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According to traditional Chinese medical theory, acupuncture points are situated on meridians along which qi, the vital energy, flows. However, I have proposed a less mysterious neurophysiological mechanism to explain the beneficial effects of this 2,000-year-old practice (Medical Hypotheses, 73:470-72, 2009). In particular, my hypothesis is based on the surprising finding that a hitherto unknown extracellular signalling system exists between cells, including nerve cells.
Adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) is well established as an intracellular energy source that powers biochemical processes. In 1972 I proposed that ATP has another biochemical role: it acts as an extracellular signalling molecule between cells. The messages carried by ATP are received on the surface of cells by specific receptors, which I termed purinoceptors, because ATP belongs to a group of chemicals known as purines. Six years later, two families of purinoceptors were identified—P1 receptors for adenosine, the breakdown product...
Two intriguing hints prompted me to consider that inserting and twisting a needle might release ATP from the skin and form the physiological basis for the effects of acupuncture: 1) Initially it was thought that the ATP acting as an extracellular signalling molecule was merely a by-product released when cells were damaged or dying. 2) A paper published 34 years ago reported that ATP injected into the human skin stimulated sensory neurons (Pain, 3:367-77, 1977).
It is now clear that ATP can be released from many cell types (e.g., osteoblasts and endothelial, epithelial, and glial cells) in response to gentle mechanical stimulation that does not damage the cells. ATP is also released in response to heat and electrical currents—techniques used today in conjunction with acupuncture to enhance its effect. Recent evidence has also confirmed the 1977 finding that sensory nerve terminals in the skin are activated by ATP. In this way, messages can be relayed from the skin via interneurons in the spinal cord to the brain stem. Furthermore, the well-established reduction of pain by acupuncture may be explained by the possibility that the binding of ATP to purinoceptors on sensory nerve endings in the skin activates a signaling pathway which ultimately modulates pain perception in the brain's cortex. Acupuncture's inhibition of pain may also involve the release of endorphins.
The ATP-activated sensory nerves also lead to modulation of the activity of brain-stem neurons controlling autonomic nervous system functions of gut, lung, urogenital, and cardiovascular systems—all of which have been treatment targets for traditional acupuncture procedures. There is published evidence for the release of ATP from keratinocytes, the major cell type in the skin, during mechanical stimulation. Similarly, ATP is released from urothelial cells lining the bladder and ureter in response to stretch, and receptors for ATP are present on suburothelial sensory nerves, ready to relay messages to the pain centers in the central nervous system. In addition, release of ATP in response to mechanical stimulation (changes in blood flow) from endothelial cells that line blood vessels leads to vasodilatation. And further, ATP is released from epithelial cells lining the airways in response to stretch, leading to activation of ATP receptors on sensory nerves, in turn resulting in the activation of reflexes that protect the lung against hyperventilation.
Immunohistochemical studies have shown that the specific ATP receptor subtypes, P2X3 and P2X2/3, are located on sensory nerve endings in the skin. The same subtypes are also especially abundant in the tongue, another site where acupuncture needles are placed. An isolated preparation of tongue tissue showed that the increased electrical activity in lingual general sensory nerves in response to mechanical stimulation could be mimicked by injecting ATP into the preparation and blocked by injecting antagonists to the P2X3 receptor subtype. The cell bodies of the sensory nerve endings that supply the skin are located in sensory ganglia, which then connect with neurons in the dorsal spinal cord. A series of interneurons then mediate modulatory pathways to the brain stem and hypothalamus, which are the nervous control centers for the activities of visceral organs. (See illustration.)
Suggested experiments
Many tools are available to test various aspects of this hypothesis experimentally. Apyrase, a readily available enzyme that breaks down ATP, could be applied to the skin to see whether the enzyme diminishes the benefits of acupuncture. In contrast, inhibitors of ATP breakdown, such as ARL-67156, could be employed to see whether this would enhance the beneficial effects of acupuncture. There are also very sensitive assay methods for measuring ATP release, which could be used in skin subjected to mechanical deformation, heat, and electrical current. Selected blockers (antagonists) of P2X3 and P2X2/3 receptors are available, which should block the beneficial effects of acupuncture. It seems likely from experiments on the bladder and intestine that ATP-sensitive low-threshold sensory fibers mediate physiological events, while high-threshold fibers mediate pain. This will need to be clarified for the sensory nerves supplying the skin and tongue before approaches to enhancing the ATP-related responses to acupuncture are carried out, in case the enhancement results in pain.
I hope that this hypothesis will provoke some scientists interested in acupuncture to investigate further.
Geoffrey Burnstock is Emeritus Professor and President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre of University College Medical School in London. He is editor-in-chief of Autonomic Neuroscience, Purinergic Signalling, and the journals Open Neuroscience and Open Pharmacology.

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What's the connection between them and prosperity? (Their parents are probably asking the same question.) They generate an atmosphere of cultural richness and innovation that attracts more obviously productive types, who have lots of choices about where to live and will pick places they find exciting and attractive.
Here in New York City, gentrification is one of our most popular spectator sports, so there's nothing new to us about the concept that trendy neighborhoods ultimately attract people with money. What I did find intriguing, though, was the idea that hipsters "generate an atmosphere of cultural richness and innovation," and it's one that's both comforting and disturbing.
Speaking of Williamsburg, the Brooklyn Paper reports that it now has more bike shops than Park Slope:
In the spectator sport of New York City gentrification, you're supposed to hate Williamsburg because of all the hipsters, and you're supposed to hate Park Slope because of all the yuppies and babies. Therefore, publications like the Brooklyn Paper must occasionally stir things up with titillating passages like this:
Silk Road's Brendon Nicholas is not surprised — he argues that Williamsburg has more commuters while the Slope is riddled with "club riders" who train for cycling races or travel in packs like feral mammals around Prospect Park.
"You don't have as much here, you have more leisurely riding where people ride out to the beach on a road bike," said Nicholas. "We're seeing the trend toward single speed bicycles with breaks — bicycles that coast."
Once they started riding more than two miles at a time, it had to happen...but "breaks?" Evidently the Brooklyn Paper uses the same style manual as the New York Post.
Williamsburg has long been home to the city's most committed commuters.
More than 6,200 people ride over the Williamsburg Bridge each day according to city transportation studies — nearly equaling the number of riders who cross either the Manhattan Bridge or Brooklyn Bridge each day.
If the Williamsburg Bridge sees fewer cyclists than either the Manhattan or Brooklyn bridges, how then is Williamsburg "home to the city's most committed commuters?" Anyway, how do you know where the people who ride over the Williamsburg Bridge are actually from? I use it fairly often, yet I don't live anywhere near the place. But perhaps the most confusing passage in the article was this:
Bike shops in Williamsburg and Greenpoint sell many fixed gears and single speeds while Park Slope shops often sell 21 to 27 speeds to riders who need to climb the neighborhood's hills.
Ah yes, the famous hills of Park Slope. Who is selling new bikes with 21 speeds anyway? I think the only place you can get one of those now is Walmart:
Speaking of bikes that will help feral yuppies conquer the hills, a reader has forwarded me the most ridiculously Cat 6-tastic bicycle ever "curated:"
Here's what it was designed for:
Specific parameters: Stealth commuter. Half country roads, half urban Boston. 13 miles each way. No fenders. Titanium.
