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The late LeDoux's band, the Western Underground, pays tribute to LeDoux with live performances of his songs while a video slideshow plays on a large screen, forming a backdrop that serves as the scenery. Dancers are the subjects, re-enacting in movement the stories that were told by LeDoux in song.
Much of LeDoux's songs seem to focus on love, whether it be the thrill of being in the rodeo ring or the emotion between a man and woman. The songs move from upbeat to mellow between scenes, but every song represents a new story. Each pair of dancers is coupled off and continues to dance together throughout the program's entirety. "Wife Behind the Cowboy" is a track illustrating the talents of the entire company of dancers, and each step, twist and shimmy is more thrilling and sexy than the last. At the conclusion of this number, the softer side of a cowboy becomes more apparent because you realize that even a gruff, masculine cowboy benefits from the love of a devoted woman.
The slow-moving dance sequences such as during "Silence on the Line," in which a cowboy telephones his wife after a long stay away from home, tug at viewers' heartstrings. The audience tastes firsthand both what the cowboy, who has been crippled by a fall in the rodeo ring, and his wife, who has waited for her husband for years, are experiencing. Lead vocalist Lane Turner sings the story well, but there's no replacement for actually seeing the scene danced out in front of your eyes. Your heart breaks for both the crippled cowboy and his lonely wife.
Royston's newest masterpiece is aptly named because it's a reference to the importance of following a dream, of seizing that one opportunity to do something right. That dream for a true cowboy, oftentimes, is to ride that bull and achieve a perfect score in the rodeo ring, despite the risks associated with it.
This show is "One Ride" worth taking even if you're not a country music fan. Experience each storytelling element - live music, multimedia technology, dance - together and each song will come alive. If that isn't enough to get your heart racing, look to the young, talented and attractive cast clad in Daisy Duke short shorts and macho cowboy hats.
Queens Theatre in the Park is located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, directly beside the Queens Museum, the Ice Skating Rink and the Unisphere. Tickets for "One Ride" range from $22 to $40. Remaining show dates and times are as follows:
Thu. Nov 4, 2010 @ 2:00pm
Sat. Nov 6, 2010 @ 2:00pm
Sat. Nov 6, 2010 @ 8:00pm
Sun. Nov 7, 2010 @ 3:00pm To get more information or to purchase tickets for "One Ride," visit www.queenstheatre.org or call the box office at 718.760.0064.


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Natural Attraction
The warmth and classic character of wood makes it a strong draw for today's interiors.
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL DECORATING HAPPENS, well, organically. Nowhere is this better illustrated than with the mixing of different woods and other naturally inspired materials. Grouped together, an eclectic mix of finishes brings out the tonal qualities of each item for a timeless, sophisticated effect. Juxtapose the soft patina of wood with the stunning shine of stone, like the sideboard topped with Cambria's Aberdeen™ (shown), to create a functional conversation piece. It all goes together. Why not? It's only natural.
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|PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference
Release 2 (9.2)
Part Number A96624-01
PL/SQL Language Elements, 13 of 52
To execute a multi-row query, Oracle opens an unnamed work area that stores processing information. To access the information, you can use an explicit cursor, which names the work area. Or, you can use a cursor variable, which points to the work area. Whereas a cursor always refers to the same query work area, a cursor variable can refer to different work areas. To create cursor variables, you define a
CURSOR type, then declare cursor variables of that type.
Cursor variables are like C or Pascal pointers, which hold the memory location (address) of some item instead of the item itself. So, declaring a cursor variable creates a pointer, not an item.
For more information, see "Using Cursor Variables".
This identifies an explicit cursor previously declared within the current scope.
This identifies a PL/SQL cursor variable previously declared within the current scope.
This identifies a database table (or view) that must be accessible when the declaration is elaborated.
This identifies a user-defined record previously declared within the current scope.
This identifies a user-defined record type that was defined using the datatype specifier
In PL/SQL, pointers have datatype
X, where
REF is short for
REFERENCE and
X stands for a class of objects. Therefore, cursor variables have datatype
This keyword introduces the
RETURN clause, which specifies the datatype of a cursor variable return value. You can use the
%ROWTYPE attribute in the
RETURN clause to provide a record type that represents a row in a database table or a row returned by a cursor or strongly typed cursor variable. Also, you can use the
%TYPE attribute to provide the datatype of a previously declared record.
This attribute provides a record type that represents a row in a database table or a row fetched from a cursor or strongly typed cursor variable. Fields in the record and corresponding columns in the row have the same names and datatypes.
This attribute provides the datatype of a previously declared user-defined record.
This is a user-defined cursor variable type that was defined using the datatype specifier
Cursor variables are available to every PL/SQL client. For example, you can declare a cursor variable in a PL/SQL host environment such as an OCI or Pro*C program, then pass it as a bind variable to PL/SQL. Moreover, application development tools such as Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, which have a PL/SQL engine, can use cursor variables entirely on the client side.
The Oracle database server also has a PL/SQL engine. So, you can pass cursor variables back and forth between an application and server through remote procedure calls (RPCs). And, if you have a PL/SQL engine on the client side, calls from client to server impose no restrictions. For example, you can declare a cursor variable on the client side, open and fetch from it on the server side, then continue to fetch from it back on the client side.
Mainly, you use cursor variables to pass query result sets between PL/SQL stored subprograms and various clients. Neither PL/SQL nor any of its clients owns a result set; they simply share a pointer to the query work area in which the result set is stored. For example, an OCI client, Oracle Forms application, and Oracle server can all refer to the same work area.
CURSOR types can be strong (restrictive) or weak (nonrestrictive). A strong
CURSOR type definition specifies a return type, but a weak definition does not. Strong
CURSOR types are less error prone because the PL/SQL compiler lets you associate a strongly typed cursor variable only with type-compatible queries. However, weak
CURSOR types are more flexible because the compiler lets you associate a weakly typed cursor variable with any query.
Once you define a
CURSOR type, you can declare cursor variables of that type. You can use
%TYPE to provide the datatype of a record variable. Also, in the
RETURN clause of a
CURSOR type definition, you can use
%ROWTYPE to specify a record type that represents a row returned by a strongly (not weakly) typed cursor variable.
Currently, cursor variables are subject to several restrictions. See "Restrictions on Cursor Variables".
You use three statements to control a cursor variable:
FETCH, and
CLOSE. First, you
OPEN a cursor variable
FOR a multi-row query. Then, you
FETCH rows from the result set. When all the rows are processed, you
CLOSE the cursor variable.
FOR statements can open the same cursor variable for different queries. You need not close a cursor variable before reopening it. When you reopen a cursor variable for a different query, the previous query is lost.
PL/SQL makes sure the return type of the cursor variable is compatible with the
INTO clause of the
FETCH statement. For each column value returned by the query associated with the cursor variable, there must be a corresponding, type-compatible field or variable in the
INTO clause. Also, the number of fields or variables must equal the number of column values. Otherwise, you get an error.
If both cursor variables involved in an assignment are strongly typed, they must have the same datatype. However, if one or both cursor variables are weakly typed, they need not have the same datatype.
When declaring a cursor variable as the formal parameter of a subprogram that fetches from or closes the cursor variable, you must specify the
IN or
OUT mode. If the subprogram opens the cursor variable, you must specify the
OUT mode.
