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In a story that is breaking right now, Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist in St. Louis. MO (US), has introduced evidence that "secret military tests conducted during the Cold War targeted poor and minority communities for exposure to what is likely radiological material."
In an article yesterday, commenting on Dr. Martino-Taylor's research, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said: "Relying heavily on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Martino-Taylor identifies connections between participants in St. Louis testing and scientists who took part in wartime efforts to build the atomic bomb."
GJEP's Board Chair Orin Langelle and Executive Director, Anne Petermann interviewed Dr. Martino-Taylor while they were in St. Louis, last week.
–The GJEP Team
By Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann
During an interview we conducted last week in St. Louis, MO, Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor gave us a long description of research she had conducted into a major military cover up of the use of U.S. citizens as test subjects for military experiments related to the Cold War.
Dr. Martino-Taylor told us that specifically, her research identifies a coalition of medical researchers that grew out of the Manhattan Project, which she refers to as the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition. This coalition conducted various secret radiological tests around the nation. The group was involved in previously known "injection" and "ingestion" human-subject studies that exposed unwitting victims to radioactive material such as plutonium and strontium-90. Dr. Martino-Taylor's research demonstrates that St. Louis open-air dispersion studies carried out in the 1950s and 1960s are likely the realization of this group's intention to conduct an inhalation study of radiological material in an urban area.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch further said Sunday: "Martino-Taylor was a skilled researcher before working toward her doctorate, investigating cases for a St. Louis law firm. The facts she assembled on the military project and conclusions she reached go well beyond anything published earlier."
Dr. Martino-Taylor told us, " This new research also reveals that a powdered substance used in the St. Louis tests sometimes identified in military documents, was in part, produced by U.S. Radium. U.S. Radium is the company infamous for exposure of workers to fatal doses of radioactivity resulting from the use of radioactive zinc sulfide powdered paint. Many of these workers died from systemic illnesses caused by inhalation of radium dust at U.S. Radium."
Moreover, there is evidence that the material that was sprayed in St. Louis contained particles of such a size as to result in maximum absorption deep into the lungs.
During the tests, St. Louis residents were told by officials and through media reports that the government was testing a "smoke screen" that might protect the city from aerial observation during attack. Documents show that the St. Louis tests targeted what was characterized by officials as "a densely populated slum district." Census data further shows that areas targeted for spraying included a high percentage of young children, poor, and minority residents. Areas of the tests included the Desoto-Carr area and the famous Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project, a dense series of high-rise buildings comprised of a majority black population where 70% children were under the age of twelve.
Additional evidence also strongly suggests radiological components to the tests that the Army conducted in St. Louis.
KMOX (CBS) radio reported this morning: Martino-Taylor says some of the key players in the cover-up were also members of the Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project and involved in other radiological testing across the United States at the time. "This was against all military guidelines of the day, against all ethical guidelines, against all international codes such as the Nuremberg Code."
Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor first publicly presented her findings at the International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology Social Justice and Democratization in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Forum ran from August 1-4, 2012.
She will be presenting this research for the first time in the U.S. Tuesday, September 25th at a colloquium at St. Louis Community College in St. Louis, MO.
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Time flies! It used to be I'd visit Interlopers several times a week. Now it's once or twice a year... :/
I just wanted to stop in and share a few tidbits for those who happen to be unfamiliar with Wall Worm or who have not kept up with it. You can now do the entire Source level design and art pipeline entirely inside 3ds Max. For those who master Max/WW, you can build all BSP geometry, models, materials, textures and more inside Max and never need to open extra editors/compilers, etc.
At this point most new serious projects are in other engines than Source. But for those still working in Source, Max/WW are your best friend.
There is a website called Hammered to the Max to help Hammer users start learning how to do Source engine tasks in Max.
There are now several outlets for interacting with other Max/WW users for help:
Here are some of the latest videos for helping new users understand Max as a level editor for Source.
More videos are coming. Next up will be the advanced displacement tools in WW.
Here are some miscellaneous modeling tool videos since the last time I posted here:


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October's Adventures in Homeschooling
This year we began homeschooling Lucy (7) and Hattie (5). We're including this on our Giants & Pilgrims blog as all our family adventures seem to impact our art & music so much! Also, we just like sharing the stories. So we'll be sharing posts on the themes we've been covering each month and calling the adventure "ABACUS"! Our hope is that these posts will help spark creative direction and inspiration for your family as well as giving us somewhere to be document and record our experiences.
Here were our reading books for the month:
We read Kate DiCamillo's The Tale of Despereaux (one of Tim and my all time favorites), The Boxcar Children (which Harriet LOVED and has been watching the Netflix movie of over and over again), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (the new beautifully illustrated version), and a really cool pop-up version of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (which also led to the Calvin & Hobbs Monster Drooling Poem based on The Raven, and the Simpson's Halloween episode of The Raven – both SOO funny and good).
We are still loving our morning reading out-loud tea time on the front porch. Although it is starting to get chilly!!
For our History books we read these two – (we are going through Beautiful Feet History's Early American series in order). We really enjoyed both books.
As part of our history study (and since we finished the Columbus book last month) I thought it would be fun to carve soap boats on Columbus Day. I usually set out our morning activity the night before. On this particular morning, the girls got up without waking me up (like they usually do) , and happily carved through all 8 bars of soap on their own, and this is the scene I woke up to. Soap everywhere, but no one was bleeding and they were thoroughly pleased with themselves. Pretty hilarious.
Geography/Culture: Mexico
One of the things we are doing this year is our Passport idea for Geography/World Cultures. We are "visiting" a different country every month – exploring the food, culture, dress, arts, and music through themed activities. This month, Harriet and Lucy chose Mexico as our country to visit.
I have been using the book "Give Your Child the World" as a reference for books. I think the High Plains librarians are starting to hate me because of how many books I put on hold each month. Oh Well. Sorry guys.
As recommended in Give Your Child the World, here were the Mexico themed picture books we read through from the library.
Elena's Serenade and The Legend of the Poinsettia were probably our favorites.
One of the major reasons we picked Mexico was because we wanted to do a Day of the Dead celebration. The girls fully planned, prepped, and decorated for this themselves!
Getting Lucy started on Adobe Photoshop early 🙂
Like the invitation says, we decorated with Papel Picado and marigolds, painted faces, watched Book of Life, Colored skeleton faces, ate Mexican food and authentic Mexican candies from our local Mexican grocery store, and made skull rocks. This will definitely be one for the books and I can see it becoming a yearly tradition :).
Nature Study
We have been using this ebook as a guide for our Nature Study. And it is SO beautifully done.
It has a simple activity each corresponding with the season, paired with a recommended book list, an art piece to enjoy, a poem, and art ideas.
Nature Outings:
We have designated Monday as our outdoor adventure days. It's our day off together as a family, and we just love it. This month we visited a local cemetery where we did some grave rubbings.
Took a family bike ride on the Poudre River Trail to look at the changing leaves –
Went on a nature outing to our beloved Homestead Park to search out our favorite trees and do a little Pond Study.
(Harriet studying a sample of pond water we brought home with us)
And of course October wouldn't be complete without an outing to a pumpkin patch!!
Along with our weekly nature outings, we finished up our Nature Pal Exchange box (and received one back in the mail from North Carolina!). It was such a fun project. I am already looking forward to the next time we do it.
