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Whether they realize it or not, students are already immersed in a world of multiple literacies. This lesson invites students to become aware of the analytical skills that they commonly use when reading. The class first generates and categorizes a list of strategies and thought processes that can help to make sense of a print text, such as connecting thinking, visualizing, noticing text features, etc. They create symbols to represent each type of strategy, and work in pairs to identify strategies used in reading newspaper articles. This think-aloud activity is repeated with informational websites, as students transfer these skills, along with some other strategies, to navigating and reading online texts. Students then compare and contrast their reading of print and online texts, sharing what they have discovered about the thought processes and skills they used.
Pailliotet, A.W., Semali, L., Rodenberg, R.K., Giles, J.K., & Macaul, S.L. (2000). Intermediality: Bridge to critical media literacy. The Reading Teacher, 54, 208219.
- Broadly defined, intermediality is the ability to "critically read and write with and across varied symbol systems."
- Students are part of the youth media culture-like it or not-and are already literate communicators who spend more time engaging with mass media outside classrooms than they spend in schools.
- Just as we teach students to be aware of author purpose and text structure in reading, we must also help them identify such organizational structures in viewing and representing ideas through popular and electronic media.
- If educators fail to acknowledge the meaning-making capabilities of extracurricular media messages and information, any attempts to increase literacy learning will be rendered incomplete.


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When the Marussia B1 super car dropped cloth, it afforded seemingly limitless jokes about Russia. Now their next car, the Marussia B2, has been spotted completely uncloaked on the streets of Moscow ahead of this week's Frankfurt debut
Vladimir the truck driver is probably going to get an earful for this one, but the latest Marussia super car, which has up until now only been seen in a dimly lit teaser image, was photographed in Moscow in broad daylight with nary a car cover in sight. The new car may or may not also be hybridized, but it sure looks cool. Now if only they can do something about the 80s arcade game interior. (Hat tip to Ronan!) [Pistonheads]

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Nicholas Hoult was with Jennifer Lawrence leaving The Daily Show yesterday. So there's your status update. There's MY status update. It's still on. Good!
I didn't know if I had access to this photo earlier when I wrote about her and her passport which is why I've separated the two posts. In addition to telling you about her love life here, I also want to talk about Catching Fire's prospects this weekend. Some records could be broken.
The Hunger Games opened a year and a half ago with over $150 million. So far this year, the biggest opening weekend has been Iron Man 3 at $175 million. They're projecting at least $160 million for Catching Fire… but they're leaving open the possibility that it could be more. Some are saying it could be very, very, VERY close. Will Katniss rival Tony Stark?


