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Imagine browsing the store for toys with your 9-year-old daughter, and she picks up a doll wearing a half shirt, belly ring and eye shadow.
"Mommy, is this doll for me to play with?" she asks.
That's what happened to Jodi Norgaard, and it inspired her to create the Go! Go! Sports Girls doll collection.
"I measured my daughter and her friends every time they came in the door, and the seamstress had five daughters that we measured," Norgaard said of creating prototypes for the line. "I wanted the dresses to be in proportion to how girls really are built."
After she teamed up with a manufacturer, "Tennis Girl" debuted at the U.S. Open in August 2008.
"They ordered 500 dolls from me, and they sold out within six days," said Norgaard. "To see little girls carrying my dolls around at the U.S. Open — that was very powerful."
A mother of three kids — Peter, 17; Grace, now 14; and Ben, 11 — Norgaard runs her successful Dream Big Toy Co. out of her home in Glen Ellyn. All 11 of her Sports Girls are available in stores across the country.
"I get notes from parents all the time telling me they are so happy their daughter feels a connection to a doll that isn't a sex symbol," she said. "It's important for young girls today to know that we care and want to know what makes them happy. Dolls are not the only influence young girls have out there, but the more positive influences the girls can have, the better."
Q: What is your greatest attribute and greatest fault?
A: My attribute is that I always have a positive attitude. Fault would be that I can be a little disorganized at times and that may be because I spread myself too thin.
Q: What's your greatest possession?
A: The love of my children and my husband.
Q: What is the best lesson you ever received from your father/mother?
A: From my father — he has always treated everyone fairly. He was a college professor, and I would go to school with him, and he would treat the president the same way he would treat the janitor at night. He may be the kindest person I know. From my mother, she taught me and my sister to be strong on the inside and always told us, "Don't ever expect a man to take care of you!"
Q: Who is your living hero?
A: Billie Jean King. A friend of mine used to work for Billie. I've met her a few times. She's just incredible. She changed how the world viewed women's sports and changed the lives of many, many women. When she went out and beat Bobby Riggs in tennis, that was just groundbreaking. She's an amazing woman.
Q: What's the one secret to success?
A: Don't let fear stop you. The first time you have a job and have to take that flight by yourself — or even filling up the gas tank by yourself — every time you conquer that fear, the fear of failure diminishes a little more each time. I think this is a huge problem right now with kids, especially kids in sports, because none of the parents want their kids to fail. But it's OK if they do. It's what makes them a stronger person the next time. It should not stop you from what you really want to do.
Q: What's your biggest mistake?
A: I've made many little ones and am hopeful there's no big one coming. However, I did have my sons ask me, "Mom, why didn't you design a Go! Go! Sports Boy?" because they didn't have a doll.
Q: Which side gets cheated more often — personal or professional?
A: Professional. I love what I do. I truly love it. I could work at it happily 15 hours a day. I really have to put work aside sometimes because being a mother, I know how fast it goes. I don't want to miss one sporting event or one thing at the grade school. Eighteen years is a short part of a person's life, so I try to be with my kids as much as I can.
Q: If I only knew then …
A: Stay calm. When I was 26 and I was first married, I had my own business where I filled baskets with baked goods. One holiday season I had so many orders, and my husband was staying up until 2 a.m. with me. I just broke down and cried — and he took me by the shoulders and said, "Buck up. Stay calm, and get to work," and it worked.
Q: What my mother/father never told me:
A: It's a big world out there. When I was growing up, our world was so small, and we didn't travel much. I moved to Chicago, and you learn fast that it's big out there and you have to put on your suit of armor and be tough. I always tell my children that they need to live in a major city at least once in your life. It's so important.
Q: What did you want to be at age 13?
A: A professional tennis player. But when I turned 14 it sort of set in that this wasn't going to happen.
Q: What's your professional mantra, in 10 words or less fewer?
A: Dream big, and go for it!
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Understanding specialized cells could be key to preventing genital herpes, researchers say
A specialized kind of immune cell that patrols the skin of people infected with the herpes virus appears to prevent the outbreak of painful sores, a new study suggests.
Researchers think the cells may be key to developing a potential vaccine against genital herpes, which afflicts more than 24 million people in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For the study, published online May 8 in the journal Nature, researchers took skin samples from people infected with HSV-2, the virus that causes genital herpes, and followed them as they healed from recent outbreaks.
