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The McCourt vs. McCourt divorce trial reconvened yesterday, and here's what we've learned in yet another day of Lifestyles of the Rich and Reprehensible:
- 1. The University of Maryland Law Degree does not emphasize reading the fine print (let alone reading in general). How else to explain Jamie McCourt's testimony on the stand Monday, as chronicled by the LA Times:
Jamie McCourt stuck to her story all afternoon Monday. Under cross-examination, she repeated that she believed the disputed agreement she and her estranged husband signed in 2004 permitted Frank McCourt to present himself as the sole owner of the Dodgers but did not mean the baseball team would be his in the event of divorce.
"That is as fictional as Harry Potter," said Steve Susman, one of Frank McCourt's attorneys, outside court.
Under fierce questioning, Jamie did not back down from her assertions that she neither read nor understood the agreement and that no one had properly explained it to her.
Susman, who emphasized that Jame once practiced law, walked her through the agreement and the cover letter that accompanied it, with Jamie deflecting numerous questions by saying she did not understand the language or could not recall discussing it.
I can only assume Jamie had other students and professors read and explain her case law to her during her three years at University of Maryland earning a law degree. (Which may explain why this program doesn't show up in law school rankings until page 3, #49th-best school. Fear the turtle? More like Fear the Tort-Law.)
- 2. Vegetables are also getting caught in the McCourt crossfire. I'm not talking about the four McCourt kids, either. It turns out even vegetables high in vitamin C, dietary fiber, vitamin B6, potassium, and manganese (while being low in saturated fat and sodium!) aren't nutritional enough to avoid being maligned by the McCourts:
Jamie also shed more light into the dynamics of the McCourt marriage by discussing a handwritten note from March 31, 2004, the day the agreement was signed. It turns out Jamie had an acronym for her husband's apparent frequent yelling.
The McCourts flew from Massachusetts to California that day, and Jamie wrote in her note that "Frank freaked out because we had to land in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for no apparent reason. That means YAM."
And what did YAM mean?
"That means he is yelling at me," she said.
- 3. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is not sending its annual Christmas card to the McCourts. Not that the McCourts are worried about corn processors, but still.
- 4. If Jamie McCourt was insinuating today on the stand that she had been steamrolled by Frank--well, she should know how that feels:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jamie McCourt's driver struck a pedestrian as the former Los Angeles Dodgers CEO arrived at the courthouse Monday to testify in her divorce case.
The pedestrian was taken by ambulance to a hospital after the driver of the Land Rover hit a woman on a sidewalk.
Witness Debra Amos says the SUV was backing out of the driveway when it struck the pedestrian, who works at the downtown building.
Jamie McCourt was sitting in the front passenger seat and her attorney was in the back seat when they arrived at the courthouse. It was unclear if they were in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
- 5. And in positive news, the Dodgers didn't lose on Monday.So there's that.


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Gmail just rolled out one of its best features in years: Inbox tabs. (Actually, the feature was announced back in May, but is only just now starting to roll out to users.)
Borrowing a page from services like Alto and Swizzle Sweeper, Gmail can now automatically organize certain kinds of messages into tabs, greatly reducing inbox clutter in the process.
For example, all your notifications from social-media services (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) will now be sorted into the Social tab, while offers from Groupon, LivingSocial, and other advertisers will land under Promos.
If you're not yet seeing tabs when you sign into Gmail (in your Web browser, natch) or you want to make changes to the settings, do this:
1. On the right side of the Gmail interface, find and click the little gear icon (a.k.a. Settings).
2. Click Configure inbox.
3. Now choose which of the five available tabs you want to enable—or disable. (Personally, I see no harm in enabling all five.) If you're not sure exactly what each tab will give you, just mouse over the name of each one; Gmail will show you personalized examples (based on your own inbox) of the kinds of messages that'll get sorted there.
4. Once you've made your selections, click Save.
Note that if you already do have tabs showing in Gmail, you can simply click the little plus sign on the right-most tab to access this same settings box.
For the moment, Gmail offers no way to customize the tabs or add new ones. What's more, if you enable any tabs at all (which is now Gmail's default view), you'll lose the old Priority Inbox.
Give the new interface a try, then hit the comments to let me know what you think of it.
Contributing Editor Rick Broida writes about business and consumer technology. Ask for help with your PC hassles at email@example.com. Sign up to have the Hassle-Free PC newsletter e-mailed to you each week.

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I knew Easter was late for a reason this year: The Great White iPhone 4 is finally here. Nearly a year after the launch of the original iPhone 4, plagued by delay after delay, tomorrow you can buy the phone that seemed like it might never exist.
Apple doesn't say a whole lot about why it took ten months to make the white iPhone available—though Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller tell Ina Fried, "It's not as simple as making something white. There's a lot more that goes into both the material science of it–how it holds up over time… but also in how it all works with the sensors." But the white iPhone 4 release this month still carries a fairly big statement with it: It seems less likely than ever that there'll be a brand new iPhone in June, as there has been every year for the past few years. Why introduce a new phone around the world, only to replace it in 6-8 weeks?
Apple appears fickle, at times, but it isn't. And despite the staggering miscalculation that led to a nearly year-long delay to produce the white iPhone in sufficient quantities to move hundreds of thousands, if not millions of units, Apple exercises remarkable precision when it comes to the planning and execution of supply chains and product launches. Whatever led to the delay of the white iPhone 4 was a mistake (or series of them). Launching it now isn't.
The white iPhone, glowing and precious, makes it more clear than ever that a brand new iPhone probably won't launch for at least a few more months. September, when Apple's traditionally refreshed iPods seems reasonable, giving the white iPhone at least five months on the market-plenty of time from Apple's perspective. The iPhone 4 picks up a reasonable life extension to boot, seeming fresher past the old customary expiration date, already boosted in part by the mid-cycle launch of the Verizon iPhone 4. (Nintendo long ago perfecting the practice of boosting sales and extending product lifespans through fresh color options.)
So! If you're going to buy a white iPhone 4, do so sooner, rather than later. And feel good about the fact you're buying year-old technology because it's more fashionable now. Just know it's probably not terribly long for this world. Which is kind of appropriate, really.
P.S. Functionally, we don't have the same concerns for the white iPhone as we do for the white iPad, because it doesn't have the same potential to be distracting, since it's less immersive—so no worries there.