I wonder why it took a bunch of "long conversation(s)" for this person to tell the builders that he wanted the world's most expensive Specialized Sirrus. It seems to me he could have communicated that in a single text message. Anyway, when you interpret "etherial parameters like feelings, attitude, likes, dislike, design sense, specifics of the environment and a lot more," you apparently wind up with a hybrid bike with Di2:
Yes, it has crabon wheels and electric shifting integrated into the handlebars, but it doesn't have fenders. I also don't know where he's supposed to carry his stuff, but maybe someone's sewing him a $9,000 LeSportsac.


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By Marilynn Marchione
Willpower apparently can be bought. The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed dieters in a yearlong study to drop an average of 9 pounds — four times more weight than others who were not offered dough to pass up the doughnuts.
Many employers, insurers and Internet programs dangle dollars to try to change bad habits like smoking or not exercising, but most studies have found this doesn't work very well or for very long.
The new study, done with Mayo Clinic employees, was the longest test yet of financial incentives for weight loss. Doctors think it succeeded because it had a mix of carrots and sticks — penalties for not losing weight, multiple ways to earn cash for succeeding, and a chance to recoup lost money if you fell off the "diet wagon" and later repented.
Incentives are "not like training wheels where people learn healthy habits and then will continue them on their own" — you have to keep them up for them to work, said one study leader, Dr. Steve Driver of Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota.
And if you're looking to set up a system like this at work or among friends, the key is to make it self-sustaining, Driver said. The Mayo one did that by having people who didn't lose weight put penalties into a fund that paid rewards to those who did.
It's also a good idea to make people pony up in advance. One woman flew into a tizzy when she stepped on a scale at a weigh-in and was told she'd have to pay.
"She headed for the door" but later came back and paid, Driver said. "People in Minnesota are pretty honest."
Mayo paid for the study and Driver owns stock in Gympact, a company with an Internet program that gives financial incentives for exercising.
The diet study involved 100 obese employees at Mayo Clinic but was not a workplace wellness program. Half were given weight-loss counseling, monthly weigh-ins and a three-month gym membership. The others had those things plus financial incentives.
The aim was to lose 4 pounds a month up to a goal that depended on their starting weight. If they failed, they paid $20 into a kitty. If they succeeded, they got a voucher to collect $20 when the study ended. Part of the kitty was used to pay the rewards. The rest was put into a lottery that anyone could win, whether they had made their weight-loss goals or not.
"People saw that if they stuck with it, they had a chance at winning more than they had lost," Driver said.
Participants in the financial incentives group also earned $10 a month and lottery "tickets" for coming to monthly weigh-ins and texting their weights to study leaders each week, said Dr. Don Hensrud, preventive medicine chief at Mayo. So people could have lost as much as $240 or won as much as $360, plus what built up in the lottery fund.
After a year, 27 of the 50 financial incentive participants came out ahead moneywise. About 62 percent of them completed the study versus 26 percent of the other group. The incentives group lost a little more than 9 pounds (4 kilograms) on average, compared to 2.3 pounds for the others.
The results are promising, but people may need to lose more than 9 pounds to make a big difference in health, said Dr. Kevin Volpp, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.
"There's been an explosion of interest in this" and 86 percent of large employers now provide incentive programs like this, he said.
The cash was a big motivator for one study participant — Audrey Traun, a lab-training specialist who dropped 40 pounds, from 215 pounds to 175 pounds.
"I was impressed. I didn't think I was quite capable of that," said Traun. As the study went on, though, the cash became less important, and "it was actually more motivating to see my progress — pounds lost and how my clothes were fitting," she said.
Traun used the nearly $400 she earned in the study on a family vacation. — AP


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Seafood markets in Fukushima, Japan, are being stocked with locally caught products again, as officials seek to reintroduce local fare in the area that was hit by an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in March of 2011.
The AP reports on the details:
"Octopus and whelk, a kind of marine snail, were chosen for the initial shipments because testing for radioactive cesium consistently measured no detectable amounts, according to the Fukushima Prefectural (state) fishing cooperative. They were caught Friday and boiled so they last longer while being tested for radiation before they could be sold Monday."
The seafood goes on sale in the same month that Japan lifted its moratorium on nuclear power. Officials approved the restart of two nuclear power plant reactors in Fukui prefecture, which lies in the country's western region.
The fishing industry around Fukushima's coastline was severely crippled by the triple catastrophes that befell the eastern prefecture last year. And in May, scientists said they detected radioactivity in Pacific-caught tuna that was traced to Fukushima.
But, as NPR's Richard Harris reported, that story may have been overblown:
"Yes, radiation in seafood seems scary," he wrote for The Salt. "But here's the catch (if you pardon the expression). Tuna, like every other food on the planet, already contains naturally occurring radiation. It has potassium-40 and polonium-210. It always has and it always will. In addition, seafood in general contains a trace of cesium-137 left over from nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s."
Still, it might be a while before local fish like tuna, flounder and sea bass are back on the shelves. Officials say that crabs might be the next to return to markets. And some fans of northeastern Japan's seafood are ready to eat it up.
"I was determined to buy (the seafood) today," Mitsuru Tokura, 63, told the Japan Times. "We must help the local industry. I will eat them as sashimi." Tokura reportedly bought two containers of octopus.
Seeking to lure customers back, the seafood was available at a 40 percent discount at one store.
"I was filled with both uncertainty and hope today, but I was so happy when I found out the local supermarket had sold out by 3 p.m.," Hirofumi Konno, an official at the fishing cooperative in Fukushima's Soma city, told the AP.
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Sunday 13 October 2024 (other days)
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We are the people of the Lord, the flock that is led by his hand: come, let us adore him, alleluia.
Year: B(II). Psalm week: 4. Liturgical Colour: Green.
About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:
Mid-morning reading (Terce) | 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 © |
Your body, you know, is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you since you received him from God. You are not your own property; you have been bought and paid for. That is why you should use your body for the glory of God.
Noon reading (Sext) | Deuteronomy 10:12 © |
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you? Only this: to fear the Lord your God, to follow all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.
Afternoon reading (None) | Song of Songs 8:6-7 © |
Love is strong as death,
jealousy as relentless as Sheol.
The flash of it is a flash of fire,
a flame of the Lord himself.
Love no floods can quench,
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WATERTOWN, Mass. — Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat Friday night less than 24 hours after a wild car chase and gun battle that left his older brother dead and Boston and its suburbs sealed in an extraordinary dragnet.
"We got him," Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted. A cheer erupted from a crowd gathered near the scene.
"CAPTURED!!!" police added later. "The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway attempt, authorities said.
Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities said the search for Dzhokhar had proved fruitless, they tracked down the 19-year-old college student holed up in the boat, weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind.
He was hospitalized in serious condition, unable to be questioned about his motives.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout early in the day. At one point, he was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, according to investigators.
The violent endgame unfolded four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.
The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, just outside Boston. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the attack.
