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Intel's Atom Architecture: The Journey Beginsby Anand Lal Shimpi on April 2, 2008 12:05 AM EST
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Return of the CISC: Macro-op Execution
The Pentium Pro was Intel's first CPU that finally ended the RISC vs. CISC debates of the early 1990s. To the programmer it was still a x86 CISC machine like every previous Intel processor, but internally once it received its x86 instructions it decoded them into smaller micro-ops to run on a simpler, faster and more efficient RISC core.
By maintaining backwards compatibility with all previous x86 processors Intel was able to leverage one of the major strengths of its CISC architecture (mainly the installed x86 user base) while continuing to evolve by relying on a high performance RISC core.
It turns out that some x86 instructions shouldn't be broken up into smaller micro-ops because they tend to augment each other. With the Pentium M Intel began fusing certain micro-ops into single operations so that they would go down the processor's pipelines atomically, thus saving power and improving efficiency. Intel called this feature micro-op fusion. If two micro-ops were treated as one when going down the pipeline that effectively increased the "width" of the CPU, allowing more instructions to be operated on at once. The internal core was still very much a RISC machine, it was just able to do a little more in certain circumstances.
The Atom takes things one step further and most x86 instructions aren't even broken down into micro-ops internally. As Atom isn't an out-of-order core, it doesn't exactly make sense for it to have tons of micro-ops in flight since it can't reorder them for optimal execution. Furthermore, by keeping most instructions as single operations Intel is able to effectively increase the "width" of Atom.
Instructions that are of the format load-op-store or load-op execution are treated as a single micro-op by Atom's decoder. In other words, if you have an instruction that loads data, operates on it, and stores the result - that's now treated as a single micro-op instead of being broken up into three. The benefit being that there's only a single micro-op that's going down the pipeline, leaving room for another one. Atom may only be a 2-issue architecture, but in certain situations it can behave like a much wider machine.
Intel has spent much of the past decade perfecting its ability to break down x86 instructions into smaller, RISC-like operations and building very high performance cores to deal with these small atomic operations. What's most interesting is that we've now come full circle where in the quest for greater performance per watt Intel is now doing the opposite and not breaking down these x86 instructions in many cases.
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FlakeCannon - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkThis was an absolutely fantastic article as far as I'm concerned. One of the best I've read from AnandTech. I'm truly impressed with the amount of effort and dedication that the engineers at Intel put into the Atom. Thought the consumer may not see its importance today the Atom will continue to develop one throughout the next 2 years and show why this is such a huge step in the right direction. I really think that this article outlines very well the architecture involved and where it intends to lead Intel and others in the future.
I'm always impressed to see Intel take architecture that was revolutionary in its time 15 years ago in the Pentium and Pentium Pro and resurrect it in modern day fashion with help of the Dothan Pentium M architecture and even things borrowed from the miserable Netburst technology that 15 years later I believe will once again create a product revolutionary in nature. I was never able to appreciate it in the days of the Pentium but certainly can now.
This is one product I think is deserving of being excited about. Reply
fitten - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkWhat does an on-die memory controller have to do with ILP? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkWoops, I've clarified the statement :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
erwos - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkI was thinking that this would be a fantastic platform for making a small, silent HTPC box for doing streaming media, but the lack of 1080p output kills that to a large extent. I know it's not a big priority for the first revision given the UMPC targeting, but I hope the "Atom 2" does try to squeeze that feature in. Reply
FITCamaro - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkIt could always be paired with a different, more capable graphics core. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkIt;d be very interesting to see how the 1.86GHz Silverthorne stacks up against a 1.8GHz P4 Northwood, a 1.86GHz Dothan, a 1.8GHz Conroe-L based Celeron, and a 1.8GHz Athlon 64.
I wonder if Apple is going to refresh AppleTV with Silverthorne since it seems ideal with replace the current 1GHz ULV Dothan in there. Reply
yyrkoon - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkWell at least Intel did not name their Atom CPUs the 'Atom Z80' . . . heh.
Anyways, this is good for our future, as the mITX, and pITX 'systems' now days are still kind of large-ish, and cost quite a bit of money for what they are. Though, I think that putting a web browser on just any old appliance in the house would be way overkill, and possibly a very serious mistake. A TV with a web browser ? An Oven ? Please . . . this is why we have PCs, and micro mobile devices.
Recently a friend and myself have been working on an embedded project, and I can see the potential here, but a 'problem' does exist. Some of the things you would want to do with such a processor . . . well lets just say there still would not be enough processing power. That being said, I do not see why these could not help make a TVs/HD-DVD player menu operate faster.
pugster - Thursday, April 03, 2008 - linkIt certainly sounds nice, but the atom processor cost alot because some of the higher end models cost more than $100 each. I find it surprising that their Polosbo chipset is manufactured at 130mm. It probably came from one of their foundries that was due to upgrade to 32mm sometime next year anyways. They could've earily manufactured at 65mm.
Somehow I don't see their product as mature and maybe the next gen product they would have a cpu and the north/south bridge in the same die. Reply
lopri - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkI honestly don't get the excitement. Should I? I mean, I wouldn't feel comfortable with one gigantic company controlling every single electronics in our life. If Intel opens up the X86 and everyone can compete on even end, then maybe. Since that won't happen, the future looks scary enough. Reply
clnee55 - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkNO, how can you get excitement. I am already bored with your conspiracy theory. Let's talk about tecnical issue here. Reply


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Conventional wisdom suggests that time spent playing video games is time wasted. The common perception is that few video games exercise the brain and, if there is any physical activity involved, it's usually the occasional wave of a controller rather than anything that will work up a sweat. And shouldn't kids be outside playing, rather than sitting in front of yet another screen?
Not so fast, say many parenting experts and researchers. Studies have consistently shown that the benefits of video gaming can far outweigh the perceived negatives. Although video gaming should certainly be supervised, there are good reasons why you should let your kids spend a few hours a week building cities or battling aliens. Here's why:
1. Video games teach problem solving. Video games get kids to think. There are dozens of video games that are specifically geared towards learning, but even the most basic shooter game teaches kids to think logically and quickly process large amounts of data. Rather than passively absorbing content from, say, a TV show, a video game requires the player's constant input to tell the story.
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4. Video games teach strategic thinking. Video games teach kids to think objectively about both the games themselves and their own performance. While there are many games that place a premium on strategy, most set an overall goal and give the gamer numerous ways in which he or she can achieve that goal. Players also get instant feedback on their decisions and quickly learn their own strengths and weaknesses.
5. Video games build teamwork. The vast majority of video games are now designed with cooperative play options. Whether it's fighting off alien invaders, solving puzzles, or being on the same bobsleigh team, video games offer kids a wealth of opportunities to constructively work together.
6. Video games improve hand-eye coordination. Video games have been found to improve the balance and coordination of numerous patients from stroke victims to those suffering from Parkinson's Disease. There have even been studies that suggest that surgeons who regularly play video games make less mistakes in the operating theater than non-gamers. Even if your child is super-healthy and has no desire to be a surgeon or watch-maker, good hand-eye coordination is an invaluable skill to have.