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Using store-purchased ice cream sandwiches and whatever kind of candy you have on hand, you can whip up this refreshing dish in no time and be making folks smile & say MMMM Good!
11 regular sized, or 17 miniature ice cream sandwiches
1 jar (12 ozs) caramel ice cream topping
1 (12 ozs) tub frozen whipped topping, thawed
1/4 cup chocolate syrup
1 large (7 ozs) symphony candy bar, chopped
Arrange ice cream sandwiches in an ungreased 9" X 13" X 2" dish. Cut a sandwich, or two, in half length-wise, and fill in the spaces in the dish. Spread with caramel sauce and then whipped topping. Drizzle with chocolate syrup. Sprinkle with chopped candy bar. Cover and freeze for atleast 45 minutes. Cut into squares when serving. Makes 15 - 18 servings.
My variation of this dish is simple - I don't use the syrups, but stir into the whipped topping - 1-1/2 - 2 cups chopped candies - malted milk balls, peanut butter cups, toffee pieces, (your favorite) and spread over the sandwiches. Cover and freeze. This keeps well for over a month.
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iReport: Have you witnessed the protests in Venezuela? Share your experiences, but please stay safe.
Story highlights
NEW: Capriles to protesters: "Do not step into the trap of violence"
NEW: iReporter: "People have the right to express themselves"
A hearing for the opposition leader was held inside a parked bus
Leopoldo Lopez charged with arson and conspiracy; terrorism, murder charges are dropped
Venezuelan prosecutors dropped the most serious charges against opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez, whom the country's government blames for inciting clashes that have left at least five people dead.
Lopez, one of the leading opposition figures in Venezuela, was formally charged with arson and conspiracy, but murder and terrorism charges were dropped, said his attorney, Juan Carlos Gutierrez.
If convicted, Lopez could face up to 10 years in prison.
Lopez's legal team welcomed the reduced charges, though it criticized the way the judicial process was being carried out.
Wednesday night's hearing, to charge Lopez and determine whether he would be released or remain behind bars, took place in an unusual spot: a bus parked outside the prison where he is being held.
"It seems very unorthodox," Gutierrez told CNN en Español.
The initial court appearance was to take place in a courtroom, but because of security concerns, officials wanted to move it to the prison.
Gutierrez argued that inside a prison was not a proper venue for a hearing, so the strange solution was reached: the bus-turned-courtroom parked just outside the facility.
The prison, outside the capital, Caracas, is a military facility, and Lopez's defense has raised questions about why a civilian is being held there.
The response was that it was a place where the government could guarantee his safety, Gutierrez said.
Lopez turned himself in to authorities this week in a dramatic scene before tens of thousands of supporters he had called to the streets.
Anti-government protests in recent weeks are the largest demonstrations that President Nicolas Maduro has faced in his 11 months in power.
The unrest
During the demonstrations, supporters of the country's socialist government and anti-government protesters have flooded social media with reports of violence, making drastically different claims about who's behind it.
Since February 13, more than 2,000 stories from Venezuela have been uploaded to iReport, CNN's user-generated platform. Many of the videos and photos depict violent scenes between demonstrators and government forces.
Alejandro Camacho Beomont told iReport that students Wednesday blocked streets and burned debris in San Cristobal, from where he sent photos – and he said he didn't blame them.
"Even though I am always looking for peace to make a better place to live, I think people have the right to express themselves in the ways they can, and it is not easy to express yourself in this country now," he said. "I support the protesters. There have been more than 15 years that the majority of the Venezuelan citizens are going through tough times. There are so many problems we have to face every day, and there seems to be not a sincere attitude from the high government officials to rectify (them)."
In a nationally televised broadcast Wednesday night, Maduro described bullet wounds sustained by government forces during protests and showed videos that he said depicted opposition protesters throwing stones and setting buses ablaze.
"You think this is a novel? This is the reality that you with your hatred have created," he said. "If you don't like Venezuela, leave."
Reports of violence drew condemnation from Henrique Capriles, a leading opposition politician who lost a bid for the presidency last year. He called for the government to open a dialogue with demonstrators, rather than cracking down on dissent.
"In this hour of turbulence, to the students, to those who are in the streets, again we call for you not to step into the trap of violence," he said.
Human rights concerns
Human rights groups warned about the danger of turning the protests into a persecution of political opponents.
The charges against Lopez, who has organized protests demanding better security, an end to shortages and protected freedom of speech, "smack of a politically motivated attempt to silence dissent in the country," Amnesty International said in a prepared statement.
Human Rights Watch warned that Venezuela must avoid "scapegoating" political opponents.
Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said Thursday that out of about 200 people who were detained during clashes in the past week, only 13 remain in jail for offenses that include illegal gun possession and vandalism.
Rodriguez Torres ridiculed reports that the Venezuelan state is illegally detaining students in an effort to put an end to the protests.
Obama decries 'false accusations'
Major social and economic problems in Venezuela have fueled the protests. But as the demonstrations gained steam, officials have pointed fingers at other factors, accusing the United States of plotting to destabilize the government.
Venezuela expelled three U.S. diplomats this week, accusing them of conspiring to bring down the government. At a rally Tuesday, Maduro shouted, "Yankee, go home" from the stage, drawing cheers from the crowd.
U.S. President Barack Obama fired back at a news conference in Mexico on Wednesday.
"Venezuela, rather than trying to distract from its own failings by making up false accusations against diplomats from the United States, the government ought to focus on addressing the legitimate grievances of the Venezuelan people," he told reporters.
In a television broadcast Wednesday, Maduro accused Colombian paramilitary forces and the United States of fueling the violence, and he vowed to stand firm against any attempts to overthrow his government.
"And what is the Venezuelan opposition going to do?" he said. "Believe that with the support of (U.S. Secretary of State) John Kerry or Obama, you are going to be able to take political power by violent means?"
This isn't the first time that bitter protests and counterprotests by supporters and opponents of the government have threatened political stability in Venezuela over the past decade.
Many of Maduro's claims – of U.S. intervention, of assassination plots – were also lobbed by the late President Hugo Chavez. Chavez was briefly ousted in a coup in 2002, but otherwise outlasted the protests and repeatedly won reelection. He ruled for 14 years, until his death last year after a long battle with cancer.
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CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet, Daphne Sashin, Gabriela Matute, Alejandra Oraa and Marilia Brocchetto contributed to this report.


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SNOW HILL – There were no buckets of popcorn, no saltwater taffy and no T-shirts this year when Ocean City officials met with the County Commissioners to discuss the town's budget requests for fiscal year 2009, just a somber realization simply holding the line on what was allocated last year was probably a prudent approach in what will be a tough budget year for both entities.
Earlier this year, Ocean City officials resurrected the old tax differential issue seeking roughly $13 million from the county to cover the cost of services duplicated by the town. This year, Ocean City is asking for an additional $3.25 million on various line items in lieu of paying the requested tax differential.
When Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan and a contingent of town officials met with the commissioners for the annual budget request session, they must have known the commissioners had already resigned themselves to formally deny the tax differential request.
"We were here in December for a discussion of tax differential and we found out there were some things we agreed on and some we don't agree on," Meehan told the commissioners. "The tax differential report came in at around $13 million, and we realize that's certainly not doable, but we think we're coming back with something reasonable we can agree on."
Meehan and Ocean City officials outlined their budget requests for fiscal year 2009, and practically across the board, the town is asking for exactly what it asked for last year with a few major exceptions. Ocean City on Tuesday requested what the county allocated to the town last year for certain line items practically to the penny. However, resort officials asked for an additional $3.25 million this year representing increases in various line items.
For example, the town is seeking an additional $1 million in grant money for police aid, another $500,000 for emergency services, half a million for county street grants and $350,000 in tourism marketing money. Last year, the county granted $350,000 to the town for tourism marketing and is asking county officials this year to double that figure.
"We're asking for a total of $700,000 for tourism marketing this year," said Meehan. "There is $700,000 in the Ocean City budget this year for tourism marketing and we hope the county would consider a similar figure. Nobody who visits the resort area differentiates between Ocean City and West Ocean City."
The other major departures from last year's grant allocation were requests for a county share on bond payments for two significant capital projects in the resort. Meehan asked county officials to consider contributing $500,000 per year for 20 years for the ongoing downtown parking garage project. The town is in the planning and development stage for a multi-story parking garage in the downtown area and is asking the county to help pay for its future construction.
"We would like you to consider helping us finance the parking garage downtown," said Meehan. "We're asking for a commitment of $500,000 a year for 20 years to help retire that debt."
Similarly, Ocean City asked the commissioners to consider a similar commitment to the purchase of land for a new public boat ramp in the resort to the tune of $500,000 for 20 years. For years, the town has desired to find a new location for a public boat ramp to replace the existing ramp in the residential neighborhood of Little Salisbury.
"The town of Ocean City understands the climate we're in today," he said. "For that reason, we've tempered our requests somewhat. While the total of our funding requests are substantially less than the amounts identified in the tax differential report, it moves in the direction needed to adequately address this issue for Ocean City taxpayers."


