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Almaz-Antey press conference: JIT report ignored technical details which showed missile was fired from Kiev-controlled area
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:21 UTC
According to Mikhail Malyshevsky, an adviser to the chief designer of Almaz-Antey, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down from the village of Zaroshenskoye, which was controlled by the Ukrainian Army at the time of the crash.
"To date, we conducted three experiments that confirm the version that the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by a missile from the direction of the village of Zaroshenskoye," Malyshevsky said on Wednesday.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) issued its report claiming that MH17 was downed by a 9M38-series Buk missile launched from the rebel-held area near the village of Pervomaiskoye in eastern Ukraine. The probe also claimed that the Buk system in question was brought into Ukraine from Russia, and after the launch was subsequently returned to Russian territory.
The adviser said that the real damage to the MH17 fuselage did not match the results presented by the JIT in its report. He also said that the JIT presentation and the report "almost have not considered issues regarding the technical investigation."
Malyshevsky said that despite providing the JIT with technical details on the Buk missile model and the warhead which Almaz-Antey considered to be those used to hit MH17, that data "was not convenient" for the international investigators.
"Back in May, when the data was transferred to the Dutch experts, we realized that most likely it won't be used [by the JIT]," Malyshevsky said. "So in July we sent a document to technical investigators - extracts from the books - which was labeled 'top-secret' at the time, and we sent the main technical characteristics of a model used by Almaz-Antey."
Malyshevsky presented the results of an experiment conducted by Almaz-Antey last year, which simulated the explosion of the Buk missile hitting the plane's cockpit.
The Almaz-Antey representative stressed that while modelling the Buk missile strike, the international investigators did not use the data on the respective Buk missile presented by the Russian arms producer. Instead the JIT opted for the data on a US missile, which has technical characteristics different from Buk missiles.
The Dutch-led investigators have still not been able to name the exact missile model, saying the Boeing was shot down by a 9M38-series missile.
Regarding the launch site, Malyshevsky claimed that the angle at which the actual projectiles hit MH17 differs from the one presented by the JIT. The angle of the impact on MH17 shows that the plane was likely downed from the area near Zaroshenksoye, he said.
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Please Join Team New Mexico Go here for more information [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewMexicoTeam Team New Mexico] Next Meeting every Thursday at 8:00pm on freenode irc channel #ubuntu-newmexico
Bugs I've Triaged
I'm pretty new to bug squashing but I'm going to try as hard as I can. BR [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/115576 Bug #115576 USB Head set] - Rejected - Bug was a duplicate of [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113830 Bug #113830]
My Ubuntu Projects
Here is a list of my current projects for ubuntu.
- xorg.switcher - Script for choosing between xorg.conf files the link is to full documentation on how to implement.
[http://www.mediamax.com/dthomasdigital/Hosted/xorgswitcherddoc.odt xorg.switcher open doc]
- Logitech USB Howto - Had a hard time getting my USB Microphone to work here is a step by step Howto
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Xchat howto -So I keep telling people to come to the New Mexico IRC Meeting, well some people may not know how to, so I wrote this little howto:BR[http://www.mediamax.com/dthomasdigital/Hosted/xchathowto.odt Xchat Howto open doc]
- Team New Mexico Ubuntu LOCO logo - My first attempt with Inkscape
- More logo goodness - That Inkscape just rocks
- Team lead for Software Freedom Day September 15, 2007
Ubuntu Wiki Pages I've updated
InternetRelayChat - changed the #ubuntu-newmexico section added team New Mexico web page link BR NewMexicoTeam - Home of the New Mexico Team LoCo
New Mexico Team LoCo Meetings
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Job market and education options in Montreal vs. New York Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Job market and education options in Montreal vs. New York Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General North America Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message jcarrollJoined: 03 Aug 2010Posts: 9 Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:26 pm Post subject: Job market and education options in Montreal vs. New York I apologize for the long post! I have lots of little questions so if you can answer any little bits it will be much appreciated. Thank you for reading. Hi there, I am now facing some choices, and I really would like to get my options straightened out before the university application season ends because I do not want to miss it and have to spend another year in my non-career job. For a little background on my interests, I decided a while ago that a career in teaching English as a Second Language would be right for me, but I am not interested in teaching overseas like a lot of people do when they go this route. I am looking for a much more normal teaching career, probably a public gig with good job security, one that I can continue until I retire. First issue: My boyfriend and I are pretty solid at this point and so I am thinking of our future in terms of where both of us will be in the long run. He is interested in relocating to the NYC area whereas I would like to stay here in Montreal if possible. We have yet to decide where we will end up, but if the ESL market is much stronger in one than the other then it will be good to know, since I definitely want to pursue something that will not leave me unemployed. I have accepted the fact that teaching salaries are not great but I hope to at least have a stable lifestyle. 1. How is the market for ESL at the secondary level in Montreal and New York, if someone here knows? I would imagine it would be strong in Montreal, since most people don't speak English as their first language and I believe English is required at least up to a point in Quebec schools. I know there are also a lot of immigrants in New York who would need to learn English, but do middle and high school aged kids often come to NYC who need help with English? Could I expect to have a secure job teaching ESL at the secondary level in New York or is it a niche thing that only a few people in an area would do? 2. How is the market for teaching adults in Montreal and New York, and is there such a thing as a secure job teaching adults? I find it really appealing to teach in a public school, be in a union, have tons of job security, etc., but I suppose that doesn't exist for people who teach adults? That isn't a huge deal but I also don't want to have to hold down multiple part-time teaching gigs in order to make ends meet. I would like a full-time position that I can rely on. Is there enough demand in Montreal and/or New York to make that happen? I still need some help understanding the path to teaching as someone who has a B.A. in an unrelated field. In Canada they are pretty adamant about having a B.Ed. in order to teach in public schools, and the one-year programs in Ontario as well as the master's for certification in Montreal require you to have majored in English, Linguistics, etc. (not to mention that I have not found any ESL certification programs in Ontario!). If I did stay put to do my B.Ed. here in Montreal it would take three or four years, but the tuition would be very cheap (~3k/year). 