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Cameron Martin's Nonspecific Landscapes
Partition Expanse, 2011, 30×45 inches, acrylic on canvas over panel
Cameron Martin will participate in Rhizome's Seven On Seven Conference on Saturday, April 20th, paired with technologist Tara Tiger Brown.
Of all the genres one might associate with contemporary artistic practice, landscape painting is low on the list, more closely aligned with the nineteenth century than the twenty-first.
Send/Receive: Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp After Avalanche
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In recent years, the significance of artists' magazines has been cemented by the proliferation of exhibitions, panels, and monographic studies devoted to independent publishing endeavors. Not merely side projects or promotional vehicles, such magazines constituted, as art historian Gwen Allen argues in her 2011 book Artists Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art, a form of exhibition space in itself, a central site of postwar artistic experimentation.
The magazine was, in a sense, the ideal form for the "dematerialized" art practices taking hold in the 1960s and '70s, which were often rooted in language and typically exhibitable solely in the form of secondary documentation—textual descriptions, instructions, or scores; diagrams and maps; and photographs. At the moment when artists were vehemently challenging the authority of the institutions that mediated between their work and its audience, as well as the attendant commercial system that conferred value based on the saleability of the object, the form of the magazine offered a way to circumvent existing structures—to disseminate projects and ideas directly to an audience, and one that was, at least theoretically, broader than that of the museum or gallery, and more geographically dispersed.
Among the storied magazines of the '70s, Avalanche, founded by artist and curator Willoughby Sharp and filmmaker Liza Bear in 1968 (the first issue appeared in Fall 1970), is perhaps the most iconic in terms of capturing the ethos and character of the period's artistic climate. The privileged editorial form of Avalanche was not the critical essay or review, but the artist interview and it often turned pages over to artists— including Gordon Matta-Clark, Hanne Darboven, and Richard Long —to design their own spreads. Likewise, its "Rumblings" section functioned as a form of pre-internet global art-world message board where artists could submit announcements of upcoming exhibitions, projects, and publications.
Ephemeral and inexpensive, Avalanche was, as Bear described, "a cross between a magazine, an artist book, and an exhibition space in print. Basically, it was devoted to avant-garde art, from the perspective of the artist." Avalanche, and periodicals like it, were attempts to rethink the art magazine in terms of both form and content, conceived in response to mainstream publications like Artforum, which were dominated by the critic's voice and implicitly bore the influence of curators and dealers. However, Avalanche was also a network, a decentralized mode of distributing art that aimed to shift the site of reception beyond institutional boundaries...
Frieze New York: The Art Outside the Tent
Joshua Callaghan's Two Dollar Umbrella (2011)
As far as art fairs go, Frieze New York was better than most: the booths were spacious, the tent well lit, and the amenities for visitors excellent. The quality of the work on view, too, was a vast improvement over the first round of fairs this past March; many of the participating galleries brought impressive pieces by both emerging and established artists.
Supplementing the art lining gallery booths inside were a host of works presented outdoors, organized by appointed curators: Frieze Projects, a series of site-specific commissions curated by Cecelia Alemani, and the Sculpture Park curated by Bard CCS director Tom Eccles—technically separate, though physically intermingling with the Frieze Projects commissions.
The Sculpture Park was largely composed of the sorts of dull, oversized abstraction typical of corporate plazas and civic commissions—inoffensive, vaguely industrial, often colourful (Katja Strunz, Gabriel Kuri) or shiny (Tomas Saraceno, Jeppe Hein.) In short: perfectly positioned to move swiftly from the fairgrounds at Randall's Island to the backyard of some collector's summer home. Indeed, each work was labelled not only with the artist's name, title, and date, but also the gallery representing it—all of them participants in the fair—making it essentially an extension of select gallery booths.
Others read merely as oversized gimmicks. For Subodh Gupta's Et Tu Duchamp? (2009–2010), the artist translated Duchamp's famous moustachioed reproduction of the Mona Lisa, L.H.O.O.Q., into three dimensions, casting it as a large-scale bronze. The title of Gupta's work suggests that his intent was to replicate Duchamp's gesture of comically appropriating a canonical work—in the twenty-first century, Duchamp is as recognizable as Da Vinci—but Et Tu Duchamp? is less a subversive violation of a masterpiece than a self-aggrandizing, one-note gag. Likewise, Joshua Callaghan's Two Dollar Umbrella (2011) presents the titular object amplified to monumental proportions; with its loose spokes pointing skyward like Laocoön's outstretched arm, Callaghan's pathetic umbrella has its own odd pathos—given the overcast skies during much of the fair's run, discarded umbrellas littering the city's street were a common sight—but elevating an everyday inconvenience to the status of mythic tragedy is neither new nor compelling.
Works that engaged the setting more directly fared somewhat better...
Photoshopped Sherman
Images from Cindy Sherman's society portraits series (2008.)
A friend recently recounted an anecdote about teaching Cindy Sherman's work to her undergraduate students. She was in the middle of her lecture, explaining Sherman's elaborate, chameleonic process of casting herself in various roles in her photographs, when one student interrupted, insisting that the photograph projected on screen must have been Photoshopped, that it was impossible that the woman in this image was the same person as in the one before. The others nodded in agreement. Faced with this chorus of disbelief, my friend checked her notes: the image on her slide was from the mid-1980s, several years before Photoshop's commercial release. The process of creating it was, indeed, analog: the photograph was shot on film, and Sherman's apparent physical mutation in it the result of costuming and skillfully applied makeup rather than digital manipulation. However, the students' responses raise interesting questions about how we might conceive of her work in the wake of the digital, particularly since her most recent work has, in fact, made use of such software.
For those of us who first encountered Sherman's photographs before "Photoshopped" became part of the vernacular, her work carries rather different connotations: it is less about a process of editing or altering the image than one of altering the self through a kind of private performance staged for the camera. Sherman transforms herself, in each image, to the point that she is not only no longer wholly recognizable, but also no longer present as "Cindy Sherman" at all, instead appearing as a litany of characters and stock types. As she noted in an interview with filmmaker John Waters in the catalogue of her current MoMA retrospective, "Before I ever photographed it, I was playing around in costumes and dressing up as characters in my bedroom."
It is precisely this aspect of dressing up—of adopting and embodying different types—around which much of the critical reception of her work has revolved over the past decades. Moreover, she has maintained a rigorously private studio practice throughout her career, rarely, if ever, working with assistants: Sherman is not only photographer and model, but also hairdresser, costumer, makeup artist, and prop stylist. She performs in front of the camera, but also behind it, adopting multiple roles and functions over the course of creating each photograph. When presented in serial form, the photographs reveal the meticulousness of her process, with each successive image calling further attention to the laborious transformation involved in creating the one preceding it....
Artist Profile: Antoine Catala
In a statement for your 2009 exhibition "TV Show" at 179 Canal, you described television as a dying medium, suggesting that the work in the show was a kind of eulogy for TV. Television is a recurring theme in your work, but you've used it in various ways, both as a material and as a subject, often taking the most familiar types of programs—the news, for instance—and altering the way we see it. What is it about television that appeals to you? Are you interested in defamiliarizing something we take for granted, forcing the viewer to reconsider its place in everyday life? Is this work reflecting a sense of nostalgia for television's past? If it's a dying medium, what do you think has replaced it?
TV is no longer the all-powerful medium it used to be. It's dead in the same way radio is dead, whereby it only occupies a peripheral position in our lives. Internet is the new place, because it encompasses words, images, videos, audio, as well as the viewer's participation. The internet packs more information; in that sense it's more HD than TV and that's what people go for, the better, more fulfilling, more entertaining medium.
I was interested in TV broadcasts initially because I thought it was funny to bring live TV into the museum or the gallery. In my TV work I encourage the use of any entertaining program. However, screening an episode of Spongebob (a personal favorite) doesn't work the same, in an exhibition context, than say the news or any program with live content. That's because the viewer's common assumption is that if a video is shown, it must be pre-recorded. But I am not at all interested in working with ...


