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Supported by its $500 million capital campaign, Einstein will increase recruitment of key faculty members, sharpen its focus on national health priorities, and enhance education and training for the next generation of scientists and physicians.
Inspired by her belief in the potential of translational medicine to heal the world, Muriel L. Block leaves a remarkable gift of more than $160 million.
On April 15, 2013, Dr. Allen M. Spiegel and the Board of Overseers publically announced the largest capital campaign in Einstein's history. The enthusiastic gathering of several hundred attendees toasted the College of Medicine's revitalization and the visionary donors who have made it possible.
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Idaho Stampede Ride Away From Sioux Falls Skyforce [VIDEO]
There is no doubt that the Sioux Falls Skyforce have more talent on their roster than they did two weeks ago. On Tuesday night, that talent only lasted until the beginning of the fourth quarter as the Idaho Stampede shook off a double-digit deficit to roll to a road win 109-102 at the Sioux Falls Arena.
The new-look Skyforce (21-17) scored the first seven points in the third quarter to take a 65-47 lead and threatened to make quick work of the Stampede (12-24). However, the gradual erosion of the Skyforce lead was mainly due to a cold streak from the floor and the line plus a propensity to foul gave enough of a crease for the Stampede to wrestle away the win. With 12 games remaining and 8 of them on the road, that might not be such a bad thing for Sioux Falls as their 10-7 mark so far on the road can attest.
Idaho's Coby Karl scored 16 of his 18 points after intermission with Justin Harper also contributing 18 counters and not to be discounted was the 9 points scored by JuJan Johnson all in the fourth quarter after looking lost in the first half. Demetris Nichols bore the scoring standard for the home team with 26 points and Damian Saunders added 23 points and 8 rebounds off the bench with Andre Barrett scoring 16 and dealing 15 assists. Idaho will continue their road swing on a Thursday junket to Reno while Sioux Falls heads to Santa Cruz on Friday followed by a stop in Reno on Saturday.


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For the last 26 years I have been fortunate enough to take Chestnut Hill Academy's incoming freshmen class to Washington, D.C., during the second week of September to spend a week researching various topics.
The week falls into a routine with some of the activities being on the same day and usually around the same time. The trip in September of 2001 happened to be a year when the schedule changed.
For the preceding 15 years the class had spent Tuesday mornings in the Pentagon. The tour was almost always followed by a briefing by a Defense Department spokesperson who engaged the class on "Star Wars," deployment of troops to Bosnia or another contemporary issue.
In 2001 I had an opportunity to take the class to the National Press Club on Monday afternoon, so I switched our normal Tuesday activity at the Pentagon to Monday. That Monday, Sept. 10, the class visited Arlington Cemetery, went to the Pentagon and then to the National Press Club.
The luncheon speaker was Joe Biden, then a Delaware senator. He made the point that the Senate should not ratify a bill allocating huge funding for a new ICBM program, because in his opinion the next wave of war was "terrorism." I can vividly remember the senator thumping the podium, and presenting point after point in defense of his view.
We left the Press Club and finished our full agenda for the day, then returned to our campsite, Prince William Forest Park in Virginia. Little did we know what the next day would bring.
Tuesday was as clear and beautiful as I have ever seen in Washington. We rolled into town for our first appointment at the Federal Elections Commission, and this was to be followed by an audience at the Israeli Embassy. We left the Federal Elections Commission and something was amiss.
I was making sure all of the students were on the bus when my phone rang. I was informed of the strike at the first tower, the strike at the second tower and, while I was on the phone, the news about the Pentagon was delivered. I remember looking to the southeast and seeing dark smoke coming from the Potomac River.
I knew that our normal route to Virginia would not be available. The traffic was now past any rush hour traffic snarl I had ever seen in D.C. The normal return trip of 45 minutes took almost three hours.
I remember not really knowing what was happening but also realizing I had 54 young men who only knew that something was wrong. I used the bus intercom to explain what I knew and that we were returning to the campsite.
During that long trip, I called the school more than 100 times. I could not get through. Finally, I phoned and got through. There was the receptionist. Boy was it good to hear her voice. After the initial calming process, I told her that we were all safe and out of Washington and that I would call with our plans around 4:30 p.m.
When we arrived at the campsite, I asked the boys to go and pack their gear and bring it to the dining hall. This allowed the faculty to debrief and to learn the extent of the events that Senator Biden had so prophetically spoken of the day before.
The boys returned, and we tried to explain what had transpired. We answered questions, allayed fears and told them that the school was contacting their parents. They wanted to know who was responsible. Were we at war? How many attacks were there? For the most part the class was very subdued, and it was easy to read the concern on their faces. The faculty and I spent the balance of that time and the return trip trying to be reassuring and positive.
After an early dinner, we took off for Philadelphia, but there was a snag. Interstate 95 and all bridges and tunnels were closed. This meant a detour west on Interstate 66 to Interstate 81, and then east on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The bus was stopped at the Susquehanna River and checked with mirrors by Pennsylvania State Police for weapons, bombs and any other suspicious material.
I will never forget the rush of parents to meet their sons when the bus pulled into the CHA parking lot close to 11 p.m.
Since 9/11 the Washington trip has changed to a degree, most notably in security and access. All buildings have people pass through metal detectors, when prior to 9/11 only a few required this.
Access to the Capitol, The White House and numerous other buildings is now denied. And today, a full decade past that horrific day, the presence of Capitol Police armed with heavy weaponry and wearing Kevlar vests at most sites stirs the memories of 9/11/2001.
Stan Parker graduated from Chestnut Hill Academy in 1968 and has been a member of his alma mater's faculty since 1973. A former chairman of the history department, he is currently the dean of CHA's faculty and varsity baseball coach.


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I have been running (seriously) for about 7 years now and when I first started out I felt little connection between myself and other runner's I would see on the road, trail, etc. I did not occur to me that we share quite a bit in common and a smile, nod, or a "hi" might help push us to achieve our respective goals or just brighten our days. Even as I became more involved in the running world I still viewed most other runners as competition. That was until I realized that I am my only competition and You are your only competition! Everyone is out there competing with themselves, we are all united by that. Lately, I have been noticing more runner's acknowledging each other while running and I think it's great. I'm not sure what the reason is, maybe it's just my outlook on things or maybe it is a shift in running culture or consciousness. Certainly, books like Ultramarathon Man (Dean Karnazes) and Born to Run (Chris McDougall) have brought the running community closer together. So has training groups, fundraising efforts, and running blogs! I would also guess that the recession and the rise in diseases has prompted the world (especially the USA) to refocus their attention on being healthy and living an active lifestyle.