Be careful when passing cursor variables as parameters. At run time, PL/SQL raises
ROWTYPE_MISMATCH if the return types of the actual and formal parameters are incompatible.
You can apply the cursor attributes
%ISOPEN, and
%ROWCOUNT to a cursor variable.
If you try to fetch from, close, or apply cursor attributes to a cursor variable that does not point to a query work area, PL/SQL raises the predefined exception
INVALID_CURSOR. You can make a cursor variable (or parameter) point to a query work area in two ways:
OPEN the cursor variable
FOR the query.
OPENed host cursor variable or PL/SQL cursor variable.
A query work area remains accessible as long as any cursor variable points to it. Therefore, you can pass the value of a cursor variable freely from one scope to another. For example, if you pass a host cursor variable to a PL/SQL block embedded in a Pro*C program, the work area to which the cursor variable points remains accessible after the block completes.
You can declare a cursor variable in a PL/SQL host environment such as an OCI or Pro*C program. To use the host cursor variable, you must pass it as a bind variable to PL/SQL. In the following Pro*C example, you pass a host cursor variable and a selector to a PL/SQL block, which opens the cursor variable for the chosen query:
EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION; ... /* Declare host cursor variable. */ SQL_CURSOR generic_cv; int choice; EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION; ... /* Initialize host cursor variable. */ EXEC SQL ALLOCATE :generic_cv; ... /* Pass host cursor variable and selector to PL/SQL block. */ EXEC SQL EXECUTE BEGIN IF :choice = 1 THEN OPEN :generic_cv FOR SELECT * FROM emp; ELSIF :choice = 2 THEN OPEN :generic_cv FOR SELECT * FROM dept; ELSIF :choice = 3 THEN OPEN :generic_cv FOR SELECT * FROM salgrade; END IF; END; END-EXEC;
Host cursor variables are compatible with any query return type. They behave just like weakly typed PL/SQL cursor variables.
When passing host cursor variables to PL/SQL, you can reduce network traffic by grouping
OPEN-FOR statements. For example, the following PL/SQL block opens three cursor variables in a single round-trip:
/* anonymous PL/SQL block in host environment */ BEGIN OPEN :emp_cv FOR SELECT * FROM emp; OPEN :dept_cv FOR SELECT * FROM dept; OPEN :grade_cv FOR SELECT * FROM salgrade; END;
You can also pass a cursor variable to PL/SQL by calling a stored procedure that declares a cursor variable as one of its formal parameters. To centralize data retrieval, you can group type-compatible queries in a packaged procedure, as the following example shows:
CREATE PACKAGE emp_data AS TYPE EmpCurTyp IS REF CURSOR RETURN emp%ROWTYPE; PROCEDURE open_emp_cv (emp_cv IN OUT EmpCurTyp, choice IN NUMBER); END emp_data; CREATE PACKAGE BODY emp_data AS PROCEDURE open_emp_cv (emp_cv IN OUT EmpCurTyp, choice IN NUMBER) IS BEGIN IF choice = 1 THEN OPEN emp_cv FOR SELECT * FROM emp WHERE comm IS NOT NULL; ELSIF choice = 2 THEN OPEN emp_cv FOR SELECT * FROM emp WHERE sal > 2500; ELSIF choice = 3 THEN OPEN emp_cv FOR SELECT * FROM emp WHERE deptno = 20; END IF; END open_emp_cv; END emp_data;
Alternatively, you can use a standalone procedure to open the cursor variable. Simply define the
CURSOR type in a separate package, then reference that type in the standalone procedure. For instance, if you create the following (bodiless) package, you can create standalone procedures that reference the types it defines:
CREATE PACKAGE cv_types AS TYPE EmpCurTyp IS REF CURSOR RETURN emp%ROWTYPE; TYPE DeptCurTyp IS REF CURSOR RETURN dept%ROWTYPE; TYPE BonusCurTyp IS REF CURSOR RETURN bonus%ROWTYPE; ... END cv_types;
CLOSE Statement, Cursor Attributes, Cursors, FETCH Statement, OPEN-FOR Statement
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Driven by her belief in a universal language of shapes and symbols, Toronto-based designer Anne Sportun looks to nature for inspiration. She combines traditional gold-smithing techniques with the unconventional which brings a sophisticated dichotomy to her jewellery. Working in gold, semi-precious stones and diamonds, she balances the precious with the everyday.
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DEAR ABBY: My granddaughter was murdered by her boyfriend. They had an 18-month-old daughter, "Bella." All three were living together when he shot her, but we don't know what room Bella was in when it happened.
Another family member (I'll call her Lucy) took Bella into her home, and Bella calls her Mom. Lucy has been taking Bella to the prison to visit her father, but has told her he is her uncle. I told Lucy I thought it would be better to wait until Bella is old enough to understand, THEN tell her what happened and let her decide whether she wants to visit her father.
Bella went into the closet one day and came out holding a T-shirt with her mother's picture on it, asking, "Who is this?" Lucy's only response was, "You know you aren't allowed in my closet. Take that back!" She never answered the question.
I have a framed photo of Bella's mother on my wall. The last time Bella was here, I noticed her looking out of the corner of her eye and scowling at the picture. I was the only one who noticed.
Bella is now 4, and I can't accept that Lucy thinks it's OK to lie to her. I feel it should be Bella's decision whether to visit her dad. Am I wrong? How should this be handled so Bella isn't traumatized any more than need be? Because of these incidents, I'm almost convinced she should have some kind of counseling, but perhaps she's too young. This is why I desperately need advice, in the best interest of the child. — BELLA'S GREAT-GRANDMA
DEAR GREAT-GRANDMA: Is Lucy a member of your family or the murderous boyfriend's? I find it hard to comprehend that a family member of the victim would drag a toddler to a prison to visit the lowlife who killed her mother.
I do not think it is healthy to lie to children. This situation will explode when Bella finally learns that the woman she has always called "Mom" isn't her mother, and the man in the orange jumpsuit not only isn't her uncle but killed her birth mother. That poor girl won't know whom she can believe and could have trust issues that affect her relationships for the rest of her life. Does she need counseling now? No. But will she when she finds out about the deception? You bet!
DEAR ABBY: What is your opinion about females and car maintenance? My mother raised me alone and taught me to be independent. She would not let me drive an automatic car until I had mastered driving a standard (stick shift). I was also not allowed to drive until I was able to perform basic, essential tasks — changing a tire, checking the oil and maintaining all fluid levels.
I am thankful and appreciate that I have these skills. However, I know many women today who can't perform these tasks and would rather make it a "man's job." I think every woman should have these skills. Where do you stand? — INDEPENDENT LADY IN FLORIDA
DEAR INDEPENDENT LADY: I stand beside you. There is no guarantee that a woman will have a man to "take care" of her — in fact, the opposite is more likely to be true. However, if she can't learn the basics of taking care of her car, she should be sure that she's a member of AAA.
