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Plaything of Sutekh - Issue Two
The new edition of Plaything of Sutekh, edited by Richard Farrell, is now available to order. Featured in the 40-page A5 fanzine are:
- Five Star! A look at 2012's new episodes, which saw the return of the Weeping Angels and the departure of Amy and Rory. There is also a short Q&A with director Saul Metzstein.
- Coming Of Age: A look at Season 18 when Doctor Who got told to grow up by new producer John Nathan-Turner.
- Opening The Gate: David Rolinson dodges a few Gundans to unravel one of Season 18's finest stories, Warriors' Gate.
- Tardis Radio: Oliver Wake looks at the untransmitted pilot radio episode featuring Peter Cushing.
- Strip For The Doctor: The Doctor materialised in the pages of Countdown in the early '70s. Richard Farrell looks at the work of Harry Lindfield and Gerry Haylock on the Doctor Who comic strip and examines their influences and source of reference.
- Secret Who: Time to dust off the oil lamp as a fresh look is taken at 1974's Death To The Daleks.
- DWDVD: John Connors reviews the recent DVD releases Ace Adventures, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, and The Ambassadors of Death.
- Are You A Good Doctor Who Villain? Take this test to see if you're really up to subjugating entire universes.
Inferno Fiction - Issue 12
The online Doctor Who fiction magazine, edited by Colin-John Rodgers, features the following in its latest edition:
- Fimbulvinter, by Meg MacDonald: "I should have killed him straight away. It would have been a mercy. I'm capable of mercy. But . . . he smelled of starlight."
- Employees - Wash Hands Before Returning To The Invasion, by Thomas Ahearn: When the Doctor pays Madame Vastra and Jenny a visit he gets much more than he bargained for: a trip to another universe. Only this time, the stakes are so much higher than anyone realises . . .
- The Fountain of Maturity, by Shams Uddin: The Doctor, Amy, and Rory race against time to find the eponymous fountain, while the Doctor's mind is regressing through his previous regenerations. Why are the colonists being so unhelpful? What plans has Dishi cooked up for the future of his society? And will he go to any lengths to fulfil his lofty ambitions?
- A Brush With Death, by Francis Cave: Part One: The Brigadier enlists the help of the Doctor to investigate the mysterious deaths of transport workers.
- The Circles of Truth, by Nathan Mullins: Disappearances throughout time in Earth's recorded history turn out to be something more sinister . . .
- The Larks, Still Singing Bravely, Fly, by Julie Kay: Ypres, Christmas Day 1914, the war to end all wars . . .


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I agree with you that the Spyderco Tenacious is an excellent value but I will have to disagree that the serrated edge is better for bushcrafting as it is harder to carve with the chisel ground serrations (or any serrations for that matter). I think you will find that the Tenacious should hold a great edge even when beating the heck out of it... I have never had to resharpen a knife in the field, and don't intend to ever have to. Spyderco is definitely my favorite brand as well, and I have spent an absurd amount of money exploring Spyderco's great selection of knives. Personally my favorite Spyderco for the outdoors is the Military or Paramilitary, and for urban use my favorite is the Caly 3 CF/ZDP.
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Aerial view of Fab 8 (rendering)
On January 8th, GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced it will soon begin construction on a new research and development facility at the Fab 8 campus. Featuring more than a half million square feet of flexible space to support a range of technology development and manufacturing activities, the new Technology Development Center (TDC) will play a key role in the company's strategy to develop innovative semiconductor solutions allowing customers to compete at the leading edge of technology.
"As the industry shifts from the PC era to a market focused on mobile devices, we have seen increasingly strong interest from customers in migrating to advanced nodes on an accelerated schedule," said GF CEO Ajit Manocha. "To help facilitate this migration, we are making significant investments in strengthening our technology leadership, including growing our workforce and adding new capabilities to make Fab 8 the hub of our global technology operations. The new TDC will help us bridge between the lab and the fab by taking research conducted with partners and further developing the technologies to make them ready for volume manufacturing."
The TDC will house a variety of semiconductor development and manufacturing spaces to support the transition to new technology nodes, as well as the development of innovative capabilities to deliver value to customers beyond the traditional approach of shrinking transistors.
The overarching goal of the TDC is to provide a collaborative space to develop end-to-end solutions covering the full spectrum of silicon technology, from new interconnect and packaging technologies that enable three-dimensional (3D) stacking of chips to leading-edge photomasks for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography and everything in between. The TDC will also house important post-production capabilities, including ETest, Bump and Probe, which are increasingly needed at the foundry location for fast yield feedback and to support customer business models.
The Fab 8 campus is an ideal home for the company's leading-edge technology development activities. The proximity of the IBM Joint Development Alliance activities in East Fishkill and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University of Albany, combined with the growing presence of technology development personnel on the Fab 8 campus, have helped make New York's "Tech Valley" a global center for next-generation technologies.
"This significant expansion demonstrates that the investments we have made in nanotechnology research across New York State are producing the intended return— the creation of high-paying jobs and generation of economic growth that is essential to rebuilding our state," said New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. "New York has become the world's hub for advanced semiconductor research and now, the Technology Development Center will further help ensure the innovations developed in New York, in collaboration with our research institutions, are manufactured in New York."
Speaking about the announcement, CNSE Senior Vice President and CEO Dr. Alain Kaloyeros said, "The expansion of GF's advanced technology and manufacturing capabilities, supported by new investments and location of new high-tech research and development jobs at the College of Nanoscale Science and engineering, will fuel exciting opportunities for both residents and businesses across New York State, in accordance with Governor Cuomo 'New York Open for Business' strategy, and continue to pave the way for long-term economic growth and prosperity catalyzed by computer chip innovations."
The company plans to begin construction in early 2013 with completion targeted for late 2014. Since breaking ground on Fab 8 in 2009, GF has created approximately 2,000 new direct jobs and that number is expected to grow by another 1,000 employees for a total of about 3,000 new jobs by the end of 2014.
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2012 Oceano CA End of Year Real Estate Market Update
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So why ? Why is Michael Jackson my inspiration ?
He grew up in a broken home with an abusive father. He spent his whole childhood traveling the world going state to state city to city for a tour, but he didn't break down, he loved music. He loved his fans. He was gifted from the start with an excellent voice and performing skills. I watched the story of the Jackson 5 on tv over and over again and was wowed at the strength he had. Michael Jackson was a gift to the world with the hit songs and amazing dancing. The way his music made people feel and how his masterful choreography made people want to get up and dance. He captured the audience during concerts He had talent, creativity, and oh so much more. He influenced most of pop stars today incluing Chris Brown, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Ne-yo, etc., but no, thats not all why I admire him so much. Michael was a humanitarian. Yes, he was a true example of a humanitarian. He cared so much about our world, our earth. His music showed it. Heal The World, We Are The World, Earth Song and Man In The Mirror were so touching. Get up and make a change! He also showed it through his deeds. He visited orphanages and children who didn't have homes or foods or families and helped them. Spent his money, did whatever he could. He wanted to change the world for the better and vowed to do so through music and charity. Unfortunately he fell victim to those who took advantage of his kindness. They humiliated him publicly and slowly ruined his spirit. He was accused of false statements. I truly feel bad for him. Another thing I admire about the king of pop how deeply he cared for his children. He loved kids, and he was a great father. As he said, "In a world filled with hate we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust we must still dare to believe."-Michael Jackson.
