation and personal greetings for more than 1,500 underprivileged children attending Major League Baseball games as invited guests of their big league heroes. Buses for Baseball will provide many of the children with their first chance to attend a Major League Baseball game.
The Players Trust enjoys support from the Chicago White Sox organization in providing this unique, up close and personal opportunity to share the thrill of Major League Baseball with those less fortunate.
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The members of the Major League Baseball Players Association created the Players Trust, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation, to provide resources of caring to those in need by volunteering in causes close to their hearts and encouraging others to do the same. The foundation became the first of its kind in professional sports established and administered by the players. For additional information, please visit www.MLBPLAYERS.com.


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The EMDR Institute™, founded by Dr Francine Shapiro in 1990, offers quality trainings in the EMDR™ methodology, a treatment approach which has been empirically validated in over 24 randomized studies of trauma victims. An additional 24 studies have demonstrated positive effects for the eye movement component used in EMDR therapy.
All EMDR Institute instructors have been personally trained and approved by Dr Shapiro.
Participants will have an opportunity to practice EMDR therapy in small groups with direct observation and constructive feedback from highly skilled EMDR Institute trained clinicians. These experiential trainings will consist of lecture, live and videotaped demonstrations and supervised practice. Participants will learn a broad spectrum of EMDR therapy applications sufficient to effectively treat the therapeutic needs of a wide range of clients and issues.
World Health Organization (2013). Guidelines for the Management of Conditions That are Specifically Related to Stress. Geneva, WHO.
* Trauma-focused CBT and EMDR are the only psychotherapies recommended for children, adolescents and adults with PTSD.
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Women's Representation in Government Still Low
New Worldwatch Institute study examines the number of women active in national legislatures
Washington, D.C.—In late 2013, women accounted for slightly more than 21 percent of the representatives in the lower or popular chambers of national legislatures worldwide, according to the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Filling one in five seats of national legislative bodies represents progress for women, but it is hardly rapid progress: 15 years ago, slightly more than 13 percent of the seats were held by women,write Atlas Corps Fellow Janice Pratt and Worldwatch President Robert Engelman in the Institute's latest Vital Signs Online trend (www.worldwatch.org).
Low levels of female participation in parliaments undoubtedly reflect similarly low levels of participation in other political institutions as well as in social, educational, and economic spheres generally. Data on gender gaps in these areas are less uniform and authoritative. The number of women in top national executive offices—including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—may reflect changeable political scenes in the world's 193 United Nations member states more than actual trends in women's influence in governance.
There are great regional variations in the average percentages of women in parliaments. As of November 2013, representation was as follows: Nordic countries, 42 percent; the Americas, 24 percent; Europe (exclusive of Nordic countries), 24 percent; sub-Saharan Africa, 22 percent; Asia, 18.5 percent; the Middle East and North Africa, 16 percent; and the Pacific, 16 percent. Where national legislatures have two houses, women tend to be better represented in the lower than the higher house—the one that in many countries has a less influential role in legislative action.
Six of the 10 parliaments with the highest share of female representation are in developing countries. African nations ranked impressively among the top 25 nations, with the parliaments of Angola, Mozambique, Rwanda, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda having strong female representation. Andorra (50 percent), Sweden (45 percent), Finland (42 percent), and Iceland (40 percent)—the four industrial countries on the list of the top 10 parliaments with greatest female representation—were a huge contrast to other industrial countries, including France (25 percent), the United Kingdom (22.5 percent), Greece (21 percent), and the United States (18 percent), where female representation is still surprisingly low.
Despite the slow progress, the world today has the first-ever example of a woman-dominated national legislature: Rwanda, with almost 56 percent representation since 2008 and 57.5 percent in 2013. The post-civil war constitution of this small central African country specified that 30 percent of legislators must be women (by reserving seats, for example, that only women can contest). Rwandans are now within range of doubling that constitutionally mandated percentage, easily surpassing Cuba (49 percent) and Sweden (45 percent) in women's parliamentary representation.
