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PI researcher Christopher Fuchs has been awarded the International Quantum Communication Award at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation (QCMC) for his "outstanding contributions to the theory of quantum communication including quantum state disturbance." The award was given at a ceremony in Brisbane, Australia, on July 21.
The International Quantum Communication Award is bestowed every two years during the QCMC conference. This year, Dr. Fuchs was honoured alongside Masanao Ozawa of Nagoya University, Alexander Lvovsky of the University of Calgary, and Perimeter Institute Scientific Advisory Committee Chair, Gerard Milburn of the University of Queensland. Previous years' winners have included many of the pioneers of the field of quantum information, such as Charles Bennett (1996), Peter Shor (1998), David Deutsch (2002), Ignacio Cirac (2006), and Anton Zeilinger (2008).
In learning of the award, PI Director Neil Turok said, "We are delighted by this timely recognition of Dr. Fuchs' work. His foundational work on the structure of quantum mechanics has provided genuinely new insights into quantum information and quantum cryptography and shows once again the fruitful interplay of these subjects. We are also naturally pleased that the Chair of our Scientific Advisory Committee, Gerard Milburn, has likewise been honoured."
Dr. Fuchs said, "I feel deeply honoured to be ranked in the company of scientists whose work has shaped the field of quantum information. For years, I have tried to understand what is at the root of quantum mechanics, which appears to have so many strange and counterintuitive aspects. It struck me early on that many of these mysteries may be solved, or at least better understood, by recasting them in the terms of information theory. This is why I took a PhD in the subject even though there wasn't really a "field of quantum information" to be employed in yet. The fact that these foundational ideas have found wider use for practical quantum communication systems and engineering is very satisfying."
Dr. Fuchs' publications include two books and more than 60 scientific papers, with over 4,200 citations to date (Google Scholar). Some of Dr. Fuchs' key contributions recognized with the award include the quantum no-broadcasting theorem [5], which formalized key differences between classical and quantum information and had important implications for quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography seeks to harness the laws of quantum mechanics to provide unconditional data and communications security based on the fact that eavesdropping inevitably disturbs quantum information, and is therefore detected.
In [3] Dr. Fuchs demonstrated that quantum states can sometimes carry more classical information than classical states themselves. Dr. Fuchs also found the minimal tradeoff between information gain and quantum state disturbance in quantum channel theory [1, 4]. He used these ideas to define criteria for successful quantum teleportation [2] in a paper which was recognized by the journal Science as one of the "Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year." Quantum teleportation is a quantum protocol by which quantum information held in a quantum superposition can, in principle, be transmitted exactly from one location to another. Intensive research is now underway seeking to harness quantum teleportation for quantum communication and ultimately, to build quantum computers.
Dr. Fuchs' previous honors include having been Lee DuBridge Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and a winner of the Albert A. Michelson award. He is Chair-Elect of the 1,000-member American Physical Society Topical Group on Quantum Information. Dr. Fuchs was also recently named as the 2011 Clifford Lecturer by Tulane University in New Orleans. His second book, Coming of Age with Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, will be published by Cambridge University Press in Fall, 2010.
References and Further Reading:
[1] C. A. Fuchs. "Information Gain vs. State Disturbance in Quantum Theory." Fortschritte der Physik 46(4,5), 535-565 (1998). http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9611010
[2] A. Furusawa, J. L. Sørensen, S. L. Braunstein, C. A. Fuchs, H. J. Kimble, and E. S. Polzik. "Unconditional Quantum Teleportation." Science 282(5389), 706-709 (1998).
[3] C. A. Fuchs. "Nonorthogonal Quantum States Maximize Classical Information Capacity." Physical Review Letters 79(6), 1162-1165 (1997). http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9703043
[4] C. A. Fuchs and A. Peres. "Quantum State Disturbance vs. Information Gain: Uncertainty Relations for Quantum Information." Physical Review A 53(4), 2038-2045 (1996). http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9512023
[5] H. Barnum, C. M. Caves, C. A. Fuchs, R. Jozsa, and B. Schumacher. "Noncommuting Mixed States Cannot Be Broadcast." Physical Review Letters 76(15), 2818-2821 (1996). http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9511010


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i consider myself a centrist and think we need drastic change. so i dont think your characterization of a centrist being someone happy with the status quo is necessarily a valid one.
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Shouldn't we liberate North-Korea?
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The creepy music? That's actually live. That's what they're playing, through the whole city, in the morning.
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The contrast... it's horrific. It's a great example of the importance of ideas/ideology.
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Obviously, the North-Korean population suffers under the 1984-style government. Shouldn't we try to liberate North-Korea?
And okay, maybe the war would be so horrible that liberation just isn't worth it - but are there any moral arguments against a liberation without that much casualties?
Take a breif look at the aqttempts to liberate various countries suffering under totalitarian governments over the past 50-60 years. Then consider that North Korea has nuclear weapons.
Now the sort of authoritarian state that North Korea is running simply does not work in the long run and sooner or later it will collapse on it's own. Until it does any plans to invade will only risk escalating the problem.
I'd love to, but aren't they a client state of nuclear powers that would incinerate us if we tried? And wouldn't they mortar our allies in South Korea out of existence?
