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In today's world of digital content, it's easy to become oversaturated with online advertisements. As marketers, your target audience members have likely trained their brains to ignore content interrupters like online ads and product placements.
What if we told you there was a way to grab their attention in a way that will delight them, not annoy them? Outdoor advertising — often called out-of-home (OOH) advertising — is a great way to market your brand. Outdoor advertising is more than just billboards; it can include any medium from benches to buses to window displays. Let us tell you all about the benefits of outdoor advertising.
Outdoor advertising stands alone.
Therefore, it demands attention. Unless you're in Times Square, you're likely never surrounded by competing outdoor ads. Out-of-home ads are typically larger so they can be seen/read from farther distances. In order to garner attention, most OOH advertisements are creatively eye-catching with bright colors and few words.
Outdoor advertising can reach a large audience.
If you're running a campaign with a broad target audience, outdoor advertising may be perfect for you. Since OOH ads are public, they are seen by all kinds of people, even ones who are more difficult to reach, such as busy working professionals or lower-income consumers with limited access to more traditional media.
Outdoor advertising can be budget friendly.
A quick internet search can show you a cost breakdown of different types of advertising media. Outdoor advertising tends to be on the more cost-effective end of the spectrum while still giving you a high return on investment (ROI). Like most forms of advertising, the more you spend on OOH ads, the better your ROI will be.
Outdoor advertising impacts purchasing decisions.
When it comes to placing your outdoor ads, location is everything. You want your product or service to be on the customer's mind when they shop next. Research will tell you that outdoor advertising is the medium most seen by shopping center consumers in the last "period of influence" before they make a purchase. Knowing this, you should be sure to make your outdoor ads stand out and inform.
Outdoor advertising goes hand-in-hand with traditional media.
When you're planning your next advertising campaign, consider how OOH ads can be an extension of your digital ads, and vice versa. The more exposure a consumer gets to a campaign, the more likely he or she is to buy into it. Because you're utilizing different media in different places, your target consumer will likely see your ads more than once, hopefully encouraging a purchase, call or click.
Outdoor advertising is a fantastic way to expose your target audience to your brand. People will stumble upon OOH ads more naturally than those online, making them a part of their everyday lives. Be sure to take advantage of this smart strategy when you plan your next advertising campaign.


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"How can I improve my English pronunciation?" This is one of the most common questions that English learners ask me.
First, let's be clear about what pronunciation means. It's the way that you say a word. You make sounds with your voice that English speakers recognize as a word or sentence.
Good pronunciation is essential for speaking and understanding spoken English. Spoken English is the right words (vocabulary), in the right order (grammar) with the right sounds (pronunciation).
If one or two sounds are unclear, that's not a problem. If a lot of sounds are unclear, then your listener can't understand you!
However, pronunciation is one of the hardest skills to improve because it is a performance skill. It is something that you have to practice. Improving your pronunciation may also mean changing your pronunciation. You may need to change the way you make some sounds, and that is difficult.
These tips below will help you correct bad habits and improve your pronunciation so that you can speak English confidently!
1. Decide which accent you want to speak with.
There are many different kinds of English accents. The two most common are British and American. There are many different accents even within British or American pronunciation, but most learning materials will help you learn either a standard British accent or a standard American accent.
An accent is a way of saying words that is common in a particular region or country. You don't need to speak with an American or British accent to speak clearly, but it is important to focus on the sounds used in one accent, because it gets confusing to you and your listener if you start mixing sounds from different accents.
American pronunciation and British pronunciation are completely different. The consonant sounds are the same (except for the T sound and the r-colored vowel sounds), but the vowel sounds are very different. The British accent has more vowel sounds, and some vowel letters are pronounced differently.
On this website, I teach general American pronunciation.
2. Don't try to guess how to say a word in English. Learn how to pronounce it correctly the first time.
There are many, many words in English that are not pronounced the way they look.
When you see a new word, the worst thing you can do it try to guess how to say it or use the sounds in your native language to say the word.
You don't have to guess how to say a word in English. You don't have to look at a word and try to remember pronunciation "rules."
You just have to listen to someone say the word. Learn with your ears, not with your eyes!
The more times that you say a word incorrectly, the harder it becomes to learn how to say it correctly. When you say a word incorrectly, you develop a bad habit, and it takes a long time to break a bad habit!
Say it right the first time.
For example, let's pretend you are reading a book and you see the word outrageous. How do you pronounce this word? You can use a dictionary specifically for English learners.
Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary:
Macmillan Online Learner's Dictionary:
Can you see the picture of a red speaker? When you click on this icon, you can hear someone say the word.
Can you also see some strange letters and symbols next to the red icon? That's called the IPA transcription.
3. Learn the IPA and the individual sounds of English.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a collection of symbols that represent the different sounds of a language. When you know all the sounds of English and the symbols that represent those sounds, you will be able to say any word in English.
You don't have to guess how to say a word in English.
Learn more: An Introduction to the IPA (American Pronunciation) | BBC Learning English (British Pronunciation)
4. Pay attention to how native English speakers talk in your language.
What do people sound like when they speak your language with an American or British accent?
Do they speak slowly and sound relaxed? Do they stress parts of words? (Stress in pronunciation means saying one part of a word longer & louder than other parts of a word. ) That's how you need to speak English.
Have you ever tried to speak your own language with an American accent?
One day I received an email from a student named Jean-Yves. He described his method for improving his pronunciation. He learned how to speak French, his native language, with an English accent! This helped him learn the sounds, the rhythm, and the intonation of English.
There's actually a name for this technique! It's called reverse accent mimicry. Reverse (as a noun) means opposite, an accent is the way a group of people from a specific region or country speak, and mimicry means copying or imitating the way other people speak.
Once you learn how to speak your language with an English accent, start speaking English with the same accent.
Learn more: Reverse Accent Mimicry: How Jean-Yves Learned to Speak English Like a Native Speaker
5. Try to imitate spoken English.
How did you learn to speak your native language (your mother tongue)? Did you read words and try to guess how to pronounce them?
No, you listened and listened and listened to all the people around you, and then you tried to repeat or make the same sounds as them.
That's called imitation. Imitation means copying someone. You imitate someone by doing the same thing as someone else, or making the same sounds.
There is no other way to learn correct pronunciation.
Do you really like the way someone speaks English? Try to copy the way they speak.
Here are a couple ways that you practice imitating native English speakers:
a. Close your eyes and listen.