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Because Christina Ricci used to be sickly skinny. Like near death skinny. And then it seems she got over it and accepted the body she was born with. Which is tight and toned and shapely, muscular legs, a tiny waist, full breasts, and a great f-cking ass.
Christina Ricci eats food and trains often. Perfect.
Here she is at the Inglourious Basterds premiere last night in what could have been the most unforgiving red dress. Amazing, right?
Christina is currently single having broken off her engagement to that really tall man. Professionally though it's all good. A horror with Liam Neeson will be released next year and 3 other films are in post right now.
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Hear about the 500,000-member Orthodox Church in Guatemala!
Did you know that there are 338 Orthodox churches in Guatemala, with 500,000 faithful and catechumens? Did you know that a former UN Ambassador is now a priest in that community? Did you know that hundreds of Latin Americans continue to leave the Roman Catholic Church on a daily basis, seeking other religious experiences, including worship within the liturgical services of the Orthodox Church?
St. Vladimir's Seminary organized a seminar on its second annual Missions Day, Wednesday, November 7, 2012, for a presentation on the "explosion" of Orthodox Christianity in Guatemala; in recent years 338 Orthodox churches, with 500,000 faithful and catechumens, have become part of the Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico.
The Very Rev. Archimandrite Dr. Andres Girón de Leon and The Very Rev. John Chakos were the guest lecturers, sharing first hand their missionary activities among the indigenous people of Guatemala, within their presentation, "Mission to Guatemala: Receiving the Mayan People into the Orthodox Church."
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Freddie Matthews writes from London 49 year old Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith returns with his 13 album in 22 years of releasing albums.
Granted, not all of these are actual new studio recordings but I'm making the point that Sexsmith is no new boy on the music scene.
English: Ron Sexsmith at the 2010 Gemini Awards Deutsch: Ron Sexsmith Español: Ron Sexsmith Français : Ron Sexsmith Nederlands: Ron Sexsmith Svenska: Ron Sexsmith (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sexsmith a father of two. Ron Sexsmith single Speaking With The Angel Elvis Costello liked Sexsmith so much that he invited them on tour with his team.
|English: Michael Bublé performing in Sydney, Australia in February 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Ron Sexsmith has been compared to Paul McCartney and one of their songs Secret Heart has been sung by Nick Lowe and Michael Bublé.
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- Bowie Beats Lady Gaga, Strokes, Adam Ant's Rock Comeback - Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
- Ron Sexsmith: New Album Out in February (jambase.com)
- 'I had girlfriends in different cities' (guardian.co.uk)
- Tracey Thorn: 'Secular Carols' For The Holidays (wnyc.org)
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Stage III Ovarian Cancer
Patients diagnosed with stage III ovarian cancer have cancer that has spread from the ovaries and pelvic organs into the upper abdomen or lymph nodes. Stage III ovarian cancer has not spread to sites outside the abdomen or inside the liver.
A variety of factors ultimately influence a patient's decision to receive treatment of cancer. The purpose of receiving cancer treatment may be to improve symptoms through local control of the cancer, increase a patient's chance of cure, or prolong a patient's survival. The potential benefits of receiving cancer treatment must be carefully balanced with the potential risks of receiving cancer treatment.
The following is a general overview of the treatment of stage III ovarian cancer. Circumstances unique to your situation and prognostic factors of your cancer may ultimately influence how these general treatment principles are applied. The information on this Web site is intended to help educate you about your treatment options and to facilitate a mutual or shared decision-making process with your treating cancer physician.
Most new treatments are developed in clinical trials. Clinical trials are studies that evaluate the effectiveness of new drugs or treatment strategies. The development of more effective cancer treatments requires that new and innovative therapies be evaluated with cancer patients. Participation in a clinical trial may offer access to better treatments and advance the existing knowledge about treatment of this cancer. Clinical trials are available for most stages of cancer. Patients who are interested in participating in a clinical trial should discuss the risks and benefits of clinical trials with their physician. To ensure that you are receiving the optimal treatment of your cancer, it is important to stay informed and follow the cancer news in order to learn about new treatments and the results of clinical trials.
Currently, the standard treatment for stage III ovarian cancer consists of both surgery and chemotherapy. Unfortunately, less than 40% of patients experience long-term survival following standard treatment. This is because stage III ovarian cancer is often difficult to remove completely with surgery and currently available chemotherapy is unable to eradiate all of the remaining cancer.
Cytoreductive Surgery
During cytoreductive surgery (also called debulking), physicians attempt to remove as much of the ovarian cancer as possible. Cytoreductive surgery is beneficial because it reduces the number of cancer cells that ultimately need to be destroyed by chemotherapy and therefore, decreases the likelihood of the cancer developing a resistance to chemotherapy. Initial cytoreductive surgery in ovarian cancer is currently considered the standard of care because clinical studies have shown that patients who have had optimal cytoreductive surgery live longer and have a more prolonged time to cancer recurrence than patients who have had suboptimal cytoreductive surgery.
Following cytoreductive surgery, all patients with stage III ovarian cancer are offered additional treatment. This is because approximately 60-80% of patients with stage III cancer will experience a recurrence of their cancer, even after complete surgical removal of cancer. Nearly all patients with stage III disease have small amounts of undetectable cancer that have spread outside the ovary and were not removed by surgery. Other patients cannot achieve optimal cytoreduction with initial surgery. An effective treatment is needed to eliminate the remaining cancer in order to improve the cure rate achieved with surgical removal of the cancer. Currently, this treatment is chemotherapy.
The combination of cytoreductive surgery and chemotherapy treatment is the standard of care for treatment of stage III ovarian cancer. Researchers have also looked at initiating treatment with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, in order to decrease the tumor burden, then performing cytoreductive surgery, followed by several more cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy. This format has been compared with the more traditional sequence of surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. Most research has not shown a benefit to the chemo-surgery-chemo format, although some work is looking at whether this format might be applicable to patients who are suspected of having potentially unresectable disease. In this case, current guidelines recommend chemotherapy for three cycles, followed by an interval cytoreductive surgery, and then the final three cycles of chemotherapy. Researchers are also continuing to evaluate the use of a second or interval cytoreductive surgery to be performed after the chemotherapy has had a chance to further decrease the amount of cancer.1
Chemotherapy for Stage III Ovarian Cancer
It is important to understand that many patients with ovarian cancer already have small amounts of cancer that were not removed with surgery or have spread away from the ovaries. These cancer cells cannot be detected with any of the currently available tests and are referred to as micrometastases. The presence of micrometastases causes cancer recurrence following treatment with surgery alone. An effective treatment is needed to cleanse the body of micrometastases in order to improve a patient's duration of survival and potential for cure. The delivery of cancer treatment following local treatment with surgery is referred to as "adjuvant" therapy and may include chemotherapy, radiation therapy and/or biologic therapy.
Clinical trials have demonstrated that for patients with advanced stage ovarian cancer, treatment with combination chemotherapy regimens containing a platinum (Platinol® or Paraplatin®) compound prolongs the duration of survival and prevents more recurrences of cancer compared to treatment with surgery and non-platinum compounds. Current adjuvant chemotherapy typically consists of a taxane and a platinum compound administered every 3 weeks for 6 cycles.
Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients treated with a platinum compound and paclitaxel survive without evidence of cancer recurrence 5 years following treatment. Because many patients still experience recurrence of their cancer following standard therapy, some patients and their doctors consider participation in clinical trials evaluating new treatment approaches as their initial option.
Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy delivers chemotherapy directly into the abdominal cavity, where there is the greatest number of cancer cells. The chemotherapy is administered through a large catheter that is placed into the abdomen during the surgery to remove the cancer. This treatment appears to be most effective if surgery or other therapy has already reduced the size of any remaining cancer deposits to less than 1 cm, or about half an inch (this is sometimes referred to as "optimally debulked").
Among women with optimally debulked Stage III ovarian cancer, a phase III clinical trial compared treatment with intravenous (IV) chemotherapy alone to treatment with both IV and IP chemotherapy. Women who received both IV and IP chemotherapy survived more than a year longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy, but also experienced more severe side effects such as fatigue, pain, and low blood counts.2
According to a statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, "the decision to use IP chemotherapy must be individualized."3 The combination of IV and IP chemotherapy appears to improve survival among women with optimally debulked Stage III ovarian cancer, but at the cost of increased side effects. Researchers continue to search for ways to reduce side effects and catheter problems among women treated with IP chemotherapy.
Strategies to Improve Treatment
The progress that has been made in the treatment of ovarian cancer has resulted from improved development of adjuvant chemotherapy treatments and doctor and patient participation in clinical studies. Future progress in the treatment of ovarian cancer will result from continued participation in appropriate studies. Currently, there are several areas of active exploration aimed at improving the treatment of stage III ovarian cancer.
Targeted Therapy: Targeted therapies are anticancer drugs that interfere with specific pathways involved in cancer cell growth or survival. Some targeted therapies block growth signals from reaching cancer cells; others reduce the blood supply to cancer cells; and still others stimulate the immune system to recognize and attack the cancer cell. Depending on the specific "target", targeted therapies may slow cancer cell growth or increase cancer cell death. Targeted therapies may be used in combination with other cancer treatments such as conventional chemotherapy.
A targeted therapy that is showing promise in the treatment of ovarian cancer is Avastin® (bevacizumab).4 Avastin slows or prevents the growth of new blood vessels by inhibiting a protein known as VEGF; this deprives the cancer of oxygen and nutrients. Due to its effects on blood vessels, Avastin may also improve the delivery of chemotherapy to the cancer.
Consolidation Therapy: Consolidation therapy, also called maintenance therapy, refers to extra chemotherapy that is given after completion of standard chemotherapy.5 Consolidation therapy is currently being explored in clinical trials; a question of interest is whether the survival benefit (if any) will outweigh the side effects that accompany prolonged treatment
Dose-Dense Treatment: Rapid administration of several different single chemotherapy compounds at the maximum tolerated dose allows higher doses of chemotherapy to be delivered and may prevent cancer cells from developing chemotherapy resistance. Dose-dense treatment approaches are being evaluated in clinical trials.
High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplant: Chemotherapy targets and kills rapidly dividing cells such as cancer cells. High- dose chemotherapy (HDC) kills more cancer cells than lower-dose conventional chemotherapy. Unfortunately, HDC also kills more normal cells, especially the blood-producing stem cells in the bone marrow. Stem cells are immature cells produced in the bone marrow, which is the spongy material inside bones. Stem cells eventually become either red blood cells, which provide oxygen to tissues, white blood cells, which fight infection; or platelets, which aid in blood clotting.
HDC destroys cancer as well as bone marrow stem cells. When bone marrow is destroyed, stem cell stores are depleted, which leads to low levels of circulating blood cells. When these cells reach critically low levels, complications such as anemia, infection and bleeding can occur. As these complications could result in death, it is imperative to restore stem cell levels as quickly as possible. Stem cell transplantation is an attempt to restore the blood-producing stem cells after HDC has reduced them to dangerously low levels. In autologous stem cell transplantation, the patient's own stem cells are collected before chemotherapy treatment, frozen, and infused back into the patient after treatment to "rescue" the bone marrow.
Researchers from the Autologous Blood and Marrow Transplant Registry evaluated over 400 women with advanced ovarian cancer who received HDC and autologous stem cell transplantation as part of their treatment. Two years following treatment, the overall survival rate for patients in this study was 35%. There was a subgroup of these patients who had a survival rate of 55% after two years. These women were younger and in otherwise good health, possessed a certain microscopic type of cancer cell (non-clear cell) and were treated with HDC and stem cell transplantation during their first remission. The results from this study indicate patients with advanced ovarian cancer who undergo HDC and autologous stem cell transplant may experience improved survival times, particularly when this treatment strategy is used early in a patient's treatment course.
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Neoadjuvant refers to the administration of anti-cancer chemotherapy prior to surgery. When surgery is performed after chemotherapy treatment, it is referred to as interval cytoreduction. Some doctors believe that neoadjuvant chemotherapy can reduce the size of the cancer, thereby allowing easier surgical removal and more effective results from the subsequent chemotherapy. Although ongoing work is being done to explore the neoadjuvant chemotherapy-surgery-adjuvant chemotherapy format, current results do not suggest that this format shows an advantage over the more conventional format of surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. There are current clinical trials attempting to further define the answer to this question.1
Combined Approaches: Combining one or more new strategies may offer the greatest hope for patients. For example, a patient could receive dose-dense induction chemotherapy, followed by interval debulking and high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplant, which together should produce the highest chance of achieving a complete remission. Patients in remission could then receive additional treatment with anti-cancer agents, such as maintenance chemotherapy or other biologic agents. Many combinations are being evaluated in clinical trials.
When Deciding on Treatment, Patients Should Ask the Following Questions:
Is there any evidence that the new treatment may be an improvement over conventional treatment? Since over 50% of patients with stage III disease may experience cancer recurrence, it may not be useful to compare the response rate to chemotherapy, the average duration of survival or time to relapse.
Instead, when evaluating treatment strategies, patients may want to compare the percentage of patients surviving with or without relapse 3-5 years from treatment to determine whether a treatment is truly more effective.
What is known about the risks or side effects of the new treatment? It is important to understand that patients experience more side effects with each treatment they receive. Since few patients with metastatic cancer are cured with standard initial treatment, prolonging the decision to receive a new treatment may result in greater side effects and a lesser chance of benefit.
1 Coleman, RL, Gershenson DM. "Neoplastic diseases of the ovary: Screening, benign and malignant epithelial and germ cell neoplasms, sex-cord stromal tumors. In: Katz VL, ed. Comprehensive Gynecology, 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2007: 839-77.
2 Armstrong DK, Bundy B, Lenzel L et al. Intraperitoneal cisplatin and paclitaxel in ovarian cancer. New England Journal of Medicine. 2006;354:34-43.
3 ACOG Committee on Gynecologic Practice. Intraperitoneal chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2008;111:249-251.
4 Spannuth WA, Sood AK, Coleman RL. Angiogenesis as a strategic target for ovarian cancer therapy. Nature Clinical Practice Oncology. 2008;5:194-204.
5 Markman M, Liu PY, Wilczynski S et al. Phase III randomized trial of 12 versus 3 months of maintenance paclitaxel in patients with advanced ovarian cancer after complete response to platinum and paclitaxel-based chemotherapy: A Southwest Oncology Group and Gynecologic Oncology Group trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2003;21:2460-65.
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Vehicle navigation devices using GPS are growing in popularity, thanks to sleeker and more compact designs. Mention the Garmin brand and you'll likely to get a nod of recognition, as the brand has become synonymous with GPS devices. This brings us to our review of the day, the entry-level Garmin Nuvi 200W Personal Navigation Device.
Touch and Go!
The Garmin 200W is equipped with a 4.3-inch wide touch screen and has sufficient brightness to combat the strong glaring sunlight one might experience in the great outdoors. With no obvious buttons except for the solitary power switch that also doubles as a Hold button, the interface is heavily dependent on the touch screen. The 200W weighs in at a rather light 173g and though it's meant to be an in-car unit, it is neither heavy nor bulky so you can easily carry it in the hands if you prefer.
On screen, the interface comes with minimal icons to keep things simple and clean. Two basic icons, "Where to?" and "View Map" are presented each time you start up the touch screen device. The user interface is extremely easy to use on top of a good general navigational experience with highly detailed maps and quick re-routing times. And being a GPS device first and foremost, the 200W performed well in obtaining and maintaining a clear GPS signal, even with an obscured view of the sky and it took us less than a minute to pick up a signal after switching on.
Details, Details...
With up to five levels of map details, the 200W can show you additional information such as side streets that would normally not be visible without zooming. As mentioned, icons are minimal and also placed strategically to keep the map clean for viewing, and thus the zoom buttons (both '+' and '-') are located at the top of the screen. The on-screen keyboard is a breeze to use even with stubby fingers, making address search easy.
Usage mode (found within the Settings) can be edited for automobile, bicycle and pedestrian usage, while Route preferences can be changed to either 'Faster Time' or 'Shorter Distance'. You can even customize the directional cursor to either a car or an arrow.
Beyond its navigation usage, the 200W can also serve as a true traveler friendly device with an image viewer, calculator and currency converter. As expected, due to its status as an entry-level standalone GPS device, Garmin has omitted other features such as Bluetooth connectivity and music playback capabilities which you'll find on higher-end devices at a correspondingly higher price. This is for the better, as the omission of these features keeps the device small and easy on the battery life, where we experienced just a bit less than three hours of GPS connectivity from a full charge.
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At a very wallet-friendly price of S$399, the Garmin Nuvi 200W is one of the more affordable GPS devices in the market today, especially when it includes a 1GB SD card preloaded with a Jerome Wee Singapore map which contains nearby locations such as places to eat, petrol stations and more, as well as a Malsing Peninsular Malaysia map. For price conscious users who require a simple GPS device that works with minimal hitches, this is as good as it gets.


