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What's New
Includes support for the following WordPress features:
* Custom fields
* Post formats
* Page templates
* Sticky posts
Contains the following bug fixes:
* Fixes syncing with completely empty Blogger blogs.
* Fixes a bug that made it impossible to add Blogger blogs that had a redirect to Feedburner in place.
* Fixes an issue that made it impossible to sync with some versions of WordPress.
* Fixes an issue that could result in some text loss when changing between rich-text/html/preview in the editor.
* Fixes date parsing problems in some locales.
* Other minor improvements and bug fixes.
App Description
The Blogging App offering the best way to manage your blogs on the iPad, brought to you by Apple Design Award winning Pico, original creators of Versions app for the Mac.
★ New to Blogging?
No problem. Creating a brand new blog from scratch in Posts is extremely easy. You'll be writing on your new blog using Posts app in no time. And thanks to the easy-to-use interface, you will be in control at all times.
★ Blogging Platforms
Posts can currently work with blogs on the following platforms: Blogger and WordPress (either hosted at wordpress.com or self-hosted).
★ Multiple Blogs Support
Whether you want to make the management of a single blog easy on the iPad, or you want a powerful workhorse that lets you manage your collection of multiple blogs on one spot, Posts app is the right tool for you. When multiple blogs are set up in Posts, you'll be able to quickly check at a glance what's going on in every single one of them.
★ Post Browsing
Browsing through your posts has never been easier. Posts app displays your latest posts neatly organized by date and the built-in calendar lets you quickly jump to a different day. For the ultimate global view, you can even choose to see the posts from all your blogs displayed simultaneously alongside one another.
★ Writing
The built-in post editor is powerful and easy. If you've ever used word processing apps before, you will feel right at home. Adding images and videos to your posts is a piece of cake. If you need to touch up the resulting HTML code, you can do that too.
When it's time to wrap it up, if you are not ready to send the new changes to your blog just yet you can save them only to your iPad as a local draft. These local drafts can be sent to your blog later, whenever you are ready.
★ Comment Management
Getting up-to-date with the comments written on your posts will be a breeze. Posts app can keep track of the comments that you have already read and processed, and show you only those that are new. This will allow you to read and approve them (or reject them) in no time.
★ Working Offline
In today's world, our devices are connected to the internet almost 24/7. However, there are always those occasions when internet access is simply not available. We don't want to let this stop you from working on your blog. Posts app can work offline in several ways. The "Outbox" lets you see all the changes that will be pushed to your blogs once internet connectivity is restored.
• Editing: new posts and pages can be created, and existing posts and pages can be edited. If you choose to publish or update them when you're done, they'll be put in the "Outbox".
• Comments: you can create new comments or reply to existing ones. Some moderation tasks can also be performed while working offline.
• Offline storage: a copy of the posts, pages and comments that Posts app displays is stored locally on your iPad. If you know you are going to be offline for a while, you can let Posts app sync with your blogs before going offline to get all the new stuff. Then, you'll be able to read and moderate any new comments even when you're not connected.
App Changes
- August 24, 2012 Initial release
- April 05, 2013 New version 1.1
- May 11, 2013 Price decrease: $9.99 -> FREE!


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Out and About This Fall With Irving Farm
If you've tasted Irving Farm coffee being served at a food event, charity food event, farmer's food event or anything in between, chances are you've met our Directof of Wholesale, Teresa von Fuchs. Sometime in between working directly with those who proudly brew and serve Irving Farm, and attending all of these amazing events, Teresa managed to write a little recap for us of what she's been up to. Suddenly the rest of us feel like massive underachievers.
Fall is a busy time of year for us at Irving Farm. It's a time of bounty and harvest and celebrating the ripening of all the the seeds sown during the spring and summer. Though we don't actually 'grow' our coffee on our farm, we're pleased to be invited to participate in celebrating the bounty of harvest time with our many partners and friends in the food community. Here's a quick wrap up of the celebrations we've been proud to share in—and share our coffee at. We started summer off right, making coffee for the Chef Farmer Brunch, hosted by No 9 to benefit the North East Community Center in Millerton. We made Kalitas of the fruit-forward Amaro Gayo in the beautiful Silver Barn—though we missed the evening barn dance, we'll be there next year with our boots on!
Taste of Hudson Valley Bounty
The next weekend, also near our upstate roastery, we were featured in the delicious art installation Pancakes and Coffee by one of the Wassiac Project's founders Jeff Barnett-Winsby. The annual weekend long Summer Festival showcases work by the artists in residency at the Wassaic Project as well as other artists, musicians and dancers from the community. The same weekend we were pleased to present some delicious pourovers at the annual Taste of Hudson Valley Bounty event and meet some more of our neighbors in farming and food. All of this inspired us to host one of our own events: in September we held our first coffee launch party, featuring the Ortiz Herrera and Mendez families and their coffees, Natamaya and Talnamica, at our 79th street cafe. There were specialty Salvadorian snacks, lots of coffee and wonderful family.
The next night we made merry with our longtime neighbors around Union Square at the Union Square Partnership's annual Harvest in the Square. One of the first neighborhood-based tasting events in the city, Harvest in the Square connects the farmers of the city's many farmers' markets with the chefs and food artisans who use their beautiful produce and other foods. We felt right at home making coffee for the crowd of 1,000 attendees, vendors and volunteers on a beautiful night in Union Square, just around the way from our flagship cafe at 71 Irving Place. Irving Farm coffee was also fuel for the the James Beard Chef Bootcamp at Glynwood. Attendees enjoyed 71 Irving House Blend during the course of the conference and then selected coffees from some of our closest farm relationships to close out the chef's signature meals of the final evening.
We were also honored to be invited by Blue Hill Chef Dan Barber to this year's G9 (now G11) summit held at Stone Barns. One hundred and twenty chefs, seed breeders and journalists from the around the world were invited to a day of discussion at Stone Barns about "The Future of Flavor." We were there to keep the crowd energized and delighted with the unique and varied flavors of coffees. We selected coffees from our offerings that showcased a range of varietals, processing methods and terroirs, and the quality and variety of our coffee selection was not missed by the audience. Fast forward to later that same week and we sent a cadre of Irving Farmers to the annual MANE conference in Pawtucket, RI. Our team taught and attended classes and ruled the dance floor—and I was honored to present on the "How Did You Get Here?" panel, revealing the secrets of how I got where I am today (in coffee—not dance moves).
This fall also marked the inaugural Taste of Gramercy event, held on a beautiful sunday in October on our home turf of Irving Place. We mingled with Gramercy Tavern, Casa Mono and many of our well-known neighbors and met some new ones at well. That same day (!) we packed up our brewing gear and headed out to the Catskills to work with our partners at Table on Ten in Bloomville, NY on a blend that represents their community-driven spirit. We brewed three coffees, each roasted with two different expressions and gave tasting flights all day to anyone and everyone who stopped in. We then created a blend with the two coffees that received the warmest receptions and played best together. We were also so warmed by their community. Everyone made us feel right at home. It was hard to leave, but we were welcomed back to the Hudson Valley to kick off Hudson Valley Restaurant Week! This is our second year as the official coffee sponsor and we were pleased as punch to spend the day brewing coffee at the Millbrook Winery and warming our bellies with veggie stew from Chef Eric Gabrynowicz of Restaurant North. And so we wrapped up the exciting season appropriately—at our upstate home in Dutchess County. It was our first year at this event and we were struck by how beautiful and bountiful and far-reaching our community is. As fall winds down into the holiday season we are most thankful for our fellow families of artisan producers and lovers of tasty things grown and crafted by hand!