The contents of the box we put together:
All of the kids are really enjoying their music classes through the Union Colony Children's Music Academy here in Greeley. It uses the musikgarten approach which I am loving more and more all the time – especially as I see how it grows and expands with the kids.
We needed to switch up how we were doing math. No one was enjoying it. So this month we used the book Bedtime Math (which is so fun).
We added some more tactile/playable elements to our routine (counting bears, a shape rubber band board, an abacus, etc…)
We have really enjoyed various Steve Spangler Science videos. We broke out the cornstarch one morning and recreated his cornstarch slime experiments.
We also enjoyed some Magic School Bus "Inside the Human Body" and this really cool Human Body model from Target.
Which led to drawing white skeletons on black paper of course.
Since we read Hansel & Gretel (candy house and witches…), we made Hansel & Gretel dolls to play with. My friend Lindsay had given me this amazing tea towel that has a beautifully illustrated pattern already printed onto it. The pattern is from Sarah Young's etsy shop. Now that I have made them, I think we are going to need the little red riding hood one too 🙂
A cotton snow storm –
We used a fun little kit to make these Halloween luminaries.
We did some major papier mache magic with tape and cardboard to make Lucy's "Spooky Tree" halloween costume.
We played with our freshly organized rubber stamps to give our letter writing days a boost.
Since we are reading the Tale of Despereaux, the girls sewed these very simple little felt mice from this pattern.
And of course what would October be without a night of carving all those wonderful pumpkins with hot chocolate and popcorn of course and a spooky playlist.
And, finally, I will leave you with a very spooky (and hilarious horror film by Lucy)
Happy October friends! Thanks for following along!!!


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Previous outbreaks have demonstrated that when health systems are overwhelmed, mortality from vaccine-preventable and other treatable conditions can also increase dramatically. During the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, the increased number of deaths caused by measles, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis attributable to health system failures exceeded deaths from Ebola [1,2].
"The best defense against any outbreak is a strong health system," stressed WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "COVID-19 is revealing how fragile many of the world's health systems and services are, forcing countries to make difficult choices on how to best meet the needs of their people."
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When Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago this month, no one could have guessed the impact his Origin of Species (1859) would have not only on science but on religion as well.
"The name Darwin symbolizes a massive transition of our self-understanding," Boston College Professor Stephen Pope said in a recent talk at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. "Instead of descended from a primal couple specially created by God about 10,000 years ago, we now regard our species as the product of an evolutionary stream of life that has been running at least 4 billion years."
But for many Catholics, science and faith are often competitors, and sometimes even official church teaching doesn't do enough to bring them together.
"There's a way of talking about the doctrines of the Christian faith without treating Adam and Eve as historical figures," Pope says. "But right now we have a parallel theology, with official statements that endorse evolution but a Catechism that completely ignores it."
Still, Pope says, final responsibility rests with individual Catholics to integrate faith and science for themselves. "We all have an obligation to deepen in our faith," he says. "I'm not saying everybody should be a Darwinian or a theologian, but I think there is a call to take faith more seriously and become more reflective people."
Why should Catholics be interested in Charles Darwin?
Darwin's theories of how life evolves provide the most powerful and persuasive explanation right now of how human beings appeared on the scene. I think Catholics should read Darwin to understand who we are in our biological nature, including some of the capacities that we have for responding to God in our lives.
But more than 40 percent of the American public believes that humanity is just 10,000 years old as a species, and you have to figure at least a quarter of them are Roman Catholic. A recent poll found that 79 percent of Catholics in Florida would vote not to teach evolution in the classroom.
This is despite the fact that Pope John Paul II officially acknowledged that "evolution is more than a hypothesis." Pope Benedict XVI has dismissed the debate over evolution as "an absurdity" that flies in the face of "much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such."
But beyond evolution's scientific validity, Catholics regard the world theologically as a sacramental expression of God's love. The world itself is a symbol of God's grace, God's goodness. It's our habitat, and through it we are given the opportunity to move toward God. So it's important we understand how creation functions.
Do you think Catholics have integrated evolution into their understanding of the faith?
Catholics, like Christians generally, tend to compartmentalize their world into their professional life, their church, their golf game, and we don't often make connections between those things.
Darwin asks us to put together all the different parts of our lives and think about how we're connected to other people as members of the same species. He asks us to look back to discover where we come from. He asks us to look at ourselves now as members of a species that is growing rapidly and doing serious damage to the planet because we don't live responsibly. And he asks us to look forward, because if we're not responsible in the future, the human race is going to be harmed and possibly eradicated if environmental catastrophes pile up.
Evolutionary theory and Christianity have often had a tense relationship. How have believers responded to Darwin?
There are a number of different approaches Christians have taken to evolution. The first, the strategy of rejection, tends to insist that religion is our primary authority, and information about evolution is either irrelevant or a threat. Biblical fundamentalists, of course, reject evolution outright. If the Genesis accounts of creation are not historically accurate, they fear, then revelation is not true. In such a case God is not the author of the Bible because God only reveals truth.
The second position, avoidance, is more common with Catholics. This approach says evolution might be right, but I'm not going to trouble myself with it. It is sometimes rooted in the notion that biology is for scientists only: I know I've got genes, let's move on.
What's wrong with that?
Avoidance for people who are really busy is sometimes a necessary evil. But it's bad if it becomes an untouchable policy for people who have the freedom to be more thoughtful.
I think the strategy of avoidance is actually kind of scandalous. It's obviously absurd to have so many Catholics not believing in evolution, and it's a scandal to educated people who as a result think Christian faith is childish. Some believers are giving the impression that you have to choose between being intelligent and educated or being faithful. You don't, and in fact reason and faith go together. One reinforces the other.
At the same time, it is confusing to find papal talks and authoritative church documents, including the Catechism, continue to speak of Adam and Eve as real historical figures, of the Garden of Eden as a place in which a serpent talked to the woman, and of a historic expulsion from paradise.
So reasonable people of faith should embrace Darwin?
That's the appeal of the third strategy, partnership. Theologically some Christians embrace an evolutionary vision of life as forward-looking, open, innovative, and creative. Rather than static, the world is always a process involving adaptation and change. Evolution becomes the main paradigm for thinking about the world, and Darwin seems to be the ally of those who believe that reason, particularly in the intellectual form of science and in the political form of democracy, which together provide the basis for modern progress.
But there's a moral danger in this approach of not having any sense of limits, such as with genetic engineering and other forms of biotechnology. An uncritical embrace of Darwinian evolution and modern, technologically-driven progress—one that says that we have to take over the reins of evolution itself and direct it where we want to go—runs the twin dangers of both radically diluting Christian identity and of losing a sense of the morally appropriate limits to technology.
Is there a better way of talking about faith and evolution at the same time?
I refer to it as "critical appropriation," trying to take the insights from Darwin's theory to enrich faith rather than diminish it. Theologically I describe the response as evolutionary theism, the view that evolution is God's way of making the world.
That's opposed to two positions. Creationism says that God made the world as it is described in the first chapter of Genesis; the way Darwin explains it is false. The alternative extreme is the naturalistic view, that evolution was the result of a totally unintentional big bang that just happened for no apparent reason.
How is God involved in the evolutionary process?
First, God affects the course of nature by being the cause of everything that exists at any time. Second, God creates the conditions that lead to the universe, to the galaxies, to the evolution of life.