Working with a high-powered microscope, researchers used fluorescent stains to find and label different types of immune cells in the skin. They were most interested in cells called CD8 killer T-cells.
Unlike antibodies, which bind to bacteria and viruses, preventing them from infecting cells in the first place, CD8 cells are a second line of defense, said Bryan Cullen, director of the Center for Virology at Duke University, in Durham, N.C.
"They kill virus-infected cells as quickly as possible after they become infected," said Cullen, who also studies herpes infections but was not involved in the research. Killing infected cells prevents them from becoming factories that crank out more copies of the virus, he said.
Scientists once thought that all CD8 cells roamed the body, looking for infected cells through the bloodstream.
By watching the immune response as it unfolded in the skin, researchers realized that there were special CD8 cells that stayed in place, patrolling the area around nerve endings like beat cops. They guessed that the cells were waiting for the herpes virus to emerge and cause trouble.
To test that theory, they used very fine lasers to pluck out these specialized cells to see what kinds of proteins they were making.
In skin that had some shedding of the herpes virus, the specialized CD8 cells made a lot of perforin, a protein that penetrates membranes to kill cells. In skin with no active virus, the specialized CD8 cells didn't make any perforin, suggesting that the function of the cells is indeed to kill herpes-infected cells.
The specialized CD8 cells also made other proteins to summon backup cells to the site to help tamp down the attack. And they didn't seem to make chemical signals that sound the all-clear, a message to immune responders that it's time to leave the area, which may explain why they stick around in the skin.
"We actually showed they were a very unique population of cells," said study senior author Dr. Lawrence Corey, a virologist and president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. "They can stay in the skin for extended periods of time, they appear to have memory, they appear to have the kind of markers that go in response to a specific infection."
He added that doctors once thought herpes, which lies dormant in nerve cells, would reawaken and travel up the nerve endings to the skin surface where it would cause painful sores, and that it would take a couple of days for the body to respond and fight off each new assault.
He said the new research shows that such outbreaks are the exception, rather than the rule. The specialized CD8 cells in the skin seem to do a pretty good job of keeping the virus under control.
"It seems to me that if we improve their job, and if we study them and ask the questions — How do we give them more help? How do we make them live longer? How do we make them function better? How do we increase their number? — we may be able to develop an effective herpes vaccine," Corey said.
A vaccine against herpes would be a significant achievement. Aside from abstinence, there's no surefire way to prevent herpes infections. Condoms can reduce the risk of transmission, although the virus can still be shed from skin areas that condoms don't cover.
Experts caution that although the new finding is promising, a vaccine is still likely to be a long way off.
"They have good correlative evidence" that the specialized CD8 cells in skin keep the virus at bay, Cullen said. He added, however, that the research doesn't prove that boosting these cells would prevent infections.
He said it will take many more studies to demonstrate that — if, in fact, it's true.
"It's time to take it to the next level," Cullen said.
As for cold sores (or fever blisters) on the lips or around the mouth — also caused by the herpes simplex virus — the researchers said that although it seems logical that those same CD8 cells might be at work, they didn't analyze it in this study.
Source: WebMD


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For the record, I hate ketchup. Not just some brands or in some applications, but all ketchup, across the board, even with the classic pairing of crispy and well-salted french fries. There is no faster way to ruin a perfectly good handful of starchy, fried potatoes than to throw some of that red glop across the top. Too sweet to be comfortably paired with savory main dishes but certainly no dessert fodder, it's that extra piece of the puzzle that doesn't make sense anywhere in the bigger picture of a meal, and may in fact have come from an entirely different box.
So why on earth did I go and make a quick ketchup, on a blindingly busy day where I had to bake and snap pictures at a breakneck pace? I like to challenge myself, for one thing; Dissecting my reasons for detesting this tomato-based substance, it became a more of a dare. "I bet you can't make a better version, either," I taunted myself silently. For another, I can't resist the temptation to positively bury myself in work, so what better timing than a day when I'm already swamped? Immediately, the ideas started flowing in. A big bag of sun-dried tomatoes provided the initial push, and from a quick internet search and some inspiration, it became an unstoppable impetus. Employing a decent measure of apple cider rather than straight sugar would help cut the sweetness, and a decent bite of vinegar can swing things back to the savory side of the street. Suddenly, this ketchup concept become entirely more appealing.