3. If I decide to stay in Montreal, should I bite the bullet and do that, or is three to four years for a second bachelor's just crazy? And how employable would I be in New York with a B.Ed. in TESL from Quebec? I could avoid that in one of two ways: I could get something like McGill's TESL Certificate and perhaps an M.A. in Second Language Education, but this route would not make me a certified teacher. 4. Can someone tell me how employable I would be in a private school, for children or adults, in Montreal or New York, after this certificate? How about after the master's? Is there a decent chance I could even get a tolérance (exemption) to teach in public schools and get certified later? Another option would be for me to just go to New York for my education, regardless of where I end up. Things there are completely different in that you can get a master's to become a teacher without any background in English or teaching. 5. Should I just go for this even though I don't want to leave Montreal? Can someone tell me how well such a degree from New York could cross over to certification in Quebec? Sorry to bombard you with questions. I am sure I want to be a teacher at this point and I just really want to find my path to it without wasting more time or money than I should be. A lot of these options are confusing since I don't have any practical knowledge of how they will work out. Thank you so much for your advice. Back to top QaaolchouraJoined: 10 Oct 2008Posts: 539Location: 21 miles from the Syrian border Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:09 am Post subject: I take it from your post that you're a Canadian citizen? Keep in mind that while you can travel visa-free to the United States, you have no right to work or reside there. (You'd think the US and Canada would have something like EU citizenship or the Trans-Tasman Agreement, but no.) This means that you're in a similar situation as you would be working in the EU. However you do have a slight advantage under the North American Free Trade Agreement. (I'm assuming here that your spouse is also Canadian.) If you can find a company willing to hire you, you can gain the right to work as a NAFTA professional, since "teacher" is a qualifying profession, and a baccalaureate is suitable to qualify you. According to the Department of State Quote: Canadian citizens usually do not need a visa as a NAFTA Professional, although a visa can be issued to qualified TN visa applicants upon request. A Canadian citizen without a TN visa can apply at a U.S. port of entry. Learn about requirements and more on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. Canadian citizens can also review information regarding TN visas through U.S. Embassy Ottawa's website. The problem, which you ask about, is actually finding work. That's trickier, since usually TESOL teachers in the US have an MA or higher, and the US already has plenty of TESOLers who've returned home and don't want to get a "real" job yet. I know a foreigner who taught ESL, however 1. she started out as a French teacher and 2. she was in a small town, not New York. I will say that it's unlikely that you'll find work from abroad. My suggestion would be to go to NYC, ask around, knock on doors, and if you get an offer (or the subject of being Canadian comes up before then), explain the NAFTA professional option, and ask for a letter of invitation. With the letter, go back across the border, and enter as a NAFTA professional. The teacher certification question is trickier. I only know the teacher licensure requirements for my home state of Massachusetts, and though I tried googling New York's it suddenly occurred to me that that's something you should do yourself if you're interested. I will say though that I think NYC's graduate program admissions are more liberal than Quebec's. I've never heard of any state requiring a specific undergraduate degree to get a Master's in Education. Keep in mind that I'm suggesting applying as a NAFTA professional, because if you want to get a work-sponsored immigrant visa to teach English in the United States, even if you had an MA TESOL, your chances are probably nil. If you want to get sponsored to teach a language, you should consider doing a US grad program to teach French, since that's still (inexplicably) the second most popular foreign language in the United States, and at least in my high school, all of our French teachers were foreigners, at least originally. Oddly though, despite my school's relative proximity to Canada, none of them were Canadians. Regards, ~Q Back to top santi84Joined: 14 Mar 2008Posts: 1317Location: under da sea Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 5:24 pm Post subject: I live in Montreal too and I have a related degree but not BEd. There is a 3rd option that you are probably not aware of (it is new) which is McGill's MA in Teaching and Learning (with TESL option - there are other options too). It comes with public school (elementary or secondary) certification. Give them a phone call and you can also view the McGill website for details. It's 1-3 years (depending on your courseload) and gives you both the graduate degree plus the certification required. The BEd will be an additional 3 years of study (even if you have a related degree), I've already spoken with McGill about it and it is the worst option if you already have a BA. I wouldn't bother with teaching/certification in NY if you are Canadian. It's a lot cheaper here, the new McGill option gives you the best of both worlds, and the obvious is that it's far cheaper to live here. Go to NYC and have fun if you like, but for the career stuff, I'd stick to MTL. Back to top santi84Joined: 14 Mar 2008Posts: 1317Location: under da sea Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 5:26 pm Post subject: I live on the south shore (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) and TESL teachers are in very high demand here. There's a big demand for TESL in Montreal itself but outside Montreal and throughout the province, the demand is even higher. Come live la vie rive-sud! Back to top timothypfoxJoined: 20 Feb 2008Posts: 492 Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 6:01 am Post subject: I've lived and worked in both cities in the ESL industry. I lived in Montreal for 3 years working at a couple of language schools and later in New York at language schools and then in