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Thank you for this post. These are interesting facts you bring out. Lust, greed, materialsim, financial gain are universal motives amongst mankind and it is not surprising these are showing up as they do in Damascus Gate or wherever. There will appear to be natural causes behind events taking place in the Middle East, and as we know, God knows what is going on and is in a position to control events in order to bring about His purpose.
You cite passages of scripture showing the relevancy of the words used in scripture to recent events. Even if the verses you quote are not a fulfillment of the prophecy as God intended at the time of writing. It is good we keep watching and making these associations. I only go against the blantant misuse of scripture to build up a false doctrine. I accept anything which supports the Truth.
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*Solidarity with Women in Afghanistan!*
RAWA Solidarity Scotland is combining forces with the Himalayan Cultural
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BOSTON, April 8 (UPI) -- Brad Marchand scored twice and Tuukka Rask turned aside 40 shots Monday in the Boston Bruins' 6-2 rout of Carolina.
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> Gord Ash has announced that adding arms– whether they be starters or relievers- is going to be the priority for the Brewers at this year's Winter Meetings.
> Josh Prince was named to the Arizona Fall League Prospects Team.
> According to Buster Olney, the Brewers are still bidders for Josh Hamilton. But, if his price reaches anywhere around $214 million- the amount Prince Fielder got last offseason- Olney doesn't think the Brewers will sign him.
> The Braves overpayed B.J. Upton with a five-year contract for $75.25 million. On the bright side, that means they're out of the running for Hamilton.
> The Angels signed Ryan Madson to a one-year deal to be their closer. He could have been an option for the Brewers, but it would have been a risk, seeing as Madson didn't pitch at all last year due to Tommy John surgery.
> Yet another relatively mediocre reliever has been signed to a multi-year deal. This time, the Reds gave Jonathan Broxton a three-year, $21 million deal. This means it will only be tougher for the Brewers to bring in a reliever.
> One more relief note: it's been reported that the Giants are probably going to non-tender Brian Wilson. But he's one guy who I want to stay away from the Brewers.
> Minor moves:
Reds: Re-signed Todd Redmond to a one-year deal.
Mets: Re-signed Tim Byrdak to a minor league deal; acquired Brandon Hicks from the Athletics.
Yankees: Designated Eli Whiteside for assignment; re-signed Andy Pettitte to a one-year deal.
Red Sox: Outrighted Ivan De Jesus off their 40-man roster; signed David Carpenter and Jose De La Torre to minor league deals.
Cubs: Signed Scott Feldman to a one-year deal; designated Casey Coleman for assignment.
Orioles: Signed Logan Mahon and Chase Johnson to minor league deals; acquired Danny Valencia from the Red Sox; designated Joe Mahoney for assignment.
Giants: Signed Omar Javier and Guillermo Quiroz to minor league deals.
Twins: Signed Jeff Clement to a minor league deal.
Phillies: Signed Brandon Erbe, Humberto Quintero, and Pete Orr to minor league deals; acquired Wilton Lopez from the Astros.
Astros: Signed Edgar Gonzalez, Trevor Crowe, Sergio Escalona, and Jose Valdez to minor league deals.
Diamondbacks: Signed Mark Teahen to a minor league deal.
Nationals: Signed Bobby Bramhall to a minor league deal.
Indians: Designated Rafael Perez for assignment; added Nick Hagadone to their 40-man roster.
Pirates: Acquired Zach Stewart from the Red Sox; acquired Vin Mazzaro and Clint Robinson from the Royals; designated Matt Hague and Yamaico Navarro for assignment.
Rangers: Acquired Cory Burns from the Padres.
Athletics: Acquired Sandy Rosario from the Red Sox; designated Jermaine Mitchell for assignment; re-signed Pat Neshek to a one-year deal.
Mariners: Released Chone Figgins.


