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The artist has co-opted spaces city-wide that are generally reserved for advertising on bus shelters and LinkNYC kiosks. Here, he displays the new photographic series Good Neighbors, taken during his visits to refugee camps and national borders, where fences are used to divide people and define them as different. These striking images are paired with related information from prominent humanitarian organizations, poetic excerpts from writing about these issues, or quotations by the artist to call our attention to the plight and humanity of the millions of displaced people across the globe.
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Go Italy!
Let's hope this does some good, and nobody gets killed over it. Italian organized crime... tends to do that.
Italy issues over 100 warrants in mafia crackdown
NAPLES, Sep. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Italian police issued more than 100 arrest warrants in a crackdown against suspected mafiosi in Naples Tuesday, detaining dozens, including three men suspected of one of the region's bloodiest shootings.
Police said several suspected high-ranking members of the Casalesi clan were held in the pre-dawn raids, including Giuseppina Nappa, the wife of Francesco Schiavone -- who investigators believe is running the group from jail.
Authorities took control of buildings and seized business activities worth 100 million euros ($143 million).
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni described the operation against the Casalesi as memorable. The Casalesi is regarded as a main player in the Camorra -- Naples' version of the Sicilian Mafia.
"We have dealt a very big blow to the Casalesi clan," he told a news conference in Rome.
Of the arrest warrants issued, 76 were served on suspects already being held in jail on other charges. At least five are still at large.
Three of the 29 detained are suspected of killing six immigrants from Ghana, Togo and Liberia in Castelvolturno, a town near Naples, earlier this month in one of the most brutal Camorra shootings in recent memory.
Further details of the arrests were not yet available.
Maroni has sent 900 soldiers and extra police to the area to fight what he has called a "civil war" between the Camorra and the state.
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When I was playing I noticed that the singularity ability seemed to clear the smoke from the grenades, is this just a coincidence or does it have an effect on it?
I tried multiple attempts, and recorded every attempt (for science). Although I could have sworn that I have seen this effect myself, my guess is the smoke grenade ends its duration and if a singularity is present, there is a chance it gets "sucked in" as an easter egg animation.
However, the singularity itself does not specifically reduce the time of the smoke grenade. Here is a video of one of the attempts, showing a clear lack of singularity vacuuming.
In my attempts, I was unable to use singularity to clear smoke. I tried testing at various points within the smoke cloud but was unable to get this to occur.


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Most doctors will tell you that women can't influence the timing of their babies' births, but a new study out of Yale proves that this long-held belief might be wrong.
Dr. Rebecca Levy of the Yale School of Public Health found that fewer babies are born on Halloween and she thinks Halloween's associations with death, evil and skeletons might subconsciously put women off giving birth.
"The study raises the possibility that the assumption underlying the term 'spontaneous birth', namely, that births are outside the control of pregnant women, is erroneous," Dr. Levy told New Scientist magazine.
Levy and her team looked at records for all U.S. births taking place in the week before and after Valentine's Day and Halloween between 1996 and 2006. They found that on Valentine's Day there is an average 5 percent increase in births when compared to other days during the week before or the week after (3.6 increase for natural, non-induced births and 12.1 percent for c-sections). On Halloween, there was on average an 11.3% decrease when compared to the days in the week before and after (5.3 percent decrease for for natural, non-induced births, and 16.9 percent drop for Caesareans).
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This stunning home in the Audubon community of Sherwood Forest has undergone numerous improvements, with designer details and an open, flowing floor plan ideal for entertaining. It is located in a secluded spot on a granite monolith called Slant Rock, which appears on topographical maps. The main floor LR is flooded with natural light, and features a cathedral ceiling, stacked stone FP to the ceiling, double French doors to a back deck, and large dining area. Screened porch off the DR has winter views. The kitchen has a breakfast nook, new tiled backsplash, new white appliances, and a 10' counter that looks out on the dining area. Master BR on main has soaring windows and leads to master bath with shower and new (2018) soaker tub. A library with fireplace, a 2nd BR, bathroom, laundry/mud rm complete the main floor. LL has new hdwd floors, a large family/music room, full bath, and BR. Storage galore! Assoc has 5 lakes, pool, 23 mi of trails, par 3 golf, tennis. Buyer amenity fee $3000.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Is your dog inteligent?? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Is your dog inteligent?? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Pets View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message aleê.!Joined: 19 Oct 2007Posts: 15 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: Is your dog inteligent?? Hi! I'm Alessandra, from Brazil. My dog is very inteligent, her name is Lilica and she has 1 year. She hates taking a shower, and she already knows when I'm gonna get her to take a shower.. Even the way I talk, she gets the message that "the shower is coming" and goes under the washing machine!! Can you belive it?? If you have a dog clever like mine plis tell me.. ;] Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Pets All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


text: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Arrests alone will not solve West Virginia's prescription drug abuse problem, the state's top law enforcement leaders said Thursday.West Virginia must reach out to children and take steps to prevent substance abuse, officials including U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and State Police Col. Jay Smithers told a crowd gathered in Charleston for the West Virginia Drug Endangered Children Conference."Law enforcement cannot arrest our way out of this problem," Smithers said. "It's way beyond that."West Virginia has the nation's highest rate of drug overdose deaths. More than 90 percent involve prescription drugs.At the conference, Goodwin, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of West Virginia, released a report with his recommendations for fighting prescription drug abuse.The document follows a summit his office hosted in February and includes recommendations for the medical, educational and law enforcement communities. Health providers should follow "best practices" for treating chronic pain while trying to manage the risk of painkiller addiction, the report says.Those include using the state's prescription