This runner's wave business has been a hot topic in the running community lately, check out this RUNNER'S WORLD ARTICLE and even Hal Higdon suggests saying "hi" in his ADVANCED I TRAINING SCHEDULE (see tuesday). See how much the runner's wave means to FATGIRL2FITGIRL.
I also am a big fan of running to MUSIC... yes, it can be an unfair motivator but more importantly music just fits certain moments. However, I have been training more and more without headphones because I have noticed a rise in communication with other runner's and I enjoy getting in tune with nature... It also puts me at an unfair advantage when running through areas with mountain lions and coyotes! In the past month I have had two conversations (each less than 2 minutes) with other runners, i did not know, while on a run. This was pretty cool. So say what's up to someone on your long run this weekend or throw them a smile or a wave.


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The World of Mao
Home Sweet Home: Mao Zedong's childhood home is in Shaoshan in south-central China. Mao and his brothers worked in the 13-room farmhouse under the sharp eyes of their father, a well-off farmer.
By Susan Spano
Los Angeles Times
SHAOSHAN, China ~ Like visitors at George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia, people come to Shaoshan village deep in the heart of China to remember and teach their children about their national hero.
He launched the Long March, an estimated 3,750-mile epic exploit as central to the story of China as the Boston Tea Party is to America. He fought warlords, the Japanese and the US-supported Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek. On October 1, 1949, he stood in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and proclaimed the birth of a new China.
He was Mao Zedong.
In the West, however, he is remembered as the instigator of bloody purges, disastrous agrarian reforms and that heinous episode of national self-violation known as the Cultural Revolution. The first sentence of Mao: The Unknown Story, a unilaterally condemning biography of the Chinese leader published in 2005 by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, puts it this way: "Mao … who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th century leader."
There is no hint of this at his immaculately preserved birthplace in Shaoshan, the first stop on a trip across China I took last spring to try to resolve in my own mind the apparently irreconcilable contradictions that surround Mao's legacy and modern China. If I were ever to understand why the Communist government acts as it does in matters as consequential as press freedom, the recent crackdown on protesters in Tibet and its vilification of the Dalai Lama, it seemed necessary to me, as a foreigner, to try see China's recent past as the Chinese might see it.
Historians and political scientists have been analyzing these questions since Mao died in 1976. But travelers can also study politics and history by visiting places where important – and, in this case, still debated – events occurred that changed history in China and in the world.
The Chinese tourism administration encourages travelers to visit revolutionary war era memorials. In 2005, museums opened all along the route of the Long March, which ended in 1935. The arduous trek took the Red Army from compromised Communist strongholds in the south to the dusty town of Yanan in northeast-central China.
But few foreign visitors add these places to their China itineraries, partly because many of the landmarks are in remote regions. Then too, Westerners might know little about China's long, bitter and – some would claim, ongoing – struggle for freedom.
Mao's idyllic-looking childhood home nestles in a narrow green valley shouldered by rice paddies a two-hour drive southwest of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province.
A winding path leads to a tidy, 13-room farmhouse where Mao and his two younger brothers worked under the sharp eyes of their father, a comfortably well-off farmer. A steady stream of visitors – mostly old people and students – crowded into the room where Mao, the first surviving son, was born in 1893 on a now-fragile-looking canopy bed to a mother who practiced Buddhism and did housework on bound feet.
One of China's countless heroic statues of the chairman stands at the center of a pavilion outside Shaoshan. Nearby is his clan's peak-roofed ancestral temple, where Mao started a night school for farmers in 1917, an early effort to mobilize China's rural poor whose hard, hopeless lives were dramatized in Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 novel, The Good Earth.
At a time when the Moscow-educated bosses of the fledgling Chinese Communist Party were trying to start the revolution in Shanghai, Beijing and other big cities, Mao saw that real change could come only from the countryside, supported by millions of Chinese peasants.
When I asked my guide what she thought about Mao, she repeated the official assessment rendered by the Communist Party five years after his death. Mao was 30 percent wrong and 70 percent right, a stunning moral quantification now taught to schoolchildren and parroted by the Chinese media.
In Changsha, a burgeoning city with a population of about 6 million, I caught glimpses of the as-yet-unquantified Mao, an unusually tall youth who loved to eat fermented bean curd, composed poetry and, according to local lore, mastered the neat trick of reading history books while swimming in the Xiang River.
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He attended Hunan Fourth Provincial Normal School (later the First Normal School), a European-style compound devoted to teacher training. There he met and married Yang Kaihui, the daughter of one of his professors. But shortly after Mao led a failed Communist attack on Changsha in 1930, Yang was executed and their three sons were given to relatives.
Mao had four wives and, it's thought, seven children, all subordinated to the revolutionary cause. This pattern, wrote Philip Short in "Mao: A Life," a massive and balanced biography of the Chinese leader, caused a gradual withering of the man's humanity. Without it, Mao came to believe that China's greatest resource, its people, could be expended to achieve his goals.
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A few days later, I traveled by car to one of the most renowned battle sites in the long, gruesome civil war that raged intermittently across China from 1927 to 1950. My guide – a charming, funny young university graduate in Chengdu – told me that all Chinese schoolchildren know what happened at Luding Bridge.
Scholars, however, still contest the events of May 29, 1935, when the hungry, sick, cold and weary Communists, a little more than halfway through the Long March, made a last-ditch attempt to escape annihilation by the better-armed Nationalists. Early that morning, an advance Red Army unit reached Luding, in a Himalayan mountain valley not far from the Sichuan-Tibet border. There, a 120-yard-long chain-link footbridge spans a deep chasm over the cold, raging Dadu River.
In popular histories and Chinese war movies, a handful of ragged Communist soldiers crawl over the bridge under heavy Nationalist fire from the far bank, blazing the way for the rest of the desperately retreating Red Army. But authors Chang and Halliday claim that there was no battle at the Dadu River, that the Communists crossed the bridge unopposed and that Mao fabricated the legend of Luding.
A traveler cannot make any final determination about events at Luding Bridge, but just getting here inspires appreciation for the true grit of the Long Marchers. Of the more than 80,000 Red soldiers who began the Long March in 1934, only about 20,000 made it across Luding Bridge in the spring of 1935.
I too almost didn't make it. I set out with a guide and driver from Chengdu early one spring morning, intending to reach Luding by dark, stopping in the town of Anshunchang, where the Red Army first tried to cross the flooding Dadu. Thwarted, they then embarked on a forced march across about 80 miles of trackless Himalayan foothills to Luding, a feat accomplished in little more than 24 hours. It took me half a day of driving to cover a fraction of that distance, and we never even made it to Anshunchang because the paved road was impassable.