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We granted review to consider when, if ever, a party who prevails on a section 226.7 action for an alleged failure to provide rest breaks may be awarded attorney's fees. We conclude, in light of the relevant statutory language and legislative history, that neither section 1194 nor section 218.5 authorizes an award of attorney's fees to a party that prevails on a section 226.7 claim. We accordingly reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeal on this claim and affirm the judgment on plaintiffs" other claims.Slip Opinion, at 2.
As held by the Court, "the most plausible inference to be drawn from [the relevant legislative] history is that the Legislature intended section 226.7 claims to be governed by the default American rule that each side must cover its own attorney's fees." See id., at 17.
IMPORTANT NOTE: It is important to highlight that the Court's ruling will not preclude the recovery of attorneys fees by plaintiff's counsel pursuing break claims on a class-wide basis. Although "[t]he general rule is that a party is entitled to an award of attorney fees if there is specific authorization therefor by statute or private agreement…[,][t]here are… three well-established equitable exceptions to the general rule, known as the common fund, substantial benefit, and private attorney general theories." See Consumers Lobby Against Monopolies v. Public Utilities Com., 25 Cal. 3d 891, 906 (1979) (citing Serrano v. Priest, 20 Cal. 3d 25 (1977)). Any of these doctrines may be asserted by a prevailing plaintiff in the class context to justify an award of fees.
Thus, as the Court of Appeal's opinion (which upheld an award of attorney's fees to the employer) stood to forclose employees from even attempting to bring a break claim in the first instance (due to the chilling impact of having to pay the employer's attorneys fees), the Kirby decision is unquestionably a positive ruling for employees.


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PLANO, Texas (AP) -- Nastia Liukin no longer notices the larger-than-life photo that greets visitors when they arrive at her gym, the one where her smile is as bright as the Olympic gold medal she's holding. The blown-up magazine cover hanging on the back wall, the one featuring her wearing all five of her medals, rarely gets a second glance, either.
Much like Nadia and Mary Lou before her, Liukin secured her place among gymnastics' greats with a dazzling performance on a global stage. She claimed the sport's biggest prize, the all-around gold, in a riveting rivalry with teammate Shawn Johnson, and only swimmers Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin left the Beijing Games with more medals. Liukin's five were the most won by a female gymnast at a single Olympics since Shannon Miller also won five in 1992.
None of that means much now, though, as Liukin takes a spot on the floor among girls half her age, stretching as she readies to begin training before most folks have even poured their first cup of coffee.
"I don't have any advantages by being the Olympic all-around champion going into these games. No one's going to give you higher scores, no one's going to be nicer or play fairer," Liukin said. "I don't feel like I owe anybody anything. I'm doing this because I love to do it and I want to see if I can do this.
"Everything feels different this time," she added. "But it's a good different."
Liukin competes for the first time since 2009 on Saturday at the U.S. Classic, a qualifier for next month's national championships. She plans to do one event, balance beam.
There is a reason Nadia Comaneci is the last female Olympic champion to return for the next games. The physical demands of the sport are enormous, and the flexibility and dexterity required are gifts that fade with each year. Though some gymnasts now continue competing into their late teens and early 20s, most are done before their friends have finished college, their bodies unable to keep up with the newest generation of pixies.
Being the brightest star in an Olympic glamour sport usually means commercial success, too, particularly for someone with Liukin's blonde good looks and sweet family story. She is the gymnastics equivalent of royalty, the daughter of Valeri, a double gold medalist at the Seoul Olympics, and Anna, a world champion in rhythmic gymnastics. With little money when they moved here after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the gym became little Nastia's playpen. Despite her parents' wishes that she do something -- anything -- besides gymnastics, Liukin's talent was undeniable, and one of the most touching scenes in Beijing was Valeri wrapping his only child in a tight embrace after she'd won gold, his eyes filled with tears and pride.
"What you do for yourself you forget, quick," said Valeri, who has coached his daughter her entire career. "This is so much bigger, what she's done with her talent, with herself."
But the opportunities Beijing brought have a short shelf life, too, and Liukin found herself torn when she tried to compete in 2009. She wanted to go to Fashion Week and make appearances and have a hand in her business projects. But even just a day or two out of the gym made her feel as if she was starting from scratch.
"You can't have the role of being the Olympic all-around champion, fulfilling these obligations, and being an Olympic hopeful, trying to make a second Olympic team," she said. "You have to be one or the other."
So Liukin, who turns 23 on Oct. 30, chose the normal life. She got her own place, spent time with her friends and traveled. She started exploring where she wanted to go to college. She also began making the transition to the other side of the sport, taking advisory roles with both USA Gymnastics and the International Gymnastics Federation, and developing a competition for younger gymnasts, the Nastia Liukin Cup.
Though she left open the possibility of returning for London, the odds seemed smaller and smaller the closer the games got.
"There was definitely a time I was done," Liukin said. "My heart was somewhere else. Even though I love the sport of gymnastics and I know I always will, I didn't have that passion to strive for perfection like I did in 2008. So I knew it wasn't right."
Then, last summer, her mindset changed. She found herself wondering how she'd feel watching the competition in London, worrying that she'd be tormented by questions of "What if?" She realized she was enjoying training again, relishing the challenge of pushing her body and seeing it respond. She cut way back on commitments outside the gym and curtailed her social life; her father was almost speechless when he called at 9 p.m. recently and Liukin told him she was in bed -- and he's her coach.
That didn't erase all her doubts, however. Liukin had already achieved her ultimate goal, a title that had driven her for so many years and prompted so many sacrifices. Would making a second Olympic team mean as much? After being an all-arounder her entire career, could she be satisfied only doing uneven bars and balance beam?
"When you're sitting there and thinking about it, if you're at home or at worlds or somewhere, it's all exciting. 'Oh yeah, I want to make an Olympic team!'" she said. "After I decided that I wanted to do this, I was definitely worried a little bit. Am I really going to enjoy this process or is it just going to be like something that I'm making myself do? And I found I am enjoying the process. That's not to say it's not hard on a daily basis because you're obviously working very hard. But ... the spark was there, the excitement was there.
"Every time I got a skill back or learned something else or put two skills together or finally started doing a beam routine or made a dismount, it was exciting to me. So I finally felt like it seemed right, and it seems like I'm doing the right thing."
Liukin didn't tell her father about her comeback plans right away, wanting him to see her working in the gym first so he would know she was serious.
"If you can't win, I'm not going to let you compete. That's what I told her right away," Valeri Liukin said. "But I see right now in her mind, she's totally different. She wants to help, she wants to be part of the team. She wants to help the team to win the gold."
The Americans, who won their third world title last fall, have been Olympic champions just once, with the Magnificent Seven back in 1996.
The scoring format in team finals is unforgiving, with three gymnasts competing on each apparatus and all three scores counting. That means national team coordinator Martha Karolyi has to assemble a squad that can put up three monster scores on each of the four events, and do it consistently. The challenge is even greater for London because teams have been cut from six gymnasts to five.
The Americans have plenty of depth on vault, balance beam and floor exercise. Their weakness is uneven bars -- which just happens to be Liukin's signature event. She won a silver medal on bars in Beijing -- she and China's He Kexin actually tied, but He won on a complex tiebreaker -- with a routine that was ridiculously difficult, an intricate mix of turns and twists that showcased her elegance and lines. When Liukin told her father of her comeback plans, he immediately began cooking up another "crazy" routine, one that could have a start value close to 7.0.
Gabby Douglas, the top American on bars these days, had a 6.5 start value at American Cup in March, with plans to add another four-tenths of difficulty.
Liukin's comeback has been complicated by shoulder problems, small tears in the labrum and rotator cuff. The tears aren't big enough to require surgery, but the pain was bad enough to take her off the uneven bars for about a month and make her question whether she'd be able to continue.
"Beam is pretty much there. She's got everything the way it was and she's got a couple of other skills we can do," Valeri Liukin said. "But if bars is not going to be there, we don't need beam, either."
Those closest to Liukin noticed the change in her mood, and reminded her that she'd dealt with injuries before -- most notably a bad ankle that hampered her at the end of 2006 and throughout 2007. She has always been a fighter, they told her, a solid core of steel often obscured by that grace and beauty.
"So I kind of snapped out of it and realized, 'I can do this if I set my mind to it,'" she said.
"People tell me, 'Why are you doing this?' Or, 'You can't do this.' But for me, this isn't my first time around. I know what it takes to make an Olympic team," Liukin said, her eyes flashing and her tone growing feisty. "And it's not enough just to make an Olympic team. It's winning medals. You always strive for the best and you always strive for perfection. It's not just going to be enough to stay on the beam or to stay on the bars."
Therapy has strengthened Liukin's shoulders, and she is back to doing all of her skills and release moves. She plans to be ready to compete on uneven bars at nationals, which are June 7-10 in St. Louis. The Olympic trials are three weeks later in San Jose, and the team will be named July 1.
"As much as anybody says they'll be OK with not making the team, deep down you're really not. Because if you put all this time and effort and hard work into this, how are you going to walk away and say, 'Oh, it's fine, I tried,'" Liukin said. "I'd definitely regret it more by not trying than by trying and not making it. But at the same time, it will be hard to swallow not making that Olympic team."
So she presses forward, determined to beat the clock. She may not look at those pictures at the gym, but she knows they are there.
More than that, she knows what they represent.
"So many people said, 'Oh, you could be the best in the world if you were healthy. You could be the best in the world if you were stronger. You could be the best in the world if you had more difficulty.' And at that very moment, I proved I had everything that it took to be the best in the world," she said. "It was almost a lesson in disguise telling me, 'If you do set your mind to something and if you work hard and if you really believe in yourself, than anything is possible.'"