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The attention on Sarah Palin's debate performance has been at an all-time high. Palin bingo cards have been filled out, the pundits and Tina Fey have weighed in, the polls have been taken. You can find word clouds of Palin's debate performance on Wordle.net, showing larger those words more frequently used (those would be McCain, also, and going). The vice-presidential debate last week was the most-watched-ever, reflecting not only the unusual drama of a woman candidate, but the roller-coaster economic week the nation's been through. That context helps account for the unusually high number of debate-watching parties, an excuse to gather with friends during a nerve-wracking week for most Americans. The Associated Press noted, of the more than 70 million viewers, "Generally, only Super Bowls bring together so many Americans to watch the same thing."
The day of the debate, I was asked a dozen times "What would you advise Sarah Palin?" by all sorts of people: doormen, cab drivers, family, friends, colleagues, avid poll-watchers and ambivalent non-voters. I said I'd give the advice I'd give any debater: Answer the question, admit what you don't know and what can't be excused, don't get angry or respond in anger, pause, slow down. My intent was to write something that distilled advice for readers of this blog from this high-profile performance, but I realized once more that there's little in a vice presidential debate that yields good examples or tips for the everyday speaker who's not running for office. Lucky for most of us, this isn't the hothouse we'll be growing in as speakers.
In fact, the setting of low expectations for Palin--a standard approach before campaign debates for all candidates, and predictable given her poor performance in one-on-one media interviews--made it impossible for her not to exceed expectations. Or, as Queen Latifah (posing as moderator Gwen Ifill) said on Saturday Night Live's sendup, "due to the historically low expectations for Governor Palin, were she to do a simply adequate job tonight--at no point cry, faint, run out of the building or vomit-- you should consider the debate a tie." (See Maureen Dowd's column today for a long list of "mush-mouthed" politicians, mostly men, in regard to Palin's stumbling.)
This morning, it struck me that Palin's candidacy cuts across party lines to demonstrate, as Clinton's did, the prevailing view that women leaders -- whether experienced or newcomers -- can be competent or likeable, but not both. You can be a substantial policy wonk like Hillary Clinton, but you'll get dubbed a "nutcracker" and "shrill" by men and women. Or you can wink your way through a debate like Sarah Palin, but your grammar will get diagrammed and your policy positions will get parodied as insubstantial. Merely seeking higher office or touting your own accomplishments can, for women in particular, bring a backlash. And many non-political women speakers tell me they get a similar feeling of disapproval from others when they step up to the mic--perhaps the same shunning, in smaller settings. Research has shown they're not paranoid, but actually sizing up their audiences, both male and female, with accuracy. At the same time, campaigns are reaching faster for the sexism argument, making a simple label out of a phenomenon that's deep and complex...and absolutely unworkable on the campaign trail, at least as it's currently paved.
That's not firm ground on which to plant yourself when speaking in public, which may explain why Clinton's campaign actually talked publicly about entering a "likeability" phase, and why Palin's been crash-coursing in foreign affairs. They've both veered between the competent and likeable poles. Women in all sorts of roles have sensed the same tension every day, wondering whether colleagues and audiences "love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?" as Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote in their musical Cinderella. Women aren't just passionate about women candidates because they're women--but because they see themselves in those candidates and their perceived troubles and barriers.
Motherlode blogger and New York Times contributor Lisa Belkin has an apt take on "Palin talk," from the audience's point of view, and it's one I've noted in my own circles: Women who speak about Palin (and Hillary Clinton before her) more often than not explain their take on the candidate in intensely personal ways, projecting their experience onto the candidate. Belkin particularly looks at parenting issues, and notes:
This could all be dismissed as merely politics, and it certainly started out as politics, but there was a hunger and a fury in the conversation about Palin that hints at something deeper. Because what we are looking at while dissecting the parenting cred of our politicians (O.K., O.K., of our politicians who are mommies — we pay very little attention to the parenting of men) has little to do with them, and everything to do with us.If you've gleaned a good tip, an issue, or an opinion about women speakers after watching this historic campaign, please leave them in the comments! (Photo of winning Palin bingo card by danperry.com and photo of Clinton nutcracker by dsjeffries, from Flickr.com)


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Certified Citrix ready and HDX verified, the Slate21 Pro also offers a virtual workspace with secure data and Windows application support via Citrix Receiver. Users can toggle easily between the Android environment and content displayed from a Windows PC. Citrix XenMobile comes pre-installed, allowing institutions to manage apps and secure the machine within an enterprise environment.
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Amy Sohn's new novel Prospect Park West is set for big things - even a possible TV show. Think, "Momosphere in the City," complete with an SJP producer's credit. And public breastfeeding:
Sohn's novel lampoons a specific neighborhood - the ultra-yuppie, ultra-P.C, ultra-stroller-mobbed-out, beyond-parody Brooklyn neighborhood that's a byword for "smugness" and nice houses in the tri-State area. But she could just as easily be talking about parent populations all across the country - and online. These are the women who populate the "momopshere," those fabled helicopter parents who assume everyone shares the same level of fascination with their children's diets and can afford to worry about the provenance of a cloth diaper.
It's a population that's an easy target, and PPW won't be the first time: since the 80s we've seen the overly-involved parent lampooned, and everyone from SATC to Desperate Housewives. If this is different, it's because these moms, for once, will be the protagonists - something we haven't really seen since Thirtysomething, and not in the age of modern helicopter parenting. According to the New York Times, Park Slope's denizens are already bridling at their fictional portrayal at Sohn's hands. One mother sniffs that she's in fact a "non-frumpy, non-cargo-wearing mom who actually has a good marriage, unlike PPW would have us believe."
Indeed, Prospect Park West isn't that far a cry from Candace Bushnell's "social anthropology." The "mix of social satire, interpersonal drama and urban glamour - there's a movie star character, Melora Leigh, based in part on the actress Jennifer Connelly, who lived in a mansion on Prospect Park West until last year" doesn't sound that different from a slew of shows we've seen - and waved goodbye to - in the past few years. But this has The Mommy Wars - an always fraught subject that's as contentious right now as it's ever been. From Women Obsessed with their Kids to Moms Paranoid About Nannies to Feminists Hating Babies to Feminists Loving Babies to I Secretly Hate My Kids, if this does become a show there's fertile ground here for discussion - and very fertile ground for simplistic misrepresentation of the kind that keeps these wars going. Potentially, a show about moms - and the Great Conversation - could be a chance for something really engaging. Or it could be Sex and The (Nursing) Titty.


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Update: See statement from Google at the end of the post
There has been a lot of hoopla about Google breaching privacy and circumnavigating settings in Safari. They have definitely been circumspect at what they are doing but a new report from Microsoft which says that Google did similar things with IE9 as well. Well, here's the catch, there is nothing illegal Google did and Microsoft just let Facebook off the hook with it.
Let's get to the start of where Microsoft is accusing Google:
By default, IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site's use does not include tracking the user. Google's P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google's cookies even though the policy does not state Google's intent.
Well for starters, P3P is outdated and no longer under development. It is a age old policy which many websites including both Google and Facebook choose to ignore or not follow at all and mind you there is nothing legally wrong with it.
Google and Facebook authentication both have fake P3P policies in the HTTP headers that link to a webpage that explains why they don't support it:
CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."
CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p"
As you can see from the above, Facebook does not have a P3P policy and Google chooses to ignore it altogether. Now, both these approaches are different but they do the same thing; allow these websites to access third-party cookies because they don't follow the P3P policies.