Third, since nature's law-like regularities are attributable to God, God is the author of what some theologians and scientists call "emergent complexity." Over time certain kinds of organisms are going to evolve that then provide the context for certain more developed organisms to evolve, eventually leading to intelligence and love. In that sense, the laws of nature are structured to give rise to intelligent and loving beings that are able to love God and neighbor.
But what about God's personal care and love for the world?
We also have to talk about God's providence. Providence is how God's power and love interact with the contingent events in nature and history to shape things for the greater good. God's providence is not subject to scientific study.
Christian life is really a response to God's providence. It is made concrete in individual actions, but it also works in collective settings. We can talk about the U.S. civil rights movement as being an expression of God's providence, or the peace movement in Northern Ireland. Wherever we see goodness emerge out of evil, I think we can reasonably say it is God's providence.
That's not to say that providence is always like winning the Super Bowl—it's over and we won, mission accomplished. It's complex, but we have to take providence into account when we talk about God working through nature and history.
How does the evolutionary worldview address suffering and evil?
Darwin himself was raised as a conventional Anglican but gradually became either a deist or an agnostic. He eventually found it impossible to affirm the traditional doctrines of divine goodness, omnipotence, and providence in light of a natural world rife with pain, predation, waste, and suffering.
God our Father might count all the hairs on our heads, but what does that mean? God cares but does not intervene to stop the continual slaughter of the innocents?
In fact, for many neo-Darwinians Christians are irrational in placing their ultimate faith in a God they believe constructed and presides over a natural system that runs according to a ruthless cycle of death and destruction.
They seem to have a point.
I think human beings tend not to want to face evil. It's intimidating, it's disheartening, and it can lead to despair.
Darwin makes us face evil. That's a good thing because it forces us to be realistic. We read Psalm 23 about walking in the valley of the shadow of death and fearing no evil, and we think OK, God is the good shepherd, and we're all fine. And then our child gets cancer, and this completely destroys our faith.
But what God do you believe in? Do you think God is not going to let your child get cancer or get shot or get run over or get AIDS? It is naive to think God creates a bubble around us. It's completely irresponsible to be in denial about evil.
We have to thank Darwin for forcing us to look at the fact of evil, because doing that means we also have to look more carefully and more gratefully at the gift of grace.
Faith in divine power is an abiding trust in the steadfastness of the power of God's love in the midst of human suffering. The name given to the child Jesus, Emmanuel, "God with us," suits the great blessings of our lives as well as our disappointments, trials, and struggles.
We modern people tend to think of death as the greatest evil. But for Christians death is a relative evil. The worst evils are the moral ones in which we knowingly and freely harm other people without justifcation, in which we inflict violence on people who don't deserve it—the suffering of the innocent that we participate in.
A lot of human harm and destruction that we attribute to nature is caused by human social injustice. When a flood wipes out a village, we think it's too bad people have to live in a flood plain in Bangladesh, but why are people forced to live there?
Why do people live below sea level in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans? Hurricane Katrina was not strictly a natural disaster but one aggravated massively by injustice and corruption, by racism and economic exploitation. Why is it that people are dying of AIDS in such huge numbers in Africa but no longer in San Francisco or New York or Los Angeles? That's another issue of social injustice.
Ultimately there is no explanation to the problem of evil. The big challenge is how we respond to it.
What about our personal suffering?
Darwin helps us think in the broadest possible biological framework when we ask why bad things happen to good people. It's not that there's a ball of karma and whatever you do to others is going to come back later and be done to you. And it's not that God is doling out retribution for sinners. Jesus rejected that view, but a lot of Catholics still have it.
I have a student whose 20-year-old roommate has a disease that causes all her hair to fall out. There's no cure for it, and the girl is racked by the question of what she did to deserve it. She's constantly searching her past for some great sin. Somehow she absorbed the idea that God is just, and if you're punished you're being punished justly. This is an anti-Christian idea.
The people who pay the worst for this approach to the moral order of the universe are poor people. When successful people look at them, they say the poor must deserve what they've got. They're lazy or they're stupid, so they deserve it.
Darwin helps us not to over-individualize suffering or moralize disease. I think that's a very healthy thing. He helps us face suffering as a fact of the natural world.
Does evolution affect the way we see ourselves as human beings?
Evolution makes our understanding of who we are more complex. Certainly part of living in the 21st century is that we feel less certain about who we are and where we're going. That's why fundamentalism has such appeal. It says we can be certain: Here's what we need to affirm in faith and how we need to live.
The alternative to evolution would be to take the old view of the human being basically as a soul in a body. We make choices in life: If we make the right choices, we're given eternal reward, and if we make the wrong choices we go to hell. That was very clear. And for many people the list of things you could do and go to hell was extensive.
Now we think of human beings as a lot more complicated, of culpability as being harder to detect sometimes. We recognize our actions as contingent and conditioned by a lot of factors over which we have no control. Our judgment has to be somewhat restricted, and we have an invitation to respond to people with mercy.
Is human nature bad or good according to Darwin?
The Darwinian view is that human beings are basically selfish but can learn to be loving to family members and friends under the right circumstances. Darwin thought that one of the advantages of the church at its best was to help us become more altruistic people.
But he was also acutely aware of the limitations built into human nature regarding our altruism for strangers or outsiders or enemies and thought it was a mistake to expect people to be more altruistic than they could be. We might be Good Samaritans to our brother or cousin or neighbor on the road but not to a complete stranger. Darwin would understand why the priest and the Levite walk by the man on the other side of the road in that parable.
Darwin may assist us in describing an aspect of human nature, but it shouldn't be taken as providing a sufficient ethic for Christians. Darwinians say it's possible for people to live in very different kinds of moral communities. Some are just societies of individuals locked in perpetual conflict, as we see in failed states like Somalia.
So the challenge is really about the kinds of communities we want to develop. How strongly do we want to invest in structures and policies that promote human friendship, human growth for everybody in the community and not just for some members?
You write of solidarity as the central Christian response to Darwin. Why?
Darwin is associated with individualism, competition, and exploitation of the weak—the survival of the fittest. It often gets expressed by an ethic of the powerful and has been picked up by our own culture, which is highly individualistic. That has generated some good things, but it also can be very heartless and cruel, especially to people who are vulnerable and marginalized.
I think the challenge for Christian ethics after Darwin is really the challenge of solidarity. How do we develop the capacity to care for others? How do we form communities that are inclusive? How do we reach out to the marginalized when we're constantly told to look out for ourselves? How do we identify with people who are not like us, who do not have the same skin color or the same economic situation, the same education, the same language?
Darwin argues that we have a tendency to group people into "us" and "them." We're good to the "us" group, and we either exploit or protect ourselves from "them." When I was a kid it was we Americans againts the Communists, who had replaced the Nazis. Now we have the terrorists.
A lot of Christian ethics in the New Testament is about breaking down the barriers that make it possible to be indifferent to or exploit others. The parable of the Good Samaritan is the classic case of that. The Samaritan was the enemy, but in the story he is the one who exemplified compassion for the other.
How do we create that solidarity? That's the challenge to the church—to develop communities that are not just institutions but places where people feel they belong, where they learn and grow in faith, where they identify with the community and its way of life.
It has to be a community of justice formed by love. How's that for a project?
This article appeared in the February 2009 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 74, No. 2, pages 18-22).
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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks Northern California
NAPA, Calif. (AP) — The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years struck before dawn on Sunday, sending scores of people to hospitals, igniting fires, damaging historic buildings and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses in California's wine country.