7. Video games bring families together. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Video games aren't just for kids anymore. Ask your kids to teach you a few moves and you might find that Family Fun Night is every bit as enjoyable as those games of Clue and Monopoly used to be when you were a kid!
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SAN FRANCISCO – Mid Valley Labor Services, Inc., a statewide farm labor contractor with hundreds of employees, will pay $150,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, female employees working in grape vineyards in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties faced sexually explicit language and propositions by their male crew supervisor. The EEOC further charged that two women who objected to the harassment were fired.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed the lawsuit (Civil No. CV-10-2560 JCS) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after an investigation by EEOC Investigator Margarita Hossaini-Zadeh and first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through conciliation.
Under the provisions of the consent decree settling the suit, Mid Valley agreed to pay workers $150,000 in damages. The company will also provide yearly sexual harassment training of its employees by an outside consultant; revise its sexual harassment policy and complaint procedure; assure supervisor accountability for preventing sexual harassment and retaliation; and regularly report to the EEOC regarding harassment complaints.
"The agricultural industry, with a largely immigrant workforce, employs many women who are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment," said EEOC Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo. "The requirements of this consent decree should serve as an example and encourage other employers to be proactive in preventing sexual harassment before they have a problem."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado added, "This case was referred to us by the Mexican Consulate. The EEOC will definitely continue to partner with community resources and organizations to fight harassment and discrimination, and to assure that workers report problems without fearing retaliation."
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The number of Border Patrol agents roughly doubled over the last decade to more than 21,000, but many of them work where illegal crossings are relatively low. The imbalance has become increasingly clear since Central Americans began pouring into Texas' Rio Grande Valley by the thousands. Here are some numbers from Customs and Border Protection's website and internal documents reviewed by The Associated Press:
ARREST NUMBERS: The Rio Grande Valley sector is by far the leader in the number of arrests of people entering the country illegally. The sector made 194,015 arrests from the start of the fiscal year Oct. 1 through June 24. Tucson, Arizona, was second-busiest with 71,654, followed by Laredo, Texas, 34,001; San Diego, 22,701 Del Rio, Texas, 19,304; El Centro, California, 11,052; El Paso, Texas, 9,223; Yuma, Arizona, 4,821; and Big Bend, Texas, 3,167.
STAFFING LEVELS: The agency's staffing levels aren't always in line with arrest numbers. Despite being the busiest sector, the Rio Grande Valley doesn't have the most agents. Tucson was the most heavily staffed, with 4,135 agents in September, the latest published figures. Rio Grande Valley was second with 3,086 agents, followed by El Paso, 2,631; San Diego, 2,572; Laredo, 1,804; Del Rio, 1,598; El Centro, 1,141; Yuma, 911; Big Bend, 623.
RECENT SURGE: The recent surge of immigrants from Central America into Texas has laid bare the imbalance even more. The Border Patrol made 1,422 arrests in the Rio Grande Valley sector on June 14. On the same day, Tucson made 226 arrests, followed by Del Rio, 128; Laredo, 123: San Diego, 97; El Centro, 39; El Paso, 22; Big Bend, 20; and Yuma, 15.
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Museum21 is an international symposium which investigates new perspectives on the role and function of public galleries and museums in the 21st-century by exploring their key challenges, frictions and possibilities. Artists, curators and historians are invited to address both a retrospective and a prospective consideration of the role of galleries and museums as informed by past and present contemporary art and practice. The over arching theme of the symposium traces the historic function of the museum, in particular the impact of institutional critique in the 1960s and early 1970s and questions how best galleries and museums can maintain their relevance and legitimacy in the contemporary world.
Exploring the wider notion of the museum as institution, idea and practice, the following questions arise: What is the point of a museum in the 21st-century? Should galleries and museums compete or create an alternative to the mega exhibitions of Biennales and Art Fairs? How can galleries and museums best serve a mobilised multicultural public? Has the need to attract audience and funding made the artistic or intellectual credibility of galleries and museums questionable? To what extent is the self-reflexive institution generating new conditions for collaboration and interpretation? Are public galleries and museums still the main sites for cultural innovation and the reception of contemporary art?
Museum21 seeks to investigate paradigms in Museum practices and re-consider new perspectives and future scenarios of the public gallery and museum concept.
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Okwui Enwezor is a curator, writer and poet. He is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute and is Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography, New York. Enwezor is founder and editor of the critical art journal Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art published by the Africana Study Center, Cornell University. Most recently Enwezor is serving as the Artistic Director of the 7th Gwangju Biennale, opening in 2008. He was the Artistic Director of the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain (2005-2007), and Artistic Director of Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (1998-2002).
Bart De Baere is Director of the MuHKA, the Antwerp Contemporary Art Museum, which also has a film museum component and which co-publishes the Afterall Journal. De Baere studied archeology and history of art, and worked as an art critic from early in his career. He was a curator in the Ghent Museum of Contemporary Art (now SMAK), where he curated many exhibtions, among which This is the Show and the Show is Many Things. He was a curator for Documenta IX and was an adviser for the Soros Foundations in Eastern Europe, for the biennials in Johannesburg and São Paulo, and for the Flemish Minister of Culture in the formulation of a new policy for cultural heritage. He served as Chairman of the Flemish Museum Commission and was until 2008 Chairman of the Flemish Council for Culture. He co-founded the Time Festival in Ghent and the Art Centre Wiels in Brussels.
Andrea Fraser is an artist whose work has been identified with performance, context art and institutional critique. The Kunstverein in Hamburg produced a 20-year retrospective of her work in 2003. Her recent books include Andrea Fraser: Works 1985-2003, available from DuMont, and Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser.
Enrique Juncosa is Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Juncosa was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in 1961. From 2000 to 2002 he was Deputy Director of the Reina Sofía National Museum of Modern Art (MNCARS), Madrid, and previous to that he was Deputy Director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia. He has curated more than 30 exhibitions, these include Olafur Eliasson (2003), Juan Uslé (2004), Dorothy Cross (2005), Howard Hodgkin (2006), Miroslaw Balka (2007) and Miquel Barceló (2008). Juncosa is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London and advisor to the Collections of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg and the National Museum in Krakow. He is also on the Board of the Miró Foundation in Palma. Juncosa has also published six books of poetry and two collections of essays.
Susan Pearce is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Previous roles include President of the Museums Association (1996-1998), Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of London (2004-2006) and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Leicester (2000-2003). She holds a Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford. Pearce is the author of a number of books and her research focuses on the interpretation of Material Culture.
Carey Young is an artist, whose work employs a variety of media, including video, photography and performance. Based in London, she has exhibited widely, most notably in solo shows at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, (2005 and 2007 as part of Performa05 Biennial). Young uses found tools, language and training processes from the worlds of the Multinational Corporation and global law firms and alters them within an artistic context, exploring ideas of autonomy, performativity, intimacy and dissent.
