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I have taken the liberty of making a crop from the largest size of Stefan's posted image. It is frightening how sharp this is . As Stefan says, if this is a cellphone, and a P25 is a MFdb, then the phone beats the db.
I looked at that phone. Have a friend in Paris that shot it for a fashion spread. With enough retouching it looked ok.Not to knock anybody, but it's shitty phone, out of date operating system, shitty camera and for the effort of having to carry something so strange and lumpy you can buy a small Sony camera, a good I phone and actually have two workable devices.I know, I know we always have a phone on us, not always a camera and I'm not a photojournalist, don't shoot hardly any street photographs, but if I'm serious about making a photograph I'll take a camera, if I'm serious about using a smart phone for e-mail, text, web, phone and data bases I'll either use an Iphone or a Samsung.Now someday we may have a phone that shoots movies like an Arriflex, stills like a IQ 180, but until then I'd carry two lumps in my pockets. (yes I know the lump thing will open up a lot of replies).IMOBC
I looked at that phone. Have a friend in Paris that shot it for a fashion spread. With enough retouching it looked ok.BC
Reminds me of what people used to say about 35mm. Edmund
Done some more N808 stuff the last days in London.It is fun. For me that´s enough. A freedom of not having to think "now I will do something serious" and carry equipment.
Done some more N808 stuff the last days in London.http://www.flickr.com/photos/hartblei/8441098271/sizes/o/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/hartblei/8441888414/sizes/o/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/hartblei/8442029374/sizes/o/in/photostream/It is fun. For me that´s enough. A freedom of not having to think "now I will do something serious" and carry equipment.RegardsStefan
Cell phones are becoming quite amazing, but the main problem I have with them from a photography point of view is the lack of dynamic range.No pixel peeping needed to see the drawback of low dynamic range.... all you need is a white and a black dog in California sunshine
Well said. Fun is something that is all too often forgotten when people start pixel peeping.[My bolding]
Stefan's photographs are pretty. Only he knows if a different camera would have changed anything and really, it's only up to him to judge.My point is until a cell phone reaches the use of something like a RX100 I don't see the point, other than a lot of people just won't carry a camera.We're all different, but I've never taken a cell phone image in my life where I didn't wish I had a better camera in my hands.IMOBC
BC -the frightening part is that even if you compare the Nokia to a D800 it can hold up pretty well.
Stefan,I get it, but don't get it in a way.I don't do walk around photography, but see some nice things sometimes. Yesterday was shooting some background plates of the sky and sun going down with my Leica M8 and the 24mm I rarely take off.I turned around to leave and saw the most beautiful view of downtown. I tried to make it work but with the 24 (or 35mm if you factor in the crop), it just didn't work, not close.Had I owned that little Sony I could have shot something pretty, though don't know what I would have done with it.Anyway, I'm not an apple fanatic but I have about a trillion of their devices and I'm kind of stuck in their system, so any other phone would just be a camera to me, not a phone so I might as well carry a small camera.IMOBC

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Living in Toronto and breathing in the tech scene is like watching a Tipping Point example play out in real life.
What makes him special? Here's what I think might be the key:Passion. David's an intense kind of person. Just ask him about Innovation Commons, for example, and he'll speak of it with complete conviction. Drive. His passion is backed by the determination to make things happen.
He's a true evangelist, and what an evangelist he is.
What can I do to learn from his example, and how can I step into this whirlwind?
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You've really got to get a comment system working on your blog :)
There are a lot of new interesting devices that are better and less locked down than the Blackberry. I'm writing this email from one right now, a Nokia E61. It has wifi and can make SIP calls in addition to regular phone calls! Also, it runs Python. It's expensive, but only about the same as a new new Blackberry.
I've just yesterday started a backpack page about my working with it, at http://johnsu01.backpackit.com/pub/613005.
Nokia also appears to be heading rapidly down the FLOSS path, and I _know_ you'll be wanting to hack your device. :)
Well, if someone wants to hack together Planner + a nice non-spammy comment system, I'd love to test it. I used to use blogKomm, but I needed to modify it at some point and the code was in German. Not quite fu.
Ooooh, wifi is good.
I've been doing okay with my laptop so far. It's actually more portable than I thought. Might try the Vaio for even more fun and profit. =) And yes, I'd rather have a hackable device than something that Just Works for everyone but me... ;)
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After reading my post about being a girl, one of my closest friends wrote:
I never thought you ever got such thoughts:And when the shadows in my head whisper that I'm not as good as the others, not as geeky as the others, I drown them in Emacs Lisp. ;)I always saw you as someone strong and has everything together - yeah like you are a hitchhiker with your towel with you all the time ;)
I get that a lot, the nagging thoughts that I am not as good as others. It's kinda tough when that happens because I still haven't figured out what my strengths are. I am something like a Jack of all trades but a master of none. And that is something I have to live with everyday.
This is one of the reasons why I think out loud. I want to connect with other people on a deeper level. It is important to me to be human, approachable and understandable. This blog will not be a polished, professional archive of useful articles. It will have my cooking misadventures, my existential crises, my questions. My issues, as a friend put it. Yes, I have issues. Not very earth-shaking ones, mind you, but I have more questions than I have answers - and I love that!
I talk a lot about feeling insecure, but that's because I love looking for what I can learn from other people. I don't feel threatened as much as I feel inspired. My confidence is not a show that I put on for other people. When I'm in my element, the energy I get from people and from the situation fills me.
When I falter, friends help me remember. You help me remember who I am and why I'm here. My blog lets me go back and look over things in my own words, searching for similar times to find out what I did and how I resolved the situation.
Sometimes it may seem that I'm worried too much about how I measure up to other people (5'1/4"? ;) ) or that I feel too insecure. But hey, we all have different strengths, and I love exploring different things in order to find out how I can be of most benefit to the world. =)
(Besides, one of the cool things about this picture is that the bird on the lower line can see everything that's going on! ;) )
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Fewer Foreigners Fly in India's Skies
The number of foreign pilots employed by India's aviation industry has fallen sharply in the past year, a move that will likely strengthen the financials of the carriers.
A total of 340 foreign pilots were employed as of the end of November, a decline of 35% from a year earlier, said K. C. Venugopal, junior minister for civil aviation, in a recent written response to questions in Parliament.
Foreign pilots are generally better paid than local hires, and part of their payment typically is in dollars. With the weakening of the rupee this year, the expense of employing foreign pilots has swelled. That has added to pressure on the carriers at a time when other costs such as fuel and airport charges also have climbed. Not surprisingly, most Indian carriers are loss-making.
However, the total replacement of foreign pilots with local hires is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Mr. Venugopal said airlines are continuing to employ foreigners because there is a shortage of locally-trained senior pilots in India "due to growth in aviation industry and induction of new aircraft" by the airlines.
Of the passenger airlines Jet Airways (India), the country's biggest airline by market share, has the most foreigners, with 93 pilots, followed by 63 at SpiceJet
IndiGo, the country's biggest budget carrier, has 56 foreign pilots, while Air India Ltd. has 30.
