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Ferrari celebrates 10 years in Russia
Maranello, 29 May 2014
On the 23rd and 24th May Ferrari Moscow held the first of a series of celebrations dedicated to Ferrari's 10th anniversary in Russia. Located in the Barvikha Luxury Village, which was decked out in red for the occasion, the event saw the announcement of a small number of F12berlinettas with exclusive Tailor-Made appointments specifically designed for local clients. At the same time the Hublot Big Bang Ferrari Russia limited edition watch was presented, with just 25 units being made.
The F12berlinettas with exclusive Tailor-Made appointments are aimed at a small number of discerning Russian clients wishing to highlight the exclusivity of their cars. Two new body colours will be available with red coachlines on the flanks and wing mirrors. The interior will feature prestigious Poltrona Frau "Soul" Collection leather trim, with contrasting red piping.
On the 24th May a cocktail party and gala dinner were organized for passionate Russian clients. Over twenty guests arrived in their Ferraris, including a legendary F40. Special guest for the evening was the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship winner, "Gimmi" Bruni, who assisted clients trying their hands at the F1 race simulator and explained how he is preparing to fight for his second consecutive championship title at the wheel of the AF Corse team 458 Italia. He also talked about the upcoming round of the championship at the legendary 24 Hour of Le Mans.
The clients also had the opportunity of watching the live broadcast of the Monaco F1 Grand Prix qualifications and race.

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Cigarette Relighting Tied to Tough Economy
- Emerging Trend Could be Important Factor in Developing Tobacco Dependence Treatment and Policy
In what is believed to be a first of its kind study, a research member at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and colleagues have found that a trend of smokers relighting cigarettes is related to economic factors, and the practice has implications for tobacco dependence treatment and policy.
In these difficult economic times, increasing numbers of smokers have been smoking fewer cigarettes per day but are relighting the end portion of the cigarette that is typically discarded. Investigators explored this behavior, examining a cross-sectional sample of 496 smokers seeking treatment from the Tobacco Dependence Program, which is supported by The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the UMDNJ-School of Public Health and the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and provides help on quitting tobacco use through treatment, education, research, and advocacy.
What researchers found was that 46 percent of the sample reported relighting cigarettes. This group was found to smoke on average, fewer cigarettes per day – 16 versus 20 - than the group that did not relight.
A reduction in the amount of cigarettes smoked per day may sound positive, but there is more to the story, according to Michael Steinberg, MD, MPH, FACP, a member of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and director of the Tobacco Dependence Program, who is the senior author of the research. "Despite those engaging in the relighting practice smoking fewer cigarettes, there is no estimated reduction in their exposure to toxins," says Steinberg. "In fact, smokers who relight cigarettes may be at higher risk of lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. That is something of which policy makers need to be aware," he notes.
Significantly higher rates of relighting were found among females, African-Americans, and smokers who are divorced, widowed or separated. The behavior was more prevalent among smokers who started at a younger age, have fewer cigarettes per day, smoke menthol cigarettes and wake up at night to smoke. Other factors significantly related to relighting include being unemployed, sick or disabled, or having a high school degree or less.
"While the relighting of cigarettes is a relatively unexplored smoking behavior, it was anticipated that certain economic characteristics, such as lower education and lack of employment, would be related to a higher level of relighting," says Dr. Steinberg, who is also an associate professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and an associate professor of health education and behavioral science at UMDNJ-School of Public Health. "We were however, surprised that women are more likely to engage in this practice than men. This needs further study," he adds.
Steinberg and colleagues suggest key components of tobacco dependence treatment that could be affected by these findings include the dosage of medicines prescribed and the identification of unique triggers for the relighting behavior, which could impact counseling and intervention methods.
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From the Editor
By Carol Berkin
The Constitution does not spell out the duties or define the powers of a president's spouse, yet America's "first ladies" have, from the beginning of our nation, played key roles as public figures. They have set precedents, established social protocols, embraced reforms, advocated policies, and served as role models for many American girls and young women. As March is Women's History month, this issue of History Now focuses on the lives of four of our most notable first ladies. Perhaps a future issue will focus on the lives of notable first gentlemen.
Betty Boyd Caroli starts the issue off with an overview entitled "First Ladies' Contributions to Political Issues and the National Welfare." Caroli traces the increasing celebrity of the women in the White House, especially in the decades following the Civil War. In their public roles, nineteenth- and twentieth-century first ladies emerged as advocates for a broad range of social reforms and as supporters of charitable organizations; in private, they often served as sounding boards and political advisors to their presidential husbands. Many, if not most, of the modern first ladies were accomplished women in their own right, with university degrees and expertise in fields such as geology and the practice of law.
Patricia Brady reminds us, in "Martha Washington Creates the Role of First Lady," how ill defined the position was and how critical a role Martha Washington played in providing shape and substance to it. The social rituals of a republican government had to be different from those of European courts, yet they had to clearly define the appropriate relationships between the president, his wife, and the public. When the rituals established by America's political leaders proved too rigid and too demanding, Martha Washington, Brady notes, quietly but firmly modified them. This was her gift to her successors.
In "Dolley Madison: First Lady and Queen," Catherine Allgor explains why a woman whose achievements seem small—redecorating the White House, giving successful parties, and charming her guests—nevertheless remains one of the most famous of our first ladies. Dolley Madison understood the power that resided in sociability and in the myriad activities belonging to the feminine sphere. In redecorating the White House, she made it a symbol of the capital city. She made the public areas of the White House spacious and used them to bring together political figures of both parties, friends and foes alike of her husband. In short, she knew how to grease the wheels of compromise and encourage national unity. Equally important, she understood the political role women could play in social settings and the influence they could wield in informal gatherings.
In "Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady," Maurine Beasley offers us a portrait of one of the most famous, and most politically active, of the modern presidents' wives. Unwilling to define her role as first lady in purely social terms, Eleanor Roosevelt built an independent reputation as an author, a lecturer, and a radio personality. She was an active advocate of women's trade unions and women's participation in politics and she publicly supported African American rights and the state of Israel. Despite the failure of their personal relationship, she and her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, were acknowledged to have a true political partnership throughout his long career in office. After his death, Beasley notes, Eleanor Roosevelt continued her public role, serving as the US representative to the United Nations and leading the Human Rights Commission.
Finally, Gil Troy recounts the contributions of Betty Ford in his essay, "Betty Ford: A New Kind of First Lady." Her life illustrates the important example a first lady can set for the nation. Her public discussion of her breast cancer and mastectomy made her a national hero, and, as Troy notes, saved many other women's lives. Her power, Troy observes, was educational rather than political, and she used her fame to advocate causes such as the ERA, mental health, and ending child abuse. Her most powerful, and often controversial, characteristic was candor. While in the White House, she admitted to drinking and to the use of tranquilizers and she helped take the shame out of seeking help from a psychiatrist. After the Fords left office, she publicly acknowledged her addiction to pills and alcohol. Troy argues that Betty Ford's candor may have killed her husband's presidency, and thus later first ladies have been more reluctant to speak so frankly about their personal lives.
This issue also offers readers an interactive "Map of the First Ladies" as well as lesson plans that meet Common Core Standards.
Our summer issue of History Now will look at the best inaugural addresses by American presidents and ask noted historians to explore their impact on the nation's political life.
Until June,
Carol Berkin
Female Trouble: Andrew Jackson versus the Ladies of Washington by
Featured Primary Sources
Eleanor Roosevelt's four basic rights, 1944
Martha Washington on life after the Revolution, 1784
Mary Todd Lincoln on life after the White House, 1870


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Flashing with a Floppy Disk from DOS
You will need 2 blank floppy disks to flash using this method. Using Qflash is advised if you do have a Floppy Installed, and you will need only one floppy disk with Qflash.