public schools. But, I did have the added advantage of having duel citizenship. In Montreal, my employment options were limited because I had overseas experience teaching in Japan, but no BA in education, no certification, and no MA to speak of. So, I was only getting responses to my resumes from language schools. My initial job search when I came back from Japan in 1999 was about 3 months to get 20 hour a week job at a language school... Colleagues of mine who were doing a MA in applied linguistics or TESOL were also getting adjunct jobs at colleges and universities in Montreal. They said the competition for a full time position was fierce. They said public school had many more opportunities. So, although my experiences are not recent ones, if you stay in Montreal I second the suggestion to pursue an MA in TESOL that also gives you public school certification. This is also the best qualification if you move to NYC where most teachers have an MA or need one to work permanently at a public school. If you move to NYC (and I can talk from 10 years of experience living there up to 2011), you will need a lot of start up money to begin with. If you manage to get through the work visa hurdle, the general rule of rent is that the desirable, trendy, and safest places to live tend to be very expensive. This does not mean you will need to live way out or in a dangerous neighborhood, but will mean you should expect to live in Queens or Brooklyn and take a good half hour train ride into the city (presumably where you will work) each day. Some brave souls ride bikes all year round which you could do... Craigslist tends to be reasonably reliable for finding shared places to live. Actually, renting a place to live is ridiculous - requires a letter addressed to yourself at a US address in the United States to open a bank account, a utility bill and brokers fee and 1 1/2 months rent up front to rent a place. You can get around a lot of this by sharing a place through something shared on Craigslist, or an owner who rents a place over Craigslist and does not care about all these other antics... Rent for a shoebox studio could be about $800 a month. For a 1-bedroom apartment it could be $1400 a month on up... It is an extremely disheartening fact about living in NYC... Finding work tends to be much much faster than in Montreal. Language school work, or working for a tutoring company are easy ways to find work with adults (and children) - although the pay range varies with a low of $16.5 an hour at one place I worked, to a high of $27 an hour at another place I worked. There are also some not for profit literacy centers that offer adult literacy classes and may offer something more full-time (see Idealist.org) about this. Again craigslist is your good friend for finding ESL jobs to get you started at least... In terms of public schools. If you can get in (and I strongly advise going through the NYC Teaching Fellows program - as they heavily subsidize your MS TESOL program and almost guarantee work placement), will likely place you in a school with high needs children (high demand for that). Likely you will be an ESL (special ed) teacher. I did that for nearly 5 years, but the politics drove me out. But, several of my colleagues have thrived in the NYC system for years. The retirement benefits are excellent as are the vacation days. Without the NYC Teaching Fellows program (say for example you are trying to transfer your MA from Montreal into the NYC system), you will have to take teaching proficiency test, and they will comb your coursework to see if you covered all the equivalent requirements. There are different stages of licensing from Initial up to Professional Certification - so likely you'd at least meet the Initial stage meaning you could work, but may need to do a few courses while you work. The political climate in the NYC schools is often very tempermental with teachers caught between union vs. school administrators and being lambasted for being on one side or the other. Some schools are better than others though, but be aware that politics is crazy. What's expected of you and your work in the classroom may completely change from year to year. In my own experience, one year they wanted original handouts. The next year it was - only use authentic work created by the students. The next year it was collect data on student goals and create activities to develop their skills towards these goals. You get the picture.... But if you can deal with all this, you can make a pretty good living as a teacher in NYC... provided you find full time work. (If you can't - alternatives are to sub your way into a school that needs you.............) Good luck! Back to top dudely_manJoined: 07 May 2014Posts: 2 Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 12:22 am Post subject: Thanks for your very informative post Timothy... I wonder what the advantages are of a public school job over language schools/tutoring. Here in Europe the language schools seem to be the best places to work, no? I'm fresh out of my CELTA qualification, and having a Canadian passport, I'm slightly been having dreams of trying to work in NYC. Wondering if I'd be better of panhandling with my guitar... So what do you think? Is it possible to work your way into the language school circuit there and make a reasonable living? 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- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1 1/2 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups sugar, divided
- 2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lime zest
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2/3 cup cream cheese (5 ounces), room temperature
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
- 1/4 teaspoon finely grated lime zest
- 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°. Coat loaf pan generously with nonstick spray; line bottom and long sides with parchment paper, leaving about 1 1/2-inch overhang. Coat paper with nonstick spray.
Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda into a medium bowl; set aside. Combine 1 1/4 cups sugar and all zest in another medium bowl; set aside.
Using an electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese in a large bowl until blended and smooth, about 2 minutes. Gradually beat in sugar mixture; beat on high speed until very light and fluffy, 3–4 minutes. Reduce speed to low; add eggs one at a time, beating to blend between additions and scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Beat in vanilla. (Make sure mixture is completely incorporated so flour won't clump when added.) With mixer on low speed, gradually add dry ingredients; mix just to blend (do not overmix or cake will become tough). Scrape batter into prepared pan; smooth top.
Bake cake until top is golden brown and springs back when gently pressed with your fingertips and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 60–70 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cake cool in pan for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, stir lemon juice and 1/4 cup sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat until sugar is dissolved for lemon syrup.
