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Day 4 of the cycle ride and our destination was the fortress city of Verdun. I was looking forward to getting to Verdun for two reasons, firstly it has huge significance for the First World War, and secondly, it meant we would finally get a rest day!
We set off from our Hotel Paradiso at about 9am but by the time we had stocked up on supplies it was nearer 10 before we got pedalling. The first 2 miles out of town were up a killer hill. I was expecting a long day and this was not the best start.. I didn't really get much better either, the terrain was very hilly – we went through some wonderful countryside with tiny villages in valleys, but valleys been hills and that was not good. Also there was the weather. Gale force winds and torrential rain made things just miserable…At this point I think it is worthwhile to point out that Steve was wearing swimming trunks for the days cycling…red swimming trunks and a camouflage jacket…the mad fool.
The first 30 miles were tough…really tough, it seemed to be uphill all the time and the weather was appalling. We arrived at a place called Pont-a-Mousson around 1pm and in the space of 3 minutes were hit with a huge double whammy that nocked us both for 6…
First, I had to pay the best part of 5 Euros for 2 cokes…(did I swear or what). Then, no sooner had we finished hurling abuse at the cafe owner and got on our way that we say a signpost saying 'Verdun – 69km! In proper distances that is about 40 miles…my heart sank.
Fortunately the road out of Pont-a-Mousson was flat and we made decent progress however our speed was severely hampered by the weather which was not letting up..by this point we resembled a couple of drowned rats..we stopped off at a small place and got some more supplies, including a small bottle of whiskey to warm us up a bit. Little did we know how grateful we would be for that whiskey later on..
We headed across open country for what seemed like eternity watching as the signposts slowly counted down the kilometers to Verdun. The light was fading fast and in a country where they seem to have forgotten about the street light, this was becoming an issue for us..
The hills reappeared again just as dusk fell, Steve's back light lasted about 5 minutes before the rain got the better of it…luckily mine seemed to work ok…There was one hill that was too much so we had to get off and walk, I was about 50m behind steve and as he walked up to the top of the hill he was silhouetted against the the lights of the oncoming cars. which, mixed with the fog and rain, gave an eery yet poignant image reminiscent of a solitary soldier walking off to the front, it is an image I will not forget in a long time.
The last 10miles into Verdun were perhaps the longest 10 miles I have every had on a cycle, they were simply horrible. At the foot of the final hill I was so tired I just lay on the floor – I think I must have passed out momentarily until Steve shouted at me to get up and have some whiskey. It is that whiskey that got us up that final hill and into Verdun at about 7pm…We had done nearly 70miles, were freezing cold, soaking wet, and so very very tired..


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ESPN's Chris Berman to 2013 graduates: 'Don't have tunnel vision'
Standing at a podium on the gridiron at Cardinal Stadium, just yards from the end zone, seemed a natural field position for the man renowned for triumphant touchdown calls each Sunday on ESPN.
But in his speech Friday evening during the commencement ceremony for Greenwich High School's graduating class of 2013, Chris Berman advised his young audience not to run their lives strictly from a playbook.
Calling some less predictable plays would also pay off for them, he argued.
"Don't have tunnel vision," the longtime ESPN anchor told the graduates. "Take some odd courses ... I took a course in Hitchcock films -- now that's some scary stuff, actually. I took a course in probability. I actually wanted to see if there was some formula at the racetrack whereby mathematics you could actually win, and the answer is no."
In narrating his own path to becoming one of America's most prominent sportscasters, Berman presented an expansive field of possibilities for the 663 graduates, in which they could score successes by plotting routes that were meaningful and interesting to them.
Victoria Hoffmeister, Greenwich High's valedictorian, also offered an opportunity-laden outlook for her peers -- a tone that fit the sanguine atmosphere of a ceremony that coincided with the first day of summer.
"You'll never know what could be unless you get outside your comfort zone and go for it," she said. "I've heard YOLO so many times this year that it's become sort of meaningless, but the message is actually constructive. You only live once, so we should gather our confidence and face the uncertainty implicit in every performance or big game or art project or even conversation with that cute guy or girl and just go for it."
Recalling the surprise discovery of a rope swing by him and a group of 11-year-old campers he was leading last summer in the Adirondack Mountains, Jordan Abbasi, one of the 2013 class' two salutatorians, urged his classmates to be receptive to similarly unexpected, rewarding experiences.
"As we seniors head out in 663 different directions, we may think we know where we're going, and that's as it should be," he said. "But beware of focusing only on the end goal. Do things that don't necessarily fit into where you think you're headed. In doing so, you'll likely find yourself headed in a new direction, or at least re-energized for the rest of your journey."
The thousands of family members who packed the stadium projected a similar sense of optimism. Holding a sign with an image of a graduation cap and diploma, Claire Horton cheered when her niece, Bethany Brown, stepped up to collect the scroll of paper that proclaimed her successful passage through her four years at Greenwich High.
"We're very proud and happy for Bethany and her friends," Horton said.
The ceremony held special significance, she added, because Brown is an only child and also the family's sole niece and grandchild.
"This is it -- this is the day," Horton added. "It's such a nice occasion."
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SALEM — Five months after his right hand and wrist were shattered by a ball-peen hammer, the former Red Devil is still wearing a cast and bandages, visible as he raised that hand to swear an oath in court yesterday.
The alleged victim, 56, who until two weeks ago lived in a Revere bungalow, took the stand to testify against his former associates in the Red Devils and Hells Angels motorcycle clubs, describing how he was "put out bad" by the gang after failing to beat up a former member who showed up at a party last September.
He did more than testify, however; he wore a recording device that captured audio and video of one of those former associates, Marc Eliason, 35, of Danvers.
Eliason's attorney didn't even try to persuade Judge John Lu to release him on bail, joining a second suspect, Sean Barr, 48, of Lynn, in waiving his right to a hearing on the request by prosecutors to hold them and four others without bail.
After a hearing where Lu was shown the surveillance video, he ordered three of the other suspects: George Brown, 49, of Salem; Brian Weymouth, 41, of Danvers; and Robert Defronzo, 45, of Saugus held without bail. One defendant, Nikolas Avelis, 54, of Gloucester, said to be the president of the Red Devils, will be allowed to be released on the condition that he post $5,000 bail and remain confined to his home, monitored by an electronic ankle bracelet.
All six have pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping, mayhem and extortion, the charges stemming from a series of incidents that led to one brutal confrontation inside the Red Devils "clubhouse" in a Byfield strip mall last October.
Under questioning by prosecutor A.J. Camelio, the former Red Devil, a burly man sporting tattoos, a goatee beard and black-rimmed, yellow tinted eyeglasses, described how a former Hells Angels member showed up at a Sweet 16 party for his girlfriend's daughter.
That man "was put out bad," the alleged victim said. "He messed up with the club."
Under the club's rules, the alleged victim and other Red Devils were required to give the man a beating.
Did they, Camelio asked.
"No, we didn't," the alleged victim said.
Soon, his life began to fall apart. Barr, a Hells Angel who worked with the alleged victim, allegedly ordered him to quit his job. Then, he said he was ordered to attend a meeting, where he was told he, too, was being "put out bad." "I took my vest off, my belt buckle, and turned it over to him."
A couple of weeks later, he got another call. Brown, who was the president of the Hells Angels, and Avelis wanted to meet him at a Dunkin' Donuts on Route 1 in Saugus, the alleged victim said. They had heard that he was talking to the "Outlaws," another biker gang, he said.
On that afternoon, Brown told him that he had to go to the clubhouse in Byfield, the alleged victim said.
All six men were there, he said.
"Sean started chewing me out," the alleged victim said. "I was running my mouth about work," the job he'd been forced to leave. "I tried to explain … then someone said were you calling his brother a liar? I just shut up."
"They wanted my bike," he went on.
"Eli (Eliason) grabbed me by the throat and said if I reported it stolen," the alleged victim said. That's the last thing he recalled before coming to on the floor, a gash on his head.
Barr told him he'd probably need stitches, the alleged victim said. Then he said he was asked "either my hand or my knees."
The alleged victim saw the ball-peen hammer in Barr's hand, he said. "I knew I was either going to get whacked in the hand or the knees. I put my right hand out. I flinched a few times."
That's when Defronzo told him that if he didn't hold his hand still, Defronzo would hold it for him, the alleged victim said.
The man pointed to the two places where the hammer came down on his hand and wrist and described the injuries.
"Someone gave me a bag of ice. I don't know who it was."
Weymouth and Eliason, meanwhile, had taken the man's keys and went to Revere to take the bike, the alleged victim said.
"Sean gave me a month to get the title," the man said. And Defronzo allegedly told him, "If I went to the cops, he'd be by the house."
What did that mean, the prosecutor asked.
"I couldn't answer that," the man said.
But getting the title wasn't easy. He still owed money on the bike, $1,255. Weeks turned into months.
Barr at one point suggested that someone might be able to help him get the money, the alleged victim said.
Eliason was more insistent, however, the man said. He accused the alleged victim of blowing him off. If he didn't hand over the title the next day, Eliason allegedly told the man, "He was going to break my legs, kill me, but before that, he was going to rape my girlfriend in front of me and go after my son."
He said he would be back the next day.
Jeff Wood, an FBI agent who oversees gang cases on the North Shore, outfitted the man with a recording device hidden on him.
In the resulting video, Eliason is seen driving up in a white pickup.
"How you doing, Eli? I got some good news. I have it." He told Eliason that his girlfriend had borrowed the money.
The alleged victim was cautious. "I just want to make sure, what happened to my hand, I appreciate what you said, how it would have been a lot worse," he says, trying to find out whether there was more in store for him.
"You got my word, ain't nobody gonna bother you," Eliason says, instructing the alleged victim to sign the title but not to date it. "You did the right thing."
"My son?" asks the alleged victim, sighing. "The threats yesterday, my family?"
"I said, if you blew me off today. Those were promises, not threats," Eliason tells him, "If you blew me off today, you were going to open up a (expletive) show."
Stephen Neyman, Avelis' lawyer, argued that his client said nothing and did nothing during any of the encounters. "He didn't say one thing," Neyman said.
While the other lawyers made similar arguments highlighting what they say was the limited implication of their clients compared with Barr and Eliason, only Neyman was successful in winning bail for his client.
Carmine Lepore, who represents Brown, said his client served in both the Army and Navy and is "100 percent disabled" as a result.
"A simple stay-away order is all that's required for Mr. Brown to return to his life," Lepore said.
All six are due back in court July 2 for a pretrial hearing in the case.