If you do not wish to use Qflash with a floppy or otherwise, please continue to follow the below directions for flashing in DOS with a floppy
1. Format a Floppy disk, and choose "Create MS-DOS Startup disk as shown below. (Must be Windows XP SP 1 or greater to use this method)
2. Remove the MS-DOS bootable Floppy disk you just created from the floppy disk drive.
3. Insert a new floppy disk, and format it in the normal manner.
4. Copy the 3 extracted (.Fxx, Autoexec.bat, and Flash895.exe/flashSPI.exe) BIOS files onto this second floppy
5. Reboot to the BIOS
6. Load Optimized Defaults, set the ram voltage to the specified Voltage for your ram
7. Go into the Hard Disk Boot Priority Option In Advanced BIOS Features Page and select your Floppy drive as the first bootable device.
8. Save and Apply (F10)
9. Reboot the system with the MS-DOS boot disk inserted in the floppy drive
10. Once it boots to the Floppy, you will see a Windows 98 screen, and then the DOS prompt.
11. Remove the MS-DOS floppy disk and Insert the BIOS floppy disk you created in step 4
12. Run flash utility by typing "flash895 p35ds4.fxx" without the quotes at the DOS prompt
You will need to change the ^^ p35ds4.fxx ^^ in the above command to the exact name of the BIOS file you have.
Clearing the CMOS
CMOS is a Acronym for "Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor"
Clearing the CMOS will erase the settings stored in the CMOS. It does not remove or change the BIOS itself, it only clears the user defined settings within the CMOS.
This is a very useful thing to do, that everyone needs to know how to properly use . It can often help if you are having overclock issues, if your PC will not stop the booting cycle, Or some people choose to clear CMOS when they plan to flash. All of the above are normal times for you to use this function
When you clear the CMOS you will often likely see the error message "CMOS Checksum Error" on the next reboot. Do not worry this is a normal thing, please enter BIOS at this stage and Load Optimized Defaults, set your DDR2 voltatge and reboot again to the BIOS. The error will be gone after that.
Incase anyone is confused by that error message statement above, the Corrupt BootBlock/Scanning for BootBlock Error is the one you do not wish to see, the checksum error is fine and will be gone on a reboot or with one setting change in the BIOS as the board will update the DMI pool to match the CMOS and the checksums will then be matched
First thing to do is to shut down your System, and let it rest for 30 seconds to a minute.
Then it is wise to unplug the Power Supply from the wall. Be sure to also Unplug the USB cables of any powered USB devices!
Open your case and find the "Clear CMOS" jumpers. It is a 2-pin jumper normally located just under the or between the PCI-E slots in P35 boards and under the last PCI-R Slot in P45 boards. Once you have found these jumper pins you will need to get a Hard Drive or Optical Jumper (The same type you used to use on IDE Drives) and place this jumper on the "Clear CMOS" pins. Then press and hold the Case Power on switch for a minute.
Boards with A Clear CMOS button you may also Press and hold this for a minute as well after you do the power button. Sometimes this Clear CMOS button alone will work, other times it will not. So this FULL method is just to BE SURE it gets cleared for those users who have issues with other methods
You may also want to remove the CMOS battery. This is optional and not Always necessary, but you may want to try it if you are having issues getting the CMOS Cleared.
Below is a Example from P45-DS4P & P35-DS3R Gigabyte Manuals
Now let the computer rest with this jumper on for 10-20 Minutes, this will ensure that the battery gets drained, and the CMOS is cleared. Some people will tell you it will only take a few seconds or a minute or two, but I find that to be false and it may indeed lead to a corrupt BootBlock and or a Bricked motherboard.
So best to not try to cut corners when it comes to Clearing the CMOS, wait the full 20 Minutes
When the 20 minutes is up, remove the jumper from the "Clear CMOS" pins, put the battery back in if you removed it, and close your case up. Plug the Power Supply back into the wall and restart the system. Then please follow above advice and Load Optimized Defaults, set DDR2 Voltages and Reboot.
Attempting to Recover From a Bad Flash or Corrupt BootBlock
Corrupt BIOS BootBlock? It can happen to the best of us!!
There is but only a FEW things you can try to do before you will have to RMA your board if you get a Bad BootBlock or Scanning Hard Drive for BIOS error message.
This can be causes by any number of things, @BIOS, a Bad Flash, a Flash to the incorrect BIOS, a Power interruption during a flash... The list goes on.
Here is a few things you can try in a attempt to recover your BIOS.
You MUST have a Floppy Disk Drive installed and set as First Boot Device, BEFORE your system failure. It will not help you at all to try to install one after a BIOS error in a attempt to fix it with these methods.
1. Make a bootable floopy disk by formatting a floppy disk and choosing Create a MS-DOS startup disk in the format options
2. Copy the Award flash utility (Flash895) & BIOS file (.Fxx) to the floppy disk
3. Create an autoexec.bat with "flash895 bios_file_example_name.Fxx" in the content of the batch file, (without the quotes " ").
Yes the space is there and is necessary!
(Example: flash895 gap35ds4.F12)
4. Boot the system with the floppy (it will take a few minutes before screen comes out)
5. Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.
Here is how to create an autoexec.bat File
1. In Windows, open NotePad
2. In NotePad, write "flash895 gap35ds4.F12″ (without the quotes " ")
3. Save the file as autoexec.bat
The AWARD BIOS does not automatically restore the BIOS information to the BootBlock. You will need to write the commands necessary to flash the BIOS into the Autoexec.bat file.
The system will run the Autoexec.bat file, which contains the flash instructions.
How To:
1. Create a bootable floppy disk as noted above
2. Copy the BIOS file (.Fxx) and flash utility (Flash895) to the disk
3. Create an text file with any standard text editor and add the following lines (Name it Autoexec.bat after editing)
flash895 gap35ds4.F12 /py/sn/f/cc/r
The AWDFLASH.EXE (Flash895) command switch modifiers used above are explained below:
/CC = clear CMOS data after programming.
/CD = clear DMI data after programming.
/CP = clear PnP (ESCD) data after programming.
/QI = use BIOS I.D. string from BIOS .bin file.
/R = reset system after programming.
/PY = program flash memory.
/F = Flash BIOS
/SN = don't save existing BIOS.
* FYI FlashSPI Switches *
To view all of the modifiers for AWDFLASH.EXE, type the following at a DOS prompt:/C - Clear DMI pool data
/D - Load CMOS defaults
/E - Clear CMOS
/R - Reboot System
/S - Save Original
And finally, if all of that fails here is one last page, with similar but more in depth methods, keep in mind you will need to change some of the commands listed on this page to match the files you will be using. Change them similar to th above ones. Like if .BIN is discussed it means use .Fxx in it's place, if awardflash is discussed use Flash895 in it's place. The page was written for older BIOS's but all of the same still applies in this instance of Flash Recovery
(*Note* I have this webpage on my hard drive should it ever go down, if so someone please PM me and let me know)
Award 6.0 BIOS - BootBlock Recovery
Suggestions are more then welcome if you guys think I missed anything or need to address something further.
Hope this at least will help some people a bit, and HOPEFULLY save a few from a BAD @BIOS Flash or Otherwise!
BIOS Recover Method Via Manually Invoking BACKUP BIOS Auto-Recovery
Using Power Supply - On/Off Switch
It is possible to make the BIOS Auto-Recovery kick in (Dual BIOS) and re-flash the MAIN BIOS with the contents of the BACKUP BIOS.