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I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I'm a user at StackOverflow, and when I perused the StackExchange websites, this was the best match I could find. So, if I've posted in the wrong place, please let me know and I'll move the post.
I'm working with a group of people and we're creating a start-up investing firm. I'm the "tech guy" in the group (I can build PCs and program), and so it's up to me to figure out what we need for our database server.
- We're going to use SQL Server because it's what I know (so, please don't suggest MySQL, Oracle, etc...).
- I'm familiar with purchasing components and assembling a PC, although I've never done it specifically for a high-performance database server before.
- Assume we have a several thousand dollar budget (my co-investers are doctors).
- Assume we have a constant stock market data feed (something like 100 stocks at a time) that needs to log the data to a database as it comes in and also use the current data to query for similar past data and perform comparisons.
What I'm mainly interested in is where to spend more money and where additional power is less useful.
For instance, when it comes to drive set up, I was thinking of something along the following lines:
- For the OS and SQL Server application installation, a RAID 1 array of 2 60 GB SSDs.
- For the SQL Server data volume, a RAID 5 array of 4 medium-sized, fast HDDs (I'm thinking 300GB Velociraptor drives; So far, 9 YEARS of data takes up only about 100GB).
- For the SQL Server log file volume, a RAID 1 array of 2 small-to-medium-sized, adequate HDDs (non-Velociraptor here).
- For the SQL Server temp database volume, a RAID 1 array of 2 60 GB SSDs.
The OS/SQL Server application volume will be a software RAID using the motherboard; the rest of the RAID arrays will be controlled by a dedicated RAID card.
From what I've read online, the above setup is likely to give me great performance and stability.
Now, when it comes to other components, what's necessary?
- Is the latest i7 Quad Core useful for this, or is that overkill with processing power? Can I get away with an i5? An i3? A Core 2 Quad?
- I'm assuming that a 64-bit OS with 64-bit SQL Server is better because it will allow me to go beyond 4GB RAM. If that's true, is 8GB enough or do I actually get performance benefits at 16GB? Does DDR3 RAM offer significant performance enhancements?
- I know that the graphics on this machine are extremely unimportant, but would a dedicated graphics card off-load work from the CPU, increasing performance, or is that a waste of money?
Most of the work I've done with SQL Server has been for small companies. As a result (due to price), we've mostly done installations of SQL Server Workgroup. For everything I've ever done, that's been just fine and dandy, and I'd like to continue using that version. Is there any practical benefit to upgrading to Standard?
Now, I'm guessing that for our needs, a server like this will cost about $5,000-$6,000. Am I better off buying the components myself and building the system or buying a server from Dell/HP?
Also, (and I know this is a big wrench in things), if, during the initial, testing phase, we decided that we didn't want to spend $6,000, what cuts would you make to bring this down to a $2,000 system?


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Things have been crazy busy around here but in a good way. I've had time to start to clear my head and develop a plan as our family moves in a new direction together.
In the meantime, we had a great meeting of the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild at my house (yes, that's bare concrete...project coming...). Lots of fun and lots of new faces! Such a talented group and I can't wait for all the fun we have planned.
I've been turning a couple of my needlepoints into pillows. I bought this center part at a thrift store many years ago. It was in a frame for hanging on a wall but I've always wanted to do this with it. I'll finish the second one soon and then I shall be truly complete.
My favorite part, beside the wonderful chenille back, is this zipper up at the edge instead of going through the middle. I've always wanted to do this and am pleased with the outcome. So discrete (except when I say "Look! The zipper's hidden!!!" to folks).
We've been re-working my sewing space to make it more efficient for the busy work I've been doing. I'm loving this table set up and looking forward to a few more improvements to this room (which will be much improved with new flooring).
We've been trying to spruce and declutter things from our house and our schedules in order to give more of our attention to the things that matter. Our school year is set to start in less than 2 weeks and I've given over my beloved office so the boys have a place to do their work without dealing with the distraction of the rest of the house.
I've decided to stop offering advertising on my blog in order to give myself the freedom to enjoy blogging as a personal venture and not a business venture. It can be stressful to feel obligated to blog in order to increase page views for other folks kind enough to put their trust in me and honestly I'm just not up to blogging 2-3 times a week right now and fear I would just be posting mediocrity.
But I'd like to give one last shout out to a couple of the businesses kind enough to advertise here. First McZips etsy shop. McZips is owned by a super nice guy who lives in Germany and is trying to gain some traction in the American market. He's got a great selection of colors and sizes and I'd really like to encourage you to give him a try.
And please check out iSew Acacemy. It's a new, cutting edge online sewing school with projects for beginners and experts alike. The beauty of this is their apps are downloadable for you iPhone and iPad! They are growing like crazy and co-owner Louise has a great eye for design and color so you'll never be disappointed.
Thanks for reading (always!)! Have a great rest of the week and keep on sewing!!


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Sean Kingston, Chris Brown + Wiz Khalifa Party It Up With Fly Ladies in 'Beat It' Video
It seems like kids these days have forgotten the age-old video tradition of having a bevy of bikini-clad women dance around a pool in a warm climate. Lucky for us, Sean Kingston has brought this motif back with his 'Beat It' video, featuring Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa.
The three gentlemen look to be having a blast, though we must note only Kingston has much of any interaction with the gaggle of women, seeing as Wiz and Breezy are both spoken for. The clip, which was shot at a mansion in Malibu, also features some low-flying helicopters, so you know Kingston had to throw down some serious coin for the visuals for his newest single.
'Beat It' will appear on Kingston's upcoming 2013 album, 'Back 2 Life.' A release date for the LP yet to be announced, so stay tuned.