When you learn a new word, close your eyes and hear the sound. Listen carefully to what the speaker is saying and try to make the same sounds. Hear the sounds, don't try to see the word in your mind. Just repeat the sounds that you hear.
Start with one or two words at a time, then move on to longer groups of words, and finally sentences.
b. Shadow someone speaking English.
Your shadow is the dark area or image you create when you stand in light. When you stand looking at the sun or other source of light, you block the light from everything behind you. If you turn around, you can see a dark area or a dark image of yourself. That's your shadow. Your shadow follows you. It moves when you move.
The verb shadow can also mean follow and watch someone so you can learn what they're doing.
Have you ever tried this when someone is speaking?
Shadowing someone speaking means repeating the sounds that you hear immediately after someone says them.
Why is this useful? Because you can hear yourself speaking and compare the sounds you make to the sounds that you hear. You can also learn how to make the right sounds.
For this method of imitation, it helps if you can read the words at the same time as listening to someone say them, as long as you say the words that you hear! You can match the correct sounds to the words. (My podcast is fantastic for this because you can read the words while you listen to me speak! )
6. Listen to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast.
A podcast is a series of digital audio files that you can listen to on your computer or any mobile device.
Each episode of my podcast includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary, the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip explains a feature of natural spoken English.
There are so many benefits to listening to the podcast.
Each story is short, so you can listen to it many times.
You can listen to the story at a slow speed and at a normal speed. You can get used to the sounds of natural spoken English.
You can read the words to the story while you listen to the story, so instead of seeing the words, you can hear the words and match the correct sounds to the words.
You can listen to the sounds that I make and copy me.
The pronunciation tip will help you learn natural spoken English.
Listen: The English Teacher Melanie Podcast
7. Record yourself.
In my experience as a teacher, you can't improve your pronunciation until you can hear your own mistakes.
It's important to hear what you sound like speaking English so you know what you need to improve! You can compare what you sound like to what you want to sound like. For example, you can record yourself reading a sentence from one of my podcast episodes. Then, listen to me say the same sentence and compare your pronunciation.
Learn more: How to record yourself speaking English
8. Practice for at least 30 minutes every day.
Let's be honest. You can't improve your pronunciation if you don't practice!
Your pronunciation will not magically improve just because you want it to.
And it will not magically improve just because you're speaking English. You don't learn to speak by speaking.
Speaking English is a performance skill. It's not like history or science where you can gain knowledge from a textbook. You have to practice, and you need to practice with a purpose.
Practice the sounds of English until they feel as natural and comfortable as the sounds of your language. It won't happen overnight, but gradually your pronunciation will improve.
What is practicing with a purpose? It's not just doing something over and over again and hoping you will get better.
9. Speak slowly and clearly.
Many English learners think that improving your pronunciation means learning how to speak fast.
It's better to speak clearly than fast.
Don't try to speak too quickly. If someone can't understand what you're saying, it doesn't matter how fast you speak!
10. Get Used to Feeling Uncomfortable.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this lesson, improving your pronunciation may also mean changing your pronunciation. You may need to change the way you make some sounds, and that is difficult.
One of the biggest problems for English learners is feeling uncomfortable when making the sounds of English.
You have been speaking English your way for a long time. It feels natural to you. When you try to improve your pronunciation, it doesn't feel natural. It feels strange making new positions with your tongue and lips.
The sounds of English may be very different from the sounds in your language. It may be difficult and even uncomfortable for your mouth to make some of the sounds in English.
This is very important to understand. Even though you may feel uncomfortable and strange making the sounds of English, you sound normal to a native speaker.
Learn more: Get used to feeling uncomfortable
Looking for even more excellent tips? Here are the two books that I recommend for English learners and teachers. I learned a lot about English pronunciation from these two books, and I have used these books extensively as a teacher.
Other places where you can look for these books:
- Amazon.com or Amazon in your country
- university libraries
- your local library
- university book stores
- English book stores
- secondhand book stores and thrift stores
This is the best book on American pronunciation for both teachers and advanced learners! It focuses on the things that will help a non-native speaker speak with a standard American accent: difficult consonant sounds, linking, syllable and word stress, intonation, and the difference between casual and formal speech. At the back of the book there is a native language guide that explains what speakers of different languages, like Chinese, Spanish, Russian, etc., need to focus on. This book is now in Kindle form on Amazon, too! (Amazon.com)
This book explains each individual sound in standard American English, as well as all the other elements of spoken English: rhythm, stress, intonation, consonant clusters, plurals, contractions, and past tense verbs. This is a great book for teachers to use as a classroom textbook as there are a lot of exercises teachers will find useful in the classroom. It is better for teachers than for students, as the 2 included CDs don't say all the words and exercises. This book also helps to learn the IPA as it uses the IPA symbols to help explain American English pronunciation. (Amazon.com)

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Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core
What are Tag Helpers
Tag Helpers enable server-side code to participate in creating and rendering HTML elements in Razor files. For example, the built-in ImageTagHelper
can append a version number to the image name. Whenever the image changes, the server generates a new unique version for the image, so clients are guaranteed to get the current image (instead of a stale cached image). There are many built-in Tag Helpers for common tasks - such as creating forms, links, loading assets and more - and even more available in public GitHub repositories and as NuGet packages. Tag Helpers are authored in C#, and they target HTML elements based on element name, attribute name, or parent tag. For example, the built-in LabelTagHelper
can target the HTML
element when the
attributes are applied. If you're familiar with HTML Helpers, Tag Helpers reduce the explicit transitions between HTML and C# in Razor views. In many cases, HTML Helpers provide an alternative approach to a specific Tag Helper, but it's important to recognize that Tag Helpers don't replace HTML Helpers and there's not a Tag Helper for each HTML Helper. Tag Helpers compared to HTML Helpers explains the differences in more detail.
Tag Helpers aren't supported in Razor components. For more information, see ASP.NET Core Razor components.
What Tag Helpers provide
An HTML-friendly development experience
For the most part, Razor markup using Tag Helpers looks like standard HTML. Front-end designers conversant with HTML/CSS/JavaScript can edit Razor without learning C# Razor syntax.
A rich IntelliSense environment for creating HTML and Razor markup
This is in sharp contrast to HTML Helpers, the previous approach to server-side creation of markup in Razor views. Tag Helpers compared to HTML Helpers explains the differences in more detail. IntelliSense support for Tag Helpers explains the IntelliSense environment. Even developers experienced with Razor C# syntax are more productive using Tag Helpers than writing C# Razor markup.