P3P also known as Platform for Privacy Preferences was started out by W3C in 2006 and the final draft was published in 2007. However, after P3P 1.1, W3C also effectively suspended all work on P3P as is evident from http://www.w3.org/P3P/. This means that the technology in question Microsoft has been using to gather information against Google was no longer developed for 5 years or more.
After a successful Last Call, the P3P Working Group decided to publish the P3P 1.1 Specification as a Working Group Note to give P3P 1.1 a provisionally final state.
The P3P Specification Working Group took this step as there was insufficient support from current Browser implementers for the implementation of P3P 1.1. The P3P 1.1 Working Group Note contains all changes from the P3P 1.1 Last Call. The Group thinks that P3P 1.1 is now ready for implementation. It is not excluded that W3C will push P3P 1.1 until Recommendation if there is sufficient support for implementation.
On the other hand, P3P keeps being the basis of a number of research directions in the area of privacy world wide. One might cite the PRIME Project as well as the Policy aware Web. Many other approaches also follow the descriptive metadata approach started by P3P. Such projects are invited to send email to <[email protected]> to be listed here.
This puts a big question mark, because Microsoft provided evidence against Google using this outdated technology which several companies and browser no longer honor.
So all in all, Microsoft is more than happy to give the same information to Facebook (because they are their partners) while dishing out hate to Google? This is definitely not the best way for a company which hardly follows W3C standards for web coding and CSS to accuse others of circumnavigating things which are outdated.
Google's Statement Regards to Microsoft Accusations by Rachel Whetstone, Senior Vice President of Communications and Policy, Google
Microsoft omitted important information from its blog post today.
Microsoft uses a "self-declaration" protocol (known as "P3P") dating from 2002 under which Microsoft asks websites to represent their privacy practices in machine-readable form. It is well known – including by Microsoft – that it is impractical to comply with Microsoft's request while providing modern web functionality. We have been open about our approach, as have many other websites.
Today the Microsoft policy is widely non-operational. A 2010 research report indicated that over 11,000 websites were not issuing valid P3P policies as requested by Microsoft.
Google also goes on to suggest that this has been around since 2002. You'll find the entire statement from Google below:
For many years, Microsoft's browser has requested every website to "self-declare" its cookies and privacy policies in machine readable form, using particular "P3P" three-letter policies.
Essentially, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser requests of websites, "Tell us what sort of functionality your cookies provide, and we'll decide whether to allow them." This didn't have a huge impact in 2002 when P3P was introduced (in fact the Wall Street Journal today states that our DoubleClick ad cookies comply with Microsoft's request), but newer cookie-based features are broken by the Microsoft implementation in IE. These include things like Facebook "Like" buttons, the ability to sign-in to websites using your Google account, and hundreds more modern web services. It is well known that it is impractical to comply with Microsoft's request while providing this web functionality.
Today the Microsoft policy is widely non-operational.
In 2010 it was reported:
Browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari have simpler security settings. Instead of checking a site's compact policy, these browsers simply let people choose to block all cookies, block only third-party cookies or allow all cookies…..
Thousands of sites don't use valid P3P policies….
A firm that helps companies implement privacy standards, TRUSTe, confirmed in 2010 that most of the websites it certifies were not using valid P3P policies as requested by Microsoft:
Despite having been around for over a decade, P3P adoption has not taken off. It's worth noting again that less than 12 percent of the more than 3,000 websites TRUSTe certifies have a P3P compact policy. The reality is that consumers don't, by and large, use the P3P framework to make decisions about personal information disclosure.
A 2010 research paper by Carnegie Mellon found that 11,176 of 33,139 websites were not issuing valid P3P policies as requested by Microsoft.
In the research paper, among the websites that were most frequently providing different code to that requested by Microsoft: Microsoft's own live.com and msn.com websites.
Microsoft support website
The 2010 research paper "discovered that Microsoft's support website recommends the use of invalid CPs (codes) as a work-around for a problem in IE." This recommendation was a major reason that many of the 11,176 websites provided different code to the one requested by Microsoft.
Google's provided a link that explained our practice.
Microsoft could change this today
As others are noting today, this has been well known for years.
- Privacy researcher Lauren Weinstein states: "In any case, Microsoft's posting today, given what was already long known about IE and P3P deficiences in these regards, seems disingenuous at best, and certainly is not helping to move the ball usefully forward regarding these complex issues."
- Chris Soghoian, a privacy researcher, points out: "Instead of fixing P3P loophole in IE that FB & Amazon exploited ……MS did nothing. Now they complain after Google uses it."
- Even the Wall Street Journal says: "It involves a problem that has been known about for some time by Microsoft and privacy researchers…."


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Pioneer are the latest in a long line of well-known audio/video companies to release a fully iDevice-integrated speaker dock. "Been there, done that", you say? Think again. Pioneer's Audition may be another 2.1 device, but comparisons can stop there. Once plugged in, the Audition strips the iDevice's cheap DAC, processing music digitally instead. Users can also enjoy A2DP Bluetooth audio from their iPod touch 2-3G, iPhones, and other mobiles. That, my friends, is a step up from both the Bose SounDock and the now legendary Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin and the Zeppelin Mini. It's also got component and composite video outputs and a Bluetooth adapter port.
At 449$, it certainly isn't cheap, but Pioneer're obviously aiming pretty high with the Audition's long feature list.
It is compatible with the following iPods and iDevices:
iPod Classic, iPod Nano (2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Generations), iPod Touch (1st and 2nd Generations), iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Florida safety De'Ante Saunders and offensive tackle Matt Patchan are leaving the program.
Coach Will Muschamp announced the pending transfers Thursday after the fourth-ranked Gators landed in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl.
Muschamp says ``I think they needed a fresh start and that's all I've got to say about it.''
Saunders, a sophomore from DeLand, played in eight games this season. He had 18 tackles and an interception. Saunders played in 12 games last year, including nine starts, and finished with 26 tackles and two interceptions.
Patchan, a fourth-year junior from Tampa, has missed all season with a pectoral injury. He has played in 27 games during an injury-plagued career, including 11 games as a backup defensive tackle on Florida's 2008 national championship team.


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ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser goes LEGO®
What does a scientist do to visualise a space journey? Build a model, of course. A model of Europe's Rosetta comet-chaser made out of LEGO® blocks started out in this small way and has grown into a high-fidelity Rosetta Lander Education Kit.
Engineering and art students of the University of Rome gathered yesterday to test the prototype of the Rosetta Lander Education Kit. Not only did they build the LEGO MINDSTORMS comet lander, they also learnt why ESA's mission is travelling all the way to Jupiter's orbit to rendezvous with comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
"Chasing comets allows us to look back into the history of our Solar System," said ESA space scientist Detlef Koschny during the presentation of the Education Kit.
"Comets and asteroids represent the leftovers from which the planets of our Solar System formed.
"Understanding their composition will teach us about how our own Earth came into being and the ingredients that allowed the formation of life."
So far, comets have only been investigated from a distance but, in November 2014, Rosetta's Philae lander will touch down on Churyumov-Gerasimenko's icy surface, allowing the comet's composition to be directly measured.