This is a simple and easy method for anyone to try before having to resort to other more difficult methods, or a RMA.
1. Shut off the power supply using the switch on the back of the PSU, wait 10-15 seconds.
2. Press and hold the case Power On swtich, then while still holding turn on the power supply from the switch on the rear.
3. Still holding the case power on switch, the board will start, once it does release the case power on switch and shut off the power supply via the switch on the read of the unit. (Do the latter two parts as quickly as you can once the board starts)
4. The board will shut down.
5. Turn the power supply back on using the switch on the rear of the unit.
6. Turn on the motherboard by pressing the case power on button.
Once the board starts this time you should see the Gigabyte splash screen, or POST page, then the Auto-Recovery from Dual BIOS will kick in. You will see a checksum error, and then recovery from BACKUP BIOS will begin. Once it is done reboot your machine and enter the BIOS and load optimized defaults then save/apply/reboot back to BIOS.
Now you are done, and will be using whatever BIOS was in your BACKUP BIOS, From there you can attempt whatever you were previously trying, or update your BIOS to the latest version.
If updating please use Qflash!!
This only applies to Dual BIOS Motherboards.


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Forum:Social code down time
Hello all, we are currently working on the social code, so it will temporarily be unavailable. We are doing our best to get it back up as soon as possible, so thank you for your patience. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, or to check back here for updates. Thanks, --Sarah<staff /> (help forum | blog) 21:58, June 4, 2010 (UTC)
- All fixed! Please let me know if you continue to have a problem and thanks for all your patience. Best, Sarah<staff /> (help forum | blog) 23:45, June 10, 2010 (UTC)


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The short version: how I diagnosed and fixed an issue that was causing multiple iPhones and an iPad to get hot and drain their batteries. This is the nitty gritty on how I fixed the problem. Read on below for all the details, and how I let my Apple bias (almost) lead me away from the correct answer.
Update 4: If you haven't heard, iOS 8 adds a great new feature to track battery usage by app, so you can see which app, specifically, is draining your battery. This is a FANTASTIC addition for troubleshooting this kind of problem. Find it at Settings > General > Usage > Battery Usage, and learn more about it here.
Update 3: A kind reader pointed out that as of iOS 7, the location for the app crash logs is now Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostics & Usage Data (instead of Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostics & Usage Data). Thanks, John!
Update 2: A lot of people have contacted me to let me know the things I documented in this post helped them solve their battery issue. That makes me really happy. Recently, there was another popular post by former Apple Genius Scotty Loveless with some more great steps to diagnose and fix iPhone battery issues. You should definitely check it out: The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain
Update: Apple released iOS 6.1.2 on February 19, 2013, which is slated to fix some Exchange-related bugs that can cause the problem I describe in this post. Make sure you're running 6.1.2 or newer if you're experiencing this problem.
Troubleshooting Excessive Heat and Battery Drain Issues on iOS Devices
Problem: iPhone (or iPad) gets abnormally warm when not doing anything. battery drains much faster than normal. Rebooting doesn't fix it.
Troubleshooting Steps:
- Follow all of Apple's battery life troubleshooting steps. No, really. Do all of them. Don't skip any. I know you're a super smart nerd. Just do them.
- Go to Settings, General, About, Diagnostics & Usage, Diagnostic & Usage Data. Scroll through the list and see if there are any system processes with an abnormally large number of entries (a few entries is normal). Identify the name of the troubled process.
- Research the name of the troubled system process to see what it's function is – this will give you a clue to a possible solution. For example, dataaccessd is responsible for background syncing of Exchange, iCloud, CalDAV, and other calendar data. This was the cause of my problem. Others have reported issues with webbookmarksd, the process responsible for syncing bookmarks and Reading List with iCloud.
- Try disabling the functionality related to the troubled process, then rebooting your device to see if the issue goes away. In my case, I disabled all iCloud syncing (Calendars, Contacts, etc.). If you have an Exchange email/calendar account, remove it from your device. Make sure the server side has all of your data, because this step will delete it from your device.
- If the issue is resolved, try reenabling the functionality. Again, in my case, I turned iCloud syncing back on, and the issue hasn't returned. I suspect a corrupt meeting instance that was deleted days ago was causing the problem.
- Going forward, use what you've learned about the Diagnostic & Usage data logs to keep an eye on your battery usage. If you desire, try a third party "activity monitor"-type app to see what system processes are doing. I used this free one. There are many to choose from.
Background, Details, Lessons Learned, Crow Eaten
The long version:
Prior to getting the iPhone 5, my iPhones spent a lot of time in a dock on my desk, or in a cradle in my car, being charged. I had no real idea of what "normal" battery life was like, because I was always near a charger. When I got my iPhone 5, with its new Lightning connector, none of my old intraday charging options worked anymore. For the first time, I got a sense of what "normal" battery life on my iPhone should be. I took it off the charger in the morning, used it normally throughout the day (i.e. took no special steps to preserve battery life), and by bedtime, I'd sometimes hit the 20% battery warning. Maybe 10% if I was using it heavily. Not once did it drain to zero and shut off. A typical day was an hour or so of listening to podcasts, one or two short phone calls, and an hour or so of browsing Twitter/Reddit/Facebook or reading in the Kindle app during lunchtime. I even left Dark Sky notifications (which actively uses GPS) and Instapaper Background Location Updates (which uses geofencing) enabled. Based on this, I had confidence that I could get through the day without charging, following my normal usage patterns.
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that I was getting the 20% and 10% battery warning in late afternoon, and more than once, my phone would completely shut down when I pulled it out of my pocket in the evening. It was often quite warm (I could feel it on my leg). I was annoyed, but I figured that I was just using it too much. But at this point, I started to pay more attention to how much I used the phone, and where the battery was at throughout the day.
Around the same time, my wife complained to me that her iPhone 4S was getting hot for no reason, and the battery was draining quickly. Essentially the same symptoms. My wife's charging habits are much different from mine (I charge religiously every night, she charges when the battery gets low), so I couldn't make a direct comparison between our usage habits. But this coincidence raised my alert level another notch, and I started thinking about what could be causing the issue.
Here's what I ruled out:
- iOS Version – I have 6.0.1, she has 6.0. So it wasn't something introduced in the 6.0.1 update, and both of us had used 6.0 for weeks with no problems.
- LTE – My iPhone 5 has LTE, but her 4S doesn't. Again, I used LTE for weeks with no issues.
- Bluetooth – not enabled on either phone
- Apps running in the background – besides the fact that Apple doesn't let apps fully run in the background (there are a limited set of background APIs an app can use, like requesting location, playing audio, etc.), I did some troubleshooting to rule this out. Fresh restart of the phone, didn't open any apps, and it would still get hot and drain the battery.
This is the part where I start jumping to conclusions, and being blinded by my own bias.
The only thing (I thought) our afflicted iPhones had in common was the AT&T network. I imagined that there was some issue with the AT&T network in our area (a misconfigured tower, etc.) that was causing the phones to crank up power to the cellular radios, get hot, and drain their batteries. If you've ever used a cell phone in an area with very minimal coverage, you know what I mean. In order to hold onto the signal, software turns up the transmit power on the radios. In my head, this was the only explanation for our problem. Apple doesn't let apps run away in the background, and I didn't even consider that it could be something integral to iOS itself. So I took to the interwebs, ranting and complaining:
2 hrs ago, my iPhone was at 50%. Now, after doing nothing but sit in my pocket burning my leg, it's at 4%. This is ridiculous.
— Josh Bancroft (@jabancroft) November 12, 2012
It started happening on both phones about a week ago. Before that, battery life was great. The only thing the 2 have in common is AT&T.