Using parchment-paper overhang as an aid, remove cake from pan; peel off and discard paper. Place cake top side up on a wire rack set inside a rimmed baking sheet. Using a skewer, pierce top of cake all over, inserting skewer about halfway through cake (this helps the lemon syrup to soak in).
Using a pastry brush, baste with lemon syrup. Use all of syrup plus any that may have dripped onto baking sheet. Let cake cool completely.
Whisk all ingredients in a medium bowl; strain, if desired. Pour over cake. Scoop up any glaze that may have dripped into sheet and spread over top and sides of cake. Let cake stand at room tempera-ture until icing is set, about 30 minutes. DO AHEAD: Cake can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature.
Cut cake into 1/2-inch-thick slices.


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In her own words: living with fibromyalgia
Karen K. is a 45-year-old postal clerk. She's suffered from fibromyalgia-related pain for at least 18 years, and was diagnosed 12 years ago. Despite frequent bouts of pain and regular episodes of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)—a condition common among fibromyalgia patients—Karen considers herself lucky to be able to pursue hobbies like gardening and remodeling projects around her home. The divorced mother of two is currently helping plan her daughter's wedding.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
About 18 years ago, I started having trouble with pain in my hips. A lot of times I couldn't get out of bed. Walking was painful. Then I began to have pain in the muscles in my shoulders and neck. It's not like muscle soreness after you work out. It's a soreness like if you put on layers and layers of clothes—it's that kind of tightness combined with aches that will last a couple of days. If it gets into my neck, it can last for weeks.
I also started having IBS—basically diarrhea. It was very hard to even go out sometimes because I was afraid of having diarrhea. It would come in waves. I'd rather you cut my arm off than have to go to the grocery store. Tests on my colon would always come back that there was nothing wrong.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
There was one episode when I had to be taken to the hospital by the life squad because of really bad pain in my shoulder and neck. I was at work and had pulled some muscles. After that, I went back to my doctor and he went over a variety of symptoms of fibromyalgia. I had all but two of them.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
I had never heard anything about fibromyalgia before, so I was thankful that someone knew what it was—that a doctor believed in the pains that I had. Since I didn't look like I was sick, sometimes people would look at me like they couldn't believe that I was. My daughter is a nurse—she had been saying that a lot of medical people believe that fibromyalgia is all in somebody's head.
How do you manage fibromyalgia?
I walk a lot because my doctor told me it's good for me. I walk five days a week, three miles a day. It feels good to get out. If I don't walk, I can have trouble.
Around my period I have to be very careful—if I just twist in a way that is slightly different than usual, I'll pull a muscle. At work, I lift, but I watch that now I won't pick up really heavy packages. I also know that if I spend a day working in the yard like I used to, I'll be really sore.
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to fibromyalgia?
I've tried special diets and drink mixes, but they didn't help me, and I don't want to start on any long-term medicine unless it would help my IBS. When I know I have to go out for a special occasion, I'll take an anti-diarrheal medicine and that will help me through it.
I also try to let things that normally would upset me roll off because I know that stress triggers my symptoms.
Did you seek any type of emotional support?
No. I still feel I'm very lucky. My mom had MS and died when I was 15. What I have to go through doesn't seem like anything compared to what she went through.
Does fibromyalgia have any impact on your family?
It does. I'm constantly aware of it. I used to be a mail carrier. I carried in a small town where there are only two public bathrooms. It got to the point where I would be afraid to go out and walk. I used to love to go out and go do things. My husband couldn't understand why I didn't want to go out anymore. Even to walk around the block scared me.
My kids never understood it while they were growing up. I didn't want to go anywhere there wasn't a bathroom. If I'm around the house it's not so bad, but just being out and being afraid something could happen, that triggers a lot of my symptoms, especially the IBS.
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This isn't in your head. This is a legitimate disease. You need to find a doctor that believes that you do have it. Even though the pain can get you down, you can find ways to live with it. Figure out what triggers your symptoms'a lot of times it is stress. Also, exercise can help. It seems one of the best things you can do is keep yourself limber to minimize the discomfort.


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Fact: When Haydn and I retired in July 2008 there were plans to farm, socialise and travel; and not necessarily in that order.
|This picture was taken well before the end of treatment as Haydn refused to take pictures as my flesh began to burn like a blowfly on a barbecue.
Fact: In January 2010 a CT of the Neck and Chest resulted in evidence of a new soft tissue lesion which arrived anterior to the right first costosternal joint. Lesion measures 15 x 17mm. Commenced Arimidex [Aromatase Inhibitor] At this time the increasing nerve pain in my right arm/hand had effected my ability to function normally in the home. Domestic duties, previously undertaken so easily, had now become difficult. Much of the fun of cooking was gone. I was also thinking seriously about life on the farm. No longer able to drive a motor vehicle due to prescribed medication and disability, I began to feel 'trapped.' It was my blog 'buddies,' Memory-of and Facebook friends that allowed me to have the friendships lacking in real life. Fatigue was an issue as talking on the telephone wore me out. I felt deserted by friends that found the 180km 'round trip' from Newcastle just too far to travel. Once again, we were disadvantaged by the isolation.
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Fact: In May 2011 Neck CT shows previously noted left supra-clavicular adenopathy with a solitary nodule measuring approximately 6mm remains relatively unchanged.
