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Skip to 0 minutes and 13 secondsUntil we have a vaccine and effective therapeutics and effective mosquito control, all we can do is try to encourage women to take actions to reduce their risk. Now, I think the actions fall in two parts. One is pregnant women reducing their risk of being infected. And that's essentially mosquito repellent, long-sleeved clothes, and nets on the windows. Slightly double-edged there, because I think women who try very much to protect themselves and fail and get infected might feel responsible, so it's asking a lot of the pregnant women. But, of course, they need to be given the information, and they need to be able to do what they can.
Skip to 1 minute and 1 secondAnd, of course, mosquito repellents are not cheap, so again, there's issue of inequalities and some countries are opting to deliver mosquito repellents as part of their antenatal care for free.
Skip to 1 minute and 20 secondsThe other action that women, the families, can do is consider seriously about whether they are in a position in which they can delay pregnancy until the situation is more under control. I think it's appropriate to give women the choice, and, of course, I think women can choose. There are reasons why they might want to get pregnant now, and then they would invest in protection, or they might think it's better to wait until the situation is under control, until the big epidemics are over. And for that to be of your choice, again, women need to have access to contraception. So again, this is a situation of equality, and health services should be able to provide access to contraception.
Skip to 2 minutes and 11 secondsThe other aspect is, of course, termination of pregnancy. And in fact, a lot of the impulse for legalisation of termination of pregnancy in Europe came after the congenital rubella syndrome was described. And I think there is a parallel here. And then the discussion is being open in many countries. In Brazil, the parliament is very divided about - termination of pregnancy is illegal, but parliament is very divided about it. It's a very controversial issue. And there's also an action being taken to the Supreme Court based on human rights to grant access to termination to all women at infection. Not at congenital malformation, but at infection, because that's a much earlier termination.
Skip to 3 minutes and 5 secondsAnd I think that's an issue that is being discussed in all countries, and I think how much being illegal prevents women to having access is another issue. And even if countries where it's legal, then there's access to safe terminations or unsafe terminations. So I think there's lots of issues where inequalities are important - inequalities between the countries, inequalities to access to contraception and safe abortion. There are two things that are important to remember. The first thing is that children with microcephaly or adults with any kinds of disabilities have rights. They have the right to education, they have the right to health care, they have the right to inclusion.
Skip to 3 minutes and 44 secondsAnd so trying to cater for their needs is not us being nice or kind, but it's actually a fundamental right, and will probably be helpful for communities as a whole and society as a whole. The second thing that's important to remember is that the children who have microcephaly will likely have a range of quite profound disabilities. But it's very likely that the children without microcephaly born to Zika-positive mothers are likely to be at higher risk of disabilities as well. So we see that with rubella, that children born to mothers who had rubella are more likely to have vision problems and hearing problems and so on. So we need to be very aware of that as these babies are growing up.
Skip to 4 minutes and 30 secondsAnd so there might be a much wider group with disabilities from Zika who will have needs that have to be catered to going forward. There are really two types of support that the families and the children will need. The first is practical support. So often the families will be the main carers for these children, and they need to be best taught how to look after those children. So in terms of helping them develop in the best possible way, in feeding the child and communicating with the child and looking after the child. So that's the kind of practical support. The second type of support that the families and also the children will need is psychosocial support.
Skip to 5 minutes and 7 secondsSo the carers may experience a lot of depression and stigma and anxiety and all sorts of worries about what the outlook is going to be for their baby and why it's happened, and so those kinds of supports are also really important through professional support or through setting up parent groups and so on so that people can come together and help each other. So a lot can be done to help the babies with microcephaly and their families. And we have examples for other kinds of conditions where very effective strategies have been put in place.
Skip to 5 minutes and 42 secondsSo cerebral palsy is a condition not totally different to microcephaly where children can be profoundly disabled, and it can affect a range of different aspects of their functioning, so physical, intellectual, maybe even hearing and seeing. And that the parents are usually the main carer. And often there are very few services to help those children with cerebral palsy. There may be physiotherapy, but not much else. And so we've developed a parent-led package of care to help the parents best look after those children and to support each other.
Skip to 6 minutes and 18 secondsSo what we do is we bring together groups of about 10 parents and their children with cerebral palsy, and they meet once a month where they're given training on a different aspect of care for that child. It can be quite practical - something like feeding or communicating with the child - or it can be more focused on different aspects of participation, like playing with the child or inclusion of the child in education. And so once a month, the families come together. There can be an expert, like a physiotherapist there, to give the training. And the parents get two types of things from it.
Skip to 6 minutes and 52 secondsThe one is practical support, and the second is emotional support through the bringing together of these parents. And even education simple things such as this is not your fault and it's also not going to be cured is very important to the family, so that they can understand those things. So that's been set up, but for cerebral palsy, and it's now being used throughout the world. And it's very effective in low- and middle-income countries, but there are all the kinds of strategies that can also be used. So Brazil and other countries in Latin America have got very good access to smartphones and the internet.