— Josh Bancroft (@jabancroft) November 12, 2012
Then some new clues popped up that eventually led me to the solution to our problem. And a nice, big helping of crow.
The good news: I think I fixed our iPhone getting hot/battery drain issue. The bad news: I have some crow to eat. It wasn't AT&T.
— Josh Bancroft (@jabancroft) November 12, 2012
I got three emails, in close succession, informing me that I only had 5% (then 4%, then 3%) remaining on my iPad's monthly data plan. I picked up my iPad, and it was warm, and the battery was lower than it should have been (49%, and it had hardly been used that day). Whatever this supposed AT&T network problem was, it was now affecting my iPad. My iPad with Verizon LTE. I don't use LTE much on my iPad when I'm not traveling, because I'm always near wifi. I've never even come close to using my monthly allotment of 2GB. I concluded that something was chewing up large amounts of cellular data (and battery), just like our phones, but it couldn't be AT&T's fault. Humbling realization number one. I started searching for people with similar problems (and hopefully, solutions). I found a TON of results, which were hard to wade through. I knew this was a vague enough problem that finding specific, helpful information was going to be a challenge. I found lots of forum threads full of people with similar issues. These threads pointed out that you can check detailed system logs for crashes or other issues by going to Settings, General, About, Diagnostics & Usage, Diagnostics & Usage Data. Now, I've done my time in IT support. I know how to use logs to troubleshoot issues. I just assumed that the nice, clean Apple-designed world of iOS wouldn't let me get at system-level event logs to gain any useful information. That it would all be locked up in a black box that only the Genius Bar could open with their magical incantations. I was wrong. It's all right there, for anyone who wants to look. Humbling realization number two. This led to the final clue, and the solution to our problem. In the Diagnostic and Usage data, there were hundreds of entries for a system process called dataaccessd. It was crashing frequently. I downloaded a free Activity Monitor-like app to let me monitor those system level processes, and I saw that dataaccessd was essentially running amok – pegging the CPU and the network, and constantly working really hard to do whatever it was trying to do. More research revealed that dataaccessd's job is synchronizing calendar data for Exchange, CalDAV, and iCloud accounts. Many people in the forums reported success by disabling Exchange calendar sync. I use Exchange calendars for my work stuff, by my wife doesn't. So it wasn't that. Could it be iCloud? I suddenly recalled some weird iCloud calendar issues we'd been having. An apparently corrupt meeting from work that somehow landed on one of my iCloud calendars that I couldn't delete. My wife complaining about events being added on her phone but not showing up on the Mac at home. Maybe it was iCloud. https://twitter.com/jabancroft/status/267843062443675648
I had gotten so frustrated with this problem that I could pick up my phone and tell by its temperature whether or not it was experiencing the issue. I could feel it get hot, and watch the battery percentage drop before my eyes. So I disabled iCloud completely (removing all my calendars, contacts, etc.), rebooted the phone, and waited. Several minutes later – long enough that the battery would have dropped a couple of percent if it were still having problems – the phone was perfectly cool to the touch, and the battery percent was exactly the same. The activity monitor app no longer showed dataaccessd going crazy. Disabling iCloud had fixed the problem. This was Apple's fault, not AT&T's fault. Humbling realization number three.
So, I owe AT&T an apology. I didn't want to think it was Apple's fault. It was. I thought I was smart. I'm not. Mmm, crow.
— Josh Bancroft (@jabancroft) November 12, 2012
Many of the threads I read reported success by disabling then re-enabling Exchange (or iCloud), so I tentatively turned it back on, letting all of my data sync back, and watched it carefully over the rest of the evening and the following morning to make sure. It stayed cool as a cucumber, and the battery is back to the strong performance I was getting a couple of weeks ago. I did the same to my iPad and my wife's phone, and they're all back to normal, as well. https://twitter.com/jabancroft/status/268037040300519424
I can't say with 100% certainly, but there's a calendar item that I got from my Exchange account that I'm pretty sure was corrupt (it ended up on my iCloud calendar for some reason, and I couldn't delete it), and I bet that's what caused iCloud to go crazy.
What did I learn?
I didn't want to admit that the problem could be Apple's fault. My bias led me to prematurely place the blame on AT&T, and it had nothing to do with them.
There are useful diagnostic logs available on your iOS device. I should learn more about these. Ironically, the Apple bias that made me reluctant to blame them also made me reluctant to believe that they would provide the system-level diagnostics to solve the problem.
I'm not as smart as I thought I was. Making assumptions about what you think you know is dangerous, and often leads not only to the wrong answers, but to looking dumb in public.
I do not like the taste of crow, but I believe it's healthy to eat it when you need to.


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Minnesota Wild hope to lock up their spot in the postseason on Tuesday night as they play host to the NHL-leading Boston Bruins.
The Wild have picked up a victory in four of their last five games and lead the Dallas Stars by seven points for the first wild card spot in the Western Conference. They also are eight points up on the ninth-place Phoenix Coyotes, who have a game in hand on the Wild.
Minnesota can clinch its second straight postseason berth following a four- year absence with a point tonight or a loss by the Phoenix Coyotes to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Wild have won two straight in shutout fashion, with Ilya Bryzgalov in net for both victories. He stopped 20 shots in a 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, then followed up with last night's 1-0 blanking of the Winnipeg Jets.
Bryzgalov made 24 saves in his fourth shutout of the campaign and 34th of his career. He is 6-0-3 with a 1.67 goals against average and .929 save percentage since being acquired by the Wild.
"Bryzgalov has been playing great for us, not even just this game," said Charlie Coyle, Minnesota's long goal-scorer on Monday. "He made some pretty big stops and kept us in the game, kept us with the lead. So it's nice to have a guy like that back there who we have confidence in, and I know he has confidence in us. It goes both ways. But he's been playing great for us."
The Wild are kicking off a season-ending three-game homestand and could give Bryzgalov the start again tonight. He is 6-3-3 lifetime versus the Bruins with a 2.49 GAA.
Boston is looking to hold off the St. Louis Blues in the race for the Presidents' Trophy. The Bruins have 113 points on the season, two more than the Blues with four games left for both teams. St. Louis hosts the Washington Capitals tonight.
The Bruins clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference with Saturday's 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Johnny Boychuk, Milan Lucic and Chris Kelly all scored in the third period as Boston snapped a brief 0-1-1 skid and improved to 16-1-2 in its last 19 games.
Lucic ended with two goals and an assist, while David Krejci had a goal and an assist and Loui Eriksson recorded four assists. Tuukka Rask made 24 saves.
"Once the playoffs start, you can throw all that out the window," said Lucic. "I think right now we're not focused on winning or losing or the Presidents' Trophy. We're just focused on playing the right way. I think in the third period we played the right way and that's what got us the win."
Patrice Bergeron had an assist to extend his point streak to 11 straight games. He has nine goals and six assists over that run.
Forward Jarome Iginla sat out for the second time in three games with a minor lower-body injury. He did not practice on Monday, but did travel to Minnesota with the team.
The Bruins will close the regular season with two straight and three of four on the road.
Rask is 2-1-0 with a 1.30 GAA in his career versus the Wild, making 33 saves in a 4-1 victory in Boston on March 17. Iginla scored twice as Boston snapped a two-game series losing streak.
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Today is the last day of school! It's a welcome relief from all the test stress we've been experiencing. But staring in the face of long days and weeks of a hot summer have me thinking about ways to keep my two daughters engaged with books this summer. One way I hope to keep them reading is by finding lots of new titles for them to read. Here are four resources for kids' books that I'm looking at. Please add yours too. Together, we can keep our kids reading all summer long!