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I graduated from Jr. High at Mount Carmel School. I'm really proud of myself for working hard and making it through those two years preparing my for high school. I'm excited yet nervous to start high school. I can't believe i'm actually a freshman ! Wow. I'll reallly miss my old friends, but I know i'll make new friends and shine throughout my high school years (:. I thank my mom for being there for me and encouraging me to study for school. My graduation was a great day, after my uncle Peter took me and my sisters out for pizza and ice cream. Then when we got home we prepared for my graduation party. Thanks alot mom, wayne, auntie emma for preparing the food and thanks to everyone that came and said congratulations. It means alot (:. Well, that was it for my graduation day. I'm looking forward to my next graduation.


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There are a lot of translations on this site, with a lot of hard work put into each one. Already most of Jin Yong's oeuvre has been translated, along with quite a few Gu Long works, and others. But there has been a lot of wuxia written since the big three, and not all of it long novels and series.
In an effort to further promote wuxia in English, and because I want read works by other writers that haven't gotten any attention among English-speaking communities, I've started translating short stories from various issues of wuxia magazines. There are a lot of stories out there, and the short story form is unique in the kinds of stories presented and in the ways in which the stories are told. The wuxia short story form hasn't really been explored in English translation so far, except for Jin Yong's Jade Maiden, but hopefully this thread will change that, as well as inspire others to begin their own short story or novella translations.
The first one I'm posting is called "Dancing Snow" (Wuxue, 舞雪) by Chen Jiye. It's from a 2003 issue of 今古傳奇 武俠版, a Chinese wuxia magazine. Notices of new story postings will occur as replies to this thread.
This first post will be used as an index of short story links. If you have one, you can leave it in a reply to this thread and I will add it to the index. Happy reading everyone!
Wuxia Short Fiction Index
Chen Jiye
Dancing Snow (舞雪)
Huo Xiang
Witness (目擊)
Chen Zhiyu
The Qiao Family Bridge Hand (錦橋手)
Lang Xiaojing
Liu Luo Xiang (六羅香)
Gao Sui
Plain Wooden Spear (素木槍)
Ta Xue
A Lone Wisp of Smoke Rising (大漠孤煙直)
Qu Yehe
Master Guan (關大先生)
Wu Yongsheng
Day In and Day Out (逐月)
Cang Yue
Troubled Times, Worldly Desires (亂世塵心) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Yang Pan
A Soldier's Story (小兵物語)
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On March 23, 2010, the day that President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, fourteen state attorneys general filed suit against the law's requirement that most Americans purchase health insurance, on the ground that it was unconstitutional. It was hard to find a law professor in the country who took them seriously. "The argument about constitutionality is, if not frivolous, close to it," Sanford Levinson, a University of Texas law-school professor, told the McClatchy newspapers. Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California at Irvine, told the Times, "There is no case law, post 1937, that would support an individual's right not to buy health care if the government wants to mandate it." Orin Kerr, a George Washington University professor who had clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy, said, "There is a less than one-per-cent chance that the courts will invalidate the individual mandate." Today, as the Supreme Court prepares to hand down its decision on the law, Kerr puts the chance that it will overturn the mandate—almost certainly on a party-line vote—at closer to "fifty-fifty." The Republicans have made the individual mandate the element most likely to undo the President's health-care law. The irony is that the Democrats adopted it in the first place because they thought that it would help them secure conservative support. It had, after all, been at the heart of Republican health-care reforms for two decades.
The mandate made its political début in a 1989 Heritage Foundation brief titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans," as a counterpoint to the single-payer system and the employer mandate, which were favored in Democratic circles. In the brief, Stuart Butler, the foundation's health-care expert, argued, "Many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seat-belts for their own protection. Many others require anybody driving a car to have liability insurance. But neither the federal government nor any state requires all households to protect themselves from the potentially catastrophic costs of a serious accident or illness. Under the Heritage plan, there would be such a requirement." The mandate made its first legislative appearance in 1993, in the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act—the Republicans' alternative to President Clinton's health-reform bill—which was sponsored by John Chafee, of Rhode Island, and co-sponsored by eighteen Republicans, including Bob Dole, who was then the Senate Minority Leader.
After the Clinton bill, which called for an employer mandate, failed, Democrats came to recognize the opportunity that the Chafee bill had presented. In "The System," David Broder and Haynes Johnson's history of the health-care wars of the nineties, Bill Clinton concedes that it was the best chance he had of reaching a bipartisan compromise. "It should have been right then, or the day after they presented their bill, where I should have tried to have a direct understanding with Dole," he said.
Ten years later, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, began picking his way back through the history—he read "The System" four times—and he, too, came to focus on the Chafee bill. He began building a proposal around the individual mandate, and tested it out on both Democrats and Republicans. "Between 2004 and 2008, I saw over eighty members of the Senate, and there were very few who objected," Wyden says. In December, 2006, he unveiled the Healthy Americans Act. In May, 2007, Bob Bennett, a Utah Republican, who had been a sponsor of the Chafee bill, joined him. Wyden-Bennett was eventually co-sponsored by eleven Republicans and nine Democrats, receiving more bipartisan support than any universal health-care proposal in the history of the Senate. It even caught the eye of the Republican Presidential aspirants. In a June, 2009, interview on "Meet the Press," Mitt Romney, who, as governor of Massachusetts, had signed a universal health-care bill with an individual mandate, said that Wyden-Bennett was a plan "that a number of Republicans think is a very good health-care plan—one that we support."
Wyden's bill was part of a broader trend of Democrats endorsing the individual mandate in their own proposals. John Edwards and Hillary Clinton both built a mandate into their campaign health-care proposals. In 2008, Senator Ted Kennedy brought John McDonough, a liberal advocate of the Massachusetts plan, to Washington to help with health-care reform. That same year, Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, included an individual mandate in the first draft of his health-care bill. The main Democratic holdout was Senator Barack Obama. But by July, 2009, President Obama had changed his mind. "I was opposed to this idea because my general attitude was the reason people don't have health insurance is not because they don't want it. It's because they can't afford it," he told CBS News. "I am now in favor of some sort of individual mandate."
This process led, eventually, to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—better known as Obamacare—which also included an individual mandate. But, as that bill came closer to passing, Republicans began coalescing around the mandate, which polling showed to be one of the legislation's least popular elements. In December, 2009, in a vote on the bill, every Senate Republican voted to call the individual mandate "unconstitutional."
This shift—Democrats lining up behind the Republican-crafted mandate, and Republicans declaring it not just inappropriate policy but contrary to the wishes of the Founders—shocked Wyden. "I would characterize the Washington, D.C., relationship with the individual mandate as truly schizophrenic," he said.
It was not an isolated case. In 2007, both Newt Gingrich and John McCain wanted a cap-and-trade program in order to reduce carbon emissions. Today, neither they nor any other leading Republicans support cap-and-trade. In 2008, the Bush Administration proposed, pushed, and signed the Economic Stimulus Act, a deficit-financed tax cut designed to boost the flagging economy. Today, few Republicans admit that a deficit-financed stimulus can work. Indeed, with the exception of raising taxes on the rich, virtually every major policy currently associated with the Obama Administration was, within the past decade, a Republican idea in good standing.
Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at New York University's business school, argues in a new book, "The Righteous Mind," that to understand human beings, and their politics, you need to understand that we are descended from ancestors who would not have survived if they hadn't been very good at belonging to groups. He writes that "our minds contain a variety of mental mechanisms that make us adept at promoting our group's interests, in competition with other groups. We are not saints, but we are sometimes good team players."
One of those mechanisms is figuring out how to believe what the group believes. Haidt sees the role that reason plays as akin to the job of the White House press secretary. He writes, "No matter how bad the policy, the secretary will find some way to praise or defend it. Sometimes you'll hear an awkward pause as the secretary searches for the right words, but what you'll never hear is: 'Hey, that's a great point! Maybe we should rethink this policy.' Press secretaries can't say that because they have no power to make or revise policy. They're told what the policy is, and their job is to find evidence and arguments that will justify the policy to the public." For that reason, Haidt told me, "once group loyalties are engaged, you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments. Thinking is mostly just rationalization, mostly just a search for supporting evidence."
Psychologists have a term for this: "motivated reasoning," which Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale, defines as "when a person is conforming their assessments of information to some interest or goal that is independent of accuracy"—an interest or goal such as remaining a well-regarded member of his political party, or winning the next election, or even just winning an argument. Geoffrey Cohen, a professor of psychology at Stanford, has shown how motivated reasoning can drive even the opinions of engaged partisans. In 2003, when he was an assistant professor at Yale, Cohen asked a group of undergraduates, who had previously described their political views as either very liberal or very conservative, to participate in a test to study, they were told, their "memory of everyday current events."
The students were shown two articles: one was a generic news story; the other described a proposed welfare policy. The first article was a decoy; it was the students' reactions to the second that interested Cohen. He was actually testing whether party identifications influence voters when they evaluate new policies. To find out, he produced multiple versions of the welfare article. Some students read about a program that was extremely generous—more generous, in fact, than any welfare policy that has ever existed in the United States—while others were presented with a very stingy proposal. But there was a twist: some versions of the article about the generous proposal portrayed it as being endorsed by Republican Party leaders; and some versions of the article about the meagre program described it as having Democratic support. The results showed that, "for both liberal and conservative participants, the effect of reference group information overrode that of policy content. If their party endorsed it, liberals supported even a harsh welfare program, and conservatives supported even a lavish one."
In a subsequent study involving just self-described liberal students, Cohen gave half the group news stories that had accompanying Democratic endorsements and the other half news stories that did not. The students who didn't get the endorsements preferred a more generous program. When they did get the endorsements, they went with their party, even if this meant embracing a meaner option.
This kind of thinking is, according to psychologists, unsurprising. Each of us can have firsthand knowledge of just a small number of topics—our jobs, our studies, our personal experiences. But as citizens—and as elected officials—we are routinely asked to make judgments on issues as diverse and as complex as the Iranian nuclear program, the environmental impact of an international oil pipeline, and the likely outcomes of branding China a "currency manipulator."
According to the political-science literature, one of the key roles that political parties play is helping us navigate these decisions. In theory, we join parties because they share our values and our goals—values and goals that may have been passed on to us by the most important groups in our lives, such as our families and our communities—and so we trust that their policy judgments will match the ones we would come up with if we had unlimited time to study the issues. But parties, though based on a set of principles, aren't disinterested teachers in search of truth. They're organized groups looking to increase their power. Or, as the psychologists would put it, their reasoning may be motivated by something other than accuracy. And you can see the results among voters who pay the closest attention to the issues.
In a 2006 paper, "It Feels Like We're Thinking," the political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels looked at a National Election Study, a poll supported by the National Science Foundation, from 1996. One of the questions asked whether "the size of the yearly budget deficit increased, decreased, or stayed about the same during Clinton's time as President." The correct answer is that it decreased, dramatically. Achen and Bartels categorize the respondents according to how politically informed they were. Among the least-informed respondents, Democrats and Republicans picked the wrong answer in roughly equal numbers. But among better-informed voters the story was different. Republicans who were in the fiftieth percentile gave the right answer more often than those in the ninety-fifth percentile. Bartels found a similar effect in a previous survey, in which well-informed Democrats were asked whether inflation had gone down during Ronald Reagan's Presidency. It had, but many of those Democrats said that it hadn't. The more information people had, it seemed, the better they were at arranging it to fit what they wanted to believe. As Bartels told me, "If I'm a Republican and an enthusiastic supporter of lower tax rates, it is uncomfortable to recognize that President Obama has reduced most Americans' taxes—and I can find plenty of conservative information sources that deny or ignore the fact that he has."
Recently, Bartels noticed a similar polarization in attitudes toward the health-care law and the Supreme Court. Using YouGov polling data, he found that less-informed voters who supported the law and less-informed voters who opposed it were equally likely to say that "the Supreme Court should be able to throw out any law it finds unconstitutional." But, among better-informed voters, those who opposed the law were thirty per cent more likely than those who supported it to cede that power to the Court. In other words, well-informed opponents realized that they needed an activist Supreme Court that was willing to aggressively overturn laws if they were to have any hope of invalidating the Affordable Care Act.
Orin Kerr says that, in the two years since he gave the individual mandate only a one-per-cent chance of being overturned, three key things have happened. First, congressional Republicans made the argument against the mandate a Republican position. Then it became a standard conservative-media position. "That legitimized the argument in a way we haven't really seen before," Kerr said. "We haven't seen the media pick up a legal argument and make the argument mainstream by virtue of media coverage." Finally, he says, "there were two conservative district judges who agreed with the argument, largely echoing the Republican position and the media coverage. And, once you had all that, it really became a ballgame."
Jack Balkin, a Yale law professor, agrees. "Once Republican politicians say this is unconstitutional, it gets repeated endlessly in the partisan media that's friendly to the Republican Party"—Fox News, conservative talk radio, and the like—"and, because this is now the Republican Party's position, the mainstream media needs to repeatedly explain the claims to their readers. That further moves the arguments from off the wall to on the wall, because, if you're reading articles in the Times describing the case against the mandate, you assume this is a live controversy." Of course, Balkin says, "if the courts didn't buy this, it wouldn't get anywhere."
But the courts are not as distant from the political process as some like to think. The first judge to rule against the individual mandate was Judge Henry Hudson, of Virginia's Eastern District Court. Hudson was heavily invested in a Republican consulting firm called Campaign Solutions, Inc. The company had worked with the Presidential campaigns of John McCain and George W. Bush, the Republican National Committee, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and Ken Cuccinelli—the Virginia state attorney general who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act.
The fact that a judge—even a partisan judge in a district court—had ruled that a central piece of a Democratic President's signature legislative accomplishment was unconstitutional led the news across the country. Hudson's ruling was followed by a similar, and even more sweeping, ruling, by Judge Roger Vinson, of the Northern District of Florida. Vinson declared the entire bill unconstitutional, setting off a new round of stories. The twin rulings gave conservatives who wanted to believe that the mandate was unconstitutional more reason to hold that belief. Voters who hadn't thought much about it now heard that judges were ruling against the Administration. Vinson and Hudson were outnumbered by other district judges who either upheld the law or threw out lawsuits against it, but those rulings were mostly ignored.
