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Judie Brown, president of the pro-life American Life League... "It's not surprising to anybody who is familiar with Obama's basic philosophy," Brown told CNSNews.com. "He doesn't want anything to stand in the way of child-killing, including a person's right under the law to say, 'No, I will not do that because it is unethical.'"
The Obama administration announced Friday that it is "reviewing" the conscience clause that was implemented in the last months of the Bush administration – the first step toward rescinding the rule altogether.
The Health and Human Services regulation reinforces the right of health care workers to refuse to provide abortion and contraception if it violates their conscience or moral precepts.
The new administration's move came at the request of several groups, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which last fall called on Obama to rescind the regulation when he took office. The ACOG did not speak to CNSNews.com before press time.
But at the time the rule was announced, the organization said: "This HHS regulation places patients' rights directly behind the rights of ideologically driven physicians and anyone else directly or indirectly involved in their health care."
Judie Brown, president of the pro-life American Life League, said the move was outrageous.
"It's frightening, and it should be frightening to people of all stripes." Brown said.
But both pro-lifers and abortion rights groups knew it was just a matter of time until Obama came through on his promises to the pro-abortion movement.
"It's not surprising to anybody who is familiar with Obama's basic philosophy," Brown told CNSNews.com. He doesn't want anything to stand in the way of child-killing, including a person's right under the law to say, 'No, I will not do that because it is unethical.'"
The new president, she said, has already rescinded the Mexico City Policy, which had kept federal taxpayers from subsidizing abortions internationally.
"Therefore, he will do this, in an effort to force people, especially Christians, into the untenable position of either having to provide an abortion, or get out of their profession," Brown said. "This is just the next step. "
Susan Muskett, senior legislative counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, agreed the move was expected.
"This is just the next step in the expansive Obama abortion agenda we had foreseen coming down the road," Muskett told CNSNews.com.
But Muskett said that the Department of Health and Human Services is being disingenuous by saying that there is a 30-day public comment period before the provision is scrapped.
"Last fall, the federal government spent four months gathering comments in its rule-making to protect the conscience rights of doctors and health care providers," she told CNSNews.com. "It's just a pretext for the administration now to assert that more comments need to be gathered with regard to this rule making."
Jonathan Imbody of the Christian Medical and Dental Association told CNSNews.com that 40 percent of his group's doctors have been pressured to compromise their ethical stands – and without conscience-protection, face the loss of professional certification if they don't provide referrals to abortion-providers – or face being pressured out of the profession.
One OB/GYN, Dr. Vicki L. Duncan, who testified last fall, said she was pressured by her insurance provider to provide artificial insemination for a lesbian couple, or lose her coverage.
"I contacted my malpractice carrier for legal advice, and was told that if I refused for them, but did so for a married, heterosexual couple, I would likely be sued, and they would not provide coverage. It also extended to a non-married couple. That was when I decided to no longer perform intrauterine inseminations," Duncan said.
Brown is calling on pro-life lawmakers to take a stand.
"One would hope that the so-called pro-life members of Congress would stand up and find this totally unacceptable, and take whatever action is necessary to propose a new law that is veto proof, but that's not going to happen, because we don't have that kind of strength – or courage – in the Congress at this time," Brown said.
"Just based on logic and with a right-thinking mind, even pro-abortion people should be horrified because, what's next? Are they doing to say there is no conscience protection for those wanting to object to going to war?"
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A Fally Weekend
Are you guys enjoying the Autumn? I sure am! Last Saturday I had a blissful day in the kitchen with Em, preparing a dinner with friends. We made: Tomato and Butternut Squash soup, the yummiest bread (see recipe HERE), corn bread, fruit and feta salad, gluten free chocolate cupcakes and mini apple pies.
If felt like a Thanksgiving preview with two people in the kitchen, listening to music, sipping diet coke and feeling cozy with the warmth from the oven. I especially enjoyed making the mini apple pies, I found these pastry cutters on sale last February at Williams Sonoma on sale for $1.99 (see similar products HERE) and have been waiting for an occasion to give the a whirl.
The apples shrunk deeper in the dish than I expected, but apart from that they turned out great.
Yesterday, we went over to Mum's for dinner. Since the weather was nice, we decided it'd be great time for a photo shoot with gorgeous leaves. My Nephews cooperated nicely and we got their family portrait, while we snapped some candids of the rest of us, here's me and mum.
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Holy crap, look at the balance on that poll. 200 votes and its that close? Not surprised to see the WD slightly behind, but its still very close.
Mind you, small sample size and all, but I feel like that better evidence that Blizzard has done an EXCELLENT job with crafting the gameplay of all of the classes than almost any anecdote given by forum-goers so far.
Me, I'll be playing monk as my main/first by far. Wave of Light build looks too much fun, and the spell effect for it is the most satisfying thing I have ever seen/heard.
I enjoyed every class (got all to 13 for the sake of trying them) but enjoyed WD the least, and probably Barbarian the most, but I'll still be going with Monk, as the final result of the monk build I want looks like too much fun to pass up.


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Catan GUI in Elm
I'm in India, but there's some downtime and I've been using it to play a with a toy project – a Settlers of Catan game built in the pure FRP web language Elm. Well, perhaps "game" is to strong of a word for what I've done thus far – lets say Settlers of Catan GUI.
I really liked using a boardgame to try out Elm. It's a fun thing to try BUT the mechanics of the game itself force you to confront real problems. The examples on the very nice elm website are cool, but once I tried to actually engage with a data model more complex than just a few coordinates, things got pretty crazy.
One thing I can say is that the mechanics of FRP really encourage you to come up with a can GUI/model seperation. I eventually came up with this idea of hoverable stuff – which in theory the model can communicate to the GUI all the board objects that can be manipulated, then the GUI itself does the highlighting, then when the user clicks the selected object is communiated back to the model – which adjusts its internal state and then gets re-rendered. Not bad.
Some of the other stuff is not so fun. Some of is just book keeping – variables are not mutable, so when the state needs to be updated you can't just update it. Instead you need to return a fully new model object, based on the old model object but with the variable changed. But when your model actually is complex, this is very annoying – the value you need to change is one variable in a record in a dictionary in the overall model. So you need a function that takes a record and returns a new record, a function that takes a dictionary and returns a new dictionary, and a function that takes a model and returns a new model. Also, if you have dictionaries of various keys and values, these functions are not easily reusable – although maybe you could do something with type parameterization somehow.
Other stuff is more than annoyance. Every function must be pure, so random numbers are hard. In elm, you need a random "signal". But unfortunately, signals don't have values at initialization time – they only exist when your program is actually "running" (i.e. a very funky pure functional transformation of input signals to GUI signals). So if your board arranged randomly – prepare for some serious sadness. I did figure out a way around it, but it was anything but pretty.
Anyways, I had some fun with elm. I'm not sure if I am actually going to complete the catan game – most of the rest of it seems unlikely to teach me new stuff and board games have a lot of complexity. But I did learn a lot, and I think I may ask students to build a (much smaller project) in elm as part of an upcoming programming language course I'll be teaching in the winter.
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What is the current status of Brazil's Startup scene? Is it still booming, or has it lost its momentum? There are credible people with strong opinions on both sides of the spectrum.
Most optimists, like Indian-American tech entrepreneur and academic Vivek Wadhwa, predict that some Zuckerbergs will emerge from the slums of Sao Paulo before the end of this decade. On the other hand, pessimists like French investor Fabrice Grinda believe that unless structural changes take place, especially in the legal and tax system, only a few tech entrepreneurs will manage to thrive in Brazil.
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- According to comScore (2013), consumers in Brazil spend more than 27 hours per month online on their computers (global average: 24.7 per month).
-23.3% of Brazilians use their phones to access the internet. As of mid-2013, Brazil was home to the largest mobile phone market in Latin America. Reuters forecasts that Brazil will become the fifth largest smartphone market in the world by the end of 2013.