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From John Main OSB, "Letter Ten: December 18, 1979," LETTERS FROM THE HEART(New York: Crossroad, 1988), pp. 119-120.
Christmas is a feast that can open the hearts of us all to the presence of Christ. It puts before us the great qualities of innocence and hope that we need if we are to awaken to his light, and it fills us with confidence because it tells us that the old age has ended. The new age, indeed the new creation, has begun and our point of departure for finding it everywhere is finding it a reality in our heart.
Our journey is, then, one to our own hearts. Because all of us are invited to enter this temple and receive this newness of life, we have to recognize this time as a moment to put off everything in us that is dead, everything that prevents us from embracing the mystery of our own creation and entering into the fullness of life we receive as pure gift in God's eternal act of creation.
The importance of the teaching of the Incarnation is that this mystery of God in his eternal creativity is not only brought closer to us but is really united to us. We no longer need to objectify the mystery that has taken up dwelling in our hearts of flesh. We now know that our awakening to his reality is an imminent possibility for each of us because the awakening is an incarnate encounter. The joyfulness to which this feast should recall us is that this awakening is not the result of our own inadequate resources. It is not our own power or wisdom that leads us but his love that is present as the light of the supreme reality in our hearts. The humility of the child Jesus is our guide and teacher. In his Light we have Light. In his Love we have Love. In this Truth we are made Truthful.
Meditate for Thirty Minutes.... Remember: Sit down. Sit still and upright. Close your eyes lightly. Sit relaxed but alert. Silently, interiorly, begin to say a single word. We recommend the prayer-phrase "Maranatha." Recite it as four syllables of equal length. Listen to it as you say it, gently, but continuously. Do not think or imagine anything—spiritual or otherwise. Thoughts and images will likely come, but let them pass. Just keep returning your attention—with humility and simplicity—to saying your word in faith, from the beginning to the end of your meditation.
After Meditation, from John Main OSB, "Letter One: December 10, 1977," LETTERS FROM THE HEART(New York: Crossroad, 1988), p. 40
Our task is to persevere—not grudgingly or self-importantly, but with simple faith and self-renewing love. The figure of Mary is a central one in our understanding of Christmas. Above all, she is a great example of interiority with a direct meaning for each of us. Just as she carried the human Christ within her, so we must bear and worship Christ in our own hearts, remembering that he is just as truly present within us as he was bodily present in his mother.


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The Wow Factor: Denver Gillen
Knowing just what would grab the reader, Denver Gillen chose this minor and almost inconsequential line from the story as the inspiration for his illustration:
Cosmo AD, Robert C. Atherton must have been pleased with Gillen's choice. Just look at the wonderful headline type Atherton had done up to compliment the artwork...
The page design comes together beautifully. If you're looking for 'Wow!', I say this spread has it, big-time.
I planned to only show one piece per day this week -- but I couldn't resist including Denver Gillen's fabulously noir-ish back-up illo from this story.
Consider that another artist might have chosen this pivotal scene for the main art. Did Gillen (and Atherton) choose better?
My Denver Gillen Flickr set.
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What I like about this illo, besides the obvious... the woman's body is not idealized, it's real. Although, IMO she has a very nice shape, it's not perfect. I think the reader can relate to that piece of reality, and it doesn't become the drop dead Georges babe with the ideally perfect body... that rarely exists in real life.ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
Thanks for that, Tom.ReplyDelete
What I like about this piece is Gillen's richly textured rendering, and his beautifully balanced use of a limited colour palette. What impresses me most, however, is the tremendous sexual tension in the piece. FAR more intriguing than "the obvious", as you put it, is the psychology behind choosing this scene (which, as I said, serves almost no purpose in furthering the plot than as a way to establish some elements of personality of the character). The themes of voyeurism and of bold public nudity from a 1950's "young lady" flies in the face of what we have been taught the 50's was all about through popular culture.
That this appeared in Cosmo in 1958 (and not in some under-the-counter men's magazine), for consumption by, I suppose, young female readers, speaks volumes about the sexual repression that society was struggling with at the time.
That's the REAL Wow Factor of this piece!


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Runaway Train (UK - BD RB)
Our Marcus boards a train with no driver and couple of escaped convicts...
Based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Runaway Train tells the story of escaped convicts Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts) as during their escape through the Alaskan wilderness board a train only to realise it's engineer has had a heart attack and died. Unfortunately for them, they work this out a bit too late into their ever quickening journey.
Of late Jon Voight isn't really known for his character roles and usually serves up the same slick back haired, well spoken elder gentlemen take on all of his performances. Same goes for Eric Roberts, who's career of late ranges between super over the top performances in low budget films or the occasional bit part in larger films. Well hop back to 1985 and Runaway Train not only has the pair acting their little socks off but it also saw an Oscar nomination for the duo too.
Both actors come loaded with super strong accents, a whole ton of street slang and a butting of heads when it comes to attitude. The performances are both wildly over the top in the drama stakes and not always in tune with the mood of the film but that somehow make their scenes together all the more fun to be around in the ever increasing dire situation. Voight manages to rinse out a fair bit of sadness from his role as opposed to Roberts melodramatic spin and given how the film ends, there's a real sense Voight's Manny is set up as a man of myth or legend than anything based in real life, opting for a rather poetic end to events rather than the total destruction you might expect.
Runaway Train is a good focused drama that keeps locked in on its characters as opposed to getting caught up in the flashy visuals of a runaway locomotive. It's got its fair share of smashes and near misses but this story is about the small number of passengers and their doomed journey. Its fresh faced cast offer up performances that talk about the dilemmas of their lives as much as the situation they are stuck in and the director Andrei Konchalovsky really uses this to make the most of the fairly run of the mill set up.
1985 and Eric Roberts, it doesn't inspire confidence when it comes to quality productions does it but this Blu-ray actually ain't all that bad to look. In fact in certain areas it shines. There's a fair bit of grain, given the lack of direct lighting a lot of the time but it doesn't take away from the generally good looking image here.
There's plenty of depth, some nice black levels and a fair bit of natural colour. Primary colours carry themselves particularly well with blue denim and pinker skin tones sitting very well on the screen. Well lit shots present sharp edges but there's still a handful of hazier shots in the prison and the heavy snow filled exteriors.
The second two thirds of the film in the frozen wilderness or aboard the train is a whole lot of grey, white and general lack of real colour. The layer of fake snow drifts in some of the wider shots can look pretty bleak and lifeless and takes the edge off of the otherwise great image quality but tighter shots with genuine falling snow and blue skies look much better. The same goes for interior scenes. Voights orange hoodie always pops out of the cold surroundings as does the impressive looking sparks from the train wheels or any fire elements.
Last up on the list of highlights is some of the close ups on faces, which are incredibly good. Freckles, wrinkles, stubble, the whole lot of them look really really great and while this isn't really a film that immediately screams good looks, there's plenty to found here on this Blu-ray release.
