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2017-03-09 -
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2017-02-09 -
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pilowsky, on 2022-May-06, 04:53, said:
Neural tube defects can now be detected with modern ultrasound in the first trimester.
In any event the question of when life begins is something that religious people feel very strongly about.
At the moment of conception?
At about 20 weeks?
Or when the dog dies and the kids leave home?
If it was me that was making the decision I wouldn't want Dr Strangelove from Texas telling me what to do.
I have a huge problem with anybody saying "my religion says ... so I will make laws that apply to you on that basis whether you believe my religion or not", whether it's Christianity, Islam or any other religion.
IMO abortion should be banned when a baby is capable of being born and surviving independent of the mother. I'm just not sure where that limit is these days.
There are also moral arguments around where a baby shows up in a scan with something not life limiting but disabling and the parents decide for whatever reason they don't want it, should they be forced to have the baby and send it for adoption ?

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VIDEO: Priceless Marine Life Conservation District Destroyed by Lava
VIDEO: East Rift Zone eruption, June 21, 2018. VC: DLNR
The current eruption of Kīlauea has forever destroyed the Waiopae Tidepools Marine Life Conservation District. Less than 1% of the marine environment in Hawai'i is fully protected by these districts, so the loss of Waiopae is extremely significant.
The East Rift Zone Eruption event, which is keeping two state parks and a forest reserve closed, is adding new acreage to what is now state unencumbered land.
"This continuing eruption is changing the way DLNR and its division's manage public lands in the Lower Puna District," explained DLNR Chair Suzanne Case.
Newly created land, by law, becomes state unencumbered land and will fall under the jurisdiction of the DLNR Land Division.
"There is tremendous alteration of the landscape on a broad scale and daily basis," said Case. "Most dramatic is the complete lava inundation of Kapoho Bay including the covering of the Waiopae Tidepools MLCD."
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Both Lava Tree State Monument and MacKenzie State Recreation Area have been closed since shortly after the eruption began. MacKenzie SRA is adjacent to the first ocean entry and both parks were closed due to public safety considerations.
"The parks are closed and will likely remain so for a very long time," according to State Parks Division Administration Curt Cottrell. "Pele [the volcano goddess] is in control now. She already reclaimed Kalapana State Park back in 1990 and may well decide to perform substantial make overs to Lava Tree and/or MacKenzie," Cottrell said.
State Park's Hawai'i Island Supervisor Dean Takebayashi visited Lava Tree State Monument on Monday. He observed damage to the comfort station and park walkway, likely caused by the earthquake on May 4, 2018.
"We have to keep these parks closed because they're close to lava and subject to gas emissions from the eruption," Takebayashi said. "We don't know yet what other dangers have been created by the earthquake and six-week old eruption."
DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources (DOCARE) officers have written dozens of citations to sightseers caught at Lava Tree and MacKenzie. They'll continue heavy patrols in both parks to keep people out of restricted areas for their own safety.
About 50% of the 1514 acre Malama Ki Forest Reserve has also been closed for many weeks. The lava has burned a lot of the forest and volcanic emissions have defoliated hundreds of trees. The reserve served as a habitat to sub-populations of native forest birds which have developed unique resistance to avian pox and avian malaria.
"We would hate to lose that genetic pool," said DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) Hawai'i island Branch Manager Steve Bergfeld. "Due to current and further expected losses of Malama Ki's habitat, populations of wildlife may no longer persist, rapidly decline, or become further fragmented and/or contract in range."
Recreational fisherman should use alternate state small boat ramps and not the one at Pohoiki. All of the land area at Issac Hale Beach Park next to the ramp is in a restricted area and is closed. The four commercial permittees at Pohoiki were offered the opportunity to relocate to the Wailoa Harbor Ramp in Hilo. Two of the larger vessels secured transient dock slips there for up to 120 days.
"DLNR and many of its divisions continue to support Hawai'i County during this unprecedented natural event with resources and personnel on the ground," Case concluded. "First and foremost, we want to take every step needed to make sure people are safe and stay out of places that, like the landscape, can change in a flash."
DLNR has released video and photographs from an aerial assessment of the eruption zone and links are below.