President Barack Obama said the nation owes a debt of gratitude to law enforcement officials and the people of Boston for their help in the search. But he said there are many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings, including whether the two men had help from others. He urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations.
The breakthrough came when a man in a Watertown neighborhood saw blood on a boat parked in a yard and pulled back the tarp to see a man covered in blood, authorities said. The resident called 911 and when police arrived, they tried to talk the suspect into getting out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
"He was not communicative," Davis said.
Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire — the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history.
Watertown residents who had been told in the morning to stay inside behind locked doors poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene.
Celebratory bells rang from a church tower. Teenagers waved American flags. Drivers honked. Every time an emergency vehicle went by, people cheered loudly.
"They finally caught the jerk," said nurse Cindy Boyle. "It was scary. It was tense."
Police said three other people were taken into custody for questioning at an off-campus housing complex at the University of the Massachusetts at Dartmouth where the younger man may have lived.
"Tonight, our family applauds the entire law enforcement community for a job well done, and trust that our justice system will now do its job," said the family of 8-year-old Martin Richard, who died in the bombing.
The FBI was swamped with tips — 300,000 per minute — after the release of the surveillance-camera photos, but what role those played in the overnight clash was unclear. State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their night of crime.
The search by thousands of law enforcement officers all but paralyzed the Boston area for much of the day. Officials shut down all mass transit, including Amtrak trains to New York, advised businesses not to open, and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to unlock their doors only for uniformed police.
Around midday, the suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., pleaded on television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness."
Until the younger man's capture, it was looking like a grim day for police. As night fell, they announced that they were scaling back the hunt and lifting the stay-indoors order across Boston and some of its suburbs because they had come up empty-handed.
But then the break came and within a couple of hours, the four-day ordeal was over. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured about a mile from the site of the shootout that killed his brother.
Chechnya has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as "an excuse for invading other countries."
Also, the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of a foreign government in 2011, and nothing derogatory was found, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official did not identify the foreign country or say why it made the request.
Authorities said the man dubbed Suspect No. 1 — the one in sunglasses and a dark baseball cap in the surveillance-camera pictures — was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while Suspect No. 2, the one in a white baseball cap worn backward, was his younger brother.
Exactly how the long night of crime began was unclear. But police said the brothers carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, then released him unharmed at a gas station.
They also shot to death a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, while he was responding to a report of a disturbance, investigators said.
The search for the Mercedes led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer, 33-year-old Richard Donohue, was shot and critically wounded, authorities said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev somehow slipped away. He ran over his already wounded brother as he fled, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation. At some point, he abandoned his car and ran away.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died at a Boston hospital after suffering what doctors said were multiple gunshot wounds and a possible blast injury.
The brothers had built an arsenal of pipe bombs, grenades and improvised explosive devices and used some of the weapons in trying to make their getaway, said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Watertown resident Kayla Dipaolo said she was woken up overnight by gunfire and a large explosion that sounded "like it was right next to my head ... and shook the whole house."
She said she was looking at the front door when a bullet came through the side paneling. SWAT team officers were running all over her yard, she said.
"It was very scary," she said. "There are two bullet holes in the side of my house, and by the front door there is another."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied accounting as a part-time student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston for three semesters from 2006 to 2008, the school said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was on campus this week after the Boston Marathon bombing. The campus closed down Friday along with colleges around the Boston area.
The men's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview with AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, is "a true angel." He said his son was studying medicine.
"He is such an intelligent boy," the father said. "We expected him to come on holidays here."
The city of Cambridge announced two years ago that it had awarded a $2,500 scholarship to him. At the time, he was a senior at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a highly regarded public school whose alumni include Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing.
Tsarni, the men's uncle, said the brothers traveled here together from Russia. He called his nephews "losers" and said they had struggled to settle in the U.S. and ended up "thereby just hating everyone."
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U.S. Raids In Libya And Somalia Target Al-Qaida Network
More details are emerging after a pair of U.S. commando raids over the weekend that targeted alleged terrorists in Libya and Somalia.
In Libya, Abu Anas al-Libi, a top al-Qaida operative accused by Washington of involvement in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was snatched from a street in the capital, Tripoli, in an operation on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses say al-Libi was "taken peacefully in Tripoli," NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman tells Morning Edition.
"There was no real sign of struggle," Bowman says, adding that al-Libi's brother said "he was thrown into a car that sped away."
FBI and CIA officials are said to have been involved in the snatch of al-Libi.
"There are some indications that al-Libi moved about fairly openly," Bowman says.
The Libyan government says it was not made aware of the operation, which it has called a "kidnapping," sharply criticizing the raid as a violation of Libyan sovereignty.
Secretary of State John Kerry defended the U.S. action, saying al-Libi was a "legal and appropriate target" for the U.S. military and that he will face justice in a court of law.
The New York Times, quoting unnamed officials, says al-Libi "is being interrogated while in military custody on [the USS San Antonio] ... in the Mediterranean Sea."
In the second raid, a U.S. Navy SEAL team swam ashore at a seaside villa south of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, and engaged in a fierce firefight with al-Shabab militants. The target of the U.S. raid is said to have been the senior al-Shabab leader, Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, alias Ikrima.
Attack helicopters took part in the raid, according to eyewitnesses, Bowman says. The SEALs later withdrew from the fighting, and it's not yet clear whether Ikrima was killed.
"There were some al-Shabab casualties," Bowman says. Al-Shabab says it killed some Americans, but U.S. officials say there were no casualties among the SEAL team.
NPR's Gregory Warner says Ikrima "boasts connections to both al-Shabab in Somalia and to a Kenyan jihadist group called al-Hijra. Kenyan authorities announced Friday that two of the four terrorists killed in the Westgate Mall attack were al-Hijra militants."
Ikrima is a Kenyan of Somali origin who ran groups of fighters in Somalia that have attacked churches in Kenya and used roadside bombs against civilians, Bowman says.
Update At 1:50 p.m. ET:
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says of al-Libi's capture: "We believe in a system that brings people to justice through indictment and that's what we're doing now."


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No, I'm talking about the (drumroll, please)...
Or, if you don't like "Christmas," you could go with the...uh... Charitable Charity Countdown!!
Many of you remember this crazy thing I did last year, when John and I skipped gifts and decorations and instead donated to a different charity each day for two weeks. I asked you guys to recommend places to give, and invited you to join us by giving a single dollar each day to the featured charity.
But the really crazy thing is that a lot of you did.
The response was so great, in fact, that our little catch-the-spirit campaign helped hundreds and even thousands of people and animals in need. We were also flooded with e-mails & comments from you readers, telling us what a positive impact giving those dollars made on your lives, too.
So this year, we're doing it again. Twelve days, twelve charities, and (hopefully) twelve of your hard-earned dollars.
This time each charity will be set up with either Paypal or First Giving, so you'll only have to enter all your information once, as opposed to twelve times. Most of you probably already have a Paypal account, and First Giving is a similar set-up (completely free to you to use) that only gives to charities.
Now, I know times are tough. I know many of you are out of work, or just scraping by. John and I lost our painting company because of the economy, and now rely on this blog to pay the bills. So, believe me, I know.