The LPCM stereo track here is a layered affair with plenty going on. Starting with dialogue, it ranges from low and whispery with hush hush conversations between inmates to loud and proud with prisoners shouting and rioting. On top of that is the many extras in the prison chanting or screaming curses to guards in a near 5.1 sense of range at times. Add the extra elements of sound effects, like rattling keys and slamming doors and the first half of the film, while a little hollow and often coming with a whole lot of disconnected feeling recorded in post dialogue is pretty damn good for such a small title.
Now the visuals manage to stand the test of time but score here is the thing preventing the audio from doing the same. It's so 80s you can almost hear the hairspray going on in the recording session but luckily its used sparingly which keeps the film feeling more like a seventies thriller than an 80s thrill ride, which this isn't really so that's a good thing. The build in tension is left largely to the runaway train sound effects and they vary from background noise to overbearing intensity very well.
The Andrei Konchalovsky interview (15:57 HD) has the director speaking of his experiences on the film and how within the budget restrictions he was still free to do whatever he wanted. He also speaks of the script and the cast and his overall feelings on the film.
Jon Voight (37:49 HD) features in the heftiest of the interviews and he covers plenty of the stories surrounding the film and of course his own feelings on the it. He talks quite openly of his spiritual approach to taking the film and the doubt he had surrounding the project where he plays a criminal.
Eric Roberts (16:02 HD) throws in his thoughts on the film and seems genuinely like a fan of the film as well as his character.
Kyle T. Heffner (17:04 HD) is the last of the interviews and its an interesting take from a lesser know actor as he comments on entering the movie fairly late in a production that was up and running as well as his experience with the director and the role.
Latly there's the trailer as well as a trailer commentary with director Rod Lurie (02:46). He talks of Canon films and the bad films they had made and how fluke of a movie got Voight and Roberts got Oscar nominations. He also mentions that this is the last good Eric Roberts performance, making this another great trailer commentary and I hope to see more from the Arrow releases in the future.
Runaway Train wasn't the thrill ride I'd expected with a title like that but instead balances the typical elements with a fair bit of character depth and near spiritual themes. This make for a solid bit of drama, even if I was sometimes left wanting a bit more smash and crash train action at times. Anyway, the Blu-ray release looks great, despite the odd hazier element and the stereo track does a fine job too. As for the extras, there's a whole lot of interesting interviews on here and makes for an all round great catalogue release.
* Note: The images on this page are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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The automated dirt and scratch removal on this one has erased legitimate parts of the image. More time in QA needed methinks.
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd July 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: LPCM 2.0 Stereo English
Subtitles: English SDH
Extras: Interview, Trailer, Trailer with Commentary
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay
Genre: Thriller
Length: 110 minutes
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People blind from birth can be taught to "see" images that are conveyed as sounds, says a new study that calls into question a longstanding belief about the limits of the human brain.
Devices that scan visual images and reinterpret regularities as sounds were used to retrain the brains of congenitally blind people in a study published this week in the journal Neuron. The authors -- at the Safra Center for Brain Science at Hebrew University in Israel -- put people who had been blind since birth through 70 hours of training with a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device.
Initially, the subjects were able to distinguish among faces, houses, everyday objects, body shapes and textures. Eventually, they were able to read letters and words, identify facial expressions and locate people's positions. In one video, a blind person is shown a picture of a woman with a ponytail and identified the hairstyle.
You can see videos of the subjects "seeing" visual images here.
Blind people have long used the capability to use another sensory perception to compensate for blindness: Braille and blind walking canes allow people without sight to read and navigate. But when the authors of the current study put subjects in a brain scanner, they gained insight into the process by which training with a sensory substitution device allowed the mind's eye to "see."


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. – 2014 didn't quite start as the King University women's basketball team envisioned it, as they traveled to take on Conference Carolinas foe Pfeiffer University. The Tornado held an early lead, but the Falcons used a run late in the first half to take the lead before holding off a second half rally to hand King their first loss since November, 67-62.
Five minutes into the contest, King held an 8-4 lead over Pfeiffer (2-9, 1-2 CC) following layups from Alley Sprouse and Sydney Harris. However, the Falcons nailed back-to-back three-point baskets to take a 10-8 lead before Caressa Samuel capped the 8-0 run with a layup.
Chelsea Bowling answered Samuel's layup with a triple to pull King (8-3, 2-1 CC) within one, and after a Falcon bucket, Stephanie Brantley evened the score at 14 with her first of three triples in the game. Brantley tickled the twine from long range again with more than seven minutes remaining to even the score 17 before the Falcons went on a run.
Pfeiffer connected on three consecutive attempts from long range to gain a 26-17 lead with just under six minutes to go in the first half. Jalan Harper pulled King back within five with more than three minutes left in the half, but the Falcons entered halftime with a 36-26 advantage.
The Tornado shot 44.0 percent from the field in the first half, but the Falcons forced 15 Tornado turnovers. On the other hand, Pfeiffer shot 38.9 percent from the floor, and made seven three-point baskets, en route to the first half lead.
The Tornado chipped away at their deficit in the second half, and used a 7-0 run to get it back to just three points with 13:33 remaining. Sprouse started the spurt with an old fashioned three-point play, and Whitney Mitchell made a free throw before Durrett connected on a triple to make the score 41-38. However, the Falcons stretched their lead back to six with a three-point basket of their own.
Tia Keitt pulled King within 44-42 with her only three-point basket of the game with just under 11 minutes remaining. King got back within one possession on two more occasions, the first coming at 47-44 following a Sprouse layup, and Brantley made the score 49-47 with 7:59 left on her third triple of the game.
However, Carter Williams answered with a three-point basket on the Falcons' next possession to start an 8-0 run. Pfeiffer held the lead from that point on as King could not get closer than four points over the final five minutes, and the Falcons took the game 67-62.
The Tornado shot 27.5 percent in the second half, and 33.8 percent for the game while making 31.0 percent of their three-point attempts. Pfeiffer shot 31.1 percent from the floor and 32.1 percent from three-point range, but they went 20-for-25 from the free throw line, or 80.0 percent.
The loss also snaps King's seven-game winning streak which dated back to November 21 when they fell to Virginia Intermont College. It was also their first road loss of the season as King won their first five road games.
Durrett led King with 15 points and 10 rebounds for the double-double. Keitt followed with 12 points while Brantley chipped in with nine points.
The Tornado will be in action again on Wednesday when they travel to University of Mount Olive. Tipoff from Mount Olive, N.C., is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.


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The wait for Fujifilm's FinePix X10 will be over as soon as the beginning of November – and luckily, this vintage-looking compact will sell for the vintage-looking price of £530.
If you've misplaced your spec sheet, have another look at our hands-on from IFA last month.
