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Travel Town Museum FoundationRead MoreEstablished: 1982 Staff Size: 2–10 people Brands Used: Thomas Wooden Railway, Chuggington, and Brio. Pro Tip: All Gift Shop proceeds aid the restoration of the trains and educational outreach at the Museum. Handicap Accessible: Yes Parking: Parking lot Most Popular Attraction/Offering: Members only playday Recommended Age Group: All Ages Q&A with the Gift-Shop Manager What is the experience customers can expect, and how do you make it special? Our kid-friendly staff provides wooden engines for our museum visitors to borrow while they play and learn at the Museum. Located in beautiful Griffith Park, the Museum is a great escape where the kids can play, the parents can relax, and admission is free. What's your favorite part of your job? Watching the Museum visitors pretend and play on the painted railroad track in front of our store. Is there anything else you want to add that we didn't cover? Our store is run by the 501(c)(3) non-profit group which provides tours for school groups during the week, restores and operates the big trains on the weekends, and provides a service-learning program for high school students and other adults who give tours on the weekends. We are part of the Presidential Service Awards—and our volunteers provided over 6,000 individuals tours last year.5200 Zoo Dr.Los Angeles, CA US
Street Food CinemaRead MoreSpanning spring through the fall, Street Food Cinema rolls out more than fifty events in eleven different locations over 27 weeks. This showcase highlights the greatest hits of the silver screen and the LA food-truck scene, as well as music from emerging music artists such as The Rebel Light. When the gates open, guests spread blankets on the grass and pop open coolers. Live bands play until dusk, when crowd-pleasing movies such as Fight Club and The Sandlot light up the big screen. Meanwhile, a rotating food-truck schedule assembles a diverse curbside lineup, which might include fresh seafood from Cousins Maine Lobster or the gooey delights of The Grilled Cheese Truck. Their events also feature movie-themed games projected on the big screen for audience participation. Street Food Cinema's eclectic assemblage of food, music, and films has picked up attention beyond the park's bounds, snagging mentions on NBC4, We Like LA, and The Washington Post. Other videos of the events in action can be seen here. It's also become known for its philanthropic work: each year the organization supports several charities.201 Colorado StreetGlendale, CA US
Bella FitnessRead MoreDuring her time as a fashion model, Donna Michelle D'Aurio knew the importance of staying in shape. But, when she became a trained fitness instructor, she quickly learned the importance of being both fit and healthy. With this philosophy in mind, Donna established Bella Fitness as a mobile fitness company in 2006. Since then, the company has grown into a fitness business where a staff of personal trainers, dance instructors, sport coaches, and nutritionists designs customized fitness plans for everyone from kids to senior citizens. Within the studio, clients can work up a sweat in semi-private Pilates, Barre, Zumba, TRX, and dance cardio classes that reflect Donna's own group fitness certifications from the Arthritis Foundation, SilverSneakers, PiYo, and YMCA. For younger clients, kids' yoga and Zumba classes are also available. At the other end of the spectrum, personal training sessions provide one-on-one attention as exercisers focus on mastering specific fitness routines or strengthening their levitation abilities. Bella's facility is also equipped with a Korr Reevue breathing test, which determines resting metabolic rates, as well as plenty of space to host training courses on CPR and fitness instruction.329 N Brand Blvd.Glendale, CA US
Total Woman Gym + SpaRead MoreBefore Art Stone was head of Total Woman Gym & Spa, he ran a chain of salons. His female clientele loved their custom cuts, but California had no shortage of stylists—what they really struggled to find was day-spa pampering and weight-loss assistance, all in one spot. Stone listened, and in 1965, created precisely the sanctuary they were looking for. The Gym The group fitness classes: Held in sunny studios, classes in disciplines such as power yoga, kickboxing, and Zumba help build muscle and burn calories. The personal training sessions: Trainers jolt clients out of fitness plateaus with customized workouts, or one-on-one Pilates training that tones cores and builds lean muscle. The equipment: Workout gear runs the gamut from circuit-training equipment to treadmills, ellipticals, and recumbent bikes. The Spa The massages: Massage therapists relax muscles with a variety of modalities, from the gentle strokes of Swedish massage to the spreading warmth of hot stones. The beauty treatments: Aestheticians beautify bodies and faces with an eclectic mix of rejuvenating facials, cellulite-minimizing treatments, and waxing for unwanted stubble.601 N Brand Blvd.Glendale, CA US
Jucchou GolfRead MoreScholl Canyon Golf Course Since 1970, golfers have been traversing the 3,039 yards of Scholl Canyon Golf Course, beating back bogies with clubs a combination of and cunning. The William P. Bell design escorts them across fairways of high bermuda and large bentgrass greens, adding up to a par 60 course comprised of six par 4s and 12 par 3s. With just one hole extending to more than 300 yards, the course emphasizes the short game and confers success on those who can dial in their iron play and keep their putts from rolling into a time warp. Course at a Glance: 18-hole, par 60 course Total length of 3,039 yards from the back tees Course rating of 54.7 from the back tees Course slope of 88 from the back tees Two sets of tees per hole Royal Vista Golf Club The palm trees at Royal Vista Golf Club reach high in the clouds, a visual testament to the course's maturation over the past half-century. The course—a 27-hole gem framed to the south by distant mountain peaks—connects wide fairways and small greens in a landscape dotted with sand traps and water hazards. True to the area's rolling topography, many holes stretch over elevation changes that add drama to putts and make carts squeal with delight. Before rounds, guests can enjoy a practice session at the driving range, chipping area, and two practice greens.3800 E. Glenoaks Blvd.Glendale, CA US
Frame 128 RestaurantRead MoreExecutive chef Kareem Shaw is no stranger to creating memorable fine-dining experiences. He's cooked for governors, senators, congressmen, and even President Barak Obama. At Frame 128 Restaurant, he lends his expertise to menu of fine American fusion food. Here, Shaw crafts a variety of dishes with influences from all over the globe, including appetizers of escargot and oysters, wild boar and kobe beef burgers, and ahi tuna. The menu even includes a selection of flatbread pizzas. To complement bites of filet mignon and wild New Zealand king salmon, the bartenders muddle and swirl a selection of signature cocktails. The menu's bold flavors and detail-oriented craftsmanship call for an equally swanky environment. To that end, the restaurant's dining rooms and lounges, which are spread over two stories, are characterized by sleek, modern decor. The downstairs Blue Lounge offers clusters of plush couches and round low tables for intimate exchanges, while the upstairs Red Lounge facilitates views of the courtyard, accented by neon-lit surroundings.128 N Maryland Ave.Glendale, CA US


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Update on FatumaFatuma is a very hardworking person who has shown a great enthusiasm in moving forward. She has had several loans both from Yehu and Kiva. She is a faithful and honest person who can be entrusted with loans since she is responsible.