A way to make you more productive and able to produce more robust, reliable, and maintainable code using information only available on the server
For example, historically the mantra on updating images was to change the name of the image when you change the image. Images should be aggressively cached for performance reasons, and unless you change the name of an image, you risk clients getting a stale copy. Historically, after an image was edited, the name had to be changed and each reference to the image in the web app needed to be updated. Not only is this very labor intensive, it's also error prone (you could miss a reference, accidentally enter the wrong string, etc.) The built-in ImageTagHelper
can do this for you automatically. The ImageTagHelper
can append a version number to the image name, so whenever the image changes, the server automatically generates a new unique version for the image. Clients are guaranteed to get the current image. This robustness and labor savings comes essentially free by using the ImageTagHelper
Most built-in Tag Helpers target standard HTML elements and provide server-side attributes for the element. For example, the <input>
element used in many views in the Views/Account folder contains the asp-for
attribute. This attribute extracts the name of the specified model property into the rendered HTML. Consider a Razor view with the following model:
public class Movie
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
public DateTime ReleaseDate { get; set; }
public string Genre { get; set; }
public decimal Price { get; set; }
The following Razor markup:

Generates the following HTML:
Title
The asp-for
attribute is made available by the For
property in the LabelTagHelper. See Author Tag Helpers for more information.
Managing Tag Helper scope
Tag Helpers scope is controlled by a combination of @addTagHelper
, @removeTagHelper
, and the "!" opt-out character.
makes Tag Helpers available
If you create a new ASP.NET Core web app named AuthoringTagHelpers, the following Views/_ViewImports.cshtml
file will be added to your project:
@addTagHelper *, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers
@addTagHelper *, AuthoringTagHelpers
The @addTagHelper
directive makes Tag Helpers available to the view. In this case, the view file is Pages/_ViewImports.cshtml
, which by default is inherited by all files in the Pages folder and subfolders; making Tag Helpers available. The code above uses the wildcard syntax ("*") to specify that all Tag Helpers in the specified assembly (Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers) will be available to every view file in the Views directory or subdirectory. The first parameter after @addTagHelper
specifies the Tag Helpers to load (we are using "*" for all Tag Helpers), and the second parameter "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers" specifies the assembly containing the Tag Helpers. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers is the assembly for the built-in ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers.
To expose all of the Tag Helpers in this project (which creates an assembly named AuthoringTagHelpers), you would use the following:
@using AuthoringTagHelpers
@addTagHelper *, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers
@addTagHelper *, AuthoringTagHelpers
If your project contains an EmailTagHelper
with the default namespace (AuthoringTagHelpers.TagHelpers.EmailTagHelper
), you can provide the fully qualified name (FQN) of the Tag Helper:
@using AuthoringTagHelpers
@addTagHelper *, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers
@addTagHelper AuthoringTagHelpers.TagHelpers.EmailTagHelper, AuthoringTagHelpers
To add a Tag Helper to a view using an FQN, you first add the FQN (AuthoringTagHelpers.TagHelpers.EmailTagHelper
), and then the assembly name (AuthoringTagHelpers). Most developers prefer to use the "*" wildcard syntax. The wildcard syntax allows you to insert the wildcard character "*" as the suffix in an FQN. For example, any of the following directives will bring in the EmailTagHelper
@addTagHelper AuthoringTagHelpers.TagHelpers.E*, AuthoringTagHelpers
@addTagHelper AuthoringTagHelpers.TagHelpers.Email*, AuthoringTagHelpers
As mentioned previously, adding the @addTagHelper
directive to the Views/_ViewImports.cshtml
file makes the Tag Helper available to all view files in the Views directory and subdirectories. You can use the @addTagHelper
directive in specific view files if you want to opt-in to exposing the Tag Helper to only those views.
removes Tag Helpers
The @removeTagHelper
has the same two parameters as @addTagHelper
, and it removes a Tag Helper that was previously added. For example, @removeTagHelper
applied to a specific view removes the specified Tag Helper from the view. Using @removeTagHelper
in a Views/Folder/_ViewImports.cshtml
file removes the specified Tag Helper from all of the views in Folder.
Controlling Tag Helper scope with the _ViewImports.cshtml
You can add a _ViewImports.cshtml
to any view folder, and the view engine applies the directives from both that file and the Views/_ViewImports.cshtml
file. If you added an empty Views/Home/_ViewImports.cshtml
file for the Home views, there would be no change because the _ViewImports.cshtml
file is additive. Any @addTagHelper
directives you add to the Views/Home/_ViewImports.cshtml
file (that are not in the default Views/_ViewImports.cshtml
file) would expose those Tag Helpers to views only in the Home folder.
Opting out of individual elements
You can disable a Tag Helper at the element level with the Tag Helper opt-out character ("!"). For example, Email
validation is disabled in the
with the Tag Helper opt-out character:
<!span asp-validation-for="Email" class="text-danger"></!span>
You must apply the Tag Helper opt-out character to the opening and closing tag. (The Visual Studio editor automatically adds the opt-out character to the closing tag when you add one to the opening tag). After you add the opt-out character, the element and Tag Helper attributes are no longer displayed in a distinctive font.
Using @tagHelperPrefix
to make Tag Helper usage explicit
The @tagHelperPrefix
directive allows you to specify a tag prefix string to enable Tag Helper support and to make Tag Helper usage explicit. For example, you could add the following markup to the Views/_ViewImports.cshtml
@tagHelperPrefix th:
In the code image below, the Tag Helper prefix is set to th:
, so only those elements using the prefix th:
support Tag Helpers (Tag Helper-enabled elements have a distinctive font). The
and <input>
elements have the Tag Helper prefix and are Tag Helper-enabled, while the
element doesn't.
The same hierarchy rules that apply to @addTagHelper
also apply to @tagHelperPrefix
Self-closing Tag Helpers
Many Tag Helpers can't be used as self-closing tags. Some Tag Helpers are designed to be self-closing tags. Using a Tag Helper that was not designed to be self-closing suppresses the rendered output. Self-closing a Tag Helper results in a self-closing tag in the rendered output. For more information, see this note in Authoring Tag Helpers.