- Mobile phones and tablets are becoming more important to the Brazilian internet landscape. Page views from Non-PC devices (i.e. smartphones and tablets) have reached an all-time high at nearly 6 percent. (Source: comScore Device Essentials).
- 13% of Brazilians use their phones to compare prices while visiting shopping stores in person and 24% of Brazilians surf the web while watching TV (Source: McKinsey Study: Brazil's e-psyche: Grasping trends in an elusive market).
- According to official data from Brazilian association of Startups, there are 2835 startups in Brazil. Sao Paulo, leads with 605 startups, followed by Minas Gerais with 181 and Rio de Janeiro with 125 companies.
- The Brazilian internet audience is young on average, with 18% of users age 18-24 and 30% of all users age 25-34. (Source: comScore Media Metrix).
- 60% of Brazilian residences lack internet access. (Source: Cetic.br ).
- Household penetration was measured at 43% in urban zones and 10% in rural areas. (Source: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br).
- Fixed broadband technology, such as DSL and cable, accounts for 68 percent of household internet connections in Brazil. Source: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br),
- In Brazil, 36% of online time is spent on social media, according to 2013 comScore stats.
- Seventy-nine percent of Brazilian Internet users (some 78 million people) are now on social media, according to a newly released report from analysts eMarketer.


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In step with St. Patrick's Day spirit: Young dancers entertain at Pequot Library
Published 6:26 pm, Saturday, March 15, 2014
The spirit of the Irish thundered into Fairfield Saturday morning with the energetic and invigorating rhythms of a dance troupe in step with the traditions of Old Erin.
The Lenihan School of Irish Dance performed at the Pequot Library in a pre-St. Patrick's program that brought the large crowd to its feet. The crowd joined in a circle dance, encouraged by the spirit of the 20 or so young women.
"We have about 30 shows over the next three days," said Meghan Lenihan, co-director of the Fairfield-based school.
"This is our busy time of year," she noted, referring to the celebrations leading up to Monday's observance of St. Patrick's Day. "We're just trying to share some of our Irish culture.
The dancers, wearing an array of sparkling traditional costumes and wigs, featured girls ages 9 to 21 years old.
"I like performing for other people and making people smile," said Colleen Mocker, 14, of Fairfield.
"Everybody gets really excited about it," said Brianna Deenihan, 14, of Fairfield.
According to Lenihan, most all the movement in Irish dance occurs from the knees down, with upper body postures static. At the same time, the hard-sole shoes create a thundering rhythmic beat, that plays like drum solos along with the music.
"It's a really great group," said Kelly Iassogna of Stratford, whose daughter Alexa has danced for six years. "She loves going," she added. "The teachers are great. They're very supportive."
This was the second year the Lenihan dancers have performed at the Pequot Library.
"It's great because it's celebrating the Irish culture and exposing our young people to part of our cultural heritage in this area," said Martha Lord, the library's executive director.


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PENETANGUISHENE, ON, July 15, 2016 /CNW/ - The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is releasing a new video today that focuses on the mental health of workers at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care.
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"With this video, we want people to understand that the dangerous work environment at Waypoint is also taking a toll on the mental health of workers," said OPSEU Local 329 President Pete Sheehan. "We deal with unpredictable patients, and our employer isn't listening to our concerns. That kind of stress makes caregivers more susceptible to developing mental health and addiction issues themselves."
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas has worked in the mental health field for most of his adult life. He understands the struggles of workers at Waypoint.
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Who are you? We asked, you answered, and this week Adam starts looking at the results of our reader survey! Adam also takes the Nike+iPod Sport Kit for a run and realizes that serious runners might want to leave it at the starting line. Also in this issue, Apple releases iTunes 7.1 in anticipation of the Apple TV, Adobe announces an announcement date for Creative Suite 3, Glenn Fleishman buys a Windows Vista-equipped laptop for testing purposes and offers his first impressions of the competition, and Adam examines SonicLiving, a Web site for tracking your favorite artists. Lastly, if you're feeling a bit behind due to last weekend's Daylight Saving Time changeover in the United States, make sure you check out a short list of patches and fixes.
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DST Resources If You're Feeling One Hour Off
by Jeff Carlson
Clocks in much of the United States ticked ahead one hour last weekend for the new Daylight Saving Time adjustment, which we explored in "Daylight Saving Time May Bite the Out-of-Date" (2007-01-29) and "Daylight Saving Time Saved" (2007-02-19)Show full article
Clocks in much of the United States ticked ahead one hour last weekend for the new Daylight Saving Time adjustment, which we explored in "Daylight Saving Time May Bite the Out-of-Date" (2007-01-29) and "Daylight Saving Time Saved" (2007-02-19). If some of your devices weren't updated for the change on 11-Mar-07, here are some quick resources to get you back on track.
Mac Updates -- For Macs to deal with the change automatically, make sure to install either Daylight Saving Time Update (Tiger) (for Mac OS X 10.4.8; Mac OS X 10.4.5 and later had some, but not all, updated DST info) or Daylight Saving Time Update (Panther) (for Mac OS X 10.3.9), which are available via Software Update and as separate downloads. If you're still using Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, look to a modified patch at AFP548.com. Apple also released updates for Java: Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 5 and Java for Mac OS X 10.3 Update 5.
Microsoft fixed Entourage 2004's DST handling with the Microsoft Office for Mac 11.3.3 Update, and a group of anonymous users have contributed an unofficial fix for anyone still running Entourage X.
For other computer- and operating system-related DST patches, check out the links on DSTPatch.com.
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Patches for some recent Palm OS handhelds and Palm-branded Windows Mobile smartphones are available at Palm's Web site.
If you use a Blackberry device, Research in Motion (RIM) has posted a patch to download and install.
Do you rely on a TiVo to record your favorite television programs? This page at tivo.com discusses how the time change will affect customers, particularly those who have set up manual recording times on some devices.
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Apple has released iTunes 7.1, an update that doesn't appear to offer much on the surface, but incorporates compatibility with the upcoming Apple TV. A new Apple TV section in the preferences displays Apple TV units that have been authorized to work with iTunes. When the video streaming device is released this month, you will be able to use iTunes 7.1 to synchronize media to the Apple TV's 40 GB hard disk for playback on a connected television (see "Apple TV Connects Macs and TVs," 2007-01-15).
Also new in iTunes 7.1 is the option to browse the library in a full-screen Cover Flow mode. A new Sorting tab in the Get Info dialog for individual tracks lets you set up nicknames, which can then be applied to related artists and sorted; for example, tracks composed by two artists can be sorted together with each artist's other works. (Chris Breen at Playlist offers more details.)
iTunes 7.1 is available via Software Update or as a 28 MB download; it requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Apple also released iTunes 7.1 for Windows, but Windows Vista compatibility (which seems to be spotty) is not touted; Apple lists Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 as system requirements.
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Adobe continues to inch towards providing the scheduled release date of its suite of image, Web, and document handling tools known as Creative Suite 3 (CS3) by announcing that it has an announcement. CS3 comprises Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, and InDesign, along with several support programs. GoLive will be dropped from CS3.
The company said it will "launch" CS3 on 27-Mar-07, which one presumes means that they will start taking orders and provide a date for the actual release; shipment isn't expected until sometime in the second quarter of 2007. All the applications in CS3 will be universal binaries, enabling Intel-based Mac owners to take full advantage of the processing power of their new boxes. In December 2006, Adobe released a public beta - with some provisos on how to activate it - of Photoshop CS3 to preview new features and the new speed possible on Intel-based Macs (see "Adobe Releases Universal Binary Beta of Photoshop CS3," 2006-12-18). One analyst predicts that Apple will see $900 million in revenue from computers sold due to the release of CS3.
In an announcement filled with marketing-speak, Adobe said that Photoshop CS3 will come in two editions: plain and Extended. The plain version will be much as we've been accustomed to. The Extended release will be, you know, longer. Or something. Here's what Adobe told me via email:
Extended is "a completely new edition of Photoshop which allows cross-media creative professionals to stretch the limits of digital imaging." Okay, then.