drug monitoring program, an electronic database that tracks prescriptions for controlled substances carrying a high risk of abuse, such as anti-anxiety and pain medications. For patients who are susceptible to substance abuse, doctors should require pill counts, random drug testing, and an agreement that the patient will use only one pharmacy. The state can collaborate with existing coalitions to reach out to elementary-school children with prevention and intervention programs, the report says. Goodwin's office hopes the state's Controlled Substances Advisory Board can carry out five county pilot projects this fall.Goodwin also wants communities to host more "take-back programs," where people can get rid of unused prescription medications, especially controlled substances such as anti-anxiety and painkiller pills. West Virginians should have access to these events four times a year, the report says.Academic institutions and licensing boards should offer health professionals education on prescription drug abuse, the report says.Goodwin, who also traveled to Princeton on Thursday to discuss the report, said his office has successfully prosecuted 60 pill dealers this year, but that's not enough."The law enforcement side of it is really kind of healing the symptoms," he said in an interview with the Gazette. "What we need to be about is preventing the sickness."The report also urges an expansion of drug courts, as well as more substance-abuse screening and treatment referrals in primary-care settings. Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, who is acting as governor, joined Goodwin and Smithers at the conference, saying people must look at the problem from both a state and local perspective. Communities need drug treatment facilities that offer help for addicts, Tomblin said.West Virginia has seen some positive developments since the summit in February, Goodwin said. For instance, the state Board of Pharmacy is linking West Virginia's prescription drug monitoring database with other states' programs to help identify doctor shoppers who cross state lines. State Police plan to meet with faculty at every middle and high school in West Virginia, Smithers said. They are also distributing educational posters to schools, telling students that prescription drug abuse is the No. 1 killer of young people in West Virginia. The posters direct students to resources where they can get help for addiction and report suspected drug crimes.Police also are meeting with pharmacists throughout the state to discuss prescription drug crimes, Smithers said.The Drug Endangered Children Conference, which started Wednesday, offered workshops to social workers, police officers, health providers and others.The state's Drug Endangered Children Taskforce started in 2005 and focuses on the plight of kids who live in homes where caregivers are selling, using or producing drugs. Experts presented workshops with topics that included the effects of prenatal exposure to methamphetamine and prescription drugs, communicating with mothers who are on drugs, and investigating child deaths and injuries caused by drugs. Reach Alison Knezevich at email@example.com or 304-348-1240.


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By the time 14-year old Yorlene Reyes came to St. Louis from Honduras, her spine was deformed with a severe 132-degree curve. The scoliokyphosis, thought to be the result of a genetic mutation, caused Yorlene to have a lateral and posterior curve that threatened her spinal cord and lung capacity. More than anything, the curve affected her quality of life.
Propapa Missions connected Yorlene to an American family and host mother Lila Benitez in Long Island, New York.
In January 2010, Yorlene and her family came to St. Louis to begin weeks of treatment leading up to a very risky surgery that would straighten her spine. She was placed in traction and began weeks of preparation at Shriner's Hospital for Children.
Yorlene was transferred to St. Louis Children's Hospital on February 23, where she spent nearly 10 hours in the operating room as doctors and nurses worked to fix her spine. Dr. Lenke and his comprehensive team worked first to remove several levels of her spine to correct the dramatic curve. With high-tech equipment in the operating room constantly monitoring Yorlene's condition during the surgery, Dr. Lenke placed two permanent metal rods and dozens of screws to support and protect her back and spinal cord. As the complex surgical corrections were made, Dr. Lenke proceeded very carefully to prevent damage to Yorlene's spinal cord. The risky surgery proved to be a success.
Before and after surgery photos of Yorlene's back.
Within a single day, Yorlene's spine went from a 149-degree curve pre-surgery, to a curve of about 50-degrees, much closer to what is considered 'normal' for a child's spine. Recovery in the weeks following the surgery was difficult and often painful for Yorlene, especially during therapy to rebuild her strength. But for the first time, Yorlene was finally able to sit, stand and walk with an almost straight back. Lila even joked that Yorlene looked a little taller almost immediately.
It would not be long before Yorlene would resume doing the things that she loved -- listening to music, playing games and watching television shows with Lila as the healing continued. Dr. Lenke and his team who followed Yorlene's condition closely were pleased with her progress.
Yorlene's post-surgery improvement continued through early April when doctors said she was well enough to travel back to New York with Lila. As Yorlene shares her ongoing progress via phone with her family in Honduras, it is not yet known when she will be returning home to her own country. But in the meantime, her new 'extended families' at St. Louis Children's and Shriner's Hospitals will look forward to seeing her at least once more for a follow-up visit later this summer.


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Modern history has a way of being modest with its gifts and blunt with its reckonings. Good news comes like a breeze you feel but don't notice; the markets are up, the air is cleaner, we're beating heart disease. It is the bad news that comes with a blast or a crash, to stop us in midsentence to stare at the TV, and shudder.
Maybe that's why we are startled by gratitude in the season of peace. To have pulled Saddam Hussein from his hole in the ground brings the possibility of pulling an entire country out of the dark. In an exhausting year when we've been witness to battles well beyond the battlefields in the streets, in our homes, with our allies to share good news felt like breaking a long fast, all the better since it came by surprise. And who delivered this gift, against all odds and risks? The same citizens who share the duty of living with, and dying for, a country's most fateful decisions. Scholars can debate whether the Bush Doctrine is the most muscular expression of national interest in a half-century; the generals may ponder whether warmaking or peacekeeping is the more fearsome assignment; civilians will remember a winter wrapped in yellow ribbons and duct tape. But in a year when it felt at times as if we had nothing in common anymore, we were united in this hope: that our men and women at arms might soon come safely home, because their job was done. They are the bright, sharp instrument of a blunt policy, and success or failure in a war unlike any in history ultimately rests with them.