Non-scheduled operators have a total of 90 foreign pilots on their rolls, and cargo company Blue Dart Express has eight.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has set a deadline for local airlines to phase out all expatriate pilots by the end of 2013, extending an earlier deadline of the end of 2010.
A. K. Sivanandan, vice president for public relations at Jet Airways, says it will be impossible for Indian carriers to meet the aviation regulator's deadline, unless airlines cut their flights and ground some planes, because of the lack of trained local pilots. He said the foreign pilots employed by Jet have flying experience of at least five years.
Most Indian carriers are relatively new. For example, IndiGo completed five years in August 2011, while SpiceJet completed five years in May 2010.
Mr. Sivanandan at Jet said several Indian pilots are employed as co-pilots as several hours of flying experience are required to become a commander of a passenger flight. He said that the phasing out of foreign pilots will take at least a couple of years as local pilots gain the necessary experience.
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New "American Idol" judge Steven Tyler has given audiences a fair share of edgy soundbites since the new season began -- and his daughter said she thinks it's keeping the ratings up.
From creepily admiring the looks of a 15-year-old girl, to getting occasionally bleeped out by the Fox show's editors, Mia Tyler told Life & Style that her rocker daddy is way more interesting than Simon Cowell and his nasty quips.
"We're a very sarcastic family," said Mia, a plus-sized model and Liv Tyler's paternal half-sister. "He's the funniest man I know. He's saving the show because it was kind of boring before. There's only so many times you can watch Simon be mean to people."
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While Mia may be biased, there's no doubt that the Aerosmith frontman's comments are entertainingly unpredictable. For example, he said about one contestant: "Water that flower 'cause I think it's gonna grow."
And it sounds like Tyler is having a fun time doing it.
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DPS asked to stop using sharpshooters in helicopters
The Hidalgo County district attorney on Wednesday asked the Texas Department of Public Safety to temporarily suspend its practice of using airborne sharpshooters to disable vehicles during pursuits.
Last week, two immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally were killed by a state trooper near the Mexican border when the agent opened fire from a DPS helicopter on a pickup that fled from police.
The truck was thought to be carrying a drug load but was instead packed with Guatemalan immigrants, officials said. Border Patrol agents detained seven immigrants at the scene and hours later caught the truck's 14-year-old suspected driver, but a mistake led to his release.
The shooting has brought scrutiny to the DPS policy that allows troopers in helicopters to shoot at moving vehicles. Civil rights organizations this week lambasted the shooting, and last week a nationally known use-of-force expert said he had never heard of a U.S. law enforcement agency with a similar policy. On Wednesday, the top prosecutor in the border county where the shooting took place weighed in on the controversy.
"I've asked DPS through the (Texas) Rangers to talk to the higher-ups about no more helicopter shootings until they review their procedures and policies," Hidalgo County District Attorney René Guerra said. "And right now, I'd ask that anytime deadly force be used again, would be in a case of life or death."
DPS did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday afternoon, but department officials said the fleeing truck posed a danger. Aggressive smugglers along the border put troopers' lives at risk, the DPS director has said, and created a need for heavily armed boats, more aircraft and trained marksmen in helicopters.
Marco Antonio Castro and Jose Leonardo Coj Cumar were killed as they huddled in the pickup's bed. The marksman in a DPS helicopter tried to disable the truck after it fled from a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden.
Geoffrey Alpert, a professor at the University of South Carolina who has studied pursuits at police departments across the country, said last week that he was not aware of any other department that allowed its agents to shoot at vehicles from helicopters.
The trooper who shot and killed the two Guatemalans was put on administrative leave and will go before a grand jury, Guerra said, as is standard practice in most cases where police officers shoot and kill someone. The Texas Rangers are conducting the investigation.
"These cases go before grand jury," Guerra said. "Ordinarily that would be the case, unless it would be wasteful to present a case to the grand jury where there's no possibility of any laws being violated."
About four hours after the Oct. 25 pursuit, Border Patrol agents caught the suspected driver, a Mexican citizen, said Mike Cox, a spokesman for Texas Parks and Wildlife, which is investigating the pursuit. The teenager was turned over to the Rangers, but at some point he was released. He didn't appear at a hearing in an unrelated criminal case Tuesday, Cox said, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
"Since the suspected driver was not the subject of the Ranger investigation, the Rangers attempted to release the juvenile into the custody of Hidalgo County Juvenile Detention Center after explaining, on two separate occasions, the details concerning the nature of this case," said Tom Vinger, a DPS spokesman. "The Hidalgo County Juvenile Detention Center refused to accept the suspected driver. With the legal time limit for detaining a juvenile approaching, Texas Rangers were left with no choice but to release the juvenile into the custody of his guardian."
Ralph Ocon, the intake manager at the Judge Mario E. Ramirez Jr. Juvenile Justice Center, said his department didn't have enough information to take custody of the teen and was never contacted by the agency investigating him. The department was only told that he had been detained for evading arrest with a motor vehicle, and not that the teen was connected with the DPS shooting, Ocon said.
"Normally, the person who has taken the child in custody is supposed to notify the probation department," he said. "He got released to the parents because there was a miscommunication."
For now, the teen faces charges of evading arrest, but the district attorney could bring more charges, Cox said.
Smugglers often use young drivers to transport their loads, Guerra said.
"They're getting the juveniles to drive so they get away with nonprosecution, which is not true, because I'm going to prosecute everybody," he said.
The 15-year-old driver of a van that flipped during a police pursuit in April, in nearby Palmview, faces murder charges in connection with nine immigrants who died in that wreck.
Castro and Coj Cumar were fathers in their 20s who paid thousands of dollars to be smuggled into the U.S., said Alba Caceres, the Guatemalan consul in McAllen. Caceres said survivors told her that the tarp covering them had blown to the side, and that troopers should have seen the truck had human cargo. DPS disputed that.
"According to our preliminary review and irrefutable evidence, the tarp did not blow off the back of the truck during the pursuit," Vinger said in a statement.
Staff Writer Lynn Brezosky in Brownsville contributed to this report.


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Northern Technologies International Corporation to Announce Fiscal 2019 First Quarter Financial Results and Host Conference Call
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northern Technologies International Corporation (NASDAQ:NTIC) today announced that it expects to release its fiscal 2019 first quarter financial results on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, before the market opens. A copy of the news release will be available on the Investor Relations section of NTIC's webpage (www.ntic.com).
In conjunction with NTIC's release of its financial and operating results, investors, analysts and other interested parties are invited to participate in a conference call with management on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
NTIC management will review NTIC's fiscal 2019 first quarter financial results and outlook, which will be followed by a question and answer session.
Details for the conference call are as follows.
