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Nurses to President Obama: Don't Cut Healthcare, Retirement; Raise Corporate Taxes, End Wars
For Immediate Release
April 12, 2011
RNs Won't Endorse Politicians who Vote to Cut Social Security
In advance of President Obama's speech Wednesday on the budget deficit, the nation's largest union and professional association of nurses today called on the President to oppose any cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security – and strengthen the nation's economy by restoring fair taxes on corporations and the super-rich, ending the wars, and creating good paying jobs.
"America is not broke, it's just deficient in political courage and leadership," said Jean Ross, RN, co-president of the 160,000-member National Nurses United. "It's time to tell Wall Street and the politicians they finance in Washington and state governments that the American people have sacrificed enough. There can be no more cuts in healthcare programs for seniors, the disabled, and the disadvantaged, and no reductions in retirement security."
NNU's national executive board recently passed a resolution stating that it will not endorse any federal candidate in 2012, from the President to Congress, who votes to cut Social Security.
"We expect the President and our elected leaders in Congress to stand up, and protect our most basic safety net programs, which start with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid," said Ross. "For 30 years, we've seen a massive shift of our nation's wealth and resources transferred from Main Street to the executive suites. The result, record profits, and unbridled corporate corruption and thievery, while wages for working people stagnate, and income and health insecurity soar."
If the President and the Democrats want to cut the deficit, said Ross, they should end the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, reduce military spending, close all the corporate tax schemes that have allowed more than 40 percent of corporations to avoid taxes, restore a fair tax system, and re-invest in America to create good paying jobs in the U.S., not China or India.
NNU is also calling for a Main Street Contract for the American People, a second bill of rights, that includes jobs at living wages, guaranteed healthcare for all, a secure retirement, a safe and healthy environment, a secure retirement for everyone, and respect for union rights.
Republican proposals to privatize Medicare, slash Medicaid, and make further deep cuts in safety net programs are "obviously reprehensible," said Ross. "But without real leadership from the other party and the White House, and a clear road map for an alternative vision, these mean spirited proposals, and continued handouts for the wealthy and corporate elites, will surely follow. It's time for the President to stand up for the working people of this country, not the corporations which brought us an economic tsunami."


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Here's some of what I have in mind, apart from "The Former Age," "Gentilesse", and so forth: "The Bird with Four Feathers" (242-line avian, slightly maceronic lament); "St Jerome and the Lion" (short prose excerpt, will be fun because of its vast iconographic tradition); "The Pistil of Swete Susan" (367 lines, legend of Susannah, useful for popular Bible, Christian perception of Jews, and gender); "Why I Can't Be a Nun" (389 lines, good for gender; also a representative dream vision); "King Edward and the Hermit" (521 lines on poaching and nobility). For later in the semester, I'm considering using this edition of Malory Le Morte Darthur for a unit on chivalric narrative. The centerpiece of the class will likely be The Middle English Breton Lays, because I've taught it before and because Jeffrey's teaching it as well this Spring.
To our expert and enthusiastic audience: any suggestions?

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at Missouri State Museum
Rare Missouri River Landing
After the seat of government moved to the city of Jefferson in 1826, the lower end of Jefferson Street became a lively commercial and transportation hub on the Missouri River. In 1839, James A. Crump built what is now known as the Lohman Building, a sturdy stone structure that would serve as a grocery store, warehouse, tavern, telegraph office and hotel for the growing capital city. After opening a grocery store in the basement of the west section, he sold the east section to John Yount and the center section to E.B. Cordell and James Dunnica. He then leased the upper floors from the three co-owners and opened the Missouri House hotel. The area became known as "the landing," and Crump's hotel earned a reputation as a meeting place for rivermen and legislators.
With the coming of the Pacific Railroad, business boomed in the 1850s. The capital city became the transfer point for goods coming from the east by rail and heading west by steamboat. Much of this activity occurred at the landing. In 1852, Charles Maus and his brother-in-law, Charles Lohman, bought the east section of Crump's building and opened a general store. In response to a growing demand for hotel accommodations, Maus built a hotel across the street from Crump's building in 1855. His brother, Christopher Maus, built a home a few yards south of the hotel. The sturdy brick house exemplifies the small, red brick residences common in Jefferson City during this time period.
Charles Maus first named his hotel the Missouri Hotel and then later the Veranda Hotel. The name changed for a third and final time when Maus returned home from service during the Civil War. He renamed his hotel the Union Hotel as a declaration of his wartime sentiments.
Lohman dissolved his partnership with Maus in 1859 and eventually bought the two remaining sections of what would become known as the Lohman Building. He subsequently developed one of the city's largest warehouse and mercantile businesses at the site.
After the war, river traffic slowed as the railroad offered cheaper and faster transportation. In the 1870s, both Lohman and Maus relocated their businesses away from the landing. The Union Hotel and the Lohman Building were used as storage and tenements until the early 20th century when they became a factory and offices for the Tweedie Shoe Co.
The state acquired the property in the 1960s with the initial intent of building a parking lot, but concerned citizens led by Elizabeth Rozier spearheaded a movement to preserve the buildings. The Lohman Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and in 1974, the state's bicentennial commission adopted the Jefferson Landing proposal as the state's official bicentennial project. The Lohman Building and Union Hotel were restored, and the Lohman Building was opened to the public on July 4, 1976, as the cornerstone of Jefferson Landing State Historic Site.
Jefferson Landing State Historic Site is significant as a rare Missouri River landing. The Lohman Building depicts an 1850s general store and warehouse and features a film on the history of the site and of Jefferson City. It also serves as a support facility for the Missouri State Museum, located on the main floor of the Capitol. The Union Hotel houses the Elizabeth Rozier Gallery with rotating exhibits emphasizing Missouri's history, art and culture. The ground floor of the former hotel keeps up the tradition of providing transportation to the heartland of the state by serving as the city's Amtrak train station.


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In the late 1990s, the world's three major independent producers of hard-disk drives invested about $6.5 billion in research and development in the course of just four years. During the next decade, the bytes that can be stored per unit of a drive's surface area increased a thousandfold—while the price per unit of that surface area dropped 70 percent. The three companies created enormous value for customers. Yet their failure to price products correctly throughout this period of significant innovation contributed to net losses totaling almost $800 million.