I also know that giving a dollar, and seeing that dollar combine with thousands of other people's dollars to feed the starving, heal the sick, rescue the needy, or just put a smile on a sick kid's face can be the key to a much more meaningful holiday this year.
It's a buck. Four quarters a day. Let's pool our pocket change and see what happens.
Only not in a "hey, why don't we smash these extra cinnamon buns together and make a big ol' green gaping maw of nastiness" kind of way:
So, starting today, there will be a short addendum on each day's post listing the name of a charity, a one sentence summary of what they do, and a link to give. Give your dollar to those you like, and then spread the word! Talk to your kids about it. Maybe go volunteer somewhere. Bottom line: do whatever it takes to remind yourself that there's more to this season than shopping, annoying renditions of "Jingle Bells," and edible snowman crime scenes:
There must have been some magic to
that hundred gallon jug.
For when they dropped it on his head
he became an accent rug!
Our kick-off charity is Give Kids the World, which provides children who have life-threatening conditions and their families absolutely *amazing*, dream-come-true vacations to the theme parks here in Orlando, Florida. (Check out the photo albums of the GKTW Village. It's awesome.)
Click here to give your dollar.
Clarification from john: Firstgiving doesn't work with PayPal. However, it is the only site that we found that allows people to give as little as a dollar and for us to track it. Plus, it's super easy to use. A couple of the charities will be set up with PayPal, though, and we will link to those pages when we have one. Thanks so much everyone. You guys are the best. -john


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This morning, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Bumbo International Trust voluntarily recalled 4 million of its Bumbo Baby Seats. The recall comes after a series of reports of babies falling from the seat when placed on an elevated surface.
Since 2007, there have been over 50 reports of injuries involving the seat, which include skull fractures, minor head injuries, as well as bumps and bruises. The recalled seat was sold at Sears, Target, Toys R Us, Babies R Us, USA Babies, and Walmart, from August 2003 through August 2012 for between $30 and $50.
If you think you may have a recalled Bumbo Baby Seat, check the bottom of the seat for the follow words: "Manufactured by Bumbo South Africa Material: Polyurethane World Patent No. PCT: ZA/1999/00030."
Do you own this seat? Stop using it immediately and contact Bumbo for a free repair kit which will include a restraint belt and installation instructions. You can order the kit by calling or calling (866) 898-4999 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday through Thursday and between 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. CT on Friday. You can also visit the website and order the free repair kit by visiting www.recall.BumboUSA.com. Do not return the Bumbo seat to retailers as they will not be able to provide the repair kit.


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But that's all for another time. Clearly it has made me a very serious person though:
vintage skirt, boots, necklace, bolero. hairbow from mexican market. headband by jennifer loiselle. olive tights, idk. yokoo belt thing. death stare, bob dylan in this scarring video.
More Baby Lynnie/Queen of Hearts lips! I heard "Lady Gaga" about 5 times today and wanted to throw overly sharp pencils at the comparers. But Elizabeth's Gaga Jackolantern is about the coolest thing I've ever seen (along with the CdG video of course.) I am so excited for Halloween! Whatchewbein? I am going to be a creepy doll with this lipstick and zombie eyes painted and false lashes on my eyelids so I can walk around with my eyes closed and scare moms that dress up as slutty nurses and share Tucker Max jokes with their other mom friends. Then Ella and I are going to watch Beetlejuice and Rosemary's Baby and accompany a really unhealthy amount of candy with more heart attacks and not being able to fall asleep. DON'T BE JEALOUS, IT'S HARD I KNOW.


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Addressable TV is an emerging technology that allows advertisers — Senate hopefuls and insurance companies alike — to pay some broadcasters to pinpoint specific homes. Advertisers have long bought ads knowing that only a fraction of the audience was likely to respond to them. Allowing campaigns — political or not — to finely hone their TV pitches to individuals could let them more efficiently spend their advertising dollars.
Next Up: TV Ads Just For You, Dear Voter
WASHINGTON (AP) — The days when political campaigns would try to make inroads with demographic groups such as soccer moms or white working-class voters are gone. Now, the operatives are targeting specific individuals.
And, in some places, they can reach those individuals directly through their televisions.
Welcome to Addressable TV, an emerging technology that allows advertisers — Senate hopefuls and insurance companies alike — to pay some broadcasters to pinpoint specific homes.
Advertisers have long bought ads knowing that only a fraction of the audience was likely to respond to them. Allowing campaigns — political or not — to finely hone their TV pitches to individuals could let them more efficiently spend their advertising dollars.
"With a traditional TV buy you can end up paying for a lot of eyeballs you don't care about," said Chauncey McLean, chief operating officer of the Analytics Media Group, an ad and data firm. "Addressable TV is a powerful tool for those that are equipped to use it. If you know who you want to talk to and what you want to say, you can be much more precise."
Data geeks look at everything from voting histories to demographics, magazine subscriptions to credit scores, all in the hopes of identifying their target audience. The advertiser then hands over a list of targets and, without the viewer necessarily realizing it, the ads pop on when viewers sit down to watch a program if their broadcaster has the technology.
"This is the power of a 30-second television commercial with the precision of a piece of direct mail targeted to the individual household level," said Paul Guyardo, chief revenue officer at DirecTV. "Never before have advertisers had that level of precision when it came to a 30-second commercial."
The level of precision on televisions has long been a dream for political campaigns, which are decided by relatively small groups of voters. President Barack Obama's campaign in 2012 experimented with it on a small scale, but too few homes were in broadcasting systems equipped to handle house-by-house decisions.
But earlier this year, DirecTV and Dish Network announced a partnership that would allow political clients to reach into about 20 million households by matching up customers' identities with their satellite receiver, much like a telephone number rings at a specific handset.
At the same time, NBC and parent company Comcast are opening the door for advertisers to target specific households using video-on-demand services in 20 million more households. The communications giant is not yet ready to implement the targeting during live broadcasts, though.
And GroupM, which handles about one-third of the world's ad buys, recently formed a division to handle such addressable advertising.
"We can send different commercials to different households based on what we know about these people. Instead of one message per state, it could be 12 messages per state," said Michael Bologna, GroupM's director of emerging communications and president of the newly formed Modi Media.
The broadcast companies are expected to be able to charge more per viewer than for other ad orders, but in exchange advertisers get a greater confidence that their message is finding its target. For instance, Allstate has used such an approach to weed out homeowners when it is pitching rental insurance on some broadcast systems.
Such specific political outreach has been possible for years as strategists buy, build and scour detailed data on each home to determine whether it is worth the time to knock on a door, to register a voter or to phone them to remind them to cast a ballot.
In recent years, Democrats have built an advantage on that data front.
The Republican National Committee has made catching up a priority, saying it would focus on data this year and leave advertising to outside groups. The RNC has announced one effort, branded Para Bellum Labs, to help the party build its list of likely supporters for races up and down the ballot.
The RNC has a lot of catching up to do. Obama's two presidential campaigns had a better grasp of the data.
Last year, Democrats built on those abilities in Virginia's gubernatorial contest. Strategists there used technology that pointed to specific individuals for a knock on the door, a call on the phone or an ad on their social networks.