"Although most countries now allow women to vote and stand for election, there is still a long way to go to achieve equal political participation," said Robert Engelman. "Trends show that at the current rate at which women enter parliament annually, gender equality in national legislatures may not be realized until 2068."
Several international decisions have helped legitimize the political involvement of women. Relevant treaties include the 1952 Convention on the Political Rights of Women and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and entered into force two years later. All but 7 of the UN's 193 member countries have ratified CEDAW; the holdouts are the United States, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Iran, and the two small Pacific Island nations of Palau and Tonga.
In 1995, the United Nations sponsored the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. With 189 governments and 2,600 nongovernmental groups in attendance, this was one of the largest UN conferences ever. Delegates agreed to a set of strategic objectives and actions, including efforts to advance the role of women in politics and environmental stewardship. The year 2015, the target year for achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, will also mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Conference, potentially renewing attention to global efforts to empower women—not just in the world's legislative bodies but in every sphere of human activity.
Further highlights from the report:
- Thirty-five countries, including 9 in Africa, have so far managed to obtain 30 percent female representation in their parliaments. Twenty-nine out of the 35 have in place a quota system meant to enhance women's participation in politics.
- Other countries with some form of quota system (in some cases, simply commitments by political parties fielding candidates) include Argentina, Finland, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, and Spain.
- As late as 2000, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates continued to bar women from political participation. Since then, each country has offered openings to women's participation, including the right to vote and run in political elections.
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Worldwatch is an independent research organization based in Washington, D.C. that works on energy, resource, and environmental issues. The Institute's State of the World report is published annually in more than a dozen languages. For more information, visit www.worldwatch.org.
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The procession of patrol cars from throughout the area was led by the Law Enforcement Momorial Association Honr Guard as it approached the Ervid T. Elemons Memorial Rest Area.
Moose Lake was filled with law enforcement patrol cars on Monday, Aug. 26, as the officers gathered to remember and honor Ervid T. Clemons, one of their own who was killed in the line of duty on August 26, 1993, in Moose Lake.
Officers from the Moose Lake Police Department, the Carlton County Sheriff's Office, the Fond du Lac Police Department, the Cloquet Police Department, the Duluth Police Department, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, the Superior Police Department, the Minnesota State Patrol and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officers, as well as the Law Enforcement Explorer's Program, met at the Moose Lake Depot, near the scene of Clemons' death, and held a prayer service in his memory.
The procession of patrol cars, led by The Thin Blue Line Memorial Vehicle, then came down Folz Boulevard, turned onto Arrowhead Lane and proceeded to the Ervin T. Clemons Rest Area near the fishing pier.
The service was held to rededicate the memorial which had been damaged in last year's flood, to Clemons on this 20th anniversary of his death.
The procession to the memorial was led by an honor guard from the Law Enforcement Memorial Association. The Thin Blue Line Memorial Vehicle, with American flags and Police flags mounted on the front, stood near the gathering, paying homage to another fallen officer during the service.
The vehicle is a retired patrol car from North St. Paul that was purchased by the city and given to Christine Crittenden, the widow of slain officer Richard Crittenden, who was fatally killed on September 9, 2009, while responding to a violated Order for Protection.
The names of 277 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty are listed on the trunk surface of the vehicle.
Family, friends, and law enforcement officers, both still serving and retired, attended the service in 90-degree heat to honor Clemons and rededicate his memorial.
The service was led by Father John Petrich, the Duluth Police Department Chaplain.
The Honorable Judge Dale Wolf, who spoke at Clemons' funeral service 20 years before, was the speaker.
Wolf announced that the Carlton County Board of Commissioners were meeting at that moment, and were observing a moment of silence in honor of Clemons.
"A law enforcement officer faces unknown dangers each and every day," said Judge Wolf. "They guard the weak and remove the treacherous.
"When I spoke at Erv's funeral 20 years ago, I had a hard time making sense of his death. All that is left for us it to honor his memory and his sacrifice.
"We remember and honor him here today in the community he loved, amongst family and friends. We are here to reflect and remember Ervid T. Clemons, a husband, father and friend, who made the ultimate sacrifice.