Skip to 7 minutes and 27 secondsAnd in an Indian context, we've developed mobile phone apps about rehabilitation post-stroke to help the families be aware of the kinds of exercises that are needed as well as how to dress a person and feed and bathe when they have physical disabilities after stroke. And those kinds of things could also be developed to help support the families who are looking after babies with microcephaly.
How can we support those affected by Zika?
A great deal of fear and uncertainty surrounds the Zika virus, and this is particularly true for those at the greatest risk of complications from the disease. What advice and support can we give to pregnant women or families who are planning to conceive? What about those families who have already been affected by microcephaly, congenital Zika syndrome, or related neurological conditions?
In the video Professor Laura Rodrigues highlights some of what can be said and done to guide family decision making in relation to pregnancy, while Dr Hannah Kuper makes the case for the varied support that must be made available to individuals with Zika-related disabilities.
How else do you think we can help individuals, their families, and wider communities affected by this outbreak?
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Geographic hierarchies, Census Profile, 2016 Census
Glassville, Local service district [Designated place], New Brunswick and Manitoba [Province]
There is a hierarchical relationship between the standard geographical areas used for the dissemination of the 2016 Census of Canada. The position of each geographic area in the hierarchy shows how it is related to other areas. Most geographic areas can be subdivided or aggregated to form other geographic areas. For more information regarding geographic hierarchies, refer to the Hierarchy of standard geographic areas for dissemination, 2016 Census.
Geographic hierarchy 1: Glassville, Local service district [Designated place], New Brunswick
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Broadcast earlier tonight on Dutch television. This is the official English translation
On the eve of my abdication, I would like to take this opportunity to address
you all. Unity and freedom have traditionally been the driving forces shaping
our country's constitutional order. In years of struggle and revolt against
foreign domination, the words of the Wilhelmus were a source of hope and
"I dedicate undying faith to this land of mine"
Since that
time, the unconditional loyalty of the founding father of our country has also
been demonstrated by all those who have fought for our freedom. To this day,
this loyalty forms the bedrock of our country's history, which is closely
connected with the House of Orange.
From 1890 onwards, our national unity was inextricably linked with four
female heads of state. After Queen Regent Emma, after my grandmother Wilhelmina
- so valiant in wartime - and after my mother Juliana, with her strong sense of
duty, the task and privilege of being your Queen fell to me. The unifying power
shown by previous generations was my inspiration. In our constitutional
monarchy, with the Constitution as our foundation, the monarch stands for unity
in the service of a constantly changing society.
At the investiture, in the presence of the States General, the monarch swears
to uphold the Constitution and protect the rights and freedoms of all the
inhabitants of the Kingdom. The converse of ministerial responsibility for the
acts of the monarch is the duty of the monarch - within the government - to
coordinate his actions with the ministers. Democratically enacted laws and
decrees are ratified by the monarch's signature. In day-to-day life, the monarch
can contribute to respect for democracy, to solidarity within society and to
integration and personal development for all sections of the population. This
calls for full and unconditional dedication to what - sooner or later, to a
greater or lesser degree - presents itself as the common interest of our
society. Neither power, nor personal will, nor a claim to inherited authority,
but solely the determination to serve the community can give substance to
today's monarchy.
In fulfilling this task, the monarchy aims to foster a community whose
members feel solidarity with one another. Throughout the last thirty-three years
I have had the privilege of meeting great numbers of my compatriots who put
themselves at the service of other people, demonstrate their commitment and are
willing to do their utmost for their country. I have seen what creative effort
and perseverance can accomplish, in the most diverse circumstances. Over the
years, my appreciation of people's impressive achievements in science, art and
culture has grown immensely. Scope for self-expression and exploration of new
avenues are of vital importance for us all. The way people of different beliefs
or convictions seek to draw closer to one other has touched me deeply, also
because it is a sign of openness and tolerance.
In all this, the great trust you placed in me was indispensable. I have
shared both joy and national pride with you. And I have shared in your sorrow
and anxiety. The population of the Netherlands in Europe and in the Caribbean
parts of the Kingdom have strengthened me with their spontaneous warmth and
expressions of solidarity. Beyond our borders too, international contacts proved
their worth in furthering mutual understanding. The vicissitudes of the world
touch our daily lives. Countless ties bind us to people in other continents.
This compels us to remain open to other ways of life and other cultures.
A divided Europe long bore the scars of a past marked by war and violence.
Today, peaceful cooperation and an awareness of common interests prevail.
Decisions made by the European Union determine our daily life where this is
necessary or useful. Our own self-interest obliges us to contribute to the
common interest and to the wider perspective of a shared responsibility in the
In all this, I had the great good fortune to be able to count on the support
of Prince Claus. His level-headed insights and nuanced approach were of great
value to me. Through his work in the fields of urban planning, the environment,
development cooperation and culture, he focused attention on crucial social
issues. He taught our sons, when they were still very young, to be alert to
developments in society and to suffering and need in the world. In this way, he
brought our House closer to modern times. History may indeed conclude that my
choice of husband was the best decision I ever made.
