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In general, requirements that still need to be addressed or completed are in red on the evaluation. Below is an explanation of the evaluation as you read from top to bottom.
'Program Evaluation Data'
This section provides your declared major, minor, and/or concentration as of the date the evaluation was run (noted in "Results as of:").
The evaluation will run without all required degree components declared. It is the student's responsibility to make sure required minors &/or concentrations are declared. Check the Northern Michigan University Undergraduate Bulletin (catalog) to see if your declared major requires a minor or concentration. All changes to your curriculum can be made online at www.nmu.edu/advising.
'Results as of:'
On the degree evaluation where your major (&/or minors/concentrations) are noted, there is an area which reads"Results as of:" The date given is the date the degree evaluation was run. The evaluation does not reflect changes made after this date, including changes to, or additions of majors, minors or concentrations.
'Required/Used Credits'
Total Credits 'REQUIRED' for a degree and the number of credits "USED," or applied, toward fulfilling requirements are in this section. Total Credits Required must be "MET" to graduate. Required number of institutional (NMU) credits, the last 20 of 30 credits, and program &/or overall GPA and NMU GPA are monitored manually and must be met to graduate.
Courses student has registered to take or which are currently in progress are applied to the evaluation and are designated a red 'Reg'' under the SOURCE column on far right side of evaluation. The number of credits "Used' includes registered credits and assumes you will complete them successfully. If registered courses are not successfully completed, requirements will change to "Not Met" on the next evaluation.
General Education and Graduation Requirements (Bachelor Degree Only)
General education and graduation requirements are broken into the following categories: General Education, Natural Science Lab, World Culture, and Upper Division. Each category will indicate 'Not Met' or 'Met' next to the title, as appropriate. Registered courses are applied toward meeting requirements, so an area can indicate 'MET' when successful completion of registered courses is still required.
Read evaluation from left to right. The "Yes" or "No" in the first column refers to whether or not the requirement has been met. Next is the course or other degree requirement, and then the course taken to fulfill that requirement. If the course is highlighted and there is a red 'Reg' in the column on the far right, that indicates that you are currently registered for, but have not yet completed, that course. Keep in mind, you must successfully complete the course for it to meet the given requirement.
Section Total Credits & GPA
At the end of each section, the total number of credits earned and in progress for that section will be listed. When a minimum number of credits are listed at the top of the section next to the title, the number of credits in the lower right corner must match or exceed the number at top to allow section to be 'Met'.
The GPA in the lower right corner of the area ONLY uses NMU grades, not transfer. If major or minor requires a minimum grade point average, transfer grades must be manually calculated into the GPA. To verify graduation at the end of the last semester, the Degree Evaluation staff will manually recalculate the GPA using transfer grade(s) to ensure GPA requirements are met. For assistance in calculating a valid GPA, talk with your adviser. A GPA calculator can be found at www.nmu.edu/advising.
Read All TEXT in 'Description' Field of Each Section
This is where important requirements are stated and information is written, such as minimum required grades or GPA's. Read all notes.
Need General Electives?
The last item on the evaluation is the General Electives area. As noted on the evaluation, the number of general electives varies for every student. General credits are those needed above and beyond specific degree requirements to get you to the total credits required to complete your degree. Talk with your adviser if you have questions on how to determine the number of general credits you need. Examine courses in General Electives. If a minimum grade for major/minor course is not met, the course will fall into electives. It will move from electives to the major/minor once course is repeated and the necessary grade is earned. These courses should not be included as General Electives.
IMPORTANT: Review courses in the General Electives area which may fulfill open requirements in liberal studies, major, minor, or 'other required' areas. If you believe a course listed as a General Elective should be applied to another area, send and e-mail to the Degree Evaluation staff at email@example.com and ask for that requirement to be reviewed.
Printing Online Degree Evaluation
To print the Degree Evaluation, right click and select print. When selecting a printer, opt for color if possible. If printed in black and white, we suggest you highlight areas on the printed copy which are red on the evaluation. It's more difficult to determine requirements printed on a black and white copy.
Questions regarding your program requirements should be addressed to your academic adviser. Feedback on how to improve the evaluation can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Oprah Winfrey earned the rare opportunity to convert her media charisma into a monogramed TV channel. Now she's the one tasked with rescuing OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, after a disappointing first year.
It's a high-stakes, potentially ego-shattering challenge that could make the strongest woman or man flinch. But win or lose, Winfrey says she relishes the fight to turn OWN's fortunes around.
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"Yes, some mistakes were made. Who hasn't made mistakes? The real beauty is you can say, 'I learned from that,'" Winfrey said. "I don't worry about failure. I worry about, 'Did I do all I could do?'"
The cable channel, which marks its first year Jan. 1, is trying for a fresh start after executive turnover and missteps that proved OWN lacked a solid foundation on which to build, this despite a Discovery Communications investment of a reported $250 million and counting.
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Viewers snubbed the lineup that skimped on programming and, surprisingly, what should have been OWN's unique weapon of choice: Winfrey herself, whose limited on-air presence will be boosted Sunday with a new weekly series, "Oprah's Next Chapter."
OWN has failed to improve on, or in some instances even match, the modest ratings and small audience earned by the low-profile Discovery Health channel it replaced.
"I would absolutely say it is and was not where I want it to be for year one," Winfrey said. "My focus up until (last) May was doing what I do best, which is 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' and giving that my full attention" until its conclusion.
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But Winfrey, who said management team errors in planning and execution could serve as a cautionary tale ("I was never interested in writing a book. … THIS could be a book"), rejects the idea that a single year's performance will determine OWN's ultimate fate. Or hers.
"Somebody was talking to me in that kind of saddened, 'How are you?' tone, and I was thinking, 'I'm fine,'" said Winfrey, 57, who ruled as the queen of daytime TV until she ended her talk show after 25 years and turned her attention to the channel.
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"I realized the reason people have this tone is they're reading all the press (about OWN), so you see me and wonder if I can still walk. … I am a determined and committed woman. I don't give up. I'm just getting started," she said in a recent interview.
One bonus of being Oprah: She has received pep talks from other media movers and shakers.
"Everybody has told me — Ted Turner has told me, Barry Diller has told me, Lorne Michaels has told me, David Geffen has told me — anybody who's ever worked with a channel, who's ever done anything, has said it takes three to five years," she said, adding, "You have to do the work. … You do not have to pay attention to the criticism."
Year two for OWN will reflect executive changes made last July, when Winfrey expanded her role at the channel by adding the roles of chief executive and chief creative officer to her position as chairman. Discovery Communications COO Peter Liguori had filled in as interim head after OWN CEO Christina Norman was dismissed in the wake of poor ratings.
Although the channel's ownership is split evenly between Discovery and Winfrey's Chicago-based production company, Harpo Inc., it is Discovery's money that's on the line.