For uncommon skills and service, for the choices each one of them has made and the ones still ahead, for the challenge of defending not only our freedoms but those barely stirring half a world away, the American soldier is TIME's Person of the Year.
TIME followed a single platoon from the army's 1st armored Division, to watch its life on the line and glimpse what the world's largest army can do while all the expectations for it are changing. There is no such thing as a typical platoon, but every one has a story to tell, about the costs of war and the price of peace and what you learn getting from one to the next.
It is worth remembering that our pilots and sailors and soldiers are, for starters, all volunteers, in contrast to most nations, which conscript those who serve in their armed forces. Ours are serving in 146 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The 1.4 million men and women on active duty make up the most diverse military in our history, and yet it is not exactly a mirror of the country it defends. It is better educated than the general population and overweighted with working-class kids and minorities. About 40% of the troops are Southern, 60% are white, 22% are black, and a disproportionate number come from empty states like Montana and Wyoming. When they arrive at the recruiter's door, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told TIME, "they have purple hair and an earring, and they've never walked with another person in step in their life. And suddenly they get this training, in a matter of weeks, and they become part of a unit, a team. They're all sizes and shapes, and they're different ages, and they're different races, and you cannot help when you work with them but come away feeling that that is really a special thing that this country has."


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The young generation (14/01/18 18:46:30)
This evening - some 19:00 - three 10-year-old boys were at my door, asking me whether I would participate in a maths survey. So I was given three multiplications. Embarrassingly enough I did not make it exactly - which has always served for my purposes.
Anyway - the fact that some schoolboys venture into this (and I think there is no reward for guessing that some father somewhere gave them the idea and support) makes me revise my thinking. It might be that some of the young generation are actually better than mine. Heartening. I love it. It's worthy of some celebration of sorts.
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IV. Discussion regarding Alaska Center for Excellence in Schools
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state town of Burien is stuck with the job of removing the reeking carcass of a fin whale that was apparently hit and killed by a ship in the Pacific and dragged into Puget Sound on the bow of a red hull.
The dead whale became a huge attraction over the weekend at Seahurst Park with people crowding around for a picture and to touch the rubbery skin.
Because of the health risk, the city is posting signs urging people to stay away and not climb on whale, said Myron Clinton, maintenance and operations supervisor for Burien parks.
"Right now, it's pretty crazy," he said of the crowd, despite the smell of a whale that had been dead for days before it washed up Saturday on the Puget Sound shore about 2 miles west of Sea-Tac Airport.
Whale skeletons are sometimes preserved for display or educational purposes, but this whale was torn in half by the ship and no one wants the skull, Clinton said. That left the city with the job of removing tons of rotting marine mammal.
"It's pretty strong smelling now," Clinton said Monday, "and only getting worse."
Clinton was talking to contractors about burying the whale or taking it to a rendering plant. It might have to be cut up to be moved.
"That would be pretty messy and not pretty," he said. The cost is expected to run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
The fin whale is a federal endangered species. Named for a dorsal fin, it's the second-largest whale species after the blue whale and lives in the deep ocean. About the only time one shows up in Puget Sound is on the bow of a ship.
Trauma to the body and what appears to be red paint are sure signs the whale was struck, said John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Olympia-based Cascadia Research Collective, which examined the carcass with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in coordination with the National Marine Fisheries Science Center.
Only about 52 feet of what was a 65-foot whale remained.
It's the 10th fin whale carcass in Washington waters since 2002 and the eighth with evidence of a ship strike, Calambokidis said.
"It's part of a growing pattern up and down the West Coast of ship strikes becoming a bigger issue for larger species, especially blue whales and fin whales," he said.


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The predicting of trends is an annual media tradition, and it's damn fun—writers get to say things like, "Vegetables will be the new black," and "Keep an eye on Cambodian-Canadian fusion," with all the confidence of the Oracle of Delphi.
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Since we couldn't cover all the trends that were predicted (some ridiculous exclusions: the end of all food trucks, breakfast cookies, something about fennel pollen, and "the canelé as the new cupcake"), we picked ten of the most interesting calls that didn't seem like total cop-outs. We also included some thoughts about where things are headed in 2013, so feel free to give us a taste of our own medicine next December.


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PHOTOPHILE- Boom and bloom: Hundreds do 'good job' in marathon
More than 500 runners turned out for the sixth annual Charlottesville Marathon and Half Marathon on Saturday, April 19, and the weather didn't disappoint– blue skies, temps in the 70s, spring finally in full, glorious bloom.
For downtown dweller Richard Berman, though, there was too much boom. Two days after the race, he stood before City Council to complain that the event disturbed his slumber– and kept disturbing him as runners crossed the finish line.
"They went on for seven hours screaming, 'Good job,'" Berman told Council.
Nonetheless, the 26.2-mile race has been named one of the Top 10 new marathons in the country by Runner's World magazine and one of the most scenic by Running Times.
It starts at the west end of the Downtown Mall by the sponsoring store Charlottesville Running Company, then takes runners past UVA and out into the rolling hills west of town before looping back and finishing at the Mall with a celebration featuring music and refreshments. Good job, indeed.
Race organizer, ultra-marathoner, and co-owner of the Charlottesville Running Company Francesca Conte addresses the crowd.
106.1 The Corner program director Brad Savage manned a booth and handed out goodies.
Runners recovered from their ordeal under sunny skies on the west end of the Downtown Mall following the race.
Twenty-five-year-old local runner Aaron Paul took first place in the marathon with a time of 2:36:39.