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Until the creation of the Federal Employees Retirement System in 1984, employees who were more than a year from retirement eligibility typically didn't give retirement planning much thought. Some of you might remember a column I wrote about my Uncle Steve and Aunt Helen, who retired from federal service in the 1970s. I once asked Steve, "What did you do to prepare for retirement?" He said, "I filled out my retirement application 30 days before I turned 55."
Those were the days when all federal employees were covered by the single-benefit Civil Service Retirement System. The only planning required was to work for 30-plus years in federal service. Then you could earn a benefit that, in many cases, could support you for more years than you actually worked.
For today's federal employee covered under FERS, though, retirement planning is a career-long endeavor. If FERS employees were to wait until 30 days before retirement eligibility, they might find their financial outlook to be grim.
There are three legs to the retirement stool under FERS: a basic benefit, Social Security and the Thrift Savings Plan. Figuring out how these all fit together is not a spectator sport. There is a lot of audience participation. If you are just starting your career or if you are at midcareer, here are some things you need to know to set realistic goals for retirement.
Understand Social Security
- Even if nothing changes, Social Security retirement might replace only 10 percent to 15 percent of your preretirement income if you begin to receive your benefit when you are first eligible at age 62. To earn a higher replacement of preretirement income, you must delay receiving the benefit until you are older.
- At the beginning of 2012, the average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker was $1,230.
- If you work at lower wages, the Social Security benefit formula provides a higher replacement of preretirement income. Conversely, if you work at higher wages, the replacement from Social Security is less. The theory is if you have higher wages, then you should have been able to save more for your retirement. According to Social Security, the average U.S. wage in 2010 was $41,673.83.
- If you delay receiving your benefit until age 70, you'll get 76 percent more than you would at 62.
- Bottom line: To retire at a younger age, you can't count too heavily on Social Security.
FERS Basic Benefit
- The FERS basic benefit is a defined benefit, like a traditional pension. That's different from TSP contributions, which are considered a type of defined contribution.
- After 30 years of federal service, the FERS basic retirement benefit will replace about a third of your high-three average preretirement salary. And the longer you work, the higher the percentage of replacement income. The benefit accrues for most employees at 1 percent per year of federal service (1.1 percent if you retire at 62 or later with at least 20 years of service).
- If you haven't spent your entire career in federal service, or if you don't plan to stay in government until you are eligible to retire, then you may not have a defined benefit such as the FERS basic retirement benefit to supplement all your years of employment. This may mean you have to compensate by either working longer or saving more in your defined contribution plans such as the TSP or a 401(k).
TSP Holds the Key
- Do you have a strategy for managing your TSP funds? Do you know when you should rebalance your investments? Do you understand how diversification can help you achieve your financial goals? You can begin with the tools that are available at the TSP website.
- Do you know how much you can safely withdraw from your TSP without running out of money during your retirement years? According to financial planner Deena Katz, answering this question requires projecting the expected rates of return of your investment, estimating how long you will live in retirement (and how long anyone else might live who is counting on your money, such as your spouse) and assessing your tolerance for risk.
- Here's a calculator to help you project your future savings based on the magic of compound earnings.
- As of May, 324,000 FERS employees did not contribute to the TSP. That represents 13.6 percent of all FERS employees. Also, there were 888,000 outstanding TSP loans, totaling nearly $8 billion. This represents employees who are using their TSP to fund something other than retirement. On top of that, 44 percent of TSP investments were in the ultrasafe government securities G Fund. Only around 14 percent of investments were in the life-cycle funds, which encourage diversification and rebalancing throughout an employee's career.
Tips and Advice
- If your agency offers any type of retirement planning -- midcareer, new employee orientation or preretirement training -- take advantage of it sooner rather than later.
- Ideally, you should refresh your retirement knowledge at least every five years, because rules change and your goals may have to adjusted due to life events and unforeseen circumstances.
- Much more information about retirement benefits is available at the TSP, Social Security Adminstration and Office of Personnel Management websites. Also see the Federal Ballpark Estimator.
Correction: The original version of this column said that there were $7,991,000 in outstanding TSP loans. The correct figure is $7,991,000,000. The column has been updated to correct the error.
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A new study has found that the longer older women sit or lay down during the course of a day—and the longer the individual periods of uninterrupted sitting—the greater their risk of cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease and stroke. But reducing their sedentary time by just an hour a day appears to lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases by 12 percent—and for heart disease alone, by a dramatic 26 percent, the research found. The study was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
"This study provides further strong evidence of a link between sedentary behavior, like sitting and laying down, which uses very little energy, and cardiovascular disease," said David Goff, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI. "Sedentary behaviors and inactivity are major risk factors for heart disease, and this research also shows that it is never too late, or too early, to move more and improve your heart health."
In this five-year prospective study, researchers looked at more than 5,000 women ages 63 to 97 and measured both the total time they sat or laid down each day and the duration of discrete sedentary periods. The results, published today in the journal Circulation, are significant.
"Higher amounts of sedentary time and longer sedentary bouts were directly associated with cardiovascular disease," said John Bellettiere, Ph.D., research fellow of cardiovascular disease epidemiology at the University of California, San Diego, and lead author of the study. "Importantly, the association showed up regardless of a woman's overall health, physical function, and other cardiovascular risk factors, including whether they also were engaging in moderate to vigorous physical activity."
Of the estimated 85.6 million American adults having at least one type of cardiovascular disease, which includes heart disease and stroke, 43.7 million of them are 60 or older. In fact, 67.9 percent of women between 60 and 79 years old, have cardiovascular disease; and heart disease is the leading cause of death among women 65 and older.
The findings, Bellettiere said, could have implications for what health officials communicate to older women about staying heart healthy. Getting up and moving, even if for just a few minutes more throughout the day, he noted, might help reduce their already-high rates of heart disease.
"Encouraging less sedentary time and shorter sedentary bouts in older women could have large public health benefits," Bellettiere said.
The research involved an ethnically diverse group of 5,638 women, nearly half of whom were over age 80, enrolled between 2012 and 2014. None had a history of myocardial infarction or stroke. The women were part of the NHLBI-funded Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (OPACH)—a sub cohort of the Women's Health Initiative.
At the start of the study, participants wore hip-mounted accelerometers that measured their movement 24 hours a day for seven consecutive days. Previous studies have largely relied on self-reporting questionnaires; the accelerometers, however, provided researchers more accurate measures of sedentary time overall, as well as the duration of individual bouts of sedentary time. The latter was important because it allowed, for the first time, the study of whether sitting for long uninterrupted periods throughout the day was contributing to higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
The researchers then followed the participants for almost five years, tracking cardiovascular disease events such as heart attacks and strokes. They found that on average, an additional hour of total sedentary time was associated with a 12 percent higher risk for cardiovascular diseases, and when that sitting time was made up of long uninterrupted sedentary sessions, the risk was 52 percent higher than when it was accumulated in short, regularly interrupted bouts of sedentary time.
Yet, just as the risk for heart disease can increase with more sitting and longer sedentary bouts, it can be reduced by getting up and moving, even if only a little, and by doing it often throughout the day, the researchers found.
"Reductions of sedentary time do not need to happen all at once," said Andrea LaCroix, Ph.D., Chair of the Division of Epidemiology and Director of the Women's Health Center of Excellence at the University of California, San Diego, who led the OPACH study. "I recommend to all women who, like me, are over 60, to make a conscious effort to interrupt our sitting by getting up and moving around as often as we can."
Study: Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular disease in older women: The Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (OPACH) Study. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.035312
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The European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) is a non-for-profit, industry-driven association promoting the development of new and innovative production technologies. It is the official representative of the private side in the "Factories of the Future" public-private partnership.
The key objective of EFFRA is to promote pre-competitive research on production technologies within the European Research Area by engaging in a public-private partnership with the European Union called "Factories of the Future".
EFFRA was established to shape, promote and support the implementation of the "Factories of the Future" public-private partnership.
The partnership aims to bring together private and public resources to create an industry-led programme in research and innovation with the aim of launching hundreds of market-oriented cross-border projects throughout the European Union. Such projects will produce demonstrators and models to be applied in a wide range of manufacturing sectors.