With more scheduling consistency, movies, original series with and without Winfrey, and "a lot more Oprah in general," Discovery is "a lot more confident that we're heading in the right direction," said company spokesman David Leavy.
Sheri Salata and Erik Logan, two veteran Harpo executives, were brought on board to share the title of OWN president, with Logan moving from Chicago to OWN's Los Angeles headquarters.
Logan said he clearly understands the hard work in establishing any cable channel, and this one in particular.
"One of the greatest gifts and challenges is to have her name on the door," Logan said of his top boss. "Everything you do garners a high level of scrutiny and attention. … We don't run from that."
The initially slight programming lineup is being beefed up, most notably with "Oprah's Next Chapter." The weekly series debuts 9 p.m.-11 PM EST Sunday with Winfrey's visit to the New Hampshire home of Steven Tyler.
"Next Chapter" turns the once studio-bound Winfrey into a globe-trotting interviewer who drops into the home of a Hasidic Jewish family in New York, George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in California and cook Paula Deen's Georgia estate. There is also a trip with Sean Penn to Haiti, fire-walking with Tony Robbins and a planned India trip with Deepak Chopra.
The injection of Winfrey on-screen, not just in the executive suite, is sorely needed, suggested one industry analyst.
"The biggest mistake they made is, if it's the Oprah Winfrey Network, where's Oprah?" said Bill Carroll of media buying firm Katz Media.
He compared OWN's Winfrey vacuum to programming the Court TV channel without courtroom shows or the Major League Baseball channel without games: "After a while, viewers stop going," Carroll said.
OWN has averaged about 136,000 viewers a day, a drop of 8 percent from what Discovery Health drew in 2010, although it's up slightly in total viewers in prime time and has seen an 8 percent increase among women ages 25 to 54, part of the channel's hoped-for demographic.
Popular shows include "The Judds," which ran for six episodes in April and May; "Our America With Lisa Ling"; and the reality series "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's," which attracted a strong African-American audience (prompting media reports that OWN intended to skew toward black viewers, an assertion that Discovery and Winfrey deny. "It doesn't mean we're going to turn into the 'Roots' channel," Winfrey said, wryly.)
Winfrey also is on-air with "Oprah's Lifeclass," which draws on her talk-show archives, and "Oprah's Master Class," a series of high-achiever biography specials. But, she said, she never "was supposed to carry the channel on my back, and it never was supposed to be about me being on the air as much as possible." Instead, O magazine, with Winfrey as monthly cover girl and articles reflecting her better-life philosophy, is the intended model.
She attributes the channel's rough start to a more basic error: The lack of a "library" of programming for the many hours of airtime not filled by original shows, compounded by overconfidence about her market value in general.
"I don't understand what anybody was thinking. You're going on the air, you've got four shows. What do you think you're going to do by Tuesday? Did they think people were going to turn on the channel just because it had my name on it?" she said, sounding almost eager to cast doubt on her drawing power.
"People didn't turn on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' because my name was on it. It was absolutely topic driven every day," she said.
Such modest expressions aside, Winfrey's involvement clearly is key to the channel's success. She's glad to make the commitment, she said. As her longtime boyfriend Stedman Graham told her, she'd be bored silly today if she'd taken any lengthy break after ending her daytime show.
Discovery is also in it for "the long term," said spokesman Leavy, citing the three to five years that other cable channels have needed to develop audience-grabbing hits and firmly establish themselves.
He declined to specify what Discovery has spent so far on the venture, calling media estimates high. But he pointed to long-term advertising contracts with major companies including Procter&Gamble, and hopes of new carriage fees from cable providers that have been airing the channel for free.
Viewership that has been lower than expected, however, has meant "make goods" in ad time for sponsors.
Winfrey, who describes herself as obsessed by ratings for the first time in her career, said she's giving OWN "everything I've got. I've spent more energy doing this than anything I've ever done in my whole life."
With good reason. "I walked in today (to OWN's offices) and felt uplifted to see my name on the door, Oprah Winfrey Network," she said. "Just to … be able to sit in a room with a team of people presenting you with ideas — what a gift that is."
It has also made OWN her ultimate responsibility.
"Every third week, someone new was in charge, and now she's in charge. From where I sit, this is going to be her success or her failure," said analyst Carroll.
Winfrey claims to have an unlikely sounding Plan B if the channel falls short.
"If this doesn't work out, I'm going to go into organic farming in Maui. And I'm not kidding."
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Repeat after me: the idea isn't the hard part
Cailynn Klingbeil
It started out as a simple task: turn my great idea for an iPhone app into an iPhone app. I wanted to see what the process involved, with the ultimate goal of creating a tangible end-product. My editor agreed to this story, as he was interested to see what people who have good ideas that they want to turn into iPhone apps, but no programming knowledge, can do. Along the way, I was determined to prove co-workers wrong ("you can't invent an iPhone app in two weeks!"), and cross the longstanding item off of my to-do list.
If only it were that easy.Here's what happened:
Step one: Google 'How do I invent an iPhone app?'
I was immediately led to an article titled How To Create Your First iPhone Application, complete with a how-to guide of steps to turn an idea into an app. The first step is to determine if the idea is a good one, based on if the idea meets the site's "indicators of success." My idea meets four of the five indicators, so I confidently moved on to the next step, where I was slightly discouraged to learn that I only had one of the tools, a spiral bound notebook, on the tool checklist.
Step two: Return to Google.
I read "Young Brothers Invent Bestselling iPhone App " and quickly thought, if an 11-year-old and a nine-year-old can invent an iPhone app, I'm pretty sure I can too. I also read about Lim Ding Wen, a Singapore boy who released his first iPhone app at the age of nine. He originally created a finger-painting program, called Doodle Kids, for his two young sisters, but now anyone can download the program that allows users to draw images on the screen using their fingers. Again, I was buoyed by the thought that if a child can invent an iPhone app, then I can too.
Just to be certain, though, I checked with Lim Ding Wen's father, Lim Thye Chean. We corresponded by e-mail and he assured me that his son is "not a genius of any sort." Lim Ding Wen, who learned how to write games at the age of seven, just finished a program for the iPad and is currently working on a kart racing game. "Programming is just something fun for him," says his father, "People are usually fascinated by the ability of a nine-year-old to write an iPhone program, but in fact any kid can do it. They just need the proper mindset and environment."
Step three: With that in mind, it was time for some market research.
I'd been coy about my great idea for an iPhone app, staying tight-lipped around prodding co-workers for fear of my idea being stolen. I'd like to see what else exists in the same realm as my idea, so I start searching and quickly learn that I might not be the only one out there with this "great" idea.