C# in Tag Helpers attribute/declaration
Tag Helpers do not allow C# in the element's attribute or tag declaration area. For example, the following code is not valid:
<input asp-for="LastName"
@(Model?.LicenseId == null ? "disabled" : string.Empty) />
The preceding code can be written as:
<input asp-for="LastName"
disabled="@(Model?.LicenseId == null)" />
Normally, the @
operator inserts a textual representation of an expression into the rendered HTML markup. However, when an expression evaluates to logical false
, the framework removes the attribute instead. In the preceding example, the disabled
attribute is set to true
if either Model
or LicenseId
is null
Tag helper initializers
While attributes can be used to configure individual instances of tag helpers, ITagHelperInitializer<TTagHelper> can be used to configure all tag helper instances of a specific kind. Consider the following example of a tag helper initializer that configures the asp-append-version
attribute or AppendVersion
property for all instances of ScriptTagHelper
in the app:
public class AppendVersionTagHelperInitializer : ITagHelperInitializer


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Oven Features | |
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Cyber-terror, wildfire, rodents – how can California protect its vulnerable power supply?
Russians hack Ukraine's electricity network, turning lights off and on at will, rendering the country's best tech hands helpless to intervene. North Korea takes over the controls of a South Korean nuclear power plant. Snipers with high-velocity rifles unleash a fusillade on a transmission station near San Jose, inflicting $15 million in damage.
It's not the plot of the latest spy novel. Rather, it's a small sampling of actual attacks, the kind of sabotage against vulnerable energy systems that can cut off power with the click of a mouse and bring officials to their knees.
Experts say energy grids are the new front in cyber-terrorism. Although the wildfires that periodically dominate the news are a serious threat to California's power supply, cyber-invaders are an around-the clock danger, trying to penetrate grid security every minute of every day. An all-hands-on-deck battle is being waged against them, and the network that serves nearly 40 million people's homes, industries and public-safety agencies depends on a successful defense.
Should the grid be hijacked, the entire state could be held hostage, experts say. Can the state prevent what one utility executive likened to "a hostile takeover?"
Never has California's aging electricity infrastructure been more vulnerable, even as the government plans to rely on it more completely with 5 million electric cars and, eventually, to fully operate the world's fifth-largest economy. Moreover, fire and sophisticated hacking aren't the only risks to the consistent flow of electrical power: The grid can also be undone by California's formidable natural forces – wind, earthquakes, floods – and the most humble of creatures.
Gnawing squirrels have brought stock trading to a halt more than once by chewing electricity lines and disrupting Nasdaq computers. Rodents also interrupted some operations at Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving Day in 2015, briefly stopping elevators, baggage screening and other functions.
A widespread, sustained power outage is frightening to contemplate, with the tools we use to navigate our lives taken from us: no lights, telephone service or charging capacity; no heating or cooling; no computers, working gas pumps or ATMs.
"Think of the internet as a weapon of mass destruction," says former news anchor Ted Koppel, whose book "Lights Out" explores threats to U.S. electricity grids.
The scale of the challenge to keep the lights on was drawn in sharp relief in November at Stanford University, where experts gathered to peer into the energy future. Hint – it's murky and potentially dark.
"Our adversaries are advancing at a rapid clip," said Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, the federal government's leading cybersecurity agency and a conference participant. "Within a few years, Russia and China will have the ability to conduct on-demand, localized disruption of service, including of control systems in multiple sectors, simultaneously."
California's vulnerable electricity infrastructure has the attention of lawmakers in Sacramento. Some have faulted the oversight of safety procedures at power companies, a displeasure that has brought new scrutiny to the Public Utilities Commission, which regulates those businesses.
A new state law requires utilities to undertake broader, more aggressive planning for reducing fire risks associated with utility equipment, though regulators say they have neither funding nor technology to comprehensively monitor even the measures companies already have in place.
In addition, the state operates two entities tasked with analyzing and addressing potential hacking threats, particularly to critical infrastructure such as power stations and the dams where hydroelectric power is generated, and coordinating their efforts with utility companies.
Still, state Senator Bob Hertzberg, who has an extensive background in the power sector, worries that California is under-prepared.
"It's unbelievable, oh my God; there are so many things that can go wrong," said the Democrat from Van Nuys, who authored a law last year pinpointing threats to the grid from electromagnetic attacks. "Security is a big deal, and it's become a big deal because we rely on electricity for everything."
The California Independent System Operator, the private company that is the state's grid overlord, is obsessed with security. A spokeswoman said it has significantly increased investment in cybersecurity in recent years and regularly conducts internal testing. It even relocated its fortress-like facility to cocoon its operations against harm, on high ground, away from known seismic faults, close (but not too close) to Sacramento and a highway.
Like every utility and power company in the state, the grid operator has marauders at its cyber-gate every minute of every day.
"We are always being attacked," said vice president Mark Rothleder, gazing down at the facility's gymnasium-sized control room, where electricity supply and demand are constantly monitored. "We have mechanisms in place ... but it's constantly changing. It's a constantly evolving threat we have to defend against."
Security managers universally seem to adopt a "security through obscurity" approach, not wishing to discuss specific strategies other than to say they are in place. In addition, the state's largest investor-owned utilities – Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric – all have specific departments to defend against cyber-incursions.
Attacks can come from an unknown source, anywhere in the world. Some hackers gain access to a host system and do nothing more than hide in the figurative bushes, getting to know the lay of the cyber-land and biding time. Malware lurks in dark corners.
Detecting a computer breach can take three to six months, according to David Goeckeler, Executive Vice President of San Jose-based Cisco, the computer networking giant with cybersecurity expertise.
Just as often, hackers bang on the digital front door, on the off-chance it will be mistakenly opened. Goeckeler, speaking at the Stanford energy forum, said saboteurs attempt to hack Cisco's systems 20 billion times a day. Yes, billion.
Such threats have become a priority for the federal government. California utilities participate with those of other states in federal exercises such as GridEx, a war game that simulates grid attacks and coordinates potential responses with local and state emergency agencies, law enforcement, the Department of Defense and telecommunications and banking firms.
At SDG&E, which has 3.6 million electricity customers, "there's always some type of an intrusion attempt daily," said Zoraya Griffin, the company's emergency operations manager. "It's not a matter of if we have them, but how many."
In addition to threats that are difficult to see, such as those posed by hackers, some vulnerabilities are literally before our eyes. Aging equipment. Poorly maintained circuits and other key equipment. Miles of wires surrounded by overgrown vegetation and tinder-dry trees that can ignite in a flash.
The state's response to the issue has been accelerated by the wildfire threat.
Officials have ordered utilities to "harden" their equipment with such measures as replacing wooden power poles with metal or composite ones, swathing lines in more robust insulation and wrapping other equipment in metal or other fire-resistant material.
The Public Utilities Commission is awaiting companies' specific fire-mitigation plans, due in early February. Those reports are to detail how the utilities will construct, maintain and operate their equipment to minimize its risk of causing catastrophic blazes.