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Thanks to our EFF buddy Fred von Lohmann for a pointer to SonicLiving, a Web site that offers a service similar to the iConcertCal iTunes plug-in we covered recently (see "iConcertCal: Your Gig-Going Pal," 2007-03-05)Show full article
Thanks to our EFF buddy Fred von Lohmann for a pointer to SonicLiving, a Web site that offers a service similar to the iConcertCal iTunes plug-in we covered recently (see "iConcertCal: Your Gig-Going Pal," 2007-03-05).
Like iConcertCal, SonicLiving can generate a calendar of concerts based on artists in your iTunes library, though it does this via a Java applet that reads your artist list and then lets you select which artists to watch for. That's actually a good thing, since options let you select all artists, artists with more than one song, and artists with five or more songs, easily letting you eliminate the one-hit wonders. SonicLiving can also pick up your favorite artists from music services such as Pandora (see "Pandora Beats iTunes for Holiday Music," 2005-12-05) and the similar last.fm. Unlike iConcertCal, SonicLiving shows concerts only in 11 metropolitan areas, so it's most useful for those near certain major cities.
But what sets SonicLiving apart, and makes it worth a look for anyone interested in music, is the amount of information it integrates about any given artist. Once you've added all your favorites to your wishlist, clicking an artist's name displays an overview page containing the next few upcoming events, an area where video clips from YouTube are listed and can be played, and a summary of other people who like the artist. You can expand any of these sections to list all events, to show all the people who have this artist on their wishlists, to see news items about the artist, or to see what albums the artist has on the iTunes Store.
Although others may find the social networking aspects of SonicLiving compelling (you can easily see what shows others are interested in and set up friend connections), I was more struck by the way SonicLiving provides an easy interface for watching music videos on YouTube (many of which are undoubtedly copyright infringements, but which can provide low-quality, full-length song previews) and for playing all 30-second preview clips from the iTunes Store, one after another. I've always found the need to play each preview in iTunes separately annoying; I often want to hear all the clips on an album without fussing with something like the iTunes Music Store Player script. It is of course easy to jump to the iTunes Store to purchase a song or album.
I was disappointed that SonicLiving lacked links to artist Web sites, and I was also surprised that it doesn't do the "people who liked X also liked Y" kind of recommendations. You can see the wishlists of people whose lists overlap with yours, which is sort of the same thing, but that seems a bit roundabout. Nonetheless, SonicLiving is the kind of site you can easily lose yourself in, so be sure to dive in when you have some time to burn.
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TidBITS 2007 Reader Survey Results: Who Are You?
It's time to start analyzing the results of our TidBITS 2007 Reader Survey. In this week's look, I examine the answers to the first few questions, which attempted to ascertain what kinds of people read TidBITSShow full article
It's time to start analyzing the results of our TidBITS 2007 Reader Survey. In this week's look, I examine the answers to the first few questions, which attempted to ascertain what kinds of people read TidBITS. As of this writing, we've received 3,158 responses, and as I've said previously, the survey remains open if you haven't responded yet, but I doubt any of the percentages will move much.
There's a tendency in this world for each of us to believe that everyone is like us. It makes sense; we have the most experience being us, and we likely spend time with people who are more or less like us, whether we're talking about age, education level, income, or profession. That's one utility of surveys such as this - even within the TidBITS audience of Macintosh users, they can show both similarities and differences.
As with any survey in which respondents are self-selected - we didn't pick a random sample of readers - we know that these results skew to those who have the time and interest to answer. Because we had such a large number of readers respond, however, we can make some conclusions without pretending that this is a statistically valid way to extrapolate these results to the full readership, and certainly not to the Macintosh community at large. (See last week's "Lessons on Internet Surveys," 2007-03-05, for more about online surveys and the validity of their responses.)
Age Distribution -- Take age, for instance. Tonya and I are 39, and we've been publishing TidBITS since we were 22 in 1990. When we started, we were undoubtedly younger than many of our readers, since purchasing a Mac back then required more financial means and interest than many people in their early 20s had. The logical extension, therefore, is that our readers were in their 30s and 40s when they started reading TidBITS and have, somehow, though none of us are quite sure when it happened, aged 17 years since TidBITS was started.
As a result, the largest ten-year age group represented among those responding is the 51-60 age group, with the 41-50 and 61-70 age groups not far behind on either side. (Unfortunately, it was too hard to compare this to the U.S. population at large, because the 2000 census figures report age groups oddly, switching between 5- and 10-year chunks and reporting the 10-year chunks as 25-34, for example, so the sets didn't match with ours.) You can see the results below; the numbers don't add up to 100 percent because some people didn't answer the question.
Age Percentage (# of votes)
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Under 21 0% (4)
21-30 2% (91)
31-40 14% (447)
41-50 22% (698)
51-60 29% (917)
61-70 20% (618)
71-80 7% (228)
81-90 1% (50)
91 and up 0% (3)
I think this age distribution can provide a number of lessons. First, and most importantly, we should continue to eschew Leetspeak and cell phone SMS abbreviations, since only a handful of people in our audience would understand such slang abbreviations.
More seriously, the age distribution also implies that most TidBITS readers are established, probably financially comfortable, and have spare time they can focus on reading about technology. Other conclusions can undoubtedly be drawn, but let's mix in other results first.
Profession -- Age is an easy question to ask and to answer, but I knew that asking about jobs was going to be trickier, especially since I was limited to 10 answers by the survey software, and a number of those questions lumped together jobs in different categories. In fact, over 500 people opted to write in their profession, and about 100 of them entered "Retired," along with a slew of highly specific jobs. Here are the results from those who were able to choose an option. (Again, not everyone answered this question.)
Profession Percentage (# of votes)
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CEO/President/Management 9% (242)
Network/System Administrator 3% (105)
Marketing/PR/Sales 3% (81)
Software Development/QA/Tech Support 11% (306)
Writing/Editing/Journalism 5% (146)
Graphic Design/Illustration/Layout 6% (170)
Audio/Video Production 2% (57)
Educator/Doctor/Lawyer/Other Professional 25% (690)
Consultant/IT Support Provider 8% (232)
Student/Retired/Hobbyist/Parent 24% (651)
The only conclusions I'd draw are that we have a lot of readers who are retired (which matches some of the age results), that a large chunk of readers are professionals, and that quite a few people are involved with the computer industry in some way. Perhaps these conclusions are obvious, other than the percentage of retired folks, but they're still interesting.
Even more interesting were the write-in answers. I don't have room to list them all here, but I'm truly pleased to learn that among our readers we have numerous artists, including a glass artist, a fine art portrait painter, a sculptor, a fiber artist (who wanted to know why these lists never include "Artist" as a profession: it's because so few people are able to make a living at it, unfortunately!), and numerous photographers. Musicians were also well represented, and it's nice to know that TidBITS is being read by an opera singer, a trumpet player in the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, an English hornist from the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the bassist for Robert Cray.
I was surprised at the number of people reporting aviation careers, including several airline pilots, a corporate helicopter pilot, and a jet test pilot, not to mention people in airline management, aircraft repair, and aerospace engineering, one of whom truly is a rocket scientist.
In the category of professions that just sound interesting, readers reported being a lighting designer, a Broadway stagehand, a wine merchant, a nuclear scientist, a dairy worker (ironically, I have an elderly relative who has been both of those last two), a "Virtual Assistant," a jeweler who should perhaps meet the hard rock miner, a cartographer, a cryptographer, an espresso machine repair technician who should get together with the slot machine repair person, a defense analyst, a human rights activist, a fishery information specialist, and one person who wrote, "I'm actually a professional Girl Scout." I'm also dying to know how one becomes an "ordained humourist and multimedia performance artist."
And in the joke come to life, we can count among our readers a pastor, a priest, a minister, a Buddhist monk, and a rabbi. We always knew that the choice of computer platform had something to do with religion, though clearly not any particular one.