Others, it seems, aren't so worried about their ideas being stolen – I read this piece on mobile garage-sale apps. The description is almost identical to my idea: "an app that finds garage sales near your current location, then maps them on your phone and gives you driving directions. (And of course it takes into account the hours of the sales.)" My app would include a few more features (which I'm still staying tight-lipped about), but that's the foundation, right there on the Internet for all to see. I'm not sure where to go from here, so I track down a software developer who gets paid to develop apps and schedule some time to talk.
Step four: "The idea isn't the hard part," says Brandon Tennant, a Vancouver-based software developer.
"Ideas are all over the place and there are good ideas and bad ideas, but that's really not the hard part. The hard part is the execution, it's how you go about testing the idea as a good idea and how you go about getting it into the hands of people, so that's the part where you actually build it – that's the hard part."
I was sort of hoping Tennant would help me invent my iPhone app on a very tight timeframe and nonexistent budget, or point me in the direction of who could help, but as he began to describe to me the process of creating an iPhone app, I realized there is no way this is going to happen. "It's a pretty big process," he says, laughing.
Step five: So what is that process of inventing an iPhone app?
First there's an initial interview-like process, where Tennant talks to the client who has the idea for an app and asks questions to determine what the purpose of their application is. "If what you're trying to accomplish, the stated goal, is not clear, the software that comes out the other end is equally unclear and usually not successful," he says.
Refining and elaborating on the initial idea is followed by an early design phase, "almost like engineers designing on a paper napkin." After drawing up the rough ideas of how the screens will connect to each other and how the user will navigate the information, the developer will typically return to the client and further refine the now-roughly-designed idea.
The application's overall aesthetic is considered, then it's time for user testing, with feedback resulting in even more revisions. A prototype can then be created, which doesn't handle error conditions but gives people an idea of what the product is generally like. Before the final product is complete another stage of acceptance follows and revision happens again. "It's a really extensive process," says Tennant, who estimates he has helped to write about 15 applications since beginning to write specifically for the iPhone in early 2008.
Step six: You mean I can't invent a successful iPhone app in two weeks?
After learning just how extensive, costly and time-consuming the process of turning an idea into an app really is, I remained curious to know if Tennant often encounters people who want his help. Yes, says Tennant, noting the typical reaction from anyone who finds out his day job is, "oh cool. I've got a great idea. Let's talk." He does have a few pieces of advice for those aspiring to turn their ideas into an app: "Becoming involved with it as best as you possibly can is the best way to do it," says Tennant. "It's almost impossible to have a successful product just by saying I have an idea and then leaving it at that."
Step seven: There has to be some other way.
Following my conversation with Tennant, I knew I could hypothetically work with him, or any other developer, to turn my idea into an application. I was also quite certain I didn't have the money required to produce the sort of products Tennant makes. "The budgets of the projects that I have been on have typically been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions," says Tennant. Surely there has to be something out there, though, for all the aspiring iPhone app developers just bursting with good ideas. I turn to Google, again, and discover MEDL Mobile's app incubator. "We've opened the playing field so that everyone can have a chance to bring their creativity to life and share in the profits," states the site, which lets users pitch ideas that, if chosen, will be designed, developed and marketed by MEDL, with the person who had the idea receiving 25 per cent on the profits.
Step eight: This sounds exactly like what I'm after.
Just to be certain, I got in touch with someone who knows MEDL much better than I do. While working as a trash collector in England, Robert Shoesmith submitted a few ideas to MEDL's app incubator. "I was collecting rubbish by day," says Shoesmith, "and a couple of weeks after submitting my ideas, MEDL came back to me and said they were very interested in one idea and they developed it." That idea turned intoProblem Halved, an app that allows people to post a problem that others can then solve – after all, a problem shared is a problem halved.
Shoesmith won't say how much money the app made him, due to investor confidentiality, but it is clear its impact has been life-changing. He now works fulltime for MEDL mobile as a marketing and PR executive and is currently in the midst of an experiment that involves camping out for the iPhone 5.
Shoesmith says that he had initially looked at other avenues to develop his ideas into apps, but financially wasn't in a position to invest such money. He used the app incubator and marketed his own app to great success. "I put off telling MEDL that I worked as a trash collector because I thought that they might stereotype me a little bit, but that wasn't the case at all," says Shoesmith. "When I told them I worked as a trash collector, I remember someone saying Hollywood couldn't script this better, as it made such a good human interest story." Shoesmith now works for MEDL marketing others' apps – "each app has an individual story behind it," he says.
Step nine: See what others are doing.
For those not willing to settle for 25 per cent of profits, inventing your iPhone app can be done on your own – it just requires a lot of background knowledge, or a willingness to teach yourself that knowledge as you go. A college journalist recently invented an iPad appcalled SoundNote and a farmer in Alberta recently developed his own iPhone app, though the headlines don't mention that the farmer is a former corporate software developer and the college journalist has played around with programming as a hobby. And be warned that your work isn't over once the app is developed – you still have to get people to buy it, as the inventors of a shopping app are learning. With over 300,000 apps in the Apple store, competition is tough.
So repeat after me: "the idea isn't the hard part."


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Feminist News
Afghan Student's 20 Year Sentence for Supporting Women's Rights Upheld by Supreme Court
Afghan student and journalist Parwez Kambakhsh's sentence of 20 years in prison for blasphemy after he circulated an article about women's rights under Islam was recently upheld by Afghanistan's Supreme Court. According to the Human Rights Watch, the court made the decision to uphold the sentence on February 11, 2009, but did not allow Kambakhsh's lawyer to defend his client and did not notify Kambakhsh or his lawyer of the decision.
Kambakhsh, 24, worked as a part-time newspaper journalist in Mazar-i-Sharif, had downloaded the article from the Internet, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Kambakhsh has said that he was tortured into giving a confession. He was originally sentenced to death for his "crime," but an Afghan appeals court reduced the penalty to jail time. Freedom-of-the-press advocates and human rights groups who have championed Kambakhsh's case remain appalled by the decision and will advocate for a pardon to be issued by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Media Resources: Feminist Daily Newswire 10/23/08; Los Angeles Times 10/22/08; Human Rights Watch 3/10/09


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Blood clots a risk after head, neck cancer surgery
Source: www.medpagetoday.com
Author: Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Clinically relevant blood clots are common in head and neck cancer patients following surgery, and routine chemoproprophylaxis is warranted in post-surgical patients hospitalized for more than 72 hours, a prospective study has found.
When the researchers followed 100 high-risk cancer patients for 30 days following surgery, they found that 13% developed venous thromboembolism (VTE), including seven who had deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and one with pulmonary embolism (PE).
A total of 14% of the patients received postoperative anticoagulation therapy, and their rate of bleeding complications was 30% compared with 5.6% in patients who did not receive the therapy (P=0.01), Daniel R. Clayburgh, MD, PhD, of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and colleagues wrote online Sept. 26 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
While the study was not powered to detect differences in risk factors among patients who did and did not develop VTEs, there was a trend in those with VTEs toward lower mean Karnofsky-Performance status scores (72 versus 79 in patients without them; P=0.09) and higher Caprini risk assessment scores (7.6 in VTE patients vs 6.9 in those who did not develop blood clots; P=0.09). These risk factors did not reach statistical significance.