At the Washington Monthly, Steve Benen kept track of the placement that the Times and the Washington Post (where I work) gave to stories about court rulings on the health-care law. When judges ruled against the law, they got long front-page stories. When they ruled for it, they got shorter stories, inside the paper. Indeed, none of the cases upholding the law got front-page coverage, but every rejection of it did, and usually in both papers. From an editorial perspective, that made sense: the Vinson and Hudson rulings called into question the law's future; the other rulings signalled no change. But the effect was repeated news stories in which the Affordable Care Act was declared unconstitutional, and few news stories representing the legal profession's consensus that it was not. The result can be seen in a March poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which found that fifty-one per cent of Americans think that the mandate is unconstitutional.
What is notable about the conservative response to the individual mandate is not only the speed with which a legal argument that was considered fringe in 2010 had become mainstream by 2012; it's the implication that the Republicans spent two decades pushing legislation that was in clear violation of the nation's founding document. Political parties do go through occasional, painful cleansings, in which they emerge with different leaders who hold different positions. This was true of Democrats in the nineteen-nineties, when Bill Clinton passed free trade, deficit reduction, and welfare reform, despite the furious objections of liberals. But in this case the mandate's supporters simply became its opponents.
In February, 2012, Stuart Butler, the author of the Heritage Foundation brief that first proposed the mandate, wrote an op-ed for USA Today in which he recanted that support. "I've altered my views on many things," he wrote. "The individual mandate in health care is one of them." Senator Orrin Hatch, who had been a co-sponsor of the Chafee bill, emerged as one of the mandate's most implacable opponents in 2010, writing in The Hill that to come to "any other conclusion" than that the mandate is unconstitutional "requires treating the Constitution as the servant, rather than the master, of Congress." Mitt Romney, who had both passed an individual mandate as governor and supported Wyden-Bennett, now calls Obama's law an "unconstitutional power grab from the states," and has promised, if elected, to begin repealing the law "on Day One."
Even Bob Bennett, who was among the most eloquent advocates of the mandate, voted, in 2009, to call it unconstitutional. "I'd group us"—Senate Republicans—"into three categories," he says. "There were people like me, who bought onto the mandate because it made sense and would work, and we were reluctant to let go of it. Then, there were people who bought onto it slowly, for political advantage, and were immediately willing to abandon it as soon as the political advantage went the other way. And then there's a third group that thought it made sense and then thought it through and changed their minds." Explaining his decision to vote against the law, Bennett, who was facing a Tea Party challenger in a primary, says, "I didn't focus on the particulars of the amendment as closely as I should have, and probably would have voted the other way if I had understood that the individual mandate was at its core. I just wanted to express my opposition to the Obama proposal at every opportunity." He was defeated in the primary, anyway.
But, whatever the motives of individual politicians, the end result was the same: a policy that once enjoyed broad support within the Republican Party suddenly faced unified opposition—opposition that was echoed, refined, and popularized by other institutions affiliated with the Party. This is what Jason Grumet, the president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, a group that tried to encourage Republicans and Democrats to unite around policy solutions, calls the "think-tank industrial complex"—the network of ideologically oriented research centers that drive much of the policy debate in Washington. As Senator Olympia Snowe, of Maine, who has announced that she is leaving the Senate because of the noxious political climate, says, "You can find a think tank to buttress any view or position, and then you can give it the aura of legitimacy and credibility by referring to their report." And, as we're increasingly able to choose our information sources based on their tendency to back up whatever we already believe, we don't even have to hear the arguments from the other side, much less give them serious consideration. Partisans who may not have strong opinions on the underlying issues thus get a clear signal on what their party wants them to think, along with reams of information on why they should think it.
All this suggests that the old model of compromise is going to have a very difficult time in today's polarized political climate. Because it's typically not in the minority party's interest to compromise with the majority party on big bills—elections are a zero-sum game, where the majority wins if the public thinks it has been doing a good job—Washington's motivated-reasoning machine is likely to kick into gear on most major issues. "Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go," Haidt warns. "Can you see your way to an individual mandate, if it's a way to fight single payer? Sure. And so, when it was strategically valuable Republicans could believe it was constitutional and good. Then Obama proposes the idea. And then the question becomes not 'Can you believe in this?' but 'Must you believe it?' "
And that means that you can't assume that policy-based compromises that made sense at the beginning will survive to the end, because by that time whichever group has an interest in not compromising will likely have convinced itself that the compromise position is an awful idea—even if, just a few years ago, that group thought it was a great one. "The basic way you wanted to put together a big deal five years ago is that the thoughtful minds in one party would basically go off and write a bill that had seventy per cent of their orthodoxy and thirty per cent of the other side's orthodoxy and try to use that to peel off five or six senators from the other side," Grumet says. "That process just doesn't work anymore." The remarkable and confusing trajectory of the individual-mandate debate, in other words, could simply be the new norm.
I asked Ron Wyden how, if politicians can so easily be argued out of their policy preferences, compromise was possible. "I don't find it easy to answer that question, because I'm an elected official and not a psychiatrist," he said. "If somebody says they sincerely changed their minds, then so be it." But Wyden is, as always, optimistic about the next bipartisan deal, and, again, he thinks he knows just where to start. "To bring about bipartisanship, it's going to be necessary to win on something people can see and understand. That's why I think tax reform is a huge opportunity for the economy and the cause of building coalitions." Perhaps he's right. Or perhaps that's just what he wants to believe. ♦


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What is it?
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of a condition called dementia. Dementia is a general decline in mental ability, such as memory, language skills, judgment, and concentration. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease, which means symptoms occur gradually and become worse over time. It is named for the German doctor who first described it, Alois Alzheimer.
Who gets it?
Alzheimer's disease affects most commonly affects those over the age of 65, although it has been diagnosed in people in their 40s and 50s.
What causes it?
The degeneration of parts of the brain, which destroys brain cells, causes the symptoms of Alzheimer's. However, at this time researchers are not sure what causes this degeneration. Those with a family history of Alzheimer's are more likely to develop the disease as they age, so there is a gene abnormality that causes the disease in some people. Researchers are looking for links between Alzheimer's disease and the environment, lifestyle, nutrition, and viruses.
What are the symptoms?
Alzheimer's usually progresses in three stages, with each lasting anywhere from one to several years. The first symptom of Alzheimer's disease is usually mild forgetfulness. Someone in the early stages may find him or herself unable to find the right word, recall where something was placed, or recall someone's name. It may be difficult to concentrate. At this point, symptoms are so general that they do not signal a serious problem or have a great impact on day-to-day functioning. As the disease progresses to the second stage, the forgetfulness becomes worse, making it difficult to function at work, remember directions, or to even make it through the day without difficulty. The person may be restless and unable to sleep at night. His or her personality may change considerably, with increasing anxiety and decreasing emotions. By the late stages of Alzheimer's, patients suffer from extreme confusion and memory loss. They are unable to recall the names of close friends and family or recent events, and cannot function socially or perform basic daily personal care. Late-stage Alzheimer's patients may have hallucinations and delusions.
How is it diagnosed?
Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed by taking a complete medical history and performing a thorough physical examination. Alzheimer's is generally suspected when there is a gradual deterioration in mental ability. The doctor will perform tests, such as blood tests and brain scans, to rule out other possible causes of the symptoms. The doctor will also ask the patient a series of questions to test his or her mental status. One type of test of mental status is called neuropsychological testing, which is a standardized test of memory, concentration, and visual-spatial skills. Because a definite diagnosis can only be made by performing an autopsy after death, patients are diagnosed with "probable" Alzheimer's. An autopsy of brain tissue, however, will show areas of abnormal tissue, called plaques, made up of abnormal proteins; a loss of nerve cells; and areas of tangles in the nerve cells that remain in patient's with Alzheimer's disease.
What is the treatment?
At this time, there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. Treatment focuses on maintaining the best possible quality of life for the patient by providing a supportive environment. Memory aids, such as calendars and other daily reminders of time and place, can help the patient feel more secure and reduce confusion. There are some medications that, when used in the early stages of this disease, can slow memory loss in some patients for a limited amount of time. However, these drugs are used with caution because of potential side effects. Other drugs may be prescribed to treat anxiety, sleeplessness, depression, and hallucinations, as necessary. In the early stages of Alzheimer's, it is important to help the patient maintain as much independence as possible. As the disease progresses, it may be necessary to seek the help of a home healthcare aid, an adult daycare, or nursing home. While there is currently no treatment to prevent or stop the progression of Alzheimer's, researchers are continuing to study this disease and test new drugs. There is a possibility that certain types of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may slow the progression of Alzheimer's.
Self-care tips
A diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's is devastating for someone who has been accustomed to living an independent life. It is important to provide the patient with emotional and physical support as he or she adjusts to living with this disease. Keeping the daily routine consistent and as stress free as possible is helpful. Because depression is so common in the early stages of Alzheimer's, you should be aware of the signs of depression and seek help for the patient as soon as possible. Caring for someone with Alzheimer's can be demanding and discouraging, especially when the loved one does not remember who you are. Your doctor or local social services agency can direct you to support services to help make this time a little easier. Also seek legal advice so it is clear who has the power to make medical and financial decisions once your loved one is no longer able to do this for him or herself. If you have a family history of Alzheimer's disease, see your doctor for regular checkups. An early diagnosis is important, especially as the medical community learns more about this disease and its treatment. While there is no way to prevent this disease, you can lower your risk and protect yourself from many illnesses by following a healthy diet that is high in fiber and antioxidants and low in saturated fat, and participating in regular physical exercise. Performing activities that stimulate your brain on a regular basis, such as crossword puzzles, word searches, or memory games, may also help maintain mental ability longer.
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Somethings are inherently wrong. White Stilton with apricots or cranberries is one such thing.
While I appreciate that some people will like the fruity sweetness of a nice piece of ripe fruit alongside the sharp acidic tang of a good cheese. There is no justification for the blasphemy that is mincing the fruit and then mixing it with low grade unaged pieces of non mould affected Stilton.
I think what gets me most is the faux affectation of quality that seems to come with the novelty value of the fruit addition. One can imagine the marketing wonks who came up with the idea salivating at the thought of people looking longingly at the cheese counter, 'tonight, how about something special? Ooh what about that cheese with the fruit it it?'
To commit this crime on Stilton just makes it worse, I have no great desire for Wensleydale, as such it doesn't rankle quite the same, however Stilton is a king amongst cheeses and to see it being debased so foully is where the upset comes.
So I'm proposing that next time we see cheese cut with fruit pieces, or layer cake designs of plastic factory cheddars and cheshires being served in anywhere where we frequent, we let it be know that it's fucking wrong and shouldn't have been made in the first place, let a lone purchased by anyone who has any authority of food purchase decisions.


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I'm currently at Gamescom in Cologne, here to bring you my very own impressions on Fallout: New Vegas. I've only had the opportunity to play the game for a short while so far - the lines are huge, unfortunately, but I'll try to get another peek at the game later. Lots of spoilers ahead, so beware! Just some facts about the game here, I'll also post my personal impressions later. For now, here's just a random collection of facts and names.
The demo, which you've probably read about in dozens of previews already, starts just outside The Strip, in a settlement called Freeside. The active quest at the start of the demo is Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, and the objective to confront Benny in the Tops casino.
The entrance to the Vegas Strip itself is guarded by two securitron robots. To enter, you either need to have a New Vegas passport, or a lot of money. I didn't have a passport and I failed the credit check, so I tried to use the Science option to command the robot to let me in. Of course I knew I would fail, since my Science skill was lousy - the skill indicator next to the line was [Science 18/80] and the line itself something akin to "Robot! Let me in!". Now I do know, however, that a character with real science skills can be more successful here.
Freeside is mostly controlled by the Kings, who are a group of Elvis wannabes, ruled by the King himself, who can be found in the King's School of Impersonation, together with his cybernetic dog Rex (who is reportedly a potential companion). At the School, I have to talk a guy called Pager into letting me in - either through caps or through the Speech skill. I choose the latter option, and tell him that I need to pay my respects to the King, so he lets me in.
I ask the King if he has any jobs available for a fine adventurer like me, so he gives me the G.I. Blues quest. There are some bodyguards for hire at the Freeside gate, and he wants to know how one of them, Orris, is making so much money and is monopolizing the market. He gives me a couple of bottlecaps and sends me to hire Orris and find out the truth. If you want to know more about this quest, you can find it out in several other previews, like this one. I decided, however, that there's not much of a point in covering what everyone else will cover anyway, so I decided to venture out of Freeside and explore the surrounding area.
The demo starts with no map markers on the world map, so I ventured blindly in various directions. One of the places I managed to find nearby was the Crimson Caravan Camp.
The Vegas office of the Crimson Caravan is headed by Alice McLafferty, who was also in charge of the company's operations in Hoover Dam in the canceled Van Buren. She is normally in charge of the Hub HQ of the company, but the New Vegas branch has been underperforming lately, and she came to clean it up. She also mentions that the New Canaan Mormons (another Van Buren reference here) are in charge of most northern trade routes, while the Gun Runners control most of the gun trade in the area. She gives you a quest called You Can Depend on Me to deliver an invoice to doctor Hildern at Camp McCarran. There are also lots of brahmin in the Crimson Caravan camp, which confirms that the big horners are not the only domesticated animals in the area.
Other characters in the camp, aside from the generic caravaners, are Blake (who comes from a town in the NCR called Oak Creek), who can sell you various wares, and Don Hostetler, who doesn't really talk much (at least for now) aside from telling you to go talk to McLafferty instead.
Just outside the Crimson Caravan camp, you can find the New Vegas Medical Clinic, which is run by Doctor Usanagi. She has some high-tech equipment there, and so she's able to upgrade your stats with implants (which are a bit more plausible than the Fallout 3 bobbleheads). There's an implant for each of the main statistics, even for Luck (called Probability Calculator). Of course, the implants aren't cheap. Other implants include sub-dermal armor and one that makes your health regenerate.
I've also been looking through the Pip-Boy, to see any info about other quests there. Here's what I found out:
Jessup is in charge of the Great Khans (another returning faction from the original games) in Boulder City and is holding some NCR people hostage. You are asked to deal with the situation in the Boulder City Showdown quest.
The very first quest, which consists of character creation, is called Ain't That a Kick in the Head, while the optional tutorial you can go through with Sunny Smiles is Back in the Saddle. The first part of the main quest, in which you need to find out who tried to kill you, is They Went That-a-Way, which leads to the aforementioned Ring-a-Ding-Ding!.