The work will carry a sobering price tag. For example, a federal judge has proposed that PG&E inspect its entire transmission system –including nearly 100,000 miles of power lines – and make its equipment more fire-safe. The utility balked, saying the work would cost $150 billion.
But why expose equipment and circuits to fire danger in the first place? Money. It makes the most financial sense for utilities to traverse California's steep mountain passes and broad deserts by erecting power towers that march with giant steps across those vast landscapes.
And although companies tend to locate power lines underground in new housing tracts, relocating above-ground lines under the earth is expensive–as much as $3 million a mile. In addition, digging new trenches in established neighborhoods and congested areas typically meets local resistance.
Utilities have stepped up their resiliency efforts, clearing brush and cutting trees, installing cameras to monitor far-flung equipment and focusing more on the potential of weather to cause problems. But one company, San Diego Gas & Electric, is ahead of the pack in elevating weather forecasting to a high priority, investing billions of dollars to respond to threats from nature.
The company's first line of defense begins 20 feet up on power poles, with compact but complex remote weather stations. The utility has the state's most extensive weather-monitoring network, with 177 stations across 4,000 square miles.
Every 10 minutes the stations beam real-time information about temperature, humidity and wind speed and direction to a command center in San Diego. The datais also available to the public on the company's website.
In conditions of high wildfire risk – excessive heat or wind, for example – the information is folded into twice-daily emails shared with the state firefighting agency and local responders. The weather forecast is also included in a separate email dispatched every morning at 6:30 to company leaders.
Remote-controlled cameras provide a picture of what's happening not only with the company's equipment but also with the surrounding landscape. Trouble can be spotted more quickly, crews can be better positioned and power shutoffs can occur earlier when necessary. Control of the cameras can be handed off to fire officials during emergencies. In a revenge-of-the-nerds moment, meteorologists and fire forecasters now have a seat at the company table alongside the brass and the engineers when emergencies arise.
"Understanding the weather enables decision making," said Chris Arends, who manages the utility's meteorology program.
David Nahai is the former head of another company, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States. He said keeping the lights on requires investment, planning and constant vigilance.
"You think about natural disaster all the time. You think about fires all the time. It's an everyday priority," Nahai said. "That doesn't mean you can withstand everything that we are vulnerable to."
Source: https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article225289475.html


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Bacteria that generate significant amounts of electricity could be used in microbial fuel cells to provide power in remote environments or to convert waste to electricity. Professor Derek Lovley from the University of Massachusetts, USA isolated bacteria with large numbers of tiny projections called pili which were more efficient at transferring electrons to generate power in fuel cells than bacteria with a smooth surface. The team's findings were reported at the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today (7 September).
The researchers isolated a strain of Geobacter sulfurreducens which they called KN400 that grew prolifically on the graphite anodes of fuel cells. The bacteria formed a thick biofilm on the anode surface, which conducted electricity. The researchers found large quantities of pilin, a protein that makes the tiny fibres that conduct electricity through the sticky biofilm.
"The filaments form microscopic projections called pili that act as microbial nanowires," said Professor Lovley, "using this bacterial strain in a fuel cell to generate electricity would greatly increase the cell's power output."
The pili on the bacteria's surface seemed to be primarily for electrical conduction rather than to help them to attach to the anode; mutant forms without pili were still able to stay attached.
Microbial fuel cells can be used in monitoring devices in environments where it is difficult to replace batteries if they fail but to be successful they need to have an efficient and long-lasting source of power. Professor Lovley described how G. sulfurreducens strain KN400 might be used in sensors placed on the ocean floor to monitor migration of turtles.


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Bangkok, Thailand, November 2, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / Patrick Basset, former Accor Regional COO, joins NOVA Asset Management to Lead Post-Covid Recovery. As countries across Southeast Asia begin to announce plans for a larger-scale opening to international guests, NOVA Asset Management is positioning itself for the anticipated surge in demand by bringing on board former Accor Southeast & Northeast Asia Chief Operating Officer, Patrick Basset, as a Senior Partner.
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Reference Question of the Week – 11/28/10
December 4th, 2010 Brian HerzogThis reference question has actually been in the works for a couple weeks, and isn't officially closed. But I don't expect to get any better answer than what has already been found, so I thought I'd share it.
Before I got into work one day, a patron asked if she could use the phone. Since our pay phone was removed from the lobby, we've been more permissive about letting patrons use our desk phones. However, when the patron said she was going to call India, staff told her she'd need to use a pay phone. So of course she asked,
Where is the nearest pay phone?
They were pretty sure there was one across the street, but just to be sure they also searched online to see if there were any pay phone listings or directories. They found three, but each seemed incomplete or out-of-date:
- Payphone Project - our town listing included phones in buildings that have been torn down (not to mention they're not even our area code)
- Payphone Directory - their Massachusetts listing didn't include our town
- McPayphone - again, no local listings in their Massachusetts listing, but there was one Chelmsford location on their "dead numbers" page
When I got in, I also searched and found the same thing. I thought the best way to get a listing of pay phones in town was to contact the Verizon rep who handled our old pay phone - if anyone had a current list, it'd be them, right? So I called our Town Hall and spoke to the woman who handles the pay phone contracts for Town buildings. She said all of the Town-run phones had been removed to save money, and that dealing with our Verizon rep was a pain. She didn't have his phone number handy, but said she'd look and call me back (I still haven't heard from her, which is why this question isn't officially "closed").
In the meantime, I thought I'd just call Verizon and see how far I could get. I found a list of Verizon contact phone numbers, and called the Massachusetts support line.
After going through their menu options and waiting on hold for a few minutes, I finally got a nice guy in the billing department. I explained that I was looking for a list of pay phones in my town, and he laughed and said he didn't even know if they even still had a pay phone division. Eventually he found a "coin phone department" on his department list, and transferred me there. But he also gave me the number: 800-782-8355.
After waiting on hold for a long while, I spoke to a woman who didn't seem to like the idea of me asking for this list. First she said I had to go through Town Hall, so I explained that the Town pulled out their phones, which is why I was looking for a list of the rest of the phones in town. Then she put me on hold to confer with someone, and when she came back she said,
I can't give you that list, because a list of where all our phones are is proprietary information.
Yes, "proprietary information." She suggested I just walk around town and look for Verizon signs, because, "they're all well marked."