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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
You have the best whatevers!
Cuz, you know, all people of the same race look alike...
Wow, just...wow!
Was he looking up his symptoms on the internet?
I would go completely insane if I had your job, Dr. Grumpy.
Or I'd blog about it.
Not so sure the two are mutually exclusive...
How could anyone possibly mix up the two?!?
Must be an older person, otherwise I'd think they'd mention Michael Fox.
I'm with Amanda -- but, truthfully, I would probably go insane.
Are you allowed to tell us if he actually did have Parkinson's?
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I knew someone who thought every black male actor was either Will Smith or Samuel L Jackson.
I smacked his head a lot. He might be a patient of yours one day.
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Truth be told, there were a lot of people that mixed up Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson in this (red)neck of the woods, but they didn't confuse Magic Johnson since he was of an earlier time.
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And, our names are not even similar except we have two syllables in our first names, and four in the last!
However, it would be quite a thrill actually to be honestly confused with Kristi, but fer sher couldn't happen in this lifetime.
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No. 6 Cal women beat USC 72-64
Despite struggling for the past month, Southern Cal coach Michael Cooper still has faith in his squad.
The Trojans dropped their sixth straight game falling to No. 6 Cal 72-64 on Sunday. A month ago the USC women's basketball team forced California into overtime before losing a heart breaker.
''I feel good about our team,'' said Cooper. ''We're not out of it. We have the tournament coming up and it's probably going to take us playing four straight nights but we'll be up to it. I feel good that our team is moving the right direction, but we're not completing games. We have to work hard defense for 40 minutes.''
The Trojans trailed 53-40 with 10:12 to play, but rallied within four on Cassie Harberts' basket with 1:54 to play. California made seven crucial free throws down the stretch to hold and win.
Harberts, who made only 4 of 17 shots, led the USC with 20 points. She converted 12 of 14 free throws, had seven rebounds and four steals and played the entire game.
''I've been here three years and I know how Cal is going to try and beat you down,'' said Harberts. ''I think we held our own.''
Ariya Crook had a strong game as she scored 15 points and 5 rebounds and four assists.
''We tried to catch up by using our pressure,'' said Crook, who made 5 of 10 shots. ''We took advantage and scored after creating turnovers.''
''This team (Cal) is an inside team,'' said Cooper. ''We had to stay close to them so they wouldn't kill us on the boards.''
Layshia Clarendon scored 22 points and Brittany Boyd added 16 to lead the Golden Bears, which has won 11 straight and completed is first sweep in Los Angles since 2007-08 season.
California (23-2, 13-1) remains tied for first-place in conference with Stanford, which defeated UCLA on Sunday. The Golden Bears, which defeated UCLA on Friday, has four Pac 12 games remaining.
''I'm proud of our players,'' said Golden Bears coach Lindsay Gottlieb. ''It wasn't easy but to come away with a sweep in LA is a big deal. We played through the pressure and the difficult calls down the stretch. This group is so focused and versatile, especially on the road.''
USC (8-17, 5-9) lost its sixth straight, equaling its longest losing streak of the season.
Gennifer Brandon and Boyd made four free throws in the final 40 seconds to foil USC's comeback.
By the virtue of their triumph the Golden Bears is guaranteed a first round bye in the Pac 12 Tournament. California also owns the longest current winning streak in the conference.
The Golden Bears have not lost a game since dropping a 62-53 decision to Stanford on January 8th.
Afure Jemerigbe scored 11 points and Brandon pulled down 10 rebounds for the Golden Bears, which outrebounded he Trojans 46-35 in the game.
The Trojans shot 36.1 percent (22-61) in the game and were outrebounded 46-35. USC missed 12 free throws but forced 16 turnovers.
Christina Marinaccci scored 9 points and had 7 rebounds and Deanna Calhoun also hauled down 6 rebounds for the Trojans. Alexyz Vaioletama dished out six assists for USC.
The Golden Bears led 38-29 at halftime.
Members of the USC women's championship basketball teams from 1983 and 1984 were honored during a halftime ceremony. Two championship banners were unveiled in the rafters at Galen Center in their honor. The Trojans wore pink jerseys in support of breast cancer.


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- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 6 ounces good-quality white chocolate (such as Lindt or Baker's), chopped
- 3 tablespoons whipping cream
- 3/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 6 tablespoons whipping cream
- 6 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
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- White chocolate curls (optional)
- Fresh mint sprigs (optional)
- Halved strawberries (optional)
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 8-inch square metal cake pan. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper. Butter and flour parchment paper. Stir chopped chocolate in top of double boiler set over simmering water until chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from over water. Using electric mixer, beat butter in medium bowl until smooth. Gradually add sugar and beat until well blended. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, blending well after each addition. Beat in melted chocolate and vanilla. Add flour and cinnamon; beat just until blended. Spoon cake batter into prepared pan; smooth top.
Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 25 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack 20 minutes. Run small knife between edge of cake and pan to loosen. Turn cake out onto rack; remove parchment paper. Cool completely.
Stir white chocolate and whipping cream in top of double boiler set over simmering water until melted and smooth. Remove from over water. Stir in peppermint extract. Spread icing evenly over top of cake. Place cake in freezer until icing is firm, about 30 minutes, or refrigerate cake 1 hour.
Bring cream to simmer in heavy small saucepan. Remove from heat. Add chocolate; whisk until melted and smooth. Cool chocolate until lukewarm but still pourable, about 5 minutes.
Place cake on rack set over baking sheet. Pour half of glaze over top of cake. Spread glaze evenly over top and sides of cake. Freeze until glaze is set, about 10 minutes. If necessary, rewarm remaining glaze just until pourable. Pour remaining glaze over cake; spread glaze smoothly over top and sides of cake. Refrigerate cake until glaze is firm, about 2 hours. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and keep chilled. Let cake stand at room temperature at least 3 hours before serving.
Transfer brownie cake to platter. Top cake with chocolate curls and garnish platter with mint sprigs and strawberries, if desired.