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Very Old Antique Carved Wooden Warrior Statue, China
Detail: This is a "Warrior Fortune God" that was meant to bring good fortune to the rural population in China. Normally found in village temples, this was one of two types of fortune gods. The other is a scholar. This particular statue is from the Shanxi Province in northern China. The hole on the back was most likely for prayer messages. Circa late- 1800's or early 1900's. In good condition with most of the gilt and coloring reesotericstuff.coming.
- Item Number: S-1425
- Provenance/Origin: China. Shanxi Province. Circa late 1800's or early 1900's
- Composition: Wood
- Dimensions: 10.5" tall
- Weight: 1 pound
- Price: $190.00 USD
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Symantec had spotted another odd piece of malware that appears to be targeting Iran and is designed to meddle with SQL databases.
The company discovered the malware, called W32.Narilam, on Nov. 15 but on Friday published a more detailed writeup by Shunichi Imano. Narilam is rated as a "low risk" by the company, but according to a map, the majority of infections are concentrated in Iran, with a few in the U.K., the continental U.S. and the state of Alaska.
Interestingly, Narilam shares some similarities with Stuxnet, the malware targeted at Iran that disrupted its uranium refinement capabilities by interfering with industrial software that ran its centrifuges. Like Stuxnet, Narilam is also a worm, spreading through removable drives and network file shares, Imano wrote.
Once on a machine, it looks for Microsoft SQL databases. It then hunts for specific words in the SQL database -- some of which are in Persian, Iran's main language -- and replaces items in the database with random values or deletes certain fields.
Some of the words include "hesabjari," which means current account; "pasandaz," which means savings; and "asnad," which means financial bond, Imano wrote.
"The malware does not have any functionality to steal information from the infected system and appears to be programmed specifically to damage the data held within the targeted database," Imano wrote. "Given the types of objects that the threat searches for, the targeted databases seem to be related to ordering, accounting, or customer management systems belonging to corporations."
The types of databases sought by Narilam are unlikely to be employed by home users. But Narilam could be a headache for companies that use SQL databases but do not keep backups.
"The affected organization will likely suffer significant disruption and even financial loss while restoring the database," Imano wrote. "As the malware is aimed at sabotaging the affected database and does not make a copy of the original database first, those affected by this threat will have a long road to recovery ahead of them."
Stuxnet is widely believed to have been created by the U.S. and Israel with the intent of slowing down Iran's nuclear program. Since its discovery in June 2010, researchers have linked it to other malware including Duqu and Flame, indicating a long-running espionage and sabotage campaign that has prompted concern over escalating cyberconflict between nations.
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An August 30, 2018 news item on Nanowerk announces the report,
The monitoring of air contamination by engineered nanomaterials (ENM) is a complex process with many uncertainties and limitations owing to the presence of particles of nanometric size that are not ENMs, the lack of validated instruments for breathing zone measurements and the many indicators to be considered.
In addition, some organizations, France's Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (INRS) and Québec's Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) among them, stress the need to also sample surfaces for ENM deposits.
In other words, to get a better picture of the risks of worker exposure, we need to fine-tune the existing methods of sampling and characterizing ENMs and develop new one. Accordingly, the main goal of this project was to develop innovative methodological approaches for detailed qualitative as well as quantitative characterization of workplace exposure to ENMs.
A PDF of the 88-page report is available in English or in French.
An August 30, 2018 (?) abstract of the IRSST report titled An Assessment of Methods of Sampling and Characterizing Engineered Nanomaterials in the Air and on Surfaces in the Workplace (2nd edition) by Maximilien Debia, Gilles L'Espérance, Cyril Catto, Philippe Plamondon, André Dufresne, Claude Ostiguy, which originated the news item, outlines what you can expect from the report,
This research project has two complementary parts: a laboratory investigation and a fieldwork component. The laboratory investigation involved generating titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles under controlled laboratory conditions and studying different sampling and analysis devices. The fieldwork comprised a series of nine interventions adapted to different workplaces and designed to test a variety of sampling devices and analytical procedures and to measure ENM exposure levels among Québec workers.
The methods for characterizing aerosols and surface deposits that were investigated include: i) measurement by direct-reading instruments (DRI), such as condensation particle counters (CPC), optical particle counters (OPC), laser photometers, aerodynamic diameter spectrometers and electric mobility spectrometer; ii) transmission electron microscopy (TEM) or scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) with a variety of sampling devices, including the Mini Particle Sampler® (MPS); iii) measurement of elemental carbon (EC); iv) inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and (v) Raman spectroscopy.
The workplace investigations covered a variety of industries (e.g., electronics, manufacturing, printing, construction, energy, research and development) and included producers as well as users or integrators of ENMs. In the workplaces investigated, we found nanometals or metal oxides (TiO2, SiO2, zinc oxides, lithium iron phosphate, titanate, copper oxides), nanoclays, nanocellulose and carbonaceous materials, including carbon nanofibers (CNF) and carbon nanotubes (CNT)—single-walled (SWCNT) as well as multiwalled (MWCNT).
The project helped to advance our knowledge of workplace assessments of ENMs by documenting specific tasks and industrial processes (e.g., printing and varnishing) as well as certain as yet little investigated ENMs (nanocellulose, for example).
Based on our investigations, we propose a strategy for more accurate assessment of ENM exposure using methods that require a minimum of preanalytical handling. The recommended strategy is a systematic two-step assessment of workplaces that produce and use ENMs. The first step involves testing with different DRIs (such as a CPC and a laser photometer) as well as sample collection and subsequent microscopic analysis (MPS + TEM/STEM) to clearly identify the work tasks that generate ENMs. The second step, once work exposure is confirmed, is specific quantification of the ENMs detected. The following findings are particularly helpful for detailed characterization of ENM exposure:
- The first conclusive tests of a technique using ICP-MS to quantify the metal oxide content of samples collected in the workplace
- The possibility of combining different sampling methods recommended by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to measure elemental carbon as an indicator of NTC/NFC, as well as demonstration of the limitation of this method stemming from observed interference with the black carbon particles required to synthesis carbon materials (for example, Raman spectroscopy showed that less than 6% of the particles deposited on the electron microscopy grid at one site were SWCNTs)
- The clear advantages of using an MPS (instead of the standard 37-mm cassettes used as sampling media for electron microscopy), which allows quantification of materials
- The major impact of sampling time: a long sampling time overloads electron microscopy grids and can lead to overestimation of average particle agglomerate size and underestimation of particle concentrations
- The feasibility and utility of surface sampling, either with sampling pumps or passively by diffusion onto the electron microscopy grids, to assess ENM dispersion in the workplace
These original findings suggest promising avenues for assessing ENM exposure, while also showing their limitations. Improvements to our sampling and analysis methods give us a better understanding of ENM exposure and help in adapting and implementing control measures that can minimize occupational exposure.
You can download the full report in either or both English and French from the 'Nanomaterials – A Guide to Good Practices Facilitating Risk Management in the Workplace, 2nd Edition' webpage.