"He'd say, 'Folks, don't just add your voice in support for me but for all of my brothers and sisters.'
"This monument is here to remember Erv long after we're gone. Erv was taken from us way too soon. Let us honor his memory."
The service ended with a prayer and the playing of taps from one of the honor guard, who was out on the fishing pier.


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San Gorgonio offensive lineman/defensive lineman Paul Rodriguez verbally committed to San Diego State a couple of weeks ago according to San Gorgonio football coach Ron Gueringer. Rodriguez, a 6-foot-6, 240-pound senior, chose the Aztecs over offers from Washington State and Colorado State.
"He's the first of hopefully many kids that we send off to Division I colleges," Gueringer said. "I'm proud of him and what he did for this program. I know the San Diego State coaches came down a few weeks back to see him play and loved him. They had a great season and it's a great place for Paul to go."
Rodriguez starred on both offense and defense for the Spartans, who went 7-5 this season and finished second in the San Andreas League. San G advanced to the Central Division quarterfinals, where it was ousted by top-seeded Moreno Valley Rancho Verde. Gueringer thinks the Aztecs will use Rodriguez on the offensive line.
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WASHINGTON — A rising PSA level isn't such a good predictor of prostate cancer after all and can lead to many unnecessary biopsies, a large new study says.
Most men over 50 get PSA blood tests, but they're hugely problematic. Too much PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, only sometimes signals prostate cancer is brewing — it also can mean a benign enlarged prostate or an infection. And screening often detects small tumors that will prove too slow-growing to be deadly. Yet, there's no sure way to tell in advance who needs aggressive therapy.
On the other hand, some men have cancer despite a "normal" PSA count of 4 or below. So for PSAs that are rising, yet still in the normal range, some guidelines urge doctors to consider a biopsy.
How quickly the PSA number rises is something "that patients and doctors worry a lot about," said Dr. Andrew Vickers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Men show up here with a PSA of 2 and we say, 'Why are you here?' And they say, 'Well, I used to be a 1, and my doctor's worried. Am I going to die?' "
So Sloan-Kettering researchers studied whether considering PSA velocity adds value to the biopsy-or-not decision in those otherwise low-risk men — and concluded it doesn't.
"This is a really important study," said Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society, who wasn't part of the research. "A lot of doctors are going to stop looking at a PSA rise of 1 and ordering biopsies."
Vickers' team tracked 5,519 men who'd taken part in a huge prostate cancer prevention study and who'd received a biopsy at the study's end regardless of their PSA level.
Just having a rising PSA — if nothing else was considered — was associated with a slightly higher risk of having cancer, although not the more worrisome aggressive kind. But the PSA level alone, not its rise, was a much better predictor of a tumor, reported Vickers, a statistician who specializes in prostate cancer.
Focusing on PSA's rise instead triggered many more biopsies, with close to 1 in 7 men who would get one, concluded the study, published Thursday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
That compares with 1 in 20 men who are biopsied for a high PSA level alone, noted Dr. Grace Lu-Yao of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in an accompanying editorial.
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- Female: Female prisoners, expressed as a percentage share of the total prison population. Data for 2003.
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Mets icons Mookie Wilson, Edgardo Alfonzo to manage SiriusXM All-Star Futures teams
Former New York Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson, a member of the 1986 World Championship team, will lead the U.S. Team and former All-Star Edgardo Alfonzo, a member of the 2000 National League Championship squad, will manage the World Team in the 2013 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game on Sunday, July 14th at Citi Field in New York.
The SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, which is now in its 15th year, features the top Minor League prospects competing in a nine-inning contest as part of Taco Bell All-Star Sunday. The U.S. Team leads the all-time series, 8-6. The game will begin at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) and can be viewed live on ESPN2, ESPN2 HD and MLB.com.
Former New York Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson, a member of the 1986 World Championship team, will lead the U.S. Team and former All-Star Edgardo Alfonzo, a member of the 2000 National League Championship squad, will manage the World Team in the 2013 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game on Sunday, July 14th at Citi Field in New York.
The SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, which is now in its 15th year, features the top Minor League prospects competing in a nine-inning contest as part of Taco Bell All-Star Sunday. The U.S. Team leads the all-time series, 8-6. The game will begin at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) and can be viewed live on ESPN2, ESPN2 HD and MLB.com.
SiriusXM, the Official Satellite Radio Partner of Major League Baseball, will provide live play-by-play coverage of the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game on MLB Network Radio (XM channel 89; Sirius channel 209) in addition to SiriusXM's other comprehensive live coverage from New York. The game will also be available to SiriusXM subscribers on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App for smart phones and mobile devices and online at SiriusXM.com. Taco Bell All-Star Sunday is the first of three days of All-Star events at Citi Field, culminating with the 84th All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 16th.
Wilson, who was a Mets outfielder from 1980-89, ranks among the Club's all-time leaders in stolen bases (2nd, 281), triples (2nd, 62), runs (6th, 592), hits (6th, 1,112), at-bats (6th, 4,027), games (7th, 1,116), total bases (9th, 1,586) and extra-base hits (10th, 292). The South Carolina native is best remembered for his memorable at-bat in the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, when his ground ball trickled past Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner, allowing Ray Knight to score the winning run and force a Game 7, which the Mets would win. Mookie, who was drafted by the Mets in the second round of the 1977 Draft, ended his 12-year playing career following three seasons (1989-91) with the Toronto Blue Jays. In 1,403 career games, Mookie hit .274 with 1,397 hits, 227 doubles, 71 triples, 67 home runs, 438 RBI, 731 runs scored and 327 stolen bases. The Spartanburg Junior College product returned to the Mets organization in 1993 as a member of the Community Outreach Department and roving Minor League instructor before becoming the Club's first base coach from 1997-2002. Wilson, who also served as the first base coach in 2011, managed in the Mets Minor League system from 2003-05. Mookie was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 1996 and he is currently in his second season as a Club Ambassador.
Alfonzo played 12 seasons as an infielder in the Majors for the Mets (1995-2002), San Francisco Giants (2003-05), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2006) and Blue Jays (2006). In 1,506 career games, "Fonzie" recorded 1,532 hits, 282 doubles, 146 home runs, 744 RBI and 777 runs scored with a .284 lifetime batting average. Alfonzo, who was originally signed by the Mets as an undrafted free agent in 1991, won the N.L. Silver Slugger Award at second base in 1999 and finished eighth in league MVP voting. He followed in 2000 with a career-best .324 batting average along with 25 home runs, 40 doubles and 94 RBI as he made his lone All-Star appearance. The Venezuela native ranks among franchise leaders in hits (5th, 1,136), runs (5th, 614), doubles (5th, 212), RBI (7th, 538) and home runs (9th, 120). He is currently in his first year as a Club Ambassador for the Mets.
Rosters for the 2013 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game will be announced tomorrow afternoon. Coaches for the U.S. and World Team are as follows:
U.S. Team Coaches
Brad Holman Pitching Coach, Round Rock Express Texas Rangers Texas League / AA
Howard Johnson Hitting Coach, Tacoma Rainiers Seattle Mariners Pacific Coast League / AAA
Keith Bodie Manager, Corpus Christi Hooks Houston Astros Texas League / AA
Chris Cron Manager, Erie SeaWolves Detroit Tigers Eastern League / AA
Andy Green Manager, Mobile BayBears Arizona Diamondbacks Southern League / AA
Dean Treanor Manager, Indianapolis Indians Pittsburgh Pirates International League / AAA
Carl Randolph Minor League Athletic Training Coordinator Pittsburgh Pirates
World Team Coaches
Neil Allen Pitching Coach, Durham Bulls Tampa Bay Rays International League / AAA
Jacque Jones Hitting Coach, San Antonio Missions San Diego Padres Texas League / AA
Pedro Lopez Manager, Binghamton Mets New York Mets Eastern League / AA
Charlie Montoyo Manager, Durham Bulls Tampa Bay Rays International League / AAA
Steve Scarsone Manager, Sacramento River Cats Oakland Athletics Pacific Coast League / AAA
Julio Vinas Manager, Birmingham Barons Chicago White Sox Southern League / AA
Mike Herbst Minor League Medical Coordinator New York Mets
The Minor League Baseball Umpires who will work the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game are Pat Hoberg (home plate) of the Pacific Coast League, Gabe Morales (first base) of the International League, Ryan Goodman (second base) of the Southern League and Nic Lentz (third base) of the Eastern League.