Another interesting bit of info is that the armors I've seen don't have both Damage Resistance and Damage Threshold, but each has only one of the two. The leather armor had DT, while the Vault 21 jumpsuit had DR.
That's pretty much all for today, but stay tuned for more New Vegas information and my general imperessions later!
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Key lawmakers warned Friday that the potential success of an online sales tax lies in keeping it separate from comprehensive tax reform.
"If we meld this into quote tax reform, there's a lot of apprehension about whether it's going to be a tax grab," said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), an Energy and Commerce committee member and co-sponsor of the Internet tax bill, at the POLITICO Pro Technology Deep Dive.
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House Ways and Means Committee member Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) agreed. "I do not believe at the end of the day it is going to be a part of a tax reform bill because it's not a part of the tax code," he said.
The latest incarnation of the bill, the Marketplace Fairness Act, received broad bipartisan support when it was introduced in the House and Senate last month. Twenty senators and 37 House members immediately signed onto the bill, which would allow states to ensure online merchants collect sales tax in return for simplified tax procedures.
But it has stalled in the past, and members did not have much of an answer as to what would make it more palatable this time.
Co-sponsor and House Appropriations Committee member Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) said the bills' near identical framework this session could help with passage. But he challenged the notion that it would pass on its own. "The political reality is you may have to stick it in comprehensive reform," he said. "We need to fix the problem. It's a loophole that's getting bigger and bigger."
Supporters, big retailers and money-strapped state governments say it's only fair that Internet retailers collect the same taxes as brick-based businesses. Opponents call it the National Internet Tax Mandate and claim it gives states too much power. Small businesses like eBay insist the nature of online retailing makes it difficult to collect from multiple tax districts. Each state would make its own determination to collect the tax.
The measure could help settle a yearslong fight over far-flung retailers' financial roles. But the bill, first introduced in 2011, has sparked a duel between Republicans who despise taxation and those who view it as a necessary part of the business sector.
Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist is using the issue as a barometer to test the small-government dedication of Republicans, especially those nearing reelection.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation President Robert Atkinson discounted his efforts, saying the bill doesn't need to be watered down to appease some conservatives.
"We have to stop thinking of Grover Norquist as the tax pope," he said.
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You have an application for the inventory/sales of your books for your bookstore. In your application you have a search form, there are several items a person can search by, lets they can search by Author, Title, ISDN, or Year. Now you have 2 options;
- Option 1: You can write 4 different stored procedures, then based on what the user wants to search by call that stored procedure.
- Option 2: You can write a single stored procedure and pass all the search parameters to your stored procedure and let your stored procedure decide what the user is searching by.
In the interest of maintainability and scalability I would go with Option 2, it is far easier to maintain a single stored procedure than 4 of them. So now we're going to look at how to do this, how to have a single procedure and call it no matter what option the user decides to search by. Before getting to the actual process of optional parameters, I would like to pass along what I feel are rules for good design.
First, when creating a stored procedure most people rush in and start CREATE PROCEDURE...., then run it. Next time they go to edit it, if they don't open it via Query Analyzer or Enterprise Manager, they have to change the CREATE PROCEDURE... to ALTER PROCEDURE... so Ive always found it best to address this right from the start.
In all Microsoft SQL Servers there exists a table called sysobjects, in here are all the objects within that server, the tables, stored procedures, user defined functions, etc. SO what I do is add a header (for the lack of a better term) that checks this table to see if this procedure exists, if it doesnt then I create a shell of the procedure, then right below I alter the same stored procedure.
Theres a catch though, either the words CREATE or ALTER must be the first word in a stored procedure, if its not then SQL will error out, so I do this with Dynamic SQL.
Dynamic SQL is a term used to mean SQL code that is generated programmatically (in part or fully) by your program before it is executed. As a result it is a very flexible and powerful tool. You can use Dynamic SQL to accomplish tasks such as adding where clauses to a search based on what fields are filled out on a form or to create tables with varying names.
This is how my header looks:
DECLARE @SQL_PROC VARCHAR(4000) IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'P' AND name = 'YourProcedureName') BEGIN PRINT 'Creating Procedure YourProcedureName' SET @SQL_PROC = 'CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.YourProcedureName @value1 CHAR(100) = NULL,@value2 CHAR(100) = NULL,@value3 CHAR(100) = NULL,@value4 CHAR(100) = NULL AS SELECT 1 GO' EXEC(@SQL_PROC) END GO
Here is a breakdown of what is happening here
- I declare a variable named @SQL_PROC, this variable is holding the SQL code I wish to execute
- I then search sysobjects for a procedure with this same name, if it don't exist then I create a shell version. By a shell version I mean I create the stored procedure with the parameters I want, but it only contains SELECT 1, this gives me a valid stored procedure.
- I then call EXEC to execute the variable EXEC(@SQL_PROC). When this string is executed, its creating a stored procedure
Notice in the procedure declaration I have @value1 CHAR(100) = NULL , and I do this for all the parameters. This sets their default value to NULL, because all the parameters are optional, we don't know which ones the user is going to pass our procedure.
Now that we have out shell created, right after the last GO statement we then put the rest of our stored procedure, except this time instead of CREATE PROCEDURE we use ALTER PROCEDURE. We can do this because in the first block of code we create this stored procedure if it doesn't already exist. The rest of the stored procedure looks like this:
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.YourProcedureName @value1 CHAR(100) = NULL, @value2 CHAR(100) = NULL, @value3 CHAR(100) = NULL, @value4 CHAR(100) = NULL AS SELECT column1, column2, column3, column4 FROM Table_Name WHERE ((@value1 IS NULL) OR (column1 = @value1)) AND ((@value2 IS NULL) OR (column2 = @value2)) AND ((@value3 IS NULL) OR (column3 = @value3)) AND ((@value4 IS NULL) OR (column4 = @value4))
In this procedure the first 3/4 of the procedure is absolutely normal, SELECT something FROM some table WHERE, its after the WHERE that things get different. As you can see we have 4 different items the user could have passed us, we just don't know which ones. To combat this, we have the where clause structured like so
((@value1 IS NULL) OR (column1 = @value1)) AND ((@value2 IS NULL) OR (column2 = @value2)) AND ((@value3 IS NULL) OR (column3 = @value3)) AND ((@value4 IS NULL) OR (column4 = @value4))
How does this work you ask? Well it hits the first line, if the parameter @value1 is NULL it does nothing, it skips to the next line. It does this until it reaches a parameter that isn't NULL, once it finds that, it jumps to the other side of the OR statement and executes column* = @value*. The way its structured, if the parameter is empty (NULL) then the first part of the statement is true, meaning that line is executed, until it finds a non-null parameter.
Now lets look at a different scenario, lets say (like above) you have several optional parameters, but the user can enter as many of either parameter they want, or multiples of all if they so choose to, how would you handle this? Well first you would have to use Dynamic SQL for the entire SELECT portion of the procedure. The above approach wouldn't work with multiples of a parameter, i.e: Koontz,King,Rice if they searched by those 3 authors, so how to get that into the procedure?
Transact-SQL has a clause, the IN clause, which allows for a statement like WHERE authors IN ('Koontz','King','Rice'), but with regular SQL you cannot just pass a delimited string into the procedure and expect it to understand what you're doing. But if you do the while thing in Dynamic SQL, when the string is executed it will execute as above, like you did the WHERE authors IN ('Koontz','King','Rice') from above.