The magnitude-6.0 quake, which ruptured water mains and gas lines and damaged some of the region's famed wineries, sent residents running out of their homes in the darkness. Three people — two adults and a child — were critically injured.
Dazed residents too fearful of aftershocks to go back to bed wandered through Napa's historic downtown, where the quake had shorn a 10-foot chunk of bricks and concrete from the corner of an old county courthouse. Boulder-sized pieces of rubble littered the lawn and street in front of the building and the hole left behind allowed a view of the offices inside.
College student Eduardo Rivera said the home he shares with six relatives shook so violently that he kept getting knocked back into his bed as he tried to flee.
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While inspecting the shattered glass at her husband's storefront office in downtown Napa, Chris Malloy described calling for her two children in the dark as the quake rumbled under the family's home, tossing heavy pieces of furniture for several feet.
"It was shaking and I was crawling on my hands and knees in the dark, looking for them," the 45-year-old woman said, wearing flip flops on feet left bloodied from crawling through broken glass.
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Two of the fires happened at mobile home parks, including one where four homes were destroyed and two others damaged, Callanan said. A ruptured water main there delayed efforts to fight the blaze until pumper trucks could be brought in, he said.
Nola Rawlins, 83, was one of the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park residents left homeless by the fire. Rawlins said she was awakened by an explosion after the quake and managed to escape unharmed, but lost all her belongings.
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The temblor struck about six miles south of Napa around 3:20 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. It was the largest to shake the Bay Area since the magnitude-6.9 Loma Prieta quake struck in 1989, collapsing part of the Bay Bridge roadway and killing more than 60 people, most when an Oakland freeway fell.
Sunday's quake was felt widely throughout the region, with people reporting feeling it more than 200 miles south of Napa and as far east as the Nevada border. Amtrak suspended its train service through the Bay Area so tracks could be inspected.
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When SSO is enabled, the user's authentication data is transferred among applications with secure tokens. For example, when a user signs in to an SSO enabled service, the service creates a token that identifies the verified user. This token is then passed to any application that the user accesses after the application verifies the user's identity with the service, which results in a successful login.
You can configure Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt communication among services for any SSO method that you choose so that the authentication tokens are not intercepted during transmission. For more information, see Secure communication with Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Open Liberty supports several commonly used methods of implementing SSO in applications. The method that you use depends on the needs of your organization.
Social media login
Social Media Login is a form of SSO that enables users to sign in to applications by using their existing social media account instead of creating an account specifically for the application. When you enable Social Media Login, the user accesses an application and selects a social media platform from a form, then uses their existing account on that platform to log in. You can enable Social Media Login for any social media platform that uses the OAuth or OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard for authentication.
OIDC is an extension of the OAuth standard that establishes identity. During the OpenID Connect authentication process, a browser accesses a protected application and is redirected to the OpenID provider, an authorization server that implements OpenID Connect. The OpenID provider interacts with the user's credentials to authenticate the user. After authentication, the user's browser is redirected back to the application. The application or its container then contacts the OpenID provider and obtains a JSON Web Token (JWT) that contains claims about the user, and completes authorization. If successful, the user is granted access to the application. The application can access the claims that are sent in the JWT. If you use the Social Media Login feature, the entire OpenID Connect authorization process can be handled by the social media platform, which makes the process simpler. To configure Social Media Login for your application, you can enable the Social Media Login feature.
In addition to social media platforms, you can also use other authentication providers for SSO, such as Active Directory, when you enable the Social Media Login feature.
JSON Web Token (JWT)
JSON Web Token (JWT) is a standard that is used to propagate the user identity that is established by SSO among different microservice applications. By configuring SSO user authentication with a JWT, you can manage the identity that is shared among applications.
After the user's identity is established with an SSO method, such as Social Media Login, you can use the JWT to propagate the identity to back-end services. The JWT uses claims to transfer authentication and group membership information about a user among services. The claims can verify who the user is, when the user requests were made, and any other types of information that the user agreed to be handled by you. Each consumer of the token can verify the claims in the token, by confirming that they trust the issuer's signature of the token. After the consumer verifies the signature, they know that the content of the token wasn't altered after it was created. This JWT format allows each of the involved parties to easily agree on a specific set of claims that facilitate the propagation of the user's identity. This propagation of the user's identity can be further defined by the MicroProfile JSON Web Tokens feature.
MicroProfile JSON Web Tokens extend the capabilities of the standard JWT format to verify claims between two services and provide simpler access to claim information for application developers. MicroProfile JWT defines how a JWT interacts with Java EE and Jakarta EE container security so that the JWT is easily used with JAX-RS applications. For more information about using MicroProfile JSON Web Tokens to secure JAX-RS applications, see Guide: Securing microservices with JSON Web Tokens.
The MicroProfile JSON Web Tokens format contains required claims, which must be specified to propagate user identity. A claim is a piece of information that is asserted about a subject that is represented as a name-value pair, which consists of a claim name and a claim value. The following example shows the MicroProfile JWT format that contains the required claims that are specified in a JSON file:
"typ": "JWT",
"alg": "RS256",
"kid": "abc-1234567890"
"iss": "https://server.example.com",
"aud": "s6BhdRkqt3",
"jti": "a-123",
"exp": 1311281970,
"iat": 1311280970,
"sub": "24400320",
"upn": "[email protected]",
"groups": ["red-group", "green-group", "admin-group", "admin"],
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For more information, see Eclipse MicroProfile - JWT RBAC Security (MP-JWT). To configure MicroProfile JSON Web Tokens for your JAX-RS application, you can enable the MicroProfile JSON Web Token feature.
Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) enables users to log in to applications by using their Microsoft Windows account login instead of using a separate account to log in to their Windows operating system. SPNEGO provides SSO in your application if the organization uses Active Directory. You can also configure SPNEGO to work on Linux operating systems.
For more information, see Configuring SPNEGO authentication in Open Liberty.
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard that offers significant flexibility for developers to choose the method of authentication for users. This flexibility is enabled by the exclusive management of the information exchange between the Identity Provider and the Service Provider. When integrated with SSO, SAML enables web applications to delegate user authentication to a centralized location for enterprises to manage and control identities.
Open Liberty supports the SAML web browser SSO profile with HTTP post binding, single logout, and SAML metadata. SAML metadata is configuration data that is required to automatically negotiate agreements between the service provider and the identity provider to help ensure secure authentication.
You can configure Open Liberty to enable SAML single logout. SAML single logout is a near-simultaneous logout of a user from a specific authentication session and from all active service provider sessions that are associated with the authentication session. Single logout can be initiated by both the service provider and the identity provider. To configure SAML for your application, you can enable the Saml Web Single Sign-On feature.
Lightweight Third-Party Authentication (LTPA) provides a method of SSO configuration to authenticate users to access applications. With LTPA, cryptographic keys are used to encrypt and decrypt user details that pass between servers for authentication. To complete authentication, a token is generated that is signed by the keys, contains the user details, and has an expiration time. When authentication is successful, the LTPA token passes to other servers through cookies for web resources when SSO is enabled. LTPA cookies enable a user to authenticate their identity only once when they are connected to an application. After the connection to the application is established, the user can access resources in other applications that exist on the same server without getting prompted to authenticate. In Open Liberty, LTPA is configured by default when the Application Security feature is enabled.