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A new way to measure energy in microscopic machines
What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call "free energy," essentially the energy that can be extracted from any system to perform useful work. Without this available energy, a living organism would eventually die and a machine would lie idle.
In work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland in College Park, researchers have devised and demonstrated a new way to measure free energy. By using microscopy to track and analyze the fluctuating motion or configuration of single molecules or other small objects, the new method can be applied to a greater variety of microscopic and nanoscopic systems than previous techniques.
"Scientists have relied on free energy to understand complex systems since the development of steam engines. This concept will continue to be just as fundamental as we engineer and design proteins and other single-molecule systems," noted NIST's David Ross, first author of a new paper on this work in Nature Physics. "But the measurements are much harder for those small systems--so approaches like the new one we describe will be of fundamental importance," he added.
By measuring changes in free energy as a system moves or alters its internal structure, scientists can predict certain aspects of how a living system will behave or how a machine will operate--without the impossible task of keeping track of the comings and goings of all the atoms and molecules that make up the system.
An everyday example of free energy is in the internal combustion engine of an automobile, with a total energy equal to the energy of its motion plus the heat it generates. Subtracting the heat energy, which dissipates from the system, leaves the free energy.
In one method, scientists use a microscopic force sensor to pull on a protein or DNA molecule, which can behave as a miniature spring when stretched or compressed, to measure changes in force and position as a system relaxes and releases energy. However, the attachment of the force sensor can disturb the microscopic system and cannot be used to measure changes in free energy that do not involve a straightforward change in position.
The new method, which can use optical microscopy to track the motion or configuration of small systems, determines free energies without the attachment to a force sensor. The new analysis could prove a powerful way to peer into the inner workings of a broad variety of microscopic systems, including living systems such as viruses or cells to better understand the processes, such as energy intake, chemical reactions and the movement of molecules that keep living systems functioning.
"We are surrounded by natural systems that take advantage of microscopic fluctuations in free energy, and now we have a way to better measure, understand, and, ultimately, manipulate these fluctuations ourselves," said co-author Elizabeth Strychalski of NIST.
The analysis lends itself to studying microscopic systems that start in a highly excited state with high energy, far from equilibrium with their surroundings, and then relax back toward equilibrium. The properties of microscopic systems can fluctuate significantly as they relax due to the random motion from continuous jostling by surrounding molecules. The new method, which the team refers to as Relaxation Fluctuation Spectroscopy (ReFlucS), uses measurements of those fluctuations during relaxation to determine the free energy.
"Our approach shows that useful information can be gleaned from observing the random motions of a system as it settles down from a highly excited, far-from-equilibrium state," said co-author Christopher Jarzynski of the University of Maryland.
As an exemplary system, the scientists studied the motion of DNA molecules confined to a nanometer-scale space shaped like a staircase. To squeeze into the top steps, which are the shallowest, the DNA molecules must be compressed more tightly than molecules that occupy the bottom steps. This results in a higher free energy for the molecules at the top. By applying an electric field, the team drove the DNA molecules into the top of the staircase. The researchers then turned off the electric field and observed the movement of the molecules with an optical microscope.
The DNA molecules mostly descended the staircase as they relaxed toward equilibrium, decreasing their free energy. However, due to microscopic fluctuations, the DNA molecules occasionally moved back up the staircase, increasing their free energy. The researchers analyzed the fluctuating motion of the DNA molecules, allowing them to map out the free-energy profile--how much free energy there is at different locations, and where the energy is high and low.
"ReFlucS provides access to information about free energy that was previously inaccessible," said co-author Samuel Stavis of NIST.
Equilibrium free energies from non-equilibrium trajectories with relaxation fluctuation spectroscopy David Ross, Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Christopher Jarzynski & Samuel M. Stavis Nature Physics (2018)
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Alec Baldwin reveals in his new memoir, "Nevertheless," he was enraged in 2006 after discovering Nikki Reed, his co-star and love interest in the film "Mini's First Time," was underage at the time of filming, reports The Wrap.
The actor wrote it never occurred to him to ask Reed's age. At the time of filming Baldwin was 47. Conflicting reports put Reed's age at the time of filming as either 16 or 17.
"When I found out, just as we finished, that she was seventeen, I flipped out on the producers, who had told me something different," Baldwin wrote.
In the film Baldwin plays stepfather to a rebellious Reed, who begins working with an escort agency where Baldwin is also a client. While the two engage in a torrid love affair, no explicit sex scenes were filmed between the two actors.
While Baldwin says he was shocked, "Mini's First Time" director Nick Guthe tells a different story on Twitter, saying Baldwin was well aware his co-star was underage at the time.
The film's producer Dana Brunetti also disputed Baldwin's claim that he was unaware of Reed's age, telling the Hollywod Reporter, "Of course he totally knew how old she was. That's why there's no nudity in the movie. He knew before we even cast the movie," Brunetti said. "He's been method acting Trump too much and he doesn't know the difference between fake news anymore."


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The Life And Career Of Silent Film Star Charlie Chaplin Hits Broadway With The New Musical Chaplin, Now Playing At The Barrymore Theatre, Showing A Biographical Sketch Of The Legendary Film Icon
A Biographical Portrait of a Comedy Legend
For those unfamiliar with the man behind the funny little mustache, Chaplin offers an interesting biographical sketch that touches on his vaudeville days in London, his massive Hollywood success, and the controversial turn to politics that led to career-ending charges of communism. Unfortunately Chaplin doesn't rise above the level of a sketch often enough. A scene that depicts young Charlie's first attempt to act on film, and a sequence that shows how Charlie and his business manager brother Sydney (Wayne Alan Wilcox) make him one of the richest men in the movies are great glimpses into the goings-on of early Hollywood.
But other things are glossed over, as the show depicts his rise to stardom as being lightning fast, and then breezes through his many marriages and declines to explore his apparent attraction to very young women (two of his wives were only teenagers when he married them). A gossip columnist's obsession with outing Chaplin as a communist comes off as an over-simplification of a much more intriguing aspect of his life. But Chaplin does still have a lot going for it. The show is well directed by Warren Carlyle, and features a fairly simple but attractive and effective set design by Beowulf Boritt.
Rob McClure Shines as Charlie Chaplin on Broadway
The costuming, which sticks to shades of black, white, and gray throughout most of the show, creates a sense of period, evoking the old days of black and white movies. Film footage is also nicely integrated into the show at key points, helping to remind us of Charlie Chaplin's brilliance on screen. Chaplin's score (written by Christopher Curtis) is not especially memorable, but it works well in the context of the show. And, unlike many musicals, Chaplin isn't unnecessarily over-stuffed with songs.
This musical's greatest asset is certainly the actor playing Charlie Chaplin, Rob McClure. In a star-making performance, McClure offers a fully-formed character, showing us a naive young showman as he grows into a true artist, one who wrestles with his own massive ego and eventually with the frustration of feeling forgotten. It's amazing how effortlessly McClure transforms from Chaplin the man into the "Little Tramp" character that defined him on the silver screen. It's a wonderful performance and helps to make Chaplin well worth seeing on stage, despite its flaws.