I thought their own nukes a joke? Their tests faked?
as of may this year the estimates put north korea as having 6-8 nuclear weapons, that can be mounted on missiles with a 3-4,000 miles range that can be carried on north korean subs or use mobile launchers. on top of the fact they have a very large conventional military with a very large neighour who is an ally to the north, an invasion of north korea would probably end up with millions dead.
they'll also have enough material within a few hours for another nuclear test
the north korean regime will fall eventually its only a matter of when not if
Define "liberation".
Ok, so you go in, kill a small number of important people, and suddenly everyone else officially is against the regime and always was.
Who do you put in charge, how do you make it stick?
And do...what? It hasn't worked very well in the last two places we "liberated". If they don't achieve it themselves, the North Koreans probably won't value it as highly.
Well, there's the whole thing about why we think we have any moral right to tell other countries how they ought to be run. What makes us so damned special?
A good point. Makes one think, invading country's without nukes tells others they better get them, or pretend to have them, as fast as possible.
And of course, if you start attempting to produce nukes, people start threatening to invade anyway. Oh, poor Iran. You just can't win.
Which two places are you talking about? It did work very well at the end of WWII.
As a Dutchman, living in a country that was liberated by all kinds of non-Dutch armies, I beg to disagree.
What makes the North-Korean government so special that they have the moral right to tell them how their citizen's lives ought to be run?
Erm...Iraq? Afghanistan? Why are we going back to WW2?
Liberated from an oppressive invading force, correct? Not liberated from your own government? There's a pretty big difference.
You're avoiding the question. Why do we have the right to invade foreign countries and impose our cultural values on people who don't currently share them? What's so great about us that everyone ought to think like we do?
Because Korea is a little different from Islamic countries, and Korean Communism is a little different from Islam.
Japan and Germany were succesfully liberated from their own government.
A country that respects the rights of it's citizens can appeal to sovereignty. If you don't respect the sovereignty of your citizens, don't expect other nations to respect your national sovereignty.
That is correct...but then what happened to Germanies?
Define "respecting the rights of it's citizens".
Oh, certainly, by any meaningful definition North Korea is failing to do so, that is not to say it's normally that simple.
Sure is, but how is the difference relevant?
The only way I can see this working is if the NATO and People's Republic of China work together, and then spend a massive amount (Billions?) on large scale reconstruction to show the indoctrinated people of North Korea that they really are better off without their dear leaders, get their economy going and perhaps work towards unification with the south.
I don't know? (Or actually, I probably do know, I know a lot about Germany and it's history, but I have no idea what you mean precisely)
Indeed, it isn't simple, but North Korea is failing to do so, and that's relevant.
I'm quite sure that people don't really support communism in North Korea, and that they'll happily become a peaceful and prosperous capitalistic nation - like South Korea. Look at East-Germany for a practical real life example. On the other hand, the chance that an Islamic nation will become a happy secular nation just by eliminating a few key theocratic figures - it isn't as likely. Islam is way more 'ingrained' in the population than communism.
It's not in the budget, we already blow way too much money on the military and can't afford to go blow up yet another country just because we disagree with them. That's like saying everyone else should've invaded America because of the patriot act "A country that respects the rights of it's citizens can appeal to sovereignty. If you don't respect the sovereignty of your citizens, don't expect other nations to respect your national sovereignty."
The problem also with North Korea is we don't exactly know how brainwashed the people are. I'm sure the government knows more than we do, but there's a lot we have to know in order to be sure intervening would put the people on our side. They may be so throughly convinced their government will crack down on them if they revolt that even in the face of rescue they would resist every step of the way, and fight to the last man. And the last thing any country--especially America right now--needs is yet another rescue-turned-genocide.
That's overlooking people resisting foreign troops invading their nation simply because they are foreign troops invading their nation. You don't have to be brainwashed to resist invasion.
I think Iran will have their nukes. If you have stock in Israel, sell it fast. I think they're dog food.
I heard something that bummed me out. A suggestion that we never met intelligent alien life as, once a civilization is advanced enough to communicate with us from outer space, they're intelligent enough to destroy themselves. Anybody else thinking about the statue of Liberty at the end of the original, "Planet of the Apes."
I'd think the un-empowered not brainwashed but scared and will be unhelpful to us. Those in the military already, for instance, are likely VERY happy with things as they are. We'd have to kill them. Then, we'd be the bad guys.
It depends.
No if it's going to be another Iraq. Everyone knows how well that turned out.
If there was support from South Korea and the rest of the World and maybe the Security Council does something about China and there was a plan beyond "AMERICAAAA!! BOMBS AHOY! LET'S KILL SOME BROWN PEOPLE!", then maybe, maybe.
*Dons my decent person hat.*
Absolutely, we should liberate North Korea, the conditions there are inhuman and the fact that we've let it go on for this long is shameful.
*Puts on Realpolitik hat*
But we can't liberate them, I don't think. One, the Second Korean War (although technically the first never ended) would be catastrophic and result in a -lot- of deaths. North Korea has the largest (albeit a very crappy) military in the world and may have access to nuclear weapons. Moreover, China intervened in the last Korean War and it's more than possible that they'd back up North Korea to keep South Korea, who might as well be the United States' puppet from being right on their border with no buffer zone.
Besides which, what happens after we liberate the North Koreans. Reunification? I dread to imagine what that would do to the South Korean economy.
This as well. Remember, this is not only a military offensive, but a country building mission. There will have to be troops trained in basic diplomacy, so no American Grunts. Scratch that, no bombing, no simple soldiers, and no "collateral damage".