The VTE incidence reported by Clayburgh and colleagues was higher than has been suggested in retrospective studies of the general otolaryngology population, with one recent study finding an overall VTE rate of just 1.3%.
The incidence is also higher than the OHSU research team's own 2012 retrospective analysis of VTE in high-risk surgical patients with head and neck cancer, which confirmed VTE in 1.4% of patients. Just under 6% of patients in the study had confirmed or suspected VTE.
Cancer patients are considered a high-risk group for developing post-surgical VTE, and many medical groups including the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Oncology recommend VTE prophylaxis in patients with cancer for at least a month post-surgery.
But because the VTE rate has been thought to be low in the otolaryngology population and because complications from anticoagulation therapy can be life-threatening, head and neck surgeons often ignore these guidelines, Clayburgh and colleagues noted.
"Compliance with VTE guidelines has historically been poor among otolaryngologists, presumably because patients are often able to ambulate soon after surgery, and the potential consequences of airway compromise from bleeding or hematoma are catastrophic," they wrote. "Furthermore, there is relatively little data supporting the use of routine postoperative anticoagulation in head and neck surgery patients."
The newly published study represents one of the first prospective examinations of the incidence of VTE in head and neck cancer surgery patients.
The 100 patients included in the study all had surgery to treat head and neck cancer at a tertiary care academic surgical center.
Between 2 and 3 days following surgery, clinical examinations and duplex ultrasonographic evaluations (US) were performed on all patients. Those with evidence of DVT or PE received anticoagulation therapy, while those with superficial VTE underwent repeat US on post-operative day four, five, or six.
Of the 13 patients that developed VTEs, nine had no clinically evident symptoms associated with the event. One experienced leg swelling, one had shortness of breath, one experienced arm swelling and discomfort and one had upper extremity swelling (4% overall rate of symptomatic VTE).
"The substantial number of asymptomatic VTEs found on routine postoperative duplex ultrasonography suggests that the incidence of VTE may have been underestimated in previous retrospective studies," the researchers wrote.
Neither patient age, BMI, Charlson comorbidity Index score, preoperative D-dimer, or time-to-ambulation were predictive of VTE occurrence, but five of 15 patients (33%) with Caprini scores greater than 8 developed VTE, compared to just 8 of 85 (9%) of patients with scores of 8 or lower (P=0.02).
Study limitations cited by the researchers included a potential confounding effect related to the use of VTE chemoprophylaxis in some patients. They noted that most of the patients who were treated with VTE chemoprophylaxis had been admitted to the ICU following surgery and were treated according to standardized ICU protocols.
"It could be argued that excluding these participants would exclude the sickest participants who are potentially at greatest risk for VTE," they wrote. "Thus, we elected to include all participants as an intention-to-treat analysis despite the potential confounding effects of the use of VTE chemoprophylaxis."
They added that the study population was highly selected to include only high-risk patients so the results can not be extrapolated to those with early-stage, limited head and neck cancer.
Despite these limitations, Clayburgh and colleagues concluded that post-surgical VTE appears to occur at a higher rate than has previously been reported in high-risk head and neck cancer patients.
"Our results support the use of routine VTE chemoprophylaxis in patients with head and neck cancer admitted for more than 72 hours after surgery," they wrote. "Importantly, these data establish a baseline VTE rate in high-risk head and neck cancer surgery patients that can serve as a benchmark for future prospective trials of VTE chemoprophylaxis and risk stratification."


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One of the biggest hustles of travelling that passengers' face when they arrive at international airports is the congestion they face at the immigration counters and baggage claim areas. Queues are endless and procedures are unfamiliar.
Mr. Mohammed Al Shikely, Oman Air Senior Manager Marketing said that in order to ensure that our Business Class travellers and Sindbad Gold Cardholders avoid such queues and procedures on arrival at Seeb International Airport, Oman Air has introduced the Ahlan Lounge facilities. With the introduction of this privilege, these special Oman Air passengers can now experience Omani hospitality at its finest as soon as they enter Muscat Seeb International Airport.
"Both Business Class passengers and Sindbad Gold Members may either collect their invitation for the lounge access from the airport check-in counter of their point of origin of any Muscat bound Oman Air flight or enjoy the facility simply by submitting their boarding card or Sindbad Gold card to the Ahlan lounge staff. Friendly staff of the lounge will welcome them into Seeb International Airport and while they are enjoying a refreshing drink in the comfort of the lounge, their passports and visa formalities will be taken care of. Thereafter these elite passengers will be escorted through the exclusive immigration counters designated only for the guests of Oman Air to the Baggage Claim area where their bags loaded on the trolley will be waiting for them to proceed through customs and enter the Sultanate of Oman." He added.
Al Shikely further said, "Speed, reliability and comfort are the three most valued key areas by business passengers and Oman Air has strived to cover these areas by offering this value benefit that will ensure the first point of contact into Seeb International Airport for our passengers will allow them to experience the true hospitality of our great nation".
"Presenting their Business Class travellers and Sindbad Gold members the best of on the ground and in the air service is Oman Air's passion. Dedicated Business Class counters, Departure lounge access, Priority baggage delivery, Extra baggage allowance are just some of the other privileges they relish every time they depart from any Oman Air destination." He concluded verifying that many members praised this new service as being far superior to the fast track facilities offered in other Airports.


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from Georgia Straight (Canada) / by Melora Koepke
Toronto—Although Marion Cotillard's most famous role required much preparation and an on-screen transformation into a renowned historical character, it turns out she also lights up Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone in a part that's all her own.
Cotillard, daughter of an acting family from suburban Paris, vaulted to A-list celebrity status when she won an Oscar for her incarnation of Edith Piaf in Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose, which required months of preparation. For that role, she had to virtually disappear into the visage and mannerisms of France's most famous chanteuse, whose physicality was well known to millions.
Since achieving international screen stardom, she has made several American movies—including two, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises, with Christopher Nolan, as well as Midnight in Paris with Woody Allen—and a few French ones, including the upcoming Blood Ties with her husband, writer-director Guillaume Canet.
But she says she has never approached a role—one that she had to invent within herself, and somewhat on the fly—as instinctually as that of Stephanie in Rust and Bone. The film was a festival favourite in Cannes and Toronto and will play next week as part of VIFF's Spotlight on France, along with films by Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Assayas, and Raymond Depardon, as well as documentaries about a famous French restaurant and Serge Gainsbourg.