Since I announced my intention to relinquish the throne, I have been
overwhelmed by expressions of warmth and kindness, accompanied by a profound
understanding of my wish to hand over my task to the Prince of Orange. He is
well prepared for every aspect of his new role, through his intensive activities
at national and international level and his keen interest in the developments
taking place in our world today. During the ceremonial investiture in the Nieuwe
Kerk in Amsterdam, King Willem-Alexander will accept the imperative that is
essential to the office: to act without regard to personal preference, and to
stand above the interest of party or group. In fulfilling his task, he will ask
for the support and trust of the Dutch people. We all feel blessed by the fact
that his endearing wife Máxima, with her warm heart and clear understanding of
human relations, will play a special role.
In laying down my duties as Queen, I am above all filled with a sense of deep
gratitude. Without your heart-warming and encouraging expressions of regard, the
burdens of office - and they have certainly made themselves felt - would have
been very heavy indeed. I would like to let you know, in saying farewell, that
your affection has given me the strength I needed. In the future too, your
continuing closeness will remain a great support.
When tomorrow my eldest son assumes this rewarding and responsible task, it
is my dearest wish that the new Royal couple will also feel supported by your
loving trust. I am convinced that Willem-Alexander will devote himself, with
loyalty and dedication, to discharging his duties as a good King


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By Julie Green Bataille, Director of Communications
Whether it's apple picking or Sunday afternoon football, there's a comfort in things that happen every fall. Shorter days and cooler nights also mark the start of Medicare Open Enrollment. Between now and December 7, you can expect to hear about the choices, benefits, and lower overall costs you have when it comes to Medicare - many of them thanks to the health care law. Open Enrollment is your chance to review your health care coverage and see if you need to make any changes, or if you are happy sticking with the plan you have. The health care law extended the Open Enrollment period and made it earlier – giving you more time to make choices and giving Medicare time to process everything so your coverage starts without a hitch on January 1st.This year, you can make any changes as early as October 15. Over the next few months, look around – you'll find a wealth of information about your Medicare benefits. Our Medicare Open Enrollment calendar tells you what to look for this fall, especially in these 4 everyday places:
- Your mailbox Look through your mail carefully — you may get important notices from your current plan, Medicare, or Social Security about changes to your coverage or any extra help you may get paying for prescription drugs.Also look for your Medicare & You handbook. Like an old friend, it shows up around the same time every year. This year, it may be in your email inbox instead – if you decide to "go green" and asked to get it electronically. But whether it's on your computer or on your bookshelf, now is the time to take it out and find out what's new in Medicare. You'll also start to see brochures from companies that offer Medicare health and drug plans. Just remember, be smart about protecting your personal information and your identity — plans aren't allowed to call or come to your home without an invitation from you.
- On your computer Comparing your plan choices is important –and our Medicare Plan Finder makes it as simple as possible. Soon, you'll be able to watch a video about how the Plan Finder works. Enter the drugs you take to find out how you can lower your costs, review a the plan's star ratings to compare plans based on quality, and join a plan right online if you find one that meets your needs.
- In newspaper, newsletters, and magazines Take a moment as you enjoy that morning coffee to read the Medicare information that's out there. You may find a local event — somewhere right around the corner with counselors to help you, like your State Health Insurance Assistance Program. Don't miss the chance to get personalized help if you need it.
- On television and radio At the end of one of those shorter days, as you relax in front of the television, you may see some advertisements or programming about Medicare plans and your new choices. You might also hear some advertisements on your way to or from work as you listen to the radio.Now is the time to enjoy the choice and control you have over your health care coverage. Just like fall, Medicare Open Enrollment only comes once a year.


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Iconic images of the 19th century are our inspiration as we invite you to . . . Picture Yourself This Way!
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives became popular print makers at a time when the industrial revolution was creating nostalgia for a simpler era. Over a century later, folks are finding iconic New England villages and active recreation along the Currier & Ives Scenic Byway in central New Hampshire. The Currier & Ives Scenic Byway winds through rural towns and opens to breathtaking vistas.
Come stroll through downtown Henniker and stop for a visit at the New England College art gallery. Visit the riverside shops and restaurants. Count the covered bridges along the way or challenge yourself to a kayak ride on the Contoocook or Blackwater rivers. Hike in our second growth forests to discover stone walls built by our original New England settlers over 250 years ago. Stop by the orchards and farm stands to pick your own apples or pick up a fresh baked pie. Whatever you choose, the Byway is your gateway to the heart of New Hampshire.
Come . . . Picture Yourself This Way!


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When Sega made the official announcement that the Wii was, in fact, getting a new NiGHTS game, fans of the original were ecstatic. The announcement followed months of speculation, rumors, leaks, and more—a revival of the unique "flying platformer" had been the dreams of many for years. While the title has been an elusive beast—only shown via a video demo at E3 and with only a quiet presence at PAX—Sega has pinned down a due date for the title: December 18.