There will have to be a lot of talks with South Korea.
True, but how many figures? If we just go in and start assassinating someone, the Next General Over will just step up to take the role, etc. Need to start a revolution, THEN assassinate.
That's a lot of conjecture as to the state of mind of the majority of the nation. Like with the nukes, you really want to take that risk so blindly? Because if you're wrong, it's not just the military that gets put down. It's most of the population.
Again, there is a lot we need to know for an intervention to be successful there. And as others have pointed out, South Korea and China would be much more suited to do most of the legwork. Since they are more similar to NK in language, proximity, and shared history, the people would be much more trusting of them than us. And really they should have a role in sorting out their neighbors--they're the ones who have to live next door when all the dust has settled. Not that I'm saying we can't help, there's certainly a lot of supplies we can offer to get them started, and we can offer expedited trade agreements and visits of goodwill. But as for getting the people acclimated to the real world again, SK and China would be much more helpful in that regard.
That is true, as well. We were so convinced we were going to the Middle East to help and they'd take to our definition of freedom so easily...then things went wrong, and grave mistakes and miscalculations of the people's feelings were made and it all went to pot.
Sweet googly mooglies, let's go for Vietnam, then. In fact, I have no idea what you mean by liberate. Are you assuming that they all want a drastic change in government or that they want outsiders to provide a new government for them? That's a hell of an assumption to make, an assumption that would potentially harm millions of lives, so you better back it up.
The thing that struck me most was that when you were provided with lessons from recent historical events you didn't take them on board because it wasn't the exact same situation as before. History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes.
Come on, man, keep up.
Anyway, no, we shouldn't 'liberate' North Korea. At the very least we wouldn't know what to do with the millions of North Koreans who might flee across the borders to China/South Korea. We also can't afford to occupy another country. Oh, and who's 'we', anyway? Because I don't think China or Russia would be on board, they're quite touchy about countries' sovereign rights.
There's... there's just so much wrong with your suggestion...
In conclusion, I agree with Waffle.
I'd very strongly disagree with most of that, except that it didn't work, and that it would likely happen again. Those two points seems pretty certain.
We should but that doesn't mean people will. People are like that, they will only attack North Korea if there is a actual attack on another country
Exactly! Afghanistan is a perfect example of this. There a lot of people in Afghanistan that didn't much care for Al Qaeda but ya know who they REALLY didn't care for? America coming in and playing the world's police force.
So now we are in a position where the people we went in there to fight obviously don't care for us but now we also have the locals who really don't like us all that much more because we're sticking our noses someplace they don't belong and have long overstayed our welcome which was far from warm to begin with.
The thing of it is there is a section of the government that believes that if we try really hard we'll be able to transform Kabul into Des Moines. We can't. Afghanistan isn't known as the fucking GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES because they just thought the name was cute.
We need to stop trying to police the world and worry about focusing our efforts more locally. We're spending countless amounts of money trying to civilize a group of people that really don't want to be civilized.
I think the same thing applies to North Korea. Yeah there's a cubic fuck ton of messed up shit going on there but even so the locals aren't going to take kindly to America rushing in to save the day. Ultimately we'd end up going in there with the idea of liberating the people and very likely only succeeding in galvanizing their support for the very system that is keeping them oppressed.
The nukes alone make it a bad idea, even if the missiles suck ass I wouldn't put it past the regime to hide them in the middle of cities and set them off as they fall, taking the enemy with them.
You have to also consider that they'll probably use USSR tactics from WW2 and just throw men into the meatgrinder just to slow our troops down.
Overall while it'd be a great idea in theory, the reality is it would be a massacre, we would probably have to kill more people than we would save.
We also tried to liberate orher countries beforehand, like vietnam... Liberation is an empty casus beli. Nobody wants to kill their brothers in a war for others. As it is now, it looks like ww2 japan loyalty will make this war not worth it for north korea or any other power that would fight against them. They also keep south korea hostage with their rockets and shared border.
Reunification would be madness, I agree with your points.
that kind of view neglects the potential opportunity for growth.
there's a reason investors love "emerging economies".
anyway i think simplistically saying "its madness" is an overly negative view and besides which the South Koreans are already preparing for it and are quite prepared to go through with it.
i think its probably fair to say that partition of Korea probably holds more even more pain for Koreans than the partition of Germany did for Germans give the entity known as Germany has no where near the history Korea has (as a prior unified entity) and regardless of the suggestion people aren't solely concerned with nothing but the supposed potential cost.
Korea has a very long history and imo this artificial severance along 38th parallel is likely to be little more than a blip in the grand scheme of things.
tbth if i make it to retirement age i fully expect it to happen within my lifetime.
THat's not the greatest example.
Vietnam was a nonstop clusterfuck chain almost from the moment World War 2 ended. We didn't try to liberate them, we literally stood by and watched while the Allied powers stabbed them in the back. We promised the country independance after they aided us against the Japanese. They kept their part of that bargain, we didn't. The Euro powers tried to retake the country after WW2, even to the point of using former Japanese soldiers, and the US declared that we had no intention to stop them.