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SOE celebrates 25 years of preparing education leaders
For 25 years, the School of Education has built strong relationships with metropolitan Detroit schools.
Thousands of students arrive at University of Michigan-Dearborn with dreams of becoming teachers.
Some want to teach elementary school math, while others plan to teach high school history.
But no matter their concentration, many of them choose UM-Dearborn because of its excellence in preparing students for careers in the classroom. The School of Education (SOE) this year celebrates 25 years of shaping tomorrow's teachers.
"Today's School of Education has more than twice as many students, faculty and degree programs as it had 25 years ago, yet it remains connected to its original roots, especially a deep commitment to improving the lives of the citizens of southeast Michigan by preparing excellent educators for schools in the region," said Edward Silver, dean, SOE.
Pam Fisher ('03 M.A.) is among a growing number of SOE alumni who hold teaching jobs in metropolitan Detroit.
Fisher has spent her career in urban schools, and she currently teaches English and social studies at University Prep Middle School in Detroit.
"Being a teacher here is very fulfilling," she said. "Students in urban schools deserve the very best teachers and resources. It's very satisfying to work with students who are capable of learning if they have the support of good teachers."
SOE students know they'll be exposed to diverse classroom settings, which is why many of them enroll in the program, said Gail Luera, associate professor of science education at UM-Dearborn.
Those diverse classroom experiences prepare SOE students for teaching jobs in metropolitan Detroit.
"They find out how hungry students are to learn," Luera said. "They feel like they can have an impact."
SOE has earned a great reputation in the region by preparing high-quality teachers for the classroom and educational leaders for local school districts.
Richard Moyer joined UM-Dearborn long before SOE was established. For more than a decade, Moyer taught science education courses through the Division of Urban Education, a standalone unit of the university. Even then, UM-Dearborn's goal was the same – prepare students for diverse classrooms.
Moyer, now professor of science education and natural sciences, works closely with area school districts and often is reminded of UM-Dearborn's impact in metropolitan Detroit classrooms.
"Every so often, somebody will walk up to me and say, 'I had you for a class and now I teach here,'" he said.
Moyer helped strengthen UM-Dearborn's partnership with Detroit Public Schools, leading science workshops for the district's teachers for nearly a decade. The workshops helped educate Detroit teachers about science teaching methods, and also familiarized them with campus.
"It was a complete win-win," Moyer said.
SOE students, faculty, staff and alumni are encouraged to celebrate the school's success at Thursday's 25th Anniversary Reception, which runs from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Fairlane Center South's Michigan Rooms. RSVP for the event.


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Recorded Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - March 08, 1972.
VG+ Audience Recording -> Silver CD Bootleg :: CBR 320 kbps & FLAC.
Disc 1
01. Speak To Me
02. Breathe
03. On The Run
04. Time
05. The Great Gig In The Sky
06. Money
07. Us & Them
08. Any Colour You Like
09. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
Disc 2
01. One Of These Days
02. Careful With That Axe Eugene
03. Echoes
04. Atom Heart Mother
Personnel: David Gilmour :: Nick Mason :: Roger Waters :: Richard Wright.
Notes: This is Highland's latest Pink Floyd release. They used the same newer tape source that surfaced last year and was pressed on the Sirene release Darkest Moon. Whereas Sirene mastered their release to emphasize the top end, Highland have left the tape pretty much alone and is very bass heavy and "darker". Maybe this is the reason why they named this Natural Dark in Osaka? There is some very minor distortion present although nothing to get too excited about.
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Flipping off your television may gain a whole new meaning thanks to a technology being developed by a team of researchers at the University of Washington. The team, led by Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Shyam Gollakota, developed a system dubbed WiSee, which uses radio waves from Wi-Fi to sense human body movements and detect command gestures from anywhere within a home or office. The results of the WiSee team's research have been submitted to the ACM's 19th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom '13).
Unlike other "machine vision" sensors such as Microsoft's Kinect, the system can sense gestures anywhere within a house or office environment using the Wi-Fi signals created by devices already in the environment. The user doesn't need to be within line of sight of the WiSee receiver—or even in the same room.
"The nice thing about Kinect is that it does motion detection without you having to carry anything around," said Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at UW and one of the lead researchers behind WiSee, in a phone interview with Ars. "We started out looking to see if there is a way to do what Kinect does in a larger area, and we started looking at RF." The ubiquity of Wi-Fi and the multiple antennas of newer MIMO Wi-Fi routers were a natural fit for the research.
WiSee "sees" gestures by detecting subtle changes in the radio signals bouncing off of and passing through human bodies as they move. Changing the body's position or moving a hand or foot causes a small Doppler frequency shift in Wi-Fi signals that can be detected by a receiver. When Wi-Fi signals hit a human body, "some is absorbed, and some is reflected," said Sidhant Gupta, another UW researcher contributing to WiSee. "The reflections cause a very subtle shift in frequency, in the tens of Hertz." Wi-Fi protocols generally are robust enough to handle those variations, but WiSee uses them to detect motion.
Using algorithms to screen out normal variations in the broadband signals of devices and correct for normal gaps in broadcasts, WiSee can separate out the signatures of a series of movements from the rest of the broadband signals. "The Wi-Fi channel by itself is 20 MHz wide," Gupta said. "You can't just look at that whole spectrum and find subtle changes of 2 Hz." WiSee's detection algorithm breaks the broadband Wi-Fi spectrum into smaller chunks, and processes them to discover the shifts hidden within them.
By using multiple antennas and a Wi-Fi receiver with multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capability, WiSee can "lock on" to a specific user with an antenna from among a group of other people in a space.
"You can determine where a gesture is coming from," said Gupta, "whether it's in the kitchen or the dining room. That's one way of compartmentalizing who the gesture is coming from." And gestures in different locations of the house can mean different things, or be localized to where the user is—for example, by changing the appropriate lighting based on what room the user is in.
The UW team applied machine learning to the RF signatures of a series of body movements to help the system identify them as gestures associated with a command. WiSee was able to identify a set of nine gestures with a 94 percent accuracy rate during the experiment. Patel said that the team stuck to nine gestures because of the limits of the simplified machine learning process they used for the first effort—the next version of WiSee will use a Hidden Markov Model to look for sequences of gestures and allow a much larger vocabulary of commands. "The intent is to make this into an API where other researchers can build their own gesture vocabularies," Patel said.
Two of the research team members working on WiSee brought experience from two similar projects sponsored by Microsoft Research, which also used Doppler shifts to detect body movements. One of them, Humantenna, used changes in signals from electrical "noise" and other background radio frequency radiation picked up by the human body as it moved to detect gestures and motions. Another, SoundWave, uses speakers and a microphone to detect a Doppler shift in reflected sound waves.
But both of these previous projects required the user to be in a specific room or directly in front of the device they are interacting with. WiSee can "see" through walls, making it more practical for applications like home automation as well as the usual Minority Report-like interactions with media and computing devices. "We haven't tested the upper limits of gesture recognition," Gupta said. Patel added that the practical limits of gestures "depend on the entropy of the signal. It won't ever be as smooth and crisp as Kinect."
One of the next concerns to be addressed will be "how do you make it secure," said Gupta. "Someone walking by your house should not be able to turn your kettle on by waving his arms." Currently, users can be distinguished by a "startup" gesture that identifies them before allowing a command gesture. But the team is looking at how to "geofence" commands within a specific room or the limits of the house.
This story was updated with additional data from the University of Washington research team.


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A chain message that erupted on Facebook sometime back is spreading like wildfire, and has left the Facebook team annoyed. The message states that Facebook has published phone numbers of all users under Accounts > Edit Friends > Contacts page.
Well, it's true that if you go to the Contactspage in your Facebook account, all the phone numbers of your friends will be displayed. However, this isn't what Facebook has intentionally published, but it is the users themselves who have made it available for others.
The phone numbers displayed are of those users who have 'permitted' Facebook to display it to either everyoneor just friendsor to none. As a matter of fact, the Contact list, which was earlier known as Phonebook, has existed for a long time.
Also Read: How To Delete Phonebook Contacts From Facebook
The rumor spread on almost everyone's news feed and eventually spammed the network, driving the Facebook officials crazy and making them make an official statement announcing/stating that it is a rumor.
Rumors claiming that your phone contacts are visible to everyone on Facebook are false. Our Contacts list, formerly called Phonebook, has existed for a long time. The phone numbers listed there were either added by your friends themselves or made visible to you, or you have previously synced your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, only you can see these numbers.
Here's the message that has been spreading on Facebook
THIS IS NOT A JOKE, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS IN YOUR PHONE are now on Facebook! No joke – go to the top right of the screen, click on Account, then click on Edit Friends, go left on the screen and click on Contacts. All phone numbers are published!! Please repost this on your status, so your friends can remove their numbers if they do not want them published.
To prevent your contact number from being displayed to your friends or anyone else, you can disable it from your account settings. To do so go to Account Settings > Privacy Preferences and click on "Customize settings" –
Clicking the Customize settingswill open a page where you can customize what information you want to share with your friends and everyone else. Scroll down, and at the bottom of the page you will find Contact Informationwhich has your address, IM screen name, email id and your contact numbers.
From the drop down menu, select Customizeand make your contact number visible only to you by selecting Only Me. Alternatively, you can add a list of people from whom you can hide your contact numbers.
Facebook scam messages are ever increasing and it's quite hard to avoid them. Here is an article on How to Identify and Avoid Facebook Scams
Other hoax messages spreading on Facebook that you should avoid re-posting –
- Olympic Torch Invitation Virus Hoax Spreading on Facebook
- Urgent Prayer Request for Aydin Who is Suffering from Leukemia – Facebook Hoax