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Thank you to everybody who took part in this give away. What an amazing amount of participants.
To draw the winning number I used a number generator on my phone.
And the winner is Carissa !!!!
Congratulations :)
Friday, July 29, 2011
And the winner is...
Thank you to everybody who took part in this give away. What an amazing amount of participants.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Where my Heart Blooms :)
It's finished!!! Having here a major happy dance and can't wait to go to Melbourne and choose a frame for it.
That was an addictive piece to stitch and I loved every moment we spent together. Tomorrow the chart will start it's travel back to it's rightful home. I'm still so very grateful that Carol allowed me to stitch this beautiful chart. Some stitching friends are really generous.
I did made couple of changes though.
The Shaker White didn't show off as well as I hoped on the fabric. After playing around with some options I found one that worked well for me. For the flowers I used a single strand of WDW Confederate Grey and did a half cross stitch over the existing one.
The house is stitched as charted but back stitched with 2 strands of Sage and the roof with 2 strands of Gingersnap.
And I mirrored some of the birds.
Hopefully you're having a great time where ever in the world you are :)
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Let's have a give away to celebrate my blogoversary
It's almost my blogoversary!!! And lets celebrate that shall we?
Because it's party time I'm giving away a gift voucher of $100 to spend at Anita's Little Stitches!!!
Actually of these $100 only $50 will come from myself. The rest is sponsored by Anita herself. How cool is that?
Anita's Little Stitches is one of my favorite online shops. She has a great assortment of charts, fibers, fabrics, scissors, embellishments and more for pretty good prices. Add to that a great customer service. If you don't know her have a look at her shop here
Here are the rules:
1. Be a follower and comment on this post gives you one entry.
2. Post about it on your blog or website for a second entry and tell me in a second comment about it. :)
3. Make sure that I have a way to contact you. :)
That's all that there is to it. Good luck and I'm getting out the party hats and bake the cake meanwhile.
The drawing itself will find placeon the 29th of July. Which happens to be the blogoversary itself. :)
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Birds of a Feather Part 2 and other things
For the rest I did mainly stitch on Amsterdam
Lisa stitched for me a gorgeous snowman ornament for an exchange at "Hooked on Exchanging". It's lovely stitched and finished. Lisa stitched a design by SanMan Originals on Summer Sky Jobelan. I love it.
And look at the backside. Isn't that a darling embellishment?
Deb is holding a fantastic give away for a Go! Baby. Which is a device I'm drooling about since I first time saw it in action. It is SO fantastic to cut out shapes. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. . If you want to have a chance of winning it, then hop over to Deb's blog, which is a great blog anyway to visit, no matter if you're after the Go! Baby or not.
If you're a scissor addict or sampler lover like I am, then you should visit Jennifer's blog as well. She's giving a way a fantastic pair of Gingher scissors and also a sampler she designed herself. And her samplers are all looking gorgeous. This give away is dedicated to a little girl, Caylee Anthony.
Wishing everybody a great time :)
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Funny Money: Pundits float $1 trillion coin as answer to debt-ceiling standoff
Imagine sitting around the kitchen table, trying to figure out how you're going to pay off that next-generation HDTV you just bought.
Then someone has an idea. Brush off one of the old checker pieces in the attic, assign it a value of, say, $2,000 -- and use that newly minted "coin" to pay the credit card.
Such an absurd idea is, pun intended, gaining currency as a technically legal way for Washington to avert a looming fight over the debt ceiling. A Democratic congressman, a Nobel-winning economist and several prominent writers are now floating the idea that the Treasury Department should use obscure powers to mint a $1 trillion coin if Congress does not permit an increase in the debt ceiling.
That coin, then, could be used to pay America's debts.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., told Capital New York that the "out of the ordinary" idea could actually work.
"I'm being absolutely serious," he said. "It sounds silly, but it's absolutely legal."
Folks like Nadler point to a tiny section in the U.S. code that allows the Treasury secretary to "mint and issue platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coins" of a size and denomination of "the secretary's discretion." This is mainly for commemorative coins, but the idea that the provision could be exploited as an ace-up-the-sleeve for the administration was first explored during the 2011 debt ceiling fight. Now, it's back.
The trillion-dollar coin idea has attracted more than 4,500 signatures on a White House petition, and, crossing social media's first threshold of acceptance, has earned its own #mintthecoin hashtag on Twitter.
The likelihood of this happening is about as likely as the checkers scenario. But the argument in its favor is that minting a trillion-dollar coin is a commensurately ridiculous response to Congress refusing to pay debts it has already accumulated.
"While this may seem like an unnecessarily extreme measure," the White House petition reads, "it is no more absurd than playing political football with the U.S. -- and global -- economy at stake."
Economist Paul Krugman called it a "gimmick," but wrote that "since the debt ceiling itself is crazy ... there's a pretty good case for using whatever gimmicks come to hand."
Aside from the obvious questions this campaign raises -- whose face would adorn such a high-value coin, and what happens if it's lost in the laundry -- are some more troublesome questions, like what a freewheeling Treasury secretary minting coins of any denomination would do to the markets and inflation.
Bloomberg's Josh Barro tries to dispatch with these concerns by arguing that President Obama could avert the inflation fear by pledging to buy back the new currency as soon as the Treasury Department can borrow again. And then, Barro offers, Obama could revoke the platinum coin authority in exchange for abolishing the debt ceiling.
Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider also claims the coin wouldn't cause "massive inflation" anyway, "because we wouldn't have a gigantic injection of new money" -- just money Congress has already allocated.
But other analysts warn the idea of skirting the debt ceiling by producing astronomically valuable coins is a recipe for market chaos.
"It's just a disguised new form of debt," former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin told FoxNews.com. "This would say (to the markets) they cannot manage their finances as a nation, they're down to gimmicky coins."
He added: "It would have all the implications of near-default."
Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, said it's legally do-able but "extremely unlikely." He called the proposal a "combination of desperation and silliness." A column in Britain's The Guardian also panned the idea as one that doesn't work "even as satire," arguing that it could indeed "create a nonsensical level of inflation."
The administration may not dignify the trillion-dollar coin idea with a response. The related petition is still about 20,000 signatures short of the number necessary to elicit a response from the White House.
Still, another debt ceiling fight is looming. The country technically bumped up against the borrowing cap on Dec. 31, but Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner took emergency measures to stave off a crisis. Lawmakers have a matter of weeks to determine what, if any, spending cuts will be mandated in order to win approval from Congress for another debt-ceiling hike.