"It makes my blood boil to see our former allies using Japanese soldiers to enslave these little people that we promised to free." -Douglas MacArthur
We only got involved because Minh got enamoured with communist theory (and not even Soviet style Communism, he wanted a distinctly Vietnamese communist state) and accepted an olive branch from Moscow did we finally decide we needed to get involved, mostly by artifically proppping up and literally creating an entire economy for the South Vietnamese, who in turn were as brutal to their own people as the Northern communists were to theirs. Add in that we stated very clearly that we would do nothing to keep them from becoming a French colony again all was said and done, and the South had little to fight for.
So yea, bad bad example there.
We SHOULD liberate North Korea. Just like we SHOULD liberate Iran, Syria and every other horrid dictatorship. The problem is that there is no-one to do this, except for the people of those nations. Other nations might join in the case of a civil war where things get too horrid, or use "liberation" as part of the propaganda for a war. But they are partial and can't be counted on.
What would be really awesome is if we could get all major power blocks of the world to agree to pitch in to a sort of U.N led (or some other organisation) world police. That would hold all nations accountable to some sort of basic international law. And who will step in and remove a government that does not follow these laws. There would have to be concessions of course, China have different ideas of what rights the citizens have than the EU or the US has, so full blown democracy might no be a realistic "law". But you have to start small and work your way up, there has to be human rights even the Chinese state does not want to see breached.
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1 Twirl charm pack
A few cups of uncooked medium grain rice
Hi there! I'm Jennifer Rodriguez from All Things Belle. I post about quilting, crochet, and life with our crazy daughters. Even though it's snowing outside here in Utah, I'm dreaming of hot summer afternoons playing in the yard. I don't know about you but when my girls play in the summer, we tend to need boo boo packs for skinned knees and more.
I absolutely adore the Twirl charm pack: it's full of assorted fun colors and is perfect for a summer project. With just one charm pack, I'll show you how you can create a rainbow assortment of Plus Kisses Boo Boo Packs. The design is paper pieced which is my favorite way to quilt. This tutorial will include a brief segment on paper piecing and I have a more in depth instructions here.
Step One: Print out the paper piece design {included in the Printer Friendly Version}. I suggest lightly coloring in the pattern as a reminder for the fabric you want use.
Step Two: You will then need to cut the lettered sections from each other: A, B, and C.
For paper piece foundation quilting, I recommend the following tools:
*old credit card or something of that shape and weight
*rotary cutter
*cutting mat
*extra fine seam ripper
*add a 1/4″ ruler
*glue stick
Step Three: Pick out fabrics from the charm pack that you would like to use in the design. You will need 2 charms of the same design for the background and 1 for the plus sign. Place a small dab of glue on the wrong side of the fabric for A1 and adhere to the back of the paper. The fabric will always be worked on the back of the paper and sewn from the top.
Then using your 1/4″ ruler, trim down the piece following the pattern grid.
Step Four: Reduce your stitch length to 1.5 – this will make it much easier to tear off the paper later.
Step Five: Line up the fabric for A2, seams matching A1 and right sides together. Then sew exactly down the line that borders A1 and A2. Press seam and trim A2 with the 1/4″ ruler.
Step Six: Sew the sections together in alphabetical order (A to B, AB to C). Press and you can now remove the paper pattern from the back.
Choose another charm to use as the back of the boo boo pack.
Step Eight: With a 1/4″, stitch around the perimeter and leaving a 2″ space open. Clip the corners close to the stitches.
Step Nine: Pull the right side of fabric out through the 2″ opening and press.
Step Ten: Place a funnel into the opening and fill with rice.
Don't stuff it too full. Leave about 1/2″ of space at the top of the pack.
Step Eleven: Close the opening by hand with a ladder stitch or you should be able to top stitch it closed on your machine since the pack is not completely full.
One Twirl pack will be enough to create several boo boo packs. The exact number will depend on your fabric selection for the top.
I hope that you have fun making these boo boo packs. You can use them for so many things! You can pop them in the microwave for about 1 minute for some warm soothing or place them in freezer to cool down skinned knees. In addition to using them as pain relief, they are a fabulous way to warm or cool down your bed before bedtime. We love to use ours when we camp to heat our toes in the sleeping bag.
Thank you again and I would love for you to stop by my blog, All Things Belle, for more quilting fun!
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AILA Doc. No. 13062641 | Dated June 26, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
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Washington, DC - The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) applauds the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), finding it unconstitutional.
"Same sex bi-national couples have fought long and hard for the right to keep their families together. It's only fair that if a U.S. citizen or permanent resident is legally married-regardless of sexual orientation-that their lawful marriage be recognized by the federal government when it comes to immigration issues," said AILA President Laura Lichter.
She continued, "Because of DOMA, bi-national same sex couples often had to choose between staying together, but leaving the U.S., or splitting apart. Over 30 countries provide immigration benefits for same sex couples and we have seen firsthand the incredible toll of this unconstitutional discrimination. Any American would agree that being forced to choose between your homeland and your loved one is a heart-breaking choice."
Ms. Lichter concluded, "Allowing our immigration system to recognize same sex bi-national couples will also make America more attractive to global talent. According to Immigration Equality, there are an estimated 36,000 same sex bi-national couples in the United States, and those families include 25,000 children. AILA believes that LGBT/same sex families should be included in the definition of the American family and that should be reflected in our immigration laws. I'm ecstatic that the Supreme Court's ruling today should guarantee all lawfully married couples equal rights in regards to immigration."
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We'll be seeing this at a future music award ceremony.