So lets take a look at how you would create this stored procedure for this scenario (the header remains the same):
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.YourProcedureName @value1 CHAR(100) = '', @value2 CHAR(100) = '', @value3 CHAR(100) = '', @value4 CHAR(100) = '' AS DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(4000) SET @SQL = 'SELECT column1, column2, column3, column4 FROM Table_Name WHERE ((''' + @value1 + ''' = '''') OR (column1 IN(''' + @value1 + '''))) AND ((''' + @value2 + ''' = '''') OR (column2 IN(''' + @value2 + '''))) AND ((''' + @value3 + ''' = '''') OR (column3 IN(''' + @value3 + '''))) AND ((''' + @value4 + ''' = '''') OR (column4 IN(''' + @value4 + ''')))' EXEC(@SQL)
In this scenario we change a few things, the default values for the parameters is now '' (empty string) not NULL, then in the WHERE clause we check if the @value* parameter is equal to '' (empty string) instead of checking if its NULL.When the @SQL variable string is executed with the parameters in place, it looks just like you had WHERE authors IN ('Koontz','King','Rice') hard coded in your stored procedure, thus SQL knows what to do with it.
The downside of Dynamic SQL is twofold. First, and most importantly, your stored procedure can not cache the execution plan for this dynamic query. So, for complex queries you will lose the performance boost that you usually gain with stored procedures. The other downside is that you lose the nice formating you are able to achieve with stored procedures that you were not able to do when you were building queries in your application or website.
The advantage is, of course, that you are able to achieve a flexibility in your code that you can not get with standard SQL. I tend to use Dynamic SQL for scenarios such as the one above, it makes it simpler to accomplish what I'm looking for. Well thats how to use optional parameters in your SQL stored procedure. Thanks for reading
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Municipalities have the legal right to establish rules about what types of activities can be carried out in different geographical areas. For example, they often establish zones for stores and offices (commercial zones), factories (industrial zones) and houses (residential zones). In some residential areas -- especially in affluent communities -- local zoning ordinances absolutely prohibit all types of business. In the great majority of municipalities, however, residential zoning rules allow for small, nonpolluting home businesses, as long as any home containing a business is used primarily as a residence and the business activities don't negatively affect neighbors.
To find out whether residential zoning rules allow the home-based business you have in mind, get a copy of your local ordinance from your city or county clerk's office, the city attorney's office or your public library. As you read it, keep in mind that zoning ordinances are worded in many different ways to limit business activities in residential areas. Some are extremely vague, allowing "customary home-based occupations." Others allow homeowners to use their houses for a broad -- but, unfortunately, not very specific -- list of business purposes (for example, "professions and domestic occupations, crafts or services"). Still others contain a detailed list of approved occupations, such as "law, dentistry, medicine, music lessons, photography, cabinet making." If you read your ordinance and still aren't sure whether your business is OK, you may be tempted to ask for a meeting with zoning or planning officials. But until you first figure out what the exact rules of your locality are and have a chance to modify your plans to comply with them, it can be a mistake to call attention to your home business plans. One way to cope with this problem is to have a friend who lives nearby, but who doesn't plan to open a home-based business, make detailed inquiries.
In many cities and counties, if a planning or zoning board rejects your business, you can appeal -- often to the city council or county board of supervisors. While this can sometimes be an uphill battle, it is likely to be less so if you have the support of all affected neighbors. You may also be able to get an overly restrictive zoning ordinance amended by your municipality's governing body. For example, in some communities, people are working to amend ordinances that prohibit home-based businesses entirely or only allow "traditional home-based businesses" to permit those that rely on the use of computers and other high-tech equipment -- businesses that are usually unobtrusive, but far from traditional.
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New Zealand smartphone app users are among the most vulnerable in the world to attacks from cybercriminals, according to research from a global cloud security company.
A survey by Trend Micro ranked New Zealand 7th in the top 10 countries at risk of privacy exposure, behind India, Turkey, Philippines, Bulgaria, South Korea and Austria.
The ranking was based on the percentage of Android apps rated as high-risk over the total number of apps scanned per country.
Android's growing popularity among smartphone users means the platform is becoming a prime target for cybercriminals, said Trend Micro cyber safety expert Aman Chand.
Kiwis may not be aware just how much personal data is at risk when they use apps, he said.
"The accessibility people have to mobile devices is on the rise, particularly from a young age.
"More now than ever before, it is essential that as a nation, we understand how much information, is too much, to disclose."
According to a report from Google released in May last year, smartphone penetration in New Zealand at that time was at 44 per cent of the population.
Smartphone owners who used the internet regularly had an average of 25 apps installed on their phones, Google said.
Chand said cybercriminals were getting smarter all the time.
"Apps like 'Angry Birds' and 'Angry Birds Space' can access data like a phone's IMEI number and a user's location, threatening an individuals' privacy."
An International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI) is a number which identifies an individual device and can be used to stop a stolen phone from accessing the network.
Dr Hossein Sarrafzadeh, head of computing at Unitec, said smartphones are just as vulnerable to cyberattacks through malware as a desktop computer or laptop.
"You've basically got a computer in your smartphone. It's a similar risk but the methods or infiltration are different," he said.
If someone gets access to the phone's IMEI number they can track its location, and consequently the owner's location.
"And if that smartphone has your details on it then they can access that as well," Sarrafzadeh said.
Its rankings were based on the yearly analysis of real-time threat detection via one of its products, Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition.
The 10 most at-risk countries:
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Hysterectomy—Laparoscopic Surgery
(Surgical Removal of the Uterus; Abdominal Hysterectomy)
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Hysterectomy is the surgical term for the removal of the uterus. This results in the inability to become pregnant.
There are different types of surgeries, such as:
Reasons for Procedure
You may have a hysterectomy if your uterus is causing health problems that cannot be treated by other means. Some reasons a woman may have a hysterectomy are to:
Explore your options before having a hysterectomy. There are other treatments for many of these problems.
Possible Complications
If you are planning to have hysterectomy, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
Before your procedure, talk to your doctor about ways to manage factors that may increase your risk of complications such as:
The following may also increase the risk of complications:
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Your doctor may do the following:
You should do the following:
General anesthesia will be used. You will be asleep during the surgery.
Description of the Procedure
You may be given antibiotics just before your surgery.
Laparoscopic procedures are minimally invasive. This means that small incisions are made, rather than the large incisions that are used during open surgery. Small tools and a tiny camera are placed through the incisions to allow the surgeon to see inside and perform surgical tasks.
Laparoscopic-Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy
Similar to the above surgery, small incisions will be made in the abdominal area and tools will be inserted. Incisions will be made in the vagina to help detach the lower portion of the cervix and the uterus. The cervix and uterus will then be removed through the vaginal opening.
Robot-Assisted Hysterectomy
A hysterectomy can also be done using robotic technology. Like the laparoscopic procedures, tools are placed through small incisions in the abdominal area. The doctor, though, sits at a console and views the organs via a monitor that displays a 3D image. The surgery is done using a joystick-like device to control the tools.
Immediately After Procedure
You will be given IV fluids and medications.
How Long Will It Take?
1-3 hours—although it may take longer
Will It Hurt?
You will not have pain during the surgery because of the anesthesia. During your recovery time, you will be given pain medication.