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Christian Dior Fall 2012 Haute Couture Collection
To say that today's Christian Dior Haute Couture show was possibly the most anticipated fashion moment of the past decade is probably no hyperbole.
To say that today's Christian Dior Haute Couture show was possibly the most anticipated fashion moment of the past decade is probably no hyperbole. John Galliano's demise held the fashion sphere, and the world at large, captivated in dismay for days, even weeks, and what followed was almost a year and a half's worth of red herrings concerning the designer destined to fill such big shoes. Dozens of names were thrown in a whirlpool of speculation, a bureaucratic frenzy consumed the minds of the head honchos at LVMH, and about six separate seasons past in between, when the rest of the fashion world begrudgingly partook in the biggest fashion audition of all time. Noble beginners, like Jason Wu and Alexander Wang, were added to the mix early on in the guessing game, which gained the traction of a whodunit, as well as noted stalwarts like Azzedine Alaia (who flat-out refused the offer), Marc Jacobs (who bowed out after his business partner Robert Duffy's accompanying fee wasn't quite met) and Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci (who knows he's already sitting on gold). Was it irony or a display good ol' sportsmanship, that the latter trio all sat front-row to salute Raf Simons at his debut show for Dior? Maybe a little of both.
Simons' first point of order on marrying his sensibility to that of Christian Dior's (not John Galliano's) was tackling the house's iconic Bar jacket. The flared waist was a predominant silhouette throughout, starting off with a structured Bar suit with silk cigarette pants. One of the most dazzling tops to take on the delicate shape came lined in thick tulle, tufting underneath a soft pink floral embroidery that cascaded upwards and spilled at the decollete into a cobalt lamp shade cut. The Bar flare would later turn into cocoons on strapless tea dresses imbued with what looked like acid tie dyes, or Hubble telescope images of nebula, but in fact, were silk woven reproductions of contemporary artist Sterling Ruby's paintings. Another strapless number, cinched at the waist with a solid silver band, may have been all mink.
The Simons/Dior synthesis is an exhilarating thing to see unraveled. The footwear looked plucked directly from the runways of Simons' swan song at Jil Sander, while the ghostly pink on a strapless dress with geometric pleated cups, was undoubtedly so. The bust has become a big focal point for Simons as of late, and here it produced a healthy dose of carnality in a black sheer top that matched a bustling blue embroidered cocoon skirt, and most noticeably so, on a chartreuse long-sleeve tee paired with a matching floor-length skirt. The greatest example of Simons' mien and dexterity with the material, came through in the collection's second predominant silhouette, bustier ball gowns spliced down the middle to reveal those same provocative cigarette pants. Articulated in a vibrant fuschia, it was as chic as anything Simons has ever made. And to end things he off, he referenced the menswear collection from his eponymous line, that debuted less than a week ago, with princess dresses encrusted in a cascade of beaded flowers on the front, with the same effect on a second dress altogether paneling the back.
The whole occasion was a master class in shape and color, at the couture level no less, and Simons is merely catching his footing. The shape of those garments, that at moments recalled chrysalis, and the million flowers that covered from floor to ceiling the five salons that made up the space, serve as the perfect metaphor for Raf Simons' debut at Christian Dior. The metamorphosis (really, the synthesis) of the menswear hero and womenswear couturier; as for the flowers in bloom? -, a dream manifest. A stretch perhaps. But for those who live for this kind of story, we'll remember where we were when it happened.

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Kelly Osbourne's Engagement is Off!
Kelly Osbourne splits from Matthew Mosshart
Kelly Osbourne and Matthew Mosshart have ended their engagement a year after he proposed to the singer-turned-TV personality.
A rep for Kelly has confirmed the news in a statement to Us Weekly magazine, revealing the couple has also split.
She says, "The split is amicable and the pair continue to have nothing but the utmost respect for one another. Kelly is looking forward to a new year full of fresh beginnings. No further comments will be provided by all parties and we request privacy, decorum and space from the press but don't expect it."
The couple met at Kate Moss' 2011 wedding - Mosshart's sister Alison is a bandmate of the British model's husband Jamie Hince. Kelly became engaged over New Year 12 months ago following a holiday proposal.
The 29-year-old said, "I've never felt this close to another human being, ever... We just want to be together all the time."
She hinted that all was not well in her personal life in a tweet on 8 January (14), which read: "It's all about perception. Sometimes the bad things that happen in life aren't really bad at all especially when you learn something from it!"
Kelly was previously engaged to wed model Luke Worrall.


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Edward Snowden got a job with top-level clearance at National Security Agency contractor after he had been dismissed by a previous employer -- the CIA -- on suspicion of breaking into computers without authorized access.
Several unnamed sources told the New York Times this week that in 2009, Snowden was released from a job as a technician at the Central Intelligence Agency's Geneva office after a supervisor reported suspicious behavior.
The CIA's report on Snowden, apparently unseen by the NSA, noted changes in Snowden's personality and work habits and cited apparent attempts he made to illegally access classified computer files, the Times said.
The CIA's assessment of Snowden, and its suspicions, were not forwarded to the NSA or its contractors. The CIA supervisor's derogatory note surfaced only after federal investigators began probing Snowden's leaks of classified materials earlier this year, the Times story said.
After the CIA released Snowden in 2009, he worked for Dell as an NSA contractor in Japan, He later worked in Hawai as a Booz-Allen Hamilton NSA contract employee.
According to the Times, the CIA supervisor's report may have slipped through the cracks because the electronic systems used to manage the security clearances for full-time and contract employees at the NSA only tracked "major rule-based infractions."
Less serious complaints, such as those pertaining to personal behavior, were apparently not tracked by the system. As a result, Booz-Allen, Dell and the NSA didn't get reports, the Times noted.
The background vetting process has since been tightened, the report added. The Snowden incident has also prompted a sweeping review of the processes used by the government for vetting employees and granting them security clearances.
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The gemarah (Yerushalmi succa 5:1) and midrash (yalkut shimoni Yona, remez 550) indicate that the prophet Yona ben Amitai descended from Zevulun (father) and Asher (mother). However other sources indicate that he was the 'ben tzarfatit' that Eliyahu brought back to life and was in fact supposed to be Moshiach ben Yosef (see Pirkei D'Rebbi Eliezer 33, tosafos bava metzia 114a-b s.v. Mahu).
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I posted about this on the google group, but didn't get a response, so I'm posting here for a larger audience.
So far, the design for fast-forward is to simply remove any delays between screen refreshes in the emulator. Although this works, on systems such as mine, my CPU can't handle rendering much faster than at 100% speed so fast-forward
doesn't have much of an effect. I think it would be nice for people with slower machines, if fast forward looked more like when you fast-forward when watching a DVD, i.e. instead of showing smooth motion very quickly, it skips through the frames at a certain rate.
Basically, in fast-forward mode, the core would still process all ROM instructions, but it would not issue requests to the rendering/audio plugins for every single frame. It would only call out to the plugins every nth frame (depending on the fast-forward speed). This would result in slower systems being able to support fast-forward since the system would not be processing the same amount of graphics/audio as it does during normal gameplay.
Before looking into if this is even possible, I want to get feedback on whether people would like this behavior or not. I think fast-forward is mainly used to skip through cut scenes in games, but are there other uses of fast-forward that wouldn't work well with the new fast-forward behavior?