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You'll be able to make a difference on public safety and policy thanks to this dual degree program.
The Suffolk MPA/MS in Crime & Justice Studies will give you a dual degree in fields that directly impact public policy and safety. Armed with a solid background in leadership, public policy, and the American judicial system, you'll be ready to tackle major challenges within the crime and justice arena.
The expedited dual program will help you complete both degrees in less time thanks to shared electives and balanced coursework. You'll graduate ready to make a difference in any community and shape policy in the given field in which you want to operate.
Cost Per Credit (2018-2019)
This introductory graduate-level course provides an overview of public administration and service and serves as a basis for further advanced studies in the MPA program. This course covers the structure, functions, and process of public service organizations at various levels, including governments and nonprofit organizations. Students explore historical trends, ethical considerations, and political rationale for the present operations of public service.
This course introduces the fundamentals of budgeting, financial management, and revenue systems. Course goals include: A heightened awareness of the democratic ideals and values that must inform budgeting and financial management decisions, including a commitment to ethics, transparency and accountability; an understanding of the budget process and the distinctive features of budgetary decisions making; an understanding of the critical linkage between budgeting and financial management systems and the capacity of an organization to achieve its strategic goals; the ability to use the budget and financial reports as planning and management tools; knowledge of the basic principles of taxation as well as the structures and functions of federal, state, and local revenue systems. The course emphasizes knowledge and skills essential to the full range of public service careers.
This course will explore complex issues in public and non-profit human resource management (HRM) by examining policies and practices that support and enhance the value and contribution of individuals in these organizations.
Students explore small groups and organization operations, practices, behaviors, and structures. They develop techniques for maximizing efficiency and/or effectiveness; evaluations analysis; concepts and applications of Classicists; leadership; organizational development, and result-oriented management; as well as elements of reorganization, innovation and change.
Leadership is a critical ingredient of successful communities and organizations. This course develops a diagnostic framework as well as strategies and tactics to mobilized adaptive work, engage multiple government, no-profit, and business stakeholders, and build awareness and momentum for actions at all levels of government and community and in one's organization. It introduces the catalytic model of leadership and applies it to the ethical handling of societal and organizational problems. Students' leadership competencies are reviewed and improved. This course is designed for people from diverse backgrounds with varied experienced in the leadership role.
Restricted to students that have completed 30 credits.
Prerequisite: Students must have completed 30 credit hours. Students will integrate the substance of previous courses in order to develop a capacity for strategic management based on a personal perspective of the role of the professional manager in the policy making process. This holistic perspective is expressed in an extensive research paper that describes the leadership role of the professional manager and defines a basis for ethical action. The course features the review of research articles, the discussion of case studies, and a consideration of future trends in public and non-profit management.
Choose any four PAD courses at the 800- or 900-level elective courses.
Students must complete 30 credit hours in the Institute for Public Service; PAD and CJS electives are not interchangeable.
Students with no professional public management experience must take:
Instructor's signature required for registration. Students with no public administration work experience will be required to take PAD 859 (Internship) at admission. This is a 3-credit course that requires both class attendance and a 300-hour work requirement. If you are required to take PAD 859, it will count as one of your PAD elective. If you are interested in a career change, and you are not required to take the internship at admission, you may take PAD 859 as an elective.
P.AD-859 will count as an elective.
Students who take CJ-786 or CJ-787 do not need to take PAD-859 and can take an additional MPA elective.
Core required course for Master of Science in Crime and Justice Program. This course will examine the relationship among crime, criminal justice and the community as well as the impact of crime on local neighborhoods and community institutions. The role of the community in the criminal justice system and processes of social control are also examined. Topics covered include: local measurement of crime statistics; community policing; prevention and early intervention strategies; community corrections and intermediate sanctions. Strategies for empowering local communities to address the quality of life in the urban environment are also explored.
Offered Spring Term
Core required course for Master of Science in Crime and Justice Studies. A sociological investigation of the relationship between crime and justice in contemporary American society. The possibilities and limits of traditional approaches to crime control are examined in the context of our search for harmony, justice and social change. Problems in evaluating the techniques, goals, and effectiveness of criminal justice agencies and organizations are considered as well as models for rethinking the scope and nature of our responses to crime.
Offered Fall Term
Core required course for Master of Science in Crime and Justice Studies. This course provides students with the fundamental tools for evaluating, designing and implementing basic and applied empirical research in criminal justice. The association between theories and research methods used in the study of criminal justice is explored through a variety of related data sources. Topics covered include: the principles of research design; issues in measurement; modes of observation; basic methods of data analysis; and ethical concerns. Students will obtain hands-on experience in project design through the development of their own research proposal.
Offered Fall Term
Core required course for Master of Science in Crime and Justice Studies. This course introduces students to the foundations of statistical analysis. Topics include: measures of central tendency; dispersion; probability; sampling distributions; hypothesis testing; correlations; and regression. Using SPSS software, students will be required to apply statistical concepts to existing data resulting in a completed research project.
Offered Spring Term
Dual degree students may take either CJ-709 Quantitative Analysis or the equivalent P.AD-715 Quantitative Analysis; students who opt to take P.AD-715 must take another Crime & Justice Studies elective in order to fulfill MSCJS credit hours.
This course will examine the major issues in the adult correctional system. Traditional incarceration as well as pretrial and post-conviction alternatives will be explored. Covered topics may include: prison and jail overcrowding; issues in classification; mental health and incarceration; substance abuse treatment within the prison setting; prison security and disturbances; vocational and educational programming within prisons; ethics and corrections.
This course examines the array of issues concerned with the administration and operation of the juvenile justice system. The historical, philosophical, and legal foundations of the juvenile justice system will be examined along with the legal and philosophical changes within the system in contemporary period. Special attention will be given to the Massachusetts model of juvenile corrections and treatment.
This course examines the administration of justice in the community courts. Topics include the role of the judge; relationships between prosecutors, defense lawyers, and the courts; the relationship between the courts and the police; the pros and cons of plea bargaining' the goals of sentencing; and the clash between victim's rights and defendant's rights. Difficult kinds of cases will be addressed, such as cases of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and crime relating to substance abuse. Questions concerning judicial accountability and the role of judges in the community will also be raised.
Restorative justice is a philosophical framework which poses an alternative to our current way of thinking about crime and justice. Through restorative justice, all the stakeholders to crime - victims, offenders, families, the wider community and the state - are active in response to crime. This course examines both the theoretical foundation of restorative justice rooted in a variety of legal and religious traditions; and the array of practices associated with restorative justice from around the world. Restorative justice philosophy and practice has impacted all areas of the criminal justice system including policing, probation, courts and the correctional programming for juvenile and adult offenders. Students will be afforded a hands-on experience through role-playing, guest speakers and field trips in the application of restorative values to contemporary justice system. Students will examine the meaning of justice in their own experiences, and be challenged to envision a community-based restorative response to crime and violence.
Offered Spring Term
This seminar focuses on two interrelated types of violence, battering and sexual assault. Both of these crimes have been the subject of intense political organizing, cultural controversy, and criminal justice reform over the past 25 years. Together these issues currently account for a significant portion of the work of the police and courts. The research literature on these topics has increased dramatically in recent years. There are now many studies of women victimized by batterings and rape, and of men who commit these crimes. There is a growing body of research on institutional responses to such violence, particularly criminal justice responses. There is new literature on the racial and class dimensions of this violence, on trauma and recovery, and on battering in lesbian and gay relationships. This course examines these crimes from psychological, sociological, and criminal justice perspectives.
Offered Fall Term
This course will focus on the policy implications of various sociological theories of crime and punishment. Focus will be on the analysis of various alternative policies within the criminal justice system both within the U.S. and in Europe. Attention will be given to the politics of crime control and to the role of the media, citizen groups and other interest groups in shaping criminal justice policy.
In recent years, public attention to victims of crime has grown enormously. The reasons for this are complex. They include the effects of political organizing by crime victims; increased media attention to crime (often driven by crime stories as entertainment and advertising vehicles); the exploitation of crime victims by politicians; and long-standing community frustrations with the criminal legal system. This course will examine the rise of public attention to crime, the variety of social movements addressing victims of crime, the response of the criminal justice system to victims, and the problems and possibilities regarding new developments concerning crime victims. The course takes the perspective of a critical victimology in that the course materials question official definitions of crime, popular definitions of victims and offenders, and traditional beliefs about justice. Rather than seeing victims and offenders as entirely separate categories, a number of the books address individuals who are both victims and offenders. New developments in restorative justice will be presented as an emerging alternative to current problems that victims have reported with the criminal legal system.
Offered Spring Term
Thematic investigations of problems and topics in criminal justice. Special topics include but are not limited to the areas of domestic violence and sexual assault; children and crime; crime; justice and popular culture; restorative justice; community policing; drugs and the law, drug policy, crime mapping, counterterrorism policy, female offenders and criminalistics.
Offered Both Fall and Spring
There are many different ways that communities have responded to violence against women. Both in the United States and around the world, the most common methods have involved either punishment for offenders, efforts to create safety for victims, or attempts to reform offenders. A new set of antiviolence approaches are being developed that go beyond the goals of punishment, safety, and reform. These new approaches, which are loosely grouped together as community-based responses," seek to mobilizing specific communities against violence; organize women across communities of color; and challenge the theories, practices, and politics of existing antiviolence efforts. These new approaches are the focus of this course.
This course examines two subjects throughout the semester: substantive criminal law (e.g. what is money laundering, the insanity defense, conspiracy?); and criminal procedure: 4th Amendment (search and seizure), 5th Amendment (due process, self-incrimination, double jeopardy, etc.), 6th Amendment (right to a lawyer, public trial, etc..), 8th Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment), 14th Amendment (due process, equal protection of law), 1st Amendment (interaction of criminal law with free expression and with religious rights), and 2nd Amendment (firearms). Unlike other similar undergraduate and graduate courses, this one emphasizes principles and case summaries, de-emphasizes actual cases and case names, and does not entail teaching how to brief (summarize) cases.
This course examines crime and justice in the context of the social inequalities of race, class, and gender. Surprisingly, this is a recent focus within criminology. And yet, without attention to the intersections of race, class, and gender, it is difficult to make sense of victimization, crime, or punishment in the United States today. The course readings include some of the most recent theoretical and empirical studies of these issues. The goals of the course are to develop an understanding of what a race, class, and gender analysis is, and why this is important for individuals working in criminal justice, mental health, and related fields.
This class explores the images of the traditional bad girl in films. The course examines the idea of moving beyond merely the delinquent, many images in film suggest that girls and women who break with the socially condoned role of femininity are somehow bad. Girls and women who have power or challenge authority are often portrayed in films as deviant and therefore bad. Girls and women who are frigid are just as bad as their sexually promiscuous silver-screen opposites. This course further focuses on the impact of these images on real life social roles for girls and women as well as the symbiotic relationship between fact and fiction.
This course provides an overview of the best practices in positive youth development and juvenile programming for delinquency prevention; intervention and treatment. This seminar will explore the cutting edge of programming for youth in a wide range of community-based and institutional settings including schools, social services, and juvenile corrections.
This course will present a survey of the current scholastic research and debates on adolescence and their risks and resilience to problem behaviors. We will address the lives of teens focusing on vulnerabilities and risks, as well as protective factors including the role of peers, risk behaviors, exposure to violence, school achievement, family structures, and sexual behaviors. The course will also emphasize life-persistent versus adolescent-limited behaviors.
This course provides an overview of youth gangs and their sociological underpinnings, which are rooted in poverty and racism. Theories of gang formation and individual gang membership will be examined closely. Study topics include the history of gangs, gangs and criminal behavior, socio-cultural importance of gangs, and strategies to control gang behavior as well as community responses more generally. The course will utilize current gang issues in the US generally and in Massachusetts in particular as a basis to better understand the nuances of youth gangs.
Prerequisite: Permission of the director must be obtained prior to arranging a practicum. 3 credits
This practicum is designed for the working professional graduate student who does not anticipate a career change but intends to seek advancement in their profession. The purpose of this practicum is to allow the student (1) to integrate what they learned in the classroom with their professional career, (2) to anticipate future opportunities in their profession, and (3) to develop a formal network of well-established colleagues. Students register for one semester and must meet with the practicum advisor in the semester prior to the practicum. Library research, interviewing, and a presentation will be required. Prerequisite: Permission of the director must be obtained prior to arranging a practicum.
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: Permission of the director must be obtained prior to arranging a practicum. 3 credits
This practicum is designed for the working professional graduate student who does not anticipate a career change but intends to seek advancement in their profession. The purpose of this practicum is to allow the student (1) to integrate what they learned in the classroom with their professional career, (2) to anticipate future opportunities in their profession, and (3) to develop a formal network of well-established colleagues. Students register for one semester and must meet with the practicum advisor in the semester prior to the practicum. Library research, interviewing, and a presentation will be required.
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Permission of the director must be obtained prior to arranging an internship. 3.0 GPA.
Placements are designed for the student who has no previous experience in a criminal justice agency or for the professional who wants to make a career change. The primary objective is to provide the student with the opportunity to experience the day-to-day functioning of a criminal justice agency. The student may register for one or two semesters and must meet with the internship advisor in the semester prior to the placement. A minimum commitment of working one day per week per semester (total minimum of 110 hours per semester) is required.
Offered Spring Term
Permission of the director must be obtained prior to arranging an internship. 3.0 GPA
Placements are designed for the student who has no previous experience in criminal justice or for the professional who wants to make a career change. The primary objective is to provide the student with the opportunity to experience the day-to-day functioning of a criminal justice agency. The student may register for one or two semesters and must meet with the internship advisor in the semester prior to the placement. A minimum commitment of working one day per week per semester (total minimum of 110 hours per semester) is required.
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Students pursue an in-depth research project under the direction of a qualified member of the graduate faculty.
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Fall Semester: March 15 (priority), then rolling
Spring Semester: October 15 (priority), then rolling
Summer Semester: April 1 (priority), then rolling
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Completed online application
$50 application fee
Goal statement (essay)
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Official GMAT or GRE scores (Note: Testing requirements vary by program, and some students may qualify for a waiver. Learn more.)
Official TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE-Academic scores (international students only)
Crime & Justice Studies/Master of Mental Health Counseling Dual Degree