Confirmation Code: 8699006
Participant Toll-Free Dial-In Number: (877) 670-9776
NTIC Fiscal 2019 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call and Webcast
January 8, 2019 at 9:00 A.M. ET (8:00 A.M. CT, 7:00 A.M. MT, 6:00 A.M. PT)
The live audio webcast can be accessed at the following link: https://ntic.gcs-web.com/. A link to the webcast is also available on the Investor Relations section of NTIC's webpage. Participants are advised to go to the website at least 15 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary audio software. For those unable to participate in the live webcast, a replay of the webcast will be archived and accessible for approximately one year on the Investor Relations section of NTIC's webpage.
About Northern Technologies International Corporation
Northern Technologies International Corporation develops and markets proprietary environmentally beneficial products and technical services either directly or via a network of majority owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and independent distributors in over 60 countries. NTIC's primary business is corrosion prevention. NTIC has been selling its proprietary ZERUST® rust and corrosion inhibiting products and services to the automotive, electronics, electrical, mechanical, military and retail consumer markets, for over 40 years. NTIC also offers worldwide on-site technical consulting for rust and corrosion issues. NTIC's technical service consultants work directly with the end users of NTIC's products to analyze their specific needs and develop systems to meet their technical requirements. In addition, NTIC markets proprietary bio-plastic technologies under the Natur-Tec® brand.
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As October is in full swing, many ghouls, witches and goblins start preparing for Halloween.
Some might be pulling out old family recipes for an annual witches brew, sure to include some of the standard ingredients like toads, bats and spiders. I have heard that spiders really make the brew, so in this months column, I am going to devote to the largest and hairiest spider in Colorado: the tarantula.
You have to admit it those brave enough to go all out and use a tarantula will have the most spidery taste to their grog. Right now, there is an abundance of tarantulas at the Nature Center, and many of the school kids who have been out there this month have seen them scuttling across trails. Most of what they are seeing are male tarantulas, out for one last Halloween parade. However, male tarantulas have a pretty spooky life of their own.
In fact, tarantulas are on parade in Colorado from August to October because it is mating season. But, for male tarantulas, it is a special journey they are making. Male tarantulas wait 10 years to come outside to mate, then die a few weeks later. The burrows they live in are vertical and can be more than a foot deep with a side chamber. The entrance is marked with a veil of silk to deter predators. During cold months, a solid plug is made for the burrow entrance and the spider remains sealed within until it is removed in the spring. Except for the migration of the mature males, tarantulas are non-migratory and stay in the vicinity of their burrow their entire life.
Colorado has its own species of tarantulas, called aphonopelma coloradanum. However, most of the tarantulas found in western Colorado are called aphonopelma voglae and are mini-tarantulas.
Tarantulas are not dangerous to humans, and they rarely bite. If they do, their venom will probably not cause serious symptoms. However, this is not the case for its prey, which includes other wandering spiders, beetles and even young rodents. They wait by the edge of their burrow at night until their prey is about 2 or 3 inches away. Then they rush forward and grab the prey, impaling it with their fangs and dragging it into their burrow to consume it over a day.
As fearsome as these tarantulas may look, especially when they bare their fangs, they have natural enemies of their own. A wasp named the tarantula hawk likes to paralyze a tarantula with its sting and then lay eggs on him so her young will have fresh food when they hatch. In addition, female tarantulas are not that welcoming. They have been known to consider male tarantulas as an excellent post-nuptial meal.
So, as Halloween approaches and tarantulas are on parade, maybe the answer is to opt for a different spider in your witches brew and let these graceful male tarantulas revel in their short life above ground, wandering on their quest to find a mate, but seeing the world within a mile of their burrow for the first and final time.
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It's no secret that Guillermo del Toro is a busy guy. At any given moment he's developing a number of projects in various stages to write, produce, and/or direct, but fans can always rest assured that if del Toro lends his name to something, he puts his whole heart into it. One of his more interesting recent collaborations has been with DreamWorks Animation. He took on a small consulting role on the studio's 2010 film Megamind, but since then he's served as an executive producer on Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda 2, and the upcoming Rise of the Guardians.
Steve recently spoke with del Toro in anticipation of the release of Rise of the Guardians and the filmmaker gave updates on a number of future projects (read what he had to say about Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim 2 right here). During the course of the conversation, del Toro gave updates on Puss in Boots 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, and an animated film called Trollhunters that he intends to direct for DreamWorks Animation. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
Del Toro began by talking about how the success of Puss in Boots has given them the clout to continue being risky and creative with the sequel:
"We already did a couple of drafts on the screenplay for Puss in Boots 2. It was great because we were doing stuff that certainly seemed risky at the time. One of the big bets we did on Puss in Boots was that the quote-unquote bad guy, Humpty, redeems himself at the end; he becomes a hero in the last few minutes of his life, he can change. I wanted to do a movie that showed kids that you don't have to be good or bad, you can change. It was very hairy to get that one through in a kids movie, because it's not the norm. Normally you have a bad guy, you defeat him. So getting the box office backup gives us a chance to be risky and creative with the next one."
The filmmaker then teased an interesting location for the follow-up, describing it as an adventure movie:
"We take Puss to a completely different land which is very exotic. When Chris [Miller], the director, said 'I don't want Puss to happen in the same universe as the Shrek movies visually, I want to do a spaghetti western,' he is, in this case, trying to do an adventure movie so we're taking him to a very exotic locale."
As for Kung Fu Panda 3, del Toro teased the sequel's villain and gave a production update:
"We basically talked about where we would go in the third one in the second one. We really finished [Kung Fu Panda 2] with the real father of Po saying 'My son is alive,' so that allows us to continue that arc of Po as a character. All I can say is the bad guy in the third one is possibly the most formidable villain in the series… We finished an outline, we presented a character design, we presented a couple of sequences in storyboard, and we're very hard at work on a screenplay."
Finally, del Toro has been developing a film of his own at DreamWorks called Trollhunters for the past few years. The filmmaker reiterated that he intends to direct the feature once the script is in top shape:
"The relationship with DreamWorks Animation actually started with me approaching them and saying 'I want to direct an animated movie,' and we started developing that screenplay Trollhunters three years ago. We're on the fourth or fifth draft and I'm doing designs for it, and when the screenplay's ready and the designs are ready I'm gonna set aside 18 months of my life and dedicate them only to the animated movie."
The filmmaker revealed that the film will feature child protagonists, but he intends to deal with kids in a very real way:
"It's about a group of kids that basically are Trollhunters at night, and they have to still do the math exam during the day; they get fit with braces and go through all the growing pains. I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great (laughs)."
Look for Steve's full interview with del Toro closer to the release of Rise of the Guardians.


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Imagine data $A$ with a hash $hashA$. This data is encrypted with private key $K$ to get data $E$ and the hash of the encrypted data is $hashE$.
Are there encryption method and hashing method, which will allow to verify, given $hashA$, $hashE$ and $K$, that $hashE$ is indeed a hash of "A encrypted with K"?
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By: Morgan V. Robbins, RD, LD at LMC
As a Registered Dietitian (RD), I'm always asked if there is a difference between a dietitian and a nutritionist. The two terms have different meanings and cannot be used interchangeably. The term RD (Registered Dietitian) and RDN (Registered Dietitian Nutritionist) do mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably. RD is the more generally used term, however the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics now allows Registered Dietitians to use RD or RDN to more accurately reflect to consumers what Registered Dietitians are and what they do. All RD's and RDN's can be considered "nutritionists", however not all nutritionists can call themselves an RD or RDN.