Unlike traditional ketchup recipes requiring hours of laborious stewing and stirring, the sun-dried tomatoes provide concentrated flavor right from the get go, and the recipe speeds right along. Amazingly, I do not hate this ketchup, which is high praise considering my previous disdain. I can't say I'm about to slather it on everything that crosses my dinner plate, but those french fries we were talking about earlier? Bring them on.
Sun-Dried Tomato Ketchup
Apple cider rather than straight sugar helps cut the sweetness in this rich, sun-dried ketchup, while a decent bite of vinegar swings things back to the savory side of the street.
- 2 Cups Apple Cider
- 1 Cup (Dry, Not Oil Packed) Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Soaked in Hot Water for 30 Minutes and Drained
- 2/3 Cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 Tablespoon Tamari or Soy Sauce
- 1 Teaspoon Smoked Paprika
- 3/4 Teaspoon Mustard Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon Ground Ginger
- Generous Pinch Cayenne Pepper
- Pinch Ground Cloves
- 1 Small Yellow Onion
- 2 Cloves Garlic
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- Freshly Ground Black Pepper, to Taste
- This procedure hardly needs a written recipe, but here goes: Toss everything into your blender or a sturdy food processor, and puree until completely smooth. Scrape down the sides as need to make sure that everything is thoroughly pulverized.
- Transfer the mixture into a large sauce pan and set over medium heat. It may seem like too large of a pot, but this stuff bubbles and sputters like mad once it gets going, so the high sides are helpful for protecting the walls (and yourself) from gruesome blood-red splatters. Cook at a gentle simmer for about 30 minutes, until slightly thickened or at least less watery, stirring every couple of minutes to prevent burning.
- Move the whole batch back into your blender or food processor, and puree once more to ensure a perfectly smooth texture. Let cool completely before bottling and storing.
- Bear in mind that since this homemade ketchup lacks the additives and preservatives of mainstream brands, you will need to shake it well before each use, as it can separate a bit as it sit. Additionally, it should be kept in the fridge, tightly sealed for no more than 1 month.
Bonus! If that label caught your eye, you're in luck! I'd like to share it with you for your own ketchup creations. Here are three color variations for whatever strikes your fancy, below. Just click on the image and print it out on sticker paper at a 6 x 4 size. Trim, and slap it on a 16-ounce glass bottle. I used a rinsed and dried GT Kombucha bottle, for size reference.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 49Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 84mgCarbohydrates: 2gFiber: 0gSugar: 1gProtein: 0g


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I Found It Weeping In A Field
By Kammarheit.
Posted by Rot at 7:08 PM
Labels: dark ambient, kammarheit, now playing
3 comments:
- Pumpkin Jack said...
What album is this from?
- March 20, 2013 at 8:27 PM
- Rot said...
I really don't know.
I was kinda ranting that this couldn't be Kammarheit because the sound was very different from the albums I own by him.
So I'm thinking this is an earlier work that someone uploaded.
- March 21, 2013 at 5:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
Very creepy piece.
And I agree, it does different from the two albums I have and the others the you have posted before.
- March 21, 2013 at 5:23 AM
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Plaxico says he still can play, defends driving his Ferrari 100 mph
Plaxico Burress remains unemployed seven weeks into the NFL season, but he says he still holds out hope that he'll play this year.
Appearing on NFL AM, Burress said that he is staying in shape and just waiting for some team that needs a wide receiver to pick up the phone.
"I just remain optimistic," Burress said. "I'm still training very hard three or four days a week and looking to get into the right situation, and just waiting for the opportunity to be able to go out and do what I love to do, and that's play football."
Burress said he spends every Sunday watching football and will play for any team that will give him a chance.
"I just want to go back to playing football," Burress said. "It's not about picking and choosing, or any of those situations, it's about me just being able to go and do what I love to do, and that's play football. It doesn't have to be anyone in particular."
Burress also said a recent report that he was ticketed for going 100 mph on a motorcycle was incorrect: He was ticketed, but he was driving a car, not a motorcycle.