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Among the things to celebrate this holiday season is the fact that there are fewer hungry people in the world. Just how many? Well, since 1965, researchers in Europe have been tracking the world's food supply and where it's going.
The good news is: The percentage of the world's population getting what the researchers say is a sufficient diet has grown from 30 percent to 61 percent.
In 1965, a majority of the world survived on less than 2,000 calories a day per person. This was especially true in parts of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, China and Southeast Asia. Now, 61 percent of the world has access to 2,500 or more calories a day.
But one thing the scientists discovered is that the countries that have a history of food insufficiency didn't just up and start growing lots more food. Instead, for the most part they're increasing supply by importing food from abroad.
Cross-border trade in food has skyrocketed in the past 50 years. The major exporters have been the U.S., Canada, Australia and Argentina. Brazil, once a place with its own food deficit, is also a major producer of food grown just for export.
And as the supply of food in previously hungry nations has increased, so has consumption of animal-based food. In fact, worldwide, the supply of calories from animal-based nutrition has increased 2.6 times.
Writing in the journal PLoS, the researchers, from Finland and Germany, note that the increase in food production may strain natural resources in some places as more land is put into agriculture, more fertilizer and pesticides are used, and more energy is needed to produce and ship food.
Moreover, the spread of higher-calorie diets has also increased people's weight. Recent research shows that obesity is on the rise in places like China and Pacific Island nations as diets both improve and change.
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Liebherr component division is presenting the newly developed LH30VO axial piston pump of swash plate design at Conexpo 2017. The medium pressure pump complements the existing product portfolio in the range of 280 bar (4,061 psi) nominal pressure and maximum pressure of up to 320 bar (4,641.21 psi), suited for mobile machinery use. The pump for all mobile applications with open circulation has a delivery rate of 45 cm³ (28.38 inches) per rotation and is already available with two of the most common controls.
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The FBI arrested the mayor of New Jersey's capital city today, accusing him of corruption related to a bribery scandal.
The FBI alleges Tony Mack, the mayor of Trenton, accepted thousands of dollars in exchange for influence over a parking garage project. Federal authorities also arrested Mack's brother and a supporter.
NPR's Carrie Johnson filed this report for our Newscast unit:
"Federal prosecutors accuse all three men of taking part in a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The Justice Department says Tony Mack, the mayor of Trenton since 2010, abused his power.
Authorities say the mayor's brother, the head football coach at Trenton Central High School, acted as a middleman between the mayor and a political supporter.
The FBI says it recovered $2,500 in the home of the mayor's brother, with serial numbers it traced to a bribe.
The Justice Department used confidential informants, videotapes and audio recordings to build the case.
NBC New York reports that as part of its evidence, the FBI recorded conversations with Mack supporter Joseph Giorgianni.
Giorgianni, reports NBC New York, was recorded boldly saying that he could "be bought."
"I like to do it the Boss Tweed way, you know, Boss Tweed ran Tammany Hall," Giorgianni said in a recorded conversation. That was a reference to William Tweed, a New York representative from the 1800s who was convicted of stealing millions from New York taxpayers.
NBC New York adds:
"The arrests are the latest development in an ongoing federal investigation that began in 2010 into alleged corruption within Mack's administration, which has been marked by accusations of nepotism and reckless spending. In July, FBI agents searched offices in Trenton City Hall a day after raiding the mayor's home. They also searched the home of his brother, Ralphiel Mack, and that of Giorgianni."
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The New Year is a time we associate with completions and new
beginnings. We have the opportunity to
review from where we've come, and consider where we want to go. For the coming year, I share a modified
version of an exercise I call Looking Back, Looking Forward. This one places
more direct focus on three key aspects of creation: Be/Do/Have.
Grab a journal
or open a new document on your computer or tablet, and let's dive in…
Part 1: Looking Back
To move forward, we must first look backward. We start by reflecting on our successes and
lessons, and finish by declaring completion and celebrating both what we have
and have not achieved. We get to define what
we consider "success," as winning is in the eye of the beholder. Many of
our most significant accomplishments have involved "failure" to help us gain insights
or knowledge into ourselves and others, and perhaps what we want, need, or will/won't
By reflecting on these successes and
lessons, we are better able to choose who we want to be as we engage and
interact with the world. And we must
then let it all go by completing and celebrating the past and choosing to move
forward without regret or attachment to what coulda/shoulda been.
Looking at who you were being (Be), what you have done (Do),
and your results (Have), reflect and respond to the following questions:
- Successes: What have I created/accomplished this year, and why is that meaningful?
- Lessons: What have I learned this year, and what are the impacts of those lessons?
- Completions: Whether I achieved them or not, what goals from last year do I want to declare "complete" and move on (without guilt, regret, or "should")?
- Celebrations: What do I want to acknowledge as my biggest takeaways from this past year, and how will I celebrate them?
Part 2: Looking Forward
I don't believe in resolutions and feel they can be
detrimental to a person's experience of themselves. This is because resolutions are typically created
from a "fix it" point of view, and often result in negative feelings if/when
they aren't achieved and sustained. I also
caution against creating too many goals or changes at once. There are studies that show that likelihood
of success declines as the list of goals/changes grows.
It is far more effective to identify and commit to 2-3 key SMART goals/targets that are personally meaningful and born out of choice and not should.
Let's now focus on looking forward into the new year with an eye on
creating and committing only to what you really want.
I. Assess Your Current State
Start by taking a litmus test for
where you are right now. Consider how
fulfilled you are in various areas of your life – career, health,
relationships, etc. Take this Wheel of Life assessment to get a sense
of your levels of satisfaction and expression. Or you can jump straight to the results section for a list of questions
to ponder.
II. Visualize Your Future
Now that you know where you are, take
a long view on who you want to be and what you want to do/have this year. Project yourself out to December 31, 2014 and
reflect on all you've experienced, created, and learned over the past 12 months.
- What will you include on your Looking Back for 2014?
- What does it feel like to have these successes and lessons?
- What value, impact, and meaning would that have for you?
- Who were you being that made that possible?
III. Set Targets
Identify 2-3 targets that are important to you
this year. The more challenging the targets, the
fewer you'll want to commit to.
Don't be tempted to take on everything. If you are concerned about follow through, perhaps you may want to focus on only one critical, meaty target this year.
Examples of broad targets: "focus
more on health and fitness" or "be more patient with my kids." Specific targets may read like: "grow my practice's revenue by 20%" or "get accepted to grad school."
However you define the targets, you will be more successful if they align
with your vision above, are grounded in your personal values, and you truly want them enough
to commit wholeheartedly. Half-ass commitments make for half-ass results (if any).