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You think you're having a bad day? Here is what Fat Doctor twittered about half an hour ago.... (Don't you just love twitter?)
FatDoctor Accidentally erased my whole blog. And I don't have a backup. No sense crying - it's not like a family member dying...or is it?
So, I'm putting the call out to all our friends in the medical blogger community and beyond. We simply cannot let this happen to one of our blog friends. I wish that I knew more about this stuff to help. But, alas, I do not. (I did know that google saves a cache of blog. For example, hers is here.)
I don't even know if I have an e-mail address for her. Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions to try to help, leave a comment here and I/We will find a way to try to get them to her.
Of course, we'll be talking about this on the show tonight. If you have an idea, please call in and hopefully, we'll be able to bring FatDoctor.org back from wherever it's at! Let's join together and help out!


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Know What Data is Being Collected, and Why
Privacy and information leakage has become one of my favorite topics on the Security blog. It seems that an enormous amount of information is being willingly plastered all over the Internet, from which significant value can be extracted (especially when combined with other public, or more likely private, datasets). The results are mind-boggling, and the implications are not fully comprehensible. Yet another example of this came to light recently from security professional Roger Thompson's blog.
As we described in the Cyber Risk Report for the week of December 14, Thompson had a credit card suspended because of fraud concerns. As he called to reactivate the card and prove his identity to the fraud division at his bank, he was asked questions regarding his daughter-in-law that were not things that should have been tied to him in traditional security questions. His assumption is that the information was gleaned from a public source, such as a social networking site.
In a follow-on article, Thompson imagines that the information might have come from a Facebook application that he had installed. Thompson believes that the sheer number of application developers ensures that at least some of them have questionable, if not malicious, motives. He cites an example of an application developer that might not be operating above board:
Not long ago, we found some Facebook apps that had been hacked, and were reaching to attack sites in Russia, and while investigating that, we found a site that looked very similar but wasn't actually attacking. We're not mentioning the name of this company, because we can't yet figure out whether they're good or bad, but they look really suspicious. Their webpage shows no "Contact us" details… just a crudely-drawn graphic. When we did a whois to see who they were, we found that the ownership was hidden behind Privacy Protector.
While they may not be doing bad things, they are at least not being very transparent about their motives, while at the same time having a very large user base.
But let's set aside the troubling questions regarding the legal and ethical challenges of collecting customers' personal information that they do not explicitly provide. Even set aside the question of how difficult it is to know whether or not information about you or your employees is leaking online — we've discussed this problem before. Instead, consider that this is occurring in a gray area, where technology has outpaced not only legal concepts of what is available, but for most people, the psychological ability to consider the risks and exposures that exist. Consider that in this environment, some enterprising person in your organization is using public sources like Facebook, Bing, or even more capable OSINT tools to feed into a repository somewhere in your corporation.
This kind of information could be wrapped up in a neat little program on someone's desktop, filed away in a spreadsheet, or stored in a database somewhere in your enterprise. This kind of information is not only legally problematic, especially for those doing business under the EU's Data Protection Directive, but it's almost a digital toxic waste. Cory Doctorow and Bruce Schneier have likened it to "weapons-grade plutonium" and "pollution," respectively.
There are risks even in storing the information that drives business. And these risks will only increase as information content in our enterprises continues to increase at phenomenal rates. Lots of interesting — and interestingly dangerous — information is being collected, and some of it is being collected for questionable reasons.
If you are responsible for information assurance, you might ask yourself some questions like these:
Does your organization have a policy about collecting information?
Using it?
Disposing of it?
Can you identify which areas of the business are working on neat and progressive projects that involve data mining?
Have you talked with them about what they're doing?
Would you know if someone decided to start such a project?
Would they think to come to you proactively and ask your advice for how to proceed?
I'm interested to see if more comes out of Thompson's experience, and whether this is just a fluke or something that will become an accepted practice. But in the meantime, I think there are some important things to do to prepare for some risks that could be lurking under our noses.
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Originally developed during World War II for military purposes, CDMA is a cellular frequency that incorporates "spread spectrum" techniques. Unlike other cellular systems like GSM and TDMA, every channel on the network uses the full available spectrum. This allows each user (identified by a unique pseudonoise code(PN)) to communicate over several frequencies, as opposed to only one. This allows for better coverage, usually better signal strength, and a higher capacity to allow multiple users to connect at any given time.


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The module reuses the same CGI::Application object instance for several requests, which seems like a good idea at first, but as it turns out (cmp. firstname.lastname@example.com... ff.) CGI::Application and especially some plugins are not designed to be used in this manner. You might even run into severe security issues when using CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication, like sending an authentication cookie which was intended for person A, who has just logged in, to person B, among similar phenomena.
So my recommendation would be: Do not use CGI::Application::FastCGI, but just build your instance script on CGI::Fast, as described here: www.cgi-app.org/index.cgi?FastCGI


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Philip Hammond announced this afternoon that small businesses will be handed £80 million in funding to help them recruit apprentices under the apprenticeship levy.
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Many allergists and immunologists have expressed skepticism concerning at home allergy tests.
Medical advances combined with entrepreneurial zeal have resulted in a batch of DIY home testing kits. The main type of test garnering attention is for food sensitivity.
National Public Radio in May explained that these tests allow consumers to skip often-expensive doctor visits to learn, in the privacy of their homes, if they are allergic to certain foods. According to NPR, "The test is supposed to measure whether a person's immune system reacts to certain foods by making an antibody called immunoglobulin G (IgG) …"
The problem is that not only does the Food and Drug Administration not regulate most tests currently marketed, but the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology also does not recognize the validity of IgG tests in diagnosing food sensitivity.
Plus, many allergists and immunologists have expressed skepticism. Lily Pien, MD, is one; she is on staff in the Allergy and Clinical Immunology department at Cleveland Clinic. She believes there are three clear reasons why these new home tests — many from startup companies — may not work:
1. Accuracy can be compromised if the test measures immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies instead of IgE antibodies to foods, which essentially means that a true food allergy cannot be determined.
2. The consumer may be led to believe he or she has a food allergy when, in fact, the condition is food intolerance. Differences are significant: Food allergies engage the immune system and can cause an immediate and possibly life-threatening reaction; a food intolerance affects the digestive system and can lead to cramping or diarrhea. An example of food intolerance is lactose intolerance. Treatments are different, so it is important to know which type it is — and home testing kits may not be clear.
3. "Medical tests are best interpreted by consulting a health care provider," Pien says. A true food allergy needs to be treated by a physician.
"Before purchasing the home allergy test, individuals should know if the test is for specific IgE antibody levels. If someone is concerned about being allergic, they should have testing for specific IgE antibody," she says.