Entire industries can suffer when companies fail to grasp the importance of pricing products or services across the life cycle, particularly in innovation-intensive sectors such as consumer electronics and consumer durables, IT hardware and software, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. That's especially true today. Companies introduce products more regularly, with life cycles often measured in months, not years. There's external pressure for low prices from customers expecting more for less and internal pressure from the belief that pricing is a make-or-break factor when products launch. And a company may have a number of related products in the marketplace simultaneously, which complicates their life cycle pricing.
Two points are essential to price effectively throughout the life of a product or service. First, companies should actively manage the trade-off between price and volume (or profit and market share) to maximize returns. Most businesses fail to test customer value perceptions and price sensitivity after products launch and have no idea how the critical trade-off between price and volume shifts over time. Second, companies must make pricing decisions in the context of their broader product portfolios because when they have multiple generations of a product in a market, a price move for one can have important implications for others.
With these two principles in mind, companies should consider how they respond to pricing challenges during the three major phases in the life cycle of a product or service: launch, midlife, and late life.
The launch phase
Correctly setting the launch price for a product or service can reset market price expectations and boost the profit trajectory across the remainder of that offering's life cycle. In the launch phase, it's critical to concentrate on three imperatives: setting a launch price that maximizes the long-term capture of value, avoiding "anchor effects" from older products, and working the product portfolio to a company's advantage.
One prerequisite for setting a launch price that maximizes long-term value is conducting scenario-based analyses that incorporate different pricing models, potential responses by customers and competitors, and the implications for earnings. This approach can help companies avoid common mistakes, such as setting the launch price too low or reducing a product's price soon after launch. The careful adjustment of prices for existing products also can minimize the degree to which they drag down prices for new ones. More broadly, businesses should assess new-product pricing in the context of their existing product portfolios. (For a step-by-step example of how to use pricing strategy to manage a product portfolio, see the audio-enhanced interactive exhibit, "Pricing new products in a portfolio.")
Consider the case of a medical-device manufacturer that launched new versions of all major products every 6 to 18 months. Each version—whether it was a significant innovation or a minor improvement—was priced only a few percentage points above the existing one, in an effort to encourage migration and mitigate potential customer backlash. The company would then drop the price of older products precipitously (by 20 to 40 percent) while continuing to sell them for an extended period because of ongoing demand from some customers and the company's desire to provide a lower-cost alternative to the new products.
This approach dragged down the prices of new products because their incremental value versus the old ones remained more or less constant. As happens at many companies, the average price for each product line declined every year despite annual R&D investments in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In other words, the company was rapidly innovating itself from a market leader into an average performer. Once the company recognized what was happening, it eliminated "fire sales" on older products, changed the incentives of the sales force to support the new life cycle–pricing strategy, and carefully launched subsequent products at greater premiums.
The midlife phase
Once a product has launched and gained stable market acceptance, it enters the midlife phase. This phase presents both opportunity and risk: it often occurs when companies earn a majority of a product's operating profit but also when "me too" products may appear and when price compression is most extreme. Organizations rarely revisit their price–volume trade-offs or value maps at this point, nor do they undertake essential market-based customer research. If they did, they could more effectively fine tuning price–volume trade-offs, anticipate internal and external pricing triggers, and identify and adopt new pricing models that capture more value. In this phase, companies should undertake that fine tuning, anticipate trigger events, monitor market conditions, and consider new pricing models that may change the game.
Companies should change product prices in midlife carefully. Managers need to analyze whether the changes are appropriate (for example, whether lowering prices will raise life cycle profits) and, if so, the most effective timing. One personal-computer company, for example, conducted weekly market price tests, implementing cuts only when unit sales had declined and the tests showed that a lower price would significantly increase unit sales. Managing prices in this way (rather than by steadily reducing them) during the midlife stage has allowed the company to generate tens of millions of dollars in additional operating profit over the lifetime of most of its computer models.
There are many midlife trigger events for pricing: internal (such as the launch of a new model or a change in cost position) and external (price moves and product introductions by competitors or shifts in customer demand, for example). Companies need to monitor the market so they can anticipate such events, or they will face the consequences of failing to take advantage of changes in their rivals' behavior. Take the case of a medical-device company that, after enjoying a period of product exclusivity, decided to lower prices simply because that had been its standard practice. The company then failed to respond when its two main competitors introduced products similar to its own but at much higher prices. Instead of raising prices to capture a larger margin—or at least maintaining them—the company continued to discount, hurting prices and margins for everyone, without gaining market share.
Finally, strong performers are always searching for ways to capture value, and a new midlife-pricing model can reinvigorate a product. Maintenance services for jet engines, for example, were historically undertaken by engine manufacturers using a standard pricing model of "time and materials" associated with each visit to a service shop. As third-party service providers entered the market at lower prices and began to gain prominence, one engine manufacturer introduced long-term service agreements based on hours of flight operation, which roughly correlates with engine wear and tear. Airlines liked the new model because it made their service costs highly predictable, the manufacturer's volume and margins grew substantially, and industry price compression slowed.
The late-life phase
Counterintuitively, the late life of a product may be an opportune time to raise rather than lower prices. The reason is that its "all in" costs may have increased or its inherent value for the remaining customers may not have decreased as much as it has for those that moved on. Indeed, its value may even have increased for some users. All this may translate into a willingness to pay higher prices. Whatever choice a company makes, it must have deep insight into the true cost of serving a market and the customer segments still buying the product. Organizations should be guided by three late-life pricing imperatives: capitalizing on pockets of customers with a high willingness to pay, minimizing competition with next-generation products, and actively working to reduce unfavorable product proliferation.
Certain customers may be fairly price insensitive for an older product because they are more comfortable with it, see more value in it, or regard switching costs as prohibitive. A semiconductor manufacturer that profitably managed the transition from a legacy product to a new one wanted customers to adopt it but recognized that the older product still had strong value for some users. The company actually raised the price of the late-life legacy product after the new one launched. By continuing to sell the older product at significantly higher margins for several more quarters, the company captured at least $250 million in additional profits. It would have given them up if it had followed its usual practice of reducing prices for legacy products when their successors were launched.