The right medial clavicular mass has enlarged and now measures approximately 4.3cm x 19.5cm in transverse and AP dimensions. Again underlying permeative bone destruction of the medial clavicle and its cortical margin is noted.
CT Chest - same date compare to January study. There is an ill-defined soft tissue stranding in the axilla which was previously noted and is unchanged. A nodule in the right pectoralis is likely secondary to post radiation effects.
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"The Rail Splitter and the Railroads"
RUN don't walk to your nearest bookstore or library to read the cover story of the February issue of Trains Magazine, "The Rail Splitter and the Railroads," by Peter A. Hansen. This terrific article, written by one of the country's preeminent rail historians, is receiving numerous accolades. Highly recommend for those interested in 19th century America and the Civil War era.
For those of you who are regular Wig Wags Blog readers, you'll recall that Pete contributed to my Civil War Railroads series here. If you're a CBS Sunday Morning fan, and caught the show yesterday, you may have seen Pete interviewed by Rita Braver as a part of the story titled AMERICANA: Trains as Art. Pete took Sunday Morning to Kansas City's "triple crossing," as well as to the renovated, grand old Union Station.


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Live Map
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Live Map is a browser-based version of the operational Waze maps. It displays current traffic and reports from Wazers using their client app. It is commonly used by map editors to view the navigation instructions that will be provided to the client app when debugging map issues.
- 1 Primary interface
- 1.1 Map movement
- 1.2 Zoom control
- 1.3 Search box
- 1.4 Navigate box
- 1.5 Edit the map
- 1.6 Permalink
- 1.7 Pin
- 1.8 Flag
- 1.9 Navigation points selection box
- 1.10 Longitude and latitude display
- 2 Live data displayed
Primary interface
The primary screen of Live Map provides all the controls required to manage the web interface.
Map movement
When viewing the map, use the mouse to click-drag any point on the screen to move or pan the map to a different location.
Zoom control
Search box
If the live map is only displaying blue water everywhere, it may be necessary to zoom out and move the map to the continent desired. When the map is near a particular continent that does not have the destination desired, it may be difficult to search for it without first moving the map to the correct continent.
Once the searched location is identified, use the mouse to select the point under the pin to bring up the selection box.
Time option
In a 24-hour format, time is represented with unique hours of the day that do not require the AM and PM indicators. To convert from 24-hour time to 12-hour time (or vice versa), use the following table:
|24-hour time
|12-hour time
|00:00 (midnight)
|12:00 (midday)
The minutes remain the same between the two formats.
Find routes
Select one of the routes to see the turn-by-turn instructions for that route. Press the < link to return to the original list.
Once the route options are displayed, a link to Share routes is displayed at the bottom of the list of route options. Select the link and the permalink to that location is displayed where you can copy and paste it in an email or instant message to someone. The routes are not saved in the URL, but when the link is looked up in the future, it will recalculate the route options at that time.
This permalink will always show the two locations, but the other two permalink icons on the Live Map interface may not always show the same results.
Edit the map
Set as Origin
Select this option to set the origin pin for routing. A blue pin is set on the map in that location and the search/navigate box will switch to navigate and fill in the origin field. If no road is near that pin, routing will be made from the nearest road to that location.
Set as Destination
Select this option to set the destination pin for routing. A checker flag is set on the map in that location and the search/navigate box will switch to navigate and fill in the destination field. If no road is near that pin, routing will be made to the nearest road to that location.
|Once the origin and destination points are set, return to the search/navigate box to select the time and find the route(s).
This is the same as the other permalink locations on the page.
Report a problemUpdate requests can be entered from the Live Map, which will appear in the Waze Map Editor. Select from the list of radio buttons that best matches the issue being reported. These options are similar to the list available in the client app. If it does have exactly what is desired to be reported, there is a big space for typing the exact issue to pass to a map editor. Press the Submit button to send it to the Waze Map Editor. Alternately press the Close button to close the window without sending the report.
Longitude and latitude display
Live data displayed
Like the client app, these Wazer icons are time-delayed and are not real-time. They update every minute or two and they are not selectable. Multiple Wazers in close proximity will be displayed with a blue number. Double-click or zoom into the map to see them individually.
Like the client app, these are real-time live reports based on input from Wazers driving in those areas. The alert types include all the same alert types as the client app excluding the cameras. As with Wazers, multiple reports in close proximity will display a single pin with a blue number showing how many pins are represented with that one pin. Double click the number or zoom in to see the individual pin details. Click on a pin to view the details like the hazard type and who reported it.
Chats use the same icons as on the client app. When they are selected, the chat will be displayed.


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(Editor's note: We are adding a new column from Dr. Teresa Hershey, a veterinarian at Westgate Pet Clinic in Linden Hills. Westgate has been treating animals in southwest Minneapolis since 1973. For more details on the clinic, go to wagsandwhiskers.com. If you have a question for Dr. Hershey, email her at email@example.com.)
Q: My dog is always getting ear infections. I treat it with the medication that my vet prescribes, but then the infection comes right back again!
— Judith
A: Dear Judith,
Chronic ear infections are a very frustrating condition. The most common reason that dogs get recurrent ear infections is because they have an underlying allergy that is setting them up for infection. Unlike people, who tend to get middle ear infections from an upper respiratory infection, dogs most commonly get outer ear infections, more like a skin infection.