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Hi!I dont know if i am using the right address,but if its not please bear with me and help me find the right address.I just recently read some articles about korean men in the internet and got me interested.I just want to know if its possible for korean men to date a black woman especially from Africa.If so,do you have a website where somebody can go through it and check if they korean men looking for black women?Can korean men marry black women from Africa and those already have children?If you are going to use that website where you publicise the replies,please use Pee as my name.Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.Bye!
"Pee" means "urine" in English and "blood" in Korean. Either way, it won't attract too many guys.
re: birthday cakes
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Got a question or a comment for the Korean? Email away at email@example.com.
re: Can I give you dog articles?
Unless the website also features proper ways of cooking dog meat, the Korean is not interested. (Upon learning about this email, the editor of the website emailed to apologize -- apparently it was a mix-up by a company that handles PR for the website.)
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How can I contact the ROKMC HQ in Pohang to inquire about someone?
I don't speak Korean, just English. And I'm not in Korea.
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I'm going mad. I haven't heard from the boyfriend for 3 weeks now and I don't know what to think of it. Could he be in training? He's been in the service for a little more than a year now. Do they still have trainings that last for a month? Could he have left me cold-heartedly by not talking to me instantly? Could there be something wrong with him right now? Injured?I'm a mess. Been trying to call but his phone just keeps on ringing. We almost always talked daily. I really don't know what to do. Calling the parents is not even an option.
Please help! Sound advice would be very much appreciated, or ROKMC HQ details, whichever is more appropriate with this madness!
Your boyfriend went to the military, not to a boyscout camp. What's the point of calling his phone?
Here is one thing you can do to act like a Korean -- stop emailing this blog.
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Not so sure about Brenna's grimace above - she even asked me what she was doing with her face, but it was our "best" self picture of the days... Brenna with the cleaners from Monsters, Inc.
Our second day in the park had beautiful blue skies (and we had our extra hours pass - so nice!)
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Hope all is well out there. The weather is nice here today, but Dustin is already on his way to the airport :-( Hopefully, I will find plenty to keep Brenna and I busy over the next few days (ahem - week, lol). (maybe we will even use the public transportation to go to the zoo - Brenna loves riding the trains and buses). Brenna has a school holiday on Monday, so it is like we have 2 more days to our weekend now... (we could have had the car here, but I decided it wasn't worth it as Brenna will enjoy riding the public transporation more than driving anywhere in the next week).
We went to the start of a 10K bike and running race here in our town yesterday - it was all heading directly up hill (Dustin said there was an 800 meter elevation change in the 10K - although some of the hills are very gradual, some are steep - I'm not sure which is worse). After the race, we went for some ice cream and then had a trip to the mall later in the day for Dustin's haircut.
Well, I think that is it for my morning - I think I am going to go try to bike before Brenna wakes up :-)
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Facebook has morphed dramatically from their college and pre-college base. Now only a quarter of users are 18-24 year olds (college and pre-college) and the fastest growth is coming from mature age groups. Facebook is up to 845 million active users and their IPO capitalized on all the private information that users have inadvertently revealed. And an Austrian student (Max Schrems), through the Austrian right to discover what information Facebook is collecting, learned that Facebook had 1,222 pages on him including posts he had deleted and his physical location when he posted.
"A Wall Street Journal examination of 100 of the most popular Facebook apps found that some seek the email addresses, current location and sexual preference, among other details, not only of app users but also of their Facebook friends. One Yahoo service powered by Facebook requests access to a person's religious and political leanings as a condition for using it. The popular Skype service for making online phone calls seeks the Facebook photos and birthdays of its users and their friends."
The fundamental equation of Facebook is that it provides a free service, funded by Facebook freely distributing the reams of personal information that users reveal about themselves and which Facebook makes available to application developers, advertisers and the like.
Discussing the social implications and privacy, Jeesi Hempel writes in Fortune magazine:
"At times it may seem hard to reconcile Zuckerberg's lofty aspirations for Facebook with the utterly commonplace content that users create on the site. Consider 25 Random Things, a new take on the chain letter that has grown so popular it was written up in the New York Times Style section. You list 25 supposedly random things about yourself and send the note on to 25 of your friends (who are supposed to do the same), but your randomness also ends up on display to any gawker who may be surfing your profile. The items range from the banal (No. 17: I never, ever, ever throw up. Like five times in my adult life) to the intimate (No. 2: I knew I was gay in the sixth grade but didn't tell anyone until I was 19). The feature is high profile – some 37,500 lists sprang up in just two weeks – but taken as a whole it just seems like a lot of user-generated babble. [Note: Slate had a recent post about how 25 Random Things spread in a style approximating a natural virus.]
"Yet it is that very babble that makes Facebook so valuable to marketers. Imagine if an advertiser had the ability to eavesdrop on every phone conversation you've ever had. In a way, that's what all the wall posts, status updates, 25 Random Things, and picture tagging on Facebook amount to: a semipublic airing of stuff people are interested in doing, buying, and trying. Sure, you can send private messages using Facebook, and Zuckerberg eventually hopes to give you even more tools to tailor your profile so that the face you present to, say, your employer is very different from the way you look online to your college roommate. Just like in real life. But the running lists of online interactions on Facebook, known as feeds are what make Facebook different from other social networking sites – and they are precisely what make corporations salivate."
Facebook users get to "curate their stream" – the flow of information about changes individuals have made to their Facebook page that goes to their social networks on the site.Individuals on Facebook have two feeds: a personal field that logs changes you have made to your own site (a photo, a status update, a video post) and a second feed that tracks all the
"interactions your friends are having (and alerts friends to updates you've made on your personal feed). If your brother RSVP'd to a dinner party, for example, you might be notified about it, even if you weren't invited to attend. And if you change your profile photo, it may let your brother know. Like Facebook itself, the feeds are subject to the network effect: The more data you share and interact with, the more robust your news feed becomes….