To refresh your memory, the Fujifilm FinePix X10 is smaller and lighter than the X100 with an optical, rather than hybrid, viewfinder. It shares a 2.8in LCD display and similar controls with its big brother but does away with the wallet-melting £1000 price tag.
This cheaper retro cam isn't quite as eye-catching but you get a 12MP sensor, pop up flash and 4x manual zoom with a 28-112mm range for your buck.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Three-wide racing during practice Wednesday led to a wild multicar crash at Daytona International Speedway.
The crash resulted in Parker Kligerman's Swan Racing car getting lifted off the ground and flipping upside-down.
Several drivers were racing in a big three-wide pack while practicing for Thursday's Budweiser Duel qualifying races. The crash began when Joey Logano appeared to hit Matt Kenseth — the same two drivers who caused a big crash in Saturday's Sprint Unlimited.
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The collision between Kenseth and Logano sent Paul Menard's car spinning toward the outside wall, where it hit Kligerman's No. 30 car, lifting it off the ground and damaging the catchfence at Daytona.
Kligerman's car slid on its roof for several hundred feet before coming to a stop.
MORE: Kligerman unfazed by flipping on roof | More wrecks coming
The practice session was cut short while track and NASCAR officials repair the fence. A second Sprint Cup practice is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today.
A year ago, the catchfence at Daytona was damaged when Kyle Larson's car got airborne and slammed into the fence during the Nationwide Series race. That crash sent car parts and debris flying into the grandstands, injuring more than 30 fans.
The crash Wednesday also sent debris into the grandstands but there were few fans there and no reported injuries, according to Fox.
Logano took partial blame for the crash.
"I guess it was partially my fault, just working too hard there," he said. "I thought (Kenseth) was going to the bottom and he came back up and I was there."
Menard said it looked like Logano caused the crash.
"I just saw the front half of the 20 (Kenseth) getting squirrely," Menard said. "Someone got into him. Joey was trying to bump-draft. Luckily no one got hurt. It could have been much worse."
Kenseth said Logano got into the back of him.
"We just lost a lot of speed, the 22 got right on me and I moved to the left and he clipped my right rear," Kenseth said. "He had to slow down after that and that seemd to trigger the wreck."
Kligerman, who was uninjured, was not happy with Logano.
"It looked like the 22 was just being overly aggressive," Kligerman said. "I want to talk to him about it. Paul and I had the same opinion there, just what are you doing, why are you side-drafting and bumping people in the first drafting practice we've done all week? I was backing out of the draft right there and was trying to get out of it."
"That's a big wreck for practice," said rookie Ryan Truex, who also was involved.
Cole Whitt and Brian Vickers were involved in an earlier crash during the practice session when a piece of debris damaged the front of the car and Whitt slammed the wall, collecting Vickers. Vickers will have to go to backup cars for Thursday's qualifying races. Logano, Kligerman, Menard and Ryan Truex will have to go to backups after the big crash.
— Bob Pockrass contributed to this story.


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Marc Jacobs sure knows how to turn the page on a set of trends. With a blast of punk sound, Jacobs ushered in a mean, Mod mini-malism that swept away all embellishment and sentiment. Op art was worked in all widths of stripe, from a scallop-edge mini dress to a boxy suit with the skirt slung low on the hips, subverting the schoolgirl propriety of the box pleats. Just add pointy Chelsea boots with a striped cone heel, box handbag and rat's nest ponytail and you're ready to go downtown and get up to no good.
Jacobs wasn't the only one rocking out. For spring, designers are looking everywhere from the natural world to the rock world, interpreting it in ways that are a breath of fresh air this week.
Bridging the uptown and the downtown crowds, Wes Gordon brought rock 'n' roll sensibility to swan-print decorated kimono tops and a slip of a dress, while "Swan Lake" seemed to influence the decoration on some glitter rock flare pants and an evening mini.
The beat went on at Theyskens' Theory, where designer Olivier Theyskens resurrected such '80s hits as the long-sleeve minidress, pleated slouch pants, duster coats and wide-shouldered jackets, injecting them with his usual otherwordly fabric choices and a cool falling somewhere between David Bowie and "Blade Runner." For his rock revue, Phillip Lim had the good taste to name check everyone from Comme des Garcons to Ann Demeulemeester and Margiela to Katharine Hamnett, with some grunge thrown in for good measure, but his remix of deconstructed plaids, florals and utility items was anything but derivative.


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Maintaining the Official Story in the Face of Glaring Contradictions
9/11 Research, n.d.
Ensuring the success of the official story of 9/11/01 despite the long sequence of highly improbable events it supposes required that people not pay too much attention to the details. This would be ensured by the "shock and awe" of the attack itself combined with an intense propaganda campaign to sell the official story.
Ironically, the vast majority of those who created and promoted that propaganda probably did so innocently, never questioning the official version of events. The idea that the entire attack was an inside job was simply too unthinkable for most Americans to consider.
The use of disinformation and diversion to manipulate public opinion is a highly developed art. It is well understood not only by psychological operations experts in the national security establishment, but also by marketing and public relations wizards.
With the engineering of public reaction to September 11, disinformation has been used with a sophistication and depth that is historically unprecedented. A key tool in this modern form of psychological warfare is the "meme" — an idea that acts like an infectious agent to spread itself through a population.
Through careful construction of memes, the perpetrators could depend on others to unwittingly promote their cover story and conceal the truth. Their disinformation strategy was twofold. First, they would sell the official story to the masses through the compliant mass media, relying on people's desire to believe the official story. Second, they would seed specious ideas in the community of "9/11 skeptics" in order to distract and discredit them.
The Official Story of September 11 and Its Apologists
On the day of the attack, details about the alleged perpetrators emerged with a rapidity that is remarkable given the assertions by high-ranking administration officials that no one had ever considered that an attacker could fly planes into buildings. Within hours the identities of several of the alleged hijackers were known, and Osama bin Laden was being presented as the prime suspect. Within three days the FBI published the identities of all the alleged hijackers. It was being presented as an open-and-shut case.
Academics helped to explain the collapses of the Twin Towers in articles in respected publications. Just two days after the attack, a scientific paper purported to fully explain the unprecedented engineering failures using "elastic dynamic analysis." "Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? – Simple Analysis" was published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics ASCE on 9/13/01. Peer review of this paper and of other theories volunteering to explain the collapses was conspicuously absent.
The mass media were consistent in avoiding asking the most obvious questions. Why did the air defense network fail to respond? Why did Flight 77 target the recently-fortified, mostly empty portion of the Pentagon? Why was the Ground Zero steel removed and destroyed as fast as possible? The media shirked their public service obligation of acting as watchdogs of the government, and instead became cheerleaders for the administration's war plans for central Asia.
The vast body of print reportage about September 11 attack is notable for an abundance of contradictions. The timelines in the Complete 9-11 Timeline series reveal numerous inconsistencies, such as between reported times of events. These discrepancies, combined with the lack of evidence, discourage investigation of facts of the attack. Meanwhile, the impending attack on Afghanistan, the alleged Islam-terror link, and "homeland security" got the attention.