If a dog has an allergy, either to something in his food, or something in the environment, that can create inflammation of the skin. Sometimes dogs will show other signs of skin allergies, like chewing at the feet, or licking the groin and belly area. Other times, it is just the ears that are affected by the allergies.
The outer ear canal, like the rest of the skin, has some yeast and bacteria that reside there normally. When the skin in the ears gets inflamed, the yeast and bacteria take advantage of this inflammation and start to overgrow, causing an infection.
Veterinarians most commonly prescribe topical medications for ear infections. These topical medications usually have a combination of an antibiotic, an anti-fungal and a steroid in them. The steroid helps reduce the inflammation, and the other ingredients kill the overgrowth of yeast or bacteria. These topical medications take care of most ear infections.
If the ear infection keeps coming back, however, then taking a closer look at what is causing the inflammation to begin with can be beneficial. Sometimes, a food allergy trial is in order. Often, your veterinarian will want to use a food that contains unique ingredients that your dog's immune system hasn't been exposed to previously. Be aware though, of dogs that have allergies, only 10 percent of dogs have food allergies, so a food change won't always help the ears.
For those situations in which a food change doesn't help the ears, your veterinarian may prescribe anti-inflammatory medications either orally or topically to be given on a regular basis to help prevent inflammation and hopefully secondary infections.
Dr. Teresa Hershey
Westgate Pet Clinic


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Spill Response Poster
Use the Spill Response Poster as a guide to clean up radiological, chemical and biohazardous spills. Post in your lab alongside the Exposure Response Poster.
Supervisor and Employee Lockout/Tagout Annual Evaluation Form
Lockout/Tagout Annual Inspection and Training Assessment Checklist
Lockout/Tagout Hazardous Energy Control Procedure Form
Hazardous Energy Control - Lockout/Tagout
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Lockout/Tagout Hazardous Energy Control Field Procedure Form
Using Alternative Fall Protection on Roofs Focus Sheet
Basic Electrical Safety
We rely on electricity, but sometimes underestimate its capability of causing injury. Even household current (120 volts) can stop your heart. UW personnel need to be aware of the hazards...
Fall Protection Work Plan
The UW requires a Fall Protection Work Plan when working at heights greater than 10 feet. It must be posted at the worksite for the duration of work activities.
Ladder Safety Focus Sheet
This ladder safety focus sheet was created for the UW's Fall Protection Program.
Fire & Life Safety Survey Explanations
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Hot Work
Hot work operations can be dangerous, especially in areas where flammable or combustible materials are present. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), U.S. fire departments...
Chemical Spills in Laboratories
Be prepared with proper training, cleanup supplies and personal protective equipment to manage spills easily and safely. If you work with chemicals, you will probably have a chemical spill at some...


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They're partying like crazy at the University of Florida today; which come to think of it, only means that it's Friday. But in Oklahoma pour the unfathomable tears of sadness. Poor band clarinet girl. Poor Sooners. Poor Curly.
Meanwhile, headline writers who enjoy lame puns are also celebrating. Chomp goes the dynamite!
National Championship Puns Come Sooner Rather Than Later [Real Clear Sports]


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"It's been a vintage year for new opera in Britain… not! So here, for all who have sweated, suffered and sworn through the patronising, camp, pompous and almost universally musically worthless offerings of the past months, is a trip down memory lane.
Least painful, probably, was Anna Nicole (Turnage), whose uncertainty of aim – contempt or pretend sympathy? – stymied the composer to the extent that his real voice came over only in a couple of orchestral interludes; the rest moved so slowly it did no favours to a libretto that needed to be sung double-quick to get away with jokes you could see staggering towards you over distant hills. It would have been better if scribbler Richard Thomas, jovial celebrant of the tawdry, had written the music as well. This was a vulgar spectacle, which looked as though it had been directed by Graham Norton and designed by Jeff Koons, with old auntie Covent Garden vajazzling herself to get down with the kidz.
Our next suspect is ENO's Duchess of Malfi (Torsten Rasch), another show that at least went to the trouble of trying to cover up the threadbare with a truckload of theatrical bullshit, as a masked audience wandered through a darkened office block in east London witnessing snippets of melodrama and randomly-generated music, and being bullied by actors – and does it get worse than that? This was a vastly over-promoted Haunted House children's party, and God only knows what kind of hole it made in ENO's budget.
Somewhere in the same bracket comes Damon Albarn's navel-gazing thing about his y'know, Englishness, Dr Dee. Its exceptionally vague dramaturgy was livened up by Rufus Norris's hard-working production, full of visual trickery and even a nice raven. Some pleasant music, a bit of pastiche polyphony and minimalism, and a big drum solo; Damon sat on a shelf making vague gestures towards the action and mumbling his way through mystic songs, like Spinal Tap in Stonehenge mode. Best read up on the Doctor before you go, if you go.
Kommilitonen! blew into town on a warm fart of self-righteousness as two cosy old lefties, Peter Maxwell Davies and David Pountney, daringly invited us to hiss at Nazis and Cultural Revolutionaries and did a lot of posturing in an agit-propera with an infantile approach to moral complexity. Still, Davies is a real composer, if no longer particularly radical, and Pountney put lots of effort into making his own work look good. The final cry of "Freedom!" takes the Les Mis prize for this year's cheesiest bathos.