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"• Requiring all paid tax return preparers who must sign a federal tax return to register with the IRS and obtain a preparer tax identification number (PTIN). These preparers will be subject to a limited tax compliance check to ensure they have filed federal personal, employment and business tax returns and that the tax due on those returns has been paid.
• Requiring competency tests for all paid tax return preparers except attorneys, certified public accountants (CPAs) and enrolled agents who are active and in good standing with their respective licensing agencies.
• Requiring ongoing continuing professional education for all paid tax return preparers except attorneys, CPAs, enrolled agents and others who are already subject to continuing education requirements.
• Extending the ethical rules found in Treasury Department Circular 230 — which currently only apply to attorneys, CPAs and enrolled agents who practice before the IRS — to all paid preparers. This expansion would allow the IRS to suspend or otherwise discipline tax return preparers who engage in unethical or disreputable conduct."
If you followed my "coverage" of the issue in 2009 you know I am disappointed that –
(1) attorneys and CPAs who prepare 1040s are not required to take a competency test or to satisfy the mandatory continuing education in taxation requirements, and
(2) there is no mention of a "grandfathering" exemption from the required competency test for non-initialed preparers.
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I was honored once again to be invited to offer the "communi8ty update" at Southern New Hampshire Outreach for Black Unity's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast. Here's what I said on January 19 at the Alpine Grove in Hollis:
Honor and pleasure to be invited back. Thanks to Irving, Linda, Ray, and Governor Hassan. And congratulations to OBU for the 31st annual breakfast.
I want to begin by saying a few words about inequality, and I've learned that a trick to effective public speaking is to tell people stuff that they already know.
We know that for most families, most workers, most ordinary people, take home pay has been stagnant since the 1970s, two generations.
At the same time we know that the rich are getting richer.
The ultra rich are getting ultra richer.
The mega rich are getting mega richer.
And the giga rich are getting giga richer.
This has caused economic inequality to rise to record levels.
And we know that when race is added to the equation the situation is even more unequal. Net worth of white families is five times that of black families.
I think we know what Dr. King would say about that. He would say,
"The misuse of capitalism can lead to tragic exploitation."
We know what Martin Luther King would do because we know what he did. We know what he was doing at the time he was killed. He was supporting working people in a strike for dignity in the workplace and calling on the federal government to take sides with the locked out, the cast out and the left out.
What else do we know?
We know that fifty years ago at this time Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were engaged in a dramatic campaign in Selma Alabama to win the right to vote for Black people who had been denied their rights.
We know that after marches, arrests, beatings, and several murders of voting rights activists that the Congress approved the Voting Rights Act. At last it became possible for African Americans to use the ballot to elect people who would respond to their interests.
What's the state of voting rights now? It's not good.
We know that in state after state – including New Hampshire – legislatures have adopted laws like photo ID requirements and other restrictions that make it harder for people to vote when we ought to be making it easier.
We know that the US Supreme Court struck down an essential element of the Voting Rights Act.
And we know that five years ago this Wednesday, the Supreme Court declared that since corporations are people (really) and money is speech (yup), that restricting the ability of corporations to invest their money in the electoral system violates the first amendment protection of free speech. This widened the gates for floods of corporate cash into our electoral system. Instead of one person one vote we are getting a one dollar one vote democracy.
We know what Dr. King would say, something like, "Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. If you are going to be a truly great nation you must solve this problem."
I want to suggest a couple ways we can help solve this problem.
First, at the State House this year there will be a mighty fight over the state budget. The question our lawmakers will face is whether they will protect the interests of the well off or take the side of the locked out, the left out, the least of these. They will also consider a range of bills dealing with voting rights, some to make it harder to vote, some to make it easier, and some to reduce the influence of money in our elections.
You may have heard about a group in North Carolina, headed by Rev. Dr. Barber of the North Carolina NAACP, that brings a prayerful presence into their state capitol every week. They call it "Moral Mondays.
We've got a group like that here. We call ourselves "New Hampshire Voices of Faith." Mondays are pretty quiet up in Concord, so we're more likely to show up for "Witnessing Wednesdays," bringing a multi-faith, prayerful presence for justice into the State House. We'll be calling on our lawmakers to let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Look for us on Facebook at NH Voices of Faith. And if you are not receiving my weekly "State House Watch" newsletter by email, let me know and I'll add you to our mailing list.
But we've got another big opportunity, one that comes around every four years.
New Hampshire has the eyes of the world on us because of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. The candidates are already among us. You might need to set some extra tables for next year's breakfast. That means we've got the opportunity – and with that the responsibility – to let them know what's on our minds. As Governor Hassan said, "democracy is not an every other year sport."
At the American Friends Service Committee, we've got a new project we call "Governing Under the Influence." It's about the excessive power in the hands of big corporations – corporations that profit from violence, corporations that profit from prisons, corporations that profit from war. It's about demanding that the democracy believe in is rooted in the one person, one vote principle, not in rule by those with the most money. We'll be keeping track of the candidates' whereabouts. Get in touch if you want to get involved.
But by all means use every opportunity to tell the presidential wannabes what is on your mind.
We who lift up the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. know that the struggle can be hard. We know the struggle can be long, but that ultimately we have faith that the power of the people can be stronger than the power of money, that justice can prevail over injustice, that love can prevail over hate.
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Questions for Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on the GOP Budget
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March 28, 2012
Last week, House Republicans put forward a more-of-the-same budget that ends the Medicare guarantee while protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and puts our economic recovery and jobs at risk. While Republicans were clear that they want to protect tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and place the burden of deficit reduction onto seniors, the middle class, working families, and the most vulnerable, their budget left several questions unanswered:
- The Republican budget calls for the elimination of special deductions in order to cover the cost of tax cuts for wealthy Americans, so which popular deductions are Republicans ending? The mortgage interest deduction? The charitable donations deduction?
- Republicans plan to cut the top income tax rate to 25% while ruling out eliminating special preferences for capital gains and dividends, so how will they offset the cost of additional tax cuts for millionaires?
- Republicans are going to cut "other mandatory" spending by $1.9 trillion. They've only identified $134 billion in cuts - to food stamps – so what else are they cutting? Supplemental Security Income for low-income seniors and the disabled that helps them meet their basic needs? TANF for low-income families working their way out of poverty? Unemployment insurance for people who lose their jobs through no fault of their own? Or military retiree and survivor benefits?
- The Republican Medicare program depends on vouchers that do not keep pace with health inflation, so how much should seniors expect to see their costs increase and is it credible to say that Medicare remains an option if no one can afford it?
- With two-thirds of every Medicaid dollar going to finance nursing home and health care for seniors and the disabled, how do Republicans justify cutting the program by $1.7 trillion and where do they suggest states turn to find the necessary funding to continue providing care to our most vulnerable?
- What is Republicans' plan for slowing the growth of health care costs and stopping insurance company abuses if they repeal the Affordable Care Act and roll back patient protections?
- How do we spur job creation here at home when the Republican budget increases incentives that encourage corporations to ship profits, intellectual property, and jobs overseas?
- Why are Republicans cutting Pell grants for millions of students when there's no need for a significant cut?
- How will we implement an all-of-the-above energy strategy when the Republican budget eliminates tax support, loans, and grants for renewable energy sources while continuing unnecessary subsidies for major oil companies making record profits?
- Since the Republican budget reneges on the agreement both parties reached in August, why should Republicans be considered credible negotiators in the future?
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Florida to Receive $10 million from Settlement Related to BP Oil Disaster
Florida's Department of Environmental Protection will receive $10 million from a settlement between the US Department of Justice and MOEX Offshore, which resolves civil penalty claims against the Macondo well investor for their role in the BP oil disaster. The Sunshine State will use $5 million to reduce urban stormwater runoff and nonpoint source pollution, and the other $5 million will be used to provide conservation easements for lands around the panhandle of Florida.
Florida's Governor Scott said "millions will go into clean water projects, so Florida continues its progress in protecting and restoring our state's natural waterbodies."
Ocean Conservancy knows the importance of taking the entire ecosystem into account during restoration and supports the State of Florida's $10 million investment in conservations easements and improving water quality. The culture and the economy of the Gulf Coast depend as much on the health of the ecosystem as the wildlife that thrives there does, and this decision will not only provide relief for citizens, but also for oysters and other wildlife in Pensacola Bay and other areas of the Panhandle.
The Gulf sustains a robust seafood industry as well as recreational fishing and tourism activities. The five Gulf states have a gross domestic product of over $2.3 trillion a year. This is a place where the culture and the economy depend on the health of the ecosystem—as does the wildlife that thrives there.
Despite this abundance, the region faces significant challenges from not only the recent BP oil disaster but decades of degradation from coastal erosion, pollution, overfishing and excessive nutrient runoff that has produced a dead zone of depleted oxygen. These problems threaten fish, wildlife, the places where they live and the people who depend on a healthy ocean for jobs and business.
The BP oil disaster demonstrated how every part of the Gulf, from far offshore waters and fisheries to coastal wetlands and communities, are connected and interdependent. The region needs science-based restoration that takes the entire ecosystem into account. This includes both coastal and marine (offshore) environments. Ocean Conservancy is pleased science-based restoration, which includes the entire ecosystem from the coastal and open water environments, is a focus for the State of Florida.