I'd love to figure out a way that I can publish stories about those of you with fascinating careers that involve the Mac in some non-obvious way. If you think you fall into that category, drop me a note via email with some details.
Macs and Technology Budgets -- It's clear that TidBITS is read largely by individuals who are responsible for a small number of Macs. 39 percent of respondents cared for only 1 or 2 Macs, with 41 percent responsible for 3 to 5 Macs. A fair number of respondents - 10 percent - handled networks of 6 to 10 Macs, but after that, the percentages drop off precipitously. That's not really surprising either. Although the Mac is coming back in business use, it's still relatively uncommon in large installations.
Similarly, most respondents (66 percent) have an annual budget of less than $5,000, though 14 percent spend between $5,000 and $9,999. After that, the numbers tail off, though not as quickly as for the number of Macs, and a non-trivial number of people had budgets in hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.
Computer Activities -- For this article, I'll finish up with a look at the activities you reported. As with professions, being limited to only 10 was a problem, so there were lots of write-in responses. In this case, the percentages are of the total number of people who answered the question, so 99% of respondents use email, the Web, or chat, meaning that only a few people didn't answer.
Activity Percentage (# of votes)
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Email/Web Browsing/Chat 99% (3141)
Word Processing 88% (2795)
Spreadsheet 63% (1990)
Database Management 39% (1253)
Web Design/Management 39% (1234)
Network/Systems Management 28% (910)
Graphic Design/Layout 39% (1250)
Audio/Video Production 24% (786)
Gaming/Educational 29% (917)
Troubleshooting/Support 49% (1555)
The results are self-explanatory, and honestly, I wasn't particularly surprised by any of them. I wish I had more answer space available in our survey tool, because a very large number of people included digital photography among the write-in answers, with software development also regularly added. Also common were write-in answers that revolved around listening to music, watching TV and movies, and downloading audio or video. Lots of respondents use their Macs for financial tasks: accounting, banking, taxes, financial planning, trading stocks, and so on. Hard-core activities that merited multiple mentions in the write-in section included research in a variety of fields, computer-aided design (CAD), scientific computation, and statistical analysis. And finally, a number of people reported blogging as a regular activity.
In retrospect, the answers I provided were old-school. Of course digital photography is huge, and I should certainly have included an answer for audio/video consumption. And although I doubt a large percentage of TidBITS readers maintain blogs, I'm sure the raw number that do is still quite large. None of this should have been surprising at all, since we also use our Macs heavily for all of these modern-day activities.
In future articles, I'll delve into other aspects of the survey results, first concentrating on how and what you read, and then finishing up with how all this relates to our content. Thanks again for participating!
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Opening My Vistas
I just bought a new laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed, and, hey, I kinda like it. As I dodge flaming arrows from regular TidBITS readers, let me note that it's not my main computer nor intended to be; that I've been using the Mac platform since 1985; and that I currently own something like five working MacsShow full article
I just bought a new laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed, and, hey, I kinda like it.
As I dodge flaming arrows from regular TidBITS readers, let me note that it's not my main computer nor intended to be; that I've been using the Mac platform since 1985; and that I currently own something like five working Macs. (Yes, we Mac owners know the difference: I have two other Macs of ancient vintage that haven't been powered on in years.)
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop for two reasons. First, I'm a technology journalist, and Vista is destined to be the world's dominant platform within a year or two. I need to know how it works and how to use it. Second, I write quite a bit about Wi-Fi and wireless data. Invariably, new wireless cards come out with Windows drivers first; Mac drivers lag by weeks or years, and often lack full feature support.
My criteria for a Vista system were fairly elaborate. I wanted a dual-core Intel chip - the one I got is a "budget" Core Duo chip with half the Core Duo's Level 2 cache - and I thought it would be nice to have a good platform on which to perform side-by-side comparisons with similar Mac platforms. I needed an ExpressCard expansion slot because that's the format in which new Wi-Fi and cell data modems will be issued. By the same token, I ordered the Intel Draft N (802.11n) internal card that's just been released because it will be among the most heavily sold Wi-Fi adapters this year.
Finally, I wouldn't buy a PC that didn't have Vista pre-installed. From everything I've read, buying a machine with Windows XP today and upgrading tomorrow is a sucker's bet. Further, I needed at least the Vista Business flavor to get the networking options necessary for the kind of testing I would be performing.
I looked at all the major manufacturers, and Dell came closest to what I needed at a reasonable price. Despite quite a lot of well-publicized missteps in the last couple of years - Dell used to be ranked a not-too-distant No. 2 behind Apple for customer support, but has slipped quite a bit - the company seems in the middle of a turnaround that includes Michael Dell resuming leadership.
The Inspiron 6400 I settled on has a 15.4-inch screen, 2 GB of RAM, a 120 GB 5400 RPM hard drive, a dual-layer 8x DVD burner, a Draft N adapter, and a 1.6 GHz Pentium T2060 dual-core processor. It does not feature gigabit Ethernet. (A previous version of this article posted to the TidBITS Web site stated that the Inspiron 6400 had a Core 2 Duo processor rather than the "budget" Core Duo that it actually includes.)
Along with the computer, I purchased a two-year subscription to a full McAfee anti-everything package: anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall, and anti-this-and-that. Pre-purchasing that package meant the software is installed and supported, and was cheaper, too. I also bought a three-year extended warranty that includes 24-hour-a-day phone support and next-day, on-site repair.
For all that, I paid $1,500 including sales tax. That's not a terrible price.
Dell made setup easy. Unpack the box. Plug in a power adapter. Press the power key. A simple one-sheet setup poster came with it, and I didn't need to refer to it. Initializing Vista involved answering just a few questions before it was up and running.
My early experience with Vista, after spending only a couple of hours getting it set up and running, wasn't awful. Sure, it asks me about granting approval for programs more often than I'd like. It's weird that I can't easily say, "Hey, I trust this action for this particular program," since I've been able to do that with Zone Alarm Pro under Windows XP for years.
The McAfee package, however, did lock up my computer. A minimized window needed user approval to proceed, and that locked the whole minimized windows task bar at the bottom of the screen. I had to use the old Control-Alt-Delete trick to display the Process Manager, and then I was able to bring the McAfee program to the front and move ahead. That happened just once.
Vista, as a whole, does conform to reports that at the surface it's Windows XP with fancier dressing. (Beneath the surface, there's a lot that's changed, but we will have to wait to see how it shakes out on the security and stability fronts.) There are some nice features, many of them familiar to me as a long-time Mac OS X user, but I don't find it offensive or confusing. The Aero interface, which offers translucency among other features, is attractive. Vista, so far, is just fine. (Wait until I start really using it, of course, to see how it holds up.)
Now, you will ask me, "Why, Glenn, oh why did you not simply buy a MacBook Pro? It has a full Intel Core 2 Duo - not the budget Core Duo you got - along with an ExpressCard slot, and it can run Windows."
My answer is that at the moment, you can only install Windows Vista under Boot Camp for a native boot - which would be needed to handle Windows drivers for the ExpressCard slot - with a bit of elbow grease. Boot Camp is still in beta; Apple doesn't support Vista with Boot Camp yet, either.
Also, a similarly equipped MacBook Pro from Apple is nearly $2,400 including sales tax. That's for a far superior 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo processor with gigabit Ethernet and Apple-supplied RAM, but that's the cheapest and slowest MacBook Pro offered and I could shave only a few dollars by supplying third-party RAM myself. Further, given Apple's product cycles, I expect that we'll see new versions of the MacBook Pro in the next two to four months.
The folks at Parallels told me at Macworld Expo that their Parallels Desktop virtualization software might be able to support Windows drivers working on devices inserted in the ExpressCard slot, just as they've improved USB support in their most recent release. However, that's speculative until it's available.