Tickets are still available for purchase for the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game and Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game by visiting www.allstargame.com, calling 1-888-326-3378 or visiting the Mets box office at Citi Field.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday, July 16th. The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports; in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS; and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. Pregame ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. (EDT). ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide exclusive national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network, MLB.com and SiriusXM also will provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com or mets.com/asg.


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The Joint Legislative Auditing Committee has issued subpoenas for two Okaloosa County commissioners and the president of The Zimmerman Agency to appear at its March 4 meeting in Tallahassee.
The Joint Legislative Auditing Committee has issued subpoenas for two Okaloosa County commissioners and the president of The Zimmerman Agency to appear at its March 4 meeting in Tallahassee.
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The subpoenas for Commission Chairman Don Amunds, Commissioner Wayne Harris and Curtis Zimmerman were issued Wednesday. It was not clear Thursday whether they had been served.
The Auditing Committee plans to question Amunds, Harris and Zimmerman, or another representative of his company, about findings in the auditor general�s recent audit of the County Commission and the Tourist Development Council. They also are expected to answer questions about former TDC head Mark Bellinger�s illegal and unauthorized expenditures from 2010 to 2012.
�I plan to honor the subpoena,� said Harris, who is being represented by Tallahassee lawyer Ronald Meyer.
Amunds and Zimmerman could not be reached for comment Thursday.
The Zimmerman Agency of Tallahassee is a marketing and advertising firm that held a lucrative contract with the TDC for about 20 years.
The state�s Auditing Committee, made up of six state representatives and five state senators, oversees the Auditor General�s Office.
In addition to the three subpoenas, the committee has sent letters to 10 people requesting they voluntarily appear before the committee March 4. Those people include County Administrator Jim Curry, County Attorney John Dowd, County Clerk of Court Don Howard, former TDC attorney Steve Hall and Lewis Communications Vice President Ellen Wingard.
Read some of the letters.
Lewis Communications, based in Mobile, Ala., is the advertising firm that issued the check Bellinger used to buy his $747,000 home in Destin. The four-bedroom home was paid for with money from a BP oil spill grant.
The Auditing Committee had planned to subpoena Lewis Communications, but changed that plan because it would have taken too long to file the subpoena through the Alabama court system, said George Levesque, general counsel for the Florida Senate.
Attorney Gus Fontenot of Mobile, who represents Lewis Communications, said Thursday he is not sure if Wingard or another company representative will attend the committee meeting.
Also included on the committee�s list are Warren Gourley, chairman of the TDC; Bobby Nabors, a Fort Walton Beach City Councilman and TDC member; and former TDC members Kathy Houchins, Patricia Hardiman and Nick Nicholson.
Gourley, Nicholson and Houchins said they are willing to appear.
�I responded that I�ll absolutely be there,� Houchins said. �I will welcome the opportunity to answer their questions and lend them my opinion if they ask for it, and maybe even if they don�t ask for it.�
Houchins is one of four TDC members who were asked to resign Feb. 5 by county commissioners. She opposed stepping down but complied because she said she wants the county to move past the controversy.
Gourley has refused to resign. He said he welcomes the chance to talk with the Auditing Committee.
�I don�t believe they understand how (the TDC) was structured,� he said. �We were volunteers. We did not sign checks. We did not see invoices.�
Nabors said he is �still working out the details� of whether he will attend the March 4 meeting.
�What I want to avoid is going over there and sitting all day for nothing,� he said. �If they legitimately want to have a conversation with us, then I�m agreeable to that. � There�s no reason for us to go over there and get politically demonized.�
State Rep. Matt Gaetz does not sit on the Auditing Committee but participated in its Feb. 11 hearing on the TDC scandal. He said he is not sure if he will attend the next meeting.