Fatuma says that since she started getting support in the form of loans her business has been gradually growing. This new loan will allow her expand her business and will enable her to buy ingredients like wheat flour, basic grains, cooking oils, vegetables, and meat. As a result, she will be able to continue to earn good income.
Previous Loan DetailsFatuma is taking out a new loan to expand her food vending business because demand has risen for the pasr few weeks. She does not want to disappoint her clients, so she wants to make new investments so that she can offer a variety of food in her food stall. Fatuma says that since her previous loa... More from Fatuma's previous loan »
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About Yehu Microfinance TrustThis loan is administered by Yehu Microfinance Trust, which was founded in 1998 as a project of CHOICE Humanitarian Kenya. In July 2007, Yehu became a separate entity from CHOICE and was registered as a trust. Since then, Yehu has expanded to cover over half of Kenya's 13 coastal districts.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Taking, collecting, and uploading photos of borrowers is one of the most challenging elements of using Kiva for our Field Partners. In order to make Kiva easier for Field Partners to use, we have allowed them to post successive and concurrent loans without taking a new photo of the borrower if the criteria above are met.


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Editor's note: The ESPN RISE FAB 50 softball rankings are compiled by Garland Cooper, Doug Huff, Mark Tennis and Paul Muyskens. They will be released each Wednesday throughout the season.
After winning top honors a year ago in the inaugural Nike Faster to 1st tournament, Pembroke Pines Charter of Florida was in prime position to finish the 2008 high school softball as the No. 1 team in the FAB 50 national rankings.
That didn't happen due to an upset loss to Naples in the Class 4A state final and the Jaguars started out this year with an early loss.
So far, however, that's been their only blemish and last week they re-inserted themselves into the race for the top of the charts by winning the Blue Bracket title at the prestigious Kissimmee Klassic.
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Coach Mary Jo Truesdale's squad put on a show in Huntington Beach with four shutout wins, including a 8-0 win in the semifinals against Camarillo and a 2-0 victory in the finals against Canyon of Anaheim, 2-0. Pitcher Jolene Henderson posted all of the shutouts and was considered the tourney's MVP.
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A federal-level national office proposed by the Obama administration to address critical gaps in insurance regulation in 2009. The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) would be housed under the U.S. Treasury Department. It would not have regulatory authority, but it would monitor the industry and coordinate industry policy. The FIO's initial goals would be to expand federal level knowledge of state-related insurance regulation issues and challenges for state regulators when representing the U.S. in multinational legal affairs.
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The suggestion of a federal office on insurance was spurred on in part by the financial markets meltdown of 2007 and 2008. The failure of insurance behemoth AIG has been cited as a contributing factor to the financial crisis.
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The developers of LEFT BEHIND: ETERNAL FORCES the highly-anticipated PC game based on the blockbuster fiction series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins are set to launch the title in the second half of 2006.
The developers of LEFT BEHIND: ETERNAL FORCES the highly-anticipated PC game based on the blockbuster fiction series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins are set to launch the title in the second half of 2006.
Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) has launched the SCARFACE: THE WORLD IS YOURS Videogame Soundtrack Talent Search," a nationwide talent contest running on MySpace.com that will reward the best unsigned music talent in North America with the chance to have a song featured in the upcoming SCARFACE videogame and the opportunity to perform in front of music and videogame industry leaders at a major concert event in Hollywood. The nomination process is now open at www.myspace.com/scarfacegame.
DC Comics, Sony Online Ent. Inc. (SOE) and Warner Bros. Interactive Ent. (WBIE) announced plans to collaborate with legendary comicbook illustrator Jim Lee to work on a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO) based on the DC Comics universe.
SOE will be developing and publishing a game based on the DC Comics universe for next generation gaming platforms and the PC. It is expected that Lee will serve as exec creative director on the game, bringing his artistic flair and talents to the world of online gaming for the first time.
Comedy Central will launch its first original animated mobile series SAMURAI LOVE GOD, to premiere in first quarter 2006 and launch cross carriers with eight two-and-a-half minute episodes. The adult series features the voices of adult film star Jenna Jameson and THE DAILY SHOW correspondent Ed Helms.
Midway Games Inc., Tigon Studios, founded by Vin Diesel, and Viacom's MTV Films, Paramount Pictures and MTV Games announced a collaboration on a groundbreaking action-entertainment property, THE WHEELMAN.
THE WHEELMAN is being developed as a videogame from Midway, in association with Tigon Studios and MTV Games, intended to serve as the introduction to a series of related entertainment offerings.
Toon Radio has acquired the broadcast rights to the anime talk show podcast, ANIME GENESIS for its Internet broadcast. The a weekly hour-long anime talk show keeps listeners up to date on the latest happenings in the world of anime and manga, with commentary and discussion from the hosts.
THQ Inc. has released PAWS & CLAWS PET RESORT, a videogame for animal lovers pamper their favorite creatures at their own pet resort. Published by THQ's ValuSoft division, PAWS & CLAWS PET RESORT is rated "E" for Everyone and is available for Game BoyAdvance at retail outlets throughout North America for $19.99 SRP.
The Hasbro Properties Group, the intellectual property development arm of Hasbro, Inc. has granted Activision Inc., a leading publisher of interactive entertainment software products, the global rights, excluding Japan, to develop console, handheld and PC games based on Hasbro's renowned TRANSFORMERS brand. The first game will be tied to the much-anticipated July 4, 2007, movie release of the live-action TRANSFORMERS film from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.