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Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyze data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties. The company has also updated its InfoSphere data warehouse software, IBM announced Tuesday.
"We believe we're in a new era of data management. The answer to every data challenge today is not to use a relational database management system," said Bernie Spang, IBM's director of strategy and marketing for database systems. "It's about using the right tool for the right job."
Version 10 of both products will be available April 30.
Both products are faster and work more efficiently, IBM claims. DB2 can cut storage space requirements by up to 90 percent, and InfoSphere can execute queries up to 10 times faster than before, according to IBM.
Both products have new capabilities as well. DB2 can now work with the World Wide Web Consortium's RDF (Resource Description Framework) data format. InfoSphere can now communicate with Apache Hadoop deployments.
DB2 version 10 is the first major update for the database system software in four years. IBM released DB2 version 10 for z/OS in 2010. This release is for Linux, Unix and Windows systems, and has a different codebase and is maintained by different set of developers from the z/OS version.
This is the first version of DB2 to support RDF. RDF stores data in three parts, a subject, a predicate and an object. The predicate describes the relationship between the two other pieces of data. Structuring data this way allows software programs to understand how disparate pieces of information may fit together. IBM uses the technology in its Rational Jazz collaboration software to identify dependencies in a software development process.
Other enhancements to DB2 include that backups can be done more quickly and basic I/O has been accelerated, IBM said.
Another feature is designed to make the database more flexible. It now features multi-temperature data management, where administrators can designate the specific storage devices for certain classes of data. Data that needs to be accessed quickly, for instance, can be stored on speedy solid-state drives, whereas less valuable data can be stored on more inexpensive, though slower, tape drives.
The software offers a new way to query temporal data, through a feature called time travel. This feature has been popular with users of the z/OS version of DB2, Spang said. A user or a program can examine data as it existed in the database during any given period of time. This can be useful in analyzing emerging trends. While programmers can already write code to extract such data, the software provides hooks to make queries easier to execute.
The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. has been testing DB2 through an early access beta program. The company switched its SAP databases in 2008 from Oracle to IBM, and has since saved US$1 million in licensing, maintenance and storage costs since then, according to Tom DeJuneas, Coca-Cola IT team manager.
Its tests with the new DB2 have shown it could increase data compression by 20 percent, on top of the already-substantial improvements in the previous version. The tests revealed "some really nice performance increases," DeJuneas said.
The update to InfoSphere is the first version of the software to support the Hadoop data processing framework, meaning users can commission Hadoop jobs and access the results directly from within InfoSphere. This is also the first version to allow for continually updated data sets, which can help organizations get closer to real-time data analysis.
DB2 version 10 can be downloaded at no cost for production environments that require no more than two processor cores and 2GB of memory. The price for larger implementations starts at US$6,180 including a year of support. InfoSphere pricing is based on number of processors or, for the first processor, the amount of data being stored. The basic version starts around $40,000 per terabyte.
Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @Joab_Jackson. Joab's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Knot your average flight
You've probably seen different shorebirds flit short distances here and there on the beach, walk the mudflat probing unceasingly or do their funny little dance up and down the beach just at the wave's edge. There are a lot of different species, most relatively small and most not overly flamboyant.
Now imagine a flock of shorebirds taking off from southern Brazil for a seemingly non-stop, 6-day flight to their first layover in North Carolina. That's about a 5000 mile trip – an average of 35 miles per hour, for 144 hours. Red knots (Calidris canutus rufa – pictures) do this year in and year out, many flying a distance farther than the Earth to the Moon during their lifetime.
If we were to take a trip to southern Brazil, it would probably be an 8 or 10 hour flight. We would have been fed two meals and had a several drinks. We'd still be tired and a little cranky, but thrilled to hear the pilot put down the landing gear. A red knot would probably have knotted muscles or a knot in its stomach, but would surely share the thrill of the landing…
Maybe knot a thrill, but that moment of seeing the coast emerge from the Atlantic blue means likely survival. These birds weigh less than 1/2 pound when well fed. They arrive at their eastern US feeding grounds sometimes less than half that weight! Their little bird brain and emaciated body must be dreaming of horseshoe crab eggs. The forage for which their flight is perfectly timed. Red knots typically forage on shellfish spat, but the high energy horseshoe crab eggs allow them to really pack the ounces back on before heading to their arctic breeding grounds.
Not sure why a bird would subject itself to such a tortuous migration (maybe it brags to the other subspecies of red knot who opt for slightly shorter distances). Still, it is a great example of how critical certain marine shoreline habitats can be and how complex the relationship can be between multiple species, habitat, water quality, environmental conditions and global human communities.
The population of the birds that travel to Argentina dropped by more than half between the mid-1980's and early 2000's. International efforts are underway to conserve these travelers and this remarkable life history that connects people from the entire Western hemisphere.
The subspecies Calidris canutus roselaari migrates down the West coast from the Alaska's north coast. Apparently they aren't many of them, but you might have a chance of seeing them on the outer coast in the spring.
I've included a few links below if you're interested in more info… Here's to a lifestyle that does knot require me to lose and gain 100 pounds every year! JEff
Red Knot – The Birds of North America
US Fish and Wildlife Service – Red Knot factsheet (pdf)
Red Knot – An Imperiled Migratory Shorebird in New Jersey (amazing before/after photos of weight gain in Delaware Bay)
Shorebird Researchers Document Red Knot's Record-breaking Flight
Jeff Adams is a Washington Sea Grant Marine Water Quality Specialist, affiliated with the University of Washington's College of the Environment, and based in Bremerton. You can follow his Sea-life blog, email to email@example.com or call at 360-337-4619.


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Reinforcement Learning Toolbox™ provides an app, functions, and a Simulink® block for training policies using reinforcement learning algorithms, including DQN, PPO, SAC, and DDPG. You can use these policies to implement controllers and decision-making algorithms for complex applications such as resource allocation, robotics, and autonomous systems.
The toolbox lets you represent policies and value functions using deep neural networks or look-up tables and train them through interactions with environments modeled in MATLAB® or Simulink. You can evaluate the single- or multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms provided in the toolbox or develop your own. You can experiment with hyperparameter settings, monitor training progress, and simulate trained agents either interactively through the app or programmatically. To improve training performance, simulations can be run in parallel on multiple CPUs, GPUs, computer clusters, and the cloud (with Parallel Computing Toolbox™ and MATLAB Parallel Server™).
Through the ONNX™ model format, existing policies can be imported from deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow™ Keras and PyTorch (with Deep Learning Toolbox™). You can generate optimized C, C++, and CUDA® code to deploy trained policies on microcontrollers and GPUs. The toolbox includes reference examples to help you get started.
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Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Create agents using deep Q-network (DQN), deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), proximal policy optimization (PPO), and other built-in algorithms. Use templates to develop custom agents for training policies.
Reinforcement Learning Designer App
Interactively design, train, and simulate reinforcement learning agents. Export trained agents to MATLAB for further use and deployment.
Policy and Value Function Representation Using Deep Neural Networks
For complex systems with large state-action spaces, define deep neural network policies programmatically, using layers from Deep Learning Toolbox, or interactively, with Deep Network Designer. Alternatively, use the default network architecture suggested by the toolbox. Initialize the policy using imitation learning to accelerate training. Import and export ONNX models for interoperability with other deep learning frameworks.
Single- and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Simulink
Create and train reinforcement learning agents in Simulink with the RL Agent block. Train multiple agents simultaneously (multi-agent reinforcement learning) in Simulink using multiple instances of the RL Agent block.
Simulink and Simscape Environments
Use Simulink and Simscape™ to create a model of an environment. Specify the observation, action, and reward signals within the model.
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Speed up deep neural network training and inference with high-performance NVIDIA® GPUs. Use MATLAB with Parallel Computing Toolbox and most CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs that have compute capability 3.0 or higher.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) — People with dementia appear to be better off in small group homes rather than large nursing homes because they offer a domestic environment where patients can live as individuals, new research suggests.
And small group homes offer the added benefit of allowing the relatives of dementia patients to get involved, the researchers pointed out in the study published in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.
"It's estimated that 80 million people worldwide will suffer from dementia by 2040," Ezra van Zadelhoff, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said in a journal news release. "Up until now, traditional care for people with dementia has mostly been provided in large nursing homes. However, a number of countries are increasingly providing care in small group homes, which offer a more domestic environment focusing on normal daily life."
Small group homes have already been established in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Japan. In conducting the study, researchers focused on two such homes with 10 residents each, located in an urban area in the Netherlands. The smaller living units were situated on the campus of a traditional large-scale nursing home.
Inside the homes were a communal living room and kitchen. Eight residents have a private bedroom with their own furniture. The remaining 12 residents share bedrooms decorated as they would be in a traditional home. All of the residents, however, require around-the-clock care, which is provided by a full-time nursing staff experienced in geriatric care.
This nursing staff helps the residents perform general household duties and daily activities, such as cleaning, cooking, walking and exercising.
After observing the residents for 32 hours over the course of eight days and interviewing five of the residents as well as some family members and staff, the researchers found that the residents felt at home in their small group environment. Daily activities also provided the patients with stability and clarity, the study noted. The patients were also able to involve themselves in familiar activities, which helped them maintain their identity and feel more comfortable.
Relatives of the residents were treated as family, not just visitors, the researchers pointed out. They had keys to the home, visited regularly and helped with patients' personal care and chores.
The investigators also found that nurses working in the small group home were able to foster strong relationships with the residents and tailor care to their specific needs.
"The findings of our study indicate that the key to providing person-centered care for people with dementia is to enable people to be themselves and live in an environment where they and their families can get involved in normal daily activities," van Zadelhoff explained in the news release.
"However, the model is not without its problems," she added. "Nursing staff get more involved with residents and this can conflict with their clinical and professional distance. And the families in our study varied in how much they wanted to get involved in the care provided by the home, which sometimes led to tension."
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has more about dementia.