This section examines just a few of the elements of the official story of September 11 with a skeptical view and attention to contradictions.
- Red Flags: People are able to accept theories blessed by government and mainstream media, despite inconsistencies and long series of improbable coincidences.
- Cover Stories: The top four in command of our defense go about routine appointments for an hour as the attack unfolds.
- Experts on Parade: Experts "explain" the collapses of the World Trade Center buildings.
Disinformation Targeting the Skeptics
Disinformation aimed at skeptics of the official story is more subtle than the simple promotion of that story to the masses. It may consist of ideas with no basis in evidence packaged as shocking new findings that supposedly prove the involvement of insiders. Its effect is to discredit the larger body of 9/11 research through guilt by association with its sensational and unscientific approach.
An example is the idea that Twin Towers were not hit by Flights 11 or 175 but rather by completely different objects, such as military planes with missile-firing pods. Since 9-11 Research does not provide analysis of such disinformation, we recommend the disinformation section of 911review.com.


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Lieutenant General Sir James Outram (1803-1863) by John Henry Foley (1818-74), R. A. Bronze. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861. Unveiled by Lord Napier on the Queen's birthday in 1874, near the junction of Chowringhee Road and Park Street, Calcutta. Today it stands in the grounds of the Victoria Memorial.
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Notice of Meeting
Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Place: Department of Workforce Development
GEF-1 Building
Room F305
201 East Washington Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin
- Call to order and introductions
- Approval of Minutes of February 2, 2012 (blue)
- Approval of Minutes of March 8, 2012 (blue)
- Report on Unemployment Insurance Reserve Fund
- Report on Public Hearing
- Department Law Change Proposals
- Correspondence
- Future Meetings
- Other Business
- Adjournment
- The Council may not address all agenda items or follow the agenda order.
- The Council may take up action items at a time other than that listed.
- The Council may discuss other items, including those on any attached lists.
- The employee members and/or the employer members of the Council may go into closed session at any time during the meeting to deliberate any matter for potential action and/or items posted in this agenda, pursuant to sec. 19.85(1)(ee), Stats.
Some or all of the Council members may attend the meeting by telephone. This location is handicap accessible. If you have other special needs (such as an interpreter or written materials in large print), please contact Robin Gallagher, Phone: (608) 267-1405, Unemployment Insurance Division, Bureau of Legal Affairs, P.O. Box 8942, Madison, WI 53708. Hearing and speech impaired callers may reach us at the above phone number through WI TRS (or TDD/Voice Relay 1-800-947-3529.)


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MAT140 Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers I
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Newman's Own, Kettle Foods, and Naked Juice In Sync with Customers
Newman's Own Organics, Kettle Foods and Naked Juice are in sync with their customers in ways envied by mega competitors.
Vowing to stay forever young, the eldest of the baby boomer generation - people born in 1946 to 1964 - hit a milestone this year: They celebrate their 60th birthday. Perhaps after watching the ageless Rolling Stones during halftime of the Super Bowl, they are also rethinking the lyrics, "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" from another iconic 1960s band, the Beatles.
Those 3.4 million Americans born in 1946 are not ready to retire or become more retiring. In fact, they have redefined aging. They've been hippies and yuppies, and now it's the time of the "abbies": aging baby boomers, reports Newsweek. Boomers define "old age" as starting three years after the average American is dead, according to a Yankelovich Partners study. With an actuarial life expectancy of 82.3, boomers don't consider themselves bound by the laws of statistics, and they expect advances in health care and genomics will enable them to live past 100.
And they prefer to feed themselves, not just when they're 64 but way beyond. So the rush is on to buy wellness foods, cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals. These divine boomers, whose feet are pounding the firmament as they run to stay in shape, are convinced there is a connection between what you eat and how you look and feel. Abbies are also the inspiration for younger consumers to age not gracefully, but instead to live adventurous, youthful, extended lives by nourishing the spirit, mind and body.
Boomers also have a growing sense of social responsibility. If they must turn the world over to their children, they want to give them a world that's in better shape than when the boomers inherited it. At this stage in their lives, with the kids' college bills forgotten and a sub-$100,000 mortgage nearly paid off, they can afford to spend a little more on their own health and a healthier world.
It's wonderful coincidence that our choices for rising stars are companies founded by boomers making products largely for boomers. But they also embody a passionate philosophy that connects with other consumers, as well. Newman's Own Organics is redefining the organic category by mixing environmental consciousness with the parent firm's social responsibility mission. Kettle Foods' natural/organic message puts a healthy spin on potato chips, then adds unusual flavors. And Naked Juice is helping to define the superpremium juice segment with products fitting a spectrum of lifestyle needs.
Newman's Own Organics: Contributing to a healthy ecosystem
Organic-food advocate Nell Newman learned values of social responsibility, political involvement and philanthropy from her famous parents, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. But it is her passion and commitment to the environment, organic foods and sustainable agriculture that led her and business partner Peter Meehan in 1993 to found Newman's Own Organics: The Second Generation – at the time, the organic food division of her father's successful (and philanthropic) company, Newman's Own.
Nell rallied to get her father to add an organic line to Newman's Own, but whenever she brought up the subject, he dismissed it. "To him, organic foods referred to the hippie-dippy dishes my mom experimented with in the '60s, like nut loaf with yeast gravy," says Nell, with a smile. "My mission was to change his mind."
|"It's fairly obvious one can't be a perfect environmentalist," says Nell. "Perfection isn't the goal; a good life is. And a good life has a lot to do with who you are in the world, with intent as much as with the end result."
She did, and today Newman's Own Organics products resonate with consumers, proving that timing, persistence and great tasting products are the ingredients for success. "We knew there was a market for organic snack foods, but couldn't have anticipated just how quickly the demand for our products would grow," says Nell, partner, product developer and president. With more than 100 products, Newman's Own Organics is one of the strongest organic brands.
In fact, meteoric success led to the division's spinoff as an independent company, based in Aptos, Calif., in 2001. The unit remains closely tied to Newman's Own, and like its parent, all royalty payments after taxes are donated to educational and charitable organizations. Since 1982, thousands of charities worldwide have been the recipients of more than $200 million from the coffers of Newman's Own.
"'Great tasting products that happen to be organic' is our slogan, and it really says a lot about us," says Nell. "We've seen that people increasingly want to know more about the food they eat, not just how many calories a product contains. It's becoming more important to them how ingredients are grown and processed on the way to their grocer's shelf."
Nell says she was lucky to have grown up in an old colonial farmhouse with a garden and a few apple trees. "My mom taught me to cook at an early age, and the ingredients we used came from our garden," she says. "The fruit ended up in our pies, and the eggs laid by our chickens went into cakes and omelets. My father taught me to fish, and we polished off what I plucked out of the Aspetuck River in Connecticut with corn and tomatoes from a local farm stand. My pa always had a good eye for produce. Early on, he showed me how to thump a melon."