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Time does fly when you�re having fun. Local football fans likely can�t believe tonight is the mid-point of the high school regular season. As we get over that hump ,it � s time for the stretch run to the playoffs to begin.
Each of the four county teams has its own highs and lows to deal with during the season to date. The Star Sports staff (Alan Ford and Clark Leoanrd) provides its analysis of what has transpired for each and what could lie ahead.
Burns (5-0, 2-0 SMAC)
Alan: The unbeaten Bulldogs have been impressive, especially on the defensive side of the line of scrimmage. Yet as last Friday�s near-upset demonstrated, no team is a finished product at this point.
Burns must continue to stay healthy, especially among a core group of veterans who often see two-way action. Continuing to build depth, so those key performers can get needed rest, is part of the formula for this club's success in the postseason.
The Bulldogs must concentrate on putting four quarters together each Friday. The down-to-the-wire battles with Ashbrook and Kings Mountain should have drilled that point home to them.
Clark: For a second straight year, Burns� defense is causing the most trouble for opponents. Its size up front has made the difference, limiting opponents to 106.6 rushing yards and 13.2 points per game.
The offense has been explosive at times but occasionally unable to take advantage of opportunities. Near halfway, the Bulldogs have proven they�re still a serious contender for a fourth straight SMAC championship.
Crest (3-1, 1-0 SMAC)
Alan: The young Chargers, since their opening loss to South Point, appear to be a team getting better week-by-week. There�s still a ways to go in that process.
Two areas continue to be a concern. Crest is giving up too many yards and points on defense. It puts a lot of pressure on the offense to know it must score 25-plus points against quality opponents to win.
Even though the identity of the Crest offense is to pound foes with its talented ballcarriers in the ground game, at some point the passing game has to get better. Few one-dimensional teams survive long in the playoffs.
Clark: With youth, injuries and other issues, Crest has rarely had all of its top players on the field at one time. The results have been uneven on both sides of the ball, but the record is in line with expectations.
The Chargers clearly have a strong running game again, but can they mix in enough passes to keep opponents off balance? Crest is strong enough to win the SMAC, but its defense could be a problem approaching the postseason.
Kings Mountain (2-3, 0-2 SMAC)
Alan: The spirited effort the Mountaineers gave last Friday provided ample evidence this Kings Mountain team can never be discounted.
As exciting as the Kings Mountain offense has been at times this season, perhaps the defensive progress the Mountaineers showed could be the most important thing to come out of last Friday�s duel at Burns.
Kings Mountain is the classic example of a team trying to �learn to win.� With its youth, if it does break through in a big game, it could be bad news for the rest of the teams on its schedule.
Clark: The Mountaineers� mix of youth and experience has led to one of the most dynamic offenses in the county. But Kings Mountain�s defense has struggled to make stops, particularly late in tight games.
The Mountaineers� effort in battling back from a 14-0 deficit at Burns and leading 15-14 late in a 20-15 loss could be a turning point. It�s the kind of performance that could give Kings Mountain the confidence to finish strong.
Shelby (3-2, 2-0 SMAC)
Alan: The Golden Lions have excited their fans with a wide-open passing game out of the spread, something three years in the making. Shelby has the offensive talent to scare anyone it plays if it keeps distributing the football effectively to its playmakers.
But all of that will go for naught at some point if the Shelby defense doesn�t get better. It�s held only one opponent below 20 points.
Right now, that unit is still looking for a force to emerge on the defensive line. Also, a veteran linebacking group has yet to live up to expectations.
Clark: Shelby�s offensive, particularly its passing game, has shined early. The Golden Lions led South Point, a top-tier 3A team, for much of that game in Belmont and had a chance late to beat A.C. Reynolds, a 4A squad.
There�s no question Shelby has the athletes to be a factor in the SMAC title. But the Golden Lions� defense, which has given up more yards than Shelby offense has gained, must be better to win county battles or make a deep playoff run.


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EDITOR'S DESK—Commentary
By most estimates, more than 85 percent of the critical power, communications, transportation, food distribution, resource, health care and financial systems — among other systems that keep the country running — are held in private hands.
It is generally assumed that the economics of competition, self-preservation, the risk of lawsuits and a certain amount of regulation provide sufficient incentive for those service providers to make sure their systems are properly secured.
However, to those who follow the increasingly brazen penetration of seemingly secure IT networks in the United States, it is clear those incentives are no longer enough.
Certainly, it wasn't a surprise when the Wall Street Journal reported April 8 that cyber spies had penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system. The current and former national security officials who provided details of the break-in have been observing such behavior for some time.
Perhaps more disturbing, though, is a letter written by the chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corp. Citing the results of a 2008 self-certification survey of NERC members, Michael Assante reported that a worrisome number of power generation owners and operators were not fully assessing the risks to their systems, including the risk of cyber attacks. Additionally, he warned, operators need to recognize that the threat today is not that any one substation could be compromised but that many could be brought down simultaneously.
Assante deserves credit for issuing the letter. But the fact remains that NERC and other organizations that oversee the operators of the United States' critical assets must have greater authority to set and enforce network security controls.
At the same time, the government's national security agencies need to do a better job of sharing intelligence, training and expertise with the chief executives of the companies responsible for those assets.
Captains of industry might be forgiven for resisting government efforts to increase the burdens on their companies in the name of national security. But they cannot be excused from overlooking the mounting threat of cyber attacks. In addition, the government needs to do its part to build greater unity and support for fighting a common, but growing, cyber threat.
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Chestnut, bacon & cranberry stuffing
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Nutrition: per stuffing ball
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- fat7g
- saturates3g
- carbs12g
- sugars0g
- fibre1g
- protein4g
- salt0.65g
- 100g dried cranberries
A tart, ruby-red coloured berry which grows wild on shrubs throughout northern Europe and North…
- 50ml ruby port
- 1 small onion, chopped
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- 2 rashers unsmoked back bacon, cut into strips
- 50g butter
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- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 450g sausagemeat
- 140g fresh white or brown breadcrumbs
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
- ½ tsp chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 140g peeled, cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped
'Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...' that kitsch old Nat King Cole song perfectly…
- 1 medium egg, lightly beaten
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Soak the cranberries in the port for an hour. Fry the onion and bacon gently in the butter, until the onion is tender and the bacon is cooked. Add the garlic and fry for another minute or so.
Cool slightly, then mix with all the remaining ingredients, including the cranberries and port, adding enough egg to bind – I find it easiest to use my hands. Fry a knob of stuffing in a little butter, taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary.