The Weinstein Co. has partnered with FamilyMediaGuide.com to develop the MEET DOOGAL AND FRIENDS MATCHING GAME, an interactive online game and sweepstakes, based on the animated movie, DOOGAL, opening in theaters in the U.S. on Feb. 24, 2006.
Originally released in Europe as SPRUNG: THE MAGIC-ROUNDABOUT, The Weinstein Co. (enjoying box office success with the animated flick HOODWINKED) picked up the picture and had it re-cut it, recorded new voices and renamed it DOOGAL, with U.S. direction by Butch Hartman.
Building off its success as an international publisher of video and computer games based on leading international children's characters, The Game Factory announced a significant expansion in its 2006 product portfolio at the 2006 American International Toy Fair. More than 20 titles, developed for young gamers, will ship for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 and PC-CD ROM platforms. Titles can be purchased via national toy, electronic, videogame, software and mass-market retailers.
Don't end up in the doghouse for forgetting to buy your significant other a Valentines Day card. Warner Bros. Online has come the rescue with the "Scooby's Sweetheart Card Creator" on www.scoobydoo.com. The card creator allows site visitors to design their own Valentine's Day cards for free and print them out from any printer.
Warner Independent Pictures debuts its trailer for A SCANNER DARKLY on Ampd Mobile handsets today (Feb. 13, 2006), giving mobile customers in the U.S. get the first look at a feature film trailer before it hits theaters or the Web.
Screenlife Llc., creator of SCENE IT? The DVD Game, the top-selling board game in the world for the second year in a row, is adding more than a dozen new licensed and independent titles to its collection this year.
Electronic Arts will release THE GODFATHER THE GAME videogame on March 21, 2006, in North America and on March 24 the game will be available on retain shelves in Europe. Developed by EA, the open-world videogame is based on the critically-acclaimed book by Mario Puzo and the classic film by Paramount Pictures through a strategic licensing relationship with Viacom Consumer Products. Gamers worldwide may step into the Dons dangerous world of intimidation and negotiation via their PlayStation2, Xbox or PC.
THQ Inc. announced the release of FINDING NEMO: ESCAPE TO THE BIG BLUE for Nintendo DS.
The original FINDING NEMO videogame, which launched May 2003, has earned best-seller status as a "Greatest Hit" on Sony PlayStation 2, a "Platinum Family Hit" on Microsoft Xbox and a "Players Choice" on Nintendo Game Cube. In addition, THQ has shipped more than seven million units across multiple platforms in more than 40 international territories.
LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. announced two new learning platforms LeapsterTV a new game console that extends the popular franchise to ages three and older and Little Leaps Grow-with-Me Learning System.
LeapsterTV, an educational game console that plugs into the family television, works with the Leapster educational software library, and the console's big buttons and easy-to-use joystick are designed with three-year-olds in mind.
For Valentines Day, PorchLight Ent.s Jay Jay The Jet Plane is sending out a special invitation for children to create their own homemade valentines and submit them for viewing on www.jayjay.com. Once created, the valentines can be sent to Jay Jay, Lina, Tracy or any of the special Tarrytown friends. The valentines can be created in any fashion, using glitter, crayons or paper and glue.
All cards should include the childs first name, age and mailed to:Jay Jay the Jet Plane11777 Mississippi AvenueLos Angeles, California 90025
D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA) has sealed a worldwide publishing agreement with DreamWorks Animation SKG for videogames based on the forthcoming computer animated feature film, FLUSHED AWAY, produced by Aardman Animation. The first games are scheduled to be released for console systems and handheld systems in Q4 2006 to coincide with the release of the film on Nov. 3, 2006.
Konami Digital Ent. Inc. announced new titles and additional details for its 2006 lineup. On the heels of a year that featured the release of all-new versions of blockbuster franchises such as CASTLEVANIA, DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION and KARAOKE REVOLUTION, this years roster will boast the latest versions of franchises METAL GEAR SOLID, WINNING ELEVEN and SUIKODEN as well as the companys first title for Xbox 360 RUMBLE ROSES XX.
THQ Inc. has the exclusive worldwide rights to develop and publish videogames based on the forthcoming teen spy movie, STORMBREAKER. The movie follows the award-winning author Anthony Horowitz's series of best-selling Alex Rider books. The videogames, developed by Altron for Nintendo DS and Razorback Developments for Game Boy Advance, are scheduled for a simultaneous worldwide launch with the movie in summer 2006.
Culver City-based Bugeater Films announced the first Park City deal ever of a videogame based on an independent film. Slamdance co-founder and OPEN HOUSE director Dan Mirvish struck a deal with Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition (GGC) winners Joe Bourrie and Patrick Hackett. Bourrie and Hackett, whose game RUMBLE BOX won this year's award for innovation in programming, will design a web-based java game for Mirvish's real estate musical, OPEN HOUSE, which Wellspring Media recently released on DVD.
Capcom announced the release of STREET FIGHTER ALPHA ANTHOLOGY and DEVIL MAY CRY 3: DANTES AWAKENING Special Edition for PlayStation 2.
Comedy Central has launched on iTunes, with 56 half-hour episodes featuring the network's leading franchises the Emmy Award-winning SOUTH PARK, DRAWN TOGETHER and COMEDY CENTRAL STAND-UP. A download of a new episode of hit-animated reality series, DRAWN TOGETHER, will be available on Monday, Jan. 30, 2006, three days in advance of the Feb. 1, network debut making this an "iTunes Episode Premiere."
MTV Networks and Apple announced Jan. 26, 2006, that hit television programming from MTV, MTV2, COMEDY CENTRAL, Nickelodeon and The N is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes Music Store (www.itunes.com). The new content features favorites, such as PUNK'D, SOUTH PARK, DORA THE EXPLORER, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS and LAGUNA BEACH.