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The Facts
Insomnia or trouble sleeping is very common – about 30% to 40% of adults will experience insomnia in any given year. Insomnia is a symptom and is not a medical condition in itself. Rather, it's your body's way of telling you that something is not working right.
There are different types of insomnia. Some people have trouble falling asleep, while others have trouble staying asleep or waking up too early. Also, sleep problems can be short-term, lasting a few days or weeks, or chronic, lasting for several months or more.
Insomnia is only considered a problem if it interferes with your life - if you wake feeling unrefreshed or find yourself dozing during the day. It is normal to sleep less as you age. If you're sleeping less than you did when you were younger but don't feel tired during the day, you should not worry.
Typical daily sleep requirements at different ages:
|Hours of sleep needed
|13 to 17
|2 years
|9 to 13
|10 years
|10 to 11
|16 to 65 years
|6 to 9
|over 65 years
|6 to 8
The sleep of older people, as well as being shorter, is less deep. Only about 25% of the sleep of someone over 65 years is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep or stage IV (very deep) sleep, compared to over 50% in a young child. This probably means that older people dream less, since dreaming usually occurs during REM sleep.
As people get older, some get by with amazingly little sleep. Margaret Thatcher claimed to average 4 or fewer hours a night throughout her tenure as Prime Minister of Britain. Nevertheless, many people complain that a lack of sleep affects their daytime performance. At any given time, about 10% of the population consider themselves to have chronic insomnia. About half of us will suffer from insomnia at some point in our lives.
Insomnia usually has an underlying cause. Common causes of insomnia include:
- air travel, especially when travelling from west to east (jet lag)
- anxiety or depression
- medical conditions such as gastroesophageal reflux, prostate enlargement, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke
- medications such as decongestants, stimulants (e.g., methylphenidate*) and some antidepressants
- nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol
- not being active enough during the day
- pain from arthritis or other medical conditions
- poor sleep habits
- shift work
- sleep problems such as sleep apnea
- stress caused by work, family life, death or illness of a family member or friend, or financial difficulties
Symptoms and Complications
Symptoms of insomnia can include:
- trouble falling asleep
- trouble staying asleep
- waking up too early in the morning and being unable to get back to sleep
- not feeling rested or refreshed when you wake up despite getting enough hours of sleep
- feeling tired and sleepy during the day
- feeling irritable or anxious
- headaches
- difficulty focusing or concentrating during the day
Staying up for several days in a row can produce symptoms like hallucinations, but few people with insomnia reach that stage. Normally, insomnia isn't associated with serious complications. Sleep apnea or heavy snoring, however, is not good for long-term health. If you think you may be having breathing problems at night, you should see a doctor. These problems are most common in men, especially those who are middle-aged or overweight.
Complications of insomnia can include poor job and school performance and a higher risk of car accidents.
Making the Diagnosis
Since insomnia is a symptom, your doctor will want to determine what is causing it. To do this, your doctor will want to know what your sleep pattern is and how tightly you stick to the same schedule. Your doctor may ask you to keep a sleep diary for a week to get more information about your sleep pattern. You'll also be asked about any medications you may be taking (including herbal products and non-prescription medications), as well as nicotine use and your intake of coffee and alcohol. Your doctor will also ask you if you have any stresses in your life that might be affecting your sleep.
A general medical examination and history may provide clues about other conditions, such as depression, anxiety, or arthritis, which may be contributing to or causing insomnia. In addition, blood tests might be ordered to check for underlying medical conditions.
Your doctor may refer you to a specialized sleep disorder clinic that offers diagnostic tests for insomnia such as overnight polysomnography. In this test, you sleep the night at the clinic, wired to electrodes that measure the various stages of sleep from light (stage I) to deep sleep (stage IV) as well as REM ("dream") sleep. The polysomnograph can also detect sleep apnea.
Treatment and Prevention
A treatment plan for insomnia can include treating an underlying medical problem, learning about and practicing good sleep hygiene, learning about and making behaviour changes, and taking sleep medications. If insomnia is caused by an underlying medical condition such as arthritis or depression, the condition should be treated first, as this will likely alleviate the insomnia.
Sleep hygiene includes basic things you can do to increase your chances of having a good night's sleep. Changing certain behaviours can also help improve sleep. As part of a treatment plan, your doctor might recommend any of the following sleep hygiene or behaviour changes:
- Develop a regular bedtime routine.
- Don't use the bedroom for daytime activities – just for intimacy and sleep.
- Don't consume coffee or chocolate before going to bed.
- Don't go to bed thinking about work or other stressful matters – read a book for a while if this helps reduce stress.
- Learn to replace worrying thoughts about sleep with more positive ones.
- Go to bed at the same time every night, even on weekends.
- If you have a back disorder, try lying on your back with a pillow under your knees.
- Keep the bedroom dark, quiet, and not too warm – white noise devices can help drown out traffic sounds or a partner's snoring.
- Drink warm milk or have a warm bath before bed.
- Minimize the use of medications that may affect your sleep, such as diuretics and appetite suppressants – if you must take them, don't take them before going to bed.
- Exercise during the day – if exercising before bed keeps you up, then exercise earlier.
- Try to cut down on smoking and alcohol, especially in the evening.
- Avoid watching the clock – just set the alarm and turn the clock around so you can't see the time.
- Use relaxation techniques
Your doctor may also prescribe a sleep medication, especially if your insomnia is caused by acute stress (e.g., loss of a loved one), or if non-medication approaches haven't helped. These medications can help in the short term (e.g., for a few weeks), but they are not a cure and may even worsen insomnia if used for long periods of time. This happens when sleeping medications are stopped and the insomnia comes back even worse than before.
Benzodiazepines (e.g., flurazepam*, nitrazepam, temazepam, triazolam, lorazepam, diazepam) are commonly used medications for insomnia. There are several benzodiazepines that can be used, although some have been studied more than others. Your doctor will consider your age, other medical conditions, and side effects of the benzodiazepine when selecting the one that is best for you. Some people can become physically dependent on benzodiazepines and experience withdrawal symptoms when they stop using them.
Many sleep medicines can also lead to tolerance (a reduced effect over time). For this reason, doctors don't like to prescribe them for long periods (more than 21 consecutive days) unless other treatments fail or it is clear that tolerance is not developing. Other medications used to treat insomnia include zopiclone and zolpidem, which are not benzodiazepines.
If you are prescribed a medication to help with sleep, it's important to continue to use non-medication approaches as well.
If odd working hours disturb your sleep rhythm, the best way to get back on track is to expose yourself to bright light in the morning. The evidence shows that this resets the body clock more effectively than the much-hyped hormonal medication melatonin. Natural light causes the brain to produce melatonin anyway. Melatonin supplementation hasn't been adequately researched and may have adverse effects that we are unaware of at this time.
L-tryptophan is another supplement that may be helpful for insomnia, but its effects are not as predictable as those of other medications.
Non-prescription medications that contain diphenhydramine are available. If you find that you have sleep problems, it is best to see your doctor for a proper assessment.
*All medications have both common (generic) and brand names. The brand name is what a specific manufacturer calls the product (e.g., Tylenol®). The common name is the medical name for the medication (e.g., acetaminophen). A medication may have many brand names, but only one common name. This article lists medications by their common names. For information on a given medication, check our Drug Information database. For more information on brand names, speak with your doctor or pharmacist.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2018. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/condition/getcondition/Insomnia