Even if a company's first instinct is to discount older products before or just after the launch of a new one, excessive markdowns may hurt newer offerings by making older products seem like a better value. A way to hasten the exit from older products and to achieve higher margins on their remaining sales is to follow the lead of the semiconductor manufacturer above by raising the price of older products, although companies must guard against the risk that higher prices will create obsolete or expired inventory. Another approach—simply eliminating products—can reduce needless complexity in supply chains, service operations, and customer service.
Finally, many companies, especially those selling to businesses, do not manage product proliferation well: claims such as "we never kill a product" are not uncommon. In addition, few companies carefully evaluate their products' economics over time, especially during the late-life stage. While doing so is troublesome for all companies, it is especially problematic for those using a cost-plus methodology, in which prices are set by applying standard margins to standard product costs.
An industrial-equipment manufacturer, for example, ignored life cycle differences and spread its costs across all products—making it appear that it was still making a reasonable margin on older ones. A closer examination of the company's costs in each phase showed that older products cost substantially more to produce than expected and that many were actually unprofitable (exhibit). Once this came to light, the company eliminated some older, unprofitable products and charged more for others so that it was paid appropriately for producing and stocking them.
Sustaining returns across the life cycle
Companies that capture price advantages across the life cycle of their products have several distinct characteristics. Their perspective on pricing is not myopic: they continually strive to think across life cycle stages, building all their questions and analyses into that framework. Managers regularly scan internally and externally for information about potential trigger events. Their level of energy and activity—the ability to undertake fast, deep customer research or to produce insightful analyses on a multitude of variables—is higher than that of most companies. In short, their capabilities reflect the more dynamic and interdependent pricing environment that prevails when companies manage product life cycles. Businesses can take a number of steps to manage and price their products in this way:
Examine life cycle pricing up front. The pricing of new products at savvy companies is not a reactive, ad hoc process but a core competency undertaken at early stages of product development. Such companies consider alternative price–volume trade-offs and strategies over time and envision how each scenario might play out across different customer segments. The process explicitly incorporates price moves during the life cycle and anticipates internal or external triggers that might prompt the company to shift prices up or down.
Maintain a longitudinal view. Nothing should fall between the cracks when a company manages prices over time and across products in its portfolio. Organizations that capture the price advantage escape the common "launch and forget" pricing pitfall once new products hit the market. Their review processes explicitly monitor life cycle pricing performance, while properly aligned incentives keep employees focused on the opportunity. Much of life cycle pricing inherently involves setting expectations about the way prices and volumes may play out. Sophisticated companies track these assumptions and regularly check performance against them.
Find ways to increase life cycle value. Companies that manage life cycle pricing well are dynamic and adaptive. Often these qualities call for a level of cross-functional coordination that transcends the pricing function: product development, marketing, competitive intelligence, sales, and operations may all be involved. Beginning with a high-level plan for managing a product to the end of its life cycle, these companies refine their approach by constantly monitoring market conditions, the moves of competitors, internal operational changes, and customer perceptions.
Companies that master pricing do so across the three phases of a product's life cycle—launch, midlife, and late life—and make decisions in the context of adjacent products in their portfolios. In this way, these companies ensure that they reap the full rewards of their innovations by creating price advantages for themselves.


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Across the political spectrum, Americans are worried about the rising number of migrants apprehended after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll.
But whatever their misgivings about the situation at the border, majorities of poll respondents favor creating a legal pathway to citizenship for certain groups of immigrants already living in the country.
"Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about the situation at the border and the number of migrants coming in, but at the same time, many are still in favor of reforming the system," said Mallory Newall, a research director at Ipsos.
"We see support for allowing law-abiding migrants to become citizens under specific circumstances," Newall said, "and also reforms to ensure better treatment of those at the border, particularly children."
Roughly 4 out of 5 Americans, regardless of partisan affiliation, identified the situation at the southern border as a "problem," though Republicans were more likely than Democrats to call it a "major problem."
Immigration authorities apprehended more than 178,000 migrants at the border in April, the highest monthly total in two decades. More than 35,000 unaccompanied migrant children were taken into custody at the border in March and April.
"It's a disaster," said Paulette Buckner of Melstone, Mont., an independent who leans Republican and describes herself as a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump.
"We're the only country in the world that has no borders right now," said Buckner, who participated in the poll. When asked to grade the Biden administration's handling of the situation so far, she replied: "Is there anything worse than an F?"
President Biden has publicly discouraged Central American migrants from making the dangerous trip north to the border, and his administration is still quickly expelling the majority of migrants under a Trump-era public health order that has been in place since the beginning of the pandemic.
But unaccompanied migrant children are being allowed into the U.S. to seek asylum along with a growing number of migrant families and vulnerable adults.
The NPR/Ipsos poll conducted earlier this month found that two-thirds of respondents are concerned about ensuring proper care for unaccompanied migrant children detained at the border.
The Biden administration has been scrambling to get thousands of migrant teenagers and children out of crowded Border Patrol facilities, and into newly opened emergency shelters overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services.
In Washington, Biden's immigration agenda has been complicated by the situation at the border with Republicans on Capitol Hill saying the administration needs to do more to stem the flow of migrants before overhauling the immigration system.
The president introduced legislation in January that would create a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. if they meet certain qualifications.
The NPR/Ipsos poll found that such a sweeping proposal isn't backed by a majority of all Americans — just Democrats.
"They should definitely get their papers for being here as long as they have," said Jeffrey Charles, a registered Democrat from Newark, N.J., whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Haiti.
"Immigrants are very hardworking," Charles said. "They come here with the energy and the mindset to work. So I think America takes advantage of that because they know that these people are hard workers and they need them."
The poll did find bipartisan support for creating a legal pathway for certain categories of immigrants — from farmworkers and other essential workers, to immigrants who fled from countries suffering from war or natural disasters, and the so-called DREAMers who were brought to the country illegally as children.
"When you just ask people overall if they're in favor of giving all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. a path to citizenship, views are pretty split," said Newall.