My insidious plan is to use the Dell laptop until the time comes that I can easily install and run Vista for all my needs using either Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop. The Dell should fetch a decent price when sold. And this is, of course, all a mental trick to justify buying a MacBook Pro in the future - but only when the time is right.
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Nike+iPod Only for Fitness Runners
I've been putting off this review, because it doesn't thrill me to warn even a subset of people away from a popular product. But that's exactly what I have to do - in short, although the Nike+iPod Sport Kit can be a fun addition for anyone who runs with an iPod or wants a bit more encouragement to run, competitive runners shouldn't bother with itShow full article
I've been putting off this review, because it doesn't thrill me to warn even a subset of people away from a popular product. But that's exactly what I have to do - in short, although the Nike+iPod Sport Kit can be a fun addition for anyone who runs with an iPod or wants a bit more encouragement to run, competitive runners shouldn't bother with it. It simply isn't worthwhile as a training aid for anyone who values ease-of-use, lap counter features, and distance and pace accuracy.
First, some background. I'm a competitive runner. I train with the High Noon Athletic Club at Cornell four or five days per week, and I like to run about 40 miles a week. At least one of those days will be a speed workout and another will be a long run. In the summer and fall, I often race on weekends, at distances ranging from 5 kilometers to 10 miles, including numerous trail races. In the winter, I run indoor track, concentrating on the mile and 2 mile races and their metric counterparts, the 1500 and 3000 meters. Although I'm sufficiently grown up that I don't need to win to feel good about myself, I do push hard, and one of my happiest moments in 2006 came in December when I broke my 21-year-old high school personal record for the 2 mile by 2 seconds. For that race, I was planning lap splits to the second and taking into account the 18 meter extension beyond 16 laps. For me, running is a hobby, a social activity, great exercise, and a needed mental break, but for what I do, accuracy also matters highly.
What I'm trying to convey is how, as a competitive runner, my opinions are akin to those of a professional graphic designer faced with a program that claims to bring illustration to everyone.
Design Problems -- When Apple and Nike announced the Nike+iPod Sport Kit last May (see "Grab Your iPod and Run," 2006-05-29), I was excited at the chance to combine my running with my interest in Apple technology. The first negative came upon reading that Nike shoes were required, since I don't wear Nikes, and serious runners don't risk injury by switching brands or even models lightly. But I quickly learned that users had discovered many ways to attach the sensor to other shoes, so I purchased the $30 kit (I already had an iPod nano, the other requirement that would add at least $150 to the cost of getting started).
When the Nike+iPod Sport Kit arrived, I eagerly unwrapped it, read the instructions, and then stopped, flummoxed, since although I could figure out a way to stick the sensor into my Mizuno Wave Inspire running shoes, I couldn't figure out what to do with the iPod nano itself. I didn't want to hold the expensive little gadget in my hand for the 45 to 60 minutes I normally run, and all the standard ways of attaching it to one's body seemed to put it in a pocket or on an armband. Running shorts don't have pockets, and both pockets and armbands hide the iPod display and controls.
That matters because I never run with earbuds or headphones of any sort and thus wouldn't hear the iPod's audible feedback. Most of my runs are with my High Noon friends, where listening to the iPod would simply be rude. But even when I run by myself, I don't wear them. I don't like the feel of things in my ears, I don't like wires dangling around my body, and it's dangerous to be on the road without being able to hear cars or dogs reliably (there's a reason headphones are banned in many races). So I need a visible interface, and I also need easy access to the controls for pausing the workout when I'm stopped at an intersection or if someone has to stop to re-tie a shoe.
And, of course, I wanted something to protect the iPod nano from sweat and rain. Rain doesn't get in the way of running, and I can't necessarily predict when it will start raining in the middle of a run.
I was blocked - I couldn't figure out how I'd use the Nike+iPod Sport Kit.
Marware to the Rescue -- Help soon appeared in the form of advice from iPod expert Dan Frakes, who covers the iPod world for Playlist. I had asked Dan privately if there were any wristbands for the iPod nano while it had the Nike+iPod receiver attached, and though he had initially answered negatively, he alerted me when Marware announced the $30 Sportsuit Relay, which seemed to answer all my problems.
The Sportsuit Relay provides a neoprene and rubber wristband case that almost completely covers the iPod nano with the Nike+iPod receiver attached (there's a small hole for the earbuds, but I'd only worry about water getting in during a torrential downpour), along with a little Sportsuit Sensor pouch that attaches the Nike+iPod sensor to one's shoelaces with Velcro. Marware also provides extensions for the wristband case if you wish to wear it on your upper arm. It's a good product, and I recommend it for anyone who wants a water-resistant case for an iPod nano with the Nike+iPod receiver attached.
My main problem with the wristband is, unfortunately, out of Marware's control. The iPod nano is long and thin, and fits reasonably on my wrist. But the screen is deucedly hard to read in that orientation, and there's no way to rotate the iPod display 90 degrees.
Calibration and Testing -- The Nike+iPod Sport Kit uses an accelerometer in the sensor to detect foot motion, and although it can be used out of the box, Apple suggests calibrating it by running a known distance while in calibration mode. According to Apple's Nike+iPod Technical FAQ, the accelerometer works by determining the amount of time your foot spends on the ground, which Apple claims is directly related to your pace. The question is, if you calibrate the Nike+iPod at one pace, does it work accurately at other paces?
To test this, I first calibrated it by running an easy 400 meters (.25 miles) at about 7:30 mile pace. The workout for the day was 5 repetitions of 600 meters (.375 miles) at 4:40 per mile pace. For each of the 600s, the iPod instead reported the distance at either .31 or .32 miles, which is about 15 percent off. On the easy 400s I ran for rest in between each 600, the iPod was accurate, presumably since my pace was essentially the same as the calibration pace. Apparently, running at different paces can hurt the Nike+iPod's accuracy, though there's no way of knowing whether that's because my stride length was longer, my stride rate was slightly increased, or my gait was different at that pace.
My track test was actually somewhat unfair, because the Nike+iPod interface on the iPod is worthless for a track workout anyway. Unlike nearly every digital watch aimed at runners and even the separate stopwatch feature built into recent iPods, the interface lacks a lap counter, forcing you either to start and stop your workout in between intervals, or to stop, reset, and start a new workout for each lap. That's just too hard, and although the interface is easy to understand, the iPod's controls are difficult to feel and press accurately while running, especially when hot, sweaty, and trembling with exertion.
I also took the iPod out on the road for an 8 mile out-and-back run at a moderate pace. I couldn't recalibrate it for the moderate pace first, not having a measured track nearby, but I was more interested in whether or not terrain would make a difference, since this particular run was largely uphill on the way out and downhill on the way back. Alas, the Nike+iPod failed this test spectacularly; recording 3.53 miles on the way out and 1.86 miles on the way back for a total of 5.39 miles. Ignoring the fact that it was 33 percent off the actual distance, since it may have been poorly calibrated at that point, the out-and-back distances should have been the same.
In and around these and other tests that confirmed my results, I ran with the Nike+iPod fairly regularly, comparing its results to known distances and to the reports from my Garmin Forerunner 201 GPS. (Yes, I was quite the sight with all those electronics strapped to my wrists.) In general, the Nike+iPod varied quite a bit, but since my pace for any given run also varies, often within the run, there was no way of predicting the results.
(As Paul Lightfoot reported in "Running with a Garmin Forerunner GPS," 2005-07-25, the Garmin Forerunner 201 is spotty; if it gets a good satellite lock for an entire run, it can be highly accurate, but if it has trouble - presumably due to cloud cover, satellite positions, or the color of your shorts - its accuracy drops precipitously. But the device is easy to read, includes a good lap counter, and is waterproof. Garmin also claims its newer models receive satellite signals better, and the $375 Forerunner 305 has a wireless heart rate monitor and an optional $100 accelerometer-based Foot Pod that reportedly kicks in automatically for indoor training or times when the satellites aren't aligning.)