Director of Marketing at Sega Don Mesa explains that "NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams delivers a reinvented A-life system, online capabilities and a rich storyline, delivering a truly spectacular flight-based action adventure experience." He says that the game will appeal to "the imagination of gamers of all ages."
However, it appears that the confirmed date is for North America only. European gamers hoping to revisit the land of dreams and fly through some rings will be left to wait until January. From what we've seen though, the game looks great and should be worth the wait. We expect it to do pretty well when it launches exclusively for the Wii this holiday season.


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This Aperture 3 tutorial shows how to find and correct shadow and highlight detail problems. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Aperture-3-tutorials/essential-training/59221-2.html?utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=videoupload-59221-0808
This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter eight of the Aperture 3 Essential Training course presented by lynda.com author Derrick Story. The complete Aperture 3 Essential Training course has a total duration of 8 hours and shows how to use the image editing tools to correct exposure, retouch flaws, correct color balance issues, and much more
Aperture 3 Essential Training table of contents:
1. Getting Started
2. Importing Photos and Movies
3. Viewing Images
4. Comparing, Selecting, and Organizing Images
5. Managing Libraries
6. Making Basic Image Adjustments
7. Making Additional Image Adjustments
8. Using Advanced Editing Tools
9. Faces and Places
10. Modifying Metadata
11. Searching for Images
12. Exporting Images
13. Archiving Photos
14. Slideshows and Movies
15. Using Aperture's Bookmaking and Design Tools
16. Web and Electronic Publishing
17. Printing Images


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Bob Shaw is recognized as a visionary leader in the field
SAN ANTONIO – Bob Shaw '69, '72 has received the Leonard Duce Award from Trinity University's department of health care administration in recognition of his leadership and success in the field.
Shaw's experience spans more than 40 years in hospital and healthcare operations, marketing, revenue expansion, system integration, physician development and accountability for a regional health care system and profit health care corporations.
Currently, he is president of the Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, Ky., and holds membership as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Prior to his position at the Institute, Shaw was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio. He also has held senior administrative roles in Houston with the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Outreach Corporation and with the Memorial Healthcare System.
Shaw received both the bachelor of science in business administration and master of science in health care administration from Trinity. He also served as the chair of the National Alumni Board and Healthcare Alumni Board. He has held an adjunct faculty appointment at Trinity and was a driving force behind the program's capital campaign. Shaw now sits on Trinity's Board of Visitors.
Active in the communities where he has lived, Shaw was a board member of the Community Foundation of Louisville, Actors Theatre, and Goodwill Industries of Kentucky and in San Antonio. He also served on the editorial board of Healthcare Leadership Magazine and was a member and past director of the Rotary Club of Houston.
Colleagues called him a visionary who looks for opportunities for growth, development, mentorship, and success of his residents and fellows. He also is known for having a "distinct, enormous, infectious laugh" that can be heard several rooms away.
The Leonard Duce Award is given in honor of Dr. Leonard Duce, who served as the first dean of the graduate school in 1962. He played a key role in establishing the health care administration program and working to establish it as one of the top programs in the nation.


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Monday, June 27, 2011
Worth more than the computer they are stored on...
I wish!
I don't feel comfortable telling the world exactly how many bitcoins I own (I don't feel comfortable saying how many dollars I have in the bank either), so I tell them I own thousands of bitcoins-- not tens or hundreds of thousands. At about $17 each, that means my bitcoins are worth a lot more than my computer, and I worry about them being lost or stolen.
Here's how I keep them safe:
First, I have an advantage because I'm a geek who keeps track of the latest security threats and know the ways malware can worm its way onto my system. I keep my operating system and web browsing software up-to-date, never open email attachments I'm not expecting to get, am very careful about what programs I allow to run on my computer.
Even so, I'm human so I expect that sooner or later I'll click the wrong link or view a YouTube video containing a zero-day Flash exploit and my desktop computer will be compromised.
So I keep most of my bitcoins on an old Mac laptop that I don't use for anything else. It is turned off most of the time; I only turn it on when I need to move some bitcoin from 'cold storage' because I will want to use them soon. I turn it on, let bitcoin run for a while to catch up with the block chain, and then send as many coins as I think I'll spend in the next week or so. I'll wait for the transaction to get a confirmation or three, then shut it back down.
I use a long, strong pass-phrase to login, and my home directory is encrypted using the OSX's built-in FileVault protection, so even if somebody manages to find out where I store that machine and steals it they won't be able to decrypt the wallet without the pass-phrase.
To make sure I don't lose the bitcoins if I lose the laptop, I also encrypt and back-up the wallet "to the cloud" -- I use gpg to encrypt and Amazon's S3 for storage, but there are plenty of great file encryption and online backup services.