Before turning back to the main highway leading to Luding from Chengdu, we passed abandoned hydroelectric plants, burrowed through dark, decrepit tunnels and saw tired market towns where people still seemed to be suffering from the Great Leap Forward.
While the Cultural Revolution has been officially condemned, attributed to Mao's henchmen in the Gang of Four – the even-more destructive Great Leap is seldom discussed in China. My twentysomething guide, a product of the free market miracle that began after Deng Xiaoping reversed Mao's economic policies in 1978, was too young to remember the famine, but he said his mother and father did.
Mao launched the Great Leap in 1958 to jump-start the Chinese economy by turning small peasant farms into collectives, but now it appears to be a major cause of a five-year famine that left at least 30 million people dead.
It was dusk when we finally reached Luding Bridge, where a man in a photography stall with Red Army costumes offered me the chance to have my picture taken dressed up as a Long Marcher. Mao-era kitsch – T-shirts, coffee mugs, alarm clocks bearing the chairman's portrait – has become chic in China, so the photo might have made an amusing souvenir. But the only memory I wanted was of walking over the precarious, swaying footbridge.
At the far side, I asked my guide the same question about Mao that I had asked in Changsha. He repeated the 30 percent bad, 70 percent good assessment of the chairman's policies, then added that some Chinese now think 40 percent to 60 percent is a more accurate ratio.
To reach Yanan several days later, I took a five-hour bus ride north from Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, on a new superhighway that ascends the Yellow Earth Plateau. The monotonous, inhospitable landscape, where people live in cave houses built into the sides of canyons, is riven by erosion and subject to Old Testament-force dust storms.
The Communists found safe haven in Yanan for more than a decade, from shortly after the end of the Long March through the expulsion of Japanese forces from China in 1945 and the Communist Party's final battles against Chiang Kai-shek. In this small town in the Chinese hinterlands, Mao consolidated his position as supreme leader and developed the ideologies canonized in his Little Red Book.
Yanan now has a population of about 340,000 and a booming economy, thanks to the discovery of oil on the plateau. My guide there was a pleasant, soft-spoken man who took me through the Communists' compound at Yangjialing, near the mouth of a dry valley just north of town.
By late afternoon, the compound was crowded with uniformed groups of Communist Party members and Chinese soldiers on holiday.
Tunneled into the hillside, the chairman's quarters have the pleasantly musty smell of a wine cellar and a feeling of security that must have appealed to Long March veterans such as Mao and his second-in-command, Zhou Enlai.
From the canopy bed, which is theatrically littered with cigarette butts, Mao directed the wars against the Japanese and the Nationalists. It was also the perch from which he wrote, read and devised the Yanan Rectification campaign, aimed at purifying the beliefs of new recruits to the Communist Party and ensuring that they recognized Mao as its final authority. The campaign was a precursor of the ugly purges to follow.
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Visitors to Yanan can experience how the party leaders lived during that time at the Yangjialing Cave Hotel up the canyon from the compound. Its rooms sit on half a dozen levels abutting the hill, with a restaurant below and a tea garden on top. My room had a platform bed, where I felt safe and grounded during a thunderstorm that rocked the little valley.
The night I arrived, so did a bus carrying 150 new Party recruits on a visit from Beijing, where they worked for a high-tech company. They looked to be in their 20s and 30s, and, clad in orange polo shirts, they paraded around the courtyard behind a flag bearer. Afterward, they listened to a lecture by a local historian and watched old Chinese revolutionary war movies alfresco. It looked about as diabolical as an Amway convention.
Later, my guide said that only about 5 percent of the Chinese people belong to the party, partly because of the many rules members must follow. Cynicism and apathy are other factors, increasing since China's economic opening and the 1989 killing of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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I ended my tour in Beijing by seeing the portrait of Mao on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, overlooking Tiananmen Square. The chairman's image has presided over the vast square since 1949, although it had to be replaced last year after an unemployed man tried to set it on fire.
Crowds stood below the portrait, some from abroad, but most of them Chinese. The horrors of the 20th century – the crushing poverty and hopelessness, the wars and revolutions, the natural and man-made disasters – are behind them now, and the picture of Mao is more a symbol of China than the image of a real man who lived on a gargantuan scale.
Some Westerners think the evils Mao perpetuated blot out whatever real reforms he brought to China, a conclusion the Chinese someday might reach too.
Looking up at the chairman's portrait in Tiananmen Square, I remembered the words of a friend who says sanity lies in the ability to live with contradictions. At Yanan, Shaoshan and Luding Bridge, that was all I could do.Filed under: Travel & Culture


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Norris Trophy finalists: Canadiens' P.K. Subban, Penguins' Kris Letang, Wild's Ryan SuterNHL.com @NHLdotcom
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Montreal's P.K. Subban, Pittsburgh's Kris Letang and Minnesota's Ryan Suter are finalists for the Norris Trophy, given annually to the NHL's top defenceman.
Each is a Norris finalist for the first time.
Subban topped the league's defencemen with 11 goals and 27 assists. Letang finished second in the scoring race among defencemen despite missing more than a quarter of the season. Suter of Madison, Wis., ranked second among players at his position in assists (28) and third in points (32).
Members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association submitted ballots at the end of the regular season. The winner will be announced during the Stanley Cup Finals.
The finalists for the Vezina Trophy for top goaltender are announced Wednesday.


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Introduction to Zend Framework
Learning Zend Framework
Zend Framework Reference
The Google Health Data API is designed to enable developers to do two things:
Read a user's Google Health profile or query for medical records that match particular criteria and then use the results to provide personalized functionality based on the data.
Add new medical records to a user's profile by including CCR data when sending a notice to a user's profile. Note: The CCR data is stored as an XML blob within the <atom> entry. The library does not provide direct accessors to the object model but it does have helpers for extracting specific fields.
There are three main feeds, each of which requires authentication. Unlike other Google Data APIs, each Google Health feed has a limited set of HTTP operations you can perform on it, depending on which authentication method you are using (ClientLogin or AuthSub/OAuth). For a list of permitted operations, see http://code.google.com/apis/health/reference.html#Authentication.
Profile Feed use the profile feed to query a user's health profile for specific information.
Register Feed use the register feed to reconcile new CCR data into a profile.
Profile List Feed the profile list feed should be used to determine which of the user's Health profiles to interact with. This feed is only available when using ClientLogin.
See http://code.google.com/apis/health for more information about the Google Health API.
The Google Health API, like all Google Data APIs, is based off of the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), an XML based format for managing web-based resources. Traffic between a client and the Google Health servers occurs over HTTP and allows for authenticated connections.
Before any transactions can occur, a connection needs to be made. Creating a connection
to the Health servers involves two steps: creating an HTTP client and
binding a
Zend_Gdata_Health service instance to that client.