Parents' Choice 2012 Book Awards. I consider this a trustworthy site, although at first glance some of the books recommended for my older daughter take on some pretty serious topics (suicide, depression, drownings), so I'll need to look at those more closely before recommending them.
The schools library network from the Houston Area Independent Schools offers extensive lists by grade level. What I like about many of their recommendations is that they are a part of a series. There's nothing better than stumbling onto a new author or series — one book can lead to many more!
Librarians Recommend Books for Boys includes links to many lists and recommendations. I'll be looking at these lists even though I have girls; there are some great titles and adventure stories here! Not just for boys.
Great Early Elementary Reads book list from the Association for Library Service to children. This list includes several titles readers just learning to read and those beginning to read on their own.
And, for teachers, here's a list from Edutopia that includes good education-related titles and other good old-fashioned page turners!
Kids love comics, so graphic novels (long-form comics) keep them excited about reading. A Parent's Guide to the Best Kids Comics is a great new book to help here. Also, School Library Journal has a blog, Good Comics for Kids: http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/goodcomicsforkids


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Posted by Rot at 8:32 AM
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2 comments:
- Necropolis said...
Imagine going for a swim or scuba diving or something and seeing that from a bit of a distance. That would be the creepiest.
- January 11, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Unknown said...
My god that is creepy! That one with the hat looks like some sort of Mexican DOTD thing. LOVE the eye sockets on it, the cheekbones and the mottled skin. So damn awesome.
- January 11, 2011 at 4:09 PM
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Among recent enforcement actions taken by the SEC were charges against a Colorado man who called himself an institutional trader after allegedly defrauding elderly investors in a phony investment scheme; a penny stock financier and his firms for failing to register billions of shares of microcap companies that they bought and then resold; an advisory firm and portfolio manager who misrepresented risk, exposure and diversification to trustees; and an oil field services company for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) including bribes, travel and entertainment for foreign officials.
Colorado Man Charged by SEC With Bilking Elderly Investors to Pay His Mortgage
Gary Snisky of Longmont, Colo., was charged by the SEC with defrauding elderly investors into making what he told them were investments in government-secured bonds. He then used their money to pay his mortgage.
According to the SEC, Snisky, a self-described institutional trader, primarily targeted retired annuity holders by using insurance agents to sell interests in his company Arete LLC, which were pitched as a safe and more profitable alternative to an annuity. Investors were told their funds would be used to purchase government-backed agency bonds at a discount, and Snisky as an institutional trader would use the bonds to engage in overnight banking sweeps.
But Snisky never bought any bonds or did any trading. Instead he spent about $2.8 million of investor funds to pay commissions to his salespeople and make personal mortgage payments.
Snisky brought in at least $3.8 million from more than 40 investors, not just in Colorado but also in several other states. Beginning in August 2011, he recruited veteran insurance salespeople who could sell the Arete investment to their established client bases that owned annuities. The majority of investors in Arete used funds from IRAs or other retirement accounts.
He described Arete as an "annuity-plus" investment in which, unlike typical annuities, investors could withdraw principal and earned interest with no penalty after 10 years while still enjoying annuity-like guaranteed annual returns of 6%–7%.
Snisky made up everything he said about the "investment," creating his own sales brochures and documentation. He did such a good job of pitching that one of his own salespeople actually put money into the bogus investment.
The SEC seeks a permanent injunction, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains plus prejudgment interest, and a financial penalty. Its investigation is continuing.
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado also announced criminal charges against Snisky.
Penny Stock Financier to Pay $1.4 Million to Settle SEC Charges
Curt Kramer and his firms Mazuma Corp., Mazuma Funding Corp., and Mazuma Holding Corp. have agreed to pay $1.4 million — disgorgement totaling $1,061,367 plus prejudgment interest of $128,611 and penalties totaling $273,000 — to settle SEC charges that they bought billions of shares in two microcap companies and then failed to register them before resale.
Kramer and his firms bought unregistered shares in penny stock issuers Laidlaw Energy Group and Bederra Corp. For the Laidlaw transactions, more than 2 billion shares, they claimed an exemption in Rule 504 of Regulation D that permits certain companies to offer and sell up to $1 million in unregistered shares. But the Mazuma firms' purchases of Laidlaw shares exceeded Rule 504's $1 million limit, which meant the exemption did not apply.
Mazuma Holding Corp.'s acquisition and sale of more than 1 billion unregistered shares of Bederra that had been misappropriated from the issuer by its transfer agent also were not exempt from registration.
In both cases Kramer and his firms obtained the shares at a substantial discount, and in neither case were the shares registered.
Kramer and Mazuma neither admitted nor denied the SEC's charges. Their consent to the entry of the SEC's order constitutes a disqualifying event under the bad actor disqualification provisions of Rule 506.
Advisory Firm, Portfolio Manager Charged With Fraud in Money-Market Fund
A Detroit-based investment advisory firm and a portfolio manager were charged with fraud by the SEC for deceiving the trustees of a money-market fund and failing to comply with rules that limit risk in a money-market fund's portfolio.
The SEC said that Ambassador Capital Management and Derek Oglesby repeatedly made false statements to trustees of the Ambassador Money Market Fund about the credit risk in the securities they purchased for its portfolio. Trustees also were misled about the fund's exposure to the eurozone credit crisis of 2011 and the diversification of the fund's portfolio.
The SEC uncovered the fraud through analysis of the fund's performance compared with others when reviewing the gross yield of funds as a marker of risk. The Ambassador Money Market Fund's performance was consistently different from the rest of the market, and when the SEC investigated further it found that Ambassador Capital Management and Oglesby misinformed trustees or held back critical information.
Not only was the fund's risk profile misrepresented, the fund often did exactly the opposite of what it claimed to do to reduce risk.
Oil Services Company Weatherford Fined $250 Million for Bribing Foreign Officials
The SEC charged Swiss-based oilfield services company Weatherford International with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by authorizing bribes and improper travel and entertainment for foreign officials in the Middle East and Africa to win business, including kickbacks in Iraq to obtain United Nations Oil-for-Food contracts. The company has agreed to pay more than $250 million to settle not just the SEC's charges, but also parallel actions by the Department of Justice's Fraud Section, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas, Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, and Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Weatherford, which has a substantial presence in Houston, and its subsidiaries falsified its books and records to hide not just the bribes and junkets, but also commercial transactions with Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Sudan that violated U.S. sanctions and export control laws.
Lacking an effective system of internal accounting controls to monitor risks of improper payments and prevent or detect misconduct, the company reaped more than $59.3 million in profits from business obtained through improper payments, and more than $30 million in profits from its improper sales to sanctioned countries.
In one instance, in Angola, Weatherford's legal department allowed its subsidiary to use an agent who insisted that an FCPA clause be omitted from the consultancy agreement. The company never investigated the possibility that the agent might be paying bribes to foreign officials, and the agent used sham work orders and invoices to pay bribes that ensured the renewal of a lucrative oil services contract for Weatherford in Angola. The same agent made illicit payments to obtain commercial contracts for Weatherford in Congo.
The company also allowed its subsidiary to enter into a joint venture agreement with companies whose beneficial owners included Angolan oil company officials and a relative of an Angolan Minister in order to win business. A Weatherford employee reported in a 2006 ethics questionnaire that Weatherford personnel were making payments to government officials in Angola and elsewhere, but the company failed to investigate.
Check out 2 Houston Firms Accused of Illicit Trading in Client Accounts on ThinkAdvisor.