Audiard (A Prophet, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) is one of France's most acclaimed auteurs, yet Cotillard, busy Hollywoodienne and the mother of a young son, had to juggle and squeeze in order to fit the film into her schedule. Though she did, in the end, make the time to shoot it—she cites the chance to work with Audiard as an unmissable opportunity—she had little rehearsal and prep time. Yet as the female half of Audiard's most uncommon love story, she delivers perhaps the most visceral performance of her career.
"I usually love the [time spent] preparing a movie, but I didn't have much time to prepare this. Really, I wasn't even supposed to do this movie," Cotillard told the Georgia Straight at the Toronto International Film Festival recently. "The process of going to encounter a new person, to try to understand this person, is very important to me. I didn't have as much time as I usually take, and at the same time, Stephanie was the most mysterious character I had ever read."
Stephanie is a heroine in more than just the usual ways. She's a marine biologist who trains orcas at Marineland on the Côte D'Azur. There, she meets rough, desperate Ali (rising star Matthias Schoenaerts), a single father and bare-knuckle fighter, when she is out alone at a nightclub where he's working the door. After a dustup in the club, he drives her home to her unappreciative boyfriend. After an unlikely and terrible accident in the whale pool from which Stephanie wakes up a double amputee, she calls Ali. He becomes the only person who doesn't treat her as an invalid.
Like Audiard's A Prophet, considered one of the most remarkable films to come out of French cinema in years, Rust and Bone is shot with brutal artistry. It's hardly a feel-good romance, though the characters do achieve a raw, hard-won optimism through their connection with each other. Although the director's focus is on his fierce respect for the story's characters, there's also harsh commentary about the brutal inequalities in modern European society. Rust and Bone is something that Cotillard thinks French cinema "needs more of".
She says that to play Stephanie, she was forced to look inside herself, and it wasn't an easy process.
"Usually, when I read a part and I want to do it, immediately there's a connection and I know who this [character] is," she says. "With [Stephanie], at the end of reading the script, I had no idea who she was. And I had to tell Jacques, even though I was a little scared… but I was surprised, because then he told me: 'Neither do I; we will have to go on the road and find her!' So for this movie, we had less time to do the work and more work to do along the way. But it was kind of exciting, because it was something I had never experienced before."
It seems that in France, as in Hollywood, good roles for women in their 30s are hard to come by. Audiard created some signature high-stakes scenarios, including representations of sex and violence, for Stephanie and Ali—and these presented alluring challenges for Cotillard.
"It's rare to find a very good story and a very good role, there's no question," Cotillard says. "When I read something and I become obsessed right away, I need to do the film. First, I met Jacques, and then I totally fell in love with the story and the character. I was so moved. It got right into my blood… Ali sees Stephanie as a human being, when before she was an empty shell. He doesn't look at her right away as a woman—she has to teach him that!—but she feels alive because he thinks she is."
Cotillard, meanwhile, is always caught up in a kind of love story, the kind that occurs between actors and the people who help them bring their best to the screen.
"The first person I work for is the director; if I have no director on-set, I would be so bad," she says. "I love having different experiences inside French cinema or American cinema. [The blockbusters] are a lot of fun: it's huge and crazy and I have had the chance to work on very big movies with a very special director, Chris Nolan, who has the spirit of an independent. I think it might be different to work on a real 'studio movie'. I was offered these kinds of movies several times, but I will never regret not being in these movies because, first of all, I don't like them; I have seen several of the movies I turned down, afterwards, and I was, like, yeah, it's obvious I could not fit in there because there was no director."


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I've been doing some analysis of the two versions lately. There's a problem with the 'full' version of Spellbound Dizzy on the C64 other than the slow screen redraw. If you do anything that requires Dizzy's sprite to face right (walk or jump in that direction), if you pay close attention you'll notice the game runs slow (relatively speaking...) I've actually tested a fix for this that worked, but still need to figure out the best place in memory for it so I can't release it yet. I'd also like to see if I can do anything about the slow screen redraw first. Anyway, here's a copy-paste from the Lemon 64 forum of me explaining some major technical differences about the two games, and some other observations:
"I've discovered some more information about these different versions.
First of all, a lot of websites that host the 'lite' and 'full' versions of the game have it around the wrong way. Smile
An interesting bug in the 'lite' version is one of the screens above ground containing a few clouds is effectively all cloud as far as the game engine is concerned - you can jump repeatedly through the sky. There's so many clouds on this screen though that usually you can't tell if you're standing on the lower most extents of one cloud, or the upper most of the other.
The biggest difference between the two games (apart from the fact they are effectively two different games!) is the way Dizzy is displayed. I noticed that actually, the 'lite' version doesn't have the slowdown that I observed in the full version when Dizzy faces right. The reason for this becomes apparent when you look at the sprites in memory.
In the 'full' version, you can see some of Dizzy's sprites (probably the forward facing ones) kicking around in $C000-FFFF, the active VIC2 bank. All the walking sprites are held near the bottom of memory, and are copied to 2 sprites near the start of the bank as required. I think even the sprites that are already held and accessible in the bank are copied to this 'mutable' sprite pair, rather than referenced via sprite pointer. As I've said, this is particularly slow when the sprites need flipped because the routine is poorly optimised.
In the 'lite' version, not only are all the sprites held in memory uncompressed facing both directions, but 3 hi-res sprites - that's right, 3 - are used to show Dizzy. The graphics don't take advantage of the type of detail 3 hi-res sprites can provide versus a hi-res overlay on a multi-colour sprite, so clearly the developer just wasn't aware of the technique. Needless to say, a large amount of memory is taken up by Dizzy's sprites.
Something else interesting in the 'lite' version is what one of the scrolls says. Pretty much every scroll in the game is advertising another Codemasters game, which is pretty cheeky in itself, considering the game has been drastically shortened for memory considerations. One though announces something along the lines of "Lemmings is out for the Archimedes! It's not a Codemasters game but it is the reason Dizzy V didn't come out in <some month>". I don't know what to make of that - it depends on what the truth behind the game's stunted development is. I can envisage two possible scenarios:
1 - The 'lite' game was the original attempt that fell behind and/or made naive decisions regarding memory usage. The Lemmings message was itself a naive joke that reveals something about the work attitude of the developer. The 'full' version of the game was either the same developer or a different developer's attempt at reworking the 'lite' project into something resembling the game released on the Spectrum and Amstrad, but by this point very little time was available.
2 - The 'full' version was the original attempt, but development fell behind/wasn't of a high enough standard, and the 'lite' version was a quick and temporary replacement to be released with the DEA compilation. The Lemmings message was a jibe towards the 'full' version's coder/team, who perhaps spent too long playing Lemmings while the C64 port of the game floundered?
I've no real basis for those two theories apart from what I've seen inside the two versions. I work in game dev myself and I know conditions and deadlines can sometimes be unworkable, and I'd always assumed that was the case here. It's just that Lemmings message that made me wonder..."