Since pace accuracy depends on accurate distance measurement, the Nike+iPod pace numbers are also suspect. For instance, if I ran 600 meters in 1:47 (a 4:45 pace), and the iPod recorded the distance as .32 miles instead of .375 miles, the pace thus changes to a radically different 5:34. Confusingly, although the Nike+iPod manual never says this, while a workout is taking place, the pace reported is your current pace, not the pace for the workout so far. Thanks to TidBITS reader Mark Wickens for alerting me to this fact; I had been quite bothered that the reported pace seemed inaccurate during workouts.
More Testing Needed? Since initial Web publication of this article, I've received several comments about why my Nike+iPod provided inaccurate results. Mike Donato, an Australian computer consultant who's also an athletics coach, a champion rogainer, and a Green Beret (so I'm not going to disagree with him in person!), passed on the results of his testing, which put the Nike+iPod at about 99 percent accurate when used with the proper Nike shoes, and only about 75 percent accurate when used with Marware's sensor pouch. I can easily accept that the Nike+iPod would require calibration for accurate results with the Marware sensor pouch, but I can't see how using the Nike shoes would eliminate the problems I encountered. After all, when used at the calibration pace with the Marware sensor pouch, the Nike+iPod was entirely accurate on a flat course. Unfortunately, since I've had bad experiences with Nike shoes in the past, I'm uninterested in spending $100 or more for a pair of shoes that I wouldn't wear past a few test runs.
Mike Banks of Grantwood Technology also wrote to recommend his company's Shoe Pouch, a competing product that costs $6. Mike said that he had heard other criticisms of inaccuracies introduced by using the Marware sensor pouch, which he speculated might be due either to movement of the sensor on the shoe (attaching it firmly requires attention) or to improper alignment of the sensor (in comparison to how it was designed to fit in the Nike shoes). Mike believes that the Shoe Pouch solves these problems and will provide better accuracy. I'll test it and report back on my findings. Subsequent discussions with Mike Donato also pointed toward inaccuracy caused by looseness - specifically a comment about the Marware sensor pouch in a roundup of hacks for using the Nike+iPod Sport Kit with shoes from other manufacturers.
When I asked if they had received reports of inaccuracy, Lee Goldring of Marware told me that all the complaints Marware had received about the accuracy of the Nike+iPod when used with the Sportsuit Sensor pouch were related to incorrect orientation; as soon as the user placed the sensor in the pouch with the orange side down, as indicated in an insert that ships in the pouch and on Marware's Web site, the accuracy issues went away. I had been using the sensor in the correct orientation, so that wasn't my problem.
Clearly, I'll have to try attaching the sensor to my shoe more firmly; perhaps I'll try digging a hole in an older pair of shoes as well. In a short out-and-back run after reading all these comments, with the sensor pouch firmly attached, I got exactly the same distances, though I was running at the calibration pace on a flat course.
It's worth noting that even Apple admits to accuracy problems in various places. A support article on Apple's Web site makes clear the importance of consistent pace during calibration, saying, "If you run or walk with an inconsistent pace or travel a distance that is over or under the expected calibration distance, you may get unexpected results (such as incorrect distance of a workout)." Plus, the manual reads, "Even after calibrating, the accuracy of distance measurements may vary depending on gait, running surface, incline, or temperature." Fine, but all those things vary for serious runners.
Fine for Fitness Running -- Don't misunderstand my criticisms here. The Nike+iPod Sport Kit does essentially what it says it will do. It provides some data about how far and how fast you run, and it can help you run for a specific (if not terribly accurate) distance and for a specific amount of time. You can upload your data to a Nike Web site whenever you sync with iTunes, and many people have found it encouraging to be able to compare their workouts, monthly distances, and race times with their online friends. And yes, if you have trouble being alone with your thoughts and the environment around you while running, you can listen to music or podcasts.
In the end, anything that encourages more people to run is a good thing, and particularly when coupled with Marware's Sportsuit Relay, the Nike+iPod can do just that. But if you're a competitive runner looking for an easy-to-use training aid that provides accurate distance and pace measurements (particularly without forcing you to switch shoe models), you'll want to look elsewhere. And even if my criticisms of the Nike+iPod's accuracy turn out to be testing error, its awkward physical design and lack of a lap counter render it less useful than other devices.
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Category: Korean Dramas, TV
Tags: Adoption, athletes, Lee Jae-Yoon, Lee Sung-Kyung, Nam Joo-Hyuk, swimming, weightlifting, 역도요정 김복주, 이성경
"Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo" (역도요정 김복주)
If I were to rate this series, I would give it a 👎 for the first half. But the second half … wow. It was worth sitting through eight hours of meh to get to the satisfying ending. Bok-Joo is the top female wrestler at her school. In order to give the other women on her team a chance of medaling, her coach asks her to go up a weight class. The 5-foot-9 athlete weights roughly 127 pounds and must go up by about 10 pounds. Bear in mind that by U.S. standards, she would be considered thin. But much is made of the fact that she's a big, overweight girl.


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Internet is more than a competitive place for bloggers. The key to gain success through this busy place is not to waste the time. Always keep in mind that there are almost infinite internet users globally and no one in this world has the capacity to discern the ideas of any other being; before anyone else comes up with the same idea, you should have made your material live. Hence, success is deduced.
But at times you are coerced to write up on the same content though it is complemented with some more unique points or a comprehensive style of writing, but still you have to contend the ultimate competition. Either advertise your content via different mediae or not, the organic traffic to your content can only be sought through search engines. In plain words, SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) is a name given to leverage the search engines. The process of bringing your article from no where to the head-most results of a searched query is considered as effective SEO.
Numerous, very well written articles can be found on WordPress SEO, however everyone has the right to opine and this piece of writing explains mine. Below I have stated the 5 Best free SEO plugins for WordPress that I hope will boost your websites' ranking in no time. I believe I would have included SEOPressor in the list below only if it would have been available for free rather than just 14 days trial period. [divider]
This plugin is one of the highly recommended plugin by most of the top notch bloggers. The plugin has the ability to analyse the keywords most efficiently. The users of this plugin does not need to go through the targeted ad-word program by the Google. It has a built in feature to measure the keyword density; the higher the density of a certain keyword, the more are the chances of your website to appear in the search results whenever that particular keyword is searched on the internet.
All in One SEO Pack
As the name suggests, the plugin contains a variety of features. In simple words, it is a complete package for the newbies. It has backward compatibility with plugins such as Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warriors and others.
SEO Extended
SEO Extended is an extension to Yoast WordPress SEO. It has divided the process of doing SEO in to two. Now, you can edit post titles and meta keywords separately. It has classified the posts with their types, statuses and titles. This extended version is more handy in auditing the keywords of the website.
WP Social SEO Booster – Knowledge Graph Social Signals SEO
This plugin is highly admired by many of the bloggers for its automated SEO. Once installed properly, the administrator of the website does not need to carry a research for the keywords or meta description; the plugin automatically sets the desirable keywords in accordance with the content. Your efforts are only required to write an article useful for the targeted audience and give it a explicable title.
Basic SEO Pack
This plugin is, too, incorporated with all the common features of SEO and is widely used by most of the senior bloggers. The simplistic nature of the plugin has earned a good reputation. The rare element of this plugin is the ability to configure Google analytics too in a very user friendly style.


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In recent years, the University has had a goal to increase the number of undergraduate international students at University Park and many of our campuses. International applications have increased 148% since 2008 with 6,638 applications already received for 2011. The volume of questions and phone calls from international students created awareness that the web site was not meeting the needs of our customers.
New web pages http://admissions.psu.edu/info/future/international/ were designed, written and posted on
Long pages of text have been replaced with a list of popular topics with clickable links.
Information is now organized by topic.
Language was changed to be more user friendly for non-native speakers.
Admissions counselors responding to international student emails can provide concise and accurate connections to
the information students are requesting.
Required academic credentials are now listed by country. This is proving helpful to both prospective students and
admissions staff at all campuses as they interact with prospective international students.