"But when you look at specific groups ... most Americans can agree that if they meet the qualifications, if they go about it legally, then there should be a path for them," she said.
Biden has signaled that he's willing to scale back his immigration proposal.
"Look, if you don't like my plan, let's at least pass what we all agree on," Biden said in his address to Congress last month.
But so far, some Republican lawmakers aren't interested in that offer. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who has worked on comprehensive immigration bills in the past, said the chances of passing major legislation now are slim.
"I don't think they're going to have a snowball's chance in hell of doing that given the massive influx at the border," Graham told Roll Call earlier this month. "There'll be no immigration reform until you get control of the border."
The poll also found broad support for better training and oversight of agents and officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
And more than half of respondents support ending the system of for-profit immigrant detention centers that are overseen by ICE.
In addition, there's broad bipartisan support for temporary travel restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus. More than 3 in 4 respondents say they support temporarily banning travel from countries with severe outbreaks, such as India.
But support for other temporary restrictions on immigration during the pandemic, such as closing the U.S. border to asylum-seekers and refugees, has fallen since a similar poll last year.
"COVID is still in the back of Americans' minds. It's just no longer kind of grabbing all of our focus," Newall said. "There's now room to be concerned about things like immigration or health care or government spending."
Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say that immigration is one of their top concerns. More than one-third of Republicans listed immigration as one of the "most worrying" issues facing the country — more than any other single issue, including terrorism or taxes. By contrast, only 9% of Democrats cited immigration as a top concern.
Moreover, Trump's hard-line immigration policies remain popular with Republicans. The poll found more than three-quarters favor a border wall, and a majority support a travel ban on visitors and immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries. Both of those policies have been repudiated by Biden.
The poll also suggests that underlying attitudes about immigrants have shifted.
For several years, Ipsos has asked respondents whether they agree that "immigrants are an important part of our American identity." In 2020, more than 71% of all respondents agreed. This year, that percentage has fallen to 62%. Among Republicans, the drop was even steeper: 61% agreed last year, compared with 48% this year.
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How does the Elbow joint work?
Find out more in this web based movie
The elbow is the joint that connects the upper arm bone and the forearm bones. Elbow joint helps in movement of the arms forward, backward, as well as to twist the arms inside and outside.
For more information about Elbow Arthroscopy click on below tabs.
Lateral epicondylitis, commonly referred to as tennis elbow, is an overuse injury that causes inflammation of the tendons that attach to the bony prominence on the outside of the elbow.
For more information about Lateral Epicondylitis click on below tabs.
Cubital tunnel release surgery is the surgery to correct the cubital tunnel syndrome. Cubital tunnel syndrome, also called ulnar nerve entrapment is a condition caused by compression of the ulnar nerve in an area of the elbow called the cubital tunnel. The ulnar nerve travels down the back of the elbow behind the bony bump called the medial epicondyle and through a passageway called the cubital tunnel.
The biceps muscle, located in the front of the upper arm allows you to bend the elbow and rotate the arm. Biceps tendons attach the biceps muscle to the bones in the shoulder and in the elbow.
Biceps tear can be complete or partial. Partial biceps tendon tears will not completely break the tendon. Complete tendon tears will break the tendon into two parts.
Find out more about Bicep Ruptures from the following links.
Tennis elbow is the common name for the elbow condition lateral epicondylitis. It is an overuse injury that causes inflammation of the tendons that attach to the bony prominence on the outside of the elbow. It is a painful condition occurring from repeated muscle contractions in the forearm that leads to inflammation and microtears in the tendons that attach to the lateral epicondyle. The lateral epicondyle is the bony prominence that is felt on the outside of the elbow and the condition is more common in sports individuals playing tennis.
Interactive web based movies (click on the desired topic to find out more)
Click on the topics below to find out more from the Orthopaedic connection website of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
- Arthritis of the Elbow
- Biceps tendinitis
- Broken arm
- Colles fracture
- Dislocated Elbow
- Elbow Bursitis
- Elbow Fractures in Children
- Erb's Palsy (Brachial Plexus Injury)
- Forearm Fractures in Children
- Olecranon (Elbow) Fractures
- Radial Head Fractures
- Rupture of the biceps tendon
- Tendonitis
- Tennis Elbow
- Throwing injuries in the elbow
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Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is the most frequently used method for easing mild to moderate anxiety in worried patients. Administered through a small mask that fits over your nose, it is an effective way to calm anxiety. You will be asked to breathe through your nose and not through your mouth. As the gas begins to work, you will become calm, although you will still be awake and able to talk with the dentist.
At the end of your appointment, you will resume breathing regular oxygen, and all the effects of nitrous oxide will disappear. As patients get older and become more comfortable during dental visits, nitrous oxide may not be necessary.


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Review: Manong's Original Bacolod Chicken Inasal
A new food place has opened in town. This time, you don't need to go to Bacolod to taste the best chicken. The place is air-conditioned so you will be able to eat comfortably. Surprisingly, I left the restaurant without smelling like I came from a barbeque too.


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Buckys Eden Eye Shades with Earplugs are an item that you're going to love! These shades can help you get the deep sleep that we all need for good health! They include softly contoured foam around the eye socket and are padded to follow the contour of your nose to provide complete darkness, stimulating your body's own natural melatonin production which is helpful for falling asleep.
We also included a pair of reusable earplugs to block out noise, and there are handy storage loops for the earplugs on the elastic headband on the side with velcro, which is adjustable to help with a comfortable fit.
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ADAL.NET, delivered as a nuget package named Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory, is an authentication library which enables developers to acquire tokens from Azure AD (Active Directory) and ADFS, to be used to access Microsoft APIs or applications registered with Azure AD. ADAL.NET is available on several .NET platforms, including desktop, Universal Windows Platform, Xamarin / Android, Xamarin iOS, Portable Class Libraries, and .NET Core. It supports a number of authentication scenarios, involving native applications (desktop or device) or private applications (Web API). Authentication can leverage users credentials or application secrets.
What's new – Support for Client assertion certificates in .Net Core
Client credential authentication is used by a confidential client application such as a daemon or web service to access resources using its own identity, rather than the user's identity. The application can use either a shared secret or a client certificate to authenticate itself. Learn more about service to service calls using client credentials.