Now regarding my two theories - the RFW quote above shows I was somewhere close to the truth with both theories, but not quite right. I did mean to say that I wasn't sure whether the same programmer was involved in both the lite and full versions. On retrospect I think I was a bit harsh about some of the things I said regarding work attitude, but I was mainly trying to think about it from a C64 owner's point of view back in the day. There were no software patches, so people who bought the Dizzy's Excellent Adventures collection would have been stuck with the buggy Lite version. And presumably the Full version was released with very little polish too, as a result of the game effectively already being released. So with that in mind, the Lemmings joke seemed a bit cheeky to me - but who knows whether the developers actually did spend too long playing Lemmings (or generally procrastinating), or simply worked hard in difficult circumstances, and never saw any harm in that little joke? The 'lite' version should maybe be re-nicknamed the 'joke' version, as that's kind of what it is.
Having said all that, in my view the full version of Spellbound Dizzy is probably the worst of the adventure games bar Crystal Kingdom, simply because trades scale for detail and has too many frustrating chores for the player (i.e. the boulders) to really be enjoyable. So as others have said, there are some upsides to the 'joke' version
What's the deal with the "Lite" C64 version?
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really interesting and detailed analysis, joe. makes a lot of sense.
I'd guess the majority of c64 dizzy users (myself inculded), only ever saw the lite version as we had it on the compilation.
I'd guess the majority of c64 dizzy users (myself inculded), only ever saw the lite version as we had it on the compilation.
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Re: What's the deal with the "Lite" C64 version?
Master, I purchased the full game when I released that the individual release wasn't the boxset version, which ironically should have had the exclusive to this set sticker as oppose to PotY.
I can't recall now if the compilation had four games on one cassette and one on one or if it was three tapes with two of the tapes having one game a side,
I can't recall now if the compilation had four games on one cassette and one on one or if it was three tapes with two of the tapes having one game a side,
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Mark Buehrle, The Florida Marlins' splashy new pitcher had his pit bull on his mind while he was house hunting in Miami.
Buehrle, who signed a four-year, $58 million contract last month, bought a house in Broward county instead of Miami-Dade—where the dogs have been banned since 1989—so he would not have to part with his beloved pit bull, an 18-month-old American Staffordshire Terrier he adopted in Chicago. By living in Broward, Buehrle and his wife Jamie get to keep Slater in the family.
The Buehrles are animal advocates, and Mark Buehrle supports efforts to overturn breed-specific bans, like the one Miami-Dade has against pit bulls.
"They can do certainly a lot of damage, lot of jaw pressure, lots of muscles in those jaws – but most of the time they are provoked to do that," Sharron Carmichael of the Humane Society of Broward County said. "Having responsible ownership of the dog is what needs to be done."
Advocates such as Carmichael say the culture of pit bull ownership must change.
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Statistics indicate what can happen when pit bulls are provoked: according to dogsbite.org, dogs killed 31 people in the U.S. in 2011, and 22 of those cases involved pit bulls.
Carmichael said "an unneutered male pit bull can be a loaded weapon," which is why her group insists on them being neutered and spayed.
The Miami-Dade ban, both groups said, means that at any given time they each might have about a half-dozen pit bulls available to adopt in Broward County, because so many come in from Miami-Dade.
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Berkeleyans Receive Awards from Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter (SPJ NorCal), has announced that it will honor "champions of open government and the First Amendment" at its 28th annual James Madison Awards banquet, to be held in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 12.
Two awards will go to Berkeley residents.
The "Citizen" award will go to Dean Metzger for leading the fight to enact the Berkeley Sunshine Ordinance.
The "Organization" award will go to Berkeley Copwatch, for "effective use of public records to block a Homeland Security grant for putting an armored military vehicle on the streets of Albany and Berkeley."
In its citation of Metzger, the SPJ said:
"Dean Metzger deserves a good deal of the credit for the fact that Berkeley has a Sunshine Ordinance. The longtime civic activist helped lead a tooth-and-nail fight for more than 10 years to increase City Hall's transparency and accountability.
"Berkeley voters last November rejected a ballot initiative (Measure U) that would have given the ordinance real teeth. But it was the success of Metzger and his fellow activists in getting the measure on the ballot that prompted Berkeley officials to enact the ordinance in February 2011. The ordinance included the creation of an advisory Sunshine Committee, which Metzger chairs."
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In a pleasant surprise (or eighth sign of the apocalypse), Shilling, known best for his bearish take on markets and economies, has a few sectors he actually likes. And one, detailed in his latest book, "The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation," is raising some eyebrows—the investment advice and financial planning sector.
"People are deciding that they need help and that 'do-it-yourself' hasn't really worked," Shilling (left) told AdvisorOne on Monday. "It might have been true in the 1980s and 1990s, when corporations were restructuring, profits were growing exponentially and there was a huge P/E expansion, but that's no longer the case, and really hasn't been since 2000."
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As to specific areas of the financial services sector in which clients should invest (wirehouses, large broker-dealers like LPL, etc.) Shilling said advisors and clients should tread carefully and, as always, do their homework.
"If you look at domestic equity mutual funds, you've seen massive outflows since 2008," he explained. "Any sector with that kind of exposure and experiencing those kinds of issues are to be avoided."
As to the bearish label he's attracted, Shilling didn't buy it.
"I'm not a bull and I'm not a bear, I'm a realist," he concluded with umbrage. "If anyone takes the time to read my latest book [The Age of Deleveraging], they'll see we have sectors that we like and sectors that we don't like. We take a look at the current market and simple say, 'Where can we make money?'"