Electronic Arts announced MEDAL OF HONOR AIRBORNE, the newest installment from EAs critically-acclaimed MEDAL OF HONOR franchise. As the first game in the MEDAL OF HONOR series to be released on next-generation platforms, AIRBORNE will ship to stores in Winter 2006 under the EA brand for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Xbox and Windows PC.


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Through YouTube there are two new videos available for songs from the new album 'Ewald Kegel 2'.
The first video is for the ballad 'When Words Get in The Way'.
The second video is for the disco oriented track 'Wild Girl':
Through YouTube there are two new videos available for songs from the new album 'Ewald Kegel 2'.
The first video is for the ballad 'When Words Get in The Way'.
The second video is for the disco oriented track 'Wild Girl':
In 1987 an EP with 4 songs was released, "Ewald Kegel 2". It was released on cassette and the EP was the follow up to the initial 1986 mini album "The Right Way".
The original "2" EP contained 4 songs "When Words Get in The Way", "Wild Girl", "1974" and the cover of Tim Hardin's classic "Red Balloon". Releasing the 4-track EP meant a departure from an earlier idea to release a full fledged album with songs that were recorded during autumn/ winter of 1987.
Some 28 years later the original idea for an album comes alive again. "2" is now a 30 minute sound experience that contains a broad range of styles. There are ballads ("When Words Get in The Way"), Beatles oriented psychedelic pop ("Good Day Friends") and 1987 contemporary influences like Prince ("Pretty Little One" and "Don't Wave Goodbye"). The central song of the original EP and the 2015 album remains without any doubt "Wild Girl". The track is disco oriented and uses extensively new recording technology that arrived in the mid-80s. It was composed and recorded with an Atari 1024STf computer running Steinberg Pro-24 software. The sampled voices on the song come from another technology that arrived by the mid-80s, sampling. In this particular example the Roland MKS-100 sampler was used.
The songs on the album represent the original music and tracks as recorded in 1987: no additional instruments were recorded or added. The songs were digitally transfered from their original 4-track recordings (Tascam 246) to a 2015 digital DAW and from there remixed and remastered using software like Klangheim MJUC Compressor, Waves V-Compressor, Q equalizer, L2, S1, H-Delay, Kazrog KClip and Native Instruments Passiv EQ.
The track listing of the album is as follows:
Good Day Friends
When Words Get in The Way
Wild Girl
Red Balloon
Don't Wave Goodbye
Dynamic & Velocity
Home with You by Christmas
You can listen to it on SoundCloud:
or listen to it through YouTube:
The total running time of the album is around 30 minutes. The album marks a shift in sound and recording with the introduction of the computer as a DAW (digital audio workstation) and the use of sampling.
"2" will be available soon on YouTube and Soundcloud as an album stream and the individual tracks will be made available for regular download or streaming through regular online music channels like Apple Music and Amazon.
Last week a small news item caught my attention that stated "Jesus was married". As often with these type of articles, the main purpose of the headline was to attract the attention of the reader. The item referred to a small piece of papyrus that had been announced by professor Karen L. King in 2012 and used in a publication by her in 2014. The publication sparkled controversy and heated arguments until this day regarding whether the piece of papyrus, dubbed 'GJW' (Gospel of Jesus' Wife) is a forgery. Intensive scientific testing followed and concluded that the piece was indeed ancient.
Nevertheless the claims of forgery remained persistent and in an issue of the New Testament Studies (vol. 61, no. 3, July 2015) an union of researchers explain why GJW can not be accepted as a genuine early Christian text. For what it is worth, King and her researchers date the text to the sixth to ninth century CE, so it is not to be considered that early anyway, taking in account the text dates from 600 to 900 years after the actual events (the life of Jesus).
The text of GJW is in Coptic and contains a phrase where he says 'my wife' and speaks about a female disciple. A Wikipedia article contains the whole text of the fragment as well as further information about the piece of papyrus.
Aside from whether the piece of text is or is not a forgery, there were claims made by King that would lead to the disaster that has happened (the dismise of papyrology, the reputation of a Harvard professor). Naming the fragment 'Gospel of Jesus' Wife' was a nice way to catch attention of a larger audience, but the claim of the piece of papyrus representing a larger body of work comparable to other known gospels is uncalled for. If the snippet is authentic it is way too small to put a claim of a gospel to it. Prof. King should have known better: any text related to early christianity, be it the 'official' canon of the New Testament, let alone the apocryphal texts, like the Gospel of Thomas, are the products of countless revisions, translations and interpretations.
Only through carefully comparing sources like the four canonical Gospels (that share a similar sequence of events) from the New Testament one can make assumptions (not draw conclusions) about a historical Jesus and the embryonic stage of what eventually would become the religion of Christianity. Everything beyond that is pure speculation and has nothing to do with praticing science. Text fragments, like the one discovered at best are interesting from a perspective to learn about the evolution of Christianity and its teachings and how the moral idiom evolved over the centuries. Claims to give new insight to the life of Jesus are simply uncalled for. Maybe prof. King was out there to pt new life into her interest for 'gender studies' as her biography on the Harvard website presents.
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In the 80's only a limited number of possibilities were available to mix and then 'print' your songs in a professional way. In the beginning when I recorded on 4 tracks (cassette) there was only the option to mix down the final mix to another cassette. But later in the 80's I became aware of another method to mixing and printing the music and that was by using a HiFi VHS recorder using a high quality VHS tape. This required a special recorder that was able to record the music with a high signal-ratio level. Yet the mixing process could be quite troublesome. You had to leave some space on the tape before you actually started to record to get the best quality and there could be random drop outs, crackles and noise bursts.
Through 1987 until 1989 it would be my preferred method of mixing down music. Recently I acquired a HiFi VHS recorder that enabled me to listen back to these old mixes. I was glad to find that they actually quite well stood the test of time. although in some cases there were the above mentioned anomalies. The other surprise was that I rediscovered music that I considered to be lost or simply forget about. For example I knew I recorded a tune called Bewildered in Fantasy around 1986 and on one of the VHS tapes I found it.
This song was originally recorded on a 4-track Fostex X-15 recorder, that produced a real compressed (nice, I think) sound. The amount of music I found back on these VHS tapes is quite overwhelming (ca. 2 hours of music).