This is not the first time that LEGO bricks have been used by the Rosetta mission. Detlef once created a LEGO model of the whole spacecraft to visualise its flight path during meetings. Not only did the orbital journey become apparent in those meetings, so did the desire of everyone to own a LEGO version of Rosetta.
What started as a small model has blossomed into a high-fidelity education kit. It was obvious on the student's faces and those of the professors that this was an unconventional 'first' in the history of the ancient University of Rome.
"It was quite difficult, because all the moving parts are not so easy to rebuild so we had to figure out something, some way to realise some mechanism that could move," said Filippo Ales, a student of aerospace engineering.
For example, Philae has 'ice screws' on its legs that drill into the comet at impact to stop it bouncing off in the low gravity. A harpoon also holds the lander on the surface.
On top of the lander is a small rocket engine that fires to keep Philae in position while the screws and the harpoon finish their job of anchoring it.
Some of these features are reproduced on the model. LEGO Mindstorms components allow moving parts to be controlled by a simple home computer.
"I liked it a lot to assemble everything, I thought is was real fun," said student Monserrat Olympia Pineda Arqueros. "I would recommend it to all students to do this assembly exercise with LEGO."
The feedback from the engineering students on the prototype will be used by ESA, the German Aerospace Center DLR, Europlanet, Lightcurvefilms and LEGO to finalise the Education Kit and adapt it to the needs of European curricula.


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Alumnus Leads Release of New Industry Standard
Owen Ambur, who graduated from Augustana in 1972, was recently recognized for his efforts in the release of the newest innovation StratML from AIIM (www.aiim.org). Ambur served as chair of the committee responsible for the new standard.
Former Augustana President Authors Book on Norwegian Lutheran Immigrants
Lloyd Svendsbye, former president of Augustana College, reveals the struggles of the early immigrants as he chronicles his ancestors' saga from Norway to Western North Dakota in his new book, I Paid All My Debts, published by Lutheran University Press.
Call for Proposals: Dakota Conference on the Northern Plains
A call for proposals has been issued for the 42nd annual Dakota Conference, Western Highways: Journeys through Space & Time, to be held April 23-24 at the Center for Western Studies on the campus of Augustana College.
Augustana Junior Receives Scholarship to Study in Austria
Augustana College junior Ryan Lee from Cannon Falls, Minnesota, is the recipient of a Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship. Through the American Institute for Foreign Study, he will spend the spring semester in Salzburg, Austria.
Augustana's Economic Diversity Cited by U.S. News
According to U.S. News and World Report "Economic Diversity Among Top-Ranked Schools: Baccalaureate Colleges (Midwest)," Augustana's mission of providing an education of enduring worth is available to students from varying economic backgrounds.
Former Augustana Regent Al Schock dies at age 89
Al Schock, 89, who served 12 years on the Augustana College Board of Regents, died December 27, 2009, of complications from cancer. Schock's longtime association with Augustana included gifts of time, leadership, and financial support.
Christmas Giving at Augustana
Students are headed home for the holidays, but prior to the campus shutting down, and while they were preparing for final exams, students and staff took the time to make sure those less fortunate would experience some joy this Christmas.
Alumni in the News
Four alumni from various parts of the country were recently recognized for achievements in their respective careers. Their education at Augustana prepared them for successful careers in coaching, politics, church ministry, and nursing.
Alumna receives Faculty Excellence Award
Alumna Sharlene Georgesen, '86, assistant professor of nursing at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, is one of three Morningside faculty members to receive the 2009 Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Award.
Twin Cities alumnus joins Augustana Development staff
Stan Krebs, who graduated from Augustana in 1975, has joined the College's Office of Development as director of major gifts. Krebs will be based in the Twin Cities, working with current donors and cultivating prospective donors.


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On Japanese TV, there are lots of comedy shows. And on those comedy shows, there are often pranks. And, boy, Japanese pranks can be so cruel, but also so epic.
Japanese comedy shows typically aren't centered around pranks. They are often elements of the shows, as are the games known as "batsu geemu" (罰ゲーム). These are games in which the loser usually has to do something as punishment, whether that's eating disgusting food or drinking something awful like, for example, hot sauce or vinegar. Comedy is often physical, but many of the best comedians, such as the comedy duo Downtown also have razor-sharp wit.
These pranks and punishment games are a reason why in a recent poll in Japan, over sixty percent of those polled said TV programs promoted bullying. Obviously, this is a bit like blaming video games for violence, and there are larger cultural issues at play. Bullying is a national issue in Japan—a political one, too—with cases of students being bullied by other students, teachers bullying students and even students bullying teachers.
All of that being said, purely as pranksters pulling pranks, Japanese television has, over the years, an incredibly impressive track record. Here are a few of the standouts. You might have seen some of these before. Some might be new to you. Have a look in the gallery above.
Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.


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Currently, the Asperger's Society of Ontario has a variety of volunteer opportunities for you to consider:
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Pete Tong Uses Ableton Live for BBC Radio 1
Known around the world for his epic Ibiza sets, Pete Tong was a household name even before he became a pop culture phrase. For his weekly radio show on BBC's Radio 1, Tong has turned to Ableton Live for syncing, mixing and generally taking your body on a ride that it won't recover from for the rest of the weekend.
"My radio show, The Essential Selection, has started the weekends for BBC Radio 1 since 1991. It's all about getting people into their weekend, finding out what they are up to and involving as many of the world's top DJs as possible."
Whether Tong is in his studio or on the go, Live lets him quickly arrange his sets: "The fact that I can now create mixes and radio shows from my laptop is great. I'm a busy man, and it's really allowed me to turn a lot of dead time into creative time."
As Live handles the beat-matching aspect of mixing, Tong can get creative with the contents of his tracks, using Live as a tool to creatively blend music: "I'm using Live to build different sweeps and mixes and features on the show. I can really see it taking over. The whole speed-warp-marking skill was the biggest breakthrough for me. Once I cracked that, I was really addicted to the program."
Good news for Tong and other new users: Live 5 features auto-warping and MP3 support, making life that much easier.
The Essential Selection is broadcasted on BBC Radio 1 every Friday night at 6 p.m. (GMT) and every Sunday morning at 1 a.m. Both are also available on demand at Radio 1 online via the Listen Again player.


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Updated St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Guidelines Recognize Oncotype DX As The Only Validated Multi-Gene Test Able To Predict Chemotherapy Benefit
GENEVA and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- Genomic Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GHDX) today announced that the 13th St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference Expert Panel, for the second time, recognized the Oncotype DX® breast cancer test for its ability to provide not only prognostic information, but also predictive information regarding the benefit from chemotherapy for patients with early-stage endocrine sensitive invasive breast cancer. Oncotype DX was the only multi-gene test accepted with a strong majority of panelists supporting it as both a prognostic and predictive tool, which led to "a recommendation that selection of patients who might forego chemotherapy could be based on the 21-gene Recurrence Score." The new guidelines have been recently published online in the Advance Access section of Annals of Oncology and will appear in a future print issue.
"We are pleased that this expert panel recognizes the unsurpassed clinical evidence of Oncotype DX as the only test validated to answer the important question of which estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer patients need chemotherapy in addition to hormonal therapy," said Steven Shak, M.D., chief medical officer and executive vice president of research and development, Genomic Health. "Physicians in more than 70 countries have used Oncotype DX for treatment planning in more than 375,000 patients to date, enabling patients to make more informed decisions and healthcare systems to avoid overtreatment."