All of this is much more complicated than it needs to be and is still vulnerable to "rubber-hose cryptanalysis"; bitcoin is still at the do-it-yourself bleeding-edge-technology stage. I expect there to be ultra-secure, low-cost, easy-to-use, "you don't have to trust us" services or devices for storing bitcoins within the next year or so, and when there are I'll switch, and I'll write a blog post encouraging you to switch.
7 comments:
- Elliot said...
how could there possibly exist "you don't have to trust us" services or devices for storing bitcoins?
- Gavin Andresen said...
See http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19080.msg267432#msg267432 for gory details on schemes to require that two devices cooperate to send bitcoins, such that neither can send bitcoins without the other.
- Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn said...
Thanks for this practical advice, Gavin.
The open source secure storage project "Tahoe-LAFS" is interested in developing features which make it more useful for securely storing valuable things like Bitcoin wallets. Here is a mention of this topic in a recent edition of the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News:
Your feedback would be appreciated.
- Beryl Ostting said...
I just wanted to say that sadly, the public knowledge about BitCoin has far, far outrun the need for better protection.
It would have been much better for your project if it had continued in relative quiet for another year or two.
As it is, I think a lot of users without your level of sophistication are going to lost money one way and another.
- psypher246 said...
Hello. Check out this site: http://bitbills.com/ Seems to be quite a cheap secure way to store your coins
- Bill Claxton said...
I agree with your approach. I'm using TrueVault to create a secure container for my BTC wallet and other confidential data. Then I created a folder on Dropbox called 'safedeposit' that syncs my secure container for safe-keeping in the cloud.
Yes it is absolutely correct way to do it i.e. a dedicated device which is online only when you need to send money out.


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Potent weapon: Make sanctions, not war (yet)
Military action dominates the media coverage, but recent developments underscore, once again, the effectiveness of economic sanctions in punishing rogue regimes and persuading them to rejoin the global community.
Libya's offer to settle with the victims of Pan Am flight 103 if, and only if, sanctions are lifted by the United Nations and the United States, graphically illustrates the impact such measures can have.
Sudan, hurt by its State Department listing as a nation that encourages terrorism, has been falling all over itself to get back in America's good graces.
In 1995, Sudan was reported to have been willing to turn bin Laden over to American authorities, an offer we refused because Clinton's FBI and CIA had not yet discovered his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and, hence, did not have grounds to hold him.
Across the Mediterranean, the new democratic regime in Serbia risks domestic unrest by demanding that those wanted for war crimes trials by the Hague turn themselves in again as part of an effort to get sanctions lifted.
Indeed, Pakistani cooperation with the United States in pursuing bin Laden in the first place was likely catalyzed by its desire to end American sanctions imposed in the aftermath of its explosion of a nuclear bomb during the end of the Clinton years.
Though economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation will do nothing to discipline the likes of Saddam Hussein, a dictator willing to make his people suffer in starved silence while he uses secret police to bludgeon them into submission, it works well against most regimes even rogue ones. As our military action clearly brings results, so do our sanctions.
Even though the United States had to go to war with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic over Kosovo, the threat of economic sanctions were sufficient to give envoy Richard Holbrook the leverage he needed to force the Serbian dictator to curb the role of his war criminal allies in the emerging Bosnian State during a diplomatic high wire act in 1996. As Holbrook attests, Milosevic would never have budged had not sanctions been waiting in the wings.
The most ingenious application of sanctions was that suggested by Republican Alfonse D'Amato, the former New York senator, when he pioneered the passage of economic sanctions against specific companies that helped enrich Iran's oil industry. The D'Amato law requires imposition of a wide range of imaginative sanctions against these companies, even if they're located on foreign soil. It cut off Export-Import Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation financing for any such companies and banned them from handling U.S. government bonds.
Unfortunately Clinton, never comfortable with the D'Amato law, waived the sanctions and refused to apply them, bowing to European pressure. Bush would do well to revisit the D'Amato law as he seeks to confront Iran.
The idea of economic sanctions had its origin in Thomas Jefferson's determination to develop alternatives to war in international relations. His first step was to decide to try to buy land rather than kill for it, as he did with the Louisiana Purchase. Faced with British impressments of American sailors, our third president chose to impose an economic embargo rather than go to war with our historic adversary. Jefferson's America was too vulnerable and economic sanctions backfired, but today's United States is such an economic powerhouse that sanctions send a strong message.
There is a tendency on the right of our domestic politics to see sanctions as a weak response and military action as a strong one. But the track record of sanctions suggests that this view of the effectiveness of sanctions and diplomatic isolation is misleading and outdated.
As the United States expands its military clout as the world's only superpower, we must not forget our economic power as the world's largest economy. When national sanctions are coupled with U.N. action, economic boycott can be a particularly potent weapon.
Look at how well it is working.
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New sapphire apps can trigger an investment cycle!
Too many new entrants on sapphire for LED market with unrealistic capacity plans. Most underestimated the technical challenges! Prices are likely to remain low through 2013. Many new entrants will fail in 2013-2014: rationalization (M&A, bankruptcy, attrition). In the long term, vertical integration is desirable to avoid margin stacking, said Eric Virey, senior market and technology analyst, LED Materials and Sevices, Yole Developpement. He was presenting a seminar on how new sapphire applications can trigger an investment cycle.