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Is the Quran Similar to Mein Kampf?
BIG THINGS are brewing in the Geert Wilders trial. And it may become a catalyst to a breakthrough in public awareness of the doctrines of Islam. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Stop The Trial Of Geert Wilders, Leon de Winter wrote:
The Amsterdam court trying the controversial Dutch politician is now preoccupied with the question of whether this book (the Qur'an), sacred to more than a billion believers, can be compared to one of the most vile publications in the history of Western civilization — Hitler's "Mein Kampf."
In his writing and speeches, Mr. Wilders has found these two works to be similar in terms of their anti-Semitism and incitement to hatred, and has thus called for a publishing ban on the Quran similar to the one in place for "Mein Kampf." This is what triggered Mr. Wilders's prosecution for discriminatory and insulting remarks against Muslims and Islam.
The court will have to determine just how similar the two books are! And they will do it on camera.
This trial may be the best thing that has ever happened to the citizen warriors of the world who have been trying to educate our fellow non-Muslims about Islam's relentless encroachment. Geert's trial is going to help bring to light the content of Islamic doctrine to an audience who would normally avoid the knowledge.
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I've been noodling on the topic of social media governance for a while and it took a chat with Jim Storer and Aaron Strout on the Quick n' Dirty podcast to finally get it on my blog. (Thanks for the question, Jim!)
Much has been written about the importance of social media policy and why every company should have one. However, what's often overlooked by companies and experts alike is that creation of a policy by itself isn't cause enough to celebrate.
So, let me start by saying that social media governance is much more than just a policy (even if policy is the first thing that comes to mind, when you use the term "Governance"). Governance is much more broader in scope than policy and has greater significance, especially for larger companies.
While your social media policy defines how your employees should engage via social media channels, your governance model is a bundle of policies, guidelines, processes, and educational resources to guide your employees to successfully represent your company in social media activities.
Here are the 5 key elements of a solid social media governance model:
#1 Definition of Scope: This sounds so basic but it is critical that you define what is and isn't covered by your governance model. Be sure to call out the specific social channels along with the policies and guidelines that relate to each of them. Depending on business and organizational needs, some companies may decide to have a common governance model for their internal and external customer-facing communities, while others may decide to keep the two separate. So it's essential to call out which ones are included to provide clarity to your employees.
#2 Frequency & Process for Updates: Given that social media is evolving at the pace of light, your governance model will need regular review and update. Make sure you define the frequency of updates and the process for those updates. This will ensure that your governance model is not outdated and provides clarity on how the updates are made. If you want employee participation in the review (highly recommended), make sure you call it out along with details on when and how to provide input.
#3 Branding Guidelines: For a large company, the broad variety of social media channels makes it imperative to clearly call out the branding guidelines for your external channels. The same principles that govern the design of all your external-facing communications such as website, collateral, etc. should be applied to official social channels. This would include, but not limited to, branded templates for your social channels like Twitter, social sharing & follow icons, as well as the use of company logo and related elements on external-facing channels.
#4 Training & Education: A solid governance model should have plenty of educational resources for employees. This should include training on responding to customer feedback, both positive and negative. Typically, it's the customer support and PR organizations that are tasked with the responsibility of responding to customer feedback. However, social media is breaking down the traditional boundaries and depending on your company's social media engagement policy, it could be a marketing or salesperson who is having to respond to a customer query. So it's essential to have training as a cornerstone of your social media governance model.
#5: Approval Processes & Continuity Planning: Your governance model should clearly call out what approval processes are in place for employees to engage in social media. It should answer questions such as: Can everyone participate (highly recommended) or only members of certain external-facing groups can engage via your company's social channels? What is the process for getting approval for an official account?
Last but not the least, it's critical you have a continuity plan, which covers not only accounts are set up but how the account will be transitioned to a new owner, if needed. Having a centralized governace model in place will ensure that you're not locked out of your highly popular Twitter or Facebook account/s if the person engaging on your company's behalf decides to leave the company.
Bottom line, rather than policing your employees, start with a robust social media governance model as that will empower your employees with the right resources and training to become successful advocates for your company.
If you think there are other items that should be included here, feel free to chime in.


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- Haskell for Vision and Robotics
- Frob is an Embedded Domain Specific Language for controlling robots. It is built using the principals of Functional Reactive Programming, as developed by Conal Elliott for the Fran animation system. The current incarnation of Frob is part of the Yampa FRP system.
- A Haskell interface to Lego Mindstorms NXT
- A Haskell interface to Lego Mindstorms NXT over Bluetoooth. It supports direct commands, messages and many sensors (also unofficial). It has also support for a simple message-based control of a NXT brick via remotely executed program (basic NXC code included).
- Segway RMP control from Haskell
- An interface to Segway RMP robots via USB. This library has been used to develop a simple face-following robot as demonstrated in this video. The robot also uses the cv-combinators library that wraps OpenCV's high-level computer vision capabilities in a pure, functional interface.


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The Next Step Up.
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"30 Days of Night"
by Tim Lebbon
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Pocket Star
"30 Days of Night" is a graphic novel that was adapted in a movie. Now one more link was added to this chain, the movie novelization written by Tim Lebbon.
Barrow is the northernmost settlement in North America and the city is preparing for the usual month of darkness. The citizens of Barrow are well aware of what this month brings every year, so some of them are leaving and some of them remain in the city. What none of them knows is that this year the dark comes along with a new menace for the town of Barrow.
"30 Days of Night" by Tim Lebbon is a new kind of read for me. Because I'm used to read a novel first and after that I see the ecranization based on that particular novel. It is for the first time when I go the other way around. Also in most of the cases the ecranization seem to be no match for the novel that inspired them. But in this case the novelization made by Tim Lebbon equals and even bests the movie "30 Days of Night".
I assume that working on a pre-established setting can be hard for the author and that can constrain the author's imagination. But Tim Lebbon manages to write a captivating novel despite this inconveniencies and he manages to bring new elements to his novel. The novel kicks off in full action and throughout all its length the pace doesn't drop down. Because of this steady pace and the amount of action the novel keeps the reader in alert most of the time. Also some of images created by the author have an almost visual effect that contributes to the entertainment of the reader.
Another good point of this novel is the characterization. Even though the author doesn't go too much in depth of the characters he manages to make them likeable. The main characters benefit of description of their emotions and of the psychological aspect caught by Tim Lebbon. These aspects brought by the author on his novelization make a good contribution to the improvement of the characters of the movie. The negative characters have their share in the novel, too. Here the author doesn't bring anything new in their construction, but it might not be his entire fault considering that he worked on a pre-set course.
Overall, although Tim Lebbon worked on a restricted level he manages to make an entertaining novel. And his novelization of "30 Days of Night" is a fun horror novel, full of action, which can stand on its own, too.