Previously, client certificates were only available on .Net 4.5. In ADAL .NET 3.14 we now support the certificate-based scenario on .NET Core as well. The .NET core daemon application sample shows how a .NET core client console application can access an ASP.NET Core API protected with AzureAD.
Other changes
In this release, the "old" common (platform-independent) PCL library is now a .NET standard 1.1 library, and several known issues have been resolved:
- Fixed the issue where silently logging in with an expired refresh token could cause a null reference exception.
- Fixed the issue in federated tenant scenarios (GitHub issue #401).
- Ported the ADAL.PCL project to .NET Standard 1.1 project.
- Ported the ADAL.CoreCLR project to .NET Standard 1.3 project.
- Authenticode-signed the assemblies with SHA-256 certificate.
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As usual we'd love to hear your feedback:
- Ask questions on Stack Overflow using the ADAL tag. We highly recommend you ask your questions on Stack Overflow first and browse existing issues to see if someone has asked your question before.
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Tracking down sources for the recordings included in the Modern Vocal Groups series has always been a intricate process. Of course we go back to a tape source if these can be located amongst the fairly poorly documented tapes of the Modern Group, but if it isn't possible to locate the master or a good alternate take, then the source has had to be a dub from a collector's copy of the disc. As a rule, these are relatively straightforward to find. On Modern Vocal Groups Volume 6 (CDCHD 817), we wanted to feature the rare Kent issue by Bobby Sanders You've Forgotten Me / Maybe I'm Wrong (Kent 382). First of all we thought we had tape sources for these tracks - but they turned out to be by Sylvester Stewart of Sly and the Family Stone fame. So it was down to finding a copy of the disc. This turned out to be the toughest search so far in the series and finally, it was famed collector/ dealer Val Shively who came to the rescue with his copy of the disc, one of the very few known to exist. And thus one of the rarest doo wops from the Modern stable is now available on CD re-issue.
The rare, as well as the super-rare, feature on this last volume of the Modern Vocal Group series. Original Kent label collectables by the Senders, Classicals and Vina James & the Hi-Toppers-.-together with sought-after items by the Meadowlarks, Rams and Curley Williams complement Modern label mainstays the Cadets/Jacks and B.B. King and Etta James on recordings with vocal groups. The Bihari brothers who ran the Modern stable of labels and first recorded the vocal groups spotlighted in this series were also responsible for Crown LP label. Dotted around in literally hundreds of releases on that label are some great doo wop sounds and Volume 6 includes a few of these.
Marvin & Johnny had sides on their Crown album which didn't see the light of day as a single and the same is the case with Tony Allen. Tony's unique voice fronted many recordings with vocal group backing (credited or otherwise) and three of them are included here. More should be available soon on a Ace CD devoted to him. The Crown label also provided us with anonymous groups whose identity doesn't feature on the album sleeve or the record. One good example was to be found hidden away on comedian Ray 'Ahab The Arab' Stevens LP. It's a great vocal group sound called Always On My Mind so we've taken the liberty of naming the group the A-Rabs on this CD.
Guiding us through the compilations for the Modern Vocal Groups series have been the guys at EarlyBird Records in Long Island, New York, featuring info-laden annotations by Gordon Skadberg. Their trawl of the Modern vaults doesn't necessarily end with the last of the Modern Vocal Groups CDs.
Look out for more of the Modern Records group output in the shape of a couple of CDs featuring the female R&B sound of the 50s and early 60s, mostly with vocal group backing. Also in the pipeline are releases featuring the tenderer sound of Modern Records with ballads from a mixture of artists on the Modern / Kent / RPM labels. So this CD may be the end of the series as far as the Modern Vocal Groups Volumes are concerned, but it could also be looked at as the end of the beginning!
By Peter Gibbon


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Wednesday 25 January 2012
WOYWW 138 - {neon} UTEE, hair and tan???
This weekend, as you can see from my last post, it was brainstorming for 3 days with Lin to get the ArtsyCrafts ideas flowing.....but late Sunday evening Miss 17 arrived to create with her arty friend Lilly, and they were on a mega UTEE mission. Bissfully unaware that Lin and I had moved about 36 boxes to get to the meltpot box in the back bottom corner of the shed! Teeneagers huh. Raving about all things Suze, Courtney duly gave Lilly a crash course in UTEE fondue options.
So when I went out to the desk this morning...yes MY desk had been invaded by the overflow from her experimentation from her desk....
I think they have dipped fresh flowers, and wire wrapped them....but I can't be sure.....
For me it's more mega rubber trimming this week, but I am really looking forward to deliveries arriving later this week with new goodies ready for the new show at Bluewater 'glow' exhibition arena....cracks me up that name.....I imagine I shall be demoing looking like a luminous beacon..... I live in towieville's own Brentwood, perhaps if I pop into Amy Childs salon I can get a neon styley fake tan that glows in the dark or something.....
Thump back to reality....we have paint bottling ahead of us too....that should keep me, the elves and Lynne (aka Cheryl/@bodgerbird) busy. I wonder what colour Cheryl's hair is now...we bunked work on Monday to go to the trade hair/nail supply warehouse.....she 'advised' me on professional colour options....is this wise to attempt pre-Bluewater .....maybe I will end up neon after all!!!
Watch this space!
23 comments:
- Kim Dellow said...
LOL! You turn your back for two seconds and looks what happens! Looks like colourful fun though!
Looking forward to trying out my new Portfolio pastels when they arrive and a couple of fresco paints might have accidentally fallen into my basket at checkout -oops! Well I've been itching to try them LOL!
Hope the rubber cutting goes well!
Kim - January 25, 2012 9:41 am
- okienurse said...
Have fun with the rubber cutting. I love the neon pink color...Have a great week and thanks for sharing! Vickie #27
- January 25, 2012 10:10 am
- Neil said...
Hi there. Thanks for sharing your creative space with us nosey parkers today. It's always inspiring to see. Hope you have plenty of creative fun this coming week. Those dipped things on your desk look truly fascinating, they defy description!