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Alfred Adler began community psychology by articulating the constructs of gemeinschaftsgefühl (social interest or the connection between individual and community well being) and systemic / structural community intervention (such as preventative public health measures). Adler University, as a higher education institution, continues his work today through the production of three outcomes which are specified in the Mission:
- Socially Responsible Practitioners: Socially responsible practitioners are educated to be effective personal and social change agents in the pursuit of justice.
- Community Engagement: Community engagement is collaborative partnership that strengthens communities, provides service, and prepares students.
- Social Justice: Social justice refers to equitable distribution of economic, political, civil, cultural, social, and other resources and opportunities in society in order to promote the optimal development of persons and communities.
The three outcomes of the Mission are interconnected conceptually as well as through the organization of Adler University. The University's education and training prepares students to be socially responsible practitioners who engage communities and advance social justice, during both their course of study and their later professional lives. The University directly engages communities – through over 500 community partnerships including the direct service contracts of Adler Community Health Services and the training relationships which support delivery of students' Community Service Practica – in order to provide students with experience training in socially responsible practice and to advance social justice within those communities. The University's Institutes for Social Change bring attention to social justice within the University through stimulating changes in the curricula and through specific didactic and experiential activities for students and faculty – as well as promote social justice beyond the boundaries of the University through engaging communities in a variety of programming
The leading academic institution advancing socially responsible practice, healthy communities, and a more just society.
The Vision is for Adler University to be the "leading" or premier higher education organization addressing socially responsible practice and its concomitants – locally, regionally, and globally – a unique resource for broadening relevant practice, effecting social justice, understanding policy, initiating advocacy, promoting academic reflection, and producing social action and change.
The three external outcomes of the Vision are aligned with the three outcomes of the Mission. Socially responsible practice is central to Adler University's Mission and Vision and is the extension of Alfred Adler's original ideas regarding the need for a more equal, cooperative, and just society, as well as his revolutionary ideas regarding the potential for activism among health professionals to address social challenges. The University's faculty defined and operationalized the competency of socially responsible practice, with expected knowledge, attitudes, and skills acquired through specific curricular experiences and evaluated through milestones, for graduate programs in clinical psychology, counseling, family therapy, organizational consultation, art therapy, police psychology, and a number of related disciplines and applications of psychology.
Five values guide expectations and behavior at Adler University:
Social Interest: We are part of and invested in community, and we act and collaborate with compassion and social responsibility.
Adler University's faculty, staff, students, and graduates are recognized as teachers and promoters of social responsibility, are engaged in their communities, and are politically aware and active. We will strengthen our culture of social responsibility and of community service and engagement. Life at the University will be marked by rich opportunities for service, an active pursuit of sustainability, a vigorous commitment to the city and peoples of Chicago and Vancouver, and a realization of those cities' connections with the larger world.
Pluralism: We respect and celebrate human diversity and difference.
Throughout our history, recognition and inclusion of diversity have been hallmarks of Adler University. Our academic, social, and organizational strength is enhanced by our inclusiveness and respect for the unique identity of individuals reflected in their cultural traditions, beliefs, and viewpoints. The University embraces diversity in its broadest sense, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, language, disability, socioeconomic status, education, religious / spiritual orientation, political perspective, and intellectual viewpoint. Adler University views diversity as an essential component of the educational experience of our students and an important indicator of our success in ensuring the relevance of the University. We will dedicate the necessary resources to recruiting, welcoming, supporting, and retaining outstanding students, faculty, staff, and leadership who will significantly improve the diversity of the University community, with particular attention to the inclusion of under-represented, under-served, and marginalized populations. Academic life and scholarly excellence will be enriched in profound ways by our global connections and bonds with local, national, and international organizations. These programs, partnerships, and relationships will demonstrate our deep local roots, wide national influences, and broad global reach.
Courage: We encourage leadership, innovation, and creativity, act on principle, and challenge the status quo.
We will continue to build a culture of innovation. Alfred Adler's thinking, Rudolf Dreikurs' work, the University's revised curricula, and the Institutes for Social Change's groundbreaking work are all challenging and revolutionary – and we expect the University's ongoing work to challenge assumptions and to support revolutionary approaches to social action and change. Staff and faculty are encouraged to find solutions beyond the boundaries of traditional higher education practices. Students are prepared to be leaders who are agents of change.
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We will continue to build a culture of high performance. To ensure leadership in the changing global context, we will support high performance in learning, scholarship, technology, financial management, and organizational processes. We will train, inform, and empower staff, faculty, and leadership through motivating and rewarding high performance and through providing opportunities for professional development and advancement. We will be an international magnet for the next generation of intellectual and professional leaders. With each graduate program demonstrating distinction, and with increased support for programs that have achieved or will achieve recognition, we will be known as a world-class institution for advanced studies related to social responsibility, healthy communities, and social justice.
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Not long ago, the term "data science" meant nothing to most people -- even the those who worked in data. A likely response to the term was: "Isn't that just statistics?".
These days, data science is hot. The job of "data scientist" was referred to by the Harvard Business Review as the "Sexiest Job of the 21st Century." Why did data science come to exist? And just what is it that distinguishes data science from statistics?
The very first line of the American Statistical Association's definition of statistics is "Statistics is the science of learning from data..." Given that the words "data" and "science" appear in the beginning fragment of this definition, one might assume that data science is just a rebranding of statistics. A number of Twitter humorists certainly have:
"A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco"
"Data Science is statistics on a Mac."
While there's a grain of truth in these jokes, the reality is more complicated. Data science, and its differentiation from statistics, has deep roots in the history of computers.
Statistics was primarily developed to help people deal with pre-computer data problems like testing the impact of fertilizer in agriculture, or figuring out the accuracy of an estimate from a small sample. Data science emphasizes the data problems of the 21st Century, like accessing information from large databases, writing code to manipulate data, and data visualization.
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Wisconsin Tax Records
This entry was originally written by Dawn M. Knauft and Carol L. Maki in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The earliest tax records in Wisconsin appear to be for real estate. Brown County has an extant tax roll for 1824. Tax rolls are kept by the county treasurer for each county. Many of these records have been transferred to the appropriate Area Research Centers.


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Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, the son of Clinton Eastwood Sr., a manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood, a housewife turned IBM operator. He had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in music and mechanics, but was an otherwise bored student... See full bio »
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The ResQCPR™ System is a CPR adjunct comprised of two synergistic devices—the ResQPOD® ITD 16 and the CardioPump® ACD-CPR Device. Together, they increase the likelihood of survival. A major clinical study of more than 1600 patients showed a 49% increase in one-year survival from cardiac arrest.1
- The ResQPOD ITD 16 returns more blood to the heart (preload) and lowers intracranial pressure by regulating airflow during CPR to increase the vacuum in a patient's chest during chest wall recoil.2,3
- The CardioPump ACD-CPR device further increases blood return by re-expanding the chest with a lift force of up to 10 kg. It is the only approved system for delivering true active compression-decompression CPR.
1In adults with cardiac arrest from cardiac etiology. ResQCPR System Summary of Safety and Effectiveness Data submitted to FDA.
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In celebration of the iPod's tenth birthday this week, we put together a timeline of the milestones that have come along the way: important updates, new models, and the like. It's fascinating to see how many of the iPod's iconic design elements were there from the very beginning, and which were added later:
A few highlights: The very first iPod had a scroll wheel that actually moved with your finger, iPods had FireWire ports instead of the now-standard dock connector until 2003, and iTunes existed for two years before Windows support was added.
[Ed. note: Now that the iPod has changed computing forever, it will disappear.]
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Record Design: The Mamas & The Papas' 'Deliver'
I received The Mama's & The Papas third album 'Deliver' as a gift recently, and I was immediately struck by how great the cover design is.