The updated guidelines, which are reviewed bi-annually, reflect increasing support for the use of multi-gene tests to provide physicians and patients with information that goes beyond traditional clinic-pathologic measures to enable better informed treatment decisions. The guidelines also reference that the use of the Oncotype DX breast cancer test is either cost-effective or provides cost savings in all markets analyzed.
"The growing acceptance of utilizing genomics as an integral treatment decision tool is an important milestone to improve the treatment of breast cancer overall," said Martine Piccart, M.D., chief of the Medicine Department at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium, member of the St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Expert Panel, and president of the European Society of Molecular Oncology (ESMO). "The panel acknowledges the added value that genomic assays can provide and encourages broader availability for these assays so that more patients can benefit from them. As we mark the tenth anniversary of the first full sequencing of the human genome, we will continue our efforts to enhance breast cancer care around the world."
The Oncotype DX breast cancer test has been evaluated in 15 clinical studies involving more than 6,000 patients, and is the only genomic assay to meet level 1B evidence (Simon RM, Paik S, and Hayes DF. JNCI 2009) for clinical use in early-stage, hormone receptor-positive, invasive, breast cancer patients both as a prognosticator and predictor of likelihood of benefit from chemotherapy. Separately, with more than 18 decision impact studies conducted in 10 countries, the test has consistently been demonstrated to change treatment recommendations in about 30 percent of early-stage invasive breast cancer patients, reinforcing its clinical validation, accuracy and precision. Additionally, more than 20 health economic analyses conducted in Europe, Asia, Israel, and North America demonstrate that the Oncotype DX test is cost effective and, in some countries, delivers significant healthcare savings, reinforcing the test's economic value across multiple health care systems.
About Genomic Health
Genomic Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: GHDX) is a global healthcare company that provides actionable genomic information to personalize cancer treatment decisions. The company's lead product, the Oncotype DX® breast cancer test, has been shown to predict the likelihood of chemotherapy benefit as well as recurrence in invasive breast cancer and has been shown to predict the likelihood of recurrence in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). In addition to this widely adopted test, Genomic Health provides the Oncotype DX colon cancer test, the first multi-gene expression test developed for the assessment of risk of recurrence in patients with stage II and stage III disease, and the Oncotype DX prostate cancer test, which predicts disease aggressiveness in men with low risk disease. As of June 30, 2013, more than 19,000 physicians in over 70 countries had ordered more than 375,000 Oncotype DX tests. Genomic Health has a robust pipeline focused on developing tests to further optimize the treatment of breast, colon and prostate cancers, as well as the treatment of renal cancer. The company is based in Redwood City, California with European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. For more information, please visit, www.GenomicHealth.com and follow the company on Twitter: @GenomicHealth. To learn more about Oncotype DX tests, visit: www.OncotypeDX.com, www.mybreastcancertreatment.org and www.myprostatecancertreatment.org.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the belief that the Oncotype DX is unique in its ability to predict chemotherapy benefit in early stage breast cancer; the company's belief that the Oncotype DX Recurrence Score cannot be predicted by other factors such as age or individual biomarkers; the company's belief that the Oncotype DX is cost effective and can reduce the cost of treatment in various health systems around the world; the company's belief that it has the opportunity to advance the quality of cancer treatment decisions and that the inclusion of Oncotype DX in the St. Gallen guidelines will enable greater international utilization of Oncotype DX; the applicability of study results to actual outcomes; the ability of the company's tests to impact clinical practice; and the focus and attributes of the company's product pipeline. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: risks related to the success of the company's colon and prostate cancer tests; the company's ability to increase usage of its tests; the risk that the company may not obtain or maintain sufficient levels of reimbursement, domestically or abroad, for its existing tests and any future tests it may develop; ; the risks and uncertainties associated with regulation of the company's tests by the FDA and other regulatory organizations; the company's ability to compete against third parties; the company's ability to develop and commercialize new tests; unanticipated costs or delays in research and development efforts; ; the company's ability to successfully commercialize its tests outside of the United States; the results of clinical studies; the applicability of clinical study results to actual outcomes; and the other risks set forth in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risks set forth in the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. These forward- looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Genomic Health disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
NOTE: The Genomic Health logo, Oncotype, Oncotype DX, Recurrence Score and DCIS Score are trademarks or registered trademarks of Genomic Health, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.


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If you're using the JavaLanguageSupport in the RSTALanguageSupport trunk, I'd appreciate it if you checked out the latest and tried it out. It has a nice new feature in that, if source is attached to jars on the classpath, code completion suggestions for methods will include the methods' parameter names (assuming they can be found in Javadoc for the method):
Previously, parameter names were grepped out of the source file being edited's methods, but for any compiled classes on the "classpath," method parameters were identified by their type only. The only way to know what each parameter was (short of having the API you're using memorized) was to read the information in the description window.
Now, Java support has taken the next step. It's already reading the Javadoc for each method to put it into the description window, so why not grep the parameter names out of it, and use them everywhere else, such as the main code completion choices window?
If you point your application to a JDK, it'll automatically locate the source zip (actually, it already did this). and this feature will work out-of-the-box!
My only concern is performance. This is an un-optimized feature, and it does result in significantly more I/O (reading from the source zip or directory) than was done previously. Memory consumption should be about the same, though there may be a lot more smaller temporary objects created (i.e. more GC). So I request that if you grab the latest, you report back to me if there are any performance issues.
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Hi, my name's Wendy and I'm a married, mum of one living in Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland. I'm a self confessed paper addict, spending all my free time immersed in a happy world of stamps and dies. Colouring with Promarkers is my favourite technique, but I'm always on the lookout for new things to try, and new stash to buy! If I'm not in the craft room, I can usually be found in the kitchen cooking or baking, or chatting with friends over a large pot of tea.
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Resident Evil: Revelations is shambling towards the 360, PS3, PC and WiiU
Capcom has announced that the previously Nintendo 3DS-exclusive Resident Evil Revelations will in fact be getting a second release on all of the current gen systems on May 21st of this year. Considering that this is a handheld game that is being ported over to the more powerful home consoles, Capcom also revealed that the re-releases will receive HD graphical upgrades as well as having an improved online component. A few extra "bells and whistles" was also stated to be included in the upcoming release.
Here is the official trailer for the re-release:
Resident Evil: Revelations released last year for the Nintendo 3DS, where it received very favourable reviews, so bringing the experience to a wider audience is certainly a great move by Capcom.
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Stepped up efforts by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to be more proactive have resulted in hundreds of millions of violative or dangerous units of products being stopped at U.S. ports and prevented from ever reaching the hands of consumers.
Working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), CPSC staff screened thousands of consumer products that were either in violation of U.S. standards or otherwise unsafe and stopped them from ever reaching store shelves. The hard work of CPSC and CBP staff in 2010 and 2011 resulted in more than 6.5 million units of about 1,700 different children's products being stopped at our nation's ports, due to safety concerns or the failure to meet federal safety standards.
"Intercepting dangerous products as quickly and as early as possible, well before they make their way into the hands of children and other consumers, is consistent with our vision for CPSC to continue enhancing its protection of America's families," said Chairman Inez Tenenbaum.