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By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 18 Oct 2009
Innovation in the Art Museum Education Tradition International Symposium, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan October 17-18 2009. I am attending this conference as a panellist. Here's my notes from Day 1.
Session 1: Innovative thinking in art museum education
How to cultivate innovation?
Session 2: New technology applications for teaching in today's art museum
What education resources are online was a question asked
I suggest you look at:
Museums and the Web Best of the web awards for education (this link is for 2009, look through the site for previous winners)
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum Educator Resource Center (Smithsonian)
MUSE awards - there is a catergory for teaching and outreach that may be useful)


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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for taking the time and effort to put all your tutorials together. I've downloaded about a dozen - don't know when I'll get them done because I've gone back to college.
I'm now in my 4th semester (I'm taking only 2 or 3 classes a semester), and I'll be 70 in September! Better late than never! It'll be so cool to have my AA degree. Here in the U.S. an AA degree is a community college, or two-year-college, degree. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. When my brain can't handle any more studying, I sew for relaxation. Now I have a dozen new projects to do!
Again, thank you for all your time and effort in pulling together all your tutorials and organizing them so well.Replies
Kate - thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment. I'm glad you've found some tutorials that interest you! Good luck in your studies and keep enjoying your sewing!Delete
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Why Beans on the Web?
Why Beans?
What do seeds need to sprout? While this seems a very simple question, it is likely that many people have some misconceptions (or even lack of prior experience) about what a seed needs to sprout. And, even if one "answer" to this question may be known, there are any number of variables that are just as important as the basics. In any event, the process of eliciting ideas, focusing on a question, designing an appropriate experiment, collecting and analyzing data, communicating outcomes, and building a consensus are important things for teachers to consider as they work through a "simple" experiment. The content knowledge of beans sprouting is not the main focus of the bean experiments on the Web -- rather, it is the opportunity to reflect upon the process of teaching a concept from start to finish.
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This Web site attempts to provide a common arena for teachers to reflect upon their teaching practices while collectively participating in a science and math investigation both in their classrooms and online. Although the Web site was developed in conjunction with the televised broadcasts of THE NEXT MOVE, the Web site is designed to permit discussion and exploration without full workshop participation.
During the course of the initial broadcast (Oct. 20 - Dec. 17) only registered participants may set up an experiment and enter data; however, EVERYONE is encouraged to look at all of the experiments and participate in online discussions.
We hope that this Web site and the The Great Bean Bag Adventure provide you with the opportunity to:
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Three Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg basketball players have been named to the Kentucky Christian Schools Athletic Association all-star team.
Matthew Robinson, a 6-foot-1 senior guard has played for the Rams since he was in the sixth grade. Robinson served as the Rams'team captain and was selected as a first team KCSAA all-star. This is the third time he has been selected to the all-star team.
Anderson County softball coach Brian Glass is smiling mighty big these days.
It is true that the Lady Bearcats seemed to catch fire at the end of the 2012 season, winning their third 30th District title in five years and advanced to the Eighth Region semifinals four the fourth time in six seasons.
The Lady Bearcats only finished 18-16, but Glass focuses on last May. "Toward the end of the season, there is no doubt we got a lot better," he says. "We started trusting one another as a team."
Anderson County High School student Brooke Tindall recently signed a national letter-of-intent with the Midway College archery team in a ceremony at the school. Those in attendance were, front row, from left: John Tindall (Father), Brooke Tindall, Shelly Tindall (mother) and John Tindall (brother). Back row: Anderson County assistant coach Dana Mehs, Midway coach Cliff Tompkins, Anderson County head coach Dave Frederick and Anderson County assistant athletic director Jeremy Cook.
Members of the Anderson County High School football team recently volunteered to help pick up and drop off food for the 'Backpack Buddy' program for needy students in the school district. 'It was a real eye-opening experience for our boys as they got to see how much food goes out on an annual basis to underprivileged students in Anderson County,' said Bearcat coach Mark Peach. Jody McGrath brought the team and the program together. Team members shown in this photo are, from left, Chris Kelly, Ross Cox, Huston Page and Austin Phillips.
L.W. Barnes looks over the spreadsheet on the computer in front of him and chuckles. "We hit .230 as a team and won 19 games," Barnes said. "Tell me how a team hits .230 and wins 19 games?"
Of course, that answer lies in keeping the other team from crossing home plate, too. Anderson averaged 4.9 runs per game and gave up 4.6 as the Bearcats went 19-18 against a tough schedule but then won their fourth 30th District championship in five years.
Anderson County High School senior Bethany Hardin signs a national letter-of-intent to play volleyball at Spalding University during a ceremony held at the school recently. Those attending the ceremony included, front row, from left: Mason Hardin (brother), Anne Hardin (mother), Bethany Hardin, Bob Hardin (father) and Megan Floyd. Back row: Anderson County High School volleyball coach Courtney DeLong, former Anderson coaches Corey Sayre and Jason McDannold and Spaulding coach Kevin Shipp.
With four returning players from last year, things should be looking bright for the Anderson County boys' tennis team in 2013.
However, it is really difficult to know at this point. Early season weather woes have hit the Bearcats harder than a 115-mph serve.
"It has been a hard start to the season because of the weather," Anderson coach T.J. Spivey said last week. "We have only been able to practice outside on the courts three times before our matches start."
If the people in the know really know, then the NCAA Tournament's big trophy is going to stay in the Commonwealth of Kentucky this year. The 2013 version is going to take up residence about 75 miles west of its last nesting spot.
It could certainly happen, but I would not bet the farm on it or any other possible winner, for that matter.
Anderson County's high school baseball game with Washington County, originally scheduled for Barnes Memorial Field Wednesday afternoon, March 20, has been moved to Washington County due to Anderson's field being unplayable.
The problems stem from a renovation of the infield. Wet weather has delayed completion of the project, according to Anderson coach L.W. Barnes, who said the Bearcats hope to be back on their home field by mid-April.
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There has been a lot of buzz in the past few years about using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for centralizing system and network information, providing cross-platform user account databases, and even for creating a single repository of printer definitions and configuration information. All of these uses are truly incredible, and they only go to show you the level of flexibility available with LDAP. Most of these examples neglect an important and obvious example--using LDAP for a company-wide address book.
Why is a centralized address book important, and how can it be used? For starters, I think just about every consultant has walked onto a site--even a large one--where everyone has contact information stored locally in their contact management software. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't mind losing the ability to update contact information effortlessly across the entire company.
The only requirement here is for contact software or email clients that support LDAP. Most email software does, including UNIX- and Linux-based software, such as Netscape Mail and Evolution, and Windows clients, such as Outlook. The trick is usually not in finding the right software, but in ensuring that you use the right attributes that will be supported universally by those clients. This article will suggest appropriate attributes for your address book and will provide examples of configuring your email clients to support your LDAP-based directory.
You must also have a working LDAP server for this project. I will be using OpenLDAP 2.0.25 under FreeBSD for the examples, although any LDAP server should do. (For information on the license governing OpenLDAP--the OpenLDAP Public License--please refer to the OpenLDAP web site.)
Please note that this article is not an in-depth review of LDAP, nor does it
cover OpenLDAP configuration extensively. For that, I would suggest you read "An Introduction
to LDAP," by Luke Kanies, and Aeleen
Frisch's LDAP article in "Top Five Open Source Packages for System
Administrators." To ensure common ground, I assume you have
slapd.conf configured similar to the following:
include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
pidfile /var/run/slapd.pid
argsfile /var/run/slapd.args
database ldbm
suffix "dc=example, dc=com"
rootdn "dc=example, dc=com"
rootpw secret
directory /var/db/openldap-ldbm
index objectClass eq
This configuration includes
cosine.schema (the core schema used by OpenLDAP) and
inetorgperson.schema, which
include attribute definitions needed by our directory. All of these files are
included with OpenLDAP version 2--when writing this article, I took pains to
ensure that you do not need to create any custom schemas for use with OpenLDAP.
While custom schemas make LDAP highly extensible, they're unnecessary for a
basic address book.