In a later period, when I already had started working with a computer (Atari ST) and had acquired a number of external synths I mixed down the music directly from the mixing desk to VHS tape. An example of this is the song Seagull For a Day that most likely was recorded in 1989. The quality I quite astonishing for a tape that was not used for over 25 years.
Around 1990 the 'VHS era' ended when I switched to DAT tape. That enabled me to mix (and later on master) the music to CD quality (44.1 KHz sample rate) and most of all, the recordings on tape were very reliable. The songs on DAT tapes were automatically recognised so you could jump from track to track or search directly for a certain track. It was in the second half of the 90's that I would start a technique called 'bouncing' which basically means that the music 'stays' in the computer: the mix or master is directly becoming an audio file and this technique I still use until today.
The most interesting tracks that I found on VHS tape I will remix and master. Because of the impressive number of tracks it will keep me busy for some time to come and I will post regularly the results on SoundCloud.
For more information on VHS mixing and mastering I suggest you reading this:
As part of my graduation master exam I will discuss with my lecturer this book. As I always had a keen interest for the history of science, the lecturer suggested 'The Ambitions of Curiosity' by the English author and expert on ancient history of science, G.E.R. Lloyd. The work was introduced to me as 'not too thick (app. 150 pages), but much food for thought'.
In 'The Ambitions of Curiosity' Lloyd explores how 'systematic inquiry' took off in the ancient societies like Greece, Mesopotamia (Babylon) and China. According to Lloyd systematic inquiry was part of a process that sought to understand, foresee, explain and control. Mostly were the persons of interest in these process steps rulers (kings, princes, tyrants) who employed people who had the talents to master these subjects.
Lloyd discriminates four themes through which he unfolds his arguments:
In the first chapter Lloyd deals with the historical writings of the Chinese and Greeks. The most important Chinese writing was the Shiji. A taishi had different roles when recording the events. He could be an astronomer, historiographer or have another role. The emperor was the mediator between the heavens and earth. The Chinese writers were state employed and their main role was to advise the emperor. That made it often difficult for them to manoeuvre between the results of their inquiries and the purpose of staying beloved by the emperor, ultimately it meant that their work was aimed to continue a status quo and there was little room for competitiveness.
Greek historians had different challenges. Their practicing of history did not bring an official post with it and were not mainly court to their rulers but had to impress a peer group or the citizens. Contrary to the Chinese there was no integral work like Shiji, Zhouzouan or The Annals. In the works of for example Thucydides he made it clear what in his opinion was good history writing and in that he rejected certain accounts of archaeology.
The second chapter turns attention to the future and the ability to predict things. Lloyd's proposal is that the hope of being able to foretell the future was a powerful incentive to analysis and experiment, so it certainly not (only) had a negative influence on inquiry. In China if predictions did not come true that was because of a king's virtue.
The most obvious example of the evolution from predicting to systematic inquiry were the astronomers in Babylon. The study of heavens (astronomy) resulted in data that needed to be systemised and a field of study took off because of the complexity of the data involved. Over time the predictions became more predictable due to the systematic inquiry and instead of the focus on predictions the heavenly objects themselves became the subject of study. Astronomy was not the only field of study, predictions were also practiced in the field of medicine and in Greece could involve animals and dreams, though Hippocrates already distinguished divination and medicine. Astronomy in Greece relied heavily on the use of geometrical study, stemming from the desire to explain in the perfectness of geometrical objects. In Babylon and China the study was based on an arithmetical approach and in that respect also more successful.
Chapter 3 is dedicated to the subject of mathematics. To Lloyd the presumption that mathematics is an invariant science is not true. Mathematics were practiced in very different ways. In Greece the belief in geometrical symmetry was applied in fields like optics, harmonics and astronomy. An interesting episode follows when Lloyd discusses how in Greece numbers were counted with characters from the alphabet that enabled to express everything in numbers (Pythagorean belief). In some circles it was believed that numbers could have special and religious meanings, though Aristotle opposed that there was such a connection. The Chinese developed their yin yang opposites that could have a broader context than the more restricted Greek variant (Pythagorean Table of Opposites).
In chapter 4 Lloyd looks at the more practical relation between the results of systematic inquiry and its appliance in day-to-day use. Lloyd admits there is some basis in the stereotypes that Chinese were great in turning inventions into useful products and the Greeks were not interested in such an approach. Lloyd says that Archimedes proved that this simply was not true, because lots of his inventions (like his screw) found its way in real life appliances. On the other side the Chinese elite had very low esteem of labourers and craftsmen.
Lloyd looks at three fields where appliances from systematic inquiry found its way, or better said might have found its way, because in most cases it remains unclear if the results of systematic inquiry really led to the inventions. For Lloyd this is the contradiction between the texts and the authors that we still have versus the archaeological remains that have been found (were inventions made by the texts of authors, or did authors describe the inventions by the craftsmen?.
The first field Lloyd treats is warfare. The Chinese has a better support from their rulers and advisers to make technological progress, although the mentality was to win a war with a minimum of costs and lowest number of casualties. The Greek mentality remained for a long time defined by virtues like aristea (deeds of valour) and andreia (manhood) and those virtues held back technological developments, but later on technology became also for the Greeks an important factor in warfare.
Concerning agriculture it is determined by Lloyd that this was not a subject for big risks and therefore inventions. Lloyd turns his attention to slavery, that often in modern literature is being seen as one of the main reasons that held back technological development in the ancient world. Lloyd points out that slavery is very unlikely the cause of stagnation: slavery was not that cheap, there were places where there was slavery and technological improvement happening at the same time, To Lloyd the missing of an unified and central approach to agriculture looked more like the main reason why technology and results of systematic inquiry did make their way into the agricultural sector.
Finally Lloyd looks in the chapter at civil engineering. The Greeks were hindered by their love for ideal geometrical symmetry, overlooking natural phenomena like friction. The Chinese showed a preference to explore the propensities of things, they were not out to master the materials, but let them work for them and in that way they had successes in irrigation projects.