The products stopped are wide-ranging. In addition to toys and other children's products, items targeted at import include mattresses, art materials, household chemicals, lighters, fireworks, bike helmets and all-terrain vehicles. Some of the reasons they were stopped include violations of the standards for flammability, lead paint and lead content, phthalates and small parts.
Port surveillance is not new. Imported products have long been screened at the port by CPSC and CBP. However, since its creation in 2008, CPSC's import surveillance and inspection team, has steadily increased the size of its staff at some of the largest U.S. ports of entry, at CPSC's headquarters and at a CBP operations center.
"The marketplace of imported consumer goods has expanded rapidly in recent years requiring CPSC to take an increasingly global view of consumer product safety," said Carol Cave, Director of the Office of Import Surveillance and Inspection.
"In response to the lead in paint recalls in 2007, CPSC started to place investigators at key ports of entry full time," Cave added. "Having CPSC staff who have the training and equipment necessary to identify non-complying products under CPSC jurisdiction at the ports has improved coordination and cooperation with CBP and industry."
According to Cave, working side by side at the ports has lead to more effective import enforcement by reducing exam times and increasing interagency communication. "We are working smarter," adds Cave, "but, because of the large volume of products being imported that are under CPSC's jurisdiction, it is critical that, as the agency moves forward, we systematically evaluate the risk of incoming shipments and expand the number of staff inspecting merchandise."
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By researching the Quran in Arabic and the four Gospels of the Bible in Aramaic, a language common to most of the Middle East in the 7th century A.D., a University of Houston (UH) professor says he has established links between the Quran and the Bible.
"The Quran is part of a larger discussion, it's not just a holy book. It's a book of world heritage and world history," said Emran El-Badawi, director of the Arab Studies Program and assistant professor of Arabic language and literature at UH. "It's the first book of Arabic literature. It's written in language that is formulaic and poetic. It's almost like reading one giant but diversely constructed poem. You can compare reading the Quran to reading the Iliad or the Odyssey from a literary perspective, rather than the Bible, which has was written by many authors and hosts different narratives."
El-Badawi spent four years researching books and manuscripts in numerous languages, visiting the Corpus Coranicum in Berlin (a central repository drawing on some of the earliest Qurans known in existence) and meeting with experts in Cairo and Damascus. He reviewed archaeological epigraphic evidence, Christian literature, later Islamic literature in Arabic, non-Muslim literature in dialects of Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Ethiopic, and the world around the Quran to analyze the depth of the relationships between the Quran and the Bible.
"Much of the recent scholarship on the Quran looks at Christian literature in the Aramaic language. We are learning now that part of the reason the origins of early Islamic history and the Quran are so mysterious is because we've not always been looking in the right places; we should be looking, in fact, at Aramaic," said El-Badawi.
The Quran taps into a reservoir of language and late antique Aramaic literature. He notes many of the Aramaic speakers at the time were Christian; most notably, Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic. Arabic and Aramaic are both Semitic languages and are closely related. The different communities that spoke Aramaic and Arabic were trading with each other and intermarrying. He refers to Aramaic in the 7th century as the common language, "… it was the 'English' of the Middle East."
Many Christians are surprised to learn the Garden of Eden, Noah's flood, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Jesus, the Disciples, Ezekiel, and Jonas are all referenced in the Quran. He points out that there is a well-developed familiarity with the Bible in the region by the time the Quran comes into existence.
"The references in the Quran to figures in the Bible must not be understood as copying; rather, the Quran builds up on the theology presented in the Gospels and marks a theological shift in the relationship between God and man," said El-Badawi.
"There was a new worldview, and the author of the Quran and the audience of the Quran knew the Bible fluently. The Quran informs its 7th century audience that there are notions in the Bible that the author accepts and there are some things the author does not accept. What I argue is that this process took a long time, maybe centuries, to account for this inheritance; and so the Quran's inheritance of biblical material spans a time period much longer than one author – even lifetimes or generations."
An example El-Badawi gives where the Quran inherits a story and makes a change is in the Gospel of John. The text says that, "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God." Then it continues stating that Jesus is the light of the world. In chapter 24 of the Quran, the text indicates a theological change to the Gospel of John, stating God is the light of the heavens and the earth.
"This example tells me that in the Gospels, the relationship between man and God is very close. They can touch, so to speak. They can merge. In the Quran, they have been completely separated. The Quran goes out of its way to unlock the two, to dislodge that relationship and say the world of man and God are separated," said El-Badawi.
El-Badawi's long-term goal for his research is for people to understand the Quran as important for literary and historical reasons. "My hope is to bring some sobriety, mutual understanding and peace to the world through a literary and academic approach."
El-Badawi is the author of a new book, "The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions" and is newly appointed executive director of the International Qur'anic Studies Associations. He completed his doctoral degree with distinction from the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, he completed a master's degree in religion from Temple University and bachelor's degree in computer science from Rutgers University.
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First-ever video reveals how HIV spreads between immune cells
Cell-to-cell transmission could explain why experimental vaccines have yet to work
For the first time, scientists at UC Davis and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have captured video footage showing the transfer of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from an infected T-cell to an uninfected one through an adhesive structure called a virological synapse. The researchers hope their breakthrough finding, which appeared in the March 27 issue of Science, will lead to a new era in HIV treatment and revive hope of developing a vaccine to halt the virus that leads to AIDS.
"Our findings may explain why attempts to develop an HIV vaccine have so far been unsuccessful," said Thomas Huser, one of the study's authors and chief scientist at the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST), where the video images were produced using advanced, live-cell video imaging microscopy.
While previous efforts to create an HIV vaccine have focused on priming the immune system to recognize and attack surface proteins of free-circulating virus, the current results indicate that HIV avoids recognition by being directly transferred between cells.
"We should be developing vaccines that help the immune system recognize proteins involved in virological synapse formation and antiviral drugs that target the factors required for synapse formation," explained Huser, who is also an associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine.
For decades, scientists believed that HIV mainly spreads in the body through free-circulating particles that attach to a cell, take over its replication machinery and make multiple copies of themselves. Once in the bloodstream, the new particles attach to target cells and continue the process.
In 2004, scientists discovered that cell-to-cell transfer of HIV also occurred via virological synapses. This was considered to be an effective method of transferring the infection, but the reasons were unclear. The current study, however, reveals that the synapse is providing the essential structure by which viral proteins are gathered and relocated to uninfected cells.
"Direct T-cell-to-T-cell transfer through a virological synapse is a highly efficient avenue of HIV infection, and it could be the predominant mode of dissemination," said study senior author Benjamin Chen, assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
"Direct T-cell-to-T-cell transfer through a virological synapse is a highly efficient avenue of HIV infection, and it could be the predominant mode of dissemination."
— Benjamin Chen, Mount Sinai School of Medicine assistant professor and study senior author
Chen made the study possible when he created a molecular clone of infectious HIV by inserting into its genetic code a gene that codes for the green fluorescent protein (GFP), a molecule originally isolated from a species of jellyfish. The protein glows when exposed to blue light, making it visible on digital video.