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Talk About Your Manic Mondays
This Monday's General Hospital was pretty much terrible. In some ways it was even worse than usual, because due to some weird FIOS glitch, the audio on my recorded episode trailed about a second and a half behind the video. Ugh! As if you want to see and then hear, being doubly punished, crap like: Kristina's icky relationship, Lulu and Ethan on an adventure with Lucky (you know, the loser cop brother) nowhere to be found, Claudia of all people having the ability to blow apart the Dominante thing, Nikolas totally inexplicably telling Robin about Liz cheating on Lucky with him, being reminded that Carly and Jax are going to be forever linked by a kid, Carly's talking dream-fetus, and Olivia breaking up with Johnny. Although there was Molly being all precocious and knowledgeable, which is one of my new favorite things on TV. It's not enough to compensate for the rest, though. What could?
But last Monday's GH? That was some pretty good soap, people! (And it followed a good old-fashioned Friday cliffhanger. What in the name of Gloria Monty is going on when GH turns in two consecutive good episodes?)
"I now pronounce you not husband and wife."
These are the words I'd been longing to hear! Rejoice! Maxie is not permanently joined to Spinelli! There shall be dancing in the streets.
And yeah, allegedly for him it was all about "oh, this is proving how deep my love is and blah blah blah" but let's get real: The headpiece spooked him.
I still can't get over that thing. Sex and the City (the
was on cable the other day and this thing gives Carrie's bird-hat a run
for its money in the fugliest wedding headwear category, which I didn't
think was possible. Pat Field will not stand for being trumped!
But even if Spinelli got past the hat, the dress wasn't much better.
As my grandmother used to say, boys don't marry lasses with big bows on their asses. I'm pretty sure that's what she used to say, anyway.
I think the only person as delighted about the "non" part of the non-wedding as I was was Mac. When he passed out from relief, I actually guffawed.
And it just got better from there. So much Mac hilarity to choose from. Getting drunk, being excited anew every time someone mentioned that Maxie and Spinelli didn't get married,
flirting with Alexis, mentioning Frisco and "Fericia," calling Spinelli a nincompoop. The whole episode was just chock-full of Mac being awesome. And then it was capped off with Maxie thanking Mac for being there for her her entire life.
Aw! I mean, obviously John J. York will be locked in a basement for another eight months or so now, having pre-taped 17 nearly identical police station scenes. But we had one great day, dammit!
Carly scored some points by seeming to be nearly as happy as Mac was about the wedding that wasn't.
I hate how much I've agreed with Carly lately. It's unsettling.
Side note: Ingo Rademacher could get it.
Robin's enthusiasm over her birdseed packets, coupled with Jason's absolute horror at the idea he would do anything festive with one, was delightful.
Nobody is more shocked than I am to find that I am enjoying the umpteenth go-around of Jason and Sam. When I don't think about the fact that she let his infant son get kidnapped and he threatened to kill her, I find them hot and well-matched.
The garter-and-bouquet thing was of course contrived and you saw it coming from a mile away, but it was funny nonetheless. Especially Jason's open loathing of the entire tradition.
Does nobody remember? Jason is not a fan of garters.
Related note: Garters, please avoid dark alleys. And docks. And hospitals. And mansions. And bars. Maybe just stick with thighs.
Spinelli to Jason: Stone Cold's affirmation of his namesake's words is the greatest affirmation of friendship I've ever experienced.
You need more friends, boo.
Maxie to Spinelli: You're the most wonderful, smart, sexy man I've ever met.
And you need to meet more men. Or take a closer look at the ones you've already met.
I don't want to get into Lisa LoCicero and Brandon Barash's business, but if they are not hooking up in real life I think they should seriously consider it. I have no idea whether they're both straight, single, etc., but I don't think it matters. Cast all traditional considerations aside, because...whoa.
And their "I love you"s were adorable! (Yes, I know they've since broken up, but travel back with me to the halcyon days of late September and enjoy this budding relationship.)
Side note: Brandon Barash could get it.
Even her flirting with Coleman could not detract from the hilarity of DrunkKate.
I love her.
Side note: Megan Ward's hair?
I'm pretty sure it could solve the health care crisis.
I can't believe I'm saying this about one of Lulu's relationships, but...I really like her and Dominante. They had a couple of great moments, with not even a shadow of the shrieking, judgmental, entitled Lulu we'd come to know and...know.
And if it's written right (humor me), their story could be really intriguing. Especially if they get involved before his cover is blown. At the very least, could Luke please have to deal with his one son being a cop and his daughter being in love with one? Because lately I want Luke Spencer to be as unhappy as possible.
Side note: Dominic Zamprogna could get it.
I think I could watch DrunkMac try to force Alexis to dance for a year on a continuous loop and still want more.
I cannot tell a lie, I laughed out loud. Several times.
Sure, it was overly precocious and nothing that a real kid would say, but Morgan's toast was pretty funny.
To sum up: Spinelli is really smart, and Maxie is super cool because she doesn't hate Spinelli for dumping her ass at the altar.
Oh, Patrick and Robin. Adorable.
Ew. I think that "written by" credit is giving them cooties.
Robin to Patrick: You look so sexy right now.
Now that is an anytime, anywhere line if ever I heard one.
Patrick hotly reminisced about committing to Robin -- and about all the fights they've had at Jake's.
I thought that was awesome, because I am totally the type of person who is incapable of being 100% schmoopy and positive during any relationship-oriented conversation. (I shouldn't worry that these writers whom I otherwise disparage write interpersonal relationships the way I actually conduct mine, right?)
At one point, though, the weirdest thing happened with Patrick. Some random dude who seems like the type who never does anything or hangs out or talks with anyone showed up and was all fraternal with him.
The guy's obviously a creeper.
Side note: Jason Thompson and Jason Cook could get it.
Alexis with all her daughters! Adorable!
There's her daughter with Sonny, her one with Ric, and her eldest, with...well, it's not important that we know piddly details like parentage. Or that the daughter herself know such things. Don't be so provincial!
I thoroughly enjoyed the "I Want To Know What Love Is" serenade, which I know is an odd thing to say about group karaoke to Foreigner. Maybe I just enjoyed the joy of everyone singing.
Except for Jason. Ha. Sometimes Steve Burton seriously cracks me up.
So cute! And the song was of course a nice little call-back to earlier this year.
And while this post is about Monday's episode, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the awesome karaoke on Tuesday's episode too. Or maybe I wouldn't. There is only so much chronicling of GH goodness that I can do in a week so you will just have to look back on it fondly and insert your own adverbs (especially "hotly") and adjectives yourself.
Oh, who am I kidding -- we all need to re-live this magic in full living sound and color:
The adorable magic:
And most importantly, the hot, hilarious magic:
Sigh. It bothers me that this show can still occasionally delight me. While I'm on this high, I might as well say it:
These two were mildly adorable. But that is all the positivity you're getting out of me.


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Lying under the Tuscan sun in Cortona
The location itself is fantastic, as the Relais is located on the magnificent hills all surrounding the medieval hill town of Cortona, one of the most beautiful and suggestive villages of Tuscany and Italy and the one with the vastest panorama. Being on the border between Tuscany and Umbria, Cortona boasts a strategic location that makes it the perfect base to explore some of the best sights of Italy: Florence, Siena, Arezzo, Montepulciano, the Val d'Orcia and its lovely hill towns, the wonderful Trasimeno Lake, Perugia, and many other hidden gems.