The fifth chapter is an interesting look at the role of languages to fulfil and describe inquiry. As inquiry got more complex, it meant that a specialised brand of idiom had to be created to keep things recognisable for peer investigators and the public. But the development of a specialised language also led to side effects. It could contribute to the secretiveness of a group of specialised people that were familiar with the developed idiom. In medicine we find for example the Hippocrates' oath as a result of this behaviour. The Chinese had an advantage over Greeks because their centralized approach of research meant that the language could stay more coherent opposite to Greece where inquiry was decentralised leading to discussions about naming conventions.
In the final, sixth chapter Lloyd discusses the institutions and institutional frameworks from which the systematic inquiries were performed. Lloyd comes to the core of things that were at the root of systematic inquiry. First he notices that the inquiry should be in some way useful and have a niche, so it makes sense to attract and employ investigators. But if requirements are too strictly controlled by a government then there is little room for experiment and there is a danger not to comply with the vision of the rulers. Lloyd calls this the double bind. He discusses what he calls the fortunes of transmission: the chances of survival and reception of one's ideas is restricted when working alone (at least not working for a big centralised organisation).
Again the differences between the Chinese versus the Greco-Roman world are being discussed. On one hand the big centralised organisation, where teachers aim to advise their emperors as the mediators between macrocosm (heavens and earth) and microcosm (state and body). The Greco-Roman world saw a diverse variation of sometimes state supported initiatives (the Ptolemies in Alexandria), the doctors working for city-states and courts of kings and finally the investigators that made their income from the fees of students that followed courses in their schools (the Academia from Plato as the most well known example). Investigators in general found themselves in situations with stiff competition and the results of inquiry of an investigator could by definition find harsh critique from other scholars.
From what is discussed above it is clear that Lloyd concludes that there is no ideal framework to perform systematical inquiry, every type of framework posed its own challenges wehen it came to face certain situations like how to approach and convince rulers, peers and an audience. A situation that in current science is still recognisable.
Personally I found this a enjoyable book to read, mainly because it offers a different approach than the usual books on ancient history of science that deal with the obvious who did what first and where. This work obviously wants to deal with the why question surrounding the systematic inquiry and its ambition to fulfil questions about future and past events. Some subjects carried on a bit too long in my opinion, like Lloyds treatment of the harmonics and toward the end of the chapter on languages. The book has a great bibliography to make further investigations into the subject.
I don't tend to agree that Lloyd gives the impression that the Greek investigators were most of all working as small company entrepreneurs, I always had the convictions that most of them were employed by the many local rulers in the Mediterranean and that there was competition among those rulers to employ the most successful (maybe even controversial) investigators as part of their royal courts. I would like to have seen further that some time was spend on discussing the possible connections between the Chinese and Greek investigators: were they completely operating independently or might there a be occasional instances of information leak between the distant worlds.
My mother gave me a postcard that my grandfather send on August 24, 1934 from "Indië" (as the Dutch would call the nowadays Indonesia) to The Netherlands. The family is enjoying a vacation in Soekaboemi (nowadays Sukabumi), a village located in the mountains, 70 kilometre south of Jakarta. The name of the site where they stayed was named "Hotel en Boerderij (= Farm) Cramer".
The message is:
"Dear Mother and Ida (his sister),
We amuse us here well and it is deliciously cool
X (mark on the front side of postcard) is the small cottage where we stay. Furthermore
receive regards from Louisa (his wife), Elly (daughter) and Cor (my grandfather).
For the past week I have been traveling in the west of Turkey and visited the following places and sites: Ephese, Milete, Didima, Priene, Izmir, Troy, Pergamon, Sirince.
You can find a small collection of my favorite images here.
On my short journey in Turkey I used the new Apple iPhone 5s panorama option to take some beautiful panorama photos. Once you get into the hang of things it is rather easy to use.
Click this link to go to my Apple Photo stream:
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Since a few days over here (The Netherlands) Apple's new iPhones are gradually becoming available in the non-Apple stores, like AMac and MediaMarkt. After holding out with my iPhone 4 for 3 years, I gradually became quite frustrated with the loading time of applications like Whatsapp and Twitter, so I decided to jump on the iPhone 5s wagon. Although I originally shopped for the space grey model, the only availbale model was the 'champagne gold' one, so I purchased that one. I was a bit afraid that it would be a bit over-the-top but the colors are really very beautiful, which can generally be said when you see and hold the phone. I have been looking at the Galaxy S4, HTC One and LG G2 but personally I think none of its competitors comes close when talking design and use of materials. It is in a league of its own. Because I also purchased one of Apple's own cases the champagne gold look is regretfully not visible anymore, it's now more a black cover (case)/white front phone.
After purchasing the first thing to do was to get my data from iPhone 4 to the 5s. It was a painless process. All my data was transfered perfectly. I guessed that part of the transfer process would be that my apps would be transfered, but that was not the case. I solved this by going to the App Store and re-install the necessary apps. I wasn't too unhappy about that because it allowed me to re-evaluate what apps I wanted to install (over the cause of a number of years, your need for apps is certainly changing, so I could get rid of apps like MSN Messenger ;)).
I must say that after one week of using I'm not totally friends with Touch ID, Apple's way of getting access to the phone by registering your fingerprints. While it is a great idea and will save you a lot of swiping, I noticed that my iPhone does a poor job of recognizing my thumb, despite of some re-learning. My index finger is better recognized, although certainly not a 100% score.
The thing you will really love about the iPhone 5s is its sheer, crazy speed. To simply explain this: I fully understand the stories I have read about people who feel motion sick about operating their iPhone.
The second thing I noticed is that Siri has made great improvements, understanding what you ask 'her'. It is now really easy to do all kinds of more or less complex tasks, my favorite one adding reminders and opening apps. As long as you talk English, Dutch is not supported (yet), I really find Siri becoming an useful tool, despite people who think otherwise.