To Cook: This stuffing can be baked in a dish, or rolled into balls that will be crisp on the outside and moist inside. To bake, press the stuffing into a greased ovenproof dish in a layer that is around 4cm thick. Bake at 190C/gas 5/fan 170C for about 40 minutes, until browned and, in the case of sausagemeat stuffing, cooked right through. Alternatively, roll into balls that are about 4cm in diameter. Roast the stuffing balls in hot fat (they can be tucked around the turkey or done in a roasting tin of their own) for 30-40 minutes, until crisp and nicely browned on the outside.
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- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 Large eggs
- 1 cup panko or plain dried breadcrumbs
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 1lb bocconcini (bite-size fresh mozzarella balls)
- 2 cups vegetable oil
- Tomato sauce, for serving
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|Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place flour in a bowl. In another bowl, beat eggs. In a third bowl, combine panko with thyme. Season each with salt and pepper. Working with 2 bocconcini at a time, dredge in flour, shaking off excess, coat in egg, and roll in breadcrumbs, pressing gently to adhere.
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|In a small saucepan, heat vegetable oil over medium-high until pinch of breadcrumbs sizzles and floats to the top when added. Fry bocconcini, 4 at a time, until golden brown, turning occasionally, 2 minutes per batch. With a slotted spoon, transfer balls to paper towels to drain and season with salt. Keep warm in oven and repeat with remaining bocconcini. Serve with tomato sauce for dipping.


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If you are a lover of printed words, you would know how much of your time is taken by books alone. Then one day, sooner or later, you discover a huge vacuum within that you know next to nothing about other art forms. This blog is an attempt to fulfil one such lacunae in the art of painting. We intend to look up a random painting and upload it with a link here every day whilst having our daily cuppa coffee. In this way at least we hope to be better acquainted with colours, colourers and the schools than what we are now.If you wish to be a part, you know where to shout.
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Kim Lene Williams, the wife of a former Texas justice of the peace, was charged with murder after confessing her involvement in the shooting deaths of the local district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor. NBC'sGabe Gutierrez reports.
The wife of a jailed former justice of the peace in the Texas county where a district attorney and his wife were found dead in their home in March has been arrested and charged with capital murder.
Michael and Cynthia McLelland were found shot to death in their home March 30. Michael McLelland's deputy, Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, was killed in a separate shooting Jan. 31. Kim Lene Williams has been charged with capital murder in connection with all three deaths, Kaufman County sheriff's Lt. Justin Lewis said Wednesday afternoon.
Williams was admitted to the Kaufman County jail just before 3 a.m. local time Wednesday. She was held on a $10 million bond.
Kaufman County Sheriff's Office via AP
Former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams in a photo provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office.
She confessed to her alleged involvement in the three killings in an interview with investigators on Tuesday, according to an arrest warrant affidavit the sheriff's office released Wednesday. She said her husband pulled the trigger, according to police.
"Kim Williams described in detail her role along with that of her husband, Eric Williams whom she reported to have shot to death Mark Hasse on January 31, 2013 and Michael and Cynthia McLelland on March 30, 2013,"according to the affidavit. "During the interview, the defendant gave details of both offenses which had not been made public."
Eric Williams remained in the Kaufman County jail after having been booked Saturday. He was being held on $3 million bond on a charge of making a terroristic threat and two charges of insufficient bond.
A probable cause affidavit, filed Friday in Kaufman County, alleged that a "terroristic threat was received via electronic communication" on March 31 by investigators looking into the McLellands' deaths.
"The threat implied unless law enforcement responded to the demands of the writer, another attack would occur," according to the affidavit.
A search for who sent the threat led investigators to the home of Eric Williams in Kaufman, where a search warrant was executed Friday.
"During the investigation, it was learned that the author of the electronic communication possessed unique identifiers to send the electronic communication," according to the affidavit. After a search of the house, "it was learned that the defendant had utilized these unique identifiers to send the threat" from his computer.
The search warrant affidavits for Williams' home were sealed and had not been released, Lewis told NBC 5 of Dallas.
Eric Williams was convicted of theft last year, a case in which he was prosecuted by McLelland and Hasse. Williams lost his position as a justice of the peace and had his law license suspended because of the conviction.
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Investigators working on the deaths of the McLellands and Hasse found that both men "believed that Eric Williams blamed them for his removal from office" and "regularly carried handguns after the Eric Williams jury trial because they believed Eric Williams to be a threat to their personal safety," according to the affidavit released on Wednesday,
In an interview earlier this month with NBC 5, Williams denied having anything to do with the McLellands' deaths and said he didn't own a gun.
"If I was in their shoes, I would want to talk to me," he said at the time. "In the investigators' mind, they want to check with me to do their process of elimination."
An attorney for Williams said in a statement Friday that his client "has cooperated with law enforcement and vigorously denies any and all allegations."
- Bail set at $3 million for former Texas justice charged with making 'terroristic threat'
- Former county judge questioned in Texas DA's slaying
- 'Why Kaufman County?' Locals wonder about DA murder
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U.S. Secret Service director Mark Sullivan has been briefing members of Congress about the allegations that the Secret Service and military personnel brought prostitutes back to their hotel in Colombia last week. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
The Colombian prostitute who triggered the scandal that has rocked the Secret Service got angry with two agents who refused to pay her full price for servicing the two of them, leading to a financial dispute over between $40 and $60, according to a government source who has been briefed on the investigation.
Two agents from the service's elite Counter Assault Team, in Cartagena, Colombia, in advance of President Barack Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas over the weekend, had procured the women's services at a local strip club called the Pley Club on the evening of April 11. All the Secret Service agents and officers implicated in the scandal are believed to have gone to the club that evening and brought back women, a U.S. official told NBC News.
The controversy arose after one of the women went back to a hotel room with two agents. The woman wanted to be paid for serving both agents, the source who has been briefed on the probe told NBC News. Instead, the agents would only agree to split her price, prompting the woman to complain to local police who were stationed in the lobby of the Hotel Caribe, the source said.
The police then went up to the agents' room and began banging on the door, which the agents at first refused to open, the source said. There are conflicting reports over how the payment dispute was resolved. But two government sources told NBC News the police contacted the U.S. Embassy over the dispute and Embassy officials then arrived at the scene.
All those with booked rooms at the hotel had to pay a fee of $25 for bringing any guests to their rooms -- and the guests were required to leave some form of identification at the front desk. A quick scan of the hotel register by a U.S. Embassy official established that 11 Secret Service agents had brought back women to their rooms that evening. When Embassy officials notified Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, he immediately ordered all the agents to fly home, the sources said.
MSNBC's Thomas Roberts speaks with NBC National Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and former Secret Service agent and current Senate candidate Dan Bongino about the fallout from the Secret Service prostitution scandal.
The Secret Service members -- including agents and uniformed officers -- were stripped of their security clearances on Monday.
Included in that group were two high-level Secret Service supervisors, three counter assault officers whose job is to repel attacks and three sniper-team members, who take to rooftops to secure areas where the president might visit, NBC News reported.
U.S. officials have described the agents' conduct as a potential security breach especially because all the agents involved had access to the president's day-by-day, minute-by-minute schedule. But one official familiar with the security arrangements said that there were no specific security threats during the president's trip. Although agents upon arrival were briefed about current activities by leftist FARC guerrillas and local drug cartels, they were told neither had made any specific threats to the president.