The Google Health API allows programmatic access to a user's Health profile. There are three authentication schemes that are supported by Google Health:
ClientLogin provides direct username/password authentication to the Health servers. Since this method requires that users provide your application with their password, this authentication scheme is only recommended for installed/desktop applications.
AuthSub allows a user to authorize the sharing of their private data. This provides the same level of convenience as ClientLogin but without the security risk, making it an ideal choice for web-based applications. For Google Health, AuthSub must be used in registered and secure mode--meaning that all requests to the API must be digitally signed.
OAuth is an alternative to AuthSub. Although this authentication scheme is not discussed in this document, more information can be found in the Health Data API Developer's Guide.
See Authentication Overview in the Google Data API documentation for more information on each authentication method.
In order to interact with Google Health, the client library provides the
Zend_Gdata_Health service class. This class provides a common
interface to the Google Data and Atom Publishing Protocol models and assists in
marshaling requests to and from the Health API.
Once you've decided on an authentication scheme, the next step is to create an
instance of
Zend_Gdata_Health. This class should be passed an
instance of
Zend_Gdata_HttpClient. This provides an interface
for AuthSub/OAuth and ClientLogin to create a special authenticated
HTTP client.
To test against the H9 Developer's (/h9) instead of Google Health (/health), the
Zend_Gdata_Health constructor takes an optional third
argument for you to specify the H9 service name 'weaver'.
The example below shows how to create a Health service class using ClientLogin authentication:
// Parameters for ClientLogin authentication
$healthServiceName = Zend_Gdata_Health::HEALTH_SERVICE_NAME;
//$h9ServiceName = Zend_Gdata_Health::H9_SANDBOX_SERVICE_NAME;
$user = "firstname.lastname@example.com";
$pass = "pa$$w0rd";
// Create an authenticated HTTP client
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($user,
// Create an instance of the Health service
$service = new Zend_Gdata_Health($client);
A Health service using AuthSub can be created in a similar, though slightly more lengthy fashion. AuthSub is the recommend interface to communicate with Google Health because each token is directly linked to a specific profile in the user's account. Unlike other Google Data APIs, it is required that all requests from your application be digitally signed.
* Retrieve the current URL so that the AuthSub server knows where to
* redirect the user after authentication is complete.
function getCurrentUrl() {
$phpRequestUri = htmlentities(substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) == 'on') {
$protocol = 'https://';
} else {
$protocol = 'http://';
$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != '' &&
(($protocol == 'http://' && $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != '80') ||
($protocol == 'https://' && $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != '443'))) {
$port = ':' . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
} else {
$port = '';
return $protocol . $host . $port . $phpRequestUri;
* Redirect a user to AuthSub if they do not have a valid session token.
* If they're coming back from AuthSub with a single-use token, instantiate
* a new HTTP client and exchange the token for a long-lived session token
* instead.
function setupClient($singleUseToken = null) {
$client = null;
// Fetch a new AuthSub token?
if (!$singleUseToken) {
$next = getCurrentUrl();
$scope = 'https://www.google.com/health/feeds';
$authSubHandler = 'https://www.google.com/health/authsub';
$secure = 1;
$session = 1;
$authSubURL = Zend_Gdata_AuthSub::getAuthSubTokenUri($next,
// 1 - allows posting notices && allows reading profile data
$permission = 1;
$authSubURL .= '&permission=' . $permission;
echo 'Your Google Health Account';
} else {
$client = new Zend_Gdata_HttpClient();
// This sets your private key to be used to sign subsequent requests
$sessionToken =
// Set the long-lived session token for subsequent requests
return $client;
// -> Script execution begins here <-
$client = setupClient(@$_GET['token']);
// Create an instance of the Health service
$userH9Sandbox = false;
$healthService = new Zend_Gdata_Health($client,
NOTE: the remainder of this document will assume you are using AuthSub for authentication.
To query the user's profile feed, make sure your initial AuthSub token was requested with the permission parameter set to 1. The process of extracting data from the profile requires two steps, sending a query and iterating through the resulting feed.
You can send structured queries to retrieve specific records from a user's profile.
When retrieving the profile using the Health API, specifically
constructed query URLs are used to describe what (CCR) data
should be returned. The
Zend_Gdata_Health_Query class helps
simplify this task by automatically constructing a query URL
based on the parameters you set.
To execute a query against the profile feed, invoke a new instance of an
Zend_Gdata_Health_Query and call the service's
getHealthProfileFeed() method:
$healthService = new Zend_Gdata_Health($client);
// example query for the top 10 medications with 2 items each
$query = new Zend_Gdata_Health_Query();
$profileFeed = $healthService->getHealthProfileFeed($query);
setDigest("true") returns all of user's CCR data
in a single Atom <entry>.
setCategory() helper can be passed an additional
parameter to return more specific CCR information. For example, to return just
the medication Lipitor, use
setCategory("medication", "Lipitor"). The same
methodology can be applied to other categories such as conditions, allergies,
lab results, etc.
A full list of supported query parameters is available in the query parameters section of the Health API Reference Guide.
Each Google Health entry contains CCR data, however, using the
digest query parameter and setting is to
TRUE will consolidate all of the CCR elements
(that match your query) into a single Atom <entry>.
To retrieve the full CCR information from an entry, make a call to the
Zend_Gdata_Health_ProfileEntry class's
getCcr() method. That returns a
$entries = $profileFeed->getEntries();
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
$medications = $entry->getCcr()->getMedications();
//$conditions = $entry->getCcr()->getConditions();
//$immunizations = $entry->getCcr()->getImmunizations();
// print the CCR xml (this will just be the entry's medications)
foreach ($medications as $med) {
$xmlStr = $med->ownerDocument->saveXML($med);
echo "
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";
Here, the
getCcr() method is used in conjunction with a
magic helper to drill down and extract just the medication data from the entry's
CCR. The formentioned magic helper takes the form
getCATEGORYNAME(), where
is a supported Google Health category. See the Google Health
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To be more efficient, you can also use category queries to only return the necessary CCR from the Google Health servers. Then, iterate through those results:
$query = new Zend_Gdata_Health_Query();
$profileFeed = $healthService->getHealthProfileFeed($query);
// Since the query contained digest=true, only one Atom entry is returned
$entry = $profileFeed->entry[0];
$conditions = $entry->getCcr()->getConditions();
// print the CCR xml (this will just be the profile's conditions)
foreach ($conditions as $cond) {
$xmlStr = $cond->ownerDocument->saveXML($cond);
echo "
" . $xmlStr . "
";
NOTE: This feed is only available when using ClientLogin
Since ClientLogin requires a profile ID with each of its feeds, applications will likely want to query this feed first in order to select the appropriate profile. The profile list feed returns Atom entries corresponding each profile in the user's Google Health account. The profile ID is returned in the Atom <content> and the profile name in the <title> element.