IV. Define Your Approach
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For each target, you will want to get
super clear on the details. Your level
of specificity and commitment has a direct relationship to the likelihood of
achieving your end goal. If you find it
challenging to complete the Be/Do/Have, you may need to go back and refine/revise
so each target is clear and meaningful to you.
Taking each target one at a time, complete the next section.
- This target is personally meaningful to me because...
- To achieve this target, I commit to being...
Target #1: Create and engage in a health and fitness regime that works for me
- This target is personally meaningful to me because... my health is critical for my own mental and physical well-being, and it plays an essential part in me being able to be/do/have everything I want in my personal and professional life. A focus on health and fitness will give me more energy, allow me to better manage stress and anxiety, and help me overcome my issues with insomnia.
- To achieve this target, I commit to being... present and intentional, in integrity about doing what I commit to, and willing/open to seek support and allow others to hold me accountable.
B. Do (How): Create a plan of action. Identify the actions necessary for accomplishing
this target, and then break those down into baby steps. Be as SMART as possible: Be specific, put the steps into time (by when),
and note any resources needed (tools, people, dollars, time commitments) to be
sure you are super clear about what you are undertaking and whether it is realistic
and achievable.
The example below shows
how to break down a broad target like "exercise" into specific actions you can
take -- to build a roadmap for achieving your target. It will look like this: Target >> Activities to reach that target >> Clearly
defined baby steps/support structures for accomplishing those activities
Target #1: Create and engage in a health and fitness regime that works for me
- Activity 1A: Exercise for 1 hour minimum 3x/week
- Define activity options [such as 3 mile run, stretching, cardio/weights, palates class, etc.]
- Renew gym membership by January 7 [or join a softball team, or…?]
- Download JIFIT app for tracking my workouts by January 10 [for accountability and measurement]
- Identify 1-2 workout buddies by mid-January [for accountability and support]
- Etc.
- Activity 1B: Be mindful about what I eat
- Cut out refined sugars and processed food
- Identify healthy eating options near my office
- Bring lunch to work 2x/week
- Etc.
- Activity 1C: Focus on my fluid intake
- Limit alcohol to 1x/week (wine/beer only) through February 28
- Drink 64oz of water per day
- No soda or artificially sweetened drinks
- Etc.
- Activity 1D: Create structures for mental and spiritual wellness
- Identify a therapist by January 15; commit to 1x/week
- Attend a yoga class 2x/month
- Meditate daily for 5 min. every morning at 7am
- Research approaches to managing my stress and sleep issues
- Etc.
C. Have (What/When): Define measures, milestones, and results. What will be the indicators that you are making progress? At what points will you reassess and what accountability structures will keep you on track? What will be the results, outcomes, and impacts if you are successful in achieving your target?
Example - Have
Using the same target as above, here are some potential options:The main objective is to be super clear about what you are shooting for as your results, and how you will measure them along the way. This will help you evaluate progress, and to fine tune the actions and baby steps to keep moving toward your goal. Be sure to create some rewards (big and small) for accomplishments of all kinds (big and small). There needs to be some play in this if you want to keep yourself motivated over the longer-term.
- Measure your body at the start and create points (monthly, quarterly?) at which you will measure change in inches (decrease for weight loss; increase for muscle gain)
- Track your activities and progress (however you define it) by using your calendar, Excel, an app on your phone, or even a wall chart with gold stars (if that motivates you)
- Keep tabs on how you will feel (more energy, longer/better sleep, improved mood) by keeping a journal or asking for periodic feedback from people around you
V. Take Action
This is where the rubber meets the road. What will be your first steps (i.e., today,
this week, etc.)? Do you need to create some
structure and accountability by putting things in your calendar, finding an
accountability buddy, or partnering with someone so you don't have to do it
alone? If you are really serious and
committed to achieving your targets, consider all the resources you have at
your disposal, including people. In
other words, don't be afraid to ask for and accept help.
Final Note
You have the power to create your experience this year by
being conscious and intentional about who you be and what you do. What you will discover over time is the "have"
is part results and part impact. It's a
process of "becoming" as you continue to commit, take action, refine your approach,
and allow the tangible and intangible results to unfold. What you learn and how you grow can sometimes
be just as if not more significant than what you actually achieve. Be open to that and you will likely enjoy the
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According to the calendar and math, I just turned 37 years old. This meets most definitions of adulthood. I'm a parent, and a wife. I have a professional portfolio with 15 years worth of stuff in it. I'm employable and pretty much have my shit together. Of course, none of this means a thing. I'm the same dumbass I was in college.
As I'm constantly reminding my daughter (who is 2 and concerned with such things) we get a little bigger every day until we grow up. For her, that's enough. For me, growing up is an ongoing campaign.
After childhood, an extensive support network surrounding the products we buy encourages us to spend our energy trying to look and act like the people we briefly were in our early 20s. The desire to grow up is subsumed by a need to stop growing or changing.
I started dying my hair to cover up grey when I was 24. My fair skin and fear of the sun got me a brief reprieve from wrinkles. General immaturity and bad impulse control made me seem younger than my age. Postponing motherhood helped as well. I put myself on pause.
When I became pregnant, I stopped dying my hair. Weight gain and bloat changed my face, and I was too damned tired to indulge in any silly nonsense. Everything hurt and I aged ten years in a few months. I was still the same dumbass, but without the honors and privileges awarded to youth. There was some mitigating churn around "oh look a pregnant lady how sweet" but it didn't kick in for six months and was offset by vomiting and crippling depression.
Some time has passed, and I'm suddenly 37. Parenthood has reshaped my priorities. I have become Erica's Earning Potential, Erica's Ability to Absorb Interruption, Erica's Immune System, and Erica's Ability to Feed Her Family.
Endless undignified tasks arise when you've chosen to subsume personal ambition to create an environment where a potentially decent interesting child can grow and exist. There are no awards, there is no press coverage, and everyone involved forgets the details.
This isn't the narcissism of Midwestern modesty ("Oh it's nothing, here let me get that. Well maybe someday when I'm rich.") or a perversion of patriarchal beauty standards. My sudden need for mid-afternoon naps and my enduring relationship with Ibuprofen and the heating pad argue against anything so energetic. Being punk rock is a lot of work. This is different. This is mom jeans and uncombed hair.
This is some organic freerange not-giving-a-shit.