The only specific security concern mentioned was that agents and officers were told to bar a left-wing journalist from events at the summit and were given a flier with the journalist's photograph to keep him out, the law enforcement source said.
The Secret Service sent agents to Colombia to interview the prostitutes who hooked up with the Americans to figure out if the women are under age, involved with terrorism or trafficking in illegal drugs, a lawmaker told NBC News' Luke Russert on Tuesday.
"They have all their IDs and are conducting an extensive background check to make sure they aren't affiliated with any narcotrafficking or terrorist group or that they could be minors," Homeland Security chairman Rep. Peter King told Russert. "So far there is no security breach."
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, who worked in the presidential protection division, shares his view of the scandal involving at least 11 Secret Service personnel and more than 5 military personnel.
King, who was briefed on the Colombia investigation by Sullivan, confirmed that there were 11 agents and 11 women.
"The investigation could take a while simply because of the amount of women involved," King said. "Some are saying they were prostitutes and others say they weren't."
U.S. military officials told NBC News on Tuesday that 10 American servicemen also were under investigation. According to the officials that includes five Army soldiers, two Navy sailors, two Marines and one Air Force airman.
One military official says it appears that at least two of the service members were found with prostitutes in their hotel rooms, the same Hotel Caribe where the Secret Service detail stayed.
It's not clear whether any of the military members were in any way connected to the allegations involving members of the Secret Service at a Cartagena strip club.
It's also not yet clear whether any of the 10 will face criminal charges.
House and Senate lawmakers are also looking into the allegations. King told The Associated Press that his committee is devoting four investigators to the probe.
Meanwhile, one former Secret Service agent, Dan Bongino who is a Republican candidate for Congress in Maryland, told NBC News that in his 12 years at the agency he never saw anything like what is alleged to have taken place in Colombia.
"I'm not saying it's never happened, but I never saw it." Bongino said. He denied there was a culture of partying inside the agency.
Top US military officer: 'We let the boss down' over prostitute scandal
A decade ago, however, U.S. News and World Report published an investigative report detailing criminal activity and extreme partying as well as oversight problems. In one reported incident, members of Vice President Dick Cheney's security detail got into a brawl outside a bar on a trip to the San Diego area.
New details about the Secret Service personnel alleged to have brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms have emerged, including reports that two of the 11 were supervisors. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
As the agency sought to rebuild its image, other high-profile incidents with presidential protection brought more scrutiny.
In 2008, an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at President George W. Bush during a Baghdad visit.
And in November 2009 three people crashed a White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Michaele and Tareq Salahi and Carlos Allen were able to get past Secret Security agents at the door and enter the party.
The Salahis even met Obama and had their picture taken with Vice President Joe Biden. In a January 2010 congressional hearing on the matter, the Salahis, who have since divorced, refused to testify, invoking their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
The prostitution scandal, however, has brought far more intense focus on the Secret Service and behavior by its agents and officers.
"This really is the biggest scandal in the history of the Secret Service," Ron Kessler, author of "In the President's Secret Service," told NBC News earlier this week. He said the agency's problems are deeply rooted.
"There's a culture in the Secret Service that's fostered by the management of just nodding, winking, favoritism," he said. "What the agency needs is an outside director who can come in, clean house, change the standards."
Michael Isikoff is NBC News' national investigative correspondent; Jim Miklaszewski is NBC News' chief Pentagon correspondent. NBC News Correspondent Luke Russert and msnbc.com reporter Jeff Black also contributed to this report.
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On the eve of Israeli elections, the Arab League has taken the unusual step of intervening in Israeli politics, urging Israel's Arab minority to flock to the polls. Otherwise, they warn, the country will be taken over by a far-right government that will increase discrimination toward Arab citizens and step up settlement expansion in the West Bank, where their Palestinian brethren have long sought a state of their own.
Arabs make up a significantly larger voting bloc in Israel than Hispanics in the US – 14 percent of eligible voters, compared with 9 percent for Latinos. But while US politicians conscientiously woo Latinos, Arabs enjoy no such courtship. Though their numbers have steadily grown since being absorbed into Israel when it declared independence in 1948, they have not been able to translate their numerical clout into the political and economic equality they are entitled to on paper but rarely enjoy in practice.
They are underrepresented in academia and because they generally don't serve in the army, they have difficulty getting jobs – even sometimes at coffee shops – and often end up doing manual labor. Nearly 6 in 10 live under the poverty line. In the latest Knesset, Israeli Arabs held 17 of the 120 seats – almost exactly proportionate to their share of eligible voters. But they were unable to block a raft of right-wing legislation that many saw as discriminatory against Arabs.
"The last three years have been a nightmare for many Palestinians inside Israel," says Honaida Ghanim, an Israeli citizen and director of the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies in Ramallah, West Bank. "Almost 30 new laws and regulations were launched against them," Ms. Ghanim adds.
Indeed, disillusionment with the political system is running high, as evidenced at a recent debate among eight Israeli Arab politicians, hosted by Al Qasami Academy in Baqa al-Gharbiyya.
"What have you done?" asked one dismayed student, Malak, after all the candidates made their pitches for how they have helped or will help Arabs in Israel. "I see you doing nothing."
Arab voter turnout in tomorrow's elections is expected to drop below 50 percent – the worst showing since 1949, other than a 2001 boycott during the second intifada. At stake is the ability of the Arab community to find a unified voice to press for the rights they have been promised, as well as the ability and willingness of Israel to be faithful to its democratic ideals – and make peace with those who were living here before the return of the Jewish diaspora.
"According to the public opinion polls that have been conducted in Israel, the radical right is expected to obtain a majority [of seats in the Knesset]," the Arab League said in a statement. "The radical right consists of right-wing groups that do not want peace; they refuse to accept the Other and they regard Israeli Arabs as a threat to the country."
A call for unity
The fact that Israel has declared itself to be Jewish as well as democratic leaves Israeli Arabs unsure about their place in this society, and how best to press for their rights.
"How can we exist in a state that defines itself as a Jewish state?" asked Mohammed Asawi, head of Al Qasami, as he welcomed the mainly Arab attendees to the debate. "It's a state where racism is growing."
"You all know how the Nazis developed and how they controlled a complete country called Germany," Mr. Asawi continued, implying a comparison with Israeli Jewish politicians. "We need [members of parliament] that challenge racism. We have to develop our thinking toward liberating ourselves and others from racist attitudes. We have to distance ourselves from clans and tribes."
But Arab politicians – and voters – are divided along many fault lines, which limits their collective bargaining power. Should they work with Israeli Jews, or stick to Arab-only parties? Should they work from within the parliament, and thus legitimize what many see as an unrepresentative system, or agitate for change outside of the Knesset? Should Arab politicians focus on economic issues like the astronomical rise in the cost of food and housing, or pursue more nationalist goals?