To execute a query against the profile list feed, call the service's
getHealthProfileListFeed() method:
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient('email@example.com',
$healthService = new Zend_Gdata_Health($client);
$feed = $healthService->getHealthProfileListFeed();
// print each profile's name and id
$entries = $feed->getEntries();
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
echo '
Profile name: ' . $entry->getProfileName() . '
';
echo 'profile ID: ' . $entry->getProfileID() . '
';
Once you've determined which profile to use, call
setProfileID() with the profileID as an argument. This will
restrict subsequent API requests to be against that particular
// use the first profile
$profileID = $feed->entry[0]->getProfileID();
$profileFeed = $healthService->getHealthProfileFeed();
$profileID = $healthService->getProfileID();
echo '
Queried profileID: ' . $profileID . '
';
Individual posts to the register feed are known as notices. Notice are sent from third-party applications to inform the user of a new event. With AuthSub/OAuth, notices are the single means by which your application can add new CCR information into a user's profile. Notices can contain plain text (including certain XHTML elements), a CCR document, or both. As an example, notices might be sent to remind users to pick up a prescription, or they might contain lab results in the CCR format.
Notices can be sent by using the
sendHealthNotice() method
for the Health service:
$healthService = new Zend_Gdata_Health($client);
$subject = "Title of your notice goes here";
$body = "Notice body can contain html entities";
$ccr = '<ContinuityOfCareRecord xmlns="urn:astm-org:CCR">
<Type><Text>Start date</Text></Type>
<Text>Aortic valve disorders</Text>
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Non-rapid eye movement sleep
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Non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM), also known as quiescent sleep[1], is, collectively, sleep stages 1–3, previously known as stages 1–4. Rapid eye movement sleep (REM) is not included. There are distinct electroencephalographic and other characteristics seen in each stage. Unlike REM sleep, there is usually little or no eye movement during these stages. Dreaming is rare during NREM sleep, and muscles are not paralyzed as in REM sleep. People who do not go through the sleeping stages properly get stuck in NREM sleep, and because muscles are not paralyzed a person may be able to sleepwalk.[2] According to studies, the mental activity that takes place during NREM sleep is believed to be thought-like, whereas REM sleep includes hallucinatory and bizarre content.[3] The mental activity that occurs in NREM and REM sleep is a result of two different generators, which also explains the difference in mental activity.[3] In addition, there is a parasympathetic dominance during NREM.[4] During the period of Non-REM sleep, the mindset of a person is more organized.[5] The reported differences between the REM and NREM activity are believed to arise from differences in the memory stages that occur during the two types of sleep.[3] It has been found through several experiments that low levels of stage 3 sleep are observed in about 40-50% of people with acute and chronic schizophrenia (who typically experience abnormal non-rapid eye movement sleep).[6]
Stages of NREM sleepEdit
NREM sleep was divided into four stages in the Rechtschaffen and Kales (R&K) standardization of 1968. That has been reduced to three in the 2007 update by The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).[7]
- Stage 1 – occurs mostly in the beginning of sleep, with slow eye movement. This state is sometimes referred to as relaxed wakefulness.[8] Alpha waves disappear and the theta wave appears. People aroused from this stage often believe that they have been fully awake. During the transition into stage-1 sleep, it is common to experience hypnic jerks.[9]
- Stage 2 – no eye movement occurs, and dreaming is very rare. The sleeper is quite easily awakened. EEG recordings tend to show characteristic "sleep spindles", which are short bursts of high frequency brain activity,[10] and "K-complexes" during this stage.
- Stage 3 – previously divided into stages 3 and 4, is deep sleep, slow-wave sleep (SWS). Stage 3 was formerly the transition between stage 2 and stage 4 where delta waves, associated with "deep" sleep, began to occur, while delta waves dominated in stage 4. In 2007, these were combined into just stage 3 for all of deep sleep.[11] Dreaming is more common in this stage than in other stages of NREM sleep though not as common as in REM sleep. The content of SWS dreams tends to be disconnected, less vivid, and less memorable than those that occur during REM sleep.[12] This is also the stage during which parasomnias most commonly occur. Various education systems e.g. the VCAA of Australian Victorian education practice still practice the stages 3 & 4 separation.
Sleep spindles and K-complexesEdit
Sleep spindles are unique to NREM sleep. The most spindle activity occurs at the beginning and the end of NREM. Sleep spindles involve activation in the brain in the areas of the thalamus, anterior cingulate and insular cortices, and the superior temporal gyri. They have different lengths. There are slow spindles in the range of 11 – 13 Hz that are associated with increased activity in the superior frontal gyrus, and fast spindles in the range of 13 – 15 Hz that are associated with recruitment of sensorimotor processing cortical regions, as well as recruitment of the mesial frontal cortex and hippocampus. There is no clear answer as to what these sleep spindles mean, but ongoing research hopes to illuminate their function.[13]
K-complexes are single long delta waves that last for only a second.[14] They are also unique to NREM sleep. They appear spontaneously across the early stages, usually in the second stage, much like the sleep spindles. However, unlike sleep spindles, they can be voluntarily induced by transient noises such as a knock at the door. The function of these K-complexes is unknown and further research needs to be conducted.[15]
Dreaming during NREMEdit
Although study participants' reports of intense dream vividness during REM sleep and increased recollection of dreams occurring during that phase suggest that dreaming most commonly occurs during that stage[16], dreaming can also occur during NREM sleep[16], in which dreams tend to be more mundane in comparison.[17]
Research has also shown that dreams during the NREM stage most commonly occur during the morning hours which is also the time period with the highest occurrence of REM sleep. This was found through a study involving subjects taking naps over specific intervals of time and being forcefully awakened, their sleep was separated into naps including only REM sleep and only NREM sleep using polysomnography. This implies that the polysomnographic occurrence of REM sleep is not required for dreaming. Rather, the actual mechanisms that create REM sleep cause changes to one's sleep experience. Through these changes, by morning, a sub-cortical activation occurs during NREM that is comparable to the type that occurs during REM. It is this sub-cortical activation that results in dreaming during the NREM stage during the morning hours.[18]
Muscle movements during non-REMEdit
During non-REM sleep, the tonic drive to most respiratory muscles of the upper airway is inhibited. This has two consequences:
- The upper airway becomes more floppy.
- The rhythmic innervation results in weaker muscle contractions because the intracellular calcium levels are lowered, as the removal of tonic innervation hyperpolarizes motoneurons, and consequently, muscle cells.