Neil#55 - January 25, 2012 10:46 am
- Inkypinkycraft said...
Wow, those dipped things look interesting!!!great colours, good luck with the rubber cutting and can't waitvto see what happens to your hair!!!happy woyww hugs trace x no16
- January 25, 2012 11:25 am
Blimey! Cool. Love the beads - am I misremembering? Are beads, esp. dipped beads, kinda something you excel at? I have this vague memory...
Happy WOYWW!
Mary Anne (#4)
PS if your commenting opens in a new window, I usually succeed - if not, if you see this for approval I'll consider it a Blogger miracle! - January 25, 2012 11:55 am
- peggy aplSEEDS said...
interesting project there. is it going to match your hair?
happy WOYWW and thanks for sharing,
hugs, peggy aplSEEDS - January 25, 2012 12:51 pm
- Helen said...
Look at those talented girls... good fun with your bottling and pressing!
- January 25, 2012 12:51 pm
- Lisa-Jane said...
They look interesting! Possibly a little something to adorn a hair clip or a pin badge? Have a great week.
- January 25, 2012 1:02 pm
- May said...
Love the shocking pink, have a great week rubber cutting, Hugs May x x x
- January 25, 2012 2:35 pm
- Princess Judy Palmer said...
Quite the interesting project happening there. Happy rubber cutting. I truly find that a tedious thing myself.
- January 25, 2012 5:11 pm
- yoursartfully said...
You don't have time to bunk work!!! Is it you leading Cheryl astray or Cheryl leading you????? Me thinks it's probably the first option.
Courtney and Lilly certainly had a fun time and dipped everything in sight. I'd love a penny for every time Lily said OMG!!
L. - January 25, 2012 7:08 pm
- Lou said...
Hope you get all your rubber trimmed, Have a great week Lou x #82
- January 25, 2012 8:04 pm
- Siobhan Brignull said...
intriguing pink splotch on desk, but as for bluewater cannot wait, do you know opening times at all? . .
- January 25, 2012 8:36 pm
- Asia King (aka Joanna K) said...
Awwww, I'm lovin' that pink!!!! Always wanted to know what was going on BTS at PaperArtsy lol ;) Happy WOYWW! Hugs, Joanna #123
- January 25, 2012 9:26 pm
- sandra de said...
Ohhh the joys of teenagers who know no boundary. i also am blessed with one. Loving the fabric project on your previous post. Always such a pleasure to see what is happening on your desk.
- January 26, 2012 1:50 am
- ScrappnBee said...
LOL! Kids! At least you know where she got that crafty DNA from! Good luck at bluewater! Happy WOYWW -Amanda 36
- January 26, 2012 4:07 am
- Brenda B said...
Oh I do like those beads! Looks like your daughter takes after you, so don't go complaining to her, lol, it must be like talking to a mirror!
Brenda 99 - January 26, 2012 3:39 pm
- ...the yorkshire fox... said...
Girls just wanna have fun...love the shade of the glossy pink goo...they look like colourful maracas or funky microphones...hope your fingers don't hurt to much with the rubber cutting...Mel :)
- January 26, 2012 9:45 pm
- ...the yorkshire fox... said...
Girls just wanna have fun...love the shade of the glossy pink goo...they look like colourful maracas or funky microphones...hope your fingers don't hurt to much with the rubber cutting...Mel :)
- January 26, 2012 9:46 pm
- Julia Dunnit said...
I think a glow in the dark look will be entirely suitable, then you can just keep demoing when they turn off the lights! I likethegorlsdipped and wrapped flowers...more I like that you didn't throw one when they downed tools and left you to put away, very cool L!
- January 26, 2012 9:48 pm
- JoZart Designs said...
That's rather a nice shade there on the background of the Misses experiments...... what do you reckon to a few cerise streaks in those golden locks?
Sounds like there will be magic afoot soon if you and LB are hatching up craft potions. Have fun,
Lv Jo x - January 26, 2012 10:04 pm
- Craftychris said...
Have fun rubber cutting. Loving the invading pink on your desk! Thank you for visiting my desk and have a have a happy and creative week xx
- January 27, 2012 2:36 pm
- MaggieC (Silvercrafter) said...
What I want is to see what those girls do with the things they created - intriguing. Have a lovely week. xx Maggie #90
- January 27, 2012 2:36 pm


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Inside Search
The official Google Search blog
Another step to reward high-quality sites
April 24, 2012
(Cross-posted on the
Webmaster Central Blog
Google has said before that search engine optimization, or SEO, can be
positive and constructive
—and we're
not the only ones
. Effective search engine optimization can make a site more crawlable and make individual pages more accessible and easier to find. Search engine optimization includes things as simple as keyword research to ensure that the right words are on the page, not just industry jargon that normal people will never type.
"White hat" search engine optimizers often improve the usability of a site, help create great content, or make sites faster, which is good for both users and search engines. Good search engine optimization can also mean good marketing: thinking about creative ways to make a site more compelling, which can help with search engines as well as social media. The net result of making a great site is often greater awareness of that site on the web, which can translate into more people linking to or visiting a site.
The opposite of "white hat" SEO is something called "black hat webspam" (we say "webspam" to distinguish it from email spam). In the pursuit of higher rankings or traffic, a few sites use techniques that don't benefit users, where the intent is to look for shortcuts or loopholes that would rank pages higher than they deserve to be ranked. We see all sorts of webspam techniques every day, from
keyword stuffing
link schemes
that attempt to propel sites higher in rankings.
The goal of many of our ranking changes is to help searchers find sites that provide a great user experience and fulfill their information needs. We also want the "good guys" making great sites for users, not just algorithms, to see their effort rewarded. To that end we've launched
Panda changes
that successfully
returned higher-quality sites in search results
. And earlier this year we launched a
page layout algorithm
that reduces rankings for sites that don't make much content available "above the fold."
In the next few days, we're launching an important algorithm change targeted at webspam. The change will decrease rankings for sites that we believe are violating Google's existing
quality guidelines
. We've always targeted webspam in our rankings, and this algorithm represents another improvement in our efforts to reduce webspam and promote high quality content. While we can't divulge specific signals because we don't want to give people a way to game our search results and worsen the experience for users, our advice for webmasters is to focus on
creating high quality sites
that create a good user experience and employ white hat SEO methods instead of engaging in aggressive webspam tactics.