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Capturing a rich atmosphere of cultural diversity, this sensual, multi-lingual world jazz album, with songs in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese, guarantees to carry you along on an emotional journey.
Moontraxx Records & Music Productions proudly presents the release of Frances Livings' new album, Ipanema Lounge. The official release party and live show will take place on Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 7pm at Genghis Cohen, Los Angeles. If you are a member of the press please contact us here to receive a free copy and a VIP spot on the guest list.
Whenever I meet a new song, I fall madly in love with it. I think, why haven't I met you before?
~ Frances Livings
The multi-lingual world-jazz album Ipanema Lounge, produced by the artist Frances Livings in collaboration with the composer, arranger and guitarist Greg Porée for Moontraxx Records Los Angeles, captures a rich atmosphere of cultural diversity.
As a vocalist and a songwriter, Frances Livings has always been drawn to the unique crafting of a song, to its rhythm, melody, texture, linguistics and story. Frances discovered early in her career that you don't have to be a native of any country to become attached to its culture. Another source of inspiration were her travels, like extensive stays in Southern Europe, and from having lived and worked in the multi-ethnic melting pot Los Angeles for the last decade. Bringing to this album even more than her deep love of these cultures, she choose a foreign language repertoire. She selected songs written by artists native to countries such as France, Mexico and Peru, whose tunes with their unique phonetical sounds evoke a very classy and lush atmosphere.
The cello is considered to be one of the most expressive and satisfying instruments to listen to. Its ability to speak beautifully whether in a low or high register makes it a joy for composers to write for. Frances' alto voice resonates in the same manner. With her richness of overtones, she brings a wide range of emotion and passion to each song, truly a gift for the listeners.
The album's thirteen songs, in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese, guarantee to carry you along on this emotional journey. With each new melody, you are immersed into a new locale, yet never fully leave the last one. They will transport you to the contemporary bars and lounges of urban metropolises, where French art house chansons, soulful American standards and groovy Brazilian music have had their undeniable impact on today's global music and art culture.
The musical ensemble succeeds in bringing out the colours of these tunes, which range from contemporary to classical – the oldest song being from 1946. The jazz standard One Note Samba is a perfect example of the musical imagination and refreshing engagement that was brought to the production.
On Corcovado, Waters of March, Aganjú and One Note Samba, Greg Porée re-harmonized and restructured their arrangements, giving a brand new perspective to these familiar songs. Joey Heredia created an enticing drum pattern that possesses the dramatic nuances of a New Orleans march and that compliments Trey Henry's moody bass in the intro and his syncopated patterns in the verse and bridge. These killer grooves Greg contrasted with steel string acoustics that were used to create dissonant pads for Frances' playful vocal.
Rhythmically, Sandro Feliciano (percussion) and Isaias Elpes (electric bass), originally from Brazil, contributed very fresh cultural perspectives in developing their parts: On Jardin d'Hiver they were playful and danceable, on Aganjú and Come Closer the percussion and bass underpinnings were in a contemporary, sultry and passionate Nu Jazz style, and on Hoy they captured the flavours of Peru and Mexico. The exotic flairs of Argentina and Paris were brought to Hoy and Jardin d'Hiver by Mariano Dugatkin with his bandoneon.
On the ballads Dansez Maintenant, La Puerta and Pour te Plaire, the accompaniment for Frances' intuitive vocal delivery required the highest level of experience, technical skill and sensitivity. The jazz veterans Jeff Colella on piano and Trey Henry again on double bass, along with Frances' vocals, took these ballads way past the generic renditions one normally hears. Joe Ayoub played with similar musical insight on double bass on Sway and Waters of March. Darrell Diaz, a Los Angeles veteran, went way beyond the norm with his creative solos in Tell Me All About It and Waters of March, including his tasteful keyboard support on Jardin d'Hiver, Come Closer, Hoy and Sway.
For Dindi, Waters of March, Hoy and Corcovado Greg Porée created signature parts on the classical guitar that are elegantly cohesive in nature and especially impactful on Waters of March. Instrumentally, this set the stage for Frances' and the band's superb performance. On Dindi her beautifully crafted vocal was complimented by the linear sounds of an almost whimsical archtop guitar. For Dansez Maintenant and Pour the Plaire the atmosphere was the intimate, late night jazz club that also suited the sound of that guitar.
One of the four guest soloists was Paul Cartwright on violin who added an imaginative and atmospheric solo to the already haunting track Come Closer. John Nau did the same on electric piano for Corcovado. The studio veteran Nolan Shaheed's trumpet ad libs on Sway take you right back to Cuba of the 1950's, and when faced with the challenge of playing a solo over completely new chord changes for One Note Samba, Nolan rose to the occasion and took the song to new heights. On Aganjú, the interplay between Robert Kyle's multi-layered flute and saxophone tracks and Frances Livings' vocals brought a unique sensuality and Nu Jazz feel not previously heard on this Latin hit song.
The song sequence reflects the cycle and harmony of a day. Its moods flow through us as we awake, engage, dance, mourn and love. Some songs convey a playful attitude, like the staccato romance of possibility of Jardin d'Hiver that opens the morning. As the hours count noon, the poetic Waters of March followed by Dansez Maintenant meander us into the afternoon. Aganjú transports us into evening with its sultry tone. Come Closer, penned by Frances and the German bassist and songwriter Volker Schwanke, captures the intensity of longing and never attaining. The Portuguese ballad La Puerta exhibits a sensual flare for the dramatic and Corcovado evokes the serenity of dusk.
Sway, originally written by a Mexican composer and made famous by Dean Martin, is a flirtatious invitation for more. We transcend twilight with Pour te Plaire, an adaption of Glenn Miller's famous jazz standard Moonlight Serenade. This French version is a perfect example of Frances Livings' vision – how shifting language alters atmosphere, meaning and scenery. Passion flares our senses as we lay exposed, open to the magic of the night.
Each language is like a beautiful musical composition, made up of its own unique melody, rhythm and form.
~ Frances Livings
A lovely, poetic voice, a lovely talent, and an exceptionally lovely woman. https://t.co/HOg7FFvZOf
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On Wednesday, February 6, the California Coastal Commission (CCC) will hear the application for the Foothill-South toll road that will run through San Onofre State Park.
This project threatens precious coastal open space, water quality and the surf break at Trestles, and it would set a dangerous precedent for YOUR State Park system.
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This is literally THE most important hearing in regards to protecting Trestles and San Onofre State Park. We need an enormous crowd to attend. Please help spread the word to all your family and friends in Southern California.
The Surfrider Foundation and partners are renting buses and organizing carpools in San Clemente and San Diego. We are also providing food, tee shirts, and posters/sign for all supporters. Surfrider has it all organized—you just need to show up.
If you have questions about the hearing, or are interested in organized transportation, email Stefanie Sekich at: email@example.com
What: Crucial Vote to Save Trestles at California Coastal Commission
When: Wednesday, February 6, 2008. Please arrive by 9am.
Where: Del Mar Fairgrounds—at Wyland Hall 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd. Del Mar, CA 92014 - Just off the I-5 in Del Mar at Via de la Valle exit.Visit the Fairgrounds website for complete directions. Please consider carpooling.