At the Al Qasami Academy debate, held Jan. 17, these divides were fully on display among the eight Israeli-Arab politicians. Some are already members of the Knesset; others are aspiring to be. One, a former prisoner, eschews the electoral process all together and chewed out a fellow debater, a member of the Knesset, for not delivering on his promise to fight for prisoner's rights – a promise he had made while the accuser was serving 25 years in an Israeli jail. "I never saw his face again," the ex-prisoner said bitterly.
A professor who helped organize the event said he didn't even believe in voting.
"If you are fighting now, how will you ever get unity?" asked the student, Malak, wearing a gold headscarf and an elegant turquoise dress."They should be united for us to have a strong force," she told the Monitor later. "I think only united can they be strong, only united can they get us rights."
Enter Asma Aghbarieh-Zahalka. She was the only woman on the debate stage, and the only Arab woman to head a political party – no small feat in a patriarchal country where even Jewish women face glass ceilings in academia, business, and politics.
She started the party, Daam – solidarity – at age 22. Now, nearly two decades later, it has evolved from a nationalist party to one that seeks to bring Jews and Arabs together to work on social issues, such as workers' rights. Infused with new momentum after the Israeli social protests of 2011, Daam includes both Arabs and Jews at the top of its electoral list, and also seeks to work with Israeli Jews outside the party.
"Daam is trying to break the isolation that has been imposed on [Arabs in Israel]," Ms. Aghbarieh-Zahalka said during the debate. "We have Jewish allies and they can affect the Israeli voters and politicians."
One of these allies is Eran Brill, an activist with House of the People in Tel Aviv, who is 14th on Daam's list. He notes that that's "largely symbolic," since Daam is unlikely to get more than the minimum three votes, meaning only the party's top three candidates would get a seat in the Knesset.
"I became more and more fascinated by her very clear and brave political ideas; not least important is the fact that their basic values is people," Mr. Brill says.
Improving social equality for both Arabs and Jews, Aghbarieh-Zahalka suggests, is part and parcel of solving the political problem.
"In my view this poverty, unemployment is connected to the political issues. All political ailments stem from social issues," she said during the debate. "When we are exploited socially we are not capable of helping others. You have to empower yourself to empower others, therefore both issues connect."
Many Israeli Arab politicians focus on the nakba, or catastrophe, of Israel's declaration of independence 65 years ago, at which time at least 700,000 Palestinians either fled or were forced from their homes – many ending up outside Israel's borders and unable to return. But Aghbarieh-Zahalka argues that while such important history should not be forgotten, it is more profitable to focus on the socioeconomic problems of today.
"80 percent of Arab women do not work – this is a catastrophe," she says over lunch after the debate, calling them victims of both Israeli discrimination and the neo-liberal economy.
"The occupation is deepening, the settlements are deepening, and the despair is deepening between Arabs and Jews. We feel there is a very huge need for an alternative," Aghbarieh-Zahalka says.
"Arabs and Jews on the same list, with an Arab on top – this is a dramatic change in Israel. It's a new start for the relationship between Arabs and Jews."
So far, Daam hasn't managed to win the 2 percent threshold of votes necessary for entering the Knesset. But Aghbarieh-Zahalka, who has waited all these years for a seat in the Knesset, says they're closer than ever. In the meantime, she's patiently wooing voters – in Hebrew and Arabic.
* Chelsea B. Sheasley contributed reporting.


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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The threat of toxins contaminating water supplies along western Lake Erie is far from over even after Ohio's fourth-largest city declared its water safe again.
That's because the algae leaving behind the dangerous toxins each summer aren't supposed to peak until September.
The chances of another water emergency over the next few months will depend a lot the winds, rains and temperatures that dictate how large the algae grow and where algae blooms end up.
"To some degree, there are only certain things we can control," said Craig Butler, director of Ohio's Environmental Protection Agency. "What is possible is making sure systems taking water from Lake Erie are being very vigilant with the treatment process."
What role the algae-induced toxin played in fouling the water supply for 400,000 people in and around Toledo is being investigated, as is the city's aging water supply system and how it operates. But researchers believe winds pushed the algae right to where Toledo collects its water from the lake.
"When they bloom and it's right over our intake, we're at its mercy," said Ed Moore, Toledo's public utilities director. "This is Mother Nature we're dealing with. This was out of our control."
That's what scares water plant operators.
"There's a train coming and we're standing on the track," said Kelly Frey, sanitary engineer in Ottawa County, just east of Toledo.
Water plants add a chemical called activated carbon to absorb algae before filtering the water. What makes combating the toxin a challenge is that there are no standards on how to handle it or rules on how often to test the water.
Butler, the state's EPA director, said Tuesday that he thinks the federal government needs to come up with standard guidelines on both what are acceptable limits for the microsystin found in Toledo's water and how often testing should be done.
Carol Stepien, director of the University of Toledo's Lake Erie Center, said the risk of a water treatment plant being overwhelmed by toxins will go on until the pollutants feeding the algae are brought under control.
"I'm hoping this acts as a catalyst much like the Cuyahoga River burning," she said, referring to the 1969 Cleveland fire that helped spur the environmental movement and the federal Clean Water Act.
Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, supplies drinking water to 11 million people in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York along with Canada. The western end is particularly shallow, making it more vulnerable to the algae, though other areas of the Great Lakes are not immune.
Lake Michigan's Green Bay is a source for drinking water in Wisconsin and has been plagued by various types of nuisance algae. Algae in a reservoir near Columbus left a foul smell and flavor in the city's water supply last fall.
But right now the greatest concern is in Lake Erie.
In September, one township just east of Toledo told its 2,000 residents not to drink or use the water coming from their taps — believed to be the first time a community has banned residents from using the water because of toxins in the lake.
Carroll Township has since upgraded its water plant to better combat the algae-fueled toxin. But Henry Biggert, the township's water plant superintendent, said they can only do so much with the water coming out of the lake.
"We can handle it better, absolutely," Biggert said. "But could we handle it if it got worse? That's a really good question. That's where my concern is."


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In the wake of Sweden's recent decision to formally recognize the independent state of Palestine and the decision of the British House of Commons to pass a non-binding resolution to the same effect, Ireland may be moving towards a similar change in position. The upper house of the Irish Parliament recently passed a motion calling on the government to formally recognize the State of Palestine. The Irish senate has very limited powers, so this motion was a largely symbolic one, but remarks made in the lower house of parliament (Dáil Éireann) by Prime Minister Enda Kenny last week suggest a formal recognition, akin to that of Sweden's, may not be too far away.
In parliamentary debate on Tuesday 4 November, the prime minister took questions relating to his trip to Lebanon in June of this year. He took questions from the opposition on the Irish troops serving with UNIFIL in southern Lebanon and in the Golan Heights, in addition to the situation with ISIS in Kobane. He was mostly, however, pressed by the opposition on the situation in Gaza and the Israel-Palestine peace process in general. The leader of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, specifically asked Mr. Kenny if he would consider following the example of the Swedish government in recognizing Palestine. Adams pressed further, asking if the prime minister would upgrade the Palestinian mission to Ireland, affording it the full immunities and facilities as other diplomatic missions under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic relations.