I have already discussed before iOS7 in a separate review, mentioning it is more of a refinement of previous iOS versions than a radical revolution in OS-land. To me it still remains a double edged sword. I still find it hard believe they killed off all those beautiful design elements (like for example the icons they used for Garageband and Pages) and now we are stuck with some lame ultra basic, flat design decisions. I'm also not too fond about the new keyboard with the small Helvetica Neue font and big white keys (in some cases you are presented with a keyboard where those colors are reversed and is much more to my liking). But, on the other hand the OS has become so much slicker and better equipped with functionality that makes live easier. Apple also clearly have put lots of energy to improve apps like Reminders or Voice Memos that are now more a joy to use than before iOS7. In the photo and video department things are now really on par with competitors, for example you have the option to shoot your videos in slow motion.
So if you come from a pre-iPhone 5 phone and you are not frightened by Apple's hefty pricing (I'm not saying that it is unreasonably priced), purchasing the iPhone 5s is much of a no-brainer. You will own a beautiful designed and -for now- blazingly fast phone.
Update dec, 1st 2013:
The working of Touch ID seems to be more problematic than originally thought. I did some rescannings of my thumb, but I have the impression that when Touch ID is in use the recognition degrades after a few times of use. My index finger fares better, around 80% recognition. But with the way I hold and use my phone, the thumb is the only viable option. I have made 2 scans of my thumb, but the recognition remains problematic.The recognition process is somewhat goofy and unclear. Most of the times a recognition is followed by a motion feedback which -I suppose- is the signal to lift your finger. But sometimes one can lift and press without motion feedback. Graphic representations of the lines of a finger are shown with the small lines getting bold and red while scanning. But whether this graphic is supposed to mean something or is just some fancy, silly indication remains unclear.
Last but not least I've wondered what the option "Require Passcode" in the Settings Menu is supposed to mean. One expects something like "15 minutes". "30 minutes" etc. but it only gives one option "Immediately" that can't be changed.
I hope that Apple cleans up their act in new iOS versions with this stuff…If not I'm afraid I'll skip Touch ID altogether, which would be a shame because if it worked it would be very cool.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Xavier coach Chris Mack liked what he saw Tuesday night.
His guards locked onto Kellen Dunham and didn't let him get free. His big men made life challenging inside, too.
Add that to Butler's poor shooting and it was no wonder, Mack thought one of the ugliest nights inside Hinkle Fieldhouse in recent memory turned into a real beauty - with a 64-50 blowout that wasn't even that close.
"I thought Dee (Davis) was as locked in as he's ever been. To hold Kellen Dunham to two points…" Mack said after Xavier's second straight win. "When you do that it puts a lot of pressure on Butler's other players."
Dunham's teammates weren't any better.
Xavier heeded the advice of one of its most famous alums, Pacers power forward David West, by taking charge early and refusing to let up.
The result: The Musketeers (17-7, 7-4 Big East) held their longtime rival to a season-low point total, won for the eighth time in 10 games in this series, came within one minute of handing the Bulldogs their worst home loss in 21 seasons and then heard their own students rub it in by chanting "Na-na-na-na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye."
For Xavier, it doesn't get much better than this.
Semaj Christon continued his hot streak, finishing with 15 points, four rebounds and three assists. Isaiah Philmore had 10 points and five rebounds. Matt Stainbrook added six points and nine rebounds, and Davis broke out of a shooting slump by making three 3-pointers to score nine points.
But it was Xavier's staunch defense that was the difference Tuesday. Four times in the first half, Butler went at least two minutes without a basket. So when they opened the second half with only one basket in the first eight minutes, it was all over.
It was also by design.
"I felt like we came out more aware and more ready to stop Dunham and to make sure that when he caught it, we were all right there - not just Dee," Christon said.
Davis didn't need much help.
He hounded the Bulldogs' top scorer all night, making sure he contested every short or forced him into positions where he could rely on other defenders.
Dunham responded by missing his first seven shots and was kept scoreless for nearly 25 minutes. He wound up 1 for 10 from the field, 0 for 5 on 3-pointers and his worst scoring night of the season.


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Amputation through the diaphysis of the femur at the most peripheral level possible. The stump, covered with soft tissue flaps, is free from pain. It can be fitted with a total contact prosthetic socket. The hip joint is preserved with its full range of motion.
When no possibility to amputate at a more distal level through the tibia or the knee joint exists.
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Symmetrical flaps in the frontal plane are recommended. Asymmetrical flaps and flaps in the sagittal plane can also be made. Their muscles are fixed to each other (myodesis) or the bone end by means of transosseous sutures (myopexy). The ischial nerve has to be shortened about 2 inches proximal to the end of the femur. In peripheral vascular diseases, this procedure is not suitable. An alternative technique is suggested. In chronic osteomyelitis (e.g., after intramedullary nailing), the ventral half of the femur can be removed and the medullary cavity cleansed and filled with a muscular flap in order to maintain length. Lengthening procedures of the femur are discussed. POSTOPERATIVE
Avoid active or passive movement of the stump for the first 2 weeks in order not to disturb healing of the muscle sutures. Physical therapy, prosthetic fitting after 4-6 weeks, according to the expected functional level 0-4. Aids: crutches, wheel chair, adjustable bed, modified hand-controlled automobile. The walking ability of a patient with a double amputation above the knee is severely limited and in patients with peripheral artery disease remains the exception.
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Lower-limb amputation and body weight changes in men.
Little is known about the relationship between lower-limb amputation (LLA) and subsequent changes in body weight. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using clinical and administrative databases ...
A Systematic Review of Outcomes after Revision Amputation for Treatment of Traumatic Finger Amputation.
Revision amputation is often the treatment for traumatic finger amputation injuries. However, patient outcomes are inadequately reported, and their impact is poorly understood. The authors performed a...
Management of Complications Relating to Finger Amputation and Replantation.
There are many options in the management of fingertip or finger amputations. Injudicious revision amputation may cause complications. These complications can be prevented by tension-free closure of th...
Skew flap for staged below-knee amputation in sepsis.
Skew flap amputation was first described in the 1980s but was never as popular as the long posterior flap amputation. This report describes a staged below-knee amputation in sepsis, with pus throughou...
Complete major amputation of the upper extremity: Early results and initial treatment algorithm.