It wasn't immediately clear to those Virginia voters that they were getting more attention than their neighbors. But behind the scenes, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe's advisers were going after just a few thousand voters. For instance, his strategists pinpointed 494,000 voters and flooded them with Facebook messages criticizing McAuliffe's rival, Ken Cuccinelli.
"It's a shift from identifying groups to identifying people," said Andrew Bleeker, president and CEO of Bully Pulpit Interactive, the main firm advising McAuliffe on digital strategy.
But there are limits. Fewer than half of all households have a cable box or satellite receiver that allows the broadcasters to splice in ads on some televisions and not others.
The providers are limited to selling about two minutes of addressable advertising per hour. An hourlong show on a broadcast network has about 14 minutes of commercials. Cable varies, but they generally have about 17 minutes of commercials in a 60-minute slot.
Building the list of targeted voters is tough and sometimes costly.
And there's no way of telling that the targeted viewer is the one who sees the ad. All that can be known is that it made its way into the households; federal laws prohibit the provider from telling the campaigns any details about specific viewers or their individual habits.
Yet this option, reaching maturity in time for November's elections, could help campaigns and candidates more efficiently spend the hundreds of millions of dollars that are already being raised.


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Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Although he lived most of his life in London, Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909 and lived in Co. Kildare with his family.
When he was 16 he decided to see the world. He travelled to Berlin and Paris and he was fascinated by these large and bustling cities. He was especially impressed with the museums and galleries he visited and was amazed at some of the artists he saw. When he was in Paris he saw an exhibition of drawings by Picasso and these inspired him so much that he decided to pick up some brushes and try to become an artist himself!
Francis Bacon was fascinated by many things. He had travelled to Africa and collected photographs of wild animals. He also liked photographs of boxing as well as reading, drama and poetry.


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3 garlic, chopped
1 and 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce
1tbsp oyster dauce
1 tbsp dark caramel soy sauce (but not dark soy sauce)
1tsp sugar
a dash of pepper
Hokkian fry mee also my favour food. ♥
i love hokkian mee ! one big plate pls! hahaaa
I can't see noodles but seeing a lot of ingredients ! "jin ho liao "!
Did you eat noodle or the ingredients ? Hahhaha !
Hokkien Mee looks so delicious. My husband who is a Hokkien and also love this mee very much.
Canary, you like this too huh..
Sulianmummy, you too.
smarthousewife, you never eat Hokkian mee before, then you must try it out.
Bakeling, so must put a lot of ingredients during photo shoting (actually I add a lot of ingredients too) , make your drooling lor..
Anncoo, this is my husband super favorite noodle too.
This is one of my kids favourite food. When I lazy, I will cook this for them...hehee!!!
Mmmm, lovely noodles! Getting messy when you eat noodles is half the fun! ;-)
Just look at the expression on your son face. The Hokkien Mee must be really good :)
Tintin, me too, but this time is upon my husband's request, his favorite noodle.
Palidor, ya, have to carefully eat this noodle.
Nancy, cook at home, we can put as many of ingredients we like, and fesh one too.
Icook4fun, he is another noodle lover,same like my husband..
This is the dish I "MUST" order when I go to the Malaysian restaurant here. And yours look much much more delicious than one prepare by the chef here. I want a dish too!
Colin, next time you come back here, you must try the Hokkian mee cook with charcoal, much much better.
I LOVE hokkien mee. you make it sound so easy :))tq for sharing.
The Cute and Happy look on your little one's face tells me exactly how yum that dish is :) ! My little girl loves noodles too...i must try this ! it looks incredible !
Your little boy is adorable enjoying his plate of Hokkian Mee. My whole family loves noodles and I am wondering if I could try and make this dish here?
zurin, you are most welcome, hope you will like it.
Nat, quickly cook for your girl, I bet she will like this.
Shandy, if you could not find yellow noodle, you can just replace with any noodle which you can easily find.
I can place my daughter and your son together eat Hokkian mee contest!!hahaha!! now you make me hungry just looking at your son mee!! I bet yours must taste super yummy!!
Beachlover's kitchen, your daugher also like Hokkian mee? good for her.
wow, can not tahan le...see your son face already know yummy yummy...
My little things corner, actually this is not his favorite, his favorite is the "Loh Mee", every week I need to cook for him, hahaha..
support! support!
i miss this a lot. thanks for sharing the recipe. now i get to eat it without the need to return to malaysia. hopefully i cook it alright.
Those noodles look REALLY good! That little boy is very handsome. Is he your son?
Delicious! I loved Hokkein mee!
Im not hokkien people but i like hokkien noodle... i like those really fat noodle + deep fried pork fats!... the hokkien noodle over here is very different, thin and tasteless... aww... i miss hokkien mee so much!
I always go for the lard ;-)
Cute kid.
Cindy,hopefully you are able to find the yellow noodle at your place
The Little Teochew, yes, Desmond is my youngest son..He likes to eat noodle especially Loh Mee.
LCOM, Thanks.
Mia, remember to try this when you back home here.
Nate, you are right, actually Hokkian mee should have lard, but due to health conscious..can't add in..
I see Desmond's face , I know that this noodle must be 100% yummy yummy. Can I also have one plate please ? ^_^ At my hometown, this noodle we call it "hokkian cha" "福建炒".
I love this dish. It's one of my favorites!
Sonia, you make all these dishes seem so easy! I'll have to try this - I love this dish!
This is my favourite noodle dish! This is the first thing I will eat when i land at home.
waw! now your blog always full house har....
don't know still got Hokkien Mee for me ar? haha !!
That's a lovely snap of ur son Desmond dear..a all time fav of mine which i really miss here..difficult to get the ingredients:(
Hi hi ... I really like to try cooking this dish when my guests come on Christmas day. Is it okay for you to let me (other young cooks as well) know how much is needed for the seasonings? I mean, how many tsp or tbsp needed for light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, pepper and salt? Thanks much!
Felicia, sorry, earlier i did not record down the amount of seasonings. anyway, i have estimated and included in this post. check out the recipe again.,


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BRADENTON – At its January conference, It Works! Global's sales force exceeded its goal of raising $55,000 for Children's Cup and Selah Freedom. The effort was a result of the company's challenge to its team to make a difference in the world by focusing on assisting charitable causes.
The conference at the Tampa Convention Center, called Freedom 2014, created the platform for It Works! Global to sell approximately 5,000 of each charity's wristband at a cost of $5 each. Including additional donations, the final figure was more than $60,000.
Proceeds from the wristband sales and additional donations go to the international nonprofit Children's Cup and the national organization Selah Freedom.
"It Works! is proud to support causes that can change the lives of those with great need," said company founder and CEO Mark Pentecost. "We hope that this event will inspire our sales force to continue to give back to their own communities throughout the year."
Children's Cup, a non-profit organization founded in 1992 by Dave and Jean Ohlerking, offers hope to hurting and forgotten children. Through Children's Cup, a $5 donation can feed two children for approximately four weeks.
Selah Freedom was founded to bring awareness to the issue of sex trafficking while providing survivors with a safe place to heal.
Previously, It Works! Global provided its Seattle conference attendees with the opportunity to purchase Children's Cup wristbands, resulting in an overwhelming success: The company and its members sold out the wristbands and raised enough to feed more than 60,000 children in Africa through Children's Cup.