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Hardcore Toyota Tacoma Suspension OptionsPosted in How To on December 1, 2012
When the Tacoma was introduced in the middle of 1995, Toyota traditionalists were skeptical. The '79-to-'95 pickups were long proven as rugged, dependable trucks even if they were so slow they'd lose a drag race with a refrigerator. The Tacoma models brought a new generation of engines and a new chassis to the Toyota stable.
Today, we're in the twilight of 2012 and the Tacoma is now a proven truck that's more than capable of holding its own in the dirt. Tacoma engines are much more powerful than the old iron. The Toyota Tacoma is a truck worthy of suspension upgrades.
If you'd like to take your Tacoma's front suspension to the next level, you've got options and we're here to present them. For the sake of continuity, were sticking to six-lug 4x4 models in this story.
Please note that none of the coilover kits come standard with shocks, although coilovers can be ordered through each suspension manufacturer.
Hardcore Tacoma suspension can be sliced into two main categories: long-travel A-arms (IFS) and solid axle swaps (SAS). If you're building an all-around truck and want more wheel travel and better high-speed stability, a long-travel IFS upgrade is your best bet. If you want performance in the rocks and simplicity above all else, it's hard to beat a swapped-in solid front axle.
Solid axles and leaf springs are a proven combination for hardcore 'wheeling and rockcrawling, and Trail-Gear offers its Tacoma solid axle swap (SAS) kit in three different levels. The Trail-Gear SAS kits are for the '96-to-'04 first-generation Tacoma models. Go for the "A" kit and source your own axle and steering box, or upgrade to the Trail-Gear "B" or "C" kit to find something more inclusive. Whichever option you choose (the "C" kit is shown), you'll have a pre-engineered kit that takes the guess work out of a solid axle swap. Cutting, grinding, and welding are all required. It's a straightforward process, but it's still major surgery.
All-Pro Off Road
All-Pro Off-Road offers a long-travel IFS system that fits '05-and-newer Tacomas, '03-and-newer 4Runners, and '07-and-newer FJ Cruisers. The All-Pro long-travel IFS system adds two inches of track width per side via replacement upper and lower control arms. Both the upper and lower ball joints are replaced with spherical bearings (uniballs) which offer more strength, easier replacement, and a greater range of motion. The All-Pro system is TIG-welded and made from chromoly tubing and cold-rolled billet steel. It's made to use a single coilover and a bumpstop. Fiberglass fenders can be used but are not required. The All-Pro long-travel IFS kit has received some updates since the kit layout photo was taken. Check out All-Pro's website for a more current photo.
If you've got a '96-to-'04 Tacoma, All-Pro's Taco Supreme SAS kit is an easy ticket to hardcore rockcrawling performance. The Taco Supreme SAS kit can be used with a variety of different solid front axles, but was designed around an All-Pro-specific Currie Rock Jock 60 front axle. The basic link and bracket kit can be supplemented with All-Pro shock towers to make installation even easier. Installing the Taco Supreme kit requires cutting, grinding, and welding. It's a job best left to an experienced fabricator or a professional shop. Your stock Tacoma steering rack gets replaced with an '86-to-'95 Toyota pickup Toyota steering box (much stronger).
Camburg Engineering
Camburg's long-travel kit for the '05-to-'12 Tacoma adds 3.5 inches of track width per side. The lower control arms are made from plate steel, while the uppers are a traditional tubular design. Both upper and lower ball joints are replaced with 1.25-inch uniballs yielding strength and wheel travel benefits. The lower control arms pivot on one-inch uniballs instead of bushings, making the control arms less prone to deflection during hard cornering or over rugged terrain. Steering options include extending the stock tie rods or completely replacing the tie rods with a clevis-and-rod end system. This system fits both two-and four-wheel-drive models. Fiberglass fenders are required.
There's a Camburg long-travel kit for the '96-to-'04 first-generation six-lug Tacomas, too. This kit widens the truck's stance 3.5 inches per side and also requires fiberglass fenders. The lower control arms pivot on one-inch uniballs, and you'll also find a one-inch uniball in place of the stock upper ball joint at the steering knuckle. You can use Tundra CV axles to replace your stock Tacoma shorties. Run this kit with a coilover only, or add a hydraulic bumpstop and a bypass shock for ultimate control in the rough.
Total Chaos Fabrication
Total Chaos Fabrication offers its'05-'12 Tacoma long-travel kit in two widths: 3.5 inches wider per side and 2 inches wider per side. This photo shows the +3.5 kit. Lower control arms are made from boxed plate, while the uppers are made using tubing. Both upper and lower arms pivot on urethane bushings (Heim-jointed uppers are optional) which transmit less noise and harshness from the control arms into the chassis. Upper and lower uniball conversions are standard. If you're looking for additional deflection control, you can use T.C.'s optional Nylatron bushings in your lower control arms. Fiberglass fenders are a must. Custom Total Chaos CV axles are inserted into the stock inner and outer CV joints. Total Chaos also offers several upgrades that will strengthen the chassis in conjunction with the long-travel suspension. These included alignment cam tab gussets, coil bucket tower gussets, and steering knuckle gussets.
If you don't want to go as wide, don't want to use fiberglass fenders, or are bound by SCORE Class 3 track width rules, then the Total Chaos +2 kit may be for you. The features are practically identical to the +3.5 kit, but in a narrower track width version. The +2 kit is shown on a 5th-generation 4Runner, but this system also fits the '05-to-'12 Tacoma, the '07-to-'12 FJ Cruiser, and the '03-to-'09 4Runner.