According to him, adoption of CFL and LED stretches the replacement cycle and cannibalizes lamp volume sales. As for LED manufacturing capacity, with respect to nitride MOCVD reactors, 2009 and 2010 saw increases in Taiwan and Korea in late driven by LCD display market. The years 2010-2012 saw phenomenal increase in China. Government subsidies are likely to build up epitaxy capacity in the mainland, which should be more than $1.5 billion.
Currently there are ~110 companies with epitaxy capacity. Many will likely disappear! The current excess MOCVD capacity will be fully absorbed by mid-2014. The MOCVD reactor installation will resume mid-late 2013. The global MOCVD utilization rate is 61 percent. There is wide variability between leaders and tier 2 players in China. The Q4-2012 LED sapphire consumption was worth 3.9 million two inch equivalent per month.
As for companies in sapphire wafer, 130+ companies are involved in the sapphire substrate (established or development stage). Less than 30 currently are deriving meaningful revenue from LED substrates. The capacity is ~80 percent higher than demand. It could get worse in 2013! Prices are likely to remain low. Many new entrants will disappear, and others will scale back. A few will succeed.
Conditions for survival through 2013 include, having a lot of cash, be qualified in supply chain, achieve <$4/mm cost (2" basis), and serving other market could be a plus. As for wafer price trends, the finished wafers following similar trends. The 6" is now offered for <$200, but price can vary significantly based on specifications. There are said to be simulated 4" core cost structure for various manufacturers.
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Part of the Domo mini-site includes webisodes (embedded below) featuring Domo's quest for a Slurpee and how he gets a brain freeze in the process. See more photos of the Domo takeover:
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The new Zenses games by the Game Factory for the Nintendo DS are a refreshing change in the design of casual video games. Instead of juvenile or aggressive sounds and images, the Zenses game packs offer soothing music and lovely graphics that make playing as an adult more pleasant and relaxing. There are two Zenses packs to choose from: Rainforest and Ocean, both aimed primarily at women in recognition that women are an important growing market for video games. The imagery in each Zenses game pack reflects the environment in the title and the games in them are different as well, although all are puzzle games that allow you to play for a few minutes or a few hours depending on your desire for escape.
It is such a relief not to have the carnival beeps and bloops that make up the soundtrack of other games. Here, the sounds of forest and sea blend with the gentle tones of the music to create spa-like atmosphere as you play. The soundtracks are also available for download here if you want to enjoy the relaxing ambiance of the music even if you are not playing.
Each Zenses game pack includes six very different game challenges. I found I liked some more than others, and I suspect each person will lean more toward one or two games in each pack. Some games involve memory, some quick action, and some more strategy and logical thinking. All the games use the stylus in very natural gestures; none of the games requires that you push buttons. Most but not all games are timed so if you want to be pushed to think faster, you can choose one game and if you just want to puzzle out a solution, you can choose another.
My favorite game in the Rainforest pack is called Stack Jack, a name I find a bit odd. The game involves nesting three different sized rings or squares as they fall against a stunning backdrop of a waterfall. I found I could play that game for hours. Maybe it was the water I liked, which would explain why I preferred the Ocean set of games. The memory testing game, Wave Breaker, using images of waves uncovering shells was very satisfying. The one that mesmerized me into the longest play was the Shell Twirl, where shells have to be placed into the proper silhouette as they spin around a whirlpool.
I did have some frustrations with a few games. I simply could not get the Hot Spot bits to connect and assemble the glowfish once it started drifting from side to side. And once you complete each of the five challenges for a game, nothing happens. I'm used to getting a reward for meeting a challenge in unlocked games or graphics. A little something would have been nice.
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All in all, the game appeals to the sensibilities of an adult female while still providing the escape and challenge of brain-teaser video games. Both beautiful and relaxing in all the design elements, the added benefit of being able to play anywhere on the Nintendo DS makes Zenses a great addition to the field of games aimed at women.
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I have refrained from using my perspective from the 28th century to report events to this period, but this was so monumental that I felt compelled to share the information. Don't worry too much, because Trump was just a minor blip in history who was mostly forgotten within a decade.
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Getting your classroom organized for the beginning of the school year is an arduous task for even the most experienced teacher. It can be even more demanding for those that teach robotics. You've got the robot kits, you've been trained in ROBOTC, but how do you set up your class for the first day of school? The goal of this article is to help answer the question for both new robotic teachers and teachers that have been teaching robotics for years.
As we all know, a robotics kit is more expensive than a textbook. Moreover, because robotics kits contain so many small pieces, they can be much more difficult to take care of than a textbook. As a result, keeping your kits organized is crucial. If using a LEGO MINDSTORM NXT, EV3, or TETRIX robot, one way that I have found that can be very helpful is to name the NXT brick. Then, give the same name to the kit. Now, assign the kit to the group of students in your class. If the students know that they are responsible for that kit, it goes a long way towards them acting more responsibly with the kit. If using a VEX robot, you won't have the same ability to name your brick, but you can still able to label your robotics kit.