Ireland does have diplomatic relations with Palestine at present, with a representative office in Ramallah and a Palestinian mission in Dublin. When it comes to full recognition, however, the Irish Government has always taken the position that this must come as part of a peace agreement and in tandem with other European Union countries. Yet, Sweden's recent decision to break from this consensus might encourage a similar change in approach in Dublin, according to Mr. Kenny's remarks on Tuesday:
"…the Seanad [Senate] passed a motion calling on the Government to formally recognise the state of Palestine and do everything it could at an international level to help to secure a viable two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Deputies Gerry Adams and Micheál Martin will be aware that the House of Commons in the United Kingdom adopted a similar non-binding motion earlier in the month. Sweden has taken a different view. Deputies will be aware that for many years Ireland has supported the full achievement of a Palestinian state and that there was always a belief this might actually happen and might happen soon…. As the Deputies are aware, it was always the position that the formal recognition of a Palestinian state should come about as part of a comprehensive peace agreement… It was also expected until now that the question of recognition of the Palestinian state would be subject to a common decision by the European Union, but Sweden took a different view and recognised Palestine… Sweden's decision may well alter the situation at a European level. I am quite sure it will be reflected in discussions at the Foreign Affairs Council as a consequence and will arrive on the table at the European Council through that method… In view of the decision made by Sweden, while it was always contemplated that Europe would react to Palestine, we need to reflect on the changed consequences... I will discuss the matter with the Minister [for Foreign Affairs and Trade], Deputy Charles Flanagan… We will discuss this issue and reflect on the consequences of the decision made by Sweden and how it will impact on Europe's decision and view of the recognition of a Palestinian state."
At the very least these remarks signal that the issue of formal recognition of a Palestinian state is to soon come under discussion at the highest level of the European Union. On the other hand, this shift in thinking from the Irish government could be indicative of a wider trend, whereby individual European states may decide to go it alone in their recognition of Palestine following the precedent set by Sweden.
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James Cameron got plenty of experience creating an alien world in Avatar. Now the 3D pioneer is looking to test his might with the real deal, Mars, though still in three dimensions. Cameron met with NASA administrator Charles Bolden to pitch the idea of including a 3D camera on the space agency's next generation rover, Curiosity, set to launch toward the red planet next year.
"He actually was really open to the idea," Cameron told the Pasadena Star News. "Our first meeting went very well." Beyond the scientific value the detailed images could possess, Cameron may also use the footage in a documentary on Mars in the future.
Since then, Cameron convinced Bolden to replace the non-3D camera NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had in its possession with a 3D one, capable of filming at 10 frames a second. JPL engineers are worried that the camera won't be ready for the 2011 launch, though they are also excited at how Mars could look using the new hardware.
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We'll just have to wait and see if Malin Space Science Systems, the San Diego-based company responsible for Curiosity's other cameras, will have the new 3D cam ready in time.
Pasadena Star News, via io9


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Medical Assistant Registration Rep Urology Clinic
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Job Summary
Essential Functions
Performs registration processes, verifies insurance coverage and obtains authorization notification. Accurately documents information and performs data-entry to ensure maximum reimbursement. Obtains necessary signatures specific to patients' insurance plan. Calculates patient liability according to verification of insurance benefits. Collects deposits and co-payments. Provides financial counseling for patients and their families by explaining financial policies and providing available resources for alternative payment arrangements. Assists patients and their families with completing financial documents when appropriate.
Serves as a liaison between the patient, billing department, and payor to enhance account receivables, resolve outstanding issues and/or patient concerns. Enters charges for services delivered and does daily charge reconciliation in a timely and accurate manner. Balances cash drawer at the beginning and end of the day and prepares daily bank deposit with necessary paperwork faxed to PBO. Adheres to all billing procedures including preparation of Medicare billing at the end of the month within specific timelines.
Responsible for scheduling of patients, families, procedures, and physician appointments. Assists in scheduling routine appointments within the medical practice(s) and external practices as necessary. Assists in obtaining pre-certification, referrals, authorizations, prescriptions refills and other medical testing as necessary. Responsible for communicating test results to patient. Acts as a resource to clinician in order to provide optimal patient care.
Optimizes patient flow by using effective customer service communication skills utilizing kindness, tact and courtesy to ensure positive patient response to service. Demonstrates proactive interpersonal communications skills when relating to internal and external customers. Uses discretion and is attentive to issues of customer confidentiality. Demonstrates skills in pro-active resolution and attempts to resolve scheduling conflicts.
Provides support to include, answering the phones, returning phone messages, pick-up/prioritizing/distributing mail, completing purchase requests, ordering supplies/forms, coordinating/scheduling meetings, maintaining and re-stocking exam rooms and lobby. Monitors inventory including medication/injectables and immunizations, i.e., expired medications, recalls and patient tracking. Responsible for the medical records for the assigned area. Ensures medical records are pulled and ready daily. Initiates obtaining needed records from hospitals, practices, and other ancillary departments. Follows guidelines and assists in developing procedures to ensure that medical records are in compliance with all state and federal laws.
Prepares patient for exam and treatment by taking and recording vitals signs, symptoms, medication list, symptoms and other necessary measurements and recording chief complaint. Reports condition of patient which may be indicative of changes of the patients condition to the clinician. Assists providers with exams and minor office procedures and acts as a chaperon if needed.
Performs office-based testing and treatments related to patient care under supervision of a clinician. Performs and records daily/monthly quality control on all office based testing and treatment. Maintains a log book of results and lot numbers. Collects and prepares specimens for laboratory testing including phlebotomy. Uses universal blood and body fluid precautions at all times and personal protective equipment as needed.
Maintains a clean, functional environment including cleaning and disinfection of equipment, exam rooms and storage areas. Disinfects equipment and instruments using appropriate solutions following sterilization procedures through Materials Management. Follows manufacturers recommendations and OSHA guidelines of handling hazardous substances. Performs and records daily/monthly quality control on all equipment.
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In a small fortified compound in the heart of Texas, over 180 men once died for their freedom. The place was called the Mission San Antonio de Valero, but it's remembered by another name: The Alamo.
Now the Reverend Jesse Custer is returning to this place of sacrifice to end the quest that began in the burning remains of his church all those years ago - a quest to track down God and make Him answer for His actions. After everything Jesse and his lover, Tulip O'Hare, have been through - treachery, separation, death, resurrection - the time has come to finally bring justice to the guilty and force answers from the betrayers. But will he even get the chance to act before Starr, the vengeance-obsessed leader of the Grail conspiracy, finally catches up with him? Or will the Alamo be the site of another righteous defeat?
Alamo is the concluding volume in the Preacher saga, one of the most celebrated comic titles of the late 1990s. Created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, this modern American epic of life, death, love and redemption is also packed with sex, booze, blood and bullets - not to mention angels, demons, God, vampires and deviants of all stripes - making for one of the most viscerally appealing tales ever to see four-color print.