Founded in 2001, It Works! Global is one of the fastest-growing consumer lifestyle direct sales companies. Inc. ranked It Works! Global No. 436 on its 500 list for 2013. The company is enjoying a 1047-percent growth over the past three years. It Works! debuted at No. 56 on the Direct Selling News Global 100, the annual industry ranking produced by Direct Selling News magazine. It Works! offers a variety of daily-use, instant-results products, including its signature and unique It Works! Wrap, a contouring product that can tighten, tone and firm any area of the body in just 45 minutes. The company currently offers 31 health and beauty products, and pays commissions to more than 60,000 independent distributors worldwide. Visit www.itworksglobal.com for additional information.
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This week we're talking about the many problems of iOS 6, the greatness of Windows 8 tablets, how you can download all the things, and much more. We're also answering your questions about formatting drives for a hackintosh, keeping desktop layouts in sync among several computers, and how to solve a Playstation Network identity crisis.
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News and Top Posts
iOS 6 Is Out, and Came With Lots of Problems
Apple released iOS 6 this week and people are complaining about all the problems in the Maps app, user interface changes they find annoying, Passbook not working, and plenty of other problems. We've answers plenty of questions about iOS 6 in our ongoing coverage, so check it out if you're in need of some answers. We'll continue to update that page as more useful information surfaces.
Windows 8 Tablets Are Great
Last week, Whitson had a chance to check out a tablet running Windows 8. He liked it a lot, and found it was the perfect hybrid between a standard computer and a tablet. Listen to the podcast for more.
How to Download Virtually Anything as Soon as It Comes Out
This week, I looked at all the ways you can download virtually anything as soon as it comes out. That includes movies, music, television, comic books, ebooks, and pretty much any other file with a URL. While the scripts that make this possible are certainly capable of downloading copyrighted work, you can use them to download material you're authorized to download. Additionally, if morality is your only concern and you just don't want to rip a bunch of discs you own, that's another reason to go this route. If you prefer to rip discs yourself, definitely check out Whitson's Blu-ray ripping guide. CDs and DVDs are easy, but Blu-ray requires a bit of explanation.
Why Spotify and Rdio Aren't Ready to Replace Your Music Collection
Whitson was really excited to take the plunge into a streaming music like Spotify or Rdio, but neither work as well as he'd hoped. Here's why.
Get Paid to Ditch Your Carrier and Buy an iPhone 5
We've discussed upgrading to the latest iPhone for free, but why stop there? Why not have your carrier pay you for your new phone? That's what one clever guy did. All it took was a little persistence with customer service.
Fix Broken Buttons on Your Phone
What happens when a button on your phone breaks but the rest of the phone works just fine? If you want a working button, you'll probably have to get a new phone. That's not the most cost-effective option for a lot of us. Whitson discovered a way to replace hardware buttons with software ones so you can still use your phone even when part of it breaks.
Questions and Answers
Each week we answer five questions from readers and listeners. Here's what we tackled this week.
How should I format my drives when turning my Windows machine into a hackintosh?
Copy all the data to an external, install OS X, and copy it all back. If you plan on using both Windows and OS X at any point, you might also want to format those data drives as ExFAT first. ExFAT is readable and writable by both Windows and OS X, so if you're just storing files on the drive it's really the best format to use. Alternatively, if you don't have an external drive for transferring purposes, you can set up your system so your data is readable on any OS with just a few drivers.
How can I keep my desktop layout completely in sync?
You can't 100%, but if you sync your desktop folder with an app like Dropbox you can come pretty close. Just follow these instructions. If you want to maintain the layout, a Windows app called Fences can set up rules to keep everything in the same position. Just use the same rules on every machine and you'll be good to go. OS X doesn't have an exact equivalent to fences, but you can press Command+J in the Finder to set automatic organization options and apply those to every machine.
Someone accidentally signed up for a Playstation Network account using my email address. What do I do?
The listener who sent in this question is hesitant about calling support because it's a hard thing to explain, but that's probably the best course of action. All that needs to be said is this: "Someone signed up for a PSN account using my email. I think it was an accident. I don't know how to contact him/her, so could you let them know they should change the email address associated with the account?" If that doesn't work, Whitson realized that with this mistaken account's user name, it's possible to contact the owner and let them know about the mistake. Just log onto PSN and send them a message. They might ignore it, but maybe they'll be curious enough to look into the problem.
An Update for Caffeine Addicts
Last week we got a call about a major caffeine addiction and offered the best suggestions we could think of, but Alan decided to do better. He spoke with health experts and wrote a post on ditching your caffeine addiction. If you want more advice on how to cut back on your consumption, check it out.
Also, Darren called in to keep his promise of screaming into the phone for answering his question.
Downloads of the Week
Each week we talk about our favorite downloads. Here are our picks for this week.
LastPass Sentry (All Platforms)
LastPass, our favorite password manager, has added a new feature called LastPass Sentry that automatically emails you whenever it detects a breach on one of your online accounts.
Growl 2.0 (OS X)
Growl, the popular notification software, just hit version 2.0. This major update brings true support for Notification Center, plus the ability to push notifications to your mobile via Prowl or Boxcar.
Glow for FB (OS X)
For people who use Facebook more as a communication tool, it's often not worth the potential productivity drop to head over to the main site all the time. Glow is a Mac app that aggregates your Facebook notifications into Notification Center without being intrusive.
Cue is an intelligent calendar that integrates your email, contacts, documents, and other cloud services to create a smart timeline of your day-and it's updated with some much-needed customization options and performance improvements.
Chameleon Launcher
The much-hyped Chameleon Launcher is now available, bringing a truly useful, beautiful launcher and home screen to your Android tablet.
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Tutorial Flashing Stock Rom Oppo Yoyo R2001 using SP Flashtool cause damage to software, application error, the touch screen does not work, the initial loading is not completed or bootloop and errors due to root damage and various kinds of software. It can be fixed by updating the firmware or flash reset, the total space is full. Ram's performance resulted in slowing down and making Android damaged software or in many cases the initial loading can not get into the main menu. but do not worry there are plenty of cases of damage to software that can be resolved by Flashing repeated them:
The following equipment before the update:
- Forget the lock code
- Forgot password email
- Application error
- Often hangs
- HardBrick
The following equipment before the update:
Tutorial Upgrade:
- Download and extract the SP Flash Tool and Mediatek USB VCOM drivers
- Install the driver if not already installed
- Download and extract your ROM package and find the scatter.txt file.
- Run Flash_tool.exe then click Scatter-loading button to load the correct scatter file
- Turn off your phone, remove the battery and replace it after some seconds (and don't turn on the phone).
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Kill Passwords: Hassle-Free Substitute Wanted
Passwords keep proliferating, but do new technologies and approaches offer an alternative? Maybe.
Let's play the "who's got the most passwords?" game. Count PIN codes for mobile devices, ATM cards and, if you're European, credit cards. Then move to websites, including social networks, school records, e-commerce, banking, health insurance, ticket-buying, airlines and customer rewards.