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So you won a 4G licence. The Freeview interference squad wants a word
Next-gen mobe broadband threat to 2 MILLION tellies
The team to turn to when high-speed mobile broadband knocks out your Freeview signal has kicked off negotiations with this week's 4G auction winners. It's hoped that Brits will get four weeks of notice before up to two million TV screens go dark.
The recently established body managing interference from new 4G services is called Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited (DMSL), and it now has a shiny website with a new logo. It also prefers to be known as AT800. Under that name it undertakes to contact every home at risk of losing Freeview reception at lest four weeks ahead of time, and provide mitigation to those who want it.
The new 4G licences, auctioned off earlier this week, occupy the space where analogue TV used to be, adjacent to Freeview's digital transmissions. In most cases that won't be an issue: the leakage from 4G into Freeview will be minimal, but where the viewer is receiving a weak Freeview signal, and using a cheap signal booster, then the effect of boosting both will knock out Freeview reception.
AT800 is funded by an £180m charge tacked onto* the 4G auction's £2.3bn revenue, most of which will go on filters fitted in homes to remove the 4G signal before boosting. But the filter has to go between the ariel and the booster, and where that's impossible (such as both being within the roof of a block of flats) then AT800 has the authority to spend up to £10,000 per household ensuring they get some sort of free-to-view TV service.
No one knows quite how big the problem will be nor where it's going to happen. Right now we don't even know which of the auction winners will be most likely to interfere - the amount of spectrum has been decided, but exactly which bands will be used is still being negotiated, and the interference issue will play a significant part in those negotiations.
The operators could probably make the problem disappear by fitting better filters on their base stations, and they'll get any left over cash as a motivator for installing that kit, once the shiny logo, website, letters, home filters and so forth have been paid for.
The big issue is that no one knows how much this is going to matter. Ofcom's original estimate was 760,000 houses impacted, and 30,000 losing Freeview entirely, but set-top boxes have improved since then and AT800 is keeping busy testing lots of gear and talking to the operators about roll-out plans.
We do know that Channel 60 will be the Freeview frequency most affected, and UK Free.tv has a useful map showing which Freeeview transmitters are using that slot, but until the networks start deploying we won't know how bad the problem is, or if £180m will be enough to fix it. ®
* AT800 has been in touch to point out that, in a late change to the 4G licence process, its funding was tacked onto the auction prices, so the £180m spending pot will be collected from winning mobile telcos in addition to the £2.3bn in 4G licences.
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Aaron (and others), Back when XHTML2 WG was discussing @role, I tried very hard [ http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=47 ] to have them exclude the @key attribute in favor of placing the "discoverability" of these types of enhancements on the shoulders of the user-agent and user. Given the multitude of possible web-apps that conceivably will emerge all wanting to map to keyboard accelerators, there will always be a "battle" - if web app A, web app G and web app W all want to map to [accelerator] + 6 how will this be resolved? To my mind, clearly, two of the 3 web app developers will lose out. (This does not even begin to also consider the i18n issue...) On the other hand, if a user-agent, or combination of user-agent and assistive technology are "alerted" to the existence of supplemental keyboard accelerators 'embedded' into the app/page/plug-in, and then allows the *user* to map a key to that 'point', then it would seem (to me anyway) that everyone is happy: web app developer, *and* user. Already we sort of have this type of functionality within Opera - user customization of keystrokes. In the interest of true accessibility and universality, it seems this should be a no-brainer... (at least to me) JF -----Original Message----- From: email@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Aaron M Leventhal Sent: December 19, 2007 9:48 AM To: Wlodkowski, Thomas Cc: Jon Gunderson; W3C WAI-PFWG; email@example.com; W3C WAI-XTECH; email@example.com Subject: RE: Reserved keystrokes for borwsers and operating system functions BTW we have the same issue with plugins. Right now when they have focus they steal *all* keystrokes and the browser gets none. There was a developer suggesting we change things around and only allow content/plugins to get keystrokes we don't absolutely need. It brings up a lot of concerns, but I'm not sure I'd rule out that approach entirely. It needs to be considered. - Aaron "Wlodkowski, Thomas" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Sent by: firstname.lastname@example.com 12/19/2007 12:24 PM To Aaron M Leventhal/Cambridge/IBM@IBMUS, "Jon Gunderson" <email@example.com> cc "W3C WAI-PFWG" <firstname.lastname@example.com>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <firstname.lastname@example.com>, <firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject RE: Reserved keystrokes for borwsers and operating system functions The battle between widgets and browser access to the keyboard is why the AXS library developed by Chris Blouch on my team now uses Alt+Control+the letter key. To be honest, I'm not sure how the keyboard battle is resolved if there isn't some path toward better cooperation between the widget and browser. My company develops web apps that in many cases replace software applications. I suspect consumers want the same or equivalent behaviors when they're accessing email via a webmail app. Hopefully this issue will spark greater participation in the DHTML Style Guide working group that meets weekly on Tuesdays at noon. You can see the widget-specific keyboard behaviors discussed thus far at: <http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide> http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide Tom _____ From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Aaron M Leventhal Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:31 PM To: Jon Gunderson Cc: W3C WAI-PFWG; W3C WAI-XTECH; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: Reserved keystrokes for borwsers and operating system functions I have an old list but it should be updated. Could be a great resources if it was. http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboard/ Anyway, in the case of Alt+left it didn't appear the grid really meant to use it. Better to check always the modifier key and let it go if it's not the key you're looking for. - Aaron Jon Gunderson <firstname.lastname@example.com> 12/18/2007 03:27 PM To Aaron M Leventhal/Cambridge/IBM@IBMUS cc W3C WAI-PFWG <firstname.lastname@example.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <firstname.lastname@example.com>, firstname.lastname@example.com Subject Reserved keystrokes for borwsers and operating system functions Aaron, Is there a list of key combinations that ARIA (Web 2.0) applications should never use? There are already some conflicts in the best practices, in that case the best practices says the Widget should win. Are these combinations going to be OS and browser specific? Jon ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:53:54 -0500 >From: Aaron M Leventhal <email@example.com> >Subject: Re: Updated Illinois ARIA Examples >To: Jon Gunderson <email@example.com> >Cc: W3C WAI-PFWG <firstname.lastname@example.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <email@example.com>, firstname.lastname@example.com > > I see a bug in the grid example. > > If I hit Alt+left or Alt+right to move in my browser > history, it moves in the grid instead. The script is > stealing those keystrokes instead of letting it go > to the browser. > You have to return true from your event handler if > the key was not used. That lets it bubble to the > next possible handler. > > - Aaron > > Jon Gunderson To W3C WAI-PFWG > <email@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com>, > Sent by: W3C WAI-XTECH > firstname.lastname@example.com <email@example.com> > cc > 12/17/2007 05:46 PM Subject Updated Illinois > ARIA Examples > > > I have update the following examples to use the > non-namespaced version of the ARIA markup: > > Menubar > http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/menubar/ > > Grid > http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/grid/ > > Slider > http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/slider/ > > Slider > http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/slider/ > > Tab Panel > http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/tabpanel/ > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. > Coordinator of Assistive Communication and > Information Technology (DRES) > > WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ > WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/ Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology (DRES) WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/Received on Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:21:20 UTC
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I set up my NFS server without doing any bigger changes in configuration files. After that I added these entries to
/etc/exports(both paths are valid) on server(192.168.1.11):
/export 192.168.1.0/192.168.255.255(rw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,async)
/export/users 192.168.1.0/192.168.255.255(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,async)
Then I restarted the computer and I tried to get exports list:
$ showmount -e 192.168.1.11
/export 192.168.1.0/192.168.255.255
/export/users 192.168.1.0/192.168.255.255
According to this output there's not problem with connection. Now I want to mount
/export to client filesystem(192.168.1.12):
sudo mount -t nfs4 192.168.1.11:/export /mnt
After typing this there's no output and I can't do anything. Another terminal line start is not being displayed. Command is stuck.
Does anybody know am I doing wrong? Please help me.