Provides easier access to financial and visa documentation with links to relevant pages on the Office of Global Programs web site.
- Cathy Schwab, Sponsor
- Audrey Bonchack, Member
- Kathryn Gaylord-Miles, Member
- Colton Williams, Member


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10 Steps to Secure Social Networking
December 16, 2014 2:45 am
"Most of us are far too trusting with our personal information online," says Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of Cloud and Emerging Technologies at Trend Micro. "We don't realize how quickly little bits add together to form a startlingly accurate picture of our personal lives. This unintentional disclosure of personal data can have very real consequences."
To mitigate your risk of leaving a trail for cyber thieves to follow, Trend Micro recommends:
1. Only post updates or photos you won't mind sharing with strangers. What goes online stays online.Source: Trend Micro
2. Keep tabs on all your tags and mentions. Getting tagged in a post might seem harmless, but it can also decrease your privacy.
3. Make sure only your intended audience sees your posts. If your friends have less restrictive settings, it's possible for others to view your information.
4. Never click on a link posted or sent by someone you don't know.
5. Use a two-factor authentication for all social media accounts, and activate any other security measures you have access to.
6. Check privacy policies and adjust your settings to your comfort level. Keep track of these policies on an ongoing basis – they change often.
7. Double-check your security. Use privacy scanning software to check current privacy settings in different social networks.
8. Report and block spammers. This can help sanitize your feed as well as notify a social media site to take down the spammers' accounts.
9. Always verify with your contacts any link they send your way, preferably through another form of correspondence.
10. Be careful whom you accept as a friend on social networks. Identity thieves can and do create fake profiles in order to steal your personal information.
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By Abubakar Bah
|Varney Shernan
Liberia has become a subject of discussions all around the World not because of the right reason but because of the wrong reason. As a Liberian Activist, I am extremely disappointed in the way and manner our Country has been placed on the international news wire. Allegations of Corruption have taken center stage of every major discussion surrounding major national actors in Liberia who have played counterproductive postures against the interest of our beloved Country, Liberia. The most disappointing thing is, these guys who have been accused of corruption by the Global Witness Report are people who are being heavily paid by the very taxpayers that they reportedly acted against. They also took an oath to defend the Country's interest above personal interest but sadly having read this report, we have come to realized that they are more concern about personal greed than Liberia's growth and development. Woe on to them for depriving Liberia development because of what they have been doing in the dark. They have been exposed in a broad day light yet, they are shamelessly abusing the airwaves with denials and arrogance because they think that they are untouchable in this gullible society of ours! In other countries around the World, these people were going to resigned not because they are guilty but to show responsible stewardship. This too is Liberia.
We are calling on political parties to take the lead in our many attempts to find out the facts associated with this Global Witness Report indicting many officials of government who are members of political parties around here but sadly enough we are yet to see any position taken by these parties. What is going on? Is it that these parties are in support of their members who have been implicated or are they afraid to take action against one of their own for betraying the public trust? The silence of these political parties on a very serious issue like this, speaks volume to the level of insobriety on the parts of these political parties. A political party cannot be claiming to be against corruption and you have a member of that very party being implicated in corruption allegations while that party refuses to take firm action to ascertain the fact surrounding the issue. This is a sign of debility in that party and must be condemned to the fullest for being cowardice in the fight against corruption.
What does the ruling Unity Party have to say about this damning report of widespread corruption allegation against its National Chairman, Varney Gbotoe Nambie Sherman for being the foremost player in this whole rolling quagmire? Why is it that the party is silent on this issue that they once consider as public enemy number one (1) through its Standard Bearer, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf? Are they telling us that Chairman Sherman is stronger than everybody including the President in that party and should continuously be involved in every corruption saga that props up? Where is the Unity Party in this whole thing? Is it because he is being considered or perceived as one of the main financier of the Unity Party so, he is immune from any wrong doing even against the Country? We need to see your position against your leader, the party's Chairman, Varney Sherman for being deceptive in this whole issue against the State for which you are citizens 0f. Liberia will never rise as long as we are not able to rise above selfish personal interest for the sake of national interest. The party needs to show that she is far above any person whether it's the chairman or not.
I have listened to Cllr. Varney Sherman responding to this report in a very shameful, arrogant and disgusting manner by being very defiant against the recent committee setup by the President of Liberia and his Standard Bearer.
He has not hidden his arrogance and resistance to this committee that is also headed by a professional lawyer (J. Fonati Koffa) like himself. How can he say that he will never appear before any committee setup by the President of Liberia because he is a lawyer and will not jeopardized his chances of proving his innocence by appearing before any committee? Why is he afraid of being heard if he has done nothing wrong? I believe that, if he is not guilty of those accusations as he claimed, he will not be afraid to appear before any committee because his role is fixed and does not require any different explanation other than what has really happened during his entire involvement with Sable Mining Company. Who is he to say that, he will never appear before any committee to say anything that has to do with this report because he may something to implicate him? Is he really thinking that he is untouchable because of his Chairmanship of the ruling Unity Party? Why is he openly defying the authority of the President of Liberia to setup committee in order to find the facts surrounding this whole issue? The fact that, the Chairman of the Unity Party has asserted that he will never appear before any committee, it is going to have a serious setback in the investigation of these allegations from Global Witness most especially when you have members of the Unity Party dominating the list of bribe takers and distributors.
The likes of Morris Saytumah, Richard Tolbert, Sumoe Cupee and Cletus Watterson will also feel that they too have no reasons for appearing before the committee established by their Standard Bearer to probe into this urgent matter. The Chairman of the Party is leading the idea of disrespecting the Standard Bearer of his party and President of the Republic of Liberia who declared corruption as Public Enemy # 1 during her famous inaugural address in January 2006. I believe that this Chairman should not be saying that, he will never appear before a committee established by his Standard Bearer which will likely be a recipe for more people to start disregarding the orders and appointments of the President, a situation that we should not be observing as we strive to nurtured our infant democracy. The Executive Committee of the Unity Party needs to take a firm action against her Chairman and all other members who are implicated in this report. Failure to take internal action is a sign of weakness and lack of commitment in the fight against this menace called Vampire by your Standard Bearer and our President.
The Liberia People Democratic Party (LPDP) must also ask her newly recruited member and speaker of the Liberian Legislature to immediately resign as Speaker of the 53rd National Legislature for bringing the party and the House to public deride. The party must also ask him to avail himself to the Committee established by Madam President to investigate this urgent matter of national discourse. I am very much sure that the LPDP can take punitive actions against her member and presumptive presidential candidate come 2017 in order to manifest her commitment and vision about tougher measures in combating corruption. I also encourage all other institutions that have any of those accused in this report as members to take bold actions against those guys until they can proved to be innocent of the economic crimes that they have been accused of committing.
Author's Statement: Mr. Abubakar Bah is a born Liberian, a scholar, a political analyst with a vast understanding of the body-politics of Liberia and a member of Liberia's best known and youth developmental intellectual centers (Center For the Exchange of Intellectual Opinions) where critical minds converge on a daily basis to discuss issues affecting the Liberian society and the world at large. He currently serves as Co-Chairman on the Intellectual Discourse Committee at the Center. He can be reached through email: email@example.com and Cell #: +231886847236/ 776-774-749.


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The following are average prices and may vary between the different Dive Shops in Utila. There is fierce competition among the Dive Shops in Utila which helps to keep prices low (good news for you), but the standards of equipment, the facilities, range of dive courses and discounts on offer also varies. Some Dive Shops are PADI certified Scuba Diving Operators and some are Independent Operators. Given the high level of competition here on the Island of Utila, you pretty much get what you pay for.
One thing you can be sure about is that you will get some great diving for a great price!
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Fun Dives
1 Fun Dive - 1 dive including transportation by boat to dive site, certified dive guide, standard equipment hire.
2 Fun Dive package - 2 dives (including as above)
10 Fun Dive package - 10 dives (including as above)
Night Dive
► You must be certified PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent (or a PADI Scuba Diver with the required supervision) to purchase Fun Dives.