The information that pops up is partly a result of controls you establish in your privacy settings and feedback you provide to Facebook. But Facebook also can track your behavior, and if the site notices you're spending a lot of time on the fan page of a certain movie star, for example, it will send you more information about that celebrity.
Kind of Big Brother-ish, and a marketer's wet dream.The irony is that despite the use of tracking this personal information to sell you things, users sense that they are not being watched because there is not so much advertising currently on Facebook.It's almost like baiting a bear by getting it comfortable feeding nonchalantly at a location before one drops the trap. And on Facebook there is no retracting all the personal information that users have left on Facebook about how they know Jane, or their e-mail chatter with friends, or who is in their inner and outer circle based on number of shared friends or who they share their personal feeds with. That's all stored on Facebook servers somewhere deep within the enterprise.
Moreover, users' desire for privacy and Facebook's desire to know with whom they are dealing often collide. Facebook has recently actively fought the right of users to use pseudonyms (even for Arab Spring activists or Salman Rushdie). As someone interested in social capital, I do think there is another side to this story (although I'm not at all sure this is what is motivating Mark Zuckerberg). Online interactions that are anonymous are far more likely to be vitriolic and interfere with users investing heavily in preserving their online reputation. If one can lie, or cheat, or flame, and no one knows that it is you, many studies have shown that lying or cheating or flaming is more widespread.
We may be six degrees of separation from anyone else in the world, but only only degree of separation from Big Brother wearing the mask of Facebook.
Facebook is walking a fine line as much of their market value will go up in smoke if they lose user trust. It is for this reason that several years back they put new changes in the site to a vote in which 30% of their then user base (or 60 million users) had to approve the changes.
This loss of privacy is more concerning, considering just how many people this affects and how widely users use Facebook to post pictures, posts, links, and friendship patterns that reveal lots about themselves that they probably wouldn't feel comfortable posting to the world.
Fortune magazine notes how Facebook dramatically shrunk the amount of time to reach 150 million users or sell 150 million units. Phones took 89 years, televisions took 38, cellphones took 14, iPods took 7 years and Facebook took only 5. [Fortune doesn't focus on the fact that the population is larger now so getting to 150 million users or units is easier and that Facebook is aided by the fact that it is free, but Facebook's growth was impressive nonetheless.]
In 2009, Facebookers spent 169 minutes a month on average (or almost 3 hours) on the site and this increased rapidly. Fortune doesn't present a graphic but I assume that there is a group of manic Facebook users that spend 3-5 hours a day on the site or more and some users who use it very rarely. Facebook acknowledged several years back that less than 10% of users, although still a sizable 15 million folks, do update their status every day (and this is up almost 400% from 2010 while over the same period the number of users was up only 75%, so the growth wasn't just coming from more users ).
Zuckerberg's vision is to have Facebook be a "social utility" where "one day everyone would be able to use it to locate people on the web " David Pogue has an interesting story showing how this is starting to come true: a woman who found a wallet in a NY cab was able to track the wallet's owner down on Facebook when she couldn't through 411. But equally the reality is that it can and is being used not just to locate people on the web, but to sell everything about them to others.
Read other posts about the social implications of Facebook.
See New York Magazine's, "Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?" (4/5/09) (describing how Julius Harper's group on Facebook, protesting Facebook's privacy policies, swelled to almost 150,000 members
Read the interesting Fortune Cover Story, "How Facebook is Taking Over Our Lives" by Jessi Hempel (3/2/09)
"Facebook Is Using You" (Lori Andrews Op-Ed, NYT, 2/4/12) that notes that information revealed on Facebook can hurt you down the road in mortgage applications, job interviews, etc.
Read Lori Andrews' I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (2012). [NYT review of book here.]
Read "Selling You on Facebook" (WSJ, 4/8/12 by Julia Angwin and Jeremy Singer-Vine)
And if you want to laugh about it, see the Onion's satire "Mark Zuckerberg Is a CIA Agent ". Laughing aside, the CIA has purchased a stake in Q-Tel and Visible Technologies to actually listen in on social media (including YouTube, blogs, tweets, etc.) and the CIA has admitted to using social media software in recruiting operatives.
Obama Information Czar and Nudge co-author Cass Sunstein suggested in a 2008 paper "Conspiracy Theories" with co-author Adrian Vermeule that government might "cognitively infiltrate" social networks to help unveil conspiracy theorists and change their minds.


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Here are dates and times for TV shows premiering in July 2019. All times are ET/PT unless noted; new shows and special events/awards shows are in italics.
Tuesday, July 2
"Young Justice: Outsiders" (DC Universe)
9 p.m.
"Tales" (BET)
Wednesday, July 3
"The Last Czars" (Netflix)
Thursday, July 4
"Stranger Things" (Netflix)
"Into the Dark: Culture Shock" (Hulu)
Saturday, July 6
9 p.m.
"Supersize My Pool" (HGTV)
Sunday, July 7
7 p.m.
"Nick Cannon Presents Wild 'N Out" (VH1)
9 p.m.
"The Movies" (CNN)
"Murder in the Thirst" (BET)
"Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian" (E!)
10 p.m.
"Out There With Jack Randall" (Nat Geo Wild)
Monday, July 8
9 p.m.
"Fast N' Loud" (Discovery)
"Scream" (VH1)
Tuesday, July 9
8 p.m.
"Love Island" (CBS)
10 p.m.
"Bring the Funny" (NBC)
"The Disappearance" (WGN)
Wednesday, July 10
"Family Reunion" (Netflix)
"Harlots" (Hulu)
8 p.m.