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Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly helped launch Wired magazine in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is now Editor-At-Large for Wired. In 1994 and 1997, during Kelly's tenure, Wired won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (the industry's equivalent of two Oscars).
From 1984 to 1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. The non-profit Whole Earth Review (formerly called Co-Evolution Quarterly) is a small, yet influential, journal that consistently published trend-making topics years before other publications noticed them. Under Kelly's direction and editorship, Whole Earth was the first consumer magazine to report on virtual reality, ecological restoration, the global teenager, Internet culture and artificial life (to name just a few early trends).
In the late 80s, Kelly conceived and oversaw the publication of four versions of the Whole Earth Catalogs. Whole Earth Catalogs are award-winning compendiums evaluating all the best "tools" available for self-education. (Over a million Whole Earth Catalogs have been sold.) The kind of tools reviewed include hardware, power tools, books, and software -- anything that leverages power to individuals. In 1988 Kelly edited, published, and wrote much of Signal, a Whole Earth Catalog of personal communication tools, which evaluated the technologies of faxes, satellite TV, cellular, digital retouching, online systems and the whole emerging world of digital technology.
Kelly was a founding board member of the WELL, a Sausalito-based teleconferencing system. The WELL is a pioneering online service started in 1985 by the Point Foundation (Kelly was director of Point from 1985-1990). The WELL is considered by the growing Internet population to be a model of online culture, and a pioneer in developing online communities. It currently has 10,000 members.
As director of the Point Foundation, Kelly was involved in initiating several techno-culture experiments. He launched Cyberthon in 1990, the first round-the-clock virtual reality jamboree. This brought together for the first time, all existing virtual reality prototypes and allowed 400 invited guests to try them out. It was the first chance the lay public had to try VR. Kelly was also co-founder of the annual Hackers' Conference, a weekend rendezvous which in 1984 brought together three generations of legendary computer programmers for the first time.
Kelly is the author of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Economic and Social Systems, published by Addison Wesley (1994). This wide-ranging book is about how machines, the economy, and all large human-made inventions are becoming biological. Fortune magazine called it "essential reading for all executives." His second book, New Rules for the New Economy, was published in 1998 by Viking/Penguin in the US and by 4th Estate in the UK. New Rules was a bestseller in the US and has been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese and Estonian. His most recent book is What Technology Wants, published in 2010 by Viking/Penguin.
Kevin Kelly's writing has appeared in many national and international publications such as the New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, Wall Street Journal and Esquire. His photographs have appeared in LIFE and other national magazines.
Kelly is a member of the Global Business Network, a consulting group based in Emeryville, California that specializes in creating scenarios of the future for global businesses. He was a Fellow at the Center for Business Innovation, run by Ernst & Young. For speeches he is represented by Monitor Talent Group.
Kelly is a member of the board of The Long Now Foundation (www.longnow.org), which is a group of concerned individuals building a clock and library that will last 10,000 years. A working prototype of the unique mechanical-digital clock has been built and demonstrated, and a mountain top in eastern Nevada purchased as a site to build the monumental clock. The purpose of the project is to foster long term responsibility.
Before taking up the consequences of technology, Kelly was a nomadic photojournalist. One summer he rode a bicycle 5,000 miles across America. For most of the 1970s he was a photographer in remote parts of Asia, publishing his photographs in national magazines. He wrote a monthly travel column for New Age Journal. In the early 1980s he published and edited the first magazine devoted to walking, and ran a mail order catalog specializing in budget travel around the world.
Kelly lives in Pacifica, California, a small coastal town just south of San Francisco. He is married and has three wonderful children. He was born in 1952. He has no college or university degrees.
- Global Business Network
- Long Now Foundation
- WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link)
- Hacker's Conference
- Point Foundation
Further Reading
- Out of Control (1994)
- New Rules for the New Economy (1998)
- What Technology Wants (2010)
External Links
Source and Personal Website: KK.org