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Has your PC been taking longer and longer to boot? A long boot time can cause quite a bit of frustration. I've seen people buy a new PC, just because the old one was taking so long to fire up. To those of us who are power users, that seems pretty silly. We know how to manage the start-up processes. That doesn't help the millions of users who don't know why their PC is so slow to start.
In the past, there have been many applications that have made start-up management easier. My favorite app for that is WinPatrol. However, we do have posts about the best start-up managers here.
Recently, I heard some buzz about a new start-up manager that works quite differently, and much better than the managers I've used. It's called Soluto.
So what is Soluto? Let's hear from the authors …
Having been PC users since a very young age, we were simply tired of being so frustrated from our PC usage experience.
Soluto Beta allows you to understand your boot, discover which applications are slowing it down (and keep running later in the background, affecting your ongoing experience), and allows you to significantly improve it. While Soluto Beta focuses on the boot, it already researches for frustrations and helps map the PC Genome, and allows you to share your wisdom with others.
Most start-up managers let you tweak the Windows start-up settings. Once you've finished, the start-up managers aren't normally running. Soluto takes a different approach. It uses a kernel level process that runs all the time. It gathers information during boot, and during your daily use. This is a unique approach and seems to be very effective. I found out how effective it was when I installed it the other day.
After boot, this is the first screen that I saw …
Solutu looked for an internet connection, then it phoned home' for advice about the applications it detected during start-up. Once that finished, I saw this screen …
The green section is a group of apps that Soluto has identified as no brainersor applications that you can remove from the boot without much thinking. The orange tinted category is a group of apps that you may have to get advice on. You may or may not want to remove these from the boot. The apps in the gray section can't be removed.
Hovering over the green section, you'll see a dialog appear …
The dialog will tell you how long an application takes to launch during boot, and it gives you the options to Pauseor Delay.
Pausing the app, takes it completely out of the boot cycle. The application isn't deleted, and you can always start it manually from your Start menus.
Delaying the app puts it on hold during the boot process. Once the PC has booted and the system is idle for any time, the application is launched.
As you go through this process of marking apps to Pause or Delay, you'll see your estimated new boot time appear at the top of Soluto's main window. As you can see, I saved over a minute of boot time.
There are some other important features in Soluto, but rather than bore you by writing more, I'll show you a cool video:
If you can't see the video, click here.
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Techie Buzz Verdict:
If your PC is slow to start, and you don't know what to do about it, Soluto could save you plenty of frustration. The only thing I don't like about Soluto, is the fact that it does run continuously as a system process. However, if this is weighed against the problems a slow PC can cause, I'd have to give Soluto a big thumb's up.
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some green
Earlier today I started doing a bit of organizing. January is always a month I spend time purging extra things and sorting what to keep vs get rid of. I really crave simplicity and not much color, but a little green is always fresh and reminds me Winter won't last forever.
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Everything looks so very different.ReplyDelete
Lovely indeed.
So crisp and clean,ReplyDelete
love it!
Have a lovely day,
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It looks so fresh and bright :)ReplyDelete
It looks so lovely. White & green <3ReplyDelete
That simple green really live'ins up your space. Green is such a powerful color. Which is probably why I hate that it looks so bad on me.ReplyDelete
I love the pop of green against the white and black! Your home is so inspiring!ReplyDelete
Green is the perfect way to make a home come alive!ReplyDelete
black and white with a bit of green and brown is one of my favourite colour schemesReplyDelete
Beautiful. I love the freshness of your home.ReplyDelete
Simply stunning, I adore the pared down elegance of it! So refreshing!ReplyDelete
Lovely! I just bought a cactus for my kitchen. It cheers me up while I'm looking out at the snow. :)ReplyDelete
Love your dining table, may I ask the designers name of it?ReplyDelete
it looks stuning!ReplyDelete
and i looooove that white sideboard w woodenlegs. were is it from?
I love the look of your room! I am also interested in knowing where the sideboard with the wooden leg is from? It would be perfect for my living room!ReplyDelete
Fantastic home! I also love the sideboard and have looked on the ikea website, can't seem to find the sideboard. do you know the name of it? is it fairly old?ReplyDelete
Looking forward to following you in 2013 too :)
Happy new year!
Something green is defiantly on the list to buy for my home at the moment ever since the Christmas flowers died the apartment seems to be needing some more life and color. Yours looks lovely and I really like your chair set up.ReplyDelete
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This crazy awful week brought Phantom back to her blog, and I guess it's brought me back, too, although this is going to be a bit of a rambling post. I heard about the earthquake first reading friends' Facebook posts last Friday morning, and I feel like I've spent much of the past week obsessively hitting the refresh button on my browser, trying to find new news.
I can't seen to find answers to the questions that I'm most interested in. The nuclear worries seem to have pushed out the stories about the people in the shelters, and now Libya seems to be pushing the coverage of the reactor off. But I can't stop thinking of all those people in shelters — I don't have a good sense of how many people are still in them, and if they're getting regular food and water now. It seems like some of those towns are going to take years to rebuild, if ever. I didn't think I'd ever say something good about the response to Katrina, but putting people on buses to Houston did make a lot more sense than putting them up in tent cities in Louisiana. Is anything like that happening?
Living Social is doing a 1:1 match of $5 donations to the red cross, so I did that, but I haven't donated otherwise yet. It's not clear to me that money is what's preventing aid groups from doing what's necessary. If you can't get into the devastated areas, what can you do with money? Haiti may still be the higher need. I just don't know.
I'm fascinated by the "there's no looting in Japan" meme. Well, for one thing, there's not much left to loot in the worst hit towns. But I thought this take on it from Slate was interesting. At least some of the versions of the meme have clear racial overtones. Does anyone remember seeing stories one way or the other about whether there was looting in China after their big earthquake? I don't. (As contrasted with Japan, China is NOT a country that prizes waiting on lines — or at least that 's what I gather from reading American Family's very funny take on Hong Kong Disneyland — does that translate into looting during a crisis? beats me.)
As it happens, we have tickets to go to China and Japan this summer. We also have trip insurance. We're obviously waiting to see what develops, but at this point unless the radiation and the power shortages get a lot worse, I assume we'll go ahead. We weren't planning on going anywhere north of Tokyo. Yes, there's a detectable level of radiation, but my house also has a fan venting the radon out of our basement. People don't freak out about having CT scans, which are higher levels of radiation. (Actually, maybe they should freak out a bit more, especially about the "whole body" scans sold to perfectly healthy people as a precautionary measure.)
So, it's been a hard news cycle week. And then we all took turns with the stomach flu. But we're all better now, and it was a gorgeous sunny warm day today, and we worked on the tree platform in our yard (the lumber for which has been in our garage since October) and N rode his bike without training wheels for the first time. So, I guess I'm cultivating my garden. (And Candide was written in response to the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, which just goes to show that people have been struggling with the question of how do you keep going in the face of horror for an awful long time, and will presumably be doing so in the future unless we actually succeed in blowing ourselves up.)