Here's an example of a webspam tactic like keyword stuffing taken from a site that will be affected by this change:
Of course, most sites affected by this change aren't so blatant. Here's an example of a site with unusual linking patterns that is also affected by this change. Notice that if you try to read the text aloud you'll discover that the outgoing links are completely unrelated to the actual content, and in fact the page text has been "spun" beyond recognition:
Sites affected by this change might not be easily recognizable as spamming without deep analysis or expertise, but the common thread is that these sites are doing much more than white hat SEO; we believe they are engaging in webspam tactics to manipulate search engine rankings.
The change will go live for all languages at the same time. For context, the initial Panda change affected about 12% of queries to a significant degree; this algorithm affects about 3.1% of queries in English to a degree that a regular user might notice. The change affects roughly 3% of queries in languages such as German, Chinese, and Arabic, but the impact is higher in more heavily-spammed languages. For example, 5% of Polish queries change to a degree that a regular user might notice.
We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we'll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.
Posted by Matt Cutts, Distinguished Engineer
Search quality highlights: 50 changes for March
April 3, 2012
Here's our latest installment of search quality highlights, with another 50 changes to report for March. We're starting to get into a groove with these posts, so we're getting more and more comprehensive as the months go by. New for this month, we've published
uncut video
from our search quality meeting, which gives a great flavor for how these decisions get made.
Here's the list for March:
Autocomplete with math symbols.
[launch codename "Blackboard", project codename "Suggest"] When we process queries to return predictions in autocomplete, we generally normalize them to match more relevant predictions in our database. This change incorporates several characters that were previously normalized: "+", "-", "*", "/", "^", "(", ")", and "=". This should make it easier to search for popular equations, for example [
e = mc2
] or [
y = mx+b
Improvements to handling of symbols for indexing.
[launch codename "Deep Maroon"] We generally ignore punctuation symbols in queries. Based on analysis of our query stream, we've now started to index the following heavily used symbols: "%", "$", "\", ".", "@", "#", and "+". We'll continue to index more symbols as usage warrants.
Better scoring of news groupings.
[launch codename "avenger_2"] News results on Google are organized into groups that are about the same story. We have scoring systems to determine the ordering of these groups for a given query. This subtle change slightly improves our scoring system, leading to better ranking of news clusters.
Sitelinks data refresh.
[launch codename "Saralee-76"] Sitelinks (the links that appear beneath some search results and link deeper into the respective site) are generated in part by an offline process that analyzes site structure and other data to determine the most relevant links to show users. We've recently updated the data through our offline process. These updates happen frequently (on the order of weeks).
Improvements to autocomplete backends, coverage.
[launch codename "sovereign", project codename "Suggest"] We've consolidated systems and reduced the number of backend calls required to prepare autocomplete predictions for your query. The result is more efficient CPU usage and more comprehensive predictions.
Better handling of password changes.
Our general approach is that when you change passwords, you'll be signed out from your account on all machines. This change ensures that changing your password more consistently signs your account out of Search, everywhere.
Better indexing of profile pages.
[launch codename "Prof-2"] This change improves the comprehensiveness of public profile pages in our index from more than two-hundred social sites.
UI refresh for News Universal.
[launch codename "Cosmos Newsy", project codename "Cosmos"] We've refreshed the design of News Universal results by providing more results from the top cluster, unifying the UI treatment of clusters of different sizes, adding a larger font for the top article, adding larger images (from licensed sources), and adding author information.
Improvements to results for navigational queries.
[launch codename "IceMan5"] A "navigational query" is a search where it looks like the user is looking to navigate to a particular website, such as [New York Times] or [wikipedia.org]. While these searches may seem straightforward, there are still challenges to serving the best results. For example, what if the user doesn't actually know the right URL? What if the URL they're searching for seems to be a parked domain (with no content)? This change improves results for this kind of search.
High-quality sites algorithm data update and freshness improvements.
[launch codename "mm", project codename "Panda"] Like many of the changes we make, aspects of our high-quality sites algorithm depend on processing that's done offline and pushed on a periodic cycle. In the past month, we've pushed updated data for "Panda," as we mentioned in a
recent tweet
. We've also made improvements to keep our database fresher overall.
Live results for UEFA Champions League and KHL.
We've added live-updating snippets in our search results for the KHL (Russian Hockey League) and UEFA Champions League, including scores and schedules. Now you can find live results from a variety of sports leagues, including the
and others.
Tennis search feature.
[launch codename "DoubleFault"] We've introduced a new search feature to provide realtime tennis scores at the top of the search results page. Try [
maria sharapova
] or [
sony ericsson open
More relevant image search results.
[launch codename "Lice"] This change tunes signals we use related to landing page quality for images. This makes it more likely that you'll find highly relevant images, even if those images are on pages that are lower quality.
Fresher image predictions in all languages.
[launch codename "imagine2", project codename "Suggest"] We recently rolled out a change to surface more relevant image search predictions in autocomplete in English. This improvement extends the update to all languages.
SafeSearch algorithm tuning.
[launch codenames "Fiorentini", "SuperDyn"; project codename "SafeSearch"] This month we rolled out a couple of changes to our SafeSearch algorithm. We've updated our classifier to make it smarter and more precise, and we've found new ways to make adult content less likely to appear when a user isn't looking for it
Tweaks to handling of anchor text.
[launch codename "PC"] This month we turned off a classifier related to anchor text (the visible text appearing in links). Our experimental data suggested that other methods of anchor processing had greater success, so turning off this component made our scoring cleaner and more robust.
Simplification to Images Universal codebase.
[launch codename "Galactic Center"] We've made some improvements to simplify our codebase for Images Universal and to better utilize improvements in our general web ranking to also provide better image results.
Better application ranking and UI on mobile.
When you search for apps on your phone, you'll now see richer results with app icons, star ratings, prices, and download buttons arranged to fit well on smaller screens. You'll also see more relevant ranking of mobile applications based on your device platform, for example Android or iOS.