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To outfit South Korea's Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium with the latest in sound system technology, TechData PS selected and installed a range of dynamic HARMAN Professional audio solutions.
Built to host the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium is a 43,544-seat venue at the heart of the Ulsan Sports Park. With three stories and two basement floors, the stadium features a roof covering 87% of the four-sided stands supported by steel trusses designed to emulate the whale skeleton found in the hemisphere petroglyphs at Daegok-ri, Ulju. Additional pillars allude to the Silla Gold Crown, which inspired the stadium's nickname, "Big Crown."
A spokesperson for TechData PS reported that the client requested a comprehensive revamp of the stadium's 20-year-old audio system, but the venue's unique structure left the installation team with limited placement options. To meet these challenges, the installation team selected versatile and intuitive JBL Professional, Crown, BSS and Soundcraft audio solutions for clear output and even coverage across every seat in the stadium.
[Janesville Steps Up Pedestrian Bridges with HARMAN Lighting, Audio Solutions]
The installation team implemented JBL VTX A8 line array loudspeakers as the system's primary solution thanks to its innovative auto-locking rigging mechanism and comprehensive set of mounting accessories for numerous placement options. Additionally, the IP55-rated JBL AWC129 and VLA-C2100 durable loudspeakers reinforce the sound and coverage for the first floor and upper levels, respectively. Crown DCi 4|1250N and DCi 4|1250DA amplifiers offer efficient power for the second and third floors while the DCi 2|600N and DCi 4|600N models do the same for the ground floor.
For the central control area, Soundcraft Vi2000 audio mixers with Vi Stageboxes and a JBL 308P MKII monitor, powered by a Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD amplifier, offer intuitive controls and mixing tools for consistent, studio-quality sound. Finally, BSS BLU-100 and BLU-DAN signal processors ensure low-latency and responsive audio throughout the entire stadium.
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A spokesperson for the Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium said that after the much-needed audio system renewal, the stadium has now achieved the best sound quality among the ten World Cup stadiums in Korea and is now one of the superior stadiums in the world. Given the stadium's historical significance as the center of the 2002 World Cup, it is the pride of the Ulsan Facilities Corporation and will continue to thrive thanks to this installation. They also thanked TechData PS and HARMAN for their efforts and dedication to the project.
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"Apart from delivering world-class performance, the new audio setup at Munsu Football Stadium had to meet great standards of reliability, durability and safety," said Amar Subash, director of channel management and audio solutions at HARMAN Professional Solutions, APAC. "We would like to thank our partner TechData PS for delivering on all those fronts, meeting the unique demands of the space so articulately and creating an immersive space for the audience and visitors of the stadium."


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Sign up now: Free EPA Webinar Series "Materials Management through Sustainable Consumption" – Starts Wednesday, October 10, 9:30am. PT, 12:30 ET
Did you know that over 40 percent of the GHG emissions in the U.S. can be attributed to the life-cycle impacts associated with the manufacture, distribution, sale, use and disposal of the goods and food we consume? Are you interested in identifying strategies for creating more sustainable patterns of consumption? If so, please join us for EPA's Materials Management through Sustainable Consumption Webinar Series starting on Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 at 9:30am PT/12:30pm PT! Participation is free so sign up! To register for the series, click here https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/469476793. Please forward this invitation to others who may be interested in participating.
EPA's Materials Management through Sustainable Consumption Webinar Series is designed to provide examples of communities around the US and internationally that are reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and creating more sustainable patterns of consumption. This webinar series focuses on helping regulators and environmental management experts share information about existing research, programs and practices. It also shares perspectives from citizens and businesses. This information supports communities seeking to reduce their GHG emissions, wastes and other environmental impacts through a focus on sustainable consumption, including source reduction. Source reduction minimizes the quantity and toxicity of materials that later need to be disposed of, and is identified under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as a key strategy for achieving our long-term environmental goals. Source reduction also helps to reduce GHG emissions, which are regulated pollutants under the Clean Air Act. This series is in follow-up to last year's Consumption and the Environment Webinar Series. For our webinars we invite guest speakers to share their views on sustainable consumption to get participants thinking and talking about new strategies for achieving our environmental goals. Please note the opinions, ideas or data presented by non-EPA speakers in this series do not represent EPA policy or constitute endorsement by EPA.
In October, we will kick off the series discussing the key challenges and opportunities for sustainable consumption, nationally and internationally. Speakers David Allaway, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Duke Castle, Natural Step and Castle Group will will explore the barriers to sustainable consumption and the multiple links between climate change and economic growth. For more information and specific session descriptions, please visit EPA's website through the following link http://bit.ly/sustainableconsumption.


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Drake Magazine summer 2017 Ad
A few new Hatch Outdoors Ads have been surfacing this summer season, I'm happy to see that we landed one of them! I say this all the time, but its true, its always nice to actually hold the fruits of our labor in print.
Getting great images in the field always take a team effort, always. This image was from a trip with Shaun lawson of Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures. We were at Miminiska Lodge in Ontario. On this day we were in the lake fishing for pike and walleye. Big thanks to all the anglers, manufactures, lodges, staff, guides, logistics agents, etc, who helped with the process, these images wouldn't be created without your help and continued support.
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50 States in Model S
Lita Elbertson had never seen a lake before she decided join her friend Michael Fritts on an epic cross-country tour of the United States. In fact, the Hawaii resident hadn't even seen a duck. Or a Model S.
There are probably more straightforward ways to make contact with a duck, but few are more fun than driving a premium electric sedan to every state in the United States. That's what Elbertson and Fritts, a Model S owner from Upstate New York, set out to do late this summer.
While Fritts took inspiration for the trip from the Harley Davidson "ABC's of Touring" contest, Elbertson took responsibility for planning the route, which she built around Tesla's Supercharger network with stops at friends' places factored in. They would eventually complete a 48-state route in 32 days before Fritts dropped off Elbertson in Washington and continued on to Alaska alone. In the next few weeks, he'll ship the car to Hawaii and cross the 50th state off the list.
Elbertson simply loves to travel, but for Fritts the trip was a way to demonstrate the benefits of electric vehicles. Earlier in the year, he drove solo from New York to Miami and back without taking his wallet. He charged the car for free at Superchargers all the way and packed his meals, so he didn't need to spend a penny. For this adventure, he carried a miniature oil can, which he plans to leave in Hawaii at the conclusion of his route as a memento of a fading era. "This trip symbolizes the transition from fossil fuel to electric transportation," Fritts says.
Fritts has long been interested in technology – as a 10-year-old, he wrote a paper about maglev trains – and, as an ex-trucker, he's used to long-haul travel. In 1991, he drove from San Francisco to Hamilton, NY, in a 1977 Chevrolet LUV pickup that he bought from a friend for $500. The trip took him 57 hours. Since retiring from truck driving after surviving an aneurism, he invested his savings in Tesla stock because he believed in the future of electric mobility and was impressed by CEO Elon Musk's business track record. He later sold the stock to buy a Model S, sight unseen.
The Model S performed wonderfully on his tour of the country, Fritts says. "The car was fantastic. It runs the same as it did the day I got it – and I've put 40,000 miles on it."
Elbertson's first impressions of Model S were also positive. "The car's really fast and comfortable, which made it really easy," says Elbertson. "A lot of the time we had planned to stop and stay the night but instead we just kept going."
More than a few ducks and lakes made an appearance during the trip – Vermont served up plenty of both – and the mountains of Colorado and Utah were scenic highlights. For Elbertson, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York City were the best cities. But there was one clear standout on the road.
"The fact that we were able to drive 11,500 miles without spending a cent on gas or oil or putting a single emission in the air was amazing," Elbertson says. "I'm still shocked that we did that.".