Our first goal is to create our base Distinguished Name (DN), the root of our address book's subtree. Our example will use domain components to establish a (hopefully) globally unique base DN for our company. Ensuring uniqueness across organizations isn't actually necessary unless you will later need to integrate your directory with another, or if the directory will be available globally via some referral service, but it's nice to go ahead and plan these things out properly.
Our sample company, Conglomo, Inc., has purchased the domain
example.com to be used for all operations, much as IBM uses
ibm.com. Notice that we already defined this base DN using the
suffix keyword in
suffix "dc=example, dc=com"
We need to create an actual entry for this in the LDAP directory itself
using an LDIF-formatted file and
ldapadd. Create a file named
directory.ldif containing:
dn: dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
dc: example
o: Conglomo, Inc.
Be sure to not leave any trailing spaces, as they may confuse
Pretty simple so far. Next, create an organizational unit in the directory
dc=example, dc=com to serve as a container for our address
book entries:
dn: ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: addressbook
Many people create an organizational unit named
people rather
addressbook, but
addressbook will work fine for
our purposes.
This is as far as we need to go in defining our directory layout. Note, however, that the layout is actually a bit simplistic. In many situations, you may find that you want to create individual entries for departments and then create address books below those departmental organizational units:
dn: ou=addressbook, ou=accounting, dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: addressbook
Alternatively, you could do the opposite and create a central address book that contains each of your departments as organizational units:
dn: ou=accounting, ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: accounting
This last method has the advantage that the organizational unit definition
actually matches the department rather than being
Most LDAP clients will consider the
ou as the department, so this
may be important for you.
How you eventually create the directory structure really depends on the various services you will be supporting with LDAP, and not just the address book. For now, the layout presented will be more than sufficient to support a simple address book.
Now that you have the directory layout in
import the LDIF entries into the directory using
$ ldapadd -D 'dc=example, dc=com' -f directory.ldif -W
Enter LDAP Password: secret
Assuming everything went well, OpenLDAP should now have imported the
entries. To verify this did indeed occur, use
ldapsearch to dump
your directory by specifying
# ldapsearch -b 'dc=example, dc=com' 'objectclass=*'
version: 2
# filter: objectclass=*
# requesting: ALL
# example, com
dn: dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
dc: example
o: Conglomo, Inc.
# addressbook, example, com
dn: ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: addressbook
# search result
search: 2
result: 0 Success
# numResponses: 3
# numEntries: 2
At this point, you are ready to roll. You have imported your directory layout and are now ready to add contact information to the directory. Before you do that, we need to discuss the attributes you will use for the contact entries in the directory.
One of the first goals in creating contacts is to decide what information to store for each entry. Once we know that, we can map our needs to the right LDAP attributes.
Let's consider a typical contact entry. Obviously, we will want to know the contact's name and address, her phone number, and her email address. Read Table 1 to review these real-world attributes and the LDAP attributes to which they map. From now on, we will use a combination of real-world attribute names and LDAP attribute names, so refer to this table as needed.
|Individual's full name
|Individual's first name
|Individual's last name
|Department or delivery office name
|Email address
|Street mailing address
|Postal (ZIP) code
|Work number
|Fax number
|Pager number
|Mobile phone number
|Home phone number
Any entry in our directory requires a DN. For this article, we will use a
contact's full name to establish the uniqueness of each DN. The full name is
specified using the
commonName (
cn) attribute. Let's
create an example entry with a fictitious employee of Conglomo, Inc. named Jane
Doe in a file named
dn: cn=Jane Doe, ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com
Now that the DN is defined, we can go ahead and start defining the LDAP
attributes that we want. Begin by defining the
givenName (
gn), and
surname (
sn) attributes:
cn: Jane Doe
gn: Jane
sn: Doe
All of these attributes require
objectClass person, so we need
to define that, as well:
objectClass: person
Next, let's define the email address for our contact using the
mail: email@example.com
inetOrgPerson, which belongs to
organizationalPerson, so
let's use those object classes:
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
The next attribute we will define is
physicalDeliveryOfficeName. It's required for two reasons. First,
the attribute allows you to specify the name of the office to where mail should be
sent. Also, since we are using the
organizationalUnit attribute to
define our
addressbook container, we can't really define a department name, as
the department name is defined by the
organizationUnit attribute.
This is a bit contorted, but that's how LDAP-aware email clients use it.
Let's go ahead and define these attributes:
physicalDeliveryOfficeName: Conglomo, Inc., Financial Services
Most LDAP-aware email clients recognize an additional
attribute. It defines the company name; in this case, Conglomo, Inc.
Unfortunately, this attribute is not standard, and requires that you use a
custom schema. (Search for more information by looking for
Now we are free to define Jane's mailing address:
postalAddress: PO BOX 55555
l: Baton Rouge
st: LA
postalCode: 70555
With this information and the
physicalDeliveryOfficeName, LDAP
clients will see the following when requesting Jane's physical address:
Jane Doe
Conglomo, Inc., Financial Services
Baton Rouge, LA 70879
Next, specify Jane's phone information for her work phone, fax, pager, mobile phone, and home phone number:
telephoneNumber: 555-555-5555
facsimileTelephoneNumber: 555-555-5556
pager: 555-555-5557
mobile: 555-555-5558
homePhone: 555-555-5559
Finally, we need to define the organizational unit:
ou: addressbook
At this point we are finished creating Jane's LDIF-formatted entry. You
should now have a file named
contact.ldif with the following
dn: cn=Jane Doe, ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
cn: Jane Doe
gn: Jane
sn: Doe
mail: email@example.com
physicalDeliveryOfficeName: Conglomo, Inc., Financial Services
postalAddress: PO BOX 55555
l: Baton Rouge
ou: addressbook
st: LA
postalCode: 70555
telephoneNumber: 555-555-5555
facsimileTelephoneNumber: 555-555-5556
pager: 555-555-5557
mobile: 555-555-5558
homePhone: 555-555-5559
You should notice that I moved the
objectClass attributes to
the top of the entry and added an
objectClass: top
This isn't actually necessary, but I'm a sucker for completeness, and I typically fully define all object classes used when creating an entry.
Import our example entry into the directory with
$ ldapadd -D 'dc=example, dc=com' -f contact.ldif -W
Enter LDAP Password: secret
ldapadd is done, you will have your first contact entry in
your directory. Again, you can use
ldapsearch to dump the entire
directory, or, as shown below, to perform a more specific lookup:
$ ldapsearch -b 'ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com' '(objectclass=*)'
Now that we have an LDAP server set up and ready to go, our next step is to configure our LDAP clients to use the directory. This article uses Netscape 7 under Linux and Microsoft Outlook 2002 under, not surprisingly, Windows. Let's begin with Netscape 7.
In my opinion, Netscape has a much better interface for LDAP-based directories than Outlook. To some extent, that is understandable. Outlook is built to work with Exchange as both a mail client and groupware application. How is Netscape better? For one thing, Netscape Address Book can import all of the entries in an LDAP directory into your address book and keep those entries synchronized with the directory. Essentially, you can disconnect from the local network and use the LDAP-based address book even if you no longer have access to the actual LDAP server. Now that's nifty.
Let's configure Netscape Address Book to use our LDAP server.
ldapsearch with the
-b option, so enter
ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com.
That's all there is to it. To test the search feature, type "Jane" into the search field labeled "Name or Email contains:," and then press Enter. Jane Doe's listing should come up. Select that listing to see all of the properties we defined for Jane that the Netscape Address Book recognizes. To look up an LDAP contact when composing an email message, do the following:
Next, let's configure Microsoft Outlook 2002 to use our LDAP server:
ldapsearch using the
-b option. Type
ou=addressbook, dc=example, dc=com in the text field labeled
"Search base" and then choose OK.
There are two ways to test Outlook's LDAP directory access. First, let's try the fast and easy way:
At this point, Outlook should have filled in "Jane Doe" for you in the To: field. Note that for some older Outlook clients, such as Outlook 97, you may need to specify that Outlook always automatically perform an LDAP lookup, using the Outlook Options screen.
The second method of searching the LDAP directory is to use the Outlook Find tool from the New Mail screen:
To see all of the contact's attributes, simply double-click the entry in the To: field. Alternatively, you can always use the Start->Search->Using Microsoft Outlook tool instead of being forced to load Outlook every time you want to call a contact. Netscape Address Book has a better interface for this, but Outlook is certainly usable.
OpenLDAP continues to make inroads in small and medium-sized businesses as an easy, cost-effective way to manage data. This article gave just one small example of how you can use OpenLDAP, and indeed any LDAP server, to fine-tune the level of control you have over the information required by your business and by your users.
I'd like to say thank you to Howard Chu of the OpenLDAP team for helping to debug this article.
Dustin Puryear integrates Windows and Unix as the Principal Consultant of Puryear Information Technology.
oreillynet.com Copyright © 2003 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.