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As creepy as it sounds, the ant spiral of death is deadly only to the ants involved in it. The ants circle and circle into one heaving vortex until they drop dead from exhaustion. Bad things can happen when instincts go wrong.
If you've ever read an old-timey pulp novel, you may be familiar with army ants, the South American terrors that spread in huge numbers and can strip an entire stretch of forest floor bare of animals. Well, sometimes they're not so formidable — it is possible to trap them so they march themselves to death. All it requires is a group of foraging ants and an enclosed space (or a dinner plate).
Army ants deserve their reputation for ferocity. These South American ants forage regularly, taking out not only the insects and arachnids that are their main prey, but also any unwary birds that fall into their path. A small bird can be killed in as little as four stings by workers.
Their one weakness is the fact that they are blind, and they are not stronger for it. Even sighted ants communicate almost entirely by touch and smell — this allows foreign insects into their nests if they are coated in their fellow ants' insides. It also explains why live and kicking ants can be dumped in the colony's "graveyards" if the unlucky insects become daubed with the wrong kind of chemical.
Army ants, especially soldier army ants, have no eyes. They rely on the trail that the last ant leaves behind. As the ants move, they reinforce trails, so if one ant blunders across a past trail, it can simply loop around and around, leading the ants behind it, all of them reinforcing the trail as they go.
This can lead to large swirling vortexes or small neat circles. The largest recorded ant mill was 1,200 feet across, and it took each ant over two hours to complete the loop.
One can create an ant mill just by diverting a few ants and placing them into an enclosed space where they are likely to loop back on their own scent. Biologist and photographer Alex Wild remembers ants getting trapped in a vortex simply by walking onto dinner plates in his kitchen and exploring the plate until they found their own scent.
But please, don't abuse the ants. Once the insects begin looping, they will literally keep going in circles until they die — or until something disrupts the circle and they blunder onto a better trail.
Top Image: Alex Wild. Via NPR and National Geographic.