"First of all, I wasn't riding a motorcycle," Burress said. "The report is wrong. I was driving a car, driving a Ferrari, got pulled over, got a speeding ticket."
Asked if he was driving the Ferrari 50 mph over the speed limit, Burress said, "It was close to that, but going fast in a Ferrari, doing 100 in a Ferrari, feels like 45."
Burress would be wise to slow down, but his problem with getting a job in the NFL isn't how fast he drives, it's how fast he runs. As Burress's coach last year has made clear, NFL teams are looking for young guys with speed. And Burress isn't that.


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You are reading Part II of a series of blog posts that started out of the desire to help teachers learn more about blogs for themselves in order to help/coach/facilitate their students' blogging adventure. My guiding questions for this series of blog posts are:
- How can I make it easier for teachers to learn about the process of teaching and learning with blogs?
- How can blogging enhance student learning?
- What are components of QUALITY blogs?
- How can I guide teachers in experiencing a shift in teaching and learning and help them make a pedagogical commitment to blogging.
In Part I, I laid out the importance of READING blogs in order for the teacher to be able to gain and understanding of student blogging as a platform FOR learning, not "just" a vehicle for technology integration.
I do see blogging as a journey. It is not as simple as waking up one morning and deciding "Let me blog with my students" or attending one Professional Development workshop or conference presentation about blogging and thinking to yourself: "I'll start blogging on Monday."
The journey begins with reading blogs, but it has to continue with WRITING.
I firmly believe, that an educator who expects his/her students to blog for learning, NEEDS to be blogging for their own learning.
The biggest obstacle for writing is YOU! I hear educators, who are or want to blog with their students, tell me over and over again the reason why THEY don't/can't/won't blog for themselves:
- I have nothing to say that might interest anyone
- I am not a good writer/ I don't like writing
- I don't have time
Let me address each one of these:
"I have nothing to say that might interest anyone"
My response to the reluctant or scared bloggers, who feel that they have nothing to contribute to the edubloggersphere, is usually that blogging should not be about "others". Writing a professional blog should foremost be about yourself as a learner and about your own journey. Writing for others might come later down the road.
I explored "Who do You write for?" in a previous post. I listed MY reasons for writing.
- I write for myself, because I enjoy writing.
- I want to practice writing in order to get better at doing it.
- I blog because I want to have a record of my thoughts, my learning process, and resources that I find.
Seth Godin, in a video, expresses that the METACOGNITION of thinking matters when blogging.
It does not matter if anyone reads it. What matters is the humility that comes from writing it. What matters is the metacognition of thinking about what you are going to say. How do you explain yourself […]? How do you force yourself to write in three paragraphs why you did something? How do you respond out loud?
The blogger needs to realize that the primary reason for their blogging is NOT to please others, but to be a process that aids in their own learning.
"Obvious to You, Amazing to Others" is a short video clip by Derek Sivers that talks about what so many new want-to-be bloggers also feel like in respect to their potential writing contribution to the field.
"My ideas are so obvious, I will never be as inventive [as others]… but I continue to do my work, I tell my little tales, I share my point of view, nothing spectacular, just my ordinary thoughts.
Obvious to You, Amazing to Others from Plainly Simple Studios on Vimeo.
He continues to explain how one day someone emailed him to ask HIM how he ever came up with that genius idea?
"Everyone's ideas seem obvious to them[…] so maybe what seems obvious to oneself, might seem amazing to someone else."
We need to keep this profound little discovery by Derek Sivers in mind, when we think that we might not have anything to contribute through our writing that would be of interest to others!
"I am not a good writer/ I don't like writing"
Diving into blogging with our students, it is our hope that they grow as writers, that they connect their learning with new knowledge and that they will be able to express themselves in age appropriate eloquence. We also acknowledge that looking and preparing our students for their future must include a literacy (of reading and writing) through different media and new genres.
If we are in charge of preparing our students, we need to be riding the wave as well.
Karl Fish asks on one of his blog posts titled "Just Write Poorly. In Public. Every Day."
This begs the question, of course, about how much our teachers are writing. Particularly our Language Arts teachers, but really all of our teachers. If it's so important for our students to write, how come we're not modeling it?
Seth Godin continues to share in the same video mentioned above that
If you are good at it (blogging) someone is going to read it. If you are not good at it and you stick with it, you will get good at it.