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Slax author's Blog (RSS)
Introducing Material Design to Linux
Michael Spencer has decided to build his own operating system, called Quantum OS. What's going to be special about it? Michael decided to base the desktop design of Quantum OS on Material Design, which was introduced by Google in Android 5.0 Lollipop.
The distribution itself will be based on Arch or Ubuntu (my personal guess is Arch, but as far as I know it has not been decided yet), and the desktop framework is aiming to be built on top of the QtCompositor API, which provides a Qt framework for building a Wayland compositor.
What is the best on Michael's effort is that he's going to make Quantum Desktop in a way that it works on every Linux distribution which supports Wayland. I think that this is very good idea and I'm very excited to try to integrate it into Slax instead of KDE.
User comments
Beautiful. Can't wait to have it on my system.
Dear Tomas M,
Firstly, thanx 4 your cute little Slax OS!
Secondly, it's great you're going to try something new.
I doubt you'll find super-programmers here: thus, you can not expect to hear a real tip on whether your new QT-based slax will fly well or not.
the only thing I can think of is: QT desktop ate more resources than even LXDE and was not highly configurable. So anyway, hope you know what you're doing.
Plus, your os is built on slackware - wich is great :) If you'll ever decide to gradually move to google-things in the future (android-like) - it might be risky for you (users may not like to have yet another google-gadget)
Good luck w your new os/desktop,
Well until now, your slax is the best tinny OS for my old computer...
and i have waiting for slax new release soo long...
im glad that there will be some new user interface here...but...
please make it still tinny and runs smooth on very old mechine like mine....
cant wait for new release....
Držim palce, čekám na nový Slax.
Давно пора избавится от KDE, и перейти на Wayland.
Hi there! i'm interested in-to translate or help to you (slax team) for some modules or packages for this distro, so, can i help you?
Hello Tomas, it's good to see that you are planning a new Slax release.
Well, I like KDE, but it's a personal preference. There are other desktops to try:
MATE: http://mateslackbuilds.github.io/
CINNAMON: https://github.com/willysr/csb
E18: http://slacke18.sourceforge.net/
Also, I see that Linux 3.18 was released and it includes Overlayfs by default http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.18#head-f514a511bf32b818dbde50c24a51fb095e81cc8e
Would it be a good replacement for AUFS?
Hi Tomas,
Will the modules for the new version of Slax be compatible with version 7.0.8., so that I will able to continue updating where necessary?
I recently re-installed Slax 7.0.8. and had remove all my files and bookmarks from my previous OS and to transfer everything to Slax 7.0.8. I wouldn't want to do it again anytime soon, meaning, I intend to keep Slax version. 7.0.8. at least until the middle of next year, even with the release of a new version of Slax.
may live slax run in the android tablet via mini USB?
Jan Berky, probably not.
Update : Quantum OS is now Papyros (due to a name conflict with a trademarked product) and is located at
Sir, please help me!
I can't connect internet on your slax by zte mf193 model modem. Have any solution for this problem?