Total Chaos offers a system for the '96-to-'04 first-generation six-lug Tacomas. 4Runner owners of '96-to-'02 models can also run this system. The T.C. first-gen Tacoma long-travel system adds 3.5 inches of track width per side. Modified Tundra CV axles are used to maintain four-wheel drive and to match the added track width. There are options with both the upper and lower control arms. Choose from bushing pivots and Heim joint pivots for the upper arms, and tubular or boxed-style lower control arms. The upper ball joint is replaced with a one-inch uniball. As with the newer-generation Tacomas, Total Chaos offers steering knuckle gussets, alignment cam tab gussets, and coil bucket tower gussets to prepare your chassis for hard use. Fiberglass fenders? Yes, you'll need them.


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In The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980, Steven Hayward had the inspired idea of taking Daniel Patrick Moynihan as the liberal counterpart to Ronald Reagan. Writing in 2001 when Moynihan had just stepped down from his Senate seat and was living in retirement, Steve explained in his prologue:
In addition to including the reasonable criticism [of liberalism] of Reagan, this narrative also aims to tell the liberal's side of the story with due respect and sympathy, and does so partly from the perspective of the one figure whose experience bridges the entire time-span in view: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the thinking man's liberal, whose advice, had it been followed, might have saved liberalism from running aground and the Democratic Party from its electoral ruin at the hands of Reagan….He has been on the scene, if not right in the middle, of most of the prominent controversies in America from 1964 until his retirement from the Senate in 2000.
Moynihan served as America's ambassador to the United Nations for nine months in 1975-76, during which time the General Assembly adopted its odious "Zionism is a form of racism" resolution. Moynihan's memoir of his tenure at the UN — A Dangerous Place — is now sadly out of print, but could not be more timely.
In the conclusion of his prologue to The Age of Reagan, Steve writes: "If any person can claim vindication for his record of criticism and prognostication, it is Moynihan." In A Dangerous Place, Moynihan's criticism of the desiccated liberalism of the New York Times is a theme of the chapter discussing his nomination by President Ford to serve as ambassador to the United Nations. Moynihan's criticism of the Times in connection with his own nomination in 1975 sits in judgment on the Times's condemnation of John Bolton, both in its July 23 page-one hit piece by Warren Hoge (now behind TimesSelect) and its pro forma editorial yesterday.
Beyond their treatment by the New York Times, one connection between Moynihan and Bolton is Bolton's role in securing the repeal of the "Zionism is racism" resolution by the United Nations in 1991 during Bolton's service in the Bush (41) administration. President Bush (43) mentioned Bolton's role in securing the repeal of what he termed the "shameful" resolution in his remarks concerning his recess appointmment of Ambassador Bolton, as did Condoleezza Rice in her March 2005 remarks concerning Bolton's nomination. Upon the adoption of the resolution in November 1975, Moynihan gave a magnificent speech, the first and last sentence of which (Moynihan notes in his memoir) had been contributed by Norman Podhoretz: "The United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it does not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." Bolton's role in the undoing of the infamous act is sketched by Thomas Boyd in an excellent April 2005 Boston Globe column supporting Bolton's nomination.
In any event, I place Moynihan's account of his treatment by the Times in the context of the Bolton nomination in a column for the Standard this morning: "Déjà Vu, All Over Again." Please check it out. (Thanks to RealClearPolitics for including the column in its honor roll this morning.)
UPDATE: Put this New York Sun story in the category of today's good news, consistent with the Times's formulaic editorial opposition to Bolton: "Schumer says Bolton won't face filibuster."


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Earl Rodney Friends and Countrymen
Billed as the first solo album from a steel pan player, this vintage nugget from '73 is probably better described as Trinidadian rare groove. The bubbly sounds commonly associated with Calypso and Soca are evident, as is a '70s island tribal-funk vibe, with Rodney's alto pan accompanied by horns, whistles, African drums, electric bass, melodic guitar runs, and vocal chants. The mostly uptempo, highly celebratory material comes as somewhat of an unheralded revelation, connecting the Caribbean Diaspora with its African roots in a creative, original way. Flavorful like fresh mangoes, tracks like "Juck Juck" and "Midnight Man" have gro-o-ooves for days. Intoxicating as a tall glass of aged Trini rum on a hot day, Friends and Countrymen pans out quite excellently.


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1. implant - noun
· a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue
Hypernym(s): prosthesis, prosthetic_device
2. implant - verb
· fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
Synonym(s): engraft, embed, imbed, plant
Hypernym(s): insert, infix, enter, introduce
3. implant - verb
· become attached to and embedded in the uterus; "The egg fertilized in vitro implanted in the uterus of the birth mother with no further complications"
Hypernym(s): attach
4. implant - verb
· put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds"
Synonym(s): plant
Hypernym(s): communicate, pass_on, pass, pass_along, put_across
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- 2004 Poderi Luigi Einaudi Dolcetto di Dogliani - Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Dolcetto di Dogliani (7/13/2006)
Impenetrably dark. The nose is odd: yoghurt. Peach yoghurt to be precice. There is also a touch of herbs, only a hint of earthiness and the 14% alc is too evident. The palate is a little better: juicily fruity yet savoury, very tannic, perhaps a touch oaky but not out of balance, but the youghurt is very prominent on the palate also - as is the alcohol. Gladly there are lovely, high amounts of acidity! Bit still, this is a bit of a disappointment. A bit spoofulated.