The centerpiece is the cover photograph by Guy Webster. The swimming pool setting, which preceded the famous pool scenes in The Graduate by a few months, provides a great pop of color and carries with it all the best baggage of Los Angeles. The pop/folk, high/low tension between the fountain concept and the fact that it's coming from an old hat is also somehow an effectively descriptive allegory for a harmony-driven hippie pop band like The Mamas and the Papas.
Also, the back side of the record features full horoscopes for each of the band members—a detail which is so 1967 that it hurts.


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Dear Lazy Environmentalist,
How can I clean my house well and still preserve the planet?
In 2008, green cleaning welcomed a new product line with a familiar name. Green Works by Clorox tapped into the company's extensive research and development resources to develop a line of products made of natural plant-based, biodegradable ingredients like corn, coconut and lemon. Green Works features all-purpose cleaning products, glass and mirror sprays, bathroom and toilet bowl cleaners, as well as dish soaps that have repeatedly performed as well or better than conventional products in blind at-home and laboratory tests. The products are never tested on animals and are packaged in plastic recyclable bottles made with at least 25 percent recycled content. Look for Green Works products at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and thousands of other locations around the United States.
Green cleaning products that are effective, affordable and available everywhere -- that's an eco-trifecta that this Lazy Environmentalist fully supports. This is why I've signed on to be a spokesperson for the Green Works brand. While some environmentalists may resist eco-solutions presented by large corporations, I'm all for them, provided those solutions are substantively more environmentally responsible than the conventional choices. Sometime when big companies offer a green alternative, they may be accused of jumping on the green bandwagon to make a buck. From the Lazy Environmentalist's perspective, this green bandwagoning is exactly what's called for. Every company, consumer, citizen and government official must jump on the green bandwagon if we are going to successfully restore balance to our lifestyles and the planet. As far as I can tell, Mother Nature doesn't care whether we create positive environmental change because we are morally compelled or whether we do it to save a buck, earn a buck, live a healthier life, look cool or get lucky. As long as substantive, positive environmental change is happening, it's all good.
Clorox has some significant competition in the green game. Method's design-centric packaging — containing some of the most effective earth-friendly cleaning products — is now made from 100-percent recycled plastic. And the company's Go Naked line ups the eco-ante with all-purpose cleaners and dish detergents that are dye- and perfume-free. Target, Costco, Staples and Safeway are just a few of the many retailers who carry the Method brand.
Led by founder, CEO, and green movement luminary Jeffrey Hollender, Seventh Generation also continues to excel in green cleaning. The darling of natural supermarket chains and mom-and-pop grocery stores, Seventh Generation continues to serve its exceptionally loyal following while reaching out to new audiences. Thanks to price-competitive products and widespread distribution at stores such as Walgreens and Duane Reade, everyone can access these incredibly efficient, all-natural products.
TerraCycle — maker of all things natural, reclaimed and recycled — also entered into the natural cleaning products category in 2008. The company's cleaners — including all-purpose, window, and bathroom, as well a natural degreaser and drain maintainer and cleaner — derive their cleaning power from the concentrated oils of plants, shrubs, fruits, herbs and grasses. TerraCycle packages its cleaners in reused soda bottles, helping make it one of the most affordable and eco-responsible cleaning lines available. Find them nationwide at OfficeMax and Home Depot.
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Excerpted from Josh Dorfman's latest book, The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget.
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It's an "Empire" wedding.
Co-stars Grace Gealey, 31, and Trai Byers, 32, tied the knot in a private ceremony in a mansion on Grand Cayman Island Thursday.
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Guests dined on steak and lobster and danced to hip-hop, disco and reggae music at the reception.
Gealey and Byers got engaged last summer. They celebrated her birthday with a romantic dinner at a Chicago restaurant, during which about 20 of her friends and family members surprised her, a source had told E! News.
Gealey sported a diamond engagement ring and showed it off months later on "FabLife."
"I think that if two people are mature and they're able to understand that if this doesn't work out – 'cause first, I'm not a fan of flings when you work, cause that's where it gets a little dangerous," Gealey said. "I think that if you do get involved at your workplace, you have to know that this is something that you want to be invested in, and this is just not just something that is frivolous and fleeting."
On FOX's show "Empire," Gealey plays Anika Calhoun, who Taraji P. Henson's character Cookie Lyon famously dubbed "Boo Boo Kitty." During season one, Anika was engaged to Cookie's ex and Byer's character Andre Lyon's father, Lucious Lyon, played by Terrence Howard. It is unclear if he or Henson attended the wedding.
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Resources for Civil/Family Court Judges
Faculty Manual (PDF)
PowerPoint Slides with Suggested Commentary (PPT)
The download link above will download the PDF version of this presentation. To download the PowerPoint file, click here.
Survivor Video Clip and Transcript
This four-minute video clip is drawn from the Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime DVD Victim Impact: Listen and Learn. The clip is excerpted from an interview with a survivor of nearly lethal domestic violence and intimate partner sexual abuse. She states that the sexual abuse was even more emotionally destructive than the death threats because of the betrayal of trust. The sexual abuse, she states, "…was probably the most painful, and still probably the, the hardest to get past."
This video clip is a very effective way to began any module. Suggested Commentary is located in the Faculty Manual for each module.
Transcript of Video Clip
It is useful to distribute the transcript of the video clip so program participants fully absorb the impact of intimate partner sexual abuse.
Video Clip
To play the video clip, it is necessary to have A/V equipment with speakers.
The Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse modules include extensive resources that are intended to be burned onto a CD and distributed. This download contains a compilation of eighteen articles that will be useful to anyone wanting more information about intimate partner sexual violence in the domestic violence context and adult victim sexual assault in general. The resources are organized as an Annotated Table of Contents. Each citation is a hyperlink to the full text of the resource. Users do not need to be connected to the internet to link to these texts.
At your program, provide the Annotated Table of Contents from the Resources CD as a handout. This will immediately show participants the wealth of resources available to them and may give them an incentive to explore the Resources CD on their own.
To create the Resources CD
- Download the "Resources" zip file and the "Resources CD Label" PDF file
- Create a new folder titled "Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating This Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases Resources CD"
- Move the downloaded zip file and the CD Label into the new folder
- Insert a blank CD and, when prompted, burn the Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating This Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases Resources CD folder to the CD
To print the CD Label
- Purchase Avery CD label paper at an office supply store or online at http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/.
- Put the Avery paper into any regular printer, print the PDF onto it and affix to the CD.
- Distribute the Resources CD with the appropriate label and copyright information.
Participant Handouts
- National Judicial Education Program, Web Course Flyer for Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating this Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases (PDF)
- Lynn Hecht Schafran, Risk assessment and intimate partner sexual abuse: the hidden dimension of domestic violence, 93 JUDICATURE, no. 4, (January-February 2010) at 161 (PDF)
- Annotated Table of Contents for the Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse Resource CD (.zip)
- Case Study Exercises for the Civil/Family Court Modules (PDF)
- Case Study Exercises for the Criminal Court Modules (PDF)
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The cost of gas is on the rise again.
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Every exercise game has its target audience, most don't exclude half of the population like Ubisoft's Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy does by featuring nothing but aerobics exercise programs for women. It's going to be hard to get too many guys into firming themselves up for bikini season, and gals will have some issues staying interested as well. The bland workout routines here offer nothing but straight-up aerobics with none of the frills common to other personal-trainer-in-a-box games, and it's awfully hard to feel the burn when you're yawning.