Which students are assigned to work together is also something that the teacher must put some thought into. Once again, maintaining the kits is of the utmost importance. Therefore, I am not going to allow students to work together if I feel that will not take care of the kit. Some students are more organized and careful with the kits than others. I always try to have one of those students in a group. I try to have the kits named and assigned before the first day of school. If I don't know the students, then I may have to adjust the groups as we progress throughout the beginning of the school year.
Once the kits are organized, the teacher can then start to think about how their curriculum items are going to be accessed and utilized. A math teacher has a plan for when their students have a question about a topic, or when a student is confused about a particular concept. A robotics teacher has to have the same type of plan in mind. The beauty of teaching robotics lies in the fact that students are intrinsically motivated to find answers to their problems because they are highly engaged. Some students will still be conditioned, however, to try to elicit the answer from the teacher instead of reasoning through a problem on their own. Robotics teachers need to create a plan so the students can work towards being independent and productive problem solvers.
To that end, a good approach to a complex challenge is to examine what needs to be done before the challenge, during the challenge, and after the challenge is complete. Before the challenge, students should be focusing on create flowcharts to organize their program and writing pseudocode to reflect those flowcharts. During the challenge, students should focus on commenting their code and debugging techniques. Afterwards, students should be afforded the opportunity to reflect and respond to what went well, what went not so well, and what they learned throughout the process.
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The beginning of the school year is always a challenge. As teachers, we understand that unforeseen difficulties will always arise. However, going into the school year with as much planned and organized as possible helps us to focus on those unpredictable events that will undoubtedly occur.
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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Missed Opportunity Thy Name Be "Greinke"
1. The Reds have two holes in the lineup (leftfield and shortstop) and one area where a legitimate upgrade is warranted (starting rotation) and a farm system rather well stocked with blocked prospects (J.Francisco, T.Frazier, Y.Alonso, D.Sappelt, etc.).
When you put it all together, don't you have to come to the conclusion that we should be looking to trade from our surplus of blocked prospects to fill the holes in our lineup or address those areas to be improved?
Now, there are reports that the Royals had specific requests for a Greinke deal. Namely, up the middle talent that was nearly ready for the Majors. The Royals are wisely trying to sync-up the arrival date of all of their talent to make a serious push for the postseason. Of course, that's exactly what we should be doing, but we still line up in trade because our window is now, while the Royals are a couple of years away.
We may have lacked a shortstop the caliber of Escobar (though, Cozart is probably closer than some might think), but we certainly could have offered up a similar package and included more value to tip the scales in favor of our offer.
2. The Reds pitching staff is long on depth, short on elite talent. As a result, they are well built for the regular season, but poorly constructed for the postseason. Adding an elite pitcher at the top of the rotation would have been a significant boost to the team in the regular season, while increasing our competitiveness for the postseason.
During his 2009 Cy Young winning season, Zack Greinke had a Win Above Replacement (WAR) mark of 9.4 and in 2010 he had a WAR of 5.2. In 2010, only 2 Reds pitchers on the starting staff even had WARs of greater than 2.0 (Cueto 2.8, Wood 2.2). So, even during his down 2010 season, Greinke represented a 3+ win improvement over everyone on the staff with the exception of Cueto. In addition, Greinke did it against the tougher league, so some improvement in the NL in front of a better defense is a reasonable expectation. Now, admittedly, the WARs of some of the Reds pitchers are depressed by their lack of innings, but it's clear that Greinke represents a significant upgrade in talent over all (or at least, most) of the staff.
3. Here is the biggest factor in my mind. How many Cy Young award winning pitchers actively reject large market teams? How many elite players actively WANT to pitch in the middle of the country?
Greinke has struggled with social anxiety disorder, but that attribute made him rare among elite players. High revenue clubs are that way because they operate in larger markets. The more consumers, the more revenue. And, as odd as it sounds, larger markets are exactly what Greinke wanted to avoid. To a certain extent, he likes to avoid people and social interaction, so for once larger market teams were at a distinct disadvantage. That which typically constitutes the biggest strength of large market organizations was turned against them to be an insurmountable weakness.
Greinke utilized his no trade clause to eliminate the big boys from the competition, which pared the market down to (in essence) the second tier revenue organizations. How many times does a lower or middle revenue organization get to compete in a marketplace that excludes the big spenders? It was a remarkable situation that I can scarcely recall happening in the recent past or expect to see again in the future. Unfortunately, the Reds failed to capitalize on the opportunity.
4. And, of course, if the Reds had acquired Greinke, then they would have prevented their divisional foe from getting him. The Reds could have improved themselves, while weakening an opponent by blocking their effort at improvement. Oddly enough, it feels a bit like the cold war of the AL East, where a BoSox gain represents a corresponding loss for the Yanks (or, vice versa). So, it's a double-impact, as it becomes something of a zero-sum game, as one team's win is the other team's loss.