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The Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathobiology Program at the Medical University of South Carolina is a cooperative effort by faculty from sixteen university departments. It brings together approximately 100 faculty members and 80 graduate students with research interests spanning all the modern aspects of biomedical sciences from the molecular mechanisms and basis of disease to translational research. The program sponsors an extensive series of outside seminar speakers and other activities which foster communication and scientific interaction among the members of the biomedical sciences community.
During the first year, the students take a series of core courses in key areas of cell biology, pharmacology, physiology, microbiology, immunology, and biochemistry through the common first year program. The students also do three lab rotations with faculty of their choosing. These rotations allow students to explore different disciplines and to familiarize themselves with the research environments and the laboratories of different investigators. Near the end of the first year students arrange to begin their thesis research with a chosen faculty mentor. The diverse research interests of the MCBP Program faculty offer a wide variety of potential thesis projects in all areas of the biomedical sciences.
Owing to the large number of participating faculty, the MCBP Program offers a wider variety of advanced courses taught by experts in their respective areas than could any one departmental program. In order to offer the flexibility and choice of any of the participating faculty from multiple departments for still retaining the small focused environment of an individual training program, the MCBP Program has been divided up into five divisions. These divisions include Cancer Biology, Cardiovascular Biology, Molecular Cell Regulation, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science, and Oral Health Sciences. Each of these Divisions offer journal clubs, advanced courses and informal interactions between student lab groups and departments which provide excellent venues for collaboration and brainstorming.
The MCBP Program has an outstanding tradition in research training. Our graduates have gone on to prominent positions in both academia and industry. We invite you to get to know the program better and to read descriptions of the research interests of our faculty located on our web page. If you have any questions not answered by this material, please call or e-mail us. We think you would enjoy training at the Medical University of South Carolina and enjoy living in the historic city of Charleston. We encourage you to apply. The application fee is paid for by the program for U.S. citizens. Successful applicants are invited to visit at our expense on interview weekends and look at our research community. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Gender Balance in the California 400: A Breakdown of the 2013 Census
By Amanda Kimball
Amanda Kimball is a research specialist collaborating on faculty research projects at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. She authors the School's annual "UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders."
For the ninth year, the Graduate School of Management has published the annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders: A Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers.
The study is an annual benchmark for gender diversity in the C-suites and boardrooms of the 400 largest public companies headquartered in California. Our goal is to drive awareness among corporations, business leaders and policy makers to take meaningful action toward greater female representation.
This study is the only one of its kind to focus on gender in the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate California. Our "California 400"—including many global brand powerhouses such as Apple, Chevron, Intel, Visa, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle—taken together tally a total stock market value of $3.42 trillion. Put in perspective, the combined market capitalization of these publicly traded Golden State firms is almost three times the annual GDP of neighboring Mexico.
The study also highlights California's Top 25 companies with the highest percentage of women leaders, applauding their leadership and advising others to follow their example.
"We challenge the business community in California—and the country—to improve on its past and forge a path toward greater diversity in top leadership across gender, ethnicity and experiences."
— Dean Steven Currall, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
This year's study finds that there has been some incremental improvement in the gender diversity of the upper echelons of decision makers at the largest public companies in California. These are several key findings of the 2013–2014 census:
- Overall, women hold just 10.9% of board seats and highest-paid executive positions—a 1% increase compared to last year.
- More than a quarter—107 (26.8%)—of our California 400 have no women among their directors and highest-paid executives. This has improved from 127 companies (32%) last year.
- For the first time since 2006, more companies in our study have one woman (33.5%) than have no women (26.8%).
- For the first time in our study, two companies have a female majority (54.5%) among their directors and highest-paid executives.
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DeKALB – Scott Morrow thinks everyone should have the chance to have a merry Christmas.
For the seventh year in a row, Morrow and his family will offer a free holiday dinner for those in need at their restaurant, Flippin Eggs, 831 S. Fourth St. in DeKalb. This year's dinner will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23.
"The dinner is for those in need, which could mean they don't have a lot of money to spend at Christmas or it could mean they don't have family around to celebrate with," Morrow said.
The restaurant will close at 3 p.m. that day, Morrow said, and reopen for the dinner at 4. Diners will have a choice of a ham or spaghetti dinner, with sides and dessert. The dinner is cooked and served by volunteers, some of whom are on the restaurant's staff.
Feed'em Soup will also offer a holiday meal this year. The meal will be served from 2 to 5 p.m. on Christmas Day, Tuesday, Dec. 25, at the group's headquarters, 122 S. First St. in DeKalb.
"Anybody is welcome," Feed'em Soup Executive Director Derek Gibbs said. "We'll be serving bottom round roast with mashed potatoes and gravy and all the fixings."
Feed'em Soup operates on a pay-what-you-can basis; those who cannot pay for their meal can eat for free. Those who can afford to make some kind of freewill donation can do so.
"The clothing closet will be open, the transportation shuttle will be running and we'll have activities for the kids," Gibbs said.
Morrow can't say for sure what activities might be available at the Flippin Eggs dinner. Last year, he said, a group of carolers showed up unannounced and serenaded the diners. An elf in costume visited with children, and a parent set up a table for children's crafts and games.
"We don't organize everything," Morrow said. "We organize the event, but sometimes people come in with their own ideas and contribute."
The restaurant collects donated gifts in the days and weeks leading up to the dinner, with the intention that every diner will receive a present. Last year, the dinner served more than 150 people and collected more than 400 gifts. Food and gifts left over at the end of the meal were donated to Safe Passage domestic violence shelter and Hope Haven homeless shelter.
As of Sunday, with only a week to go before the dinner, Morrow said only 25 gifts had been donated this year. Donors should wrap gifts and each gift should be labeled to indicate if it is for a man, woman, boy or girl, and, if it is for a child, the age range.
Feed'em Soup typically serves community meals on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Since Dec. 26 is a regularly-scheduled meal day, volunteers will turn around the day after the holiday meal and dish up dinner again, in its regular 5 to 7 p.m. time slot.
"We'll have pancakes and breakfast potato casserole that night," Gibbs said. "We figure everyone will be hammed and turkeyed out."
Holiday Dinners
• Feed'em Soup
122 S. First St., DeKalb
2-5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 25
• Flippin Eggs
831 S. Fourth St., DeKalb
4-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23
Donations of wrapped gifts are needed. Drop gifts off at the restaurant before Dec. 23.


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Update – Palmer's Drug Robbery Suspect Appears In Court
22 year-old Ryan Mitchell Rudh appeared in Missoula Justice Court Wednesday afternoon for the felony armed robbery of Palmer's Drug on Saturday.
Rudh was identified after surveillance photos of a person of interest were released to the media and an employee of a local business recognized him as a recent customer.
Acting on this information, the Investigators made contact with Rudh who was transported to the Missoula Police Department where he was interviewed and admitted his involvement in the robbery. Evidence supporting his involvement was located at his residence.
Rudh was transported to the Missoula County Detention Center where he was booked in for Robbery. Judge Karen Orzech placed Rudh back in the Missoula County Jail on $50,000 bond.
Lt. Sandy Kosena says the suspect never actually brandished a weapon during the crime, but detectives are still investigating.
Lt. Sandy Kosena
Anyone with additional information regarding this event is asked to contact Detective Katie Peterson 406.552.6279 or Crimestoppers at 406.721.4444.


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I'd just measure the pH and decide from that what and how much to do.
It is always a good assumption that sparging water alkalinity should be brought to under 25 ppm to avoid ill effects. In some places, the water supply already has low alkalinity and no treatment is necessary. Other areas are not so lucky.I don't know what to say about a partigyle. I assume there would be some phytin left in the mash, but I don't know if it would be enough to react with any Ca or Mg in the added water. Let us know how it works out.


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News release from Saint Louis University May 25, 2011 University Marketing and Communications 314.977.2537 firstname.lastname@example.com
SLU Names New VP to Oversee Enrollment, Retention Management
Saint Louis University has appointed Jay Goff vice president for enrollment and retention management. His appointment follows a national search and is effective Aug. 15. Goff is the vice provost and dean of enrollment management at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo., where he is credited for raising the national academic profile of the student body and increasing enrollment by nearly 56 percent, among other milestones for the school. At SLU, Goff will oversee Undergraduate and Graduate Admission, Student Financial Services, Student Educational Services, International Services and the Office of the Registrar. He will report to Manoj Patankar, Ph.D., vice president for the Frost campus. "I am thrilled that we have attracted a candidate of Jay's caliber for this important position," Patankar said. "Jay is a visionary and collaborative leader who has a real passion for what he does. I'm confident that he's the right person to lead SLU's recruitment and retention efforts."
Goff joined Missouri S&T in 2001 as its first dean of enrollment management. Overall enrollment climbed from 4,626 in 2000 to 7,206 in 2010. The academic quality of incoming students — in terms of ACT and SAT scores — rose to among the upper eight percent of college-bound students in the United States. During his tenure, Missouri S&T also has experienced a 53-percent increase in qualified admission applicants as well as record numbers of applicants with perfect ACT/SAT scores. Additionally, the campus set new records for recruitment and graduation rates among female, minority and international students. Goff also worked to improve access for students with greater financial need and forged new partnerships in Asia to expand the school's international student base. In 2005, student leaders at Missouri S&T recognized Goff for his strong emphasis on student success by awarding him their "Student Advocate" award.
The appointment is a homecoming for Goff, who grew up in the St. Louis area. He said he has always admired and respected Saint Louis University and is excited to join the SLU community. "During my interactions with campus leaders, I was truly impressed with everyone's vision for excellence," he said. "The faculty, administration, staff and students are very engaged and have a strong desire for SLU to continue to rise and to improve on a global level. I wanted to be part of that vision." Ellen Harshman, Ph.D., dean of the John Cook School of Business, led the search committee that recommended Goff. She said that members enthusiastically endorsed him for the role. "We interviewed a number of highly qualified candidates, but Jay was the clear frontrunner," Harshman said. "Jay is strategic, data-driven and truly understands the current state of higher education enrollment management."
Goff is widely respected in the enrollment management community. He is an active member of the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers and has been the national coordinator of AACRAO's strategic enrollment management conference for four-year colleges and universities since 2009. The Missouri chapter of organization honored his leadership and contributions to the field with a professional service award in 2008. Goff is a member of the American College Testing (ACT) national education advisory board and the Educational Policy Institute's board of advisers. He also is frequently asked to share his expertise at national and international forums focused on enrollment management strategy and student success. In January, he delivered a keynote address on using data to improve enrollments at UK universities during a conference held in London by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). Goff holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in communication studies from Southeast Missouri State University and the University of Kansas, respectively.