However, because the diaphragm is largely driven by the autonomous system, it is relatively spared of non-REM inhibition. As such, the suction pressures it generates stay the same. This narrows the upper airway during sleep, increasing resistance and making airflow through the upper airway turbulent and noisy. For example, one way to determine whether a person is sleeping is to listen to their breathing - once the person falls asleep, their breathing becomes noticeably louder. Not surprisingly, the increased tendency of the upper airway to collapse during breathing in sleep can lead to snoring, a vibration of the tissues in the upper airway. This problem is exacerbated in overweight people when sleeping on the back, as extra fat tissue may weigh down on the airway, closing it. This can lead to sleep apnea.[citation needed]
The occurrence of parasomnias is very common in the last stage of NREM sleep. Parasomnias are sleep behaviors that affect the function, quality, or timing of sleep, caused by a physiological activation in which the brain is caught between the stages of falling asleep and waking. The autonomous nervous system, cognitive process, and motor system are activated during sleep or while the person wakes up from sleep.
Some examples of parasomnias are somnambulism (sleep walking), somniloquy (sleep talking), sleep eating, nightmares or night terrors, sleep paralysis, and sexsomnia (or "sleep sex"). Many of these have a genetic component, and can be quite damaging to the person with the behavior or their bed partner. Parasomnias are most common in children, but most children have been found to outgrow them with age. However, if not outgrown, they can cause other serious problems with everyday life.[19]
Polysomnography (PSG) is a test used in the study of sleep; the test result is called a polysomnogram. Below are images of the NREM stages 1, 2 and 3.
The figures represent 30-second epochs (30 seconds of data). They represent data from both eyes, EEG, chin, microphone, EKG, legs, nasal/oral air flow, thermistor, thoracic effort, abdominal effort, oximetry, and body position, in that order. EEG is highlighted by the red box. Sleep spindles in the stage 2 figure are underlined in red.
Slow-wave sleepEdit
Slow-wave sleep (SWS) is made up of the deepest stage of NREM, and is often referred to as deep sleep.
The highest arousal thresholds (e.g. difficulty of awakening, such as by a sound of a particular volume) are observed in stage 3. A person will typically feel groggy when awakened from this stage, and indeed, cognitive tests administered after awakening from stage 3 indicate that mental performance is somewhat impaired for periods up to 30 minutes or so, relative to awakenings from other stages. This phenomenon has been called "sleep inertia."
After sleep deprivation there is usually a sharp rebound of SWS, suggesting there is a "need" for this stage.[20]
Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) is a highly active state unlike a state of brain quiescence as previously thought. Brain imaging data has shown that during nonREM sleep the regional brain activity is influenced by the waking experience just passed.
A study was done involving an experimental and a control group to have them learn to navigate a 3D maze. The blood flow in the parahippocampal gyrus increased in conjunction with the individual's performance through the 3D maze. Participants were then trained in the maze for 4 hours and later, during the various sleep cycles of nonREM sleep, REM sleep and wakefulness, they were scanned twelve times using a PET scan during the night. The PET scan demonstrated a higher blood flow in the hippocampus during SWS/non-REM sleep due to the training from the previous day while the control group exhibited no increased blood flow and they had not received the training the prior day. The brain activity during sleep, according to this study, would show the events of the previous day do make a difference. One theory suggests a model of Hippocampal-neocortical dialogue. "Two stages of hippocampal activity have been proposed, the first being the recording of the memory during waking and the second involving the playback of the memory during nonREM sleep. This process of reactivation of memory firing sequences is believed to gradually reinforce initially weak connections between neocortical sites allowing the original information to be activated in the cortex independently of the hippocampus, and thus ensuring refreshed encoding capacity of the hippocampus." Maquet concluded that the areas of the brain involved with information processing and memory have increased brain activity during the slow wave sleep period. Events experienced in the previous day have more efficient and clearer memory recall the next day thus indicating that the memory regions of the brain are activated during SWS/non-REM sleep instead of being dormant as previously thought.[21]
- ^ Solms, Mark (2000). "Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms" (PDF). Academic Department of Neurosurgery, St. Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine, Royal London Hospital. p. 1.
- ^ OConnell, C. (2010, Mar 09). Why do some people sleepwalk? Irish Times, pp. 7. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/309237844.
- ^ a b c Manni, Raffaele. "Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Dreams, and Hallucinations". 2005;7:196-197.
- ^ Andreasen, Nancy C.; Black, Donald W. (2006). Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry. American Psychiatric. ISBN 978-1-58562-272-6.
- ^ McNamara, Patrick; Johnson, Patricia; McLaren, Deirdre; Harris, Erica; Beauharnais, Catherine (2010). Rem And Nrem Sleep Mentation. International Review of Neurobiology. 92. Elsevier Inc. pp. 69–86. doi:10.1016/s0074-7742(10)92004-7. ISBN 9780123813220. PMID 20870063.
- ^ Hiatt, JF; Floyd, TC; Katz, PH; Feinberg, I (August 1985). "Further evidence of abnormal non-rapid-eye-movement sleep in schizophrenia". Archives of General Psychiatry. 42 (8): 797–802. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1985.01790310059007. PMID 4015324.
- ^ Schulz, Hartmut (2008). "Rethinking sleep analysis. Comment on the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events". J Clin Sleep Med. 4 (2): 99–103. PMC 2335403. PMID 18468306.
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- ^ "Glossary. A resource from the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Produced in partnership with WGBH Educational Foundation". Harvard University. 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
The 1968 categorization of the combined Sleep Stages 3–4 was reclassified in 2007 as Stage N3.
- ^ McNamara, P.; McLaren, D.; Durso, K. (June 2007). "Representation of the Self in REM and NREM Dreams". Dreaming. 17 (2): 113–126. doi:10.1037/1053-0718.104.22.168. PMC 2629609. PMID 19169371.
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- D. Foulkes et al., "Ego Functions and Dreaming During Sleep Onset," in Charles Tart, ed., Altered States of Consciousness, p. 75.
- Rock, Andrea (2004). The Mind at Night. ISBN 978-0-7382-0755-1.
- Warren, Jeff (2007). "The Slow Wave". The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. ISBN 978-0-679-31408-0.
- Iber, C; Ancoli-Israel, S; Chesson, A; Quan, SF. for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events: Rules, Terminology and Technical Specifications. Westchester: American Academy of Sleep Medicine; 2007.
- Manni, Raffaele. "Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Dreams, and Hallucinations". 2005;7:196-197.


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The return to the playoffs for the Toronto Maple Leafs will be a short one. That's the opinion, at least, of virtually every hockey analyst and expert on both sides of the border.