Improvements to freshness in Video Universal.
[launch codename "graphite", project codename "Freshness"] We've improved the freshness of video results to better detect stale videos and return fresh content.
Fewer undesired synonyms.
[project codename "Synonyms"] When you search on Google, we often identify other search terms that might have the same meaning as what you entered in the box (synonyms) and surface results for those terms as well when it might be helpful. This month we tweaked a classifier to prevent unhelpful synonyms from being introduced as content in the results set.
Better handling of queries with both navigational and local intent.
[launch codename "ShieldsUp"] Some queries have both local intent and are very navigational (directed towards a particular website). This change improves the balance of results we show, and helps ensure you'll find highly relevant navigational results or local results towards the top of the page as appropriate for your query.
Improvements to freshness.
[launch codename "Abacus", project codename "Freshness"] We launched an improvement to freshness late last year that was very helpful, but it cost significant machine resources. At the time we decided to roll out the change only for news-related traffic. This month we rolled it out for all queries.
Improvements to processing for detection of site quality.
[launch codename "Curlup"] We've made some improvements to a longstanding system we have to detect site quality. This improvement allows us to get greater confidence in our classifications.
Better interpretation and use of anchor text.
We've improved systems we use to interpret and use anchor text, and determine how relevant a given anchor might be for a given query and website.
Better local results and sources in Google News.
[launch codename "barefoot", project codename "news search"] We're deprecating a signal we had to help people find content from their local country, and we're building similar logic into other signals we use. The result is more locally relevant Google News results and higher quality sources.
Deprecating signal related to ranking in a news cluster.
[launch codename "decaffeination", project codename "news search"] We're deprecating a signal that's no longer improving relevance in Google News. The signal was originally developed to help people find higher quality articles on Google News. (Note: Despite the launch codename, this project has nothing to do with Caffeine, our update to indexing in 2010).
Fewer "sibling" synonyms.
[launch codename "Gemini", project codename "Synonyms"] One of the main signals we look at to identify synonyms is context. For example, if the word "cat" often appears next to the term "pet" and "furry," and so does the word "kitten", our algorithms may guess that "cat" and "kitten" have similar meanings. The problem is that sometimes this method will introduce "synonyms" that actually are different entities in the same category. To continue the example, dogs are also "furry pets" -- so sometimes "dog" may be incorrectly introduced as a synonym for "cat". We've been working for some time to appropriately ferret out these "sibling" synonyms, and our latest system is more maintainable, updatable, debuggable, and extensible to other systems.
Better synonym accuracy and performance.
[project codename "Synonyms"] We've made further improvements to our synonyms system by eliminating duplicate logic. We've also found ways to more accurately identify appropriate synonyms in cases where there are multiple synonym candidates with different contexts.
Retrieval system tuning.
[launch codename "emonga", project codename "Optionalization"] We've improved systems that identify terms in a query which are not necessarily required to retrieve relevant documents. This will make results more faithful to the original query.
Less aggressive synonyms.
[launch codename "zilong", project codename "Synonyms"] We've heard feedback from users that sometimes our algorithms are too aggressive at incorporating search results for other terms. The underlying cause is often our synonym system, which will include results for other terms in many cases. This change makes our synonym system less aggressive in the way it incorporates results for other query terms, putting greater weight on the original user query.
Update to systems relying on geographic data.
[launch codename "Maestro, Maitre"] We have a number of signals that rely on geographic data (similar to the data we surface in Google Earth and Maps). This change updates some of the geographic data we're using.
Improvements to name detection.
[launch codename "edge", project codename "NameDetector"] We've improved a system for detecting names, particularly for celebrity names.
Updates to personalization signals.
[project codename "PSearch"] This change updates signals used to personalize search results.
Improvements to Image Search relevance.
[launch codename "sib"] We've updated signals to better promote reasonably sized images on high-quality landing pages.
Remove deprecated signal from site relevance signals.
[launch codename "Freedom"] We've removed a deprecated product-focused signal from a site-understanding algorithm.
More precise detection of old pages.
[launch codename "oldn23", project codename "Freshness"] This change improves detection of stale pages in our index by relying on more relevant signals. As a result, fewer stale pages are shown to users.
Tweaks to language detection in autocomplete.
[launch codename "Dejavu", project codename "Suggest"] In general, autocomplete relies on the display language to determine what language predictions to show. For most languages, we also try to detect the user query language by analyzing the script, and this change extends that behavior to Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean. The net effect is that when users forget to turn off their IMEs, they'll still get English predictions if they start typing English terms.
Improvements in date detection for blog/forum pages.
[launch codename "fibyen", project codename "Dates"] This change improves the algorithm that determines dates for blog and forum pages.
More predictions in autocomplete by live rewriting of query prefixes.
[launch codename "Lombart", project codename "Suggest"] In this change we're rewriting partial queries on the fly to retrieve more potential matching predictions for the user query. We use synonyms and other features to get the best overall match. Rewritten prefixes can include term re-orderings, term additions, term removals and more.
Expanded sitelinks on mobile.
We've launched our
expanded sitelinks
feature for mobile browsers, providing better organization and presentation of sitelinks in search results.
More accurate short answers.
[project codename "Porky Pig"] We've updated the sources behind our
short answers feature
to rely on data from
. This improves accuracy and makes it easier to fix bugs.
Migration of video advanced search backends.
We've migrated some backends used in video advanced search to our main search infrastructure.
+1 button in search for more countries and domains.
This month we've internationalized the +1 button on the search results page to additional languages and domains. The +1 button in search makes it easy to share recommendations with the world right from your search results. As we said in
our initial blog post
, the beauty of +1's is their relevance—you get the right recommendations (because they come from people who matter to you), at the right time (when you are actually looking for information about that topic) and in the right format (your search results).
Local result UI refresh on tablet.
We've updated the user interface of local results on tablets to make them more compact and easier to scan.
And here are a few other changes we've blogged about since last time:
Flights to worldwide destinations
Redesigned Search App for Windows 7.5 phones
SSL search around the globe
"Recent" feature on mobile
Full-page themes in iGoogle
March Madness NCAA search feature
3D graphing calculator
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