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Revenue department: Refund turnaround faster for electronic filers
Less than a month before the tax filing deadline, Massachusetts officials continue to urge taxpayers to file their state returns electronically if possible.
And most appear to be doing so.
The state Revenue Department said it had processed nearly 1.4 million electronic returns as of Friday, compared to about 154,000 paper returns.
The department said the average turnaround for a refund was 3.4 days for electronically-filed returns and 5 days for those filed the old-fashioned way.
Officials hope to eventually eliminate all paper returns and may stop mailing blank forms to taxpayers by next year, making them available only upon request.
The department has set up an online page called "The Filing Zone" - a spoof on the classic TV show "The Twilight Zone" - that provides guidance for electronic tax filers.


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More than 100 participants from Scandinavia gathered in Oslo on the 14th & the 15th of May to participate int the Nordic Library Conference 2012. This year the conference was hosted by The National Library of Norway.
You can follow the conference on Twitter at #NCL12.
The Nordic Library Conference is a new initiative from the Nordic Best Practice network. The purpose of the network is to promote new projects and partnerships within the field of multicultural library services. The network consists of The State and University Library of Denmark, The National Library of Norway and The National Library of Sweden.
The conference is within the framework of Norway's chairmanship of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2012, and also a continuation of the Future Library, which was held in Finland in October 2011 (under the Finnish chairmanship)
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Check out this cake that I made for a guy at church who was celebrating his 50th birthday. He is a scuba diver who will dive to the sunken ships in Lake Superior so they wanted the theme of his cake to be "Scuba Diving". Sounds like they had a great celebration, and that he was quite surprised with everything.
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A love-in. That was last night's Fleetwood Mac concert.
From the moment Mick Fleetwood bounded onstage, dropped his giant, lanky self behind his kit and started the drum roll leading into Second Hand News, it was on your feet and sing along to every song at Rogers Arena. On the basis of three albums made in the seventies, the second configuration of what began as a very fine UK blues-rock group has built a timeless legacy.
The sheer number of people at the show who weren't even born when Rumours ruled the world in 1977 but knew every word was testament to that.
The quartet of Fleetwood (65), bassist John McVie (67), eternally tanned guitarist Lindsey Buckingham (63) and Stevie Nicks (64) still bring it. Sure, it's a shame that singer/keyboardist Christine McVie (69) is out of the lineup again but the band has plenty of material she wasn't a key part of.
Some winning material from the recently released iTunes only EP titled, creatively, Extended Play, was thrown into the Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours and Tusk (1979) heavy set. Sad Angel is certainly the group's best song in decades so here is hoping the future album contains more of the same.
If not, no matter.
As the fluid-voiced Buckingham, made abundantly clear, songs such as Not That Funny and Tusk have actually aged extremely well. What was panned critically at the time for failing to match the impossible-to-equal Rumours is a fine album. One that the group still wants to get a fairer shake based on Buckingham's comments about "taking a good idea and grinding it into the ground before moving on."
Tusk tunes such as Sisters of the Moon and Sara certainly gave Nicks, ample opportunity to show that she can still carry the body of the songs. With back up singers to clean up the high notes she can't reach anymore and provide a tad of the warmth that was occasionally missing, the singer's haunting way with a lyric rang true.
For his part, Buckingham proved why he has been such a critical component to the band's success.
His fingerpicking all night was searing and hit show-stealing on his solo acoustic take of Big Love from Tango In the Night. It was obvious that Nicks' tour de force Landslide would follow. It did and Never Going Back Again rounded out the strumming Buckingham/Knicks portion of the show.
Without You, a re-discovered tune from the duo's pre-Mac days that is also on the new EP brought the full band back. Again, a bit of proof the old dog may have some new(er) tricks left in it.
After 20-plus tunes, nobody left last night unsatisfied. Unless, that is, you wanted to hear Oh Well or the Green Manalishi which this version of the band barely ever plays. That was another time and predates the string of near perfect pop songs such as Go Your Own Way. But by all means go back and check out earlier 'Mac too.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Charles Wilkins (1749-1836) trained as a printer before working for the East India company. He became an expert in oriental languages (Persian and Bengali) and was a pioneer in developing type faces in order to print these languages. He is best known for his translation of the Bhagvat-Geeta. Upon his return to England he became a librarian of the Indian collection of the East India Company which became the foundation of the British Museums oriental collection.


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My funny Valentine
V-day? More like X-day. Hah.
Final Fantasy X HD is out next month. This Valentine's Day video from Square celebrates one of the more romance heavy iterations in the series as Tidus and Yuna chew up screen time laughing into the ocean.
Square Enix also announced a pre-order bonus for the Vita bundle: three art cards.
You know what you could do for me for Valentine's Day, Square? Final Fantasy XII HD.