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The June 3rd meeting, held by Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, attracted a small but attentive group of residents eager to learn about the many ways to make their homes more eco-friendly.
"Why go green?" Crowley asked in her opening remarks. "Because we can help our environment and also save money." Crowley said she wants to make her district greener by cutting down on pollution and traffic while reducing energy costs.
Solar panels are one solution, said Chris Neidl, the Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator for Solar One, a Manhattan-based green energy education center.
Contrary to popular opinion, said Neidl, New York City is just as well if not better suited for solar panel use than other areas of the country famous for year-round sun exposure, such as Boulder, Colorado, or Southern California.
"New York is one of the best places to do solar," said Neidl. High electricity rates here, among the highest nationwide, have pushed residents in recent years to begin seriously considering energy alternatives, said Neidl.
And while residential solar panel systems are still relatively expensive, with the aid of state and federal grants New Yorkers can recuperate their initial investment through energy savings unusually fast.
"New York probably [has the] fastest payback period in the country," Neidl said.
Nowhere is it faster than in the outer boroughs, in Queens and Brooklyn especially, said Neidl, where low-density residential neighborhoods with vast expanses of flat roofs are just asking for solar panels. (With its multitude of tall buildings blocking sunlight, solar panels make less sense for most parts of Manhattan, according to Neidl). He said neighborhoods like Maspeth, with mostly two- and three-story houses, are ideal for solar panels.
The typical "pre-incentive" cost of a solar panel system for a three-story house is roughly $60,000, said Neidl, whose organization does not sell solar technology. But tremendous savings exist through a combination of federal, state, and city incentives.
These include the New York State Solar Rebate Program, which provides a discount of $16,000, the Federal Investment Tax Credit ($13,200), New York State Income Tax Credit ($5,000), and the New York City Property Tax Abatement ($15,400).
Adjusted to reflect the typical deductions available through these incentives, the average solar panel system costs just $10,400, said Neidl.
The average payback - or length of time it takes someone to earn back the cost of a solar panel system through energy savings - is less than ten years, said Neidl. After that, residents actually start saving money each year on their energy bills as they generate electricity of their own.
Neidl said this should be incentive enough for people paying high electricity rates across the city.
"We have very high electricity rates here and they're not going to go down," said Neidl. "The motivation to generate your electricity has strengthened greatly."
Solar panels are not the only way to go green, however. Following Neidl were three presenters who spoke about other energy efficiency measures Queens residents can take to reduce their carbon footprints and energy costs.
Diana Pangestu, an official with the New York State Energy Development Authority (NYSERDA) outlined the state's commitment to alternative energy, and the financial incentives available to interested homeowners.
Those looking for cheap, eco-friendly building materials for home improvement projects were encouraged by Justin Green to shop at Build It Green! NYC, a retail center that sells surplus and salvaged materials. Green, the non-profit's program director, said demand for recycled materials is growing fast.
Lynne Serpe, of the Community Environmental Center, a home weatherization program for low-income residents, said the number of existing programs and financial aid packages make this a ripe time for Queens to become more energy efficient.
"No matter what you want to do to your home, there's probably some money out there, so you should spend your time looking for it," Serpe said.


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Sunday Sweets: Home Sweet Home
Hi there! I'm Lindsey, and I'm the new kid here at Cake Wrecks. I hail from the blog Better After, and was super stoked when Jen asked me to guest post for Sunday Sweets. I'm still happy dancing about it and hope I can live up to the utter awesomeness that is Cake Wrecks. Please sit by me in the cafeteria!
Now, my blog is about furniture and home decor makeovers and not cake. So I thought I'd ease myself into the cake world - dip my big toe in, so to speak - by featuring some furniture and home decor-themed Sweets. Who's excited? I am!! (PS: sorry about mentioning my toes and cake in the same sentence, ew).
Ok, first up is Leandro Erlich's chocolate couch:
"Lindsey," you're thinking, "You've been around paint fumes far too long. That is obviously a Mies Van Der Rohe Barcelona sofa!" No my friends, it is indeed a cake. See? Proof:
For your tum tum, not your bum bum!
(I ... apologize).
Nothing says comfort food quite like food that looks well, comfortable. Like this cake:
...which is a replica of this bed:
I daresay the cake looks even comfier!
So, this next cake might not be exactly what your mother had in mind when she asked you to provide the cake at your sister's "Bridal Shower":
Submitted by Marisa S. and made by Planet Cake
Ha! That is quite the devilish grin, sir.
And we all know what that kind of monkey business leads to:
And also, babies!
The home decor nerd in me lives on, because the first thing I noticed were those fabulous "hardwood" floors.
While we're on the topic of home decor, if you asked me how to improve a drab kitchen, I'd probably suggest painting your cabinets white:
If you asked me how to improve a drab living room couch,I can't think of anything better than draping a drooling Homer Simpson across the top.
By Erin Salerno
Or, if your local decor depot is fresh out of Homers, perhaps you could just add some nice throw pillows:
Amazing! I bet you could repaint your entire house twice in the time it took to make these insanely detailed cakes. Or come repaint my house. Either way.
Nailhead trim is also a great way to spice up any chair. And while I don't recommend nails in cakes, or shag carpeting in general, shag carpet frosting cannot be denied.
Did you notice the little bowl of individually crafted potato chips? That is some serious attention to detail.
And here's lots more:
I spy: a stamped letter, used post-its, an iphone, three pens, two pencils and six wads of crumpled up paper!
Would you care for a spot of tea with this well-read lady?
By Cake Central member tguegirl
Or is a game of snooker more your style?
(Lest you falsely assume that I am really up to speed on my billiards terminology, I admit I had this conversation with Google: "Pool game with red balls?")
I love the use of black fondant for the negative space under the table, which effectively maximizes its eat-ability-ness. Very important.
Oh, you prefer tea? Well, how about tea for two? This next cake was inspired by the book My Very First Tea Party and requires a long, loving look to fully absorb every delightful detail:
By Karen H.
Like the steam curling out of the cups and the chocolate dipped strawberries. Fantastic!
(Note: the table cloth and wire chair frames aren't edible. But you probably knew that. )
Well, that's all for now! Thanks for letting me crash the party, and if you'll excuse me, I'm like, really hungry.
Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.