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Clinical Faculty Academic Appointments
Clinical Faculty Appointment Categories
Department of Medicine Requirements for Appointment at the Rank of Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine Requirements for Appointment at the Rank of Lecturer
Foreign Trained Physicians
Application Process and Documentation Requirements
All clinical (MD) academic appointments are governed by the Policy for Clinical Faculty and Procedures Manual for the Policy for Clinical Faculty, available at Faculty of Medicine Clinical Affairs website.
All faculty members' clinical activities fall under the jurisdiction of any relevant site(s) in which they practice and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).
Clinical Faculty Appointment Categories
Clinical faculty (MDs) may be appointed full-time, part-time or as adjunct clinical faculty. An overview of these types of appointments is provided in
Table 1, below.
|Full-time Clinical
|Part-time Clinical
|Adjunct Clinical
|Location of Practice
|Active staff at a fully-affiliated University of Toronto teaching hospital
|Hospital or other site affiliated with the University of Toronto
|Hospital or other site affiliated with the University of Toronto or at a non-affiliated site, e.g., private practice
|Member of a conforming practice plan (financial structure that supports academic work) or equivalent
|Not required
|Not required
|Percent of professional time devoted to academic activities (teaching and scholarship)
|Academic position description
|Term of appointment
|Initial probationary period of three to five years, followed by Continuing Faculty Appointment Review (CFAR). After successful review continuing annual appointment, which can be terminated only for cause
|One year renewable appointment* with annual activity report and review. The Chair may terminate without cause**
|One year renewable appointment* with annual activity report and review. The Chair may terminate without cause.
|CPSO disclosure***
|Rights provided by the Policy for Clinical Faculty****
|May grieve against a University official and alleged breach of academic freedom
|May grieve against a University official, but not alleged breach of academic freedom
|May not grieve against a University official or alleged breach of academic freedom
|Access to University of Toronto library facilities
|Tuition waiver, scholarship program and joint membership benefits
|Not eligible
|Not eligible
|Academic rank
|Faculty members may be appointed at the rank of lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, or professor, based on education and demonstrated scholarship.
|Faculty members may be appointed at the rank of lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, or professor. A community preceptor or other part-time or adjunct clinical faculty will usually be appointed at the rank of lecturer.
|Faculty members may be appointed at the rank of lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, or professor. A community preceptor or other part-time or adjunct clinical faculty will usually be appointed at the rank of lecturer.
* Year-end refers to the end of the academic year (June 30). Requests for activity reports will be sent out in April of each year.
**All part-time clinician-teacher appointees are expected to complete training in health professional education within the first three years of appointment. Examples of health education training are: Master Teacher Program, TLC Program, Stepping Stones Teacher Development Program, Education Scholars Program
***All faculty members are required to report to their University Department Chair any information, both historical and current, relevant to the clinical academic appointment including, but not limited to: finding of negligence; investigation and/or finding of guilt of a criminal offence, academic misconduct, incompetence or any form of professional misconduct by a court or the CPSO's Discipline Committee or Fitness to Practice Committee (or its equivalent in any jurisdiction). As required in the Procedures Manual for the Policy for Clinical (MD) Faculty, self-reporting must be made to the University Department Chair within seven working days of receipt of notification or knowledge of such a conviction, finding or investigation. For an investigation by the Discipline Committee or Fitness to Practice Committee (or its equivalent in any jurisdiction), self-reporting must conform to all applicable policies and procedures, including, but not limited to, hospital by-laws and CPSO regulations.
**** For definition of grievance, refer to section 5.3.1 of the Procedures Manual for the Policy for Clinical Faculty.
Department of Medicine Requirements for Appointment at the Rank of Assistant Professor
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto requires advanced training AND demonstrated scholarship for initial appointment at the rank of assistant professor or higher.
Advanced Training:
While the details will vary depending on the proposed academic position description (table 2 below), for appointment as an assistant professor the Faculty stipulates one must have a graduate degree or other advanced training, such as in the form of post-residency fellowship, that is relevant to the proposed position. For example, a MSc in Engineering may be relevant to an individual whose area of academic focus is biomedical engineering, but does not ensure that someone hoping to build a career in quality improvement (QI) will be successful.
Demonstrated Scholarship:
Evidence of scholarship ensures that the individual is not only knowledgeable, but can apply this knowledge in the form of one or more of sustained excellence in teaching, creative professional activities and research, as defined below:
Sustained Excellence in Teaching may be demonstrated through a critical mass of: teaching evaluations that provide comparisons against peer teachers; student testimonials; a breadth and depth of teaching, e.g. across different trainee level and/or training environments; and receipt of teaching awards and honours.
Creative Professional Activity (CPA) is a broad term that includes by is not limited to the following types of activities:
- Contributions to the development of professional practices, e.g., guidelines, health policy development, regulatory committees and setting of standards
- Exemplary professional practice, e.g., teaching techniques, educational innovations, curriculum development, models of care innovations (e.g. role of EMR prompts, standardized pathways, pre-printed patient 'order sets,' on quality and safety of inpatient care or resident experience); leadership in development of professional practice (e.g. tools to enhance physician communication, professionalism).
- Professional innovation and creative excellence, e.g., patient videos, curriculum innovations, and communications media.
Research Scholarship may be demonstrated through traditional research metrics, e.g., peer reviewed publications and grants, research awards and honours, graduate student teaching and supervision, and other evidence that the research has been conducted has had, or has potential to have, an impact – direct or indirect - on the health of the population. Examples might include: identification of a new target for drug development; development and uptake of clinical practice guidelines; impact on government policy; new models of care with demonstrated improvements in patient outcomes, healthcare costs, and/or the patient experience. Continuing Faculty Appointment Review occurs three to five years from first appointment, irrespective of the initial rank (i.e. lecturer or assistant professor).
Once appointed to the rank of lecturer faculty members have an additional pathway to junior promotion to assistant professor, sustained committment to the academic mission.
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|Advanced Training
|Demonstrated Scholarship
|Clinican-teacher (CT)
|Graduate degree in education*or a related field OR one+ year post-residency fellowship and completion of training in health professions education**
|Demonstrated CPA and/or relevant first author peer reviewed publication
|Clinician in Quality & Innovation (CQI)
|Graduate degree in QI*** OR Graduate degree relevant to QI, e.g. MPH, MBA, informatics, with demonstrated QI competency
|Demonstrated CPA and/or first author peer reviewed publication relevant to QI
|Clinician-educator (CE)
|Graduate degree in education*
|First author peer reviewed publication related to education OR demonstrated CPA
|Clinician-investigator (CI)
|Graduate research degree or equivalent post-doctoral training
|First author peer reviewed publications related to research and/or CPA
|Clinician-scientist (CS)
|Graduate research degree or equivalent post-doctoral training
|First author peer reviewed publications related to research
* Examples of graduate degrees in education include the MSc-CH - Health Practitioner Teacher Education and OISE MSc
**Examples of health education training are: Master Teacher Program, TLC Program, Stepping Stones Teacher Development Program, Education Scholars Program
*** Example of a graduate degree in QI is Master's degree in Quality Improvement & Patient Safety at IHPME.
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A community preceptor or other part-time or adjunct clinical faculty will usually be appointed at the rank of lecturer.
Initial appointment at the rank of lecturer may also be appropriate for full-time clinician-teachers and clinicians in quality and innovation who have relevant advanced training, e.g. a certificate in QI, but require additional time to demonstrate scholarship. Clinician-investigators, clinician-educators and clinician-scientists who have clearly demonstrated scholarship and completed advanced training save for thesis defense may also be considered for initial appointment at the rank of lecturer; a lecturer appointment enables application for peer-review funding as PI. This latter group is then eligible for junior promotion (lecturer to assistant professor) upon successful thesis defense.
Foreign-Trained Physicians:
To be eligible for CPSO academic certificate of registration, foreign-trained physicians must be eligible for clinical full-time or (rarely) clinical part-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor or higher.
Application Process and Documentation Requirements:
The Office of the Chief of Medicine has overall responsibility for the assembly and submission of requests for appointment. Complete application packages must be submitted online via Laserfische. This includes:
- Online Application Form (to be completed and submitted by the Chief of Medicine's office or equivalent)
- Joint Letter of support from chief of medicine and departmental division director (full-time faculty) or
- Letter of support from Chief of Medicine (part-time and adjunct faculty) ( * If in private practice, departmental division director signature is sufficient) providing justification for the requested appointment and rank
- Updated Curriculum Vitae
- Demonstration of Teaching Effectiveness e.g. (formal teaching evaluations, teaching awards, student testimonials, is required for appointment of full-time or part-time faculty as clinician-teachers)
- Academic Position Description (required for all appointments) FT and PT appointments, Adjunct Appointments
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- Two Internal Reference Letters and two External Reference Letters (required for ALL full-time faculty and also for part-time and adjunct faculty at the rank of assistant professor or higher)
- A copy of the CPSO Certificate of Professional Conduct
- Search details (position postings, search committee membership, list of applicants including those short-listed for interview, justification for candidate selection - required for full-time faculty)
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The process timeline is:
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Citics and industry apologists have been arguing and insulting each other over popular stupid movies like "300." (My opinion on that one: yes, it's trash, but at least it has a lot of exciting combat action, something last year's smarter but monotonous Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Army of Darkness and Days of Glory were too busy pontificating to remember to include).
There've been those great viral videos of Lily Tomlin and director David O. Russell fighting on the set of "I Heart Huckabees." I'm among the few who loved that movie, but this stuff's still hilarious. And one clip features supporting hair-flipping – to balance out Tomlin's of the bird variety – by my favorite French actress, Isabelle Huppert.
There's been the outcry over the billboards for upcoming torture porn masterpiece "Captivity" – the most amusing aspect of which is that the film was apparently directed by superstiff Roland Joffe, who's more prone to making lesson-teaching anti-war movies without enough fighting action.
And now the editorial editor of the L.A. Times has resigned after his plan to let semi-wacky movie producer Brian Grazer edit Sunday's section got killed – because the former Times guy is dating someone at Grazer's p.r. firm. It was an embarrassing act of desperation on our downtown colleagues' part to let a Hollywood type run their opinion section in the first place, but after this came to light, things really got fun.
This has all been very diverting in a cooler-than-Britney-Spears-got-out-of-rehab-this-week-too way. But it makes you wonder when the movies themselves will once again be more worth talking about than the circus that surrounds them.
Not before September, I'm guessing.
An Entertaining Week Outside Theaters
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If it's not pharmaceutical drugs being advertised on TV, it's natural supplements being pushed in health magazines. If you want to feel old and rundown, watch Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune and take note of the advertising. Everything from cholesterol lowering drugs to denture paste to laxatives to viagra. It's not much better in the magazine world. Unfortunately, that says something about our general state of health in this country.
"A rich source of fiber," grapefruit pectin "may help maintain cholesterol levels already in the normal range." All that for only $31.98 a bottle. Hmmm? Let me get this straight. You can keep your "already normal" cholesterol levels "normal" by taking grapefruit pectin supplements.
Here's an idea. How about we skip the supplements and eat real grapefruit?
I'll admit, I've fallen for some less-than-good-for-me health food claims in the past (of all things, wheat germ) and I do take a few supplements from time to time, but my gosh, we're getting bombarded with over-the-top health claims these days. What's true and what isn't?
The US Food and Drug Administration recently put the smack down on General Mills for claiming that Cheerios have been "clinically proven to lower cholesterol." Oops, the FDA says those words classify Cheerios as a drug since the intent is to prevent or treat disease and as such, they need to go through the "approved new drug application" process.
If you can't believe in Cheerios to lower cholesterol, can you believe in grapefruit pectin? Maybe, maybe not. I believe in the healing and medicinal properties of whole foods, but I'm not buying into advertising claims applied to food that comes in a box.
I'm also not buying into the pectin supplement claims, but I am a huge fan of fiber and just in case the pectin can work some magic somewhere in my body, I leave as much of it on my citrus fruit as possible. See above for pectin-saving peel photo. I use a small paring knife and keep as much of the fibrous membrane on as possible.
Grapefruit salad
3 cups mixed greens
1 grapefruit, peeled (minimally), seeded and sectioned
1 avocado, sliced
1/2 cup pecans *
crumbled goat cheese
All purpose salad dressing (this is my default salad dressing)
2 tablespoons Annie's Naturals organic Dijon Mustard
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons honey (or less if you don't like sweet dressings)
Start with the mustard and place all ingredients in a small jar. Shake vigorously. If you start with the mustard, it won't separate. Use as needed for any salad.
Assemble salad, sprinkle with pecans and goat cheese, drizzle with dressing and enjoy.
* I like toasting my pecans in a dry skillet on medium/low for 3 to 5 minutes to bring out the flavor.
Go forth and eat whole foods, pectin and all.
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The New York Times Bay Area Blog recently took a look at the issue of plagiarism among students in computer science classes. The widespread availability of code on the Internet makes it easy for computer science students to find solutions to common assignments. Computer science professors retaliate by devising increasingly sophisticated automated systems to detect instances of code plagiarism.
The NYT cites a recent incident where a Stanford student was suspended and resigned from his position as student body vice president after he was caught doing the copypasta routine. According to the San Jose Mercury News, roughly 22 percent of Stanford's honor code violations relate to plagiarism in computer science.
Some readers might remember that we looked at the other side of this issue last year when a student at San Jose University was disciplined for publishing the source code of his own solutions to class assignments. His professor contended that making the source code available constituted an honor code violation merely because it would enable other students to cheat.
As we pointed out at the time, sharing code and repurposing existing code are increasingly standard practices in professional software engineering. Collaborative development is common and very little code that is produced today is written in a complete vacuum. Some computer science professors are attempting to bring this trend into the classroom by encouraging students to share code and participate in open source software projects.
Our readers have generally voiced strong opinions on issues of this nature in the past and there seem to be a lot of different viewpoints. As computer science enrollment continues to drop, it's more important than ever for professors to find ways to modernize their teaching methods and find ways to balance the need to encourage collaboration with the need to accurately test individual knowledge.
Source: ars technica