Frances Mayer, famous American writer, tells about the beauty and charm of Cortona in her novel "Under the Tuscan Sun", that has made Cortona a very popular destination for holidays in Tuscany.
An oasis of peace and tranquility
Relais La Corte Dei Papi is a beautiful refined country house, dating from the late eighteenth century, that has been wonderfully renovated with love and passion by the Papi family. The place is enchanting, a real oasis of peace and tranquility, ideal for all wishing to relax enjoying all the comforts of a refined and luxurious Country Resort immersed in the magical atmosphere of the scenic Tuscan countryside.
The restaurant, in the ancient cellar of the farmhouse, serves excellent food with traditional Tuscan specialities, like home-made bread, hand-made pasta, irresistible cakes, and many other delicacies. The ambience is very warm and elegant.
That's the perfect place for a unique vacation dedicated to well- being. The farmhouse has a wonderful swimming pool, surrounded by a wide verdant park, rich in flowers, olive groves and pine trees.
Wonderful Suites with Private Spa
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New Home Construction Phase Inspection Program
The building of a home is critical at every step. Having an ITI® certified building inspector present at each step of this process is also critical. While most contractors are very good at what they do, it is imperative to have another set of eyes with to verify the decisions that they have to make and the execution
The A-Pro New Construction Phase Inspections Program consist of three (3) inspections for the home buyer.
For all new construction phase inspections, it is important to get an idea from the builder a date that they anticipate the building will be ready for each phase of the inspection – as soon as the date is given, notify us immediately.
- PHASE I – Foundation
The foundation inspection is the one of the most important and one of the most difficult to schedule. Builders can easily get ahead of schedule or fall behind of the initial schedule due to weather amongst other problems. We recommend that the home-buyer constantly check with builder about progress.
- Concrete Slab – This phase of the inspection is done after the exterior foundation walls are finished and the plumbing rough-ins are installed, however before the concrete slab is poured.
- Basement – In this phase of the inspection we come out after the forms (walls) are poured and before they backfill. It is extremely important that this inspection is done BEFORE they backfill.
- Crawl Space – A Crawl Space is simply a basement that you cannot stand up in. This phase of the inspection is done after the foundation is poured but before backfilling and framing begins.
- PHASE II – PRE-Drywall
This phase of the inspection is done which involves inspecting the electrical, plumbing, heat, and framing. We usually perform this inspection one to three days before the contractor hangs the drywall. Note: All other inspections above must be performed before this phase.
- PHASE III – FINAL Home Inspection
This phase of the inspection is done after the building process is finish. This is when buyer has a walk-thru inspection with the builder about a week or so before the closing of the home takes place. We need to come out 1 to 3 days before this walk-thru. At this time, we perform a complete 500-point comprehensive home inspection with pictures of any problems so the client still has time to address any issues with the builder before closing takes place. At this time, we can also schedule additional services (i.e., foundation level survey, radon testing, etc.).
- Final Walk Thru Inspection
Having A-Pro on your side during the final walk thru Inspection is a wise decision. A final walk-through is executed a few hours to five days before closing. It is not a home inspection nor is it a time to begin negotiating repairs. The primary purpose of the final walk thru inspection is to make sure that the property is in the agreed upon condition you agreed to buy it in. (agreed-upon repairs/improvements, if any, were made satisfactory) Many clients re-hire us to conduct the walk thru after our initial home inspection when there were changes, repairs or improvements negotiated in order to come to a purchase agreement.


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The original phrase "mort gage" translates as "death pledge"! But as this video explains, a mortgage is a loan obtained to purchase real estate.
The "mortgage" itself is a lien – a legal claim on the home or property that secures the promise to pay the debt.
All mortgages have two features in common: principal and interest.
The principal is the amount you are borrowing which is "secured" by the lender's claim on the property.
The interest, usually stated as the percentage rate is the additional amount paid for borrowing. Mortgage interest is 'compounded' – interest on interest, over time.


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What's new?
updated December 18, 2010
- 2010 Rogers Backpack
- 2009 Paddling at Cape Lookout
- 2008 Rogers Trip
- Badin Lake Trip
- Colorado 14'ers Trip
- MemDay08 Lumber River Canoe Trip
Who is the Adventure Family?
The Adventure Family is a group of friends and family who enjoy outdoor adventures and the company of good friends. We also enjoy good food and drink, great scenery, warm sleeping bags, soft thermarests, chocolate chip cookies, fresh fallen snow, clear tropical waters, a nice shiraz, a cold diet pepsi, breath-taking sunsets, just baked biscuits with cheese, and well..., you get the picture. Joy is where you find it!
We are sharing a small part of our adventures with you through this website. It goes without saying the beauty of the places we often find ourselves can't be fully captured in words or photographs. You'll have to use your imagination for the rest. Or come out and join us on one of our adventures!
I hope you find our adventures inspiring!
Infoman : Feb 23, 2007
A Quote To Ponder
Are not the mountains, waves and skies a part of me and of my soul as I of them?
- Lord Byron
May the adventure continue!!
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Once upon a time in the 1960s, all the iconic news anchors, from Walter Cronkite to David Brinkley, were liberal. But they at least hid their inherent biases behind a professional veneer that allowed them to filter stories through left-wing lenses without much pushback.
When Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the 1968 Tet Offensive and declared the war stalemated and unwinnable, no one dared to offer the dissenting viewpoint that Tet was actually a decisive American victory.
The mainstream-media narrative in 1963 that Lee Harvey Oswald, the Castroite, communist assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was a product of right-wing Texas hatred was completely crazy — but largely unquestioned.
That old monopoly over the news, despite the advent of cable television and the internet, still lingered until 2016. Even in recent years, Ivy League journalism degrees and well-known media brand names seemed to suggest better reporting than what was offered by bloggers and websites.
Soft-spoken liberal hosts on public TV and radio superficially sounded more news-like than their gravelly-voiced populist counterparts on commercial radio and cable news.
Yet the thinning veneer of circumspection that had supposedly characterized the elite liberal successors to Cronkite and Brinkley was finally ripped off completely by a media meltdown over Trump.
Journalists such as Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times and Christiane Amanpour of CNN said that they could not — and should not — be neutral reporters, given their low opinion of Trump.
When the press is unashamedly slanted, even its benefactors want even more partiality — media heartthrob Barack Obama included.
In his last press conference as president, Obama attacked pet journalists for reporting on WikiLeaks' release of John Podesta's emails, supposedly at the expense of his own legacy and Hillary Clinton's accomplishments.
The WikiLeaks trove certainly proved another disaster to the media — but only because it revealed that mainstream journalists conspired with the Clinton campaign.
CNN's Donna Brazile leaked possible debate questions to Clinton. One op-ed columnist, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, even asked Clintonites for research to help him attack Trump.
Politico's Glenn Thrush sent a story to the Clinton campaign team to be audited before publication. He begged to keep his collusion quiet and admitted that he had become a "hack" for such journalistic impropriety. Thrush may have been rewarded for his predictable left-wing bias, recently being hired by the New York Times as a White House correspondent.
Last week, New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman grotesquely suggested via Twitter that Trump might welcome another 9/11-like attack, given that such a human catastrophe supposedly helped win support for George W. Bush.