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PADI Open Water Diver
Although this is not the most basic Scuba Diving Course you can take, it is the most popular and provides all the basic skills enabling you to scuba dive without supervision to a maximum depth of 18 metres/ 60 feet. The course typically lasts 3 to 4 days and includes 2 shallow water dives and 2 open water dives plus some classroom time learning theories of scuba diving, diving equipment and safety procedures.
► Virtually anybody who is in good health and over 10 years of age can take this course. (You will be consider to be in good health if you can answer No to all the questions on the PADI Medical Statement. If you answer Yes to any of the questions on the PADI Medical Statement you will need a Medical Certificate signed by a Doctor.)
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
If you want to gain new experiences, new skills then the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program is for you. During the course (5 dives in total) you will get to explore some of diving's top adventures and complete a Deep dive and Navigation dive plus three adventure dives that interest you most from the following list:
► You will need a PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and a minimum age of 15 (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver) to take this course.
Emergency First Response (EFR)
Emergency First Response gives you the tools you need to perform CPR and First Aid. Whether you're a diver or a non-diver, Emergency First Response prepares you to properly handle potentially life-threatening situations.
► No dive certification or age limit applies to this course
PADI Rescue Diver
This course will expand your knowledge and experience level: Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.
Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. During the five open water sessions, you'll cover:
► You will need to be a certified PADI Adventure Diver, a minimum age of 12 and successful completion of a sanctioned CPR program (such as Emergency First Response ) within the past 24 months.
PADI DiveMaster
Take the first step in your dive career and become a PADI DiveMaster. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you'll expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills as you become a dive professional. PADI DiveMaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. This course can be completed within 2 weeks, but most people taking this course in Utila want to spend 3 - 6 months working as a DiveMaster-in-Training (DMT) at one of the local Dive Shops, building their skills and gaining invaluable practical experience in scuba diving operations, plus filling their log books with lots dives!
What can PADI DiveMaster do?
► You will need to be a certified PADI Rescue Diver, a minimum age of 18, a minimum of 40 logged dives to start the course (60 logged dives to complete the course), and medical certificate proving you are in good health and fit to dive.
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Our women's retreat wasn't run the same way this year as it has been for the past nine years. Instead of a variety of speakers, there was to be just one. Before the retreat began, I was sure one speaker couldn't hold the attention of my oft-wandering mind. Was I wrong!
- Is what I am about to say…
- If it doesn't concern you, stay out of it.
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David Brooks, after taking a pounding for basing his column on the idea that Obama has no deficit reduction plan, attaches an addendum to his column admitting that he got it wrong. Sort of, anyway:
It is true, as the director of the Congressional Budget Office has testified, that the administration has not proposed a specific anti-sequester proposal that can be scored or passed into law. It is not fair to suggest, as I did, that tax hikes for the rich is the sole content of the president's approach. The White House has proposed various constructive changes to spending levels and entitlement programs. These changes are not nearly adequate in my view, but they do exist, and I should have acknowledged the balanced and tough-minded elements in the president's approach.
This is actually a step forward. Brooks is acknowledging, without quite saying so, that one side has a compromise plan and the other doesn't. After all, he's acknowledging that Obama's plan includes some of what both sides want, while as we all know, the other side's plan is to avert the sequester only though spending cuts, i.e., only through what one side wants.
As I've noted here before, what we're witnessing here is probably best described as the "centrist dodge." Pundits who want to maintain the line that both sides are to blame for the primary impasse that continues to paralyze our politics — the question of whether to fix our fiscal problems only with spending cuts, or with a mix of cuts and revenues from the wealthy — continue to face a basic problem. They essentially agree with Democrats that a mix is the way to go, and see the GOP's cuts-only approach as extreme and damaging. But they can't quite say this aloud, because then they'd be taking sides and would no longer be able to maintain their aura of transcending partisanship and sagely occupying the sensible middle ground.
These commentators usually get around this in one of two ways. They either simply pretend that Obama and Democrats don't hold the position they actually hold. In this case, Brooks tried to maintain this fiction, but he did it so flagrantly that he got caught out and had to admit as much. Or they simply claim that Democrats have not quite conceded enough in the direction of the middle ground mix of cuts and revenues they want. That's what Brooks has now done; while acknowledging his mistake, he still needs to argue that the cuts Obama has proposed are "not nearly adequate enough."
Brooks has admitted error, but this is still fundamentally a dodge. After all, the plan put forth the other day by Democrats might not be "adequate enough" to make all our fiscal problems vanish forever, but it would, in fact, avert the sequester — which Brooks says will be disastrous to the country — through roughly equivalent concessions by both sides. It is, by definition, a compromise plan. Why, then, is this inadequate as a temporary solution?
More broadly, the basic overall question still stands: Is there anything Obama and Dems can offer to Republicans — anything that falls short of essentially giving Republicans everything they want for little or nothing in return — that would make them drop their no-compromise-on-revenues-at-any-cost stance? If so, name it. If not, then why are both sides equally to blame? Why isn't this stance completely unacceptable — far worse than anything Dems are doing — to the very same people who are arguing that compromise is the Holy Grail? Why can't these folks simply say, "Dems haven't gone far enough, but ultimately, I agree with the broad strokes of their approach, and they're far less to blame for our current crisis than Republicans are"?
Ron Fournier, to his credit, took a stab today at answering the basic question here, but he appeared unable to name anything that might get Republicans to drop their zero-compromise stance. The plain fact is that the centrist "both sides to blame" position cannot hold in the face of reality. Today Brooks took a first step towards unwittingly revealing that.
UPDATE: Republicans could fairly argue that the Senate plan to avert the sequester temporarily doesn't really contain equivalent concessions by both sides, because some of the cuts are to defense. But Republicans have taken the position that as soon as Democrats insist revenues must be part of the equation, then the conservation is over. In other words, Republicans could take the Senate Dem plan, and suggest cuts they want instead — and Dems might very well be open to their demands — but they won't, simply because the continued Dem insistence on revenues automatically renders this a nonstarter for them.
It's on people like Brooks, who want a compromise, to explain why the Senate Dem compromise approach — a 50-50 mix of cuts and revenues — is inadequate as a short term solution.


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Named after Chanticleer's founder, Louis A. Botto, the LAB Choir is a mixed honor choir for singers ages 14-20. The LAB Choir is currently in its 16th session. The purpose of the group is to promote high-level, small ensemble training for the area's top young singers and to provide community service through free performances. The program includes rehearsals at Chanticleer's home base, classes on advanced choral topics, participation in choral festivals, and performances for retirement communities and schools around the Bay Area. This current session of the LAB Choir has also been working closely with Chanticleer's music director, William Fred Scott. Calls for membership in this ensemble are on-going and project-based. A typical commitment is for weekend rehearsals over the period of 2 to 2 1/2 months, community performances on weekends and weekday school performances. If you are interested in joining, contact LAB Choir manager Toran Davenport at email@example.com. Members are selected by teacher recommendation and an informal audition.
The Fall session of LAB XVII has been cancelled
We regret to announce the fall session of LAB XVII Choir has been cancelled. We will announced details for the the next session soon.


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Start the school year right with healthy habits for your kids. As the fun and excitement of summer comes to a close, it's time to make sure your child is ready to go back to school and face many new …
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Running faster is not about increasing your stride rate but increasing the force in your take off. That is according to research done as to why Jamaican runner, Usain Bolt is the fastest runner in the world.
When Bolt established the current 100-meter world record in the 2009 world championships, running it in 9.58 seconds, he did so by moving his legs at virtually the same pace as his competitors. In fact, if you or I were to compete against Bolt, our legs would turn over at essentially the same rate as his.
This is a theory put forth by academics and track coaches alike who contend that running fast has more to do with the force one applies to the ground than how quickly one can move one's legs.
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