"The 2019 ESPYs" (ABC)
10 p.m.
"Florida Girls" (Pop)
"Marrying Millions" (Lifetime)
"Snowfall" (FX)
"The Strongest Man in History" (History)
Thursday, July 11
8 p.m.
"Jersey Shore Family Vacation" (MTV)
"Siren" (Freeform)
9 p.m.
"Ax Men" (History)
"Dr. Pimple Popper" (TLC)
"Hollywood Game Night" (NBC)
"The Outpost" (The CW)
10 p.m.
"The Dead Files" (Travel)
Friday, July 12
"Blown Away" (Netflix)
"Bonus Family" (Netflix)
"Extreme Engagement" (Netflix)
"One Spring Night" (Netflix)
"Taco Chronicles" (Netflix)
9 p.m.
"Shangri-La" (Showtime)
Sunday, July 14
8 p.m.
"Sweetbitter" (Starz)
"Top Gear" (BBC America)
9 p.m.
"Grantchester" (PBS)
Monday, July 15
9 p.m.
"Girls Cruise" (VH1)
Tuesday, July 16
8 p.m.
"Pandora" (The CW)
9 p.m.
"Ex on the Beach" (MTV)
Wednesday, July 17
9 p.m.
"Suits" (USA)
"Traveling The Stars: Action Bronson and Friends Watch Ancient Aliens" (Viceland)
10 p.m.
"Danny's House" (Viceland)
"Pearson" (USA)
Friday, July 19
"All or Nothing: Carolina Panthers" (Amazon Prime)
"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" (Netflix)
"Last Chance U" (Netflix)
"Money Heist" (Netflix)
"Queer Eye" (Netflix)
"Typewriter" (Netflix)
10 p.m.
"Killjoys" (Syfy)
"The UnXplained" (History)
11 p.m.
"This Week at the Comedy Cellar" (Comedy Central)
Saturday, July 20
9 p.m.
"Restaurant Impossible" (Food)
Sunday, July 21
10 p.m.
"Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted" (Nat Geo)
Monday, July 22
10 p.m.
"The Family Chantel" (TLC)
"Worst Bakers in America" (Food)
Wednesday, July 24
10:30 p.m.
"South Side" (Comedy Central)
Thursday, July 25
"Another Life" (Netflix)
"Workin' Moms" (Netflix)
9 p.m.
"Cash Pad" (CNBC)
10 p.m.
"Listing Impossible" (CNBC)
Friday, July 26
"The Boys" (Amazon Prime)
"Light as a Feather" (Hulu)
"Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix)
"Sugar Rush" (Netflix)
"Veronica Mars" (Hulu)
Sunday, July 28
8 p.m.
"Bulletproof" (The CW)
9 p.m.
"Pennyworth" (Epix)
Monday, July 29
8 p.m.
"Bachelor in Paradise" (ABC)
11:30 p.m.
"Lights Out With David Spade" (Comedy Central)
Tuesday, July 30
9 p.m.
"Black Ink Crew: Compton" (VH1)
Wednesday, July 31
"Four Weddings and a Funeral" (Hulu)
"The Letdown" (Netflix)
9 p.m.
"Love & Listings" (VH1) 9p
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Non sequitur
A non sequitur (literally, "doesn't follow") is a logical fallacy in which the premises do not support the conclusion in any way. Thus, the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises.
Construction of a non sequitur[edit]
Non sequiturs typically take the following forms:
- If A is true, B is true.
- B is stated to be true.
- Therefore, A is true.
A problem with the logical structure of this non sequitur is that it assumes a conditional statement's converse is always true ("If A, then B" does not imply "If B, then A"). But this is only the case for definitions, where the given statement is actually a biconditional. Furthermore, even if the both premises and the conclusion are true, the argument is still logically bad since the premises don't support the conclusion. For example:
- If I am human, then I'm a mammal.
- I am a mammal.
- Therefore, I'm human.
Even though both the premises and the conclusion are true, the argument is still a fallacy since the premises don't support the conclusion.
Another common non sequitur is this:
- If A is true, then B is true.
- A is not true.
- Therefore, B is not true.
A problem with the logical structure of this non sequitur is that it assumes a conditional statement's inverse ("If not A, then not B") of a conditional statement is always true.
Here's an example:
- If I am in my bedroom, then I'm at home.
- I'm not in my bedroom.
- Therefore, I'm not at home.
Again, the premises don't support the conclusion.
It's worth noting that if either of the above examples had said "If and only if A is true, then B is true" as their first premise, they would have been valid and non-fallacious but still unsound.
The above examples are the two main types of non sequitur, however there are many other less common types. An everyday example would be "If I wear my new shirt, all the girls will think I'm sexy." However, not all girls will think that the same shirt looks sexy so there really isn't a connection between the two. This type of non sequitur is commonly seen in advertising.
The two main premises above are good representations of the difference between validity and soundness.
Creationist examples[edit]
A good example of a non sequitur commonly used by creationists is the following:
- No one knows what caused the Big Bang.
- God must have done it.
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The Oxford University Russian Society will host a talk by Prince Michael of Kent on Thursday, 2nd May, at Merton College.
Maxim Kotenev, adviser to the society, anticipates that the Prince will talk about his visit to St Petersburg for the burial of the Tsar and his family, and might make a comparison between the British and Russian royal families.
Kotenev added that he would be interested to hear the Prince's "view on the Queen, her role and some internal stories of his encounters with the Queen".
"Prince Michael of Kent is interesting for the Russian Society because of his profile", said Kotenev. The Prince is related to Russian royal family and involved in a large number of non-profit charities in Russia. "He has close links with Russia, speaks Russian fluently and has travelled to Russia several times", added Kotenev.