Recently, another Politico reporter, Julia Ioffe, used Twitter to relay a news story about the possibility that Trump's daughter, Ivanka, would get an office at the White House. In her tweet, Joffe suggested that Trump was either having incestuous relations with his daughter or skirting nepotism laws.
Politico fired Ioffe — sort of. She had already announced that she was moving from Politico to the Atlantic.
Yet the Atlantic announced that it would not rescind her hire — suggesting that her political bias, despite the accompanying unprofessionalism and uncouthness, could almost be interpreted as a plus.
In today's media, all of this progressive distortion serves as an insurance policy for lapses of personal integrity like those of Thrush and Joffe.
MSNBC anchor Brian Williams sermonized about the so-called "fake news" epidemic. Williams failed to remind us that he was removed as NBC's evening news anchor for serving up all sorts of fake details about his supposedly brave trips abroad in search of edgy news stories.
After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the co-hosts of the show "CNN Newsroom" collectively put up their hands in "hands up, don't shoot" solidarity — echoing a narrative of police murder later proved to be completely false by a lengthy federal investigation.
Decades-long journalistic one-sidedness was apparently tolerable when there were no other news alternatives. Mainstream-media monopolies once were also highly profitable, and long-ago liberal news people were at least well-mannered.
All of those assumptions are no longer true. News outlets such as The New York Times and NBC have no more credibility than most websites or the National Enquirer.
Is it any surprise that we are witnessing the funeral for traditional journalism as we once knew it?


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Chow Line: Nontoxic food decorations aren't always edible
I'm making a batch of holiday goodies, and I'm using several kinds of festive decor on the cakes, cookies, and pies. Some of this glitter and sparkly stuff is very pretty, but I'm wondering if it's really safe to eat.
That depends on what the label on its packaging says.
When baking fancy cookies, cakes, cupcakes, or other foods for the holidays—or for any occasion—it's important that you are aware of which decorations are edible and which ones aren't.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a consumer alert this week that some glitters and dusts promoted for use in foods might, in fact, contain materials that should not be eaten.
In fact, the FDA says consumers might want to avoid using glitter and dust to decorate cakes, cupcakes, cookies, pies, and other food items unless the products are specifically manufactured to be edible.
While some glitters and dusts are sold online and in craft and bakery supply stores under names such as luster dust, disco dust, twinkle dust, sparkle dust, highlighter, shimmer powder, pearl dust, and petal dust, not all are safe to eat, the FDA says.
Some of the decorations might be labeled nontoxic, but that doesn't mean they are meant to be eaten.
"Some decorative glitters and dusts promoted for use on foods may, in fact, contain materials that should not be eaten," the FDA said in a written statement.
So how can you distinguish between glitters and dusts that are safe to eat from those that are unsafe to eat?
Food decorations that are edible must be clearly labeled as such. Companies that make edible glitters and dusts are required by law to include a list of ingredients on the label, per the FDA. If the label simply says "nontoxic" or "for decorative purposes only" and does not include an ingredients list, you should not use the product directly on foods.
Nontoxic glitters and dust, which are typically used to make crafts sparkle, are made out of plastic.
In contrast, some of the most common ingredients used to make edible glitter or edible dust include sugar, acacia (gum arabic), maltodextrin, cornstarch, and color additives specifically approved for food use, including mica-based pearlescent pigments and FD&C colors such as FD&C Blue No. 1.
If you are purchasing a professionally decorated cake or other food item, specifically ask the baker or cook if all ingredients are edible. To ensure that the decorative products are edible, you can also ask to see their labels.
If you do decide to purchase or decorate a food item with decorations that are not edible, you should be sure that you remove the decorations before serving or eating the food. You don't want anyone who eats your treats to have any adverse reactions to your creations.
Chow Line is a service of The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and its outreach and research arms, Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. Send questions to Chow Line, c/o Tracy Turner, 364 W. Lane Ave., Suite B120, Columbus, OH 43201, or [email protected].


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This piece from the Aberdeen Group shows accelerometers and gyroscopes becoming universal in smartphones by 2018.
Accelerometers were exotic in smartphones when the first iPhone came out – used mainly for sensing the orientation of the phone for displaying portrait or landscape mode. Then came the idea of using them for dead-reckoning-assist in location-sensing. iPhones have always had accelerometers; since all current smartphones are basically copies of the original iPhone, it is actually odd that some smartphones lack accelerometers.
Predictably, when supplied with a hardware feature, the app developer community came up with a ton of creative uses for the accelerometer: magic tricks, pedometers, air-mice, and even user authentication based on waving the phone around.
Not all sensor technologies are so fertile. For example the proximity sensor is still pretty much only used to dim the screen and disable the touch sensing when you hold the phone to your ear or put it in your pocket.
So what about the user-facing camera? Is it a one-trick pony like the proximity sensor, or a springboard to innovation like the accelerometer? Although videophoning has been a perennial bust, I would argue for the latter: the you-facing camera is pregnant with possibilities as a sensor.
Looking at the Aberdeen report, I was curious to see "gesture recognition" on a list of features that will appear on 60% of phones by 2018. The others on the list are hardware features, but once you have a camera, gesture recognition is just a matter of software. (The Kinect is a sidetrack to this, provoked by lack of compute power.)
In a phone, compute power means battery-drain, so that's a limitation to using the camera as a sensor. But each generation of chips becomes more power-efficient as well as more powerful, and as phone makers add more and more GPU cores, the developer community delivers new useful uses for them that max them out.
Gesture recognition is already here with Samsung, and soon every Android device. The industry is gearing up for innovation in phone based computer vision with OpenVX from Khronos. When always-on computer vision becomes feasible from a power-drain point of view, gesture recognition and face tracking will look like baby-steps. Smart developers will come up with killer applications that are currently unimaginable. For example, how about a library implementation of Paul Ekman's emotion recognition algorithms to let you know how you are really feeling right now? Or, in concert with Google Glass, so you will never again be oblivious to your spouse's emotional temperature.
Update November 19th: Here's some news and a little bit of technology background on this topic…
Update November 22:It looks like a company is already engaged on the emotion-recognition technology.


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4.6. Exercises
These are some exercises that will help you get the feel for processes running on your system.
4.6.1. General
Run top in one terminal while you do the exercises in another.
Run the ps command.
Read the man pages to find out how to display all your processes.
Run the command find
. What effect does it have on system load? Stop this command.In graphical mode, start the xclock program in the foreground. Then let it run in the background. Stop the program using the kill command.
Run the xcalc directly in the background, so that the prompt of the issuing terminal is released.
What does kill
-9 -1
do?Open two terminals or terminal windows again and use write to send a message from one to the other.
Issue the dmesg command. What does it tell?
How long does it take to execute ls in the current directory?
Based on process entries in
, owned by your UID, how would you work to find out which processes these actually represent?How long has your system been running?
Which is your current TTY?
Name 3 processes that couldn't have had init as an initial parent.
Name 3 commands which use SUID mode. Explain why this is so.
Name the commands that are generally causing the highest load on your system.
4.6.2. Booting, init etc.
Can you reboot the system as a normal user? Why is that?
According to your current run level, name the steps that are taken during shutdown.
How do you change the system run level? Switch from your default run level to run level 1 and vice versa.
Make a list of all the services and daemons that are started up when your system has booted.
Which kernel is currently load at startup?