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Mizeur announces gubernatorial running mate
Delegate Heather Mizeur picks pastor Delman Coates
State Delegate Heather Mizeur announced her running mate Wednesday in her quest to become the state's next governor.
Mizeur, D-Montgomery County, select Prince George's County pastor Delman Coates to run for lieutenant governor on her ticket, according to her campaign.
Coates is the senior pastor of the 8,000-member Mount Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton. In a break with some other black church leaders from Prince George's County, he was an advocate for legalization of gay marriage in Maryland.
Mizeur said she worked closely with Coates to enact the same-sex marriage law and help it survive a referendum. She called him "a thoughtful, charismatic change agent for the people."
Mizeur's competitors for the Democratic bid for governor have already announced their running mates.
Attorney General Doug Gansler is running with Prince George's County Delegate Jolene Ivey, while current Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown is paired with Howard County Executive Ken Ulman.


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Over the past six seasons, the women's bowling team at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore has established itself as one of the sport's premier collegiate programs. Winners of five National Championships and earning 24 All-America selections over that same time, the program has dominated its conference, the NCAA and the United State Bowling Congress.
The Hawks have earned a berth in every NCAA Women's Bowling Championship tournament since its inception in 2004. As one of the eight at-large teams selected each year, UMES has won three NCAA titles (2008, 2011 and 2012) and in doing so became the only historically black institution to win a women's National Championship at the Division 1 level.
In 2011 the team achieved a "trifecta," winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title, followed by the NCAA title and a week later, the USBC Collegiate National Championship. That squad etched its name in the sports' record books by becoming the only college bowling team to win both National Championships in the same year, and just the second to hold both titles. UMES also has six MEAC Championships to its credit since 2000.
Apart from dominating the lanes, Lady Hawk bowlers are equally formidable in the classroom as well. Winning the university's Team of Scholars Award for women every year but one since 2000, the team also can claim two Academic All-America award winners, the only two in school history.
The UMES bowling team also produced the winner of the NCAA's Elite 89 Award the past three seasons, an honor given to the individual who has the highest grade point average in each NCAA sponsored sport at the championship site. Kristina Frahm won it her senior year in 2011, while current senior Megan Buja won it 2012 and again in 2013.
UMES' women bowlers are scholar-athletes extraordinaire who can claim success on the boards -- and in the classroom.


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Artificial intelligence boosts science from Mars
Artificial intelligence (AI) being used at the European Space Operations Centre is giving a powerful boost to ESA's Mars Express as it searches for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet.
Since January 2004, Mars Express has been using its sophisticated instruments to study the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, confirming the presence of water and looking for other signatures of life on and below the Red Planet's rocky terrain.
The spacecraft generates huge volumes of scientific data, which must be downloaded to Earth at the right time and in the correct sequence, otherwise data packets can be permanently lost when the limited on-board memory is overwritten by newly collected data.
Traditionally, data downloading was managed using human-operated scheduling software to generate command sequences sent to Mars Express, telling it when to dump specific data packets. "This is tedious, time-consuming and never really eliminated the occasional loss - forever - of valuable science data," says Alessandro Donati, Head of the Advanced Mission Concepts and Technologies Office at ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany.
Complex, dynamic problem
Donati says the downloading problem involves several constantly changing variables, including spacecraft orientation, ground station availability, space-ground communication bandwidth, on-board storage availability and the varying amounts of data generated by each of the seven on-board instruments. All these must be optimised in very short time - often with as little as a few hours between ground station passes.
But since 2005, AI researchers at Italy's Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology (ISTC-CNR) led by Dr Amedeo Cesta and mission planners and computer scientists at ESOC have been developing a solution to the complex Mars Express scheduling problem by applying artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to the problem. These are similar to those used to solve scheduling and optimisation problems faced by airlines, shipping companies and large construction projects.
AI for Mars Express: MEXAR2
The result of this work is a new 'smart' tool, dubbed MEXAR2 ('Mars Express AI Tool'), which has successfully passed initial testing and validation and is now an integral part of the Mars Express mission planning system.
MEXAR2 works by considering the variables that affect data downloading - including the overall science observation schedule for all Mars Express instruments - and then intelligently projecting which on-board data packets might be later lost due to memory conflicts. It then optimises the data download schedule and generates the commands needed to implement the download. "With MEXAR2, any loss of stored data packets has been largely eliminated," says Fred Jansen, ESA's mission manager for Mars Express.
Europe's first deep-space mission to fly with AI
MEXAR2 has reduced the mission planning team's workload considerably - by 50 percent compared to the old manual method - for generating workable downlink plans. "And because it optimises bandwidth used to receive data on Earth, we have been able to free expensive ground station time for other missions," says Michel Denis, Mars Express Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESOC.
MEXAR2 recently won the 'best application' award at ICAPS 2007, a benchmark international conference for AI planning & scheduling technology.
"During MEXAR2's development, the flexibility of AI-based technology let us capture many specific requirements that would otherwise have needed costly software specification redesign" says Nicola Policella, AI research fellow at ESOC. "The use of a model-based approach enabled us to rapidly improve the software prototype to produce an effective mission planning application in a short time."
MEXAR2 on the global stage
MEXAR2 is a trailblazer in bringing AI technology to spacecraft operations.
MEXAR2 was also recently mentioned as one of three outstanding AI applications for mission operations by Dr Ari Kristinn Jónsson, formerly a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, in a keynote speech given at iSAIRAS 2008, the 9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation for Space.
"It should be noted, that - like the very few other AI tools in spacecraft operations - MEXAR2 is a trailblazer in bringing AI technology to spacecraft operations. The effectiveness of the tool and the benefits it has provided are therefore significant accomplishments in themselves," says Dr Jónsson, who is now Dean of the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, Iceland.
Artificial intelligence provides solutions for complex problems, and has now entered the space mission operations field as a value-adding technology. "Mars Express is the first European deep-space exploration mission to fly using an AI tool on the ground, and the technology is boosting science return while reducing time and resource costs," adds Donati.
AI can help solve other mission operations problems
With MEXAR2's proven success, scientists at both ESOC and ISTC-CNR are working to apply the current AI technology to other problems.
Successful recent work includes the reverse problem of how to optimise the upload of commands to Mars Express, in a project dubbed - somewhat tongue-in-cheek - as 'RAXEM' - for the 'Reverse of MEXAR'.
ESA-developed AI technology will also be applied to the 'Advanced Planning & Scheduling Initiative', which is designed to provide AI benefits to other areas and missions, including long term observation for ESA's Integral, an orbiting space observatory mission.
"It's possible to apply the same AI concepts to future missions, like ExoMars, Europe's first planetary rover mission to the Red Planet," says Donati, adding, "Today's achievement is the starting point for implementing new on-board autonomy concepts for ESA's challenging missions of the future."
Editor's note
See related article "Artificial intelligence for robotic exploration: Q&A with Ari Kristinn Jónsson" via link at top right.