5. Overall, Greinke is a special talent who possesses an exceptionally rare blend of stuff, command, and feel for pitching, which is why he is one of my very favorite pitchers. To justify the lack of action by the Reds, some may point to the payroll restrictions under which the front office was laboring, but in reality either or both of the ownership group (boosting payroll) or the front office (freeing up money) could have made it work. When a unique opportunity like this comes along, you simply have to jump on it.
In short, I think this was a huge missed opportunity for the Reds and one that is likely to haunt in the very near future. I'm a huge Greinke fan and expect him to be very, very good in 2011 and beyond. Unfortunately, it just won't be for the Reds.
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Couldn't agree more. Not to mention the likelihood Greinke will end up taking less than market value in FA due to his wanting to stay out of the big markets will likely allow for the Brewers to retain him for the long term (they did try to retain Sabathia with a fair contract just a couple seasons ago). People thought Oswalt was a Reds killer, they ain't seen nothing yet.ReplyDelete
On top of all that I thought the package was good not great that the Royals received.
Heisey, Cozart, Bailey, Boxberger has to be on par with if not slightly better a package than Cain, Escobar, Odorizzi & Jeffress. It certainly would have kept us in the discussion.
Completly agree.ReplyDelete
definitely missed a chance, one i have been actively calling for. They should hire me as the GM (yes lark, i would have a job for you)
We still have an opportunity... Justin Upton... just saying
Yeah, I wouldn't complain on Upton, but I would rather have landed Greinke. He's a personal favorite and the stars were aligned for us to reel him in.
I'm not convinced that Upton is destined for super-stardom. Maybe he will, but he may not get much better than he has shown.
Anyway, it's a disappointing miss for us.
Thanks for the comment!
Agreed. I hadn't thought of Heisey, but he'd work, too. I was thinking more along the lines of the following:
Cain = Sappelt
Escobar = Cozart
Jeffress = Joseph
Odorizzi = I.Gullion
I'd also gladly toss in a Francisco/Boxberger/Frazier type sweetener to get it done.
That's a better package of talent for the Royals and not one that would weaken us in any appreciable manner.
Just really frustrating to not be all in on a pitcher like Greinke. When all are going good, Greinke is a top 5 pitcher in baseball (unless I'm forgetting someone: R.Halladay, King Felix, T.Lincecum, C.Lee).
I think it was a big mistake not to have gotten him, especially when he was so easily gotten.
Thanks for the comment!
- PeterNincompoopDecember 23, 2010 at 10:48 PM
It's astonishing to me that people argue against the Reds trading for Greinke. I fully expect him to be a top-7 pitcher with the Brewers. And with the Reds he'd probably be a top-5 pitcher with the Reds' defense behind him.ReplyDelete
I keep hearing people, Jhon Fya comes to mind, who argue that the Reds can't make this move happen because of the financial components. Or that trading away prospects would be counterintuitive to what the club is trying to build (a contender built from within). Well, newsflash, damn near all of the team is homegrown and there are just a few holes to fill that the organization can't fill from within (such as a legitimate ace).
These arguments hold no water for me. The Reds are on the cusp of being serious contenders and to get there they need an ace and they need one right now; they can't wait to see if one of the homegrown arms will develop into one. Make the finances work. As far as trading prospects for players to fill the team's needs goes, if you don't use 'em. lose 'em. That's my motto when it comes to prospects who are being blocked or are ready for the Majors. The Reds have plenty of those.
Yeah, I agree across the board. I'm having a hard time understanding the organizational mentality this offseason. We seem close to being favorites for the pennant, but resist a tweak or two to get us there.
As for Fay, I have to agree. His recent "MLB Inbox" was riddled with strange logic and seemed interested in simply spewing the company line.
As of late, I've been concerned about the Reds inability to monetize the value of their prospects. It seems that they've been holding on to some of them for a season too long, dragging down their trade value. Not sure if that concern is valid, but it's going to become more of a problem as we have more prospects for fewer spots.
Anyway, thanks for the comment!
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Nicole Kidman just turned 45, but there was no middle-aged woman celebration for her. Keith Urban made sure of that. It was dinner and a show , but dinner and a show the way Urban does it. Since they are in Sydney right now, Urban, Kidman and Kidman's parents went first to the Apollo in Potts Point . It calls itself an Australian Greek restaurant and has things like kalaboki salad mung beans yoghurt sesame, kritharaki pasta braised oxtail tomato and skordalia, pig's tail salad walnuts sorrel currants pomegranate farro and taramasalata mullet roe dip. (All things that tend to scream, "You're not in Nashville anymore!") Then after that dining experience, they headed off to Lady Gaga's Sydney concert. There's no word on whether they had monster pit passes or not. But speaking from experience, if you are trying to forget that you are 45, being up against the stage — and elbow to elbow with screaming fans — definitely does the trick.