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Maine gas prices up almost 3 cents per gallon to an average of $3.55
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The cost of a gallon of gas in Maine has jumped nearly three cents in the past week.
Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail cost of a gallon of gas rose to $3.55. The price is based on a survey of more than 1,200 gas stations in the state.
Even though the national average rose more than four cents in the same time span, the average price in Maine remains 24 cents higher per gallon.
Current prices in Maine are just about the same as they were a year ago.
A company analyst says prices are rising because this is traditionally refinery maintenance season, when production drops.


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Kate SomervilleExfoliKate® Intensive Exfoliating Treatment
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What it is:
A dual-action exfoliator that smooths and polishes to reveal a glowing, radiant complexion in as little as one use.
Solutions for:
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When you use ExfoliKate in the shower, the steam will help to activate the enzymes, making it even more effective. Use with ExfoliKate® Cleanser for optimal results.
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-Use once or twice a week, AM or PM.
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Sen. Saxby Chambliss to retire
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who has positioned himself as a bipartisan deal-maker on the budget but faced the threat of a primary challenge, will not run for a third term next year, setting off a scramble for his seat in deeply red Georgia.
The 69-year-old Chambliss has informed colleagues and staff that he will retire at the end of his term, a surprise move given that he had insisted for months that he planned to run again in 2014.
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On a conference call with Georgia supporters Friday morning, Chambliss thanked his backers and highlighted his efforts in pushing through four farm bills and eight defense policy measures through his two decades in Congress, according to a person on the call.
As a country lawyer from Moultrie, Ga., he said he had to pinch himself for the privilege of serving in Congress and the ability to represent the U.S. all over the world in official capacities. And he said he had no plans on what to do next — other than playing golf, shooting birds and spending time with his grandchildren.
But in the Capitol, Chabmliss' frustration has been evident — particularly at the Senate's inability to reach a grand bargain to slash deficits. After working with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, first known as the Gang of Six, Chambliss came under criticism from the right for advocating a major deal with higher tax revenues. And that group never reached a deal and became a marginal player as deficit-cutting talks centered in the leadership offices of Capitol Hill.
Chambliss said his retirement decision had nothing to do with a possible primary challenge.
"Instead, this is about frustration, both at a lack of leadership from the White House and at the dearth of meaningful action from Congress, especially on issues that are the foundation of our nation's economic health," he said in a statement. "The debt-ceiling debacle of 2011 and the recent fiscal-cliff vote showed Congress at its worst and, sadly, I don't see the legislative gridlock and partisan posturing improving anytime soon."
Still, he appeared in a strong position to fend off a primary challenge from the right, attending fundraisers and pulling in more than seven-figures in his campaign account through the third quarter of last year.
"If there is one, we'll be there, fighting hard," Chambliss said in a recent interview about a prospective primary challenge.
Democrats were optimistic that the changing demographics in the state would give them a serious shot to pick up a seat in a Republican stronghold.
Democrats are defending 20 seats this cycle, compared to 13 for the Republicans. And the map is heavily tilted to the GOP's favor, having to defend Democratic seats in states like Arkansas, Louisiana and Alaska — as well as an open seat in West Virginia. But if they could pick up a seat in Georgia, it would make it even harder for Republicans to take back the Senate, where Democrats now hold a 55-45 majority.


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Pairing Up To Get Down At Hop Woo BBQ
Eddie Lin, of Deep End Dining and NPR's "Good Food," recently asked a group of food bloggers to join him for a special off-the-menu "romantic dinner" hosted by Chef Lupe Liang. Each dish—prepared with love—is based on an ingredient that stimulates a certain spot on the map of human sexuality. Be it animal, vegetable, or mineral, the intention of the ingestion is to get one's motor running.


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Jordyn Danforth
I've been a physics adolescence education major at SUNY Plattsburgh since my sophomore year. I switched over from the biology department, and kept my major in biology too, but physics is my true calling. I've been tutoring physics at the Learning Center since the beginning of my junior year and absolutely love helping people learn. I can see myself in charge of a high school physics classroom that is fun and highly educational, and I hope to increase the number of students who enjoy physics and want to pursue it as their future career.
Dr. Podolak had the biggest influence on my career path. He was incredibly supportive of my choices and allowed me to gain experience by being a teaching assistant for his general physics lab. He also invited me to work with him on instructional research. We published a paper on that research in April 2013. I've loved being a physics major at SUNY Plattsburgh. It's a small department that allows students to be involved with the professors, other students, and Physics Club. It's been a great experience and I can't wait to see how incredible it becomes in the future.
Randi Bassik
Hello! My name is Randi Bassik and I am a junior physics major with a mathematics minor at SUNY Plattsburgh. I am from New City, New York. I came to SUNY Plattsburgh as a freshman because I loved that it was a school where I could get individual attention from professors and feel very close to the staff. I also liked that Plattsburgh was in the Northern Adirondacks because there is so much to do outside, such as skiing, hiking, and camping.
I am a past president of Physics Club. Physics Club is open to anyone, especially those who have an interest in physics, engineering, or just want to be involved in some hands-on projects involving science. I love the physics program at Plattsburgh because it is a hands-on learning experience with professors who genuinely want to help and make sure that you succeed. I made a lot of my current friends through the physics program and it was refreshing to find students who had the same interests as me.
I am also doing undergraduate research under the advisement of Dr. Michael Walters on the opto-mechanical properties of ballistic gels. We will be presenting our research at the regional APS meeting at Wells College with other undergraduate research students. There are many research opportunities for students who want to get involved. Many of the professors who take on research students are willing to listen to ideas and make the research interesting to the individual. After I graduate, I plan on attending optometry school where I will hopefully get my O.D.
Dan Stowe
I came to SUNY Plattsburgh for my freshman year in the fall of 2011 and I am part of the 3+2 Engineering Program. I knew Plattsburgh was what I was looking for in a school as soon as I arrived on campus as a prospective student to check it out. From the snow, to the medium sized student body, and the great professors I met, Plattsburgh was the place for me. I feel that I have grown alongside SUNY Plattsburgh in such a way that the main science building, Hudson Hall, has become somewhat of a second home to me.
The friendships I have made in Plattsburgh with the professors and students have far outweighed any connections I have made in the past. Much to my delight, class time is where I am able to connect with my professors, and am consequently able to learn the material faster and easier. I don't feel like I am beneath anyone here — for every mentor I have known is warm and welcoming. I can compare it to having one big, happy physics family.
I am currently in my junior year at Plattsburgh, and much to my dismay, I have to leave to start my second journey at an engineering college. However, the skills I have picked up as a result of taking on positions in our Physics Club, from secretary, to vice president, and finally president, complement the skills I have learned in the classroom. I was inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics Honor Society, as well as Omicron Delta Kappa, the Leadership Honor Society in my sophomore year. Without the help of my professors, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to join these organizations. They pushed me into becoming the best scientist I could be – by questioning everything. Because of these experiences at Plattsburgh, my dreams are that much closer to reality.
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Aloha! My name is Ben Ponce and I am from Saranac Lake, New York. I am currently a senior physics major with minors in computer science and mathematics. I found my passion for astronomy after attending my first show at the Northcountry Planetarium. Since that time I have had the pleasure of helping create and facilitate astronomically themed workshops with the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York, the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum and local elementary schools.
I worked to make the Galilean Society, our astronomy club, a legitimate club at SUNY Plattsburgh and I have acted as the president ever since.
I attended the 2012 International Planetarium Society conference in Baton Rouge with Ms. Lisabeth Kissner, the director of the Northcountry Planetarium, and I was able to attend presentations on astronomy education and planetarium instruction. The experience was invaluable as I was able to meet educators who were passionate about astronomy and were teaching it in an informal way. Since that time I have been working with Ms. Kissner on the Planetarium renovation project. Once the planetarium is reinstalled we will be developing curriculum for shows with local schools, weekly ephemeris shows and astronomy lab classes.
I have also had the pleasure of working with the Ms. Kissner on other projects. SUNY Plattsburgh helped me and another student secure funds to cover the cost of equipment and travel to Kona, Hawai'i, so we could observe the 2012 Venus Transit (that's me in the picture with the solar telescope that was purchased). It was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity as the next transit of Venus will be in 2117! In the spring of 2013 I presented a poster at the local Sigma Xi spring symposium using contact times collected in Hawai'i to repeat Halley's method for calculation of the Astronomical Unit.
There are no words to explain my experiences here at SUNY Plattsburgh. Through the Physics Department and the Northcountry Planetarium I have had experiences that have changed my life. After graduation I plan to attend graduate school for astrophysics and continue on to have a career searching the cosmos for what it might hold. I hope to eventually be an astronomy educator and inspire the next generation of space scientists.
Justin Collins
I'm a physics engineering major here at SUNY Plattsburgh. I have always loved building and designing things and when I found out there was a career for that, I decided that is what I wanted to do. Plattsburgh has been extremely helpful by providing not just the standard curriculum, but other opportunities as well, such as 3D modeling and printing experience."
"I am also a member and officer of the Physics Club, which has been a lot of fun. The club allows students to participate in engineering and physics related projects, demos, and competitions. I have had many opportunities to expand my involvement in both physics and engineering thanks to the small and excellent department. I really feel that the professors here take the extra time to help you if you need. Dr. Michael Walters is just getting the department into robotics which is one of my passions and we have a lot more to look forward to."
Cole Martin
I began my educational career at Clinton Community College (CCC) in the fall semester of 2010. Initially, I didn't know what I wanted to study as an undergraduate. I was inexperienced in mathematics at the time and I had no future career ambitions. I first fell in love with the study of physics at CCC when I began to attend lectures on Newtonian mechanics. I was absolutely amazed at how the study of physics and mathematics could predict the motion of objects that I commonly interacted with. It was at that point that I knew I wanted to study physics and become a professional scientist. I spent two years at CCC and completed an associate's in math and science. Since then I have been completing the last two years of my bachelor's in physics here at SUNY Plattsburgh.
My first experience with undergraduate research was in the field of plasmonics. Working with Dr. Kenneth Podolak and Dan Stowe, we analyzed how the selective deposition of conducting metal nanofilm layers unto a clean silicon chip would affect the resonance of surface plasmons. I have also conducted research with Dr. Glenn Myer which focused on deriving a set of partial differential equations which could describe the flow of heat through a thin metal rod. Currently, I have an appointment with the United States Department of Energy to conduction research at Argonne National Laboratory over the summer of 2014. The goal of the research will be to investigate anomalous properties about the electroweak force and the mechanism which breaks its symmetry. We will be running computer simulations in the programming language of C++ to estimate the order of magnitude in which particle interactions will occur.
In my career, I aspire to conduct research that focuses on particle and atomic physics. Upon completion of a physics doctorate, I would like to spend time as a post-doctoral fellow working on a specific part of my research. My future ambitions include becoming a tenure-track professor, so that I may have a chance to give back my appreciation and experience to future students. Perhaps one day I will be able to mentor my own students, just as I will be mentored in graduate school. I cannot thank the SUNY Plattsburgh physics faculty enough for all of their support, wisdom, and mentoring. They have set an excellent example for not only the student community but for other faculty as well.