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At the moment, when you buy your copy of Rock Band for $170, you get one microphone, one guitar, and one set of drums—enough instruments for three people to play. The issue is that the game is designed for four people and, as we pointed out when gave the game our Game of the Year nod, that's the only way to really dig into what the game has to offer. There is no way to buy a second guitar at retail, and only the 360 version allows the use of Guitar Hero controllers. So I wondered, how are people getting their second guitar? I put the question to our community in a poll, and with 56 responses this is far from scientific, but I found the responses interesting nonetheless. So where is the second guitar coming from?
I expected many people to be using the Guitar Hero guitars, but not this many. More than 80 percent of the respondents were taking advantage of the guitar compatibility on the Xbox 360 to get the full multiplayer experience out of Rock Band. My next question asked if compatibility would make people more likely to buy the other game, whether it be Rock Band or Guitar Hero. The most popular response? We bought both anyway; 54 percent of gamers already had Guitar Hero when they bought Rock Band. After that, it's split down the middle. 13 percent said compatibility between controllers would entice them to buy the second game to match the first, and 13 percent said it wouldn't affect their decision. Clearly people are using the compatibility on the 360 to play Rock Band, but it seems to be mostly a matter of convenience and overlap in audiences.
In terms of which guitar people like to play, it's split pretty evenly. 54 percent like the Rock Band controller better, 46 percent would rather play with the Guitar Hero 3 guitar. There is no major point to be made here; there isn't a large amount of evidence from this data that Activision's caving on compatibility would make the company more money, but it does show that compatibility of guitars between the games is a feature people enjoy, and are using in what looks like large numbers.
Our dream: whenever we pick up a guitar controller, it will work with both games flawlessly. Failing that, we hope that Harmonix will soon offer standalone accessories. Any way you slice it, getting the full four-player experience is more complicated than it needs to be.


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IGNOU Master in Tourism Management Admissions 2013
IGNOU Master in Tourism Management Admissions 2013
IGNOU offers Master of Arts in Tourism Management (MTM) Programme designed for those students who are interested in pursuing a career in tourism sector at managerial level. This is for aspiring entrepreneurs or those running their own tourism agencies. The programme consists of four semesters.
For further education one can go for Ph.D. in Tourism related areas and jobs in education sector
Eligibility for MTM is Category 1: BTS,BA (Tourism); B.Sc. 4 Years (Tourism Management) Hospitality and Hotel Administration(BHM); Bachelor's in Hotel Management (approved by AICTE) and those students who have done their graduation in any field along with a Diploma in Tourism, which is recognized in the University System or by AICTE.
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Prospectus can be obtained from Regional Centres in person in Rs.200/-, or by post by sending a DD of Rs.250/- in favour of IGNOU, New Delhi, to Registrar (Student Registration Division), Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-68.It can be downloaded from the university website www.ignou.ac.in. or contact nearest IGNOU centre
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|Release: December 17, 2012
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Again, there are eight stages available from the beginning—and you face Balrog, Vega, a boss rush, and M. Bison after those. I highly doubt that anyone who isn't a longtime Mega Man devotee will have the patience to master the game to the point they can beat it in one sitting, even using online guides to help them with the boss order and the ideal routes through stages.
We're long past the NES era, when even the simplest games were expensive and high difficulty, coupled with infrequent saving, was needed to make them last. Today, even the most hardcore games have frequent checkpoints, and it's mind-boggling for a game as tough as this one to eschew a save system that has been with the franchise for virtually all of its history. I hope that this will be fixed soon, either through an official patch or by a fan-made mod. It's simply too frustrating to lose this much hard work.
But hey—it's a fan-made Mega Man/Street Fighter crossover, complete with lots of stages and great boss fights, released for free with Capcom's blessing. It's hard to imagine anything cooler than that, and hardcore Mega Man fans will be more than willing to sink hours into mastering each and every stage, discovering tricks and secrets along the way. SFXMM isn't a bold new direction for Mega Man, but it's a terrific look back.
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25 March 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Johnson Electric 50N Doser - One of the other prominent dosing system technology of the firm
Singapore: Hong kong-based Johnson Electric launched miniature medication dosing system technology under the Johnson Medtech brand, a platform that provides high precision dosing accuracy over device operational life.
The Johnson Medtech system design delivers dosing forces up to 100N for various medication viscosities within a compact package. The low noise and low power consumption of the dosing system is suitable for the smallest portable medication delivery devices.
This innovative design includes a precise leadscrew driven by a miniature geared motor, a displacement sensor, an optical sensor and an optional force sensor. The multiple sensors system design can prevent inaccurate dosing and supports fail-safe features for dosing.
Mr Jim Dick, senior vice president, strategic marketing, Johnson Electric, said that, "Accuracy is critical in medication dosing for patients with diabetes or growth hormone deficiency. The Johnson Medtech technology enables precision dosing in miniature packages."


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida's Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad was ticketed on a Tallahassee road for doing 44 mph in a 35 mph zone.
A short time later, DOT commenced a study of road conditions and decided to raise the speed limit to 45. Prasad said he wasn't the only one who complained.
For more than two decades, the speed limit on Thomasville Road, which connects the state Capitol with the city's affluent neighborhoods and Interstate 10, was posted at 35 mph.
Radar operations were frequent.
"They always had someone pulled over," motorist Will Messer said.
Then one night, police stopped the wrong guy.
"I was at fault, so she wrote the ticket and I did the driver's ed. All is good," Prasad said. "Started getting a lot of phone calls about people getting ticketed going through that stretch."
He ordered a study.
The mathematically weighted study came back saying the road could handle a limit of 47 mph.
"Our study did show that it was artificially constrained," Prasad said.
The city complained, saying the higher limit went against their efforts to create a walkable environment. Prasad prevailed, and the speed limit is now posted at 45 mph.
Business owners say the police have disappeared.
"We haven't seen them recently. Not since the last six months ... when they changed the limit," business owner BJ Joshi said.
Details on how many tickets have been issued along the mile stretch are not readily available.
In a letter protesting the speed change, the city of Tallahassee says it directed increased enforcement of the area in an effort to create more pedestrian traffic. The letter cites new construction and asks the DOT for a new study once a new grocery store opens in the area.


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Wow... I've played a few of the other sims out there and not a single one of them has captured my interest enough to even think of purchasing it, yet with this one I was hooked (no pun intended) almost instantly. I just wanted to say this is the most amazing fishing game I have ever seen and a huge thank you to the developer.
This game has really taken off the edge of wanting to go fishing. Unfortunately due to a serious back injury I've been unable to go fishing for the last 4 months and from what the doctors tell me it will likely be annother 6 before I can even think of hiking my favorite rivers once again. I apologise if this is an innapropriate place for this comment, but really wanted to say thanks for a great game I will be enjoying for a long time to come.