I don't try to look younger unless it assists the new priorities which are focused around people other than myself. I clean up ok, and I'll do the thing where I get into lady drag when I go to job interviews or meetings with people who aren't my work bros. I brush my teeth so my husband will kiss me, and I continue to fool him into thinking I'm pinup-hot.
But seriously? That food stain on my shirt is going to stay there. And I'm going to look right at you and talk anyway. I'm going to have opinions and expect a response even though I'm not wearing a particularly coordinated outfit because that's what I've gained by becoming my own age. I'm not on pause anymore, and I didn't lose anything of value.
I'm still the same dumbass I was in college, so why shouldn't I claim the column of space around my body and fill it with something useful? I'm not here to be decorative. I don't have to be, and neither do you.
So here's to 37 and the freedom it brings. Here's to being alive for no particular reason and not mattering much. Here's to reeling around doing your best. And here's to writing about it, because questioning that urge doesn't help much either.
Good to be here, everyone. Hope you are well.


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Taylor Swift Inspires a Real-Life Wedding Proposal
Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about how to tell a 'Love Story' through song — and a few days ago, she helped play a role in a real-life marriage proposal.
When Taylor's tour stopped in Detroit last February, she met up with WYCD DJ Jason 'The 300 Pound Cowboy' and his girlfriend, Kelli, and hit it off with the couple. As the night drew to a close, Taylor's mother warned them, "Next time I see you two, you'd better be engaged!"
Fast forward to last Thursday, when Taylor returned to Detroit — and reunited with Jason and Kelli backstage after the show. After they spent a few minutes catching up, he followed the advice he'd been given last year, and reached into his pocket for a ring.
"The last time we saw you, you told us we'd better be engaged the next you saw us, so Kelli…" Jason said, as recounted on the station's website. Swift, who had no idea what was coming, was understandably surprised, but she had enough wits about her to urge Jason, "Get down on your knee!"
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Ultrasound imaging & guidance for Musculoskeletal Interventions in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
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'Seeing is believing' and 'if you see, you can simply have access to it'. Suffi ce it to say, this motto is actually the single-sentence summary of this whole book as regards ultrasound (US) imaging and guidance for musculoskeletal interventions.
With 55 pertinent videos, this book is the 3rd product in the 'PRM arsenal' for US. After the 1st book 'Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine' published in 2014 (mainly for beginners), the 2nd book 'Sonographic Atlas for Common Musculoskeletal Pathologies was published in 2017. In that (maintenance) project, we briefly aimed to 'accompany' our colleagues in their daily clinical practice as they started to use US, mainly for diagnostic purposes.
Having been translated to other languages (Spanish, Italian, Turkish) as well, we believe that both projects have accomplished their 'responsibility' until now.
Needless to say, US plays a paramount role during musculoskeletal interventions i.e. not only for precise guidance but also for prompt clinical decision making in advance. This is, by far, the reason why we have put equal emphasis on imaging and guidance in this project. Hence, instead of the standard 'US-guided intervention', we prefer the state-of-the-art 'US guides the intervention'. In this sense, trying to include as many musculoskeletal procedures as possible, we have put our 'extra spin' in this textbook. A few examples would be suture injections, radiofrequency ablations, shockwave applications, or minor surgeries, etc. Lastly, and above all, we believe that it is US itself that pushes us 'off the scale'. As such, enjoy reading another book with US/us…
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Professor at Hacettepe University Medical School, Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. His main areas of interest comprise musculoskeletal ultrasonography and scientific publishing. He has edited the two books "Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine" and 'Sonographic Atlas for Common Musculoskeletal Pathologies'. He has authored over 500 publications in various international journals indexed in SCI/SCI-Exp. He is also Associate Editor, member of the Editorial board and/or reviewer for many international journals indexed by SCI/SCI-Exp. He is the Founder & President of TURK-MUSCULUS (Turkish Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study Group), EURO-MUSCULUS (European Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study Group), WORLD-MUSCULUS (World Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study Group), TURK-MUS (Turkish Multidisciplinary Ultrasound Society), USPRM (Ultrasound Study Group of ISPRM), and ESPRM (European Society) Special Interest Committee on musculoskeletal ultrasound.
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If it's hard to say, it must be risky
We all have different criteria for what we consider risky. However, numerous studies have suggested that we tend to perceive familiar products and activities as being less risky and hazardous than unfamiliar ones. If something is familiar, the thinking goes, it is comfortable and safe. But how do we know if something is familiar? We often rely on a simple shortcut: If it is easy to perceive, remember or pronounce, we have probably seen it before. If so, will a product's name and how easy it is to pronounce, affect how we view the product? Will it seem safer when its name is easy to pronounce? In a new study reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz from the University of Michigan present evidence that we if have problems pronouncing something, we will consider it to be risky.
A group of students were given a list of made-up food additives and were asked to rate how harmful they were. The additives all contained twelve letters, with Magnalroxate being one of the easiest to pronounce and Hnegripitrom one of the hardest to pronounce. The students rated the difficult to pronounce additives as being more harmful. In addition, the hard to pronounce additives were considered to be more novel than those with easier names. In another experiment, students were shown a list of made-up names of amusement-park rides and were asked to rate the rides on how adventurous they would be and how risky (and therefore most likely to make them sick) the rides would be. The names ranged from being easy to pronounce (such as Chunta) to very difficult to pronounce (such as Vaiveahtoishi). Consistent with the first experiment, the students rated the rides with the difficult to pronounce names as being more risky, but also more exciting.
These results show that people consistently classify difficult to pronounce items as risky, and this is the case for both undesirable risks (such as getting sick on a roller coaster or hazardous food additive) as well as desirable risks (such as an adventurous amusement park ride). These findings also suggest that risk perception may be influenced by the way the items are presented – if they are difficult to process (such as hard to pronounce names), they will be viewed as being inherently riskier. The authors note that these findings are relevant for risk communication and they suggest that difficult product names "may alert consumers to the risks posed by potentially hazardous products, possibly motivating them to pay closer attention to warnings and instructions."


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Should Ryan Dempster Have Been Suspended for Plunking A-Rod? — Sports Survey of the Day
On Sunday night Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster intentionally hit Alex Rodriguez with a pitch. MLB has now suspended and fined him.
Baseball officials handed Dempster a five-game suspension for his actions on Sunday night. After missing A-Rod on the first pitch of the at-bat, Dempster attempted it three more times, finally connecting on the fourth.
Yankee manager Joe Girardi was outraged that Dempster wasn't ejected from the game, but is the suspension and fine enough? According to USA Today, the Yankees aren't happy—Dempster won't even miss his next start or lose any salary.