The tiny webcam included with all copies of Your Shape is actually what most stands out about the game. Instead of swinging around the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, and dealing with those cumbersome resistance bands and leg straps as in rivals like the Wii Fit and the EA Sports Active franchises, you do your thing solo in the middle of your living room floor and let the USB camera track your movements. It's easy to set up. The camera comes with a base that allows it to easily be attached to the top of a TV, or even to your Wii sensor bar, so you can get set to sweat in a few minutes. You do need a fair bit of room to use it, however, because the camera needs to be able to see your entire body to properly track if you're lifting your legs and reaching for the sky correctly. If you don't have a good 10 feet or more to work with in front of your TV, you're going to have to consider relocating your Wii to more spacious quarters or switching to another workout game. Still, if you've got the room, the camera works great. It does an excellent job of tracking your movements when it can see your entire body. And there is really something to be said for being able to ditch the controllers and the beyond-annoying leg strap. The only problem with the camera is that it shows you on the screen as you're working out, which can be off-putting.
Additionally, you have to sacrifice a lot for the freedom of movement that the camera provides. Not being tied down to a remote, resistance bands, and the like restricts your options and essentially prevents the game from simulating weight lifting, boxing, and many other entertaining activities in the rival Wii fitness games. So the exercises here are almost entirely aerobics-based. You're stuck with standard aerobics moves involving high steps, jumping jacks, lunges, and so forth, along with walking, running, and swimming motions. It gets old fast. If you love aerobics, you've done this stuff a million times before in classes and with various DVDs and videos going back to the days when Jane Fonda donned her leg warmers. The only way to rev the game up is by including exercise equipment of your own, since the game supports free weights, balance balls, and steps. Throw some of that gear into the mix, and you are rewarded with a more wide-ranging and fulfilling workout, although doing so kind of puts paid to the notion that you're getting a full exercise program in a box here.
Without these added instruments of self-punishment, Your Shape workouts are deadly dull. Exercise options themselves are limited. To do a one-off workout, you go to the body representation of yourself as scanned by the camera during the initial setup. You then select the body part that you want to focus on, such as shoulders, legs, and glutes, or hit the base of the graphic to go for that holy grail of fitness games: weight loss. This alone is a little daunting, because the image capture displayed is about as flattering as pics taken by those nude airport scanners. Going through this process doesn't lead to anything fulfilling, either, since you go straight into a set regimen led by the abominably perky McCarthy immediately after picking your poison. There is no way to alter this routine, or even to tell in advance what the aerobicized former Playboy centerfold has in store for you. You just have to go through with the exercises and hope that the result is a tighter behind, less World of Warcrafty abs, or whatever your goal may be. Lengthier workout programs don't offer anything spicy, either. The measly four special challenges are geared pretty much entirely for women, with offerings such as Get Bikini Ready, Active Mom Routine, and New Year's Resolution. You can also access a calendar of workouts that puts you through almost-daily routines that focus on different parts of your body and then tracks the overall results. Again, though, there are no real options. Nothing can be customized, so it's Jenny's way or the highway.
Most of the game lacks the frills found in both EA Sports Active and Wii Fit. The screen is taken up entirely with a digitized McCarthy on the left and the image of you as related by the webcam on the right. There are no interesting themes, no colorful backdrops, no beach games on tropical islands, or anything else to keep your interest. Just you and Jenny and fuchsia backgrounds. Oh, and a very small selection of repetitive, generic disco tunes that serve as the soundtrack for your sweating. At least in a real aerobics class you can look around at the other participants, or maybe out a window, and you get to listen to a more varied music playlist from recognizable artists.
Although you've got to appreciate McCarthy's peppy attitude, there isn't much in Your Shape that will get you off the couch. The game feels really stripped in comparison to its competition. You can probably firm some things up here, but the exercises are too female-focused for guys and so bland that they give aerobicizing wannabes an excuse to drift back to their couches. That camera idea, however, is a keeper that needs to be fine-tuned for use in future exercise games.


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(Adrienne Vittadini and Pamela Roland)
As promised, I have more designer sketches to share from the New York Fashion Week Fall 2011 Collections. These are some of my favorite illustrations taken from the Pantone Fall Color Guide.
(Ella Moss and Pamela Roland)
I mentioned this last season, but it still reins true now, Ella Moss (above) does such a fantastic job of accurately rendering her prints and accessories. Her sketches always look so detailed and understandable, but not overworked. They just seem so effortless and easy breezy. The Pamela Roland sketch (also above) has a similar quality and I absolutely love the strong three quarter pose.
(Lela Rose and Tommy Hilfiger)
I don't know why but I'm a huge fan of sketches with sunglasses, so this Tommy illustration sporting sunglasses and a chunky gray cable knit turtleneck is one of my faves. Its such a fantastic layered look. Which one's do you like best?
To take a look at more designer sketches you can download the Pantone Fall Color Guide pdf here.


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ReferencesJuly 29, 2007 — Deacon Duncan
Since I'm likely to be commenting on a number of different books and other sources, I thought it might be helpful to put their bibliographic information in one place so that it could more easily be referred to. You'll find them listed below. If you have any books, especially books of Christian apologetics, that you would like to see analyzed on Evangelical Realism, feel free to list them in the comments.
- The Case for Faith: a journalist investigates the toughest objections to Christianity, by Lee Strobel, published by Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI
- I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST, by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, published 2004 by Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, 1300 Crescent Street, Wheaton, IL 60187
- The Faith, by Chuck Colson and Harold Fickett, published in 2008 by Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530.
- Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis, published in hardcover in 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.


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"I love the energy and reciprocity of a really good class."
Some students may find 16th- and 17th-century literary texts somewhat impenetrable. The language and historical references are unfamiliar. The texts are sometimes long and dense.
Bethany Packard has adopted a lively approach to studying works from this period that helps students enjoy a deeper understanding of the texts.
Whenever possible, Packard incorporates performance concepts and techniques into her classes. For example, her students rarely sit idly in class as they discuss a play such as The Merchant of Venice. Instead, she assigns the students roles and asks them to memorize a critical scene. The students then learn the blocking necessary to set up the action. Through a brief performance, the students immerse themselves in the language and the scene, enacting the physical encounters of the players.
Packard believes that this "interpretation through performance" helps eliminate the foreignness of the material and introduces an immediacy that allows the students to better grasp the narrative, the characters, and their motives. Watching her students experience an "ah ha" moment during these performances reinforces her belief in "the importance of audible, visual, even physical engagement with a text."
Packard also tries to reinforce the value of what she calls close reading. "Close reading means a focused analysis of language—word choice, figures of speech, tone, and more." Once mastered, this skill helps students "recognize that there is no right answer, but rather a range of interpretive possibilities." This improves the students' confidence in their own analytical abilities, which carries over to their other courses.
This skill can be particularly helpful when studying 16th- and 17th-century texts, which "often contain very different, even paradoxical, points of view," sometimes resulting in "frustrating, dazzling multiplicity." This is in part what initially drew Packard to the literature of this period, but it can also add complexity to the study of these works. Packard offers her students "critical, historical, and theoretical contexts" to help them untangle the various threads of the piece.
Packard also emphasizes the value of research in her classes. She particularly enjoys archival research, where she handles "400-year-old books and manuscripts and reads 16th-century marginal notes or family letters." To share this affinity with students in a Renaissance literature class, Packard encouraged them to use easily accessible tools like Early English Books Online (EEBO) to compile their own miniature archives of primary sources.
Packard understands that studying 16th- and 17th-century texts can be arduous, but putting in the hard work brings them alive. If you make the effort to understand the historical context and then physically put yourself in the action, you may find the texts feel very familiar.