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OKCPS Will Reevaluate Dress Code (Aug 21, 2012)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma City school district says it will review its dress code policy on college sports apparel after an elementary school student was told to turn his University of Michigan T-shirt inside out.
Shannon Barton told KWTV that the Wilson Elementary School principal asked her 5-year-old son, Cooper, to turn the inside of his shirt outward last week. Barton says he changed behind a tree on the playground.
Barton says Cooper was told he could only wear University of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State University shirts.
The dress code allows Oklahoma college apparel to be worn but bars other schools' clothing. The dress code was created in 2005 with the help of an anti-gang task force.
District spokeswoman Tierney Tinnin says Superintendent Karl Springer thinks the policy might be outdated.
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To provide members and prospective members the full range of products and services offered by Navy Federal Credit Union including depository accounts such as checking, savings, certificate IRA, revocable trust and estate accounts; Lending products; and credit/debit cards. To perform moderately complex platform banking functions under supervision.
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• Analyze, research and resolve problems and discrepancies related to member accounts/loans
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• Counsel current and prospective members about Navy Federal's products and services
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• Identify opportunities to cross service products and increase product penetration
• Perform platform banking functions
• Understand and comply with federal and other regulations relating to financial products and services
• May assist with Branch Office vault opening, closing and balancing procedures
• May serve as a Branch Office and/or ATM vault custodian
• Perform other duties as assigned
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Cargo Ship Leaking Oil Under Watch at Valdez
At the Port of Valdez on Prince William Sound, the US Coast Guard in early June was holding a foreign vessel that was leaking oil from its containers.
Valdez, the site of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, is the home of some 40 commercial fisheries permit holders.
The BBC Arizona is an Antigua and Barbuda-flagged general dry cargo ship transporting transformers, accessories and transformer oil, being operated by BBC Chartering and Logistics of Qinhuangdao, China. The ship had come to Valdez to deliver steel I-beams and bridge parts.
On June 5, the Coast Guard, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the city of Valdez and Gallagher Marine Services LLC formally established a unified commend to coordinate response to the leaks aboard the cargo vessel.
The BBC Arizona's owner contracted with Emerald Services to actively manage the spill area and mitigate environmental damage until a cleanup, disposal and decontamination plan was approved.
Emerald Services Inc. cleaned and decontaminated the area around the ship's I-beam cargo in preparation to cut welded brackets holding the beams to the deck. Once the welds were cut, the I-beams were to be thoroughly cleaned and inspected by the Coast Guard prior to removing them from the ship.
Sorbent pads and sausage booms were placed on the deck of the ship, scupper drains secured and a vacuum truck remained on scene to prevent oily water run-off from the leaking containers.


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SLAVISH adherents to the eight-hours-a-night sleep rule can relax. Research suggests we all have our own sleep patterns that change according to how much shut-eye we get.
For the first time a team from the University of Sydney has tracked people's nightly patterns and found sleep naturally increases and decreases throughout a week.
"The body seems to have a way of adjusting the amount of sleep we require," said the study leader, Chin Moi Chow. "If you incur a sleep debt, your body will signal a need to catch up on extra sleep."
Her study found each person had a different sleep cycle, with some taking only a couple of days to catch up, and others taking up to 18 days.
Unlike some previous research, she did not find the participants made up for lost sleep on the weekend. Rather, the 13 young men, whose sleep was measured over a two-week period using a device worn on their arms, made up the sleep at different times, getting up to two hours more sleep on some nights than others.
This suggested the timing of individual cycles was intrinsic, rather than something each person chose, she wrote in the journal Nature and Science of Sleep.
The president of the Australasian Sleep Association, Shantha Rajaratnam, said the study suggested the body had a mechanism for dealing with the amount of sleep we had.
"Over time, it is like you are withdrawing money from the bank, you build up a debt, but eventually you have to pay back that debt. And after that you can start withdrawing again," he said.
But he said it would be "dangerous" for people to assume they no longer needed eight hours' sleep each night.
"Different people need different amounts of sleep but people are not very good at judging the amount of sleep they actually need," he said. "People who think they can get by with very short amounts of sleep tend to compensate for their tiredness by using things like coffee, for example, to keep them alert".
Dr Chow hopes to repeat the research in a larger group, and analyse whether individual patterns match problems linked to sleep deprivation.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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At a time when gun ownership has been driven to the forefront of American consciousness, state law is vague on the training requirements to carry one.
Lolly Pairgin used to dust around her husband's firearms and then gingerly nudge them out of her way with a pinkie — too deathly afraid of guns to pick up even an unloaded one.
"I'm petrified of guns," the Michigan snowbird told the staff at Bradenton's Aegis Tactical during a basic firearms course.
Four hours later, Pairgin and two of her friends were hitting eight-inch targets at 21 feet with a 9 mm Glock-19.
Now trained, they can apply for a concealedcarry license in Florida.
Aegis Tactical's owner and lead trainer, Joe Krawtschenko understands the seriousness and vicarious liability of firearms training. He teaches his students not only how to shoot, but also when state law says deadly force can be used.
Pairgin and her friends chose to learn how to use their weapons from someone who gave them authoritative training, but that level of instruction is far from standard in Florida, where more than a million residents have concealed-weapon permits costing $112 apiece.
Some trainers use toy guns or allow students to pull the trigger on a BB-gun, a power drill or a Windex bottle. A few will sell a certificate of competency to a student with no training, experts say. Krawtschenko has had students in his firearms training classes who have never touched a gun even though they've had a concealed-carry license for years, obtained from a less scrupulous instructor.
At a time when gun ownership has been driven to the forefront of American consciousness by the school shooting in Connecticut and by the Obama administration's recent proposals for reducing gun violence, state law is vague on the specifics of training required for a concealed-carry permit. It says only that students must "demonstrate competence" with a gun, leaving much to be interpreted by the thousands of instructors operating independently in the state; their exact number is not known.
Krawtschenko and other instructors are pushing for strengthened requirements for obtaining this type of permit, such as adding a qualification course and lesson plans. They join a long list of proponents who have pushed for such changes over the years.
"I'm signing off on their license," Krawtschenko said. "If, God forbid, they use it, an attorney will be knocking on my door. I can't do what these other instructors are doing."
But opponents, including the National Rifle Association, say these instructors have a vested interest in more expansive regulations.
They "have a financial interest in imposing additional restrictions on Second Amendment rights," said Marion Hammer, the NRA's Florida chief and the first female president of the national organization.
Representatives from Florida Carry.org, a statewide gun rights group, say any additional regulation of training requirements for concealed-carry permits is a meander down a "slippery slope."
Managers at the Florida Division of Licensing, the state agency charged with issuing concealed- carry licenses, acknowledge that they have no authority to regulate how someone is trained, much less police the trainers themselves. The extent of their power is to deny the license application.
Ken Wilkinson, the division's assistant director, said when his staff learns of a trainer using questionable practices, they stop issuing licenses to the students. "We don't hear that many horror stories, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen," he said.
Wilkinson declined to comment on the merits of elevated training standards.
"My job is not to have an opinion on the matter," he said. "My job is to run the division, and follow the directives of the director and commissioner."
But Wilkinson pointed to the concealed-carry permit requirements in South Carolina — state-certified instructors, a mandatory eight-hour class with lesson plans, and insistence that applicants demonstrate their abilities at a gun range — as a program that is working well.
Some states have more rigorous standards than South Carolina, while only a handful have more relaxed requirements than Florida.
Covering the basics
Krawtschenko is a former deputy sheriff from New Jersey who worked as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan, There, he taught firearms and tactics to U.S and foreign military. When he started Aegis about a year ago, he sought out other trainers with similar experience.
Instructor Chris Ganley fought overseas as an infantryman, and served as a firearms instructor for the Marine Corps. Kevin Murphy retired after 27 years in law enforcement and taught criminal justice to high school students.
The instructors know most entry-level students are not seeking commando-style expertise.
When Pairgin and friends Carmen Duquette and Carmen Myers took their basic firearms course, Murphy and Ganley kept things light, informative and fun. There were no war stories and minimal technical jargon.
Duquette, a snowbird from Canada living in Tennessee, wants to carry a pistol when she hikes in the Smoky Mountains near her home. To do that, she needs a carry permit issued by the state; her training and concealed-carry license here in Florida will allow her to meet those requirements.
"I would feel a lot more secure with a gun," she said.
Myers, like Pairgin, never handled a weapon before the course and was similarly afraid of her husband's guns. "I had this nightmare — someone breaks in and I didn't know what to do with the guns," she said.
"You'll be nervous, but you'll overcome that if you want to survive," Murphy explained.
Using a lesson plan developed in-house, the instructors patiently covered the rules for safe gun handling and basic fundamentals of marksmanship.
Murphy even explained the intricacies of shooting with bifocals.
He took the students through several scenarios — the kind of shoot/don't shoot training given to most police recruits. All three women said they would likely shoot if they saw a middle-aged man jump out of his car, run toward a young girl and drag her kicking and screaming back into his vehicle.
But this wasn't a two-dimensional question. "What if it's his daughter and she had just run away from home?" Murphy asked.
The three novice shooters could have chosen an instructor who lectured for 15 minutes and watched them fire a BB into a bucket of sand.
Krawtschenko knows he is losing business to those kinds of trainers, who churn out students faster and cheaper.
He has written to the governor's office and the licensing division seeking licensing reform — efforts that have produced little results. "There's got to be mandatory qualifications for obtaining a concealed carry license," Krawtschenko said.
Over the years, other instructors have lobbied for similar change. In a 2006 letter sent to the governor's office and the licensing division, retired Col. James Otto, Sr., a firearms instructor, outlined his concerns about the three-hour licensing classes taught at gun shows. Otto noted that his training classes take three to seven days.
"As an NRA certified firearms instructor and range safety officer, I can no longer trust those carrying permits until I inquire as to their instruction," Otto wrote.
The licensing division told him it had no regulatory authority over instructors, and was "not empowered by law to prescribe or enforce standards of course or content."
War stories
Stories of poor training are easy to come by.
In a 2009 complaint letter to the licensing division, Fort Myers attorney J. Patrick Buckley III warned of a gun shop class where, after only 90 minutes of training, students either fire a blank at a Dumpster behind the business or "in the store's restroom, at a toilet."
Charlotte County Sheriff's Lt. Brian Harrison knows of one gun shop that offers classes where students fire a couple of rounds into a clearing barrel behind the shop.
His agency has offered residents a comprehensive firearms course for years.
A SWAT team commander and certified firearms instructor, Harrison said he would "100 percent support" strengthening mandatory training requirements statewide.
The sheriff's office course is eight hours long, costs only $25 and fills up quickly.
"I'd like to offer the course for free, as a public service," Harrison said. "Some gun stores charge $100 and knock it out in under an hour." But he NRA and other opponents of any changes to the rules say such revisions, however well- intentioned, can do more harm than good.
Before 1987 and the passage of the statewide law governing concealed-carry, each county was allowed to issue its own license.
"We had 67 counties doing it 67 different ways," said Hammer, executive director of the Unified Sportsmen of Florida, the state's legislative NRA affiliate.
Some counties refused to issue any licenses, Hammer noted. Monroe County had a nonrefundable $2,200 application fee. Dade and Broward charged $500 and required a certificate from a psychiatrist attesting that the applicant was "mentally suited to carry firearms," she said.
"The county got to pick the psychiatrist, and you had to pay the bill," she said.
Hammer, who also served as NRA president from 1995 to 1998, crisscrossed the state, drumming up support to change the law. She does not want anyone tinkering with the current statute over an issue that she said "crops up regularly."
"Instructors tend to think they know what's best. That's not always true," she said. "This legislation was passed in 1987. In all those years, there's never been a single recorded case of an accident or incident with a concealed weapons license holder that resulted from a lack of training."
The NRA is aware some of its Florida instructors were taking shortcuts, and has taken steps to address that, she said, but there is little recourse for students other than a civil suit against their trainer.
Hammer said some instructors have lobbied for legislation that "embodies their specific course."
"The would like the Legislature to do their marketing for them," she said. "They can't demonstrate we need to change the criteria."
Some states require much more training before issuing a concealed carry permit, while others require no training at all, said Sean Caranna, founder and executive director of Florida Carry Inc., a 9,000-member nonprofit formed to contest "ill-conceived gun control laws."
"Florida struck a good balance," said Caranna, who said he is worried an "arbitrary" training requirement could erode Second Amendment protections.
"What's the limit?" he said. "There are people in Tallahassee who will say if you haven't taken an 18-week infantry course, you're not qualified to carry a weapon."
"It's a slippery slope," he said. "It would be like saying that before you can write a letter to the editor, you need to take a journalism course."