What's your score? The average consumer today has about 25 passwords. Good luck remembering them all without writing some down.
The infuriating fact, furthermore, remains that despite our best efforts, the odds are stacked against people who must use passwords. Just one failure somewhere in a long chain of processes, involving poor encryption, crummy database security, password reuse, card skimmers with cameras or social engineers, can allow an attacker to bypass the security that passwords supposedly provide.
[ Will these new security tools really help? Read Security Tools Show Many Dots, Few Patterns. ]
In other words, passwords stink. "You would have to be living in a cave the past couple of years to not realize that passwords are next to useless as a security mechanism," said Sally Hudson, IDC's research director for identity and access management, via email.
Can passwords be replaced? Unfortunately, no one approach is going to overthrow the tyranny of password proliferation. "We're looking for a new way, we're looking for a new type of protection, and I don't think the industry has found it yet -- or at least, not just one answer," said Sean Brady, RSA's director of product marketing, speaking by phone.
In the future, however, businesses might be able to deemphasize passwords in favor of better intelligence. "Some solutions, like one-time passwords may work for certain segments, but where we think the industry is going -- not to throw around marketing terms -- but you're entering a world where notions of big data and analytics, and consuming all of the information that exists about us on the Web, and our histories, will all now be part of a risk profile," said Brady.
One proto-password-replacement example is RSA's Adaptive Authentication, which counts about 300 million end users -- largely banking customers -- and keeps a risk profile of each user (time of day they're logging in, device used, location, and so on) to determine how many different security questions the user must answer before being granted access.
But expanding that approach to the point where it might replace passwords altogether faces three big challenges. The first is "doing that in real time," Brady said. The second is accurately distinguishing between useful risk information and useless risk information -- and making sure you don't collect the latter -- and the third is automating the process enough to not create another administrative headache for information security managers.
Beyond building a better risk profile, another -- perhaps complementary -- approach is being advanced by the FIDO Alliance, which is creating an open standard that will let websites authenticate users with whatever is to hand: a biometric fingerprint reader on a user's PC, security questions, one-time passwords sent to smartphones, USB security tokens, voice recognition, two-factor authentication systems such as SecurID, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) built into PCs and so on. The elegance of this approach is that in the era of BYOD (bring your own device), FIDO is advancing an anything-goes, "authenticate with what you've got to hand" model.
Early FIDO participants include PayPal, Lenovo, Validity Sensors, Nok Nok Labs, Agnitio and Infineon, and they say their approach would secure every part of the authentication process, from client to server and back again. "There is no security standard today that addresses security from the ecosystem standpoint. It's not enough if you secure the client, or the server; a security link has to be end to end," said Ramesh Kesanupalli, VP of the FIDO Alliance, speaking by phone.
FIDO's backers also claim their framework would add minimal "friction" to the user experience. "Your identity and credentials remain on your device," said Sebastien Taveau, CTO of Validity Sensors and a FIDO Alliance board member, via phone. "What happens is the service provider or relaying party is going to ping you and say, 'We see that you have a FIDO token on your device; do you want to use it?'"
For everyone who might love to see passwords become extinct, the good news is that thanks to an approach such as FIDO, we may one day need fewer passwords. The bad news is that we'd still need passwords, for example to log into our PC. "I don't think passwords are going to go, even for FIDO," said Kesanupalli. "Passwords are a bootstrap to start the process."
Even so, password use could be minimized. "We'd like to kill the possibility of ever sending a password over the Internet," said Clain Anderson, director of software at Lenovo and a FIDO Alliance member, via phone. "You can still use a password on the device, but then it relies on a cryptographic handshake" to validate a user with a site, and tailors authentication requirements to the perceived level of risk. "Checking your balance is one level of authentication. But using a brokerage account to move millions of dollars? That's a different level of authentication," he said.
Could the FIDO Alliance succeed? "Yes, I think they can succeed, but like anything else in the security standards/protocol space, it depends on a number of variables," said IDC's Hudson. "How many industry heavyweights will get behind FIDO? What is the actual market demand? What other options might emerge?"
FIDO will also require technology, financial services, governments, retail giants -- and any other business or organization that needs to authenticate people online -- to cooperate and collaborate at an unprecedented scale. "Will it happen? History says no, not at the level needed, but you never know," said Hudson. "Things change."
Here's hoping.
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Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Loyalty
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Students will learn how the loyalty of Japanese Americans was tested during World War II. Based on answers to mandatory loyalty questionnaires, many Japanese Americans were sent to separate camps, repatriated, expatriated or given the opportunity to be drafted into the military. This section of A More Perfect Union, an online exhibition, includes artifacts from the Museum's collections, primary source documents, photographs and oral histories. Oral history transcripts are available in the subsections The Questionnaire, Expatriation and Repatriation, and The Draft.
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Historical Thinking Standards (Grades K-4)
Standards in History (Grades K-4)
United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)
Historical Thinking Standards (Grades 5-12)
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (Grades 9-12)
1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
D1.2.9-12. (Compelling Questions): Explain points of agreement and disagreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question.
D1.3.9-12. (Constructing Supporting Questions): Explain points of agreement and disagreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question.
D1.4.9-12. (Constructing Supporting Questions): Explain how supporting questions contribute to an inquiry and how, through engaging source work, new compelling and supporting questions emerge.
D1.5.9-12. (Determining Helpful Sources): Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of view represented in the sources, the types of sources available, and the potential uses of the sources.
2: Applying Disciplinary Tools and Concepts
D2.Civ.2.9-12. (Civics): Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to various theories of democracy, changes in Americans' participation over time, and alternative models from other countries, past and present.
D2.Civ.3.9-12. (Civics): Analyze the impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements on the maintenance of national and international order.
D2.Civ.4.9-12.(Civics): Explain how the U.S. Constitution establishes a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits that have changed over time and that are still contested.
D2.Civ.5.9-12. (Civics): Evaluate citizens' and institutions' effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.
D2.Civ.6.9-12. (Civics): Critique relationships among governments, civil societies, and economic markets.
D2.Civ.7.9-12. (Civics): Apply civic virtues and democratic principles when working with others.
D2.Civ.8.9-12. (Civics): Evaluate social and political systems in different contexts, times, and places, that promote civic virtues and enact democratic principles.
D2.Civ.9.9-12 (Civics): Use appropriate deliberative processes in multiple settings.
D2.Civ.10.9-12. (Civics): Analyze the impact and the appropriate roles of personal interests and perspectives on the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rights.
D2.Civ.11.9-12. (Civics): Evaluate multiple procedures for making governmental decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purposes achieved.
D2.Civ.12.9-12. (Civics): Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.
D2.Civ.13.9-12. (Civics): Evaluate public policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes, and related consequences.
D2.Civ.14.9-12. (Civics): Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.
D2.Eco.1.9-12. (Economics): Analyze how incentives influence choices that may result in policies with a range of costs and benefits for different groups.
D2.Eco.2.9-12. (Economics): Use marginal benefits and marginal costs to construct an argument for or against an approach or solution to an economic issue.
D2.Eco.3.9-12. (Economics): Analyze the ways in which incentives influence what is produced and distributed in a market system.