Traumatic major amputations of the upper extremity are devastating injuries. These injuries have a profound impact on patient's quality of life and pose a burden on social economy. The aims of the cur...
Bone Physiology & Mechanics in Osteomyoplasty Amputation Rehabilitation
The purpose of the study is to compare the effect of different lower limb amputation surgical procedures on leg bone integrity and rehabilitation outcome.
Kinematic, Kinetic, and Metabolic Comparison of Bilateral Transfemoral Ambulation With Passive Versus Powered Prosthetic Devices
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Moisture sensitive airbag system components may deteriorate in humid climate regions, causing an increase in inflator pressure which ruptures when passenger airbags are deployed. Injury can result from inflator parts striking an occupant. Dealers will replace affected airbag inflators to correct this concern. Subaru is the manufacturer of Saabs affected by this recall. This recall supersedes Subaru recall 14V-471.
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I've got just over 129,000 miles on my GT wagon. It is a pleasure to drive and it handles exceptionally well in any weather. I bought it used 11/08 with 102,000 miles. The non-scheduled repairs so far have included the starter at 120,000; then a tensioner bolt sheared-off and the timing belt then damaged all the valves, so the heads were replaced, new timing belt, etc. to the tune of $3200; B...
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Published: January 28, 2004
JERUSALEM, Jan. 27— Leaders of the Israeli settlement movement said Tuesday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had proposed dismantling seven isolated settlements as part of a plan of ''unilateral disengagement'' from the Palestinians.
The settler leaders said Mr. Sharon promised in exchange for their support to seek legislation banning the removal of more settlements before a final agreement with the Palestinians.
Mr. Sharon said any report of such negotiations was false. ''I have no intention of legislating any law that would tie the government's hands,'' he said. He said his advisers had just begun drawing up his plan.
The settler leaders said they rejected the offer at a meeting in recent days with a representative of Mr. Sharon. Bentzi Lieberman, the chairman of the Yesha Council, the main settlers group, told Israel Radio that the proposal amounted to ''the unilateral transfer of Jews.''
A public fight between the settlers and Mr. Sharon could potentially serve the interests of both. For the settlers, it could signal the right-wing elements of Mr. Sharon's government to stiffen their opposition to his plan; for Mr. Sharon, it could signal Washington that he has limited political room to maneuver.
Without identifying any settlements, Mr. Sharon has said he would evacuate some Jewish communities as part of his unilateral plan, which he has said he will impose if he judges that the peace plan known as the road map, an initiative sponsored by the White House, has failed. Israel is building a barrier against West Bank Palestinians that Mr. Sharon says is part of his plan. Ehud Olmert, the vice prime minister, has said Mr. Sharon could start implementing his plan in June.
President Bush announced the road map at a meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Jordan last June, but it has gained little traction. After an absence of four months, John Wolf, Mr. Bush's special envoy to promote the initiative, returned here today and said, ''Both sides need to continue to do more.''
The Bush administration has been critical of Mr. Sharon for failing to comply with commitments to remove settlement ''outposts'' set up in the West Bank during his tenure. The administration has also criticized the Palestinians for failing to abide by their commitments under the plan, including a pledge to start breaking up terrorist groups.
According to Israeli news reports, settler leaders said Mr. Sharon proposed to remove four settlements in the northern West Bank -- Homesh, Ganim, Kadim and Sanur -- and three in Gaza -- Kfar Darom, Morag and Netzarim. The communities are believed to have fewer than 1,500 residents in all.
There are about 230,000 settlers living in 145 settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, not counting the roughly 100 outposts. The United States has traditionally resisted Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel occupied in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Dror Etkes, a spokesman for Peace Now, an Israeli group that monitors settlements, called the withdrawal from the seven sites ''disengagement from a very, very small part'' of the West Bank.
In Ramallah, in the West Bank, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Maher, met Tuesday with Palestinian leaders to press for an agreement among Palestinian factions to halt attacks on Israelis.
Yasir Arafat, the head of the Palestinian Authority, said the men had agreed on ''various important steps,'' but he did not elaborate.
Mr. Arafat also thanked the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah for including Palestinians in a prisoner exchange with Israel that is to take place on Thursday. Israel agreed to free 435 Arab prisoners in exchange for an Israeli businessman and what are expected to be the remains of three Israeli soldiers held by Hezbollah. The soldiers have been believed dead since they were abducted on patrol along the border in 2000.
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Most federal agencies will miss the Sept. 30 deadline by which their public-facing websites are supposed to support Internet Protocol version 6. An official weekly snapshot provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology showed that as of Sept. 26, just 11 percent of the 1,498 government external domains tested had operational IPv6 support. Another 35 percent have the support in progress, but a full 54 percent showed no progress.
(See the complete list of domains included in the testing here.)The government is doing better than industry, however, which showed only 1 percent of sites with full support and another 28 percent in progress.
NIST cautions that its results are only estimates. Still, the numbers suggest the government still has some way to go to meet the Obama Administration's mandate, issued in 2010 by former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra. NIST looks to see whether a given domain supports IPv6 in three components: the domain name system -- which translates the numerical IP address into something intelligible to humans, such as fcw.com -- e-mail and the web.
There is urgency driven by the mandate, but there is also urgency driven by the dwindling number of available addresses under IPv4, the old standard. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which manages the global allocation of IP addresses, assigned the final available blocks to regional registries in early 2011, and some of those regional allocations have already been exhausted. IPv6 affords an exponentially larger number of unique IP addresses (79,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as many as IPv4), which will be vital for the increasingly networked world.
Akamai, a company that provides products and services to enable agencies to make the transition, has seen an increase in the level of priority, said Christine Schweikert, senior engagement manager with the company. "With the upcoming deadline, we're finding that the transition to IPv6 is really top of mind for U.S. government agencies," she said a few days before the deadline.
Akamai uses dual-stacked servers to aid the transition, allowing an agency to run IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. She likened it to learning a new language. "Over time, as IPv6 clients become more ubiquitous, you speak less and less IPv4 and eventually, IPv6 becomes your native language," she said.
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