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Rotation ready to spin through season's first weeks
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Barring an unexpected injury, the 2014 White Sox starting rotation looks pretty much set even in early March.
The order of those starters, though, remains open for interpretation.
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Barring an unexpected injury, the 2014 White Sox starting rotation looks pretty much set even in early March.
The order of those starters, though, remains open for interpretation.
Chris Sale stands as a near 100 percent certainty to receive a second straight Opening Day nod on March 31 at U.S. Cellular Field against the Twins. If the Cactus League rotation is played out as is through March, the left-hander would take the mound on the club's scheduled off-day of March 20 against Minor League competition and then again on Tuesday, March 25 at home against the Rockies.
Sale would then have five days before the start of the regular season. It's an extra day of rest the White Sox have employed in the past during that final week of Spring Training, bridging that last Cactus League appearance into the first start that counts in the standings.
John Danks, Felipe Paulino, Jose Quintana and Erik Johnson follow Sale in that Spring Training order. With the Tuesday off-day built in after the home opener, all four will have that extra day and give the team a little flexibility.
But if Quintana gets his set work during a March 28 exhibition at Double-A Birmingham, a rotation featuring Paulino or Johnson second, Quintana third, Paulino or Johnson fourth and Danks fifth makes sense at the outset.
For starters, it splits up the three southpaws aside from having Danks and Sale working back-to-back. It also insulates the White Sox against Paulino and Johnson, with the two right-handers put between Sale, Quintana and Danks, each of whom the team basically is counting on for seven innings far more often than not.
This assessment certainly doesn't suggest a lack of confidence in Paulino or Johnson. Paulino has not pitched in a Major League game since June 6, 2012, because of ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery in July of that year and a cyst removed from his shoulder last September. With 346 innings over 61 starts, Paulino averages just under 6 innings per start for his career.
Johnson, the organization's No. 3 prospect in 2013 per MLB.com, has just five big league September starts to his credit. While expectations remain extraordinarily high, the unknown comes into play for the rookie right-hander.
Putting Paulino and Johnson at the end of the rotation, behind Sale, Quintana and Danks, has the possibility to put a bit of extra pressure on the bullpen. And the bullpen already has dealt with a left glute issue for Nate Jones, a left oblique strain for Matt Lindstrom and Daniel Webb leaving camp to deal with a death in the family, not to mention Ronald Belisario's ongoing absence because of visa issues in Venezuela.
Even with seven relievers, which is what the White Sox are expected to take, they don't want to put undue workload on them early or at all.
Danks now pitches with one full year of work behind him after arthroscopic shoulder surgery in August 2012. He has received rave reviews both health-wise and with how the ball is coming out of his hand, working three scoreless innings during his first Cactus League start Thursday against the Mariners.
Standing as the second starter, third starter or the fifth starter makes little difference to the eight-year veteran. It's a message he conveyed to pitching coach Don Cooper during one of their offseason meetings in Nashville, Tenn.
"I don't know where they got me right now, but no, it doesn't make me any difference," Danks said. "After the first couple of games, it gets all messed up anyway. That's something I'm not concerning myself with at all.
"They like to look at a lot of matchups. They know who is going to be near the top of the rotation, but you know when it comes to that three, four swingman-type person in the rotation, they are looking more the first few series and who you match up with and trying to give you the best matchup possible."
If the rotation runs Sale, Paulino, Quintana, Johnson and Danks, then the first Interleague series in Colorado tentatively would feature Paulino, Quintana and Johnson, and Johnson would make his first two starts on the road. The ensuing four-game series at home against Cleveland would line up three southpaws including Sale, who had a 0-4 record with an 8.61 ERA against the Indians last year and an 11-10 record and 2.40 ERA over 26 starts against everyone else.
Those three lefties also would be in line to face American League Central-favorite Detroit over a four-game set at Comerica Park from April 21-24. Of course, this setup falls into the educated guess category, and Danks pointed out that the rotation frequently changes and stays fluid throughout the season.
As Cooper stated recently, the White Sox don't necessarily believe in the first starter through fifth starter classification. They are simply looking to give their team the best chance to win on each given day. Danks currently would be lined up as No. 2 behind Sale, although manager Robin Ventura said Thursday that what it looks like now might look different later.
Ventura would like to break up the three lefties, as well, but nothing is certain regarding the order. With 10 games in the Midwest and three in Colorado over the first two weeks, even the games aren't certainties following this icy winter.
"We are already taking the weather kind of into account," Ventura said. "It doesn't look like at this point we are going to have a free run through the first week or two."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.