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1. Patients with Alzheimer's disease have a higher rate of memory loss than people without Alzheimer's disease (Neurology Reviews, May, 2010).
2. Multiple Sclerosis patients with balance problems have a higher rate of falls than MS patients without balance problems (Clinical Neurology News, May, 2010).
3. I suspect one or both of the above studies could have been written by a lady who I saw at the park, who was chewing out a lifeguard because she (gasp!) got wet while floating on the lazy river.


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During the COVID-19 pandemic, ONLY online/virtual events are permitted; In-Person University-sponsored public events, both on and off campus, are suspended. This calendar may not be accurate at this moment. Please see www.american.edu/coronavirus for the latest information regarding university operations.
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A Very Chilly Victory
Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945
Even in the twenty-first century, almost seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, it is astonishing how much of its history is still written from nationalistic perspectives. Winston Churchill may be forgiven for telling the House of Commons in September 1944, at the height of the conflict, that the battle for Normandy had been "the greatest and most decisive single battle of the whole war." But modern historians of every nationality need to see matters more clearly.
Consider, for instance, the strategic situation in July 1943. The US had been in the war for twenty months, Russia for twenty-five, Britain for almost four years. On the Eastern Front, four million men and 13,000 armored vehicles eventually participated in the Battle of Kursk and associated actions in the Orel and Kharkov salients. Hitler suffered a disastrous defeat and half a million casualties. Soviet losses were far higher.
The attention of the British and Americans, meanwhile, was fixed upon what was then their only significant ground effort, the campaign in Sicily. They committed to Operation Husky just eight divisions, and lost less than six thousand men killed. In the whole of 1943, US and British fatal casualties in operations against the Germans were around 60,000. Even in 1944, the Western Allies' offensives in Normandy and Italy absorbed barely one third of Hitler's forces, while the remainder continued to be deployed in the East.
This is why Andrew Roberts writes, in his excellent new study of wartime Anglo-American strategy: "In considering the roles of Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Brooke"—the "four titans" of his title—"it is important to remember that the decisions of Hitler and Stalin far more profoundly influenced the outcome [of the war] than those of any Briton or American." Four out of every five Germans killed in action died on the Eastern Front.
Comparisons of national casualty figures should make British and American posterity grateful to their national leaders of that time, who husbanded the lives of their young men so effectively in the greatest conflict in human history. But they also go far to explain why Russians were, and remain, so contemptuous of the Western role in the war.
To be sure, the Allies provided the Soviet Union with vital material assistance. Quantities of weapons and supplies dispatched were marginal in 1941–1942, but from 1943 onward amounted to around 10 percent of the Russian war effort. Much of the Red Army advanced to Berlin in American trucks, eating American canned rations, and even wearing American boots.
But as Stalin often scornfully remarked, the Allies were much less generous with the lives of their soldiers. At every stage of the war, safely quarantined from the Wehrmacht by very serviceable expanses of water, the Americans and British waited until they had amassed prodigious superiorities of men, guns, tanks, and aircraft before…
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