Suppose you have to start some exotic server at boot time. Up until now, you logged in after booting the system and started this server manually using a script named
in your home directory. What do you have to do in order to have the service start up automatically in run level 4, which you defined for this purpose only?
4.6.3. Scheduling
Use sleep to create a reminder that your pasta is ready in ten minutes.
Create an at job that copies all files in your home directory to
within half an hour. You may want to create a sub-directory in/var/tmp
.Make a cronjob that does this task every Monday to Friday during lunch.
Check that it works.
Make a mistake in the crontab entry, like issuing the nonexistent command coppy instead of cp. What happens upon execution of the task?


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Unfortunately, the pace of classroom learning can't be tailored to every student's individual needs — particularly these days, as class sizes are growing and funding for special enrichment programs becomes limited. In fact, at least 35 states provided less funding per student for the 2013-14 school year than they did before the recession.
Many children will need to spend some time outside the classroom going beyond their regular homework to keep up or get ahead in school. No matter what your child's education goals are, there are great ways you can help make this school year the best one yet:
• Math practice: Square roots, polynomials, quadrilaterals. Learning these terms and concepts can get dicey quickly. Keeping up at home is important, and sometimes requires more than just doing the day's take-home assignment.
Consider supplementing homework with online tools. For example, Shmoop, an online learning and test prep provider, provides free study guides for review and courses for remedial work in many academic topics, including social science, arts and music, science and English. Their math tutorials cover everything from Pre-Algebra to Calculus and the step by-step explanations that the program offers can be helpful to any student looking for an extra edge.
• Read the classics: Kids who read for pleasure can improve their grades. Not only will the exposure to literary giants like John Steinbeck, Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe build vocabulary and improve reading comprehension, there is much to be learned about history and culture from picking up a great book, such as "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Be sure to use tools that can help clarify some of the denser material. Online learning guides can be a great place to get synopses and analysis.
• Use flashcards: It may sound quaint, but there is really no substitute for quizzing yourself with a flash card. Even the act of creating the flashcard can help reinforce concepts and facts.
• Extra Help: A little extra academic help after school can sometimes mean the difference between struggle and success. But between school and soccer practice, ballet lessons and getting dinner on the table, adding a tutor or after school class to the list might be a logistical impossibility.
Consider online courses that can be completed from the comfort of home and are common core aligned. For example, Shmoop's offerings are diverse, ranging from 7th grade math to second semester 12th grade British Literature. For those students taking Advanced Placement courses this fall, check out their AP test prep courses. These courses help students nail the important, for-credit, year-end exam. More information can be found at www.Shmoop.com.
With a bit of extra effort and the use of savvy learning tools, kids can gain a competitive edge this school year.


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I have situation, that i need common user login for
- Blog A
- Blog B
- bbPress
I found the solution Single use login for two wordpress installation from Justin Tadlock Blog.
Installing two WordPress blogs with the same users
But What for bbPress ?
Is there any plugin can work for me ? Should i use wordpress multisite (i am using it)?
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Across many parts of the U.S., black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. In Milwaukee County, for example, nearly three quarters of those who have died of the virus were black. But only about a quarter of the county's population is black.
Data from Louisiana, Michigan, Chicago and New York also shows racial imbalances. So what is going on?
At a coronavirus task force briefing on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, talked about systemic challenges.
"Health disparities have always existed for the African-American community, Fauci said. The crisis, he added, is "shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is."
Fauci was referring to factors like underlying health conditions, lack of insurance, substandard housing — challenges caused and then exacerbated by racism.
Jahmil Lacey studies health disparities in South Central Los Angeles and says there's another issue at play: misinformation.
"When the pandemic first started, there were a lot of rumblings around, like this being a hoax. I've heard stories about people believing that, you know, black people were immune to coronavirus," he said in an interview Friday with NPR's Morning Edition.
Lacey said there's a longstanding mistrust that some black Americans feel toward the public health establishment.
"I think in order to understand the depth of distrust black people have towards health care institutions, having an awareness of the long history of medical experimentation on black people is important," he said.
Take for example, Lacey said, the infamous Tuskegee experiment, when over the course of 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service allowed syphilis to go untreated in hundreds of African American men in order to chronicle the progression of the disease inside the body.
Lacey said the distrust caused by Tuskegee informs how many African Americans view the government's response to the coronavirus. It's one reason, he said, for the concern over an effort in Detroit, a majority African American city, to test a drug on 3,000 local residents that is regularly touted by President Trump.
The drug, hydroxychloroquine, is currently used to treat lupus and prevent malaria, but there remains no solid evidence that it is an effective COVID-19 treatment.
"There's a lot of, you know, just skepticism about that because ... the research around this drug hasn't really been very sound," Lacey said. "And what they're proposing to do is to use this drug with black patients."
"The real issue here," he continued, "is that the coronavirus is unmasking what I consider the negligence and disinvestment in black communities that we've been forced to live with for generations."
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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A Royal breakfast, seriously.
Breakfast is the first meal of a day, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking the day's work. Some believe it to be the most important meal of the day. Among English speakers, "breakfast" can be used to refer to this meal or to refer to a meal composed of traditional breakfast foods (such as eggs, porridge and sausage) served at any time of day. The word literally refers to breaking the fasting period of the prior night. It has its origin in the Christian custom of fasting from food between the supper meal of one day and receiving Holy Communion the following morning (such a Eucharistic fast is still observed by Orthodox Christians, but is shortened to one hour before Mass for Roman Catholics). Foregoing the natural craving to eat was seen as an act of self-denial that honors God, while strengthening the religious resolve and faith of the believer.
Breakfast foods vary widely from place to place, but often include a carbohydrate such as grains or cereals, fruit, vegetables, a protein food such as eggs, meat or fish, and a beverage such as tea, coffee, milk, or fruit juice. Coffee, milk, tea, juice, breakfast cereals, pancakes, waffles, sausages, French toast, bacon, sweetened breads, fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs, baked beans, muffins, crumpets and toast with butter, margarine, jam or marmalade are common examples of Western breakfast foods, though a large range of preparations and ingredients are associated with breakfast globally.


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Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The News And Times. |
Biden's Plan to Link Arms With Europe Against Russia and China Isn't So Simple
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . |
WASHINGTON — Two weeks after President Biden's inauguration, France's president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke publicly about the importance of dialogue with Moscow, saying that Russia is a part of Europe that cannot simply be shunned and that Europe must be strong enough to defend its own interests.


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Judy Blume Battling Breast Cancer
Judy Blume, author of many popular children's books from the 1970s, revealed that she has been privately battling breast cancer since June. She shared the news on her blog, via a humorously written post titled '!@#$% Happens.'
Blume wrote that she received her diagnosis this past June during a routine ultrasound, which was conducted before a trip to Italy. The author says she immediately sprung into action, despite the damper the diagnosis put on her travel plans.
She had a biopsy and then surgery last month, after doctors found small signs of invasive ductal carcinoma in their early stages. Blume chose a mastectomy with reconstruction, as opposed to a lumpectomy followed by radiation. She is currently recovering at home with her husband.
Blume even joked about having had small breasts, a la one of her most beloved characters, Margaret Simon from 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'
In the post, the author details the surgery and recovery process, all with her signature wit in tact.
Blume's novels for children and young adults, which tackled topics like obesity, bullying, religion, menstruation, masturbation, divorce and first love, have exceeded sales of 80 million. The books have been translated into 31 languages.