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NBC's Olympics "research lab" on new media use is apparently paying off, as the network is discovering that users are beginning to use their mobile devices to watch video content for the first time ever, just for the Olympics. The trend may prove transient, but the wide appeal of the Olympics, combined with NBC's experimentation, appears to have created new opportunities for content creators.
Watching the Olympics on the TV is still (and will probably be for a very long time) the most popular method of consumption. However, the 2008 Olympics in Beijing are the first to be broadcast over the Internet as well, with various streaming, video-on-demand, and mobile versions available in order to satisfy even fans of the most obscure Olympic sports. Last month, NBC announced that it planned to put 2,200 hours of streaming video on its website, NBCOlympics.com, in addition to other Olympic data, blogging of live events, and even interactive games. The company said that it had partnered up with Quantcast to track who is using the site and for how long, and that Integrated Media Measurement would help distribute "special" mobile phones that would track how users try to access Olympic content while on the go.
Now that the games have started, NBC says that roughly 494,506 people requested content on their phones on Sunday and 476,062 on Monday—relatively small numbers when compared to the millions that are watching on the TV. The interesting part, though, is that it's the first time that about half of those users have ever tried to access video on their mobile devices. "To some extent, the Olympics are beginning to influence how people use new technology," NBC Universal research president Alan Wurtzel told the Associated Press.
In addition to watching video on their phones, NBC posted (PDF) to its website that 16.9 million unique users have watched 13.5 million video streams of the Beijing games so far, compared to only 2.2 million for the entire Athens games. The network told the AP that Americans watched 1.7 million video streams of just Michael Phelps' swimming relay on Monday, and some 1.5 million video streams were e-mailed to other users.
The results are encouraging to NBC and other content providers, who have long feared that online distribution will kill the traditional TV audience (and the ad revenue that comes with it). That fear has been over-exaggerated, it turns out—after all, when you really want to watch something, you want to do so on the big(ger) screen, not via some compressed stream on your laptop's 13-inch monitor. In addition, video-on-demand content enables more targeted advertising, so those revenues don't have to be lost at all. With research firms like Pike & Fischer predicting that a third of Americans' TV-viewing could be made up of VOD content by 2012, the results of NBC's research lab could indeed be put to good use.


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Mystery Worshipper: Metaphysical Wanderer.
The church: Leland Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
Denomination: Non-denominational.
The building: It would be best to describe this chapel as a mixture of styles. The basic structure is Romanesque, covered with mosaics of biblical scenes on the outside. Inside, the Arts and Crafts Movement architecture is brightened by touches of Islamic, Baroque and Byzantine architectural flourishes. The interior walls are covered with mosaics. They have the gold background of pre-Renaissance International Gothic paintings, yet the figures have the painterly quality of Rococo or Pre-Raphaelite paintings. The total effect is sumptuous, awe inspiring. The gold tiles on the mosaics sparkled in the light, surrounding you with an unearthly glow. The church is mostly a tourist attraction by day, however various chaplaincies at the school hold services there, and there is a non-denominational service each Sunday. As you walk into the courtyard of the church, there are full-size bronze reproductions of Rodin's "Burghars of Calais" magnificent sculptures which are the artistic epitomy of self-sacrifice for the good of one's community.
The neighbourhood: Stanford University is one of the most prestigious schools in the United States. It's where the elite meet, as they say. The school and chapel were built in the late 1890s by the Stanfords, multi-millionaires who struck it rich in railroads after the California Gold Rush. Surrounded by rolling, undeveloped hills, the school is separated from the urban sprawl that surrounds it as if it were an island.
The cast: The celebrants were Rev. Penelope Duckworth, Episcopal Chaplain, and Rev. Richard Foster, Lutheran Campus Pastor. The magnificent choir was visiting from St Mark's Episcopal Church in Berkeley.
What was the name of the service?
Choral Evensong and Concert on the Feast of St Nicholas of Myra.
How full was the building?
About 100-150 people. We were dwarfed in a church that could easily seat 1,000 or more.
Did anyone welcome you personally?
Was your pew comfortable?
No, standard wood pews, could have used cushions.
How would you describe the pre-service atmosphere?
Slight whispering among people in attendance. Most of us were gaping at the gorgeous interior of the building.
What were the exact opening words of the service?
After the organ voluntary and the opening hymn, the service began: "O Lord, open thou our lips." "And our mouth shall show forth thy praise."
What books did the congregation use during the service?
Service booklet, drawn from Rite I from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer as well as the Church of England Book of Common Prayer. Hymns were reprinted from the 1982 Episcopal Hymnal. It has been a long time since I've experienced a service with all the thees, thines, and "Holy Ghost" rather than "Holy Spirit". The traditional language fit the music, however.
What musical instruments were played?
Two organs. One, a Fisk with 4,422 pipes, the other a Harris with 57 stops and 3,702 pipes. They definitely take music very seriously here.
Did anything distract you?
The microphone on the pulpit for the homily was not working. We couldn't understand a word she said.
Was the worship stiff-upper-lip, happy clappy, or what?
It was dignified, stately, very impersonal. Given the massive size of the church, there was no eye contact between the priests, the choir or the people in the congregation we were too far away.
Exactly how long was the sermon?
12 minutes.
On a scale of 1-10, how good was the preacher?
I can't even rate her, I couldn't hear what she said.
In a nutshell, what was the sermon about?
I have no idea. My friend thought that she was talking about the history of St Nicholas of Myra, but he wasn't sure.
Which part of the service was like being in heaven?
Except for the technical glitch that ruined the homily, the rest of the service was heaven. A 40-member choir, operatic soloists and a world-class organist filling the cavernous golden church with sublime music... it was heaven all the way through.
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
None even with the microphone problem, there was so much to look at, it was really no problem.
What happened when you hung around after the service looking lost?
A choral concert immediately followed the evensong service, so we filed out after the concert. The priest was standing in the foyer and greeted us as we left thanked us for coming.
How would you describe the after-service coffee?
There were no refreshments afterwards.
How would you feel about making this church your regular (where 10 = ecstatic, 0 = terminal)?
This wasn't an experience for the community aspect or the theology, yet this was a 10 for me, because it was an exquisite sensory delight. Sadly, I don't live close by, so I will only be able to return sporadically.
Did the service make you feel glad to be a Christian?
More than that... glad to be human, glad to be alive.
What one thing will you remember about all this in seven days' time?
I was literally moved to tears by the opening hymn, "Hark! A thrilling voice is sounding," and by Byrd's "Ave verum corpus" that was performed later in the concert. But most of all, I'll remember the glow of the gold mosaics.


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Jen GraduRants
It's getting about that time again. You know the one, don't you?
For some reason, various unholy alliances of the words "graduation" and "congratulations" keep popping up:
Oh. Wait. Actually, that's almost correct. I wonder if someone forgot the "L."
To this I say: [rude noise].
Excuse me. [sound of head hitting desk repeatedly] This may be a while.
In the meantime, enjoy your cake with the bottle of urine/beer on it.
(Either way, someone's getting pissed.) (Because in Britain "pissed" = "drunk." See? I'm even funny in different languages.*)
Shelby, Angie M., Briana G., D.H., Pam G., & Anony M., Gradu...Congalu...Gradcon...Uh. Good job!
* Yes. We know.