Russian Society President Anna Danshina first learnt about Prince Michael's links to Russia when organising the Imperial Gardens of Russia festival in St Petersburg, which is supported by the Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent Charitable Foundation. Danshina commented that: "I was very fascinated by Prince Michael's interest in Russia and the charitable work of the Prince Michael of Kent Foundation in the country."
The Prince is devoted to several charity, arts and education organisations in Russia. Among them is the St. Petersburg based Nochlezhka Charity Foundation, which provides shelter and food for homeless people. He is also a patron for the Russian National Orchestra and the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics and St Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Prince is a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and his mother, Princess Marina, was the daughter of Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia. "He is named after the brother of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and in some way he looks like Nicholas II", said Kotenev.
The Russian Society was founded in 1909 by a member of the Russian royal family, Prince Felix Yusupov, who studied at University College. Prince Felix is known for having participated in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin, the faith healer of Tsar Nicholas II.
The talk will be held in English at 7 pm in the TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College. Entry is free.
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C.D.S. Newsletter June 2013
In this issue...
- Waterside Free Cooling in TRACE 700
- Trane Celebrates 100 Years of Innovation
- TRACE Turns 40—A Brief Look Back
- New Courses Available for LEED Credential Maintenance
- Get the Most Out of Your Software with C.D.S. Training
- FAQ: How do I model a base utility in TRACE 700?
- FAQ: On the Energy Consumption report, why are the receptacle loads different between alternatives, even though "Use Alternative 1" is selected on both Create Templates and Create Rooms?
- Meet the C.D.S. Support Staff ... Haley Goslinga and John Sustar
Waterside Free Cooling in TRACE 700
Water economizing (or free cooling) is the production of chilled
water without (or with limited use of) a chiller. ASHRAE Standard
90.1-2007/2010 requires buildings in certain climate zones to
economize either by air or water. According to Hanson¹, water
economizing is a great option if air economizing cannot be used due to
humidity requirements or system/equipment limitations (p. 1).
This article covers the free cooling inputs in TRACE. It does not cover the calculations and control strategies that affect free cooling operation—we'll address that topic in a future article.
How do you model free cooling in TRACE 700?
The majority of the free cooling inputs are on the Cooling Equipment Controls screen in TRACE (Figure 1). To access this screen, go to Create Plants, click the Cooling Equipment tab, and click the Controls button. Six free cooling options are available: fluid cooler parallel, fluid cooler series, plate and frame (parallel), plate and frame series, refrigerant migration, and the strainer cycle. We'll discuss other free cooling inputs in TRACE as they apply to each free cooling type below.
Figure 1. Free cooling inputs on the Cooling Equipment Controls screen
Fluid Coolers
There are two types of fluid coolers: dry or evaporative. Dry
coolers are similar to standard air-cooled condensers but instead
of refrigerant, they contain a glycol mixture fluid within the coils.
Evaporative fluid coolers have the same mixture within the
coils, but water is sprayed over the condenser in order to benefit
from typically lower ambient wet-bulb temperatures. Fluid coolers in
TRACE 700 also have a heat exchanger between the return chilled water
and the fluid cooler loop.
Key Inputs
When entering a fluid cooler in the Create Plants section of the program, be sure to select the appropriate fluid cooler type.
The characteristics of the fluid cooler are defined in the Heat Rejection Library (Figure 2).
The approach temperature of the fluid cooler heat exchanger is defined on the Options tab of the Cooling Equipment Library (Figure 3).
Figure 2. Fluid cooler inputs in the Heat Rejection Library
Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchangers
Plate-and-frame heat exchangers provide free cooling to satisfy part
or all of the cooling load that would otherwise be handled by the
There are two types of configurations for plate-and-frame heat exchangers in a chilled-water plant. Plate-and-frame series supplements mechanical cooling, whereas plate-and-frame (parallel) only operates if it can handle the entire cooling load. Both options require appropriate free cooling ambient conditions in order to function properly.
Key Inputs
The important inputs for a plate-and-frame heat exchanger are defined on the chiller to which it is assigned. The plate-and-frame heat exchanger approach temperature defaults to 3°F, but it can be changed on the Options tab of the Cooling Equipment Library (Figure 3). (As previously mentioned, the approach temperature of the fluid cooler heat exchanger can be changed here as well.)
Figure 3. Cooling Equipment Library - Options tab
Strainer Cycle
The strainer cycle is similar in methodology to the plate-and-frame
heat exchanger in parallel but there is no heat exchanger. The chiller
is bypassed completely and the condenser water becomes the chilled
water during free cooling mode.
Key Inputs
No additional configuration is necessary for the free cooling operation (besides selecting it under the free cooling section for the equipment). This free cooling cannot be used for air-cooled equipment.
Refrigerant Migration
Refrigerant migration is defined as using a chiller to provide chilled water to the system without a need for compressor operation. This piece of equipment operates on the principle that refrigerant migrates to the point of lowest temperature in a system.
Key Inputs
No additional configuration is necessary for the free cooling operation (besides selecting it under the free cooling section for the equipment).
- Hanson, Susanna. "Free Cooling Using Water Economizers." Engineers Newsletter. 2008.