Spreading the environmental message is dear to Nell's heart. An avid student of biology, she has a B.S. in human ecology from the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine. She worked for the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, moved west to head the Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary (working to reestablish the bald eagle in central California) and later did fund-raising for the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research group. Outdoors is where she prefers to be. She's a licensed falconer, and a few years back this baby boomer took up surfing to help her focus and stay in shape.
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:o( Smilisp :-) is a new dialect of Lisp featuring a very special paradigm known as "Emotional Programming". When you [S-]express yourself, your mood is not the same at the beginning of your [S-]expression (where you might wonder a bit what you're going to say) and at the end (where you enjoy having said something), and :o( Smilisp :-) reflects that.
:o( Smilisp :-) is implemented in (and fully compatible with) Common Lisp. :o( Smilisp :-) can also be implemented in itself. The distribution comes with a portable implementation of the language, a demonstration program (the implementation of the language in itself as a matter of fact), and an [X]Emacs library supporting emotional fontification.
We are confident that :o( Smilisp :-) is a major step towards the modernization of Lisp, notably by solving the parenthesis problem, and replacing S-Expressions with E-Expressions (Emotional Expressions). We are also confident that emotional programming will become the standard programming paradigm in the future, and that :o( Smilisp :-) greatly contributes to pioneering this idea.
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Naomi Watts & Tina Fey: Kennedy Center Honors 2012!
Naomi Watts and her husband Liev Schreiber arrive at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors held at the Kennedy Center Hall of States on Sunday (December 2) in Washington, DC.
The 44-year-old actress and Liev, 45, were joined by Tina Fey, Lenny Kravitz, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, Alec Baldwin with his wife Hilaria Thomas, Robert De Niro, David Letterman, and Jimmy Kimmel with his wife Molly McNearney.
The 2012 honorees are Dustin, David, dancer Natalia Makarova, Buddy Guy, and members of the British rock band Led Zeppelin – Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones.
FYI: Tina is wearing a Naeem Khan dress. Naomi is wearing a Roland Mouret dress and Monique Pean earrings.
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Adult Day Care
Namkee G. Choi
Adult day care centers provide important health, social, and support services for functionally and cognitively impaired adults and their caregivers. The adult day care services are underutilized, however, because of the shortage of centers, caregivers' lack of awareness of and resistance to using services, and the mismatch between the needs of potential consumers and their informal caregivers and the services provided by the centers. To foster and support the expansion of adult day care centers, lessons learned from national demonstration programs need to be disseminated, and social workers need to be trained to provide essential services at the centers.
Aging: Services
Nancy Morrow-Howell and Leslie Hasche
Despite high levels of functioning among older adults, chronic health conditions lead to impairment and the need for help. Family members provide most of the assistance; yet formal services such as in-home personal and homemaker services, congregate and home-delivered meals, adult day services, employment and educational services, transportation, nursing homes, assisted and supportive living facilities, legal and financial services, and case management are available. Even with the growing number and type of services, unequal access and uneven quality persist. In these settings, social workers develop and administer programs, provide clinical care, offer case management and discharge planning, and contribute to policy development.
Bereavement Practice
Mary Sormanti
Bereavement, which is the circumstance of having experienced the death of a significant other, is associated with significant emotional, cognitive, spiritual, physical, and social disruption. Given its ubiquitous nature, nearly everyone is affected by bereavement at some point, and opportunities for social work intervention with the bereaved are many and varied. This entry provides a brief summary of our extant knowledge about bereavement including its theoretical underpinnings, psychosocial sequelae, and empirical evidence of related interventions.
Client Violence
Christina E. Newhill
Client violence and workplace safety are relevant issues for all social workers across practice settings. This entry addresses why and how social workers may be targets for a client's violent behavior, and what we know about who is at risk of encountering violence. Understanding violence from a biopsychosocial perspective, identifying risk markers associated with violent behavior, and an introduction to guidelines for conducting a risk assessment will be discussed. The entry concludes by identifying and describing some general strategies for the prevention of client violence.
Collaborative Care
Ellen Fink-Samnick
The past two decades have witnessed a surge in the growth of initiatives and funding to weave physical and behavioral health care, particularly with identification of the high costs incurred by their comorbidity. In response, a robust body of evidence now demonstrates the effectiveness of what is referred to as collaborative care. A wide range of models transverse the developmental lifespan, diagnostic categories, plus practice settings (e.g., primary care, specialty medical care, community-based health centers, clinics, and schools). This article will discuss the foundational elements of collaborative care, including the broad sweep of associated definitions and related concepts. Contemporary models will be reviewed along with identified contextual topics for practice. Special focus will be placed on the diverse implications collaborative care poses for the health and behavioral health workforce, especially social workers.
Confidentiality and Privileged Communication
Carolyn I. Polowy, Sherri Morgan, W. Dwight Bailey, and Carol Gorenberg
Confidentiality of client communications is one of the ethical foundations of the social work profession and has become a legal obligation in most states. Many problems arise in the application of the principles of confidentiality and privilege to the professional services provided by social workers. This entry discusses the concepts of client confidentiality and privileged communications and outlines some of the applicable exceptions. While the general concept of confidentiality applies in many interactions between social workers and clients, the application of confidentiality and privilege laws are particularly key to the practice of clinical social workers in various practice settings.
Grief and Loss
Sara Sanders, Matthew Tvedte, and Mercedes Espinal-Lujan
This article summarizes the history of grief theory and provides an overview of major theoretical frameworks for understanding grief and grief work. Specific types of losses are defined and described, including the newer concept of community grief and loss. Interventions for individuals, groups, and communities are outlined, followed by a discussion of the role of social workers in addressing grief and loss.
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Shirley Otis-Green
Health social work is a subspecialization of social work concerned with a person's adjustment to changes in one's health and the impact this has on that person's social network. Social workers in every setting must be ready to assist individuals and families adjusting to illness and coping with medical crises. This entry provides a brief overview and history of health social work and describes the settings and roles where this work is practiced. Significant challenges and opportunities in clinical care, research, education, and policy are discussed. Standards and guidelines for quality practice are then noted.
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Frederic G. Reamer
The possibility of practitioner impairment exists in every profession. Stress related to employment, illness or death of family members, marital or relationship problems, financial problems, midlife crises, personal physical or mental illness, legal problems, substance abuse, and professional education can lead to impairment. This article provides an overview of the nature and extent of impairment in social work, practitioners' coping strategies, responses to impairment, and rehabilitation options and protocols. Particular attention is paid to the problem of sexual misconduct in social workers' relationships with clients. The author reviews relevant ethical standards and presents a model assessment and action plan for social workers who encounter an impaired colleague.
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Social work regulation protects the public by establishing the qualifications that a professional must possess, by establishing a means of holding professionals accountable, and by having a system for the public to make complaints against allegedly incompetent or unethical practitioners and have them investigated and adjudicated. Certification also exists in various specialty areas of social work practice, as is a function of professional organizations versus governmental regulatory agencies.