Average Hospital Stay
You may be able to leave the hospital on the same day or the next day. You will stay longer if you have complications.
Post-procedure Care
At the Hospital
While you are recovering at the hospital, you may receive the following care:
During your stay, the hospital staff will take steps to reduce your chance of infection such as:
There are also steps you can take to reduce your chances of infection such as:
At Home
When at home, eat well-balanced diet that includes fruits and vegetables.
Note: If the doctor has not removed your cervix, you will need to continue to have Pap smears to check for cervical cancer.
Call Your Doctor
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
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Canadian Medical Association
Health Canada
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jlarrison necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 107 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a web company that is launching in the non-profit/charity space. We will be promoting small charities and will be offering a mechanism for local and small charities and organizations to gain exposure such as those national charities get on a daily basis. Our mission will be to focus on the local charities and leverage our technology and reach online to help build their market footprint and develop a strong donor and volunteer base.
We will have two main market targets, with the primary being local charities and organizations as our customers that we are working with to enable their ability to raise more money and gain more exposure in their communities and local media. Our second target audience will be the people we reach on our website that are interested in learning more about local causes and things that local causes need help with, such as volunteering and/or fund raising. The website where we will focus our branding and messaging will be mostly targeting consumers (in the second segment listed). We want a friendly and uplifting message and position and want to be seen as the good guys helping out the local good guys and making things good.
We are looking for a logo that can be used on our website and can be the primary logo for everything we do with this new business. The idea behind Daily Carrots is that we will be bringing to the table new and exciting charities everyday and they will be good for the world!
We will be promoting and focusing on one local charity or cause everyday and will be hoping to get groundswells of consumers to engage with these charities when we promote them.
If you think of the carrot as a good thing (the carrot versus the stick) and that they are healthy (i.e. good eyesight) and is friendly (i.e. Bunny) and they come from the earth and they are pure and finally the word Charity was derived from the Latin "caritas" which is similar to carrots.
We would love to have a fun logo that will showcase the good we are doing in the world by helping out charities and causes. We are the good guys that are working with donors to help get the local charities the visibility they deserve and help them with the much needed online promotions and exposure they deserve for all the great work they do.
We are fine with having a carrot in the logo, or having anything you think makes sense for a charity or local cause. Also, we are fine with you being creative and think about what consumer logos you remember.
Note, we are open to suggestions on the logo or branding. We are a non-profit.
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Hello KAL! I'm Zidane, your newest GM!
I like to play KAL, of course, and also enjoy even dorkier games, like Minecraft and running certain emulators on my computer.
I've been fortunate enough to have been added to the team, and I'm sure that together, we can bring upon KAL a strong, positive change.
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Malkamaniac wrote:Nabbed Borderlands 2 for 38 bucks at The Exchange this weekend. So far. I enjoy it.
I finally finished all 4 DLCs for Borderlands 1 this weekened. I've done it all. I'm at level 47. The way this game is made, one really should do a second playthrough. That's when you get the best gear and stuff. But it's such a long game, I'm tired. I still love the weapons and shooting and could play more just for that, but I need to step away for a while. I may return to it at some point.
Great game just for the shooting. Story needed to be more polished because it's crazy that when you kill the general and blow up the warehouse, Marcus just rebuilds it a moment later and you can go loot for gear and fight the general again [I did use the glitch allowing me to do armory run as many times as I wanted]. But then he does it again. I mean. You kill someone and reload the game and they're back. I don't know about that. I get it why they left it that way, but it's really lazy, IMO. Some leveling problems. I was way overpowered when doing the last DLC, Robolution. Didn't need one medkit even.
Borderlands 2 is supposedly even better...


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Euro-American Glazing Company designs, manufactures components and installs energy-efficient structural façades of modern buildings.
Euro-American Glazing is actually a Group of Companies that is comprised of a technology-holding parent company - EAG Inc., which is registered in Ohio, USA, and of three, independently operating affiliates – EAG-Central Europe (EAG-C.E.), located in Polgar, Hungary, EAG-Eastern Europe (EAG-E.E.), located in Kaliningrad, Russia, and EAG-North America (EAG-N.A.), located in Las Vegas, USA.
EAG Inc. holds rights for utilization of proprietary Heat Mirror™ and Five-S™ technologies in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. EAG-N.A. has acquired rights for utilization of Heat Mirror™ technology in the Las Vegas region of USA . Heat Mirror™ Insulating Glass Units (HM IGUs) are assembled at 12 (licensed by EAG Inc.) fabricators in 7 different European Countries, namely in Hungary, Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Proprietary components of Five-S™ façades are fabricated at specialized factories in Belgium, Russia and Hungary. HM IGUs and Five-S™ components are assembled at factories of EAG operating affiliates into façade modules, delivered to construction sites and installed on buildings by local glazing contractors.
Each EAG operating affiliate has a marketing office and a design bureau that work with regional architects, developers and contractors accepting requests for proposals, providing pertinent quotes and overseeing installation of EAG Façades™.
Operating affiliates of the EAG Group of Companies design and install the most energy-efficient structural-glazing façades (EAG Façades) of modern buildings.
Energy efficiency of EAG Façades is attained by utilizing the most technologically advanced spectrally selective Heat Mirror™ Insulating Glass Units (HM IGUs). Heat Mirror™ is the only, commercially available glazing system that provides high visible light transmission with low solar heat gain (low SHGC) and low heat loss (low U value). This unique combination of physical properties ensures a natural daytime view through the glazing with summer- and winter-time comfort at minimal consumption of energy for heating and air-conditioning. Heat Mirror™ technology was originally developed and licensed to EAG Inc. by Southwall Technology Company of Palo Alto, CA.
Unique design of EAG Façades is attained by utilizing proprietary Five-S™ Solution, which was originally developed by Atelier-du-Verre Company in Liege, Belgium. Five-S™ Solution is an attractive alternative to conventional curtain-wall and point-supported structural glazing systems. The difference in façade design is especially pronounced among conventional point-fixed structural façades, where glass units have holes in their corners and anchored to the substructure with spider-like fixtures, and Five-S™ Solution that utilizes framed glass modules (cartridges) that are clamped to the substructure with pin-and-union members.
EAG Inc. has acquired rights for exclusive utilization of Heat Mirror™ and Five-S™ technologies in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Combining Heat Mirror™ glazing with Five-S™ solution creates a synergistic effect, resulting in erection of building envelopes that are unmatched by any other structural façade system, when it comes to energy-efficiency, simplicity of installation, quality, durability, and aesthetic appeal.


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When companies announced their latest models last month, the future of television looked good and bright and true. Apparently it's also really freaking expensive.
My eyes have never felt so good than when they saw Samsung Super OLED TV. IT WAS SOO CLEAR. I went to go see it up close and it's beaaaautiful. Seriously, you'll see its gorgeousness in the video above but it's even better looking in person. Criminally good lookin'.
Samsung's new and supposedly snazzy Smart TV, the UNES8000, promises to use voice and face recognition to let you control your TV without any remotes. You know, the future of TV interfaces, according to a lot of companies lately.
In about a week, there's gonna be a firehose of gadgets coming at you, and let's hope they're all as easy on the eyes as these early arrivers from Samsung, especially the monstrously expensive but apparently very good Series 9 Monitor.