Gaetz said he doesn�t believe the Auditing Committee will be pleased to hear that Okaloosa County commissioners on Tuesday declined to fire Dowd.
�That would have been an obvious step toward healing and moving forward,� he said.
Gaetz has pushed for Dowd�s removal at previous meetings.
�Every day that John Dowd continues to be employed by the county is a day that taxpayers have to be concerned,� he said.
Gaetz said Dowd provided legal opinions and helped draft contracts with Zimmerman and Lewis that �subjected taxpayers to untold liability.�
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New London - Police Chief Margaret Ackley, who has come under criticism from some of the rank and file and had threatened to sue the city because she said a councilor was meddling in her department, will not retire by the end of the year, as planned.
Standing in the sunlight in front of fire department headquarters on Bank Street at noontime Friday, surrounded by police, fire and emergency vehicles, Mayor-elect Daryl Justin Finizio announced that both Ackley and Fire Chief Ronald Samul would remain in their respective positions after he is sworn in Dec. 5.
Finizio said it had been a pledge of his since January to keep both chiefs if elected, and that Ackley and Samul had agreed to stay on.
"We've engaged in extended dialogue since the election about the new roles that would be played in the new administration, and I'm very glad that both of them have agreed to stay on," Finizio said.
Earlier this year, Ackley reached an agreement with the city manager to retire by the end of the year, and said at a City Council meeting in August that Councilor Michael Buscetto III was "causing her distress" by meddling in police affairs and was affecting her ability to do her job. That agreement had an opt-out clause, which she is exercising.
In September, the police department was recognized by the State of Connecticut Police Officer Standards and Training Council as a Tier One Accredited Agency. New London is one of only 30 law enforcement agencies statewide to have met the standards for accreditation.
The day after that news was announced, the city's police union published an "open letter" in a paid advertisement in The Day, lashing out at the chief for what the union described as "a managerial crisis."
"Ackley's actions and lack of executive level management skills and judgment have negatively affected police operations, employee morale and public safety for quite some time," it read.
Todd Lynch, who was elected police union president earlier this month, said Friday after the announcement that he is "trying to look forward rather than backwards and opening positive communication with the chief." He said the problems persist and will until the police administration and union can come to a compromise on several issues.
"It's been a strained relationship with the rank and file having extremely low morale," Lynch said. "We've had positive dialogue, we're looking to correct that situation and turn that into positive results."
Samul and Ackley made brief statements at Friday's press conference.
"The fire department is looking forward to continuing to provide a very high level of service and to be part of the new team that's going to be providing services to the city of New London," said Samul, who has led the department since 1985 and is a 41-year veteran of the department.
Ackley has been with the police department for 25 years and was appointed chief in 2009.
"I very much appreciate Mayor-elect Finizio's support, and I will serve with pride for the city of New London," Ackley said. "It's an exciting time with our strong mayor form of government, and it is time to start moving forward, and the police department intends to do exactly that. We're approaching this as a team approach with the new city government."
Ackley threatened a lawsuit against the city in August and submitted a list of her complaints against Buscetto.
That list has not been released to the public, and The Day has filed a Freedom of Information request for it.
Finizio on Friday said he would not release the list or comment on Ackley's claims because it is a pending legal issue. The City Council retained former Superior Court Judge Beverly Hodgson last month to investigate the claims.
On Tuesday, Ackley withdrew a complaint she had made to the city's Board of Ethics that Buscetto had violated the city's Code of Ethics when he refused to recuse himself from three City Council meetings in August in which Ackley's retirement contract was discussed.
Friday's press conference came a day after Finizio announced that Law Director Thomas Londregan would not retain his position with the city. Londregan, 67, has been city attorney for nearly two decades.
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"It does not accurately indicate my approach to hiring," he said. "This is entirely a merit-based process, and that is what it will remain, and I regret that statement, it was taken out of context, and I certainly apologize for it."