D2.Eco.4.9-12. (Economics): Evaluate the extent to which competition among sellers and among buyers exists in specific markets.
D2.Eco.5.9-12. (Economics): Describe the consequences of competition in specific markets.
D2.Eco.6.9-12. (Economics): Generate possible explanations for a government role in markets when market inefficiencies exist.
D2.Eco.7.9-12. (Economics): Use benefits and costs to evaluate the effectiveness of government policies to improve market outcomes.
D2.Eco.8.9-12. (Economics): Describe the possible consequences, both intended and unintended, of government policies to improve market outcomes.
D2.Eco.9.9-12. (Economics): Describe the roles of institutions such as clearly defined property rights and the rule of law in a market economy.
D2.Eco.10.9-12. (Economics): Use current data to explain the influence of changes in spending, production, and the money supply on various economic conditions.
D2.Eco.11.9-12. (Economics): Use economic indicators to analyze the current and future state of the economy.
D2.Eco.12.9-12. (Economics): Evaluate the selection of monetary and fiscal policies in a variety of economic conditions.
D2.Eco.13.9-12. (Economics): Explain why advancements in technology and investments in capital goods and human capital increase economic growth and standards of living.
D2.Eco.14.9-12. (Economics): Analyze the role of comparative advantage in international trade of goods and services.
D2.Eco.15.9-12. (Economics): Explain how current globalization trends and policies affect economic growth, labor markets, rights of citizens, the environment, and resource and income distribution in different nations.
D2.Geo.1.9-12. (Geography): Use geospatial and related technologies to create maps to display and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.2.9-12. (Geography): Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their political, cultural, and economic dynamics.
D2.Geo.3.9-12. (Geography): Use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scales.
D2.Geo.4.9-12. (Geography): Analyze relationships and interactions within and between human and physical systems to explain reciprocal influences that occur among them.
D2.Geo.5.9-12. (Geography): Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
D2.Geo.6.9-12. (Geography): Evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental and cultural characteristics of specific places and regions.
D2.Geo.7.9-12. (Geography): Analyze the reciprocal nature of how historical events and the spatial diffusion of ideas, technologies, and cultural practices have influenced migration patterns and the distribution of human population.
D2.Geo.8.9-12. (Geography): Evaluate the impact of economic activities and political decisions on spatial patterns within and among urban, suburban, and rural regions.
D2.Geo.9.9-12. (Geography): Evaluate the influence of long-term climate variability on human migration and settlement patterns, resource use, and land uses at local-to-global scales.
D2.Geo.10.9-12. (Geography): Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.
D2.Geo.11.9-12. (Geography): Evaluate how economic globalization and the expanding use of scarce resources contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among countries.
D2.Geo.12.9-12. (Geography): Evaluate the consequences of human-made and natural catastrophes on global trade, politics, and human migration.
D2.His.1.9-12. (History): Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.
D2.His.2.9-12. (History): Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
D2.His.3.9-12. (History): Use questions generated about individuals and groups to assess how the significance of their actions changes over time and is shaped by the historical context.
D2.His.4.9-12. (History): Analyze complex and interacting factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.
D2.His.5.9-12. (History): Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people's perspectives.
D2.His.6.9-12. (History): Analyze the ways in which the perspectives of those writing history shaped the history that they produced.
D2.His.7.9-12. (History): Explain how the perspectives of people in the present shape interpretations of the past.
D2.His.8.9-12. (History): Analyze how current interpretations of the past are limited by the extent to which available historical sources represent perspectives of people at the time.
D2.His.9.9-12. (History): Analyze the relationship between historical sources and the secondary interpretations made from them.
D2.His.10.9-12. (History): Detect possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary interpretations.
D2.His.11.9-12. (History): Critique the usefulness of historical sources for a specific historical inquiry based on their maker, date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose.
D2.His.12.9-12. (History): Use questions generated about multiple historical sources to pursue further inquiry and investigate additional sources.
D2.His.13.9-12. (History): Critique the appropriateness of the historical sources used in a secondary interpretation.
D2.His.14.9-12. (History): Analyze multiple and complex causes and effects of events in the past.
D2.His.15.9-12. (History): Distinguish between long-term causes and triggering events in developing a historical argument.
D2.His.16.9-12. (History): Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past.
D2.His.17.9-12. (History): Critique the central arguments in secondary works of history on related topics in multiple media in terms of their historical accuracy.
3: Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
D3.2.9-12. (Gathering and Evaluating Sources): Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining how experts value the source.
D3.3.9-12. (Developing Claims and Using Evidence): Identify evidence that draws information directly and substantively from multiple sources to detect inconsistencies in evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims.
D3.4.9-12. (Developing Claims and Using Evidence): Refine claims and counterclaims attending to precision, significance, and knowledge conveyed through the claim while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.
4: Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action
D4.2.9-12. (Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions): Construct explanations using sound reasoning, correct sequence (linear or non-linear), examples, and details with significant and pertinent information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanation given its purpose (e.g., cause and effect, chronological, procedural, technical).
D4.3.9-12. (Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions): Present adaptations of arguments and explanations that feature evocative ideas and perspectives on issues and topics to reach a range of audiences and venues outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, and maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).
D4.4.9-12. (Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions): Critique the use of claims and evidence in arguments for credibility.
D4.5.9-12. (Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions): Critique the use of the reasoning, sequencing, and supporting details of explanations.
D4.6.9-12. (Taking Informed Action): Use disciplinary and interdisciplinary lenses to understand the characteristics and causes of local, regional, and global problems; instances of such problems in multiple contexts; and challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address these problems over time and place.
D4.7.9-12. (Taking Informed Action): Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.
D4.8.9-12. (Taking Informed Action): Apply a range of deliberative and democratic strategies and procedures to make decisions and take action in their classrooms, schools, and out-of-school civic contexts.


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Jeff Lunden is a freelance arts reporter and producer whose stories have been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, as well as on other public radio programs.
Lunden contributed several segments to the Peabody Award-winning series The NPR 100, and was producer of the NPR Music series Discoveries at Walt Disney Concert Hall, hosted by Renee Montagne. He has produced more than a dozen documentaries on musical theater and Tin Pan Alley for NPR — most recently A Place for Us: Fifty Years of West Side Story.
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More than a year after the crime took place, Adolfo Amaya Portillo, the final suspect to hear his sentence for the murder of Maryland-based pimp Claros Luna, received 40 years in jail last Friday in U.S. District Court.
Judge Anthony J. Trenga gave Portillo, 27, of Alexandria, 480 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in the July 29, 2009, murder.
On April 30, Portillo pled guilty to the use of a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in death. According to court records, Portillo and two other MS-13 gang members Eris Ramon Arguera and Alcides Umaa posed as potential customers for prostitution and lured Luna and a prostitute to Manor Road.
After meeting the prostitute inside a building, the three led her back to Lunas car. Portillo, armed with a handgun, entered the front passenger door and demanded rent extortion payments from Luna.
Portillo and Arguera fatally shot Luna three times, with the former firing two of the three fatal shots one to Lunas chest and a second contact wound to Lunas head.
On July 9, Arguera was sentenced to 27 years in prison. Umaa was sentenced to 20 years on June 4.


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