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Poor people are poor because markets fail them and governments fail them. That markets fail them is well-known. Failures in capital markets mean that young people cannot get loans to finance their education; imperfect or nonexistent insurance markets mean that poor people will not get decent health care if left to unfettered markets; economies of scale as well as the simple fact that basic services such as water are necessities mean that markets will not ensure that poor people will get the services they need to survive. As Roy Radner, a former professor of mine once put it, "When you allocate resources by market prices, you discriminate against poor people."
To overcome these failures—that is, to protect the poor—governments step in. They finance and provide primary education and basic health care; they subsidize water and electricity so poor people can afford these services. Unfortunately, these well-intentioned government interventions lead to failures of their own. In Ugandan public schools, teachers are absent 27 percent of the time; health workers in primary health centers are absent 37 percent of the time. Only one percent of the money allocated to non-salary spending in Chad reached the health clinics. These "government failures" are sometimes as pernicious as the market failures they were intended to correct. They are also difficult to overcome because various interest groups who benefit from the status quo may resist reform.
One way to overcome them may be to create a debate around these failures, to amplify the voices of the poor, so that political leaders will listen to them. Today is Blog Action Day 2008, and the topic that bloggers worldwide are writing about is "Poverty." Let us hope this global movement, that is based on information-sharing, debate and discussion, will eventually help overcome both market and government failures so that poor people around the world can escape poverty.
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Rural communities that have sustained themselves for millennia on their land, now they are being measured with global development indicators hence they are failing, undeveloped and in western terms, poor. The infrastructure to help them develop socially and economically in line with how they are being measured has not been put in place. The Millennium Development Goals have very aggressive targets and indicators.
With the lack of infrastructure, these goals would not be achieved. Why don't we just look at how these communities have survived and help them be better at whatever it is they are doing? It is obvious that global development is a Eurocentric concept and would not address the development challenges of the African nations.


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The Easy Way to Recover Lost/Deleted/Formatted Pictures, Photos & Images on Mac
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Can lost/deleted/formatted pictures, photos & images be recovered?
Photos are the most fascinating possession of any person. When we feel to capture the precious moment of life for a long time then we simply take pictures using our Camera. We generally use to take pictures in some occasions, parties or in those moments when we are happy. In future when we see those pictures and memorize those moments, we feel the same as we felt at the time of taking picture. So a picture is attached with our emotions. Today Digital Camera is in fashion since they have amazing capacities and features that are capable to capture great pictures. Digital cameras are used worldwide by professionals. Problems occur when we accidentally delete photos and pictures or they get corrupted and due to other causes. Since the pictures are not physical till they are not printed on the Paper or other physical thing, the chances of corruption will always with them. So you need a solution that can take back all those lost and deleted photos, pictures to its original condition. But you may not know whether lost, deleted, and formatted pictures, photos, and images can be recovered or not.
It is possible to recover lost/deleted/formatted pictures, photos & images
It is a common misconception among people that pictures, photos, and images once get lost, deleted, and formatted they will be lost forever. Actually, this conception is wrong. Taking deleted pictures for example. When you accidentally deleted pictures from hard drives by emptying trash bin, carelessly press "Delete†button on your digital media, or accidentally delete pictures from USB drives and other storage media, those deleted pictures are not lost permanently. These pictures are still stored on your Mac machine or digital media memory card, etc. They are just not accessible or visible because the file pointer which says where the pictures is got deleted. As long as the pictures are not overwritten, it is definitely possible to recover pictures, photos, and images on Mac withphoto recovery for Mac (http://www.idisksoft.com/photo-recovery-for-mac.html). The software thoroughly scans the hard drive to trace the lost and deleted pictures, photos and images.
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NEW YORK (AP) â¿¿ NBC got its start in 1926 as the nation's first radio network. Its parent company, the Radio Corporation of America, figured people would buy radios if they had interesting things to listen to. NBC was the leading radio network in the early years, so powerful in those days that it had two networks: NBC-Red and NBC-Blue. It was forced by the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1940s to divest itself of one network. NBC-Blue eventually became ABC. In fact, all three original broadcast networks can be traced back to NBC. One of its original owners, Westinghouse Electric Co., bought CBS in 1995. Some of NBC's radio profits were funneled into researching the new television technology. NBC began television broadcasts in 1939 by covering the opening of the New York World's Fair. RCA's chief David Sarnoff took to the airwaves to introduce that broadcast, and his description of the moment â¿¿ "the birth of a new art bound to affect all society" â¿¿ was prescient and maybe even understated. In 1947 came the first NBC program that's still around today â¿¿ Sunday morning's "Meet the Press." NBC had television's first big hit in "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle. Many people bought their first TVs, or crowded around the few ones available, to see a comic who'd mine for laughs each week by wearing a dress. Though it faced fierce competition over the decades, NBC was formidable in the 1990s, with Thursdays declared a "must-see" night of television. The network's run of memorable series including "Cheers," ''Seinfeld," ''ER," ''Frasier," ''Friends" and "The West Wing" represented a golden age. NBC's decline has been slow, steady and sad. Its "must-see" series all ran their course, replaced by nothing comparable. Each of their rivals minted influential, highly popular reality series, including Fox's "American Idol" and CBS' "Survivor." Until this fall, NBC sagged in fourth place, struggling to find a hit. Looking to pare the costs of producing scripted shows, NBC even brought Jay Leno to prime time in 2009, only to reverse course.