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US Women's Gymnastics Team Decides Self-Chosen Nickname 'Fierce Five' Needs Trademark Protection
from the because,-these-days,-NOT-filing-is-never-an-option deptIs anyone else out there excited to hear about athletes trademarking nicknames? Anyone? Or is it just another one of those things that seems to go hand-in-hand with buying defensive patents by the bucket-load and fending off onerous members of artists' estates? These IP land grabs seem to be a sign of the times, a brave new world of preemptive protectionism that leads people to believe that they have to quickly lock down everything pertaining to them, even if it's a spur of the moment nickname handed out by an enthusiastic sportscaster.
From the (L)insanity of last year to the trademarked unibrow of a few months ago, athletes are seemingly becoming their own marketing force, rushing off to the trademark office in order to nail down rights to anything remotely catchy/marketable. The latest trademark grab comes on the heels of the Greatest Trademark Show on Earth, the 2012 Olympics.
USA Gymnastics is preparing a trademark filing for the term "Fierce Five," which was attached to the gold medal-winning women's gymnastics team at the London Olympics, spokeswoman Luan Peszek said in an e-mail.Good thing, too. The article points out that, preference or no, Fab Five is already taken, secured by Jalen Rose a mere 19 years after University of Michigan's 1991 draft class was given that nickname. I'm not sure what the opportunities are to capitalize on a catch phrase two decades down the road, but if any exist, it's probably in the "undergarments" and "pajamas" field.
Peszek has said the team, including Gabby Douglas, the first black gymnast to win the all-around, preferred Fierce Five to Fab Five.
The road to "Fierce Five" isn't entirely bump-free, however. Someone has beaten the Olympic medalists to the Trademark Office:
A California man, Paolo Mazza, filed for a "Fierce Five" trademark on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. No attorney was listed on the filing, which provided only a post-office box in Millbrae, California, as an address. There is no telephone listing available.**(There is. You just have to dig a little deeper.)
Mazza is no stranger to the trademark field, having filed one for the phrase "Lin-sational" back in February. Wisely deciding to avoid the rush on the more popular phrase "Lin-sanity," Mazza instead attempted to nail down his uncontested phrase only to find it very much contested by the USPTO, which has asked him to provide proof that Jeremy Lin is totally cool with this (orig. wording slightly paraphrased). No doubt Mazza will find himself 0-for-2 in the near future,
So, it's a little bit of everything that's ridiculous about IP "ownership." Sportscasters use the term "Fab Five" to refer to a gymnastics team, which it can freely do as long as it doesn't slap the phrase on some pajamas, thus violating Jalen Rose's 20-years-from-the-point-of-impact trademark, which has recently been extended. The gymnastics team grants itself its own nickname, the "Fierce Five," and rushes to the USPTO to find itself second in line behind another person who thought he might capitalize on something somehow by swiftly locking the phrase down. (The whole "choose your own nickname" part of this seems a bit disingenuous. I mean, I'd like to be known as "The Impossibly Photogenic Writer" but it's more likely I'll be known as "Pirate Mike's B-Lister," among other things. Just like you don't get to choose your family members or parole officers, you just don't get to choose your own nickname.)
If the granting of trademark protection is supposed to protect consumers from bad actors and allow enforcement by the rights holders to prevent dilution, how does jumping all over a catch-phrase do any of the above? Are consumers really going to be "damaged" if they purchase a counterfeit "Furious Five" unitard? Are we really in need of a bunch of catch-phrases with a (TM) attached in order to dispel the confused haze that surely must surround us at all times? Would it be a lost opportunity if a mildly viral quote went unregistered?
I would think that a key move towards cutting down abuse of this system (trademark trolling/trademark bullying) would be to trim down on the number of, for lack of a better term, "frivolous" filings. I realize the USPTO isn't in any position to try to gauge the level of post-championship, post-interview, post-viral quote atmosphere in which the application was filed (especially months down the road when it gets reviewed), but as it stands now, the system does absolutely nothing to discourage these sorts of actions -- either the quick-fire trademark squatting or the equally-fast attempts to monetize fleeting moments.
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