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Bruins nip Senators despite Lehner's performance
Boston, MA – Nathan Horton scored the game-winner in the third period and the Boston Bruins overcame a career-high 47-save effort by Ottawa's Robin Lehner to get by the Senators, 3-2, at TD Garden.
David Krejci and Tyler Seguin tallied in the first period for the Bruins, who unleashed a season-high 50 shots on net en route to their second straight win.
Anton Khudobin was just a bit better than Lehner, allowing two goals on 47 shots.
Colin Greening and Andre Benoit provided the offense for the Senators, who have dropped two in a row since winning six of seven.
Horton picked up the rebound of a Milan Lucic chance and put the Bruins back on top just after the midway point of the final period, and Lehner made sure it was just a one-goal deficit with several quality saves in the final minutes.
"It was nice to see we bounced back in the third and scored that goal," said Bruins forward Milan Lucic.
The Sens pulled Lehner with 47 seconds to play, then went up 6-on-4 as Boston defenseman Johnny Boychuk was whistled for interference with 32.3 seconds left.
However, an equalizer was not in the cards.
"It was a hard-fought game, but one that we're not used to because it was so much more open," said Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson about the 97 combined shots on goal. We had our opportunities, came close, but their goalie played well."
Ottawa opened the scoring shy of the three-minute mark on Greening's backhander from the right side, but the Bruins struck twice in a span of 61 seconds to move ahead.
First, Krejci jumped into a Zdeno Chara point shot and the resulting carom hit the back of the net at 3:28, then Boston went up 2-1 when Seguin shoveled home a Brad Marchand dish from the right side into an open net just over a minute later.
The Sens drew even with 1:55 played in the third, when Benoit was credited with a tally on his point blast which hit the back brace under the crossbar and caromed back into play. A brief review determined the goal was good, but only after more than a minute of game action followed.
Game Notes
Seguin's game-high 12 shots on net were the most for a Bruin since Bill Guerin did so in 2001 ... Prior to the game, the Bruins acquired veteran forward Jaromir Jagr from the Dallas Stars for forwards Lane MacDermid and Cody Payne and a conditional second-round pick in this June's draft ... Jagr is expected to join Boston on Wednesday ... Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron left the game in the second period and did not return due to an upper-body injury, believed to be a head issue ... Lehner's previous season and career high for saves in one game was a 44-stop effort in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Bruins on February 28.


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Low Wooden Decks: Yea or Nay?
I really want to like all of these low-to-the-ground decks. There's something so modern and casual and carefree about them. But then the architect in me gets all uptight, takes one look at them, and winces at the close contact between the wood and the ground. All I can think of is rot in the very near future.
Then that wild, crazy, less-than-practical little devil on my shoulder says, "These look great!," and "Don't worry so much!," and "Other people are doing it and the proof is right here in these beautiful photo shoots!."
- The deck of this Jackson Hole home, from Sunset Magazine, acts as an extension of the living room.
- Mark Egerstrom made the most of his West Hollywood home by adding a small deck.
- This low deck, from Landscaping Network, is all about comfortable lounging.
- Shades of Green Landscape Architecture created this wooden patio under the trees for a project in Orinda, CA.
- Johnson Architects designed Twisp Cabin, and its deck, to blend in with its environment.
What do you think? Do low wooden decks feel wrong to you because of putting wood in such close proximity to the ground and all of its moisture? Or am I just being a stick in the mud (no pun intended)?
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Hi there
My LO is 10 weeks today, gaining weight well and drinking like a charm... The only problem I've been having is latching the little guy onto my left breast. It isn't painful initially but can become quite uncomfortable during the nursing session. I often end up taking him off when he starts comfort sucking. When he comes off there is red streaks on top of the nipple and on the left side (where the nipple and areola meet). Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
On a different note...the skin around my nipple has become quite dry. Is this normal?
Thanking you all in advance


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Megan O. Steintrager
You probably know of and have even tried a few aphrodisiac foods, but what about eats that squash your libido? Here are a few to steer clear of on Valentine's Day, or anytime you'd rather stoke those romantic flames instead of tossing water on them.
Sausage and Cheese Pizza: Cheese, pizza, and sausage are three of the top food sources of saturated fat in the U.S., and not only does fatty food weigh you down and make you more sleepy than frisky, it clogs your arteries, which restricts blood flow not just to your heart, but to other key organs as well. If sharing a pie with your honey is your idea of romance, stick to one of our healthy pizza recipes.
Excess Salt: Another reason to steer clear of that sausage and cheese pizza: Eating too much salt can lead to high blood pressure, which in turn may cause erectile dysfunction. Ready to slash the sodium in your diet yet?
Certain Fish: The PCBs that can build up in some fish (especially larger, fatty ones) can slash sex drive, especially for women. Farmed salmon is of particular concern, so choose wild to get wild.
SEE MORE: All You Need to Know About Oysters
Concentrated Soy Products: While many nutrition experts tout the health benefits of edamame, tofu, and other soy products, some worry that the phytoestrogens in soy can lower testosterone levels and sex drive in men. While the truth of this claim is the subject of much debate, to play it safe, take it easy on the mega-doses of soy in powders, bars, and supplements.
Inulin: Over the past few years, companies have begun adding this natural ingredient derived from roots (generally chicory root) to pump up the fiber content of their products. What's that got to do with your libido? "Of all the fibers added to foods, inulin is the one that probably causes the most intestinal gas," Joanne Slavin, a professor of nutrition at the University of Minnesota, was quoted as saying last year in the Nutrition Action Health Letter. So, unless you want to ride the fart train with Liz Lemon, read the label on your yogurt containers and granola bars.
See more from Epicurious:
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The WORST Foods to Eat on Valentine's Day
10 Awesome Mail-Order Chocolates


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Thanks Jolly Roger for ur great work.
er, the Kef figures... are they what you've recorded or is that 'Greek accounting'?
What is going on with the weather? May, July and August have been the coolest I have recorded in 13 years. June was the second coolest in 13 years. I only recorded 1 cm of rain in July, but many places had a lot more. Unheard of in July!Temperatures shown are the monthly average of the highest daily temperature.Rainfall has been measured at Valeriano and total rainfall is calculated from August to the following July.
Thanks Roger. The summer was 2-3 deg cooler by your data. Very odd what with global warming etc. ??Part of the austerity measures? Tony
Quote from: TonyKath on Thursday, 09 October, 2014 @ 14:02:09Thanks Roger. The summer was 2-3 deg cooler by your data. Very odd what with global warming etc. ??Part of the austerity measures? TonyActually, I think 'Global Warming' is a misnomer. What it actually means is that there are likely to be more extremes of weather in the future. Some places will be warmer, some cooler, some more wet and some more dry.The UK had a pretty decent summer, but there are predictions of extreme cold this winter.
Rog, how's it looking for September and October? Wetter than usual?
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