Davies's old mucker Alexander Goehr returned to opera, never his strong suit, with Promised End, boldly going where better composers had feared to tread in taking on King Lear. This was terrifically dry, dull and dated, a lesson in how to destroy promising words with terrible word-setting and alienate an audience who strive to find some emotional connexion with the characters on stage. Elsewhere, Goehr's music was spikily lyrical, though uninterestingly scored.
That was a gloomy evening, but James Macmillan's Clemency was worse. The ideas were promising – hospitality, terrorism, bargaining with God, a bit like a night in a British seaside hotel – but issues raised do not equal issues explored, and the soundworld of big retro unison string tunes à la Vaughan Williams and Macmillan's urgent rhythmic drive were not enough to sustain a flagging interest, or even the will to live.
That finally seeped away during Luke Bedford's drivelling Seven Angels, a dank evening where one felt one was slowly drowning in a musical bog while being bombarded with soggy frogs in the form of Glyn Maxwell's empty, orotund poetastery, this time on the radical subject of how we are, like, doing really bad things to the ecology, and co-opting poor old Milton for the purpose.
At this unhappy end of the market, optimism clings to such formulae as: "Well, that was incredibly boring, but it wasn't too irritating," not something one could possibly say about Two Boys, composed by perky little Nico Muhly, a composer in urgent need of a slap. A discarded episode of some police procedural set to the most derivative score of second-hand Glass (or was it Adams – does anyone care?), with a gloomy, clunking staging, any marginal quality in the evening was provided by the stalwart Nicky Spence: a nice lad, but seeing him wanking in close-up was not previously on my list of must-dos – even though it neatly summed up the only thing most contemporary opera composers excel at."
I had a conversation about opera with Leonid Desyatnikov. Desyatnikov is one of Russia's most prominent composers and since 2009 the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre. His opera Rosental's Children, based on the libretto by the highly controversial fiction writer Vladimir Sorokin commissioned and staged at the Bolshoi Theatre made an enormous and scandalous success. One of the opera reviewers described: ''Here, Mozart is a clone brought to life at Doctor Rosenthal's laboratory. With the government subsidies for cloning and stem cell exploration, as well as for other areas of basic research, cut off during Boris Yeltsin's presidency in the early 1990s, clones of Mozart and other great composers-such as Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky - find themselves loose on Moscow's streets, exposed to the murky post-Soviet reality, memories whereof are still fresh for many Muscovites.'' The Russian State Duma accused the opera of being 'pornographic' and promted an investigation after its premier. Nevertheless, the opera received a Golden Mask Award.
Elena Langer: Can we please talk about opera?
Leonid Desyatnikov: Why opera?
EL: Because of your Rosental's Children, because you are the artistic director of an Opera House and because I have ulterior motives as I have just finished writing my own full-length opera and am very keen to discuss various aspects of the genre. Do you think you could describe what opera is in one sentence?
LD: This is too difficult! I can only offer a banal answer – a pinnacle in the history of European culture.
EL: Is opera a story told through music, singing and movement?
LD: No, it doesn't necessarily need a story. There are many wonderful operas in which nothing really happens. Take Saint Francis of Assisi by Messiaen, or any baroque opera… If a composer uses mythology then the story lacks suspense. The development of the plot becomes unimportant as everybody knows what is going to happen.
EL: At least we now have established what is NOT important and that is the plot!
LD: Of course – look at Tristan and Isolde or Szymanowski's King Roger…. In any fiction film many more events take place than in an opera.
EL: What is important then?
LD: Well, what is important is that it creates some fit of passion, some metaphysical, otherworldly psychological human state expressed through music. Opera shows us characters in such emotional states that are otherwise impossible to express but through music.
EL: It is the only genre where we can hear the thoughts of several characters simultaneously…
LD: Yes, true, but we can't hear the text in 95% of cases! Instead, we see a special moment, where a few characters are shocked. At least I personally always remember those kinds of bewitched moments. 'I'm frightened' ('Mne strashno'), for instance, from the first tableau of The Queen of Spades or the finale of The Marriage of Figaro. So after all, it doesn't matter what they are saying, it matters what they all are feeling during those moments. Music is able to tell us more than the text in this situation. The characters are still, like in a child's play 'statue'. The depth of their feeling is interesting – the ensembles are not about what you see, but what you don't see, about the inner side of life.
Excerpt from Desyatnikov's opera 'Rosental's Children'
EL: Could you name your 5 favourite operas?
LD: Five favourite operas for a professional composer would not be enough. Your favourite opera is the one, where you revel with each note, which you know by heart from beginning to end. There are music-lovers, who could sing each character's lines from their favourite operas.
EL: True! My grandma could sing huge bits from Traviata and Eugene Onegin although she wasn't a musician.
LD: Probably, you could only be so faithful to opera if you are a music lover, not a professional composer. Opera for me and should be for you, a kind of back garden, which you can't regard with reverence. We have to cultivate this back garden because we are its owners.
EL: But I still regard Wozzeck or Lady Macbeth of Mtsens with reverence…
LD: As a matter of fact, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk doesn't touch me much. Actually, the same could be said about Wozzeck. Although, the culmination moment in the d-minor invention couldn't leave anybody untouched. The problem is that I know this opera from inside out - for a few months I was living with it. (Wozzeck was recently staged at the Bolshoi Theatre – EL). So it is really hard to be emotionally shocked by something that you know so well. My perception of it is not fresh enough.
EL: I'm always amazed by the German counterpoint, the intensity and richness of it. I don't think you could find that level of counterpoint in Russian music.