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Their debut album, Pretenders, was released in early 1980 and eventually climbed to number one in the U.K. The band was nearly as successful in America, with the album reaching the Top Ten and "Brass in Pocket" reaching number 14. During an American tour in 1980, Hynde met Ray Davies and the two fell in love. Following a spring 1981 EP, Extended Play, the group released their second album, Pretenders II. Although it fared well on the charts, it repeated the musical ideas of their debut. In June of 1982, Pete Farndon was kicked out of the band due to his drug abuse. A mere two days later, on June 16, James Honeyman-Scott was found dead of an overdose of heroin and cocaine. Pregnant with Davies' child, Hynde went into seclusion following Honeyman-Scott's death. In 1983, two months after Hynde gave birth, Farndon also died of a drug overdose. Hynde regrouped the Pretenders in February 1983, adding former Manfred Mann's Earth Band guitarist Robbie McIntosh and bassist Malcolm Foster; the reconstituted band released "2000 Miles" in time for Christmas. The new Pretenders released Learning to Crawl early in 1984 to positive reviews and commercial success. Ending her romance with Ray Davies, Hynde married Jim Kerr, the lead vocalist of Simple Minds, in May of 1984. Apart from a performance at Live Aid, the only musical activity from the Pretenders in 1985 was Hynde's appearance on UB40's version of "I Got You Babe." Hynde assembled another version of the Pretenders for 1986's Get Close. Only she and McIntosh remained from Learning to Crawl; the rest of the album was recorded with session musicians. Get Close showed the Pretenders moving closer to MOR territory, with the bouncy single "Don't Get Me Wrong" making its way into the American Top Ten in 1987. Hynde recorded another duet with UB40 in 1988, a cover of Dusty Springfield's "Breakfast in Bed." Hynde's marriage to Kerr fell apart in 1990, the same year the Pretenders released Packed!, which failed to ignite the charts in either America or Britain. She was relatively quiet for the next few years, re-emerging in 1994 with Last of the Independents, which was hailed as a comeback by some quarters of the press. The album did return the Pretenders to the Top 40, with the ballad "I'll Stand by You." In the fall of 1995, the Pretenders released the live album Isle of View, then remained silent for a few years. Hynde finally returned in 1999 with an album of new material, Viva el Amor. Three years later, the Pretenders left their longtime label for Artemis. The reggae-tinged Loose Screw appeared in November and a tour followed in January 2003. In March 2006, the Pretenders released their first-ever box set, Pirate Radio, via Rhino. 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Title: No Grater Danger
Series: Vintage Kitchen Mysteries #7
Author: Victoria Hamilton
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This is an ode to all the men and women who go from no children to an instant family!
So when I came on the scene it was an adjustment for her. We've had a few challenges along the way. She has achondroplasia dwarfism, a genetic disorder that makes her, as she says, a little little person. She has health issues, and will have more along the way. She has experienced bullying in her life. But she's stubborn at times, and way too smart, but I'm stubborn too, and patient, and I love her. We're going to be okay.
Jakob has been wonderful through it all, and unfailingly supportive. I lucked out, my girlfriends say, but I say, I chose well. And so did he! LOL.
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Vintage cookware enthusiast Jaymie Leighton is thrilled at the prospect of meeting an elderly descendant of her town's founding father, not least because she's known to possess an enviably large collection of antique spice graters. But the curmudgeonly woman also has substantial real estate holdings, and at the moment she's engaged in a fierce battle with a property developer who wants her to sell off her old buildings in the name of progress. When Jaymie goes to visit the woman and discovers that there's been an attempt on her life, she polishes up her sleuthing skills to find out who was behind the foul deed.
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C++11 Hash Containers and Debug Mode
Microsoft has never been a slacker in the C++ department — it has always worked hard to provide a top-notch, compliant product. Visual Studio 10 supports its current incarnation, and for the most part it is up to Microsoft's usual standards. It's a great development environment, and I am a dedicated user, but I have to give Microsoft a demerit in one area: Its C++11 hash containers have some serious performance problems — so much that the debug versions of the containers may well be unusable in your application.
I first noticed the problem with
unordered_map when I was working on the code for my updated LZW article. I found that when running in the debugger, my program would hang after exiting the compression routine. A little debugging showed that the destructor for my hash table was taking a long time to run. And by a long time, I mean it was approaching an hour.
Destroying a hash table didn't seem to be a complicated task, so I decided to see if I could come up with a reasonable benchmark. I wrote a test program that does a simple word frequency count. As a starter data set, I used the first one million whitespace-delimited words in the 2010 CIA factbook, as published by Project Gutenberg. This data set yields 74,208 unique tokens.
I wrote a simple test rig that I used to test the word count program using four different containers:
unordered_map indexed by
unordered_map indexed by
std::string *
map indexed by
map indexed by
std::string *
Testing with
std::string * reduces the cost of copying strings into the hash table as it was filled, and then reduces the cost of destroying those strings when the table was destroyed.
I ran tests against
map, expecting to see a pretty big difference in performance. Because
map is normally implemented using a balanced binary tree structure, it has O(log(N)) performance on insertions. A sparsely populated hash table can have O(1) performance. By using fairly large data sets, I expected to see a big difference between the two.
I tried to eliminate a few obvious sources for error in my test function — and I used a template function so that I could use the same code on all the different container types:
template<class CONTAINER, class DATA> void test( const DATA &data, const char *test_name ) { std::cout << "Testing container: " << test_name << std::endl; #ifdef _DEBUG const int passes = 2; #else const int passes = 10; #endif double fill_times = 0; double delete_times = 0; size_t entries; for ( int i = 0 ; i < passes ; i++ ) { CONTAINER *container = new CONTAINER(); std::cout << "Filling... " << std::flush; clock_t t0 = clock(); for ( auto ii = data.begin() ; ii != data.end() ; ii++ ) (*container)[*ii]++; double span = double(clock() - t0)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC; fill_times += span; entries = container->size(); std::cout << " " << span << " Deleting... " << std::flush; t0 = clock(); delete container; span = double(clock() - t0)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC; delete_times += span; std::cout << span << " " << std::endl; } std::cout << "Entries: " << entries << ", Fill time: " << (fill_times/passes) << ", Delete time: " << (delete_times/passes) << std::endl; }
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The Digital Cuttlefish wants his logo for his car; EvolveFish responded and said they'd do it.
You know, Digital Cuttlefish is protecting his own anonymity, so for this to work we all must buy that sticker and put it on all of our cars. I'm up for it. Besides, it looks good!


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I'm so glad that God still performs miracles! He does them every day and thankfully I try to be aware of them. I know I miss some along the way by being busy and distracted. However, some are just too HUGE to miss. Yesterday I received one of those – BIG, really very BIG!
I've shared on my blog that I am adopted. I spent ages 3-8 in the orphanage and was adopted by a lovely family. I don't even think about being adopted anymore really – they are simply my family. I spent most of my life turning my back on my painful past and keeping my eyes on my good fortune and the love this family showered me with. I was saved and I have no idea how or why. God plucked me from a hellish situation and gave me another path to walk. Leaving the past behind me worked for me as I got to create myself anew.
However, as I'm dancing in my middle age I have been gradually collecting blessings as I reconcile my past and my present. I realized along the way that there is enough love in me to keep my family and to reconnect with those in my birth family as well. And last night I reconnected a little bit more.
It was a quiet evening – just me and my puppies sitting by my fire trying to figure out what to watch on TV. One of my regained sisters, Lynnette, called me out of the blue. I'm thankful to have reconnected with her but we don't get a chance to talk much (not nearly enough). She said "get in your car and come now". She went on to tell me that my "baby brother" who lives in Texas and drives a big rig was about 90 minutes away from her house and was stopping on his way through. Wow! Now that was not a call I was expecting to get. So into my car I got and I drove the 50 minutes to her house. It was a multiple event as this was my first time meeting her lovely children and wonderful husband. That was momentous enough.