But while it's no secret the Boston Bruins, who have home ice advantage in their Eastern Conference quarterfinal that gets underway Wednesday, are the consensus pick to win the series, no one should count the Leafs out as a team which might pull off a surprise and upset the big, bad Bruins.
Here are three reasons why the Leafs could be celebrating a trip to Round 2 in a couple of weeks:
The Bruins didn't exactly end the regular season on a high note, winning just two of their last nine games (2-5-2), which included falling to the Ottawa Senators in their finale - a game that cost them the Northeast Division title. If they fall behind early in the series against the Leafs, they might not have the ability to just turn the switch and find their game.
The Bruins know they're the favored team in this series and they also know they've had the Leafs' number over the past couple of seasons. They probably also know, or at least feel, they're destined to win this series.
But if the Leafs can experience some early success and steal one of the first two games at the TD Garden, they might get the Bruins doubting themselves, which is something they probably haven't done at any point in the last couple of seasons when facing the Leafs.
Toronto netminder James Reimer had an up-and-down regular season, but he showed he was capable of putting together lengthy win streaks. It's conceivable he could go on another one of those strong runs right at the outset of this series.
Reimer also was very good against the Bruins this season despite only winning one of three starts against Boston (1-1-1). He allowed just five goals on 96 shots, finishing with a 1.63 goals against average and .948 save percentage in the season series.
Boston's Tuukka Rask, meanwhile, didn't exactly close out the regular season at the top of his game. In fact, he only managed to win two of his last seven starts (2-4-1).
Just like the rest of his team, if he can't find a way to get back to playing at his peak performance quickly, then it could open the door for the Leafs to win this series.
No player on either team goes into the playoffs hotter than the 25-year-old Kessel, who closed out the regular season riding a five-game point streak (netting four goals and nine points). When you look at his overall body of work this season, it's hard not to suggest Kessel is arguably the best player offensively on either team as well.
Kessel produced over a point per game this season for the first time in his career and was easily the most consistent Leafs' forward all season long. Since the end of January, he has not gone more than two consecutive games without recording a point.
While the playoffs are a much different animal compared to the regular season, there's nothing at this time that would suggest Kessel's game would suddenly go into the tank.
Some will undoubtedly point to Kessel's historic struggles against his old team since departing from Beantown - he has just three goals and nine points in 22 games against Boston and none in four games this season - but it's also worth mentioning Kessel has been a noted playoff producer in the past as well.
He has nine goals and 15 points in 15 career playoff games, all with the Bruins albeit this is his first trip back in four years.
If Kessel can recapture some of his past playoff magic, that might just be enough to spark the Leafs to pull off the big upset.


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Cyprus lawmakers work on economy-saving plan
NICOSIA, Cyprus Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy within days.
As well as trying to forge an overall financing package, lawmakers were meeting to decide the fate of the country's second largest lender Laiki which was hardest hit from its exposure to bad Greek debt.
Uncertainty over the position of Cyprus' European partners to the broad thrust of the country's new proposals formed the backdrop to Friday's discussions. There are also questions over whether Russia will be involved in any final package even though a two-day meeting between the finance ministers of Russia and Cyprus broke down with no agreement.
One concrete proposal is the restructuring of Laiki, which it is estimated will generate around 2 billion euros of the 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) the country needs to raise itself. If the new package is agreed by international creditors, then Cyprus will be able to secure another 10 billion euros from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
A new package is necessary after Cyprus' parliament rejected a plan earlier this week to grab up to 10 percent of bank deposits.
The country needs to have the plan in place by Monday as the European Central Bank has said it will cut off emergency support to the banks. That could trigger their collapse and leave the Cypriot economy reeling. Many in the markets think that would mean the country would have to leave the euro with potentially damaging repercussions across the 17-country eurozone.
Worried Laiki employees gathered near parliament for a second day after the governor of the country's central bank announced that authorities would look to safeguard the bank's viable parts and isolate its toxic assets. The hope behind the plan is to staunch any possible contagion effects to the country's other lenders.
"The bank is finished, we'll lose our jobs and I'm worried about my kids," Laiki employee Nikos Tsiangos behind barricades and a cordon of police that have blocked the way to Parliament. "They've brought us to the brink, the Europeans wanted to destroy our economy and they've done it."
Apart from the bank's restructuring, lawmakers were looking at a number of other bills including one setting up an "Investment Solidarity Fund" and restricting banking transactions in times of crisis.
Together, they will make up at least part of the alternative plan Cyprus hopes will secure it the bailout money.
A vote on the bills was scheduled for Friday morning, but that appears to have been pushed back as lawmakers continue discussions.
Europe also appeared to turn up the pressure on Cyprus Friday. Luxembourg's finance Minister Luc Frieden told Germany's Inforadio that Cyprus "certainly must change a very great deal in its financial sector ..... I see among some euro states little financial room for more concessions to Cyprus."
Meanwhile, Cypriot efforts to clinch a contribution from Russia appear to have failed after Russia's finance minister was quoted as saying talks had broken down. Russia is a key player in Cyprus as Russian depositors have parked around 20 billion euros into the country.
Anton Siluanov, Russia's finance minister, said the Cypriots were seeking to get Russian companies to invest in a state-owned firm managing revenues from the island's newfound offshore gas deposits and give Russian companies a stake in that company.
Russian investors were not interested, he said. Cyprus also offered stakes in some of its banks, but Russian banks were not interested in that either. Siluanov also said they were not discussing the possibility of providing a new loan to Cyprus as the EU has set a debt limit for Cyprus.
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Washington, D.C.–The Center for Biological Diversity and the Maunabo Development Committee today filed a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), seeking protection for the coqui guajon, also known as the Puerto Rico rock frog. The suit was filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. and seeks to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to designate Critical Habitat and prepare a Recovery Plan for the coqui guajon.
The coqui guajon (Eleutherodactylus cooki) was listed by the FWS as Threatened under the ESA on June 11, 1997. The FWS declined to designate Critical Habitat for the guajon at that time and has not done so subsequently, directly violating the ESA. Additionally, the FWS has failed to prepare a Recovery Plan for the guajon, also a violation of the ESA.
The coqui guajon is a rare frog which occurs only in Southeastern Puerto Rico, in the municipalities of Maunabo, Yabucoa, San Lorenzo, and Humacao. The guajon occurs in caves and rock grottos known as 'guajonales.' The guajon is the only one of the Puerto Rico coqui species to occur in caves and grotto formations.
There were originally sixteen coqui frog species in Puerto Rico. Three are believed to be extinct today and many of the remaining thirteen are believed to be rare or declining.
Coquies are much revered and beloved in Puerto Rico. Coqui artwork and testimonials to the importance and majesty of coquies are ubiquitous throughout Puerto Rico.