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Images and description from www.colettepatterns.com
"Mabel is a quick, easy, and versatile skirt pattern. It is also your perfect introduction to sewing with knits! Because it uses heavy knit fabrics, you get all the benefits of sewing with stable wovens, along with the speed and comfort of sewing with knits. For the beginner, that translates into sure-fire results - you will successfully sew this skirt in one afternoon. And if you're more experienced, you'll take advantage of how fast this garment comes together and whip up several skirts in a day.
Because Mabel can be sewn up in three different styles, it's a great wardrobe staple. Versions 1 and 2 are mid-thigh length skirts, ideal for warm spring and summer days or worn with a sweater and leggings in the winter. Version 2 is embellished with a faux placket and center buttons. Version 3 is an above-the-knee length pencil skirt with seam details and a kick pleat. All three versions are pull-on style with a mid-rise, contoured waistband."


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Seeing into the future
Psychology professor Daryl Bem ran some common psychology experiments backwards and detected statistically significant results that could indicate that people somehow can, uh, see into the future.
In one experiment, students were shown a list of words and then asked to recall words from it, after which they were told to type words that were randomly selected from the same list. Spookily, the students were better at recalling words that they would later type.
In another study, Bem adapted research on "priming" — the effect of a subliminally presented word on a person's response to an image. For instance, if someone is momentarily flashed the word "ugly", it will take them longer to decide that a picture of a kitten is pleasant than if "beautiful" had been flashed. Running the experiment back-to-front, Bem found that the priming effect seemed to work backwards in time as well as forwards.
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The New Standard
The V1 Horyzn Helmet delivers an array of elevated features to improve rider safety, fit and comfort, making it one of the most competitive, versatile, entry-level moto helmets on the market.
The V1 Helmet has received the latest international certifications, including ECE 22.06 and DOT, as well as a slew of safety features to help you ride with ease. The helmet comes Mips® equipped, a protection system shown to reduce rotational forces by absorbing and redirecting energies and forces otherwise transmitted to the brain. Side shear-off screws allow the visor to purposely break away on impact. And the lightweight polycarbonate and ABS plastic shell is designed to disperse energy in the event of a crash.
The V1 helmet is available in nine sizes, with four shell and six EPS sizes. You can further refine your fit with optional cheek pads, which come in either thick or thin versions. Thick cheek pads will tighten the fit by 5 mm, while thin cheek pads will loosen it by 5 mm.
The V1 is designed for comfort, with a robust venting system to channel fresh air in and hot air out to keep you cool and dry. The removable liner and cheek pads are washable, and the mouth vent and chin bar are padded for comfort.
With a large variety of styles, nine sizes, and modern safety features, the V1 helmet is ready for any ride, including dirt bike, ATV, and side by side. Its cold-weather kit makes it ideal for winter activities like winter riding and snowmobiling
- Meets US DOT and new EU ECE 22.06 and DOT certifications
- Equipped with the Multi-Directional Impact Protection System (Mips®)
- Mips® adds a low-friction layer between the helmet and the head
- Dual-density EPS liner is deigned to protect by spreading the forces of an impact across a wider surface area
- 4 shell and 6 EPS sizes for a precise fit (adult and youth)
- 7 intake and 4 exhaust vents for optimum airflow
- Adjustable visor with breakaway side screws
- Customizable cheek pads
- Available cold-weather kit (sold separately)
- Lightweight injection molded polycarbonate and ABS shell construction
- Removable and washable comfort liner and cheek pads
- Removable mouth vent cover and padded EVA chinbar
- Steel D-ring chin strap closure
- Materials: EPS, ABS, polyester


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15-31 May 2013 Cyber Attacks Timeline
And here we are with the second part of the Cyber Attacks Timeline for May (first part here).
The second half of the month has shown an unusual activity with several high-profile breaches motivated by Cyber-Crime or Hacktivism, but also with the disclosure of massive Cyber-Espionage operations.
The unwelcome prize for the "Breach of the Month" is for Yahoo! Japan, that suffered the possible compromising of 22 million users (but in general this was an hard month for the Far East considering that also Groupon Taiwan suffered an illegitimate attempt to access the data of its 4.1 million of customers).
On the cyber-espionage front, the leading role is for the Chinese cyber army, accused of compromising the secret plans of advanced weapons systems from the U.S. and the secret plans for the new headquarter of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization.
On the Hacktivism front, this month has been particularly troubled for the South African Police, whose web site has been hacked with the compromising of 16,000 individuals, including 15,700 whistle-bowlers.
Other noticeable events include the unauthorized access against the well known open source CMS Drupal (causing the reset of 1 million of passwords), the trail of hijacked Twitter accounts by the Syrian Electronic Army and also an unprecedented wave of attacks against targets belonging to Automotive.
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012 and now 2013 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).


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THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Huntsman Corp. has increased production capacity for its RenShape-brand polymer composite boards at its plant in East Lansing, Mich.
Huntsman — based in The Woodlands — has installed a new production line at the site. RenShape boards are CNC-machinable modeling and tooling boards. The new equipment produces multiple board sizes on a single machine and features a dedicated feed system to accommodate several board types simultaneously.
With the new equipment, Huntsman "streamlined operating efficiency, increased throughput and enhanced our ability to quickly respond to growing market demands for modeling and tooling boards," said Monte Edlund, vice president for advanced materials Americas, in an Aug. 1 news release.
RenShape boards are used in building high-accuracy, dimensionally stable models and tooling. Freeman Manufacturing & Supply Co. of Avon, Ohio, serves as Huntsman's exclusive distributor of RenShape boards.
Huntsman ranks as a major producer of polyurethane and other specialty materials. The firm employs 12,000 worldwide and has annual sales of more than $11 billion.