Then we hopped in her car and drove to the rest stop an exit away where he was to meet her. Of course she didn't tell him I was coming but it was a wonderful surprise! I cannot describe in words what it feels like to look into the eyes of someone you've not seen for 43 years since he was a babe in arms. I cannot articulate the blessing and the healing that happens in that miraculous moment. Even with my command of words and love of using them … I cannot describe it.
I am bone tired but happy for the conversation into the wee hours of the night. I am blessed to know that the pains of childhood really can be released in adulthood. I am so awed that in the midst of craziness and hardship, this man turned out to be a warm, genuine, sweet man. The miracles just don't stop happening when you are hanging out here in paradise.
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An 18-year-old man was arrested Friday just before he traveled to the Middle East to join an al-Qaida terrorist group, according to federal officials.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi was held without bail Saturday after he was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, a felony offense that could result in up to 15 years in prison.
The arrest was not connected to the Boston Marathon bombing, officials said.
Investigations of Tounisi began as he was reportedly connected to Adel Daoud, a 19-year-old man charged with the attempted bombing of a downtown Chicago bar last year, officials said.
Though Tounisi admitted he discussed attack techniques and targets prior to the attempted bombing, he was not involved in the act itself, according to federal officials.
Tounisi allegedly recommended certain attack techniques, offered ideas about targeting and researched the locations online to analyze their feasibility, but pulled out of the attack in mid-August after suspecting law enforcement was involved, according to a federal complaint.
Tounisi later made contact with a person he believed was a recruiter for Jabhat al-Nusrah, a jihadist militant group operating in Syria and claims to be connected to nearly 600 terrorist attacks in Syria. The group is reportedly connected to al-Qaida.
But the recruiter was actually an undercover federal employee, officials said.
Tounisi reportedly expressed a "willingness to die" for the cause and planned to travel to Syria through Turkey, the complaint said.
On April 10, he bought an airplane ticket to Istanbul, Turkey with intentions of later traveling into Syria and was arrested at O'Hare Airport Friday evening.
Tounisi's father, Ahmad Tounisi said federal investigators seized a computer, a Nook and two Xbox systems from their home Friday night.
"I feel that my son is innocent," he said. "His perfect world is a world that doesn't have any rape, that doesn't have any oppressors, that doesn't have any injustice."
He said his son was studying radiology at the College of DuPage and claimed to know nothing of his plans to join the terrorist group.
Ahmad Tounisi said he thought his son was going to a mosque for three days and that he didn't have money to buy a plane ticket to Turkey.
Tounisi is expected to appear in court Tuesday.


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A combined temperature and humidity probe that has a very small footprint, is protected from excess moisture, and has a long (10ft+) cable from the probe itself to the controller
- Controller displayed readings of temperature and humidity based on probe number
- Computer displayed readings of temperature and humidity based on probe number as well as the ability to log the data and make calculations from it (e.x. 24 hour high and low temp/RH, daily averages, weekly averages, etc)
- The ability to turn on and off a device (e.x. a fan) based on probe readings
The only comparable system out there is the HerpKeeper (from digitalaquatics )which is way overcomplicated and expensive in my opinion.
and have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on their frogs.
One Arduino can sample 4 sensors - once per 10 seconds or so - ; add an ethernet to post all the sensor data to a PHP page on a PC which stores it in a MySQL database or a logfile per sensor per day or so.. You can use this data to make nice graphs
My questions were more for getting you to think about the requirements, than to criticize anything. Writing a good requirements document is critical to successfully developing a project.
As Rob's price list and wiring comments shows.....really doesn't need to be an Arduino at each tank.
So... one Arduino UNO can monitor 4 of the SHT15's and transmit the data wirelessly (thanks PaulS) via an XBee (of some sort) to a computer?
Will the computer end of the transmission require another Arduino UNO, power supply (not through USB?), and XBee device(s)?
Is there a way for a solid state relay to operate something with higher voltage
All I need are an SHT15, XBee, power supply, and sensor wiring/casing at the tank, and with appropriate receiving equiptment (?? another XBee?) at the computer?
Anyone want to make one for me?
o... one Arduino UNO can monitor 4 of the SHT15's


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Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory knew they were going to get a huge spike in online traffic when the Mars Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet Aug. 5. They decided the best way to keep the images and videos streaming from the event was to take up residence in the cloud.
NASA wanted to make sure that the experience of Curiosity's landing could be shared with people across the globe by providing up-to minute details of the mission, especially during the final seven minutes it took the rover to descend through Mars' atmosphere and land on the planet.
As a result, the availability, scalability and performance of the mars.jpl.nasa.gov website was crucial during the landing event.
Mars rover Curiosity will phone home on NASA's interplanetary Internet
NASA launched Curiosity on Nov. 26, 2011, beginning an 8-month journey to Mars. Due to the size of the rover, landing was a huge challenge. JPL engineers had to design an innovated entry and landing technique that involved a sky crane maneuver that would gently lower Curiosity to the surface.
As people all over the world visited NASA/JPL sites, JPL served its content from Amazon Web Services regions located around the world to meet the global demand, according to Khawaja Shams, manager of data services for tactical operations at NASA JPL.
The architecture behind the scenes that makes the video streaming possible is quite interesting, Shams said. "We have stacks that we have created that allow us to port a variable amount of bandwidth to our consumers," he said. As traffic to the site increased, JPL just added more stacks behind its load balancers.
The public is interested in NASA stories during major events, but that interest fades away as time goes on. Since NASA is not in the business of streaming these types of events every day, it makes more sense for the agency to procure the equipment and service the information for a few days, Shams said.
Similarly, the rovers are operating in a very "bursty" fashion, he said. Images from the rover are downloaded once or twice a day. "So cloud computing allows us to provide a bunch of machines in the cloud, process the images, shut them down and stop paying for it," Shams said.
JPL only had a few weeks to design, build, test and deploy the infrastructure. The underlying architecture was co-developed and reviewed across NASA/JPL and Amazon Web Services, Amazon officials said.
A variety of services on AWS were used including Adobe Flash Media Server, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running the nginx caching tier, elastic load balancing, Amazon Route 53 for DNS management and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery.
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In the video, the unidentified boy, wearing only a diaper, was cursed at and encouraged to curse. After the video went viral, the Omaha police union was blasted for posting it on its website, and the child was removed from his home. (Read more about it here.) The police union said it posted the disturbing footage to stimulate discussion about problems in the community.
On Friday, the mother of the boy told Omaha's KETV that she's a good mom and her child is not at risk. She also denied she had anything to do with recording her son cursing. Ennisha Devers, 16, tells the station:
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Meanwhile, reports say the family has had problems in the past. According to Omaha.com, the little boy was wounded three months ago in a shooting at his home. He was hit by shrapnel.
In addition, the child's grandmother was arrested on a weapons charge in December, KETV says.
Devers, the boy and and two other minors were placed in protective custody, according to reports.


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