Dr. Pedro M. Torres-Morales, President of the Maunabo Development Committee, stated, "The efforts to declare critical habitat for the coqui guajon in the Pandura Mountains are essential to assure the continued survival of this species."
Peter Galvin, Conservation Biologist for the Center for Biological Diversity, stated, "This fascinating frog is a unique part of Puerto Rico's and indeed the world's natural heritage." Galvin added, "We must not allow another of Puerto Rico's magnificent coqui species to go extinct."
Critical Habitat is defined under the ESA as "areas essential to the survival and recovery of a species." Critical Habitat is afforded to endangered species under the ESA and its designation is mandated under the ESA. Critical Habitat only applies to federal lands or projects on private lands that require federal permits, funding or licenses. Critical Habitat does not change land ownership or create a preserve on private lands. Critical Habitat does prevent the U.S. Government from funding or authorizing projects that would "destroy or adversely modify" Critical Habitat areas.
Recovery Plans are plans designed by the FWS to bring about the recovery of a species to the point where its listing under the ESA is no longer necessary. Recovery Plans are detailed action plans which seek to bring together different agencies and parties in a comprehensive planning effort. The preparation of Recovery Plans is mandated by the ESA.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a science-based environmental advocacy organization that works to protect endangered species and wild places throughout the world through science, policy, education and environmental law. The Center is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.
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The guajon (Eleutherodactylus cooki), is a relatively large frog, approximately 8.5 centimeters (3.3 inches) in length. It is solid brown in color, although attending and calling males may have a yellow throat. The species is characterized by having large truncate discs and by a peculiar, melodious and low voice which is completely different from any other species of Eleutherodactylus in Puerto Rico.
The guajon, first collected by Chapman Grant in 1932, is known only from the Pandura range in southeastern Puerto Rico and west to Patillas/San Lorenzo where it lives in crevices and grottos in and among boulders. Such grottos are commonly referred to as guajonales. It is from the grottos or guajonales where the species lives that the frog derives its name, the guajon. The species is limited in distribution by the rock formation where it occurs. E. cooki is endemic to Puerto Rico and is extremely restricted in geographical distribution. Threats to the species include deforestation, industrial development, run-off from the use of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture, and the use of caves as garbage dumps.
Worldwide amphibian populations have continued to steadily decline at about 2% per year after sharp drops of 15% per year from 1960 to 1966. Amphibians are considered an important indicator of environmental damage. Scientists attribute the causes to a combination of factors including the loss of habitat, fertilizers and pesticides, atmospheric pollution, and introduction of exotic predators.
To see a photograph of the coqui guajon please go to the Maunabo Development Committee website http://espanol.geocities.com/comitepdm/reciente.htm


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Intel introduces ultra-mobile PC platform
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IDF Intel's Ultra Mobile Platform (UMP) came out of the shadows today and with it the A100 series of processors for UMPCs and internet access devices. So did its successor, codenamed 'Menlow', set to ship less than a year from now.
UMP links the A100 and A110 CPUs with the 945GU and ICH7U north and south bridges. As the names suggest, they're derived from Intel's existing chipset products. The A100 and A110 are believed to be 'Dothan' Pentium M chips with 512KB of L2 cache and support for a 400MHz frontside bus speeds, and incorporate the deep sleep state that will be a feature of the upcoming 'Santa Rosa' mobile Core 2 Duo revision.
But there's no reduction in the processor's heat output compared to current UMPC CPUs, so expect UMP-based devices to have active cooling on board.
The 945GU supports LCD panels and can host TV ports. It has a PCI Express lanes for a discrete GPU, and can handle up to 1GB of 400MHz DDR 2 memory. The south bridge has a single parallel ATA 100 channel, HD Audio and can host three PCI devices.
The CPU - codenamed 'Stealy' - may be a tweaked laptop processor, but its successor, 'Silverthorne', is being "designed from the ground up... specifically for ultra-mobile systems", Intel's ultra-mobility chief, Anand Chandrasekher, said. Silverthorne is a 45nm chip, Intel's sixth processor design at that size.
Silverthorne will be paired with a similarly freshly-made chipset, 'Paulsbo'. Together, CPU and chipset comprise 'Menlow', the second generation of UMP. It will consume half the power of the first version of UMP and a quarter of what existing UMPCs, most of the based on ultra-low voltage Celeron Ms, consume.
Intel employees let slip the existence of Stealy last September, but it's a part the chip giant has kept very quiet about until today.
Samsung confirmed that the Q1 Ultra UMPC it introduced in March does indeed use Intel's UMP, as does HTC's Shift handheld, announced last month. Expect UMP-based products from Aigo, Asus, Fujitsu and Heier too, Chandrasekher said. UMP components are shipping to device manufacturers, he added.
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Anyone driving by Danny Hafley's home in Casey County, Kentucky recently has probably done a double take over his choice of lawn ornaments. Rather than a plastic flamingo or ceramic gnome, Mr. Hafley has erected a life-sized mannequin in President Obama's likeness. The figure is wearing a suit over jeans, and an Obama mask that was purchased after Halloween.
The statue is holding a giant slice of watermelon, but Hafley assured a local television station that it wasn't about racial stereotyping, but because he "might get hungry standing out there." He also claimed, "The way I look at it, it's freedom of speech."
Newsflash: Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say it. Otherwise you'll come off like a racist jerk like this guy. This is incredibly offensive and frustrating on so many levels, not the least of which is racism. Why doesn't he add a piece of fried chicken while he's at it?
I have no idea how depicting black people with watermelons and fried chicken got to be a racist thing, because they're both delicious and this white girl would eat either all day long if she didn't have to worry about fitting into her skinny jeans. But it is a thing, and you have to have your head pretty far up where the sun don't shine to not know that and be sensitive to others. At the very least, take the dang thing down once you figure out that it's incredibly rude.
It's also annoying that of all the things there are to criticize or poke fun of about Barack Obama ... his skin color isn't one of them. Why not have him holding a piggy bank? All of our taxes are about to go up next week thanks to his refusal to work with Republicans in Congress. Or give him a Hawaiian lei or golf clubs in response to his frequent recreational activities? You know, something that actually makes a point other than "I'm a racist douche canoe."
I'm personally miffed that people like Danny Hafley give Obama critics like me a bad rap. Agree with my politics or not, but don't ever assume racism is a common characteristic of anyone that doesn't approve of the president's job performance. The vast majority of us care way more about his fiscal policy than what shade his stage makeup is.
Free speech or not, this is disrespectful to President Obama, misrepresentative of Republican values, and a disgrace to America in general. Show some decency and take it down, Mr. Hafley.
Is there any way to defend this statue? Or is it just bad?
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