I would like to update you on a festival in Moscow called Homecoming - a series of chamber music concerts. The idea was that the young top classical musicians who where educated at Moscow's best music schools and subsequently settled in Europe return to Moscow every winter to play together. The festival, which started as a small group of friends making music to their pleasure, gradually grew into a major event on Moscow's classical scene. Newspapers, programmes on national TV and Radio extensively cover it every season. The festival has its own devoted audience; when the house is full, people stand through the concerts or sit on window sills – in Russia they are not as conscious of safety rules!
Each year the Homecoming Festival commissions a new piece from a young contemporary composer –Dobrinka Tobakova, Ed Bennet and Brian Irvine are among the names you might know. Sometimes, European musicians are invited to join - this winter they have a British soprano Anna Dennis, who is going to sing Ades' Life Story, Stravinsky's songs and my own Two Cat Songs. Whatever new music Homecoming features, it is cleverly put in a context which allows a quite traditionally-minded Russian audience to digest it.
As well as premiers, the Homecoming musicians perform varied and eclectic programmes consisting of music of all possible epochs and styles. Each concert has a unifying theme. This season, for example, two themes are 'Counterpoint', with music by Guillaume Dufay, Webern, Schostakovich, Glinka, Reger, Schnittke and Beethoven, and 'In Nature' featuring works by Coelestin Harst (1698-1776), George Crumb, Stravinsky, Giacino Scelsi, Latvian minimal composer George Pelecis.
The concept of mixing contemporary music with other music is obviously not new. Still, I believe it is one of the best ways to create an exciting programme. Besides the programming, I think the success of the new music within the festival is due to the prodigious musicality of the performers, who bring exactly the same level of precision and interpretative refinement to their renditions of contemporary pieces as they would to a Schubert song or Beethoven string quartet.
For more information, visit the Homecoming Festival page on its Artistic Director's website: www.romanmints.com


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[look who didn't drink his coffee this morning]
Let's begin with a pessimistic idea. People are stupid [insert ignorant, arrogant, whatever] and academics are people. And a hundred years of ethnographic evidence shows that researchers, anthropologist and otherwise, can get things wrong. Being stupid in this sense isn't so bad. School is supposed to help with this problem. Dedication to a life of intellectual debate is supposed to make us better thinkers. It is supposed to instill critical thinking. It should make us less stupid. At least that's what you'd hope.
The truth is, and I'll speak for myself here to avoid stirring too much fire, that I am still stupid after writing a thesis.
So here is the question, what is an academic to do when he or she finds themselves wearing a stupid hat, after spending years in school? Say I became a teacher, how is a teacher, whose primary job it is to quantify their students stupidity, supposed to walk into a classroom while wearing the very same stupid hat? Surely the students would complain, and their parents would rage.
Teachers depend on maintaining intellectual authority
superiority .
"Of course I get things wrong" they will think, but never will they let the layman make that assertion. That is why academics have a sophisticated system of peer review. The work published get's reviewed by other expert academics, who maintain the same necessary air of intellectual authority.
This is why the majority of anthropologists are not sharing their work outside of a peer reviewed journal, and why they don't want to share their work openly online. You don't want to engage with noobs. If a noob contributes to what you are doing, you might end up getting flagged as noob yourself. One anthropologist referred to the Youtube audience as a bunch of fifteen year old brats. If only that were the case. Youtube brats are far worse than a bunch of fifteen year olds. Or at least they can be. [mental note check up on Michael Wesch's youtube projects, which seem to get pretty supportive comments actually, which are then integrated into academic projects… ].
This is the challenge of learning in the "open". By sharing work online as work progresses one is more likely to be attacked/shown to be stupid [arrogant, ignorant, prejudiced, etc]. This is a wonderful thing in terms of making progress in an academic discipline. Critique should be welcomed. As far as a discipline goes, finding out researchers are wrong, and learning from that, is a wonderful thing.
But most academics cut this discussion off. The style in which they write rarely invites genuine questioning. To ask a question would be to invite the participation of the students and people around them, and again, the academic doesn't want anyone else to answer their questions! At best, they will read their paper at an expert conference and invite 10 minutes of discussion at the end. Wow talkabout opening up ones research!
Feedback from the "out in the open"
|External critiques vitally important to anthropology,
revealed enormous ethnocentric bias within the discipline. [but noobs correcting experts leaves noobs]
|External critiques attack reputation of anthropologists as experts. [but internal critiques are okay, since experts correcting experts still leaves experts]
So why don't most anthropologists blog and share their work outside peer reviewed presses? It doesn't help them look smarter than everyone else! To look smarter then everyone else they restrict their work, make it difficult to find, they write in ways that invite no questions, they write in ways no one wants to bother to understand, they write about things not important to anyone else, etc… [Ie, as happened to most ethnography in the past. Go in, write about stick to talking about century old social theory, as a way of avoiding any issues of war, imperialism, etc… certainly don't involve others in creating the question in the first place.]
Go ahead, call me stupid. That's what this blog is for.
[so is it fair to say publishing Open Access is an attempt by researchers to open their work to commentary? Probably not. After all, even if the article is OA, there might not be any attempt to disseminate it. Just having a page like this one on the internet, is not a very active way of obtaining feedback is it? Feedback is really ignored in the OA discussions… Most of the arguments for OA are based on other professional arguments, such as "OA get's you cited more". hmmm]