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How to Minimize Taxes in Retirement
One of the biggest challenges in retirement planning is how to make your money last a lifetime and cover all our costs of living as well as the adventures we plan for our golden years.
Along with health-care costs, experts say boomers aren't adequately planning for taxes in retirement and end up losing more money to Uncle Sam than expected.
With tax day coming in less than two weeks, I reached out to Scott Cramer, retirement specialist and president of Cramer & Rauchegger, for tips on how boomers can choose the right financial strategies to minimize taxes in retirement. Here's what he had to offer:
Boomer: In what ways are retirement income and accounts taxed?
Cramer: When it comes to planning for retirement, tax strategies play a major role. To plan appropriately, you need to know how retirement income is taxed. Retirees often receive income from a variety of sources that are held in different types of accounts. Some accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k)s are "tax hostile"--meaning the withdrawals are fully taxable.
Others, such as individually-owned investment accounts, are "tax neutral" since withdrawals are partially taxed because you may have already paid some of the taxes as the account grew. Lastly, other accounts, namely Roth IRAs and municipal bonds, may be tax free or free from federal taxes as you make the withdrawals.
Boomer: How can baby boomers develop portfolio strategies that will help lessen the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act tax on investment income?
Cramer: Only those with $250,000 or more of investment income will be hit with the tax under health-care reform. The key to lessening or eliminating the tax is having knowledge of what kind of income counts towards investable income, as defined by the legislations, and structuring your investment to avoid the tax.
Boomer: Which retirement accounts should boomers use first when planning tax-efficient retirement withdrawals and which accounts should be left for last?
Cramer: There is no hard and fast rule of what accounts should be used first. Each client has different accounts and different tax structures . What we see in our practice is that clients that have a combination of tax hostile, tax neutral and tax free accounts have the most flexibility in structuring income to pay the least amount of taxes each year.
As an example, if all of your investment are in your IRA or 401(k) and you are taking monthly withdrawals for your income in retirement and the IRS increases tax rates by 5%, you will be taking a 5% pay cut because all of your investable assets are in the tax hostile bucket and you do not have another bucket to use as a source for income.
Boomer: How much can your Social Security benefit be taxed and are there any ways to lessen or avoid the tax?
Cramer: Social Security benefits could be non-taxable or partially taxable, depending on your total income and marital status. Up to 85% of your benefits could be subject to taxes depending on your "Social Security Threshold Provisional Income." This is different from Adjusted Gross Income. Again, the key to controlling the taxes on your Social Security is having the knowledge of what kind of income counts towards "Social Security Threshold Provisional Income" and having the flexibility to structure your investments to keep your income below the taxable amount(s).
Boomer: In what ways should boomers diversify retirement assets to manage their tax liability and hedge against future tax increases?
Cramer: When it comes to managing tax liability, there are no fixed rules governing what you should and should not do. Each person's situation is unique, however, we have found that clients that have built their retirement portfolio with a combination of accounts have the most flexibility in structuring income to have the biggest tax savings each year, and the flexibility to adapt to a changing tax code and investment environment over time.


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Audi, BMW and Daimler have unveiled a partnership with some of the world's largest tech firms to develop the next generation of mobile networks for vehicle communications.
Along with Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm, the German automakers announced the formation of the "5G Automotive Association," which will develop, test and standardize the fifth generation of high-speed wireless communication.
"The goal is to address society's connected mobility and road safety needs with applications such as connected automated driving, ubiquitous access to services and integration into smart cities and intelligent transportation," the companies said in a statement.
The next-generation mobile network, also known as 5G, would involve not only cellular bandwidth improvements but also Internet connection speeds that are faster than the current 4G, or Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard.
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance, a non-profit industry group working on new cellular communication standards, has said 5G would enable data rates up to 1Gbps second, allow for a vast increase in the number of devices that could simultaneously be connected on the same network and offer more efficient mobile networks for a lower investment cost.
Self-driving cars not only rely on cameras and sensors to navigate, but also up-to date GPS and map data that can be used to identify the immediate location. In the future, autonomous vehicles will also be able to communicate with other vehicles and the infrastructure around them, known as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communications.
For example, Audi recently announced that ts 2017 vehicles will be able to communicate with traffic lights in order to inform drivers when they will switch from red to green.
Next-generation 5G mobile networks will include Cellular Vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication, which shifts the focus of information and communication technologies towards the Internet of Things, the 5G Automotive Association said.
"As an evolution to today's networks, next generation mobile networks are expected to handle much more data volume, connect many more devices, significantly reduce latency and bring new levels of reliability," the group said. "For example, 5G can better support mission-critical communications for safer driving and will further support enhanced [V2X] communications and connected mobility solutions."
The 5G Automotive Association said it will address key technical and regulatory issues, the integration of vehicle platforms with 5G connectivity, privacy and security, a distributed cloud infrastructure and onboard vehicle computing systems.
The group plans to run joint innovation and development projects and interoperability testing, as well large scale pilots and trial deployments.
"It will facilitate global regulation, certification and standardization efforts for autonomous driving and future car services based on 5G technologies," Li Yingtao, president of a Huawei's 2012 Labs business.


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The Mobilization for Climate Justice (MCJ) is an alliance of environmental justice, social justice, indigenous rights, forest protection and other groups that have united to address climate-change. MCJ is planning to confront what they consider to be false solutions at the December U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen. MCJ is advancing alternatives that they believe will provide real and just solutions to the climate crisis: leaving fossil fuels in the ground; reasserting peoples' and community control over resources; relocalising food production; reducing over-consumption, particularly in the North; recognizing ecological and climate debt owed to the peoples of the South and making reparations; and respecting Indigenous and forest peoples' rights," the call to action states.
Member Organization in MCJ
Based in the United States, the movement is organizing opposition to false solutions to climate change that impede our ability to find the real solutions, including:
False solutions are those primarily directed at maintaining business as usual and increasing corporate profit, while doing little or nothing to truly address climate change.In Copenhagen, MCJ will come together from many different associates from many different nations, backgrounds and movements, experiences and struggles: indigenous peoples and farmers, workers and environmentalists, feminists and anti-capitalists. (BurlingtonFreePress.com, 11/29/09)
False solutions include carbon offset projects, such as industrial timber plantations grown in developing countries, explicitly designed to allow industries in the North to continue polluting. This solution is false because there is no evidence these carbon offsets actually offset the emissions in question.
False so-called "clean" coal. The technology at the heart of "clean" coal is completely unproven and riddled with problems such as contamination of ground water. "Clean" coal is merely a PR scheme designed to allow coal companies to continue blowing up mountaintops, expanding strip mines onto indigenous peoples' lands and pumping massive amounts of pollution into the air.


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