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Sounds of Spring: Ollie & Beltran
Here are the latest comments from Port St. Lucie this afternoon. Carlos Beltran made his first appearance at the field today and Ollie Perez threw a bullpen session in front of Sandy Koufax, who has become a regular at camp so far this spring.
LISTEN: Carlos Beltran
TOPICS: cleaning up his knee, building strength, the biggest tests, importance of being healthy.
LISTEN: Oliver Perez
TOPICS: meeting Sandy Koufax, what he can take onto the mound
Sound Courtesy: New York Mets


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Boulevardier Recipe
Consider the Negroni: made with gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth. The Negroni is a cocktail at once sharp and smooth, lean and lush, brusquely bitter and slightly sweet. A cocktail, in other words, with the kind of bright, clean character perfectly suited for a summer day, but robust enough to hold its own at any time of the year.
This isn't a Negroni. It is, however, the Negroni's long-lost autumnal cousin. First noted in print in 1927 in a slender volume called Barflies and Cocktails, and forgotten almost ever since, the Boulevardier takes the same Negroni formula--a good dose of gin brushed up with equal parts Campari and sweet vermouth--and gives it a twist by substituting whiskey for the gin.
A simple substitution? Hardly. The bittersweet interplay between Campari and vermouth remains, but the whiskey changes the storyline. Where the Negroni is crisp and lean, the Boulevardier is rich and intriguing. There's a small difference in the preparation, but the result is absolutely stunning.
Note: As with the Negroni, the Boulevardier is flexible; contemporary palates may appreciate bumping up the whiskey to 1 1/2 ounces and dropping the other ingredients to 3/4 ounce. Try it both ways and see what you prefer.
- Yield:makes 1 cocktail
- Active time: 3 minutes
- Total time:3 minutes
- 1 ounce bourbon or rye whiskey
- 1 ounce Campari
- 1 ounce sweet vermouth
- Garnish: orange twist or cherry
Pour ingredients into a mixing glass and fill with cracked ice. Stir well for 20 seconds and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry or a twist of orange peel.


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Intro To Subterfuge
We spent some time with Wolfenstein - which I can't help but pronounce voolfenshteen - cataloguing a portion of our conversation in strip form. It has not managed to burrow through our chests and and plant its shivering ova in our soft tissue, at least not yet - I haven't been able to figure out if the new Voolfenshteen is a reliquary packed with outmoded shooter tropes or an act of intentional deference to the classics.
Also, and this sucks for Raven, but Gabe brought in his disc the same day that a preview copy of Muramasa: The Demon Blade arrived. When one disc contains a game that looks like a painting which has come to life via sorcery and one game looks like… well, a game, any other game really, that's a steep climb.
I never liked Enemy Territory's assertions as well as those of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and it's clear that the former is the object of reverence here, pausing to interject a bit of player economy a la Counter-Strike. We played RTCW until the sight of the the menu screen provoked uncontrollable bouts of vomiting, and still managed to tuck in a round or two between convulsions. It's entirely possible that I've reached some kind of lifetime Wolfenstein quota.
On the topic of the Playstation 3 as a headstone for a once virile brand, I want to make it clear: I'm not discounting the possibility of a blasphemous, shambling undeath for this degraded sovereign.
The holiday is going to cap their library with confident sequels hitched to mature technology, along with the kind of weirdo lures that so catalyze the Tycho demographic. But they've had the raw software to snare a tri-curious game enthusiast for some time - and the days of lobotomized, substandard ports are largely over. They've had a model cheaper than the "good" 360 for awhile, now. The problem can't be rooted entirely in price concerns. Price was a bedrock slab of the discussion when we were talking about five to six hundred dollars, but that stopped being true a long time ago.
(CW)TB out.


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Topic: New password schemes support in iRedAdmin: SSHA, SSHA512.
Dear all,
New release of iRedAdmin (both open source edition and iRedAdmin-Pro) supports two new password schemes for MySQL and PostgreSQL backends: SSHA, SSHA512. Currently, MD5 is the default password scheme for MySQL/PostgreSQL backends (SSHA for OpenLDAP) in iRedMail. You can set SQL_DEFAULT_PASSWD_SCHEME = 'SSHA512' in iRedAdmin config file (libs/settings.py or libs/settings_local.py (recommended)) so that new users' passwords will be hashed with SSHA512.
Sample passwords:
SSHA: {SSHA}bfxqKqOOKODJw/bGqMo54f9Q/iOvQoftOQrqWA==
SSHA512: {SSHA512}FxgXDhBVYmTqoboW+ibyyzPv/wGG7y4VJtuHWrx+wfqrs/lIH2Qxn2eA0jygXtBhMvRi7GNFmL++6aAZ0kXpcy1fxag=
SSHA512 requires Dovecot-2.0 (or later) and Python-2.5 (or later).
SSHA512 requires more CPU from your server, which means it will slightly (maybe huge, depends on how many active users you are serving) slow down user authentication (IMAP/POP3/SMTP authentication).
Reasons why SHA512 is superior to MD5: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2117 … ior-to-md5
Dovecot password schemes: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes


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Dear XebiaLabs community,
We are pleased to announce the release of XL Deploy 5.1.8. This version of XL Deploy includes bug fixes.
Before upgrading, please read about the changes and special upgrade considerations in the release manual and review the upgrade instructions.
You can download the release at the XebiaLabs Software Distribution site.


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I was on the second floor of a small department store in downtown Tokyo in the Ueno area when the first earthquake hit. The building started to rattle just slightly at first, but soon became more of a violent side-to-side shaking which felt somewhat like I was standing in a moving train.
The shop was pretty busy and people began to quickly make their way to the exit stairwell. I followed suit and made my way out of the building and into the busy street below. There were many people outside, as it was a busy area of Tokyo at 2:46 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. My family and I proceeded to the middle of the road, trying to stand as far away from the tall buildings towering above, jammed so close together.
All traffic came to a halt with a long line of people standing in the middle of the street between the lanes of cars. Everyone was looking up at the buildings, watching the swaying street poles and power lines above. A few buildings were swaying and wobbling as if it was made of rubber. The ground was still shaking, and it felt as if I were sea sick, like I was walking on a boat in stormy waters. The shaking lasted for three to four straight minutes.
I later learned it was the massive 8.9 magnitude quake that hit off the coast of the city of Sendai, in Miyage prefecture which is northeast of Tokyo.
Everybody remained relatively calm but we knew we were all scared. People standing nearby were all saying that this is the first time to experience such a big quake. Small earthquakes are quite common in Japan, even in Tokyo, and this one really rattled the locals. Even a grandfatherly man nearby said this was the biggest one of his life.
Cellphones stopped working almost immediately. The networks were overloaded and people were rushing to the public pay phones. Huge lineups started to form to use these neglected pay phones, these things from the past. It was quite profound to realize that modern technology will fail you in times of crisis, and you must go back to more traditional means of communication.
We decided to head toward home through nearby Ueno Park. Many people had gathered in the large park which really provided a sanctuary, an open space in the city. I felt much safer there and really realized how trapped I felt in a hugely populated city like Tokyo with very few places to go to get away from the crammed city buildings.
Two more quakes hit while we were walking — the second hit about half an hour after the first, and was recorded at 7.4 magnitude, and a third at 4:29 p.m., a 6.6. So many aftershocks continued through the evening and overnight. I am still feeling them as I write this.
I feel incredibly lucky. My family and I are safe and we were together when the earthquakes hit. We were also nearby one of the largest parks in the city where we could walk through to get home and feel a sense of safety.
Over a million people are currently without water and 4.4 million houses are out of power. Major tsunami warnings are still in effect, massive waves which have washed away towns and wiped out a few of the coastal cities.
In Tokyo, the entire rail system shut down, leaving thousands of people stranded overnight at work and at train stations. This is a city that relies heavily on public transportation, especially Japanese Rail.
The worst is in the Iwate, Miyage and Fukushima prefectures, northeast of Tokyo. Those killed and still remain missing are currently predicted in the range of 1300 people, while the death toll is expected to rise.
There is still a major aftershock expected within the month, one with a magnitude in the range of 7.0 which will possibly create another massive tsunami.
Today, Tokyo is rattled but starting its return to normal.


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- Publication date : November 11, 2013
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