In selling a controlling stake to Comcast Corp. in 2011, General Electric Co. began to unravel part of the legacy of former Chairman Jack Welch. In 1986, he had bought RCA and NBC to help his industrial conglomerate get a reliable source of cash while overseas manufacturing competition loomed.Under Comcast, NBC did better than expected during last summer's Olympics and began showing clear signs of a comeback, improving ratings after nearly sliding into irrelevancy over the previous decade. It had a new hit in "The Voice" and a consistent ratings leader in "Sunday Night Football" during the fall and early winter. By last fall, NBC could boast that it was drawing the most viewers in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic prized by advertisers for the first time in a decade. Overall, NBC still ranked behind CBS and ABC, but at least it was no longer bringing up the rear in fourth place, as had been the case for several years. With Tuesday's deal, Comcast would get full ownership. GE would end its ties with the network â¿¿ one that dates back to NBC's origins. Until RCA became the sole owner of NBC in 1932, GE owned the company along with RCA and Westinghouse.


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Gap in the U.K. has teamed with Liberty fabrics to create a four-piece capsule collection of shirts and dresses for its high summer collection. The line comprises three styles of shirt and one shirtdress, which are all made from Liberty's Tana Lawn cotton and printed with one of four delicate floral prints from Liberty's archive, called Glenjade, Nina, Eloise and Fairford. The collection is part of Gap's Design Editions series, and each piece has a purple Liberty swing tag alongside a Gap swing tag.
Prices range from 35 pounds, or $69, for a short-sleeve cotton shirt, to 45 pounds, or $89, for the cotton dress, and the collection launched at selected Gap stores in the U.K. earlier this month. A spokeswoman for Gap U.K. said the company plans to continue the collaboration into the fall season. She added that there are no plans for the collection to launch in the U.S.


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Human-Robot Interaction gathering for the HRI 2013 conference
Each year, the ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction conference program committee gathers to decide which papers will be published and presented at the annual conference. This year, we were happy to host the program committee meeting at Willow Garage. In a 1.5 day gathering, we reviewed the papers, reviewers' comments, rebuttals, and discussions, to figure out how to construct this year's conference program and how to provide helpful feedback to the authors.
The program co-chairs, Jodi Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon University) and Michita Imai (Keio University) pulled together a great group of people for the program committee and kept us on target. General co-chairs Hideaki Kuzuoka (University of Tsukuba) and Vanessa Evers (University of Twente) joined us for the program committee meeting, too. Hideaki joined in person and Vanessa Beamed in to Willow Garage on Friday to visit with everyone, which was fun.
We are very excited about the line-up of papers that will be presented at HRI 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. Hope to see you there!


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Bradenton Beach's Sam Speciale says letter he provided to media wasn't marked 'confidential'
Bradenton Beach Police Chief Sam Speciale says the reason he leaked confidential documents from the Sheena Morris death investigation to the media is that they were not stamped "confidential."
"When it's given to me, unless it's marked confidential it becomes a public document," Speciale said today, standing behind bullet-proof glass in his police department's lobby.
He declined to be interviewed or comment further, and rejected a public records request for all documents in the Sheena Morris case file not stamped "confidential."
"I have nothing," Speciale said. "I have nothing."
Morris, 22, was found hanging in the shower stall of a Bradenton Beach hotel on New Year's Day 2009. Bradenton Beach detective Lenard Diaz concluded that Morris killed herself.
The woman's mother, Kelly Osborn, other family members and several forensic experts say the crime scene was staged and that Morris was murdered.
Speciale's explanation came one day after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced it was conducting a "review" of Speciale's actions — a move shy of a full-blown FDLE investigation.
Speciale is accused of releasing a copy of a letter sent last week by John Burke, the special agent in charge of FDLE's Fort Myer's office, to Osborn. Speciale received a copy from FDLE as a courtesy, and gave copies to at least two reporters from weekly newspapers distributed on Anna Maria Island.
Osborn, who was outraged when she learned Speciale was behind the leak, said the chief's explanation does not make sense.
"It's an open investigation — a murder investigation," she said. "Everything about it is confidential, regardless of how it's stamped."
Osborn has appealed to Gov. Rick Scott to intervene, and asked Bradenton Beach Mayor John Shaughnessy to discipline his police chief for the leak.
Shaughnessy did not respond to calls, emails or messages left with his staff seeking comment.
In the letter, which Speciale provided Thursday, Burke points out that the "release of relevant information while the investigation is ongoing has consequences."
"It allows those with motive to fabricate additional time and information with which to craft a response to questioning that, while untrue, incorporates the known facts," Burke wrote. "Additionally, such releases allow those without any direct knowledge to feign awareness of relevant facts; consuming investigative resources and possibly providing false or misleading information."
The letter also asks Osborn to turn over evidence in the case and release her daughter's records.
Osborn, who rejected a similar request from Speciale, said she will comply with the agent's request.
Burke offered condolences on behalf of FDLE, and pledged that he and his agents are "committed to a full examination of the circumstances of your daughter's death."


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