Chen, however, required the expertise of UC Davis researchers to record the behavior of live cells. Using the video microscopy developed at CBST, the researchers filmed interactions between cells infected with GFP-labeled HIV-infected T-cells and uninfected ones, generating 19 hours of video footage.
In the videos, the researchers observed an infected cell coming into contact with a healthy one. Huser said that the two cells appear to struggle as a virological synapse is formed at the point where they connect, and, within minutes, fluorescent viral particles in the infected cell move toward the synapse and into the healthy cell.
According to Huser, the technology developed at CBST and the unique infrastructure available at the Oak Park Research Building on the Sacramento campus of UC Davis made the current study possible.
"We were able to determine the physical parameters of HIV transfer because of our ability to observe these interactions in real time and in three dimensions," Huser said.
In creating a key technology used in this study, Huser and his colleagues modified a commercially available spinning-disk confocal microscope so that it could be used to image live infected cells. The technology allowed the capture of 30 images per second from various angles and at various depths of field. Computer programs then merged the images, creating a 3-D movie.
"CBST's interdisciplinary team was key to the successful collaboration with Mount Sinai," Huser said. "Few facilities have both virologists with experience handling live HIV samples and experts in high-speed, high-resolution imaging."
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The Mount Sinai-UC Davis team is now planning to find out as much as they can about how HIV transfer through virological synapses works. For example, the team will be working to identify the exact process involved in the movement of viral particles, which they believe involves the scaffolding of the cell — or its cytoskeleton. New super-resolution microscopy at CBST will make that possible.
They will also be working out the details of what happens to viral particles once they are transferred into a newly infected cell.
"We saw that particles are released into compartments," Huser said. "We will be looking carefully at how the virus particles are freed from these compartments, since it could be another mechanism to target with new treatments."
The overall goal for Huser, Chen and their colleagues is to fully understand the process of HIV transfer so scientists can use this knowledge in the fight against AIDS.
"The more we know about this mode of transfer, the better chance we have of figuring out how to block it and the spread of HIV and AIDS," Huser said.
In addition to Chen and Huser, study authors were Wolfgang Hübner, Ping Chen, Benjamin Dale and Ronald Gordon of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; and Gregory McNerney, Frank Y. S. Chuang, Xiao-Dong Li and David Asmuth of UC Davis. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Burroughs Wellcome, Hirschl Weill-Caulier, the National Science Foundation through the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and UC Davis.
About the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology:
The National Science Foundation commissioned the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology in 2002 with a mission to harness the power of light to solve major challenges in the life sciences and medicine. CBST research teams are world-renowned for their ability to image, analyze and manipulate cellular processes to speed progress in biomedical research and development. From its headquarters on the Sacramento campus of UC Davis, CBST coordinates activities with a core group of eight university campuses, a national laboratory, industrial partners and other research centers. For more information, visit http://cbst.ucdavis.edu.
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The UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine is one of the country's most productive and dynamic centers of academic medicine as well as the largest clinical department in the UC Davis Health System. The team provides comprehensive patient services and cutting-edge research in a variety of specialties, including infectious and immunologic diseases, cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology and critical care. The department's physicians and staff are dedicated to the compassionate practice of medicine — a continuum of care that extends from preventive medicine to acute care to palliative care. For more information, visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/internalmedicine.


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NYC Weekend Picks: 'Cinderella,' Dianne Reeves, more
Our picks for what to do in the city this weekend.
"CINDERELLA" Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana star in the Broadway premiere of this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, written in 1957 for television and beckoning now for Valentine's Day weekend. Douglas Carter Beane ("Sister Act") has written a book with a few new twists.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8, Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway.
INFO $45-$147, 212-239-6200, cinderellaonbroadway.com
"BELLEVUE" Amy Herzog's new play involves a young couple that leaves the Midwest for bohemian Paris.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8, Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., New York Theatre Workshop, 79 E. Fourth St.
INFO $70, 212-279-4200, nytw.org
"THE NORTH POOL" Rajiv Joseph ("Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo") explores the tension between a high school vice principal and a Middle East transfer student.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8, Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., Vineyard Theatre, 108 E. 15th St.
INFO $75-$100, 212-353-0303, vineyardtheatre.org
"BABY FACE" Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman sleeping her way to the top in this pre-Code classic, part of the ongoing series "1933: Hollywood's Naughtiest, Bawdiest Year."
WHEN | WHERE Friday at 2:50, 6 and 9:15 p.m., Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St.
INFO $12.50, 212-727-8110, filmforum.org
"PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA IN AMERICA" The Renaissance wouldn't have been the same without this talented Italian painter (1411-1492). The first-ever American show dedicated to the artist brings together seven of his rare works -- the grouping won't likely happen again in your lifetime.
WHEN | WHERE Through May 19, closed Mondays, The Frick Collection, 1 E. 70th St.
INFO $18, 212-288-0700, frick.org
COMMERCE You can't go wrong with a historic space presided over by an assured chef. Harold Moore can make even a winter vegetable fricassee a star dish, and his Korean-inspired pork chop is a welcome twist. It's all served up in a Depression-era interior with many original appointments, formerly Grange Hall.
WHEN | WHERE Dinner daily, weekend brunch, 50 Commerce St.
INFO Average entree $30, 212-524-2301, commercerestaurant.com
DIANNE REEVES The multi-Grammy-winning jazz singer brings some special guests along, including Esperanza Spalding, Lalah Hathaway, Nadia Washington and more.
WHEN | WHERE Saturday night at 8, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Ave.
INFO $15-$75, 212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org
ONE STEP BEYOND The One Step Beyond season starts tonight with DJ sets from Foster the People, above, Javelin and Dopeshoes.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 9, American Museum of Natural History (enter through the Weston Pavilion entrance on Columbus Avenue at 79th Street)
INFO $25, 212-769-5200, amnh.org/calendar/one-step-beyond
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Maine is one of the most beautiful states in the nation. Its thousands of miles of coastline is famous for its rugged crashing surf, but nestled among its many inlets and bays are secluded enclaves and private beaches. Its 17 million acres of forestland provide rainbows of color in the fall and offer the outdoor enthusiast unlimited opportunities - hiking, camping, white-water rafting, mountain climbing, skiing, snowmobiling. Nowhere else will you find such variety – from Maine's many famous lighthouses, to quaint villages, to boutique shops in Portland's Old Port, to country festivals, or award-winning restaurants serving Maine lobster and cultural specialties.
Whether coming to Maine on vacation or looking to relocate, you'll soon understand why we say Maine is "the way life should be." It's easy to fall in love with the beautiful sand beaches and rocky coastline from The Yorks to Camden to Acadia National Park, the pristine lakes of Moosehead, Rangeley and Sebago, and the delicious fresh Maine seafood. It's also easy to fall in love with its amazing history and architecture, the rich farmlands, and its laid back atmosphere.
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Shadow of the Colossus is one of the most amazing video games ever. And if the rumors are right, then it's going to be turned into a hopefully awesome movie as well. Something else that has to do with the franchise is this modded external hard drive that was made by a creative fan of the game.
For the mod, user foxfoxwaltz took a regular, old hard drive and turned it into this colossally awesome figure of Quadratus using only cardboard, some plaster, a whole lot of spraypaint, and some moss and lichens. It sounds simple but it's obviously not that easy. You can see more of the actual building process here.
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