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Five years into Obama's tenure and this is what he's accomplished:
Five years into Obama's tenure and this is what he's accomplished:
1) Deeper in debt with no recovery plan.
2) Economy stagnant and we have already spent trillions in stimulus, to no avail.
3) Middle East about to explode. What did Hillary accomplish during her stint as defense secretary?
4) The middle class and minorities are worse off financially then before Obama came into the picture
5) Racial divide and hostility growing daily. What was Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize for again?
6) The Affordable Care Act, or the Un-affordable Care Act depending on who you talk to; even democrats are saying it is bound to fail. There is now talk of Unions being subsidized. Who is going to foot the bill for this program that will affect every single American?
7) Last but not least � al-Qaeda is on the run. Yeah, straight to Syria armed with American made surface-to-air missiles obtained in Libya. Why did we help in Muammar al-Gaddafi demise? For that matter, on whose watch did the Arab Spring begin? Was the Arab Spring a result of our foreign policy, or lack thereof? Were the billions we gave Egypt over the years all for naught? This will be the administration's biggest/costliest blunder going forward.
This country is in deep trouble. Does anybody in Washington give any of you a sense of hope about our future? Does anyone who listens to Reid or Pelosi think either one of them are good for this country, or better suited for a deserted island and a butterfly net. There is a motion in Congress to put a public park on the moon. "Wouldn't it be lovely Mildred if we had a park bench and tulips on the moon?" How wonderful of our generation to pass this on to the next generation.
Romney had a plan to fix our economy. Romney knew al-Qaeda had run to Africa. Romney knew Russia was our biggest threat, a fact proven in Syria the last two weeks. Who cares if Romney was rich? Who cares if he made money overseas? This country needed his business sense. We needed his entourage. Obama only picks the losers as Romney said during the debates; Solyndra, shovel ready jobs, Tim Geitner, Eric Holder, Hillary, etc.
While I'm at it, you know why Benghazi is something we should never forget � because we didn't respond. No help at all for those fighting for their lives that night. No help the next day even. Our leaders sat on their buttocks and did nothing. Some of those at the CIA compound broke orders and went to aid their fellow Americans. They paid for it with their lives, probably wondering when help would arrive. Our military is one big team. The greatest team on earth. Ask any member of that team what he would have done that night and I'll guarantee you � "nothing" would not have been an option.
To the people who do not like this country and what she stands for, get up and leave. I don't like a movie, I get up and leave. You don't like this country, scat.
Gary Babashanian, New Bern


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Homeless pups in New York now have their own public relations representation thanks to Bruised Not Broken. The new organization, started by Brooke Slater and her husband, leverages technology and social media to promote bully breeds looking for their forever homes.
The inspiration for Bruised Not Broken came from their own rescue dog, Luca, who Brooke and her husband adopted from a local shelter two years ago. Luca is an all white, deaf Pit Bull who opened their eyes to the potential of bully breed dogs and the fact that so many are not as lucky as Luca.
Brooke and her husband decided that they had to do something and quickly identified a need for better promotion for homeless dogs. For instance, the only representation a shelter pup might get is often a single low-resolution photo, usually taken at intake when they are most likely to look emaciated and scared.
Bruised Not Broken gives dogs a proper media campaign that gives them a better shot at being adopted. High-resolution photo shoots and You Tube videos capture each dog's unique personality. These photos and videos are then shared with dog lovers on their website, Facebook page and on Twitter.
Bruised Not Broken works with multiple New York City rescue groups and foster homes, primarily working with Pit Bulls who, at one point or another, have been scheduled for euthanasia.
There are so many dogs, especially pit bulls, stuck in New York Shelters. Technology can help, but many shelters don't have the resources to take advantage of social media to its highest potential. Bruised Not Broken may be the first of its kind to focus exclusively on publicity and will hopefully be a trail blazer for how rescue pets are represented.
If you're interested in helping out, visit the Bruised Not Broken website to donate money, fill out an adoption application, or to help spread the word.


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#32 wrote:I enjoy them, too. Very well thought out and nicely written. I was mostly just being a smart ass.
Thanks! I know you were being a smart ass. I did not take it negatively. Sometimes I just get writing and the next thing I know I have a few hundred words. This team can drive me nuts at times. I will always cheer for them, but it does not mean I agree with everything the players, coaches and management do on and off the floor.


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Hey teetotalers: not only are you a drag, you're going to die younger. Live slow, die fast, jerks.
In a new study published by the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, nondrinkers have higher mortality rates due to their overall lower social and mental well being. So even though heavy drinkers face their own (humorous) hazards like "nonlethal falls and other mishaps," they have more friends there to support them after said mishaps.
The study says that moderate drinkers—one to three drinks a day—have the lowest mortality rates, so I can only assume that if you compress two or three days into one a few times a week you're golden.


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Secretary Duncan Announces Assistant Secretaries for the Department of Education
Secretary Duncan Announces Assistant Secretaries for the Department of Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Secretary Arne Duncan praised President Barack Obama's intent to nominate the following individuals as Assistant Secretaries for the Department of Education: Carmel Martin, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development; and Peter Cunningham, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach.
Secretary Duncan said, "Carmel has been a tremendous leader and extraordinary advocate for improving education in our country and her vast policy experience will be a great asset to the department. And Peter's judgment and candor -- coupled with his significant knowledge of the educational world -- proved invaluable during my tenure at the Chicago Public Schools and I am eager to begin working with him in my role as Secretary of Education. I am honored to have these outstanding individuals as part of our team and very much look forward to working with them."
The following announcements were made today:
Carmel Martin has an extensive background in the education field. In the mid-90s, Martin was an Associate in the Education Group with Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. After her tenure there counseling school districts, colleges and universities, Martin moved to the United States Department of Justice where she focused on enforcing key provisions of Civil Rights Act. She has served as Counsel to both Senator Tom Daschle and Senator Jeff Bingaman before becoming the Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the Center for American Progress in 2004. Martin's most recent work has been with Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions from 2005 until December 2008. As Chief Education Advisor, she has counseled the Senator on all education issues and also led negotiations on all education legislation. Martin received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law and also has a Masters in Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She received her B.A. in Economics and International Studies from Manhattan College.
Peter Cunningham is the founder and President of Cunningham Communications, a Chicago communications firm specializing in local government, politics and non-profits. Since its inception in 1997, their clients have included the Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Housing Authority, Ariel Investments, Axelrod and Associates and the Regional Transportation Authority. Previously, Cunningham worked as a speechwriter and aide in the Office of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the Illinois Attorney General's office and the Finance Committee for the Chicago City Council. He began his career as a reporter and writer for business and general interest publications including the Southampton Press. Cunningham received a B.A. in Philosophy at Duke University and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.


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Inside the George Zimmerman trial courtroom
Inside the George Zimmerman trial courtroom
The parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton (left) and Tracy Martin, listened to testimony in Seminole Circuit Court on Monday.
George Zimmerman winked at his defense counsel, Don West, in the court room.
John Donnelly, a friend of Zimmerman, cried on the witness stand after listening to screams on a 911 tape entered into evidence.
Mark Osterman, a friend of Zimmerman, testified about the type of gun Zimmerman owned.
Zimmerman and his attorney conferred during a recess in the courtroom.
Sanford police Officer Chris Serino testified for the defense on Monday.
Sondra Osterman, a friend of Zimmerman, listened to the 911 tape while testifying.


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The mission of the Undergraduate Research Scholars program is to encourage undergraduate research and support research efforts of Voinovich School faculty and professional staff. Each year since 1995, the Voinovich School has awarded 10 to 20 Honors Tutorial College and departmental honors students the opportunity to participate in basic and applied research. Scholar positions are awarded on a competitive basis.
Student participation in the scholars program contributes to career preparation by affording scholars an opportunity to participate in "real world" projects and to work as a valued colleague on a research team. Service to the region is primary to the research efforts of the various Voinovich School units.
Over the past 14 years, more than 170 students have participated in the HTC - Voinovich School Undergraduate Research Scholars program. Scholars represent a wide range of disciplines from political science to environmental and plant biology, journalism to business administration.
Recruitment for Undergraduate Research Scholars for the 2014-15 academic year is not yet underway. Application details can be found here in the future.
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This is Straight Wrong: Plainfield NJ Fight Gets Brutal! ( Girl Gets Odeee Kicked In The Face Wayyy Too Many Times In Front Of Her Own Dog)
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