- TRACE 700 User's Manual [Free Cooling excerpt - PDF]
Trane Celebrates 100 Years of Innovation
Trane employees have a lot to celebrate this year. Not only did Trane reach its milestone 100-year anniversary, but 2013 marks the anniversaries of the following industry-changing innovations as well:
- The 75th anniversary of the Trane Centrifugal chiller
- The 40th anniversary of Trane TRACE™ design-and-analysis software
- The 35th anniversary of Trane Tracer™ building controls
To learn about some of the technology highlights from the last 100 years of Trane, check out this Engineers Newsletter. For a quick look at the evolution of TRACE, read on …
TRACE Turns 40... A Brief Look Back
Trane Air Conditioning Economics (TRACE™) made its debut at the 22nd International Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Exposition in 1973. At that time, TRACE used a mainframe system (yep, punch cards!) to run load calculations and conduct energy analyses. The program evolved and by 1982, Trane officially created the Customer Direct Service (C.D.S.) department to support TRACE customers. In the 80s and 90s, TRACE made the leap to the PC—and then from DOS to Windows®—and incorporated even more energy saving options.
During that time, C.D.S. developed other software programs such as System Analyzer™, Trane Acoustics Program (TAP™), VariTrane™ Duct Designer, and Trane Pipe Designer to meet the growing needs of the industry.
Today, C.D.S. continues to grow as the focus on energy and cost savings becomes increasingly important. Our staff has nearly doubled in the last few years, giving us more manpower to provide world-class customer service, conduct training, and develop new features for our software. We're hard at work on the next version of TRACE ... stay tuned for exciting new features designed to make energy analysis faster and easier.
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New Courses Available for LEED® Credential Maintenance
New on-demand courses have recently been added to the Trane.com
Continuing Education offering, including courses that qualify for 1.5
LEED-specific continuing education (CE) hours from the U.S. Green
Building Council (USGBC). As part of USGBC's credential maintenance
program, LEED APs are required to earn 30 CE hours biennially, 6 of
which must be LEED-specific. View the course offerings at www.trane.com/continuingeducation.
Course Spotlight: ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2010
ASHRAE Standard 62.1, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality, is the basis for the International Mechanical Code (IMC), and is a prerequisite for the LEED® Green Building Rating System. This ENL provides an overview of the 2010 version of the standard, and then focuses on the calculations of zone and system ventilation airflows according to the standard's Ventilation Rate Procedure. Qualifies as 2 LEED-specific CE hours.
Get the Most Out of Your Software with C.D.S. Training
Did you know that Trane C.D.S. marketing engineers regularly conduct
training sessions at our La Crosse, Wis., headquarters? Training
sessions include:
DAY 1: System Analyzer™
DAY 2: TRACE 700 Load Design
DAY 3: TRACE 700 Energy & Economics
DAY 4: TRACE 700, LEED® & ASHRAE Standard 90.1
Attend one session or all four!
Can't make it to La Crosse? We'll come to you! Contact us for on-site training at your facility. We also provide training at Trane sales offices nationwide.
For course descriptions and training information, click here. We hope to see you soon!
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I model a base utility in TRACE 700?
In TRACE 700, base utilities are energy consumers that place no
cooling or heating load on a building's HVAC system. Common examples
of base utilities include domestic hot water systems, parking lot
lights, and process water or steam loads.
You typically create base utilities in TRACE to do one of two things:
1. Impose a load on cooling or heating equipment. For instance, a domestic hot water base utility might be assigned to a boiler.
2. Consume energy ("spin the meter") on its own. Parking lot lights fit this description: they're going to consume energy that the building will be charged for, but they can't be modeled as miscellaneous loads because they won't affect any space cooling or heating loads.
If an energy consumer is being added directly to a space, it should be modeled as a miscellaneous load that will impose cooling and heating demands on the space. This can be done using the Create Rooms > Internal Loads tab.
For more details and an example of how to model a base utility in the program, refer to this excerpt from the TRACE 700 User's Manual.
On the Energy Consumption report, why are the receptacle loads different between alternatives, even though "Use Alternative 1" is selected on both Create Templates and Create Rooms?
The difference in results is likely due to specification of heat
recovery in one of the alternatives. Parasitic power, which accounts
for the operation of energy recovery devices within TRACE, is reported
within the receptacle loads section of the Energy Consumption Summary
report. This power represents pump consumption for a coil loop, motor
consumption for a wheel, or a separate "regeneration" fan in
the case of an active desiccant system.
The parasitic energy value is entered in Create Systems > Options tab > Options button under Stage 1 or Stage 2 Air-to-Air Energy Recovery:
Meet the C.D.S. Support Staff
Haley joined C.D.S. in June 2012 after graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa. She was in the U.S. Army Reserve while in college and served two tours in Iraq. Haley is originally from northeast Iowa. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, being outdoors and training dogs with her husband.
What is your favorite piece of technology?
My iPhone. I love that I can do so much with one little device.
My favorite thing about working in C.D.S. is…
I learn something new nearly every day. Helping customers with a large variety of questions allows me to expand my knowledge while providing solutions. The environment in C.D.S. is very collaborative, which gives me the chance to learn from coworkers or help with a problem I am familiar with. It really helps to demonstrate that no matter how long you are in a field, there is always room for growth.
John Sustar joined C.D.S. as a marketing engineer in January 2012. Prior to joining C.D.S., John lived in Colorado while earning his master's degree in Building Systems Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder and working as an Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy researcher. He holds an undergraduate engineering degree from the University of St. Thomas. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outside with his family and flatpicking on guitar.
What is your favorite piece of technology?
I love listening to podcasts, especially while doing the dishes. My favorite podcasts include Freakonomics, This American Life, Radiolab, and By the Way, In Conversations with Jeff Garlin.
If you could invite any three people (living or dead) to a dinner party, who would it be and why?
- David Byrne - Makes incredible music and has no shame wearing oversized suits
- Steven Levitt - An economist who uses data to provoke honest conversation
- Zach Galifianakis - Sarcastic, subtle, and sensitive
Contributors: C.D.S. marketing engineers Kit Fransen, Haley Goslinga, and John Sustar.
C.D.S. Newsletter October 2013
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