If you are one of those who feel that they just don't like writing, maybe due to writing assignments from their own years as a student, keep in mind that:
Writing for your own blog IS NOT like a writing assignment from college. There is pleasure, inspiration and satisfaction to be found in your writing.
Give writing another try, without the deadline, performance Angst or grading pressure that used to come with it. Remember you are writing for yourself. You are writing for your own learning journey.
I don't have time
Oh yeah… the good old response: I don't have time…
It is a great response for almost anything. It is easy and quick to say… It fits perfectly, it molds itself to any request, idea, proposal, thought… for the not so good, the great and the best ones…My thoughts are somewhere between "then don't"… and … " choose your priorities wisely"…
So, let's get down to real life tips to help you write your blog. Keep in mind, that the same basic principles apply when facilitating blogging with your students.
- Just write!
Write for yourself first. Blogging is about your own learning. Use it to remember, to document, to follow and refer back to your own journey. Remember that the destination is not always the goal, but that the journey is what you after. No more excuses for not getting started.
- Write about what interests you
No reason to force subjects and topics on you that bore you. Digg deeper into your area of expertise or explore something you always wanted to learn more about. Don't feel confined. You can find a niche by writing about one area of interest/subject matter or you can write about anything that think and wonder about. It is, after all, your blog
- Don't force a certain writing style on yourself
Find your own: be formal/conversational/narrative/ straight forward in outline form, etc. Experiment with different forms.
- Link to what you read
Connect ideas you read about to your own ideas and thinking (give credit where credit is due of course!). Collect quote and citations you come across, as you read traditional books or during your online reading. See them as puzzle pieces that you assemble during your writing to paint a picture of your point of view.
- Add visuals
Find ways to add visuals that support your thoughts. Creative Commons images (from Flickr for example) are your best friend. Sometimes a single visual can even spark your writing. Remember to also take your own images( to use in your blog) as you explain the way you see the world. If you enjoy graphic design, consider creating your own visuals as well. Many visual minds learn best by taking an idea or concept apart and by visually re-assembling it.
- Make writing (on your blog) part of your work and learning process
Don't see blogging as something in addition to what you do. Incorporate, embed, braid it into your work.
Need to write a lesson plan? Lay it out via your blog. Explain your rational for choosing certain activities and pedagogy. After you taught a lesson, make reflecting (on your blog) part of the lesson planing cycle.
Doing research about a certain topic and need resources? Use your blog as the platform where you collect and review the resources you find.
- Leave a positive Digital Footprint
What would you like others (colleagues, students, parents, administrators, future employers) to find about you, if they were to google you? The answer to this question can give you ideas about what you could write about as you are starting to share and shape your digital footprint.
- Create a professional brand
Brands used to be reserved for companies. Since we have become a "producing" society (not just a consuming one), the concept of branding has spilled over to us "individuals". Your "brand" represents who you are, your beliefs and points of view across different media and online platforms. The writing on your blog will help define your professional brand.
- Don't be a perfectionist
Obviously do your best, but the point is to get it out, to process your thoughts, to formulate your thinking. Don't spend hours on finding the "perfect" image at the expense of actually writing the post.
- Don't get stressed
You don't/ won't (most likely) get paid for your blogging, so don't add unnecessary stress to your life. Work at your own pace. Don't set yourself deadlines that you won't meet and only stress you out. You will enjoy your writing much more.
Gwyneth Jones, The Daring Librarian, in a post titled " Just Blog it! Blogging Tips & Ideas" gives the following advice:
Blogs are like pets – you have to feed them regularly […] If you start a blog you should try to maintain it. Post when you can, be upbeat, share what you can, give anecdotes about your profession, tech tips, lesson ideas, student successes, & professional philosophies.
- Start When You're Ready, Already!
- No Excuses!
- Keep an Idea Folder Going!
- Schedule it
- Get Graphic
- Share Shamelessly
- Gimme a Widget!
- Be You!
- Give Credit
- Be Thankful
- Be Stubborn
Just as Karl Fish called for above: Just Write Poorly. In Public. Every Day. I am calling educators out to start writing too. To start writing FOR their students (Not necessarily FOR them to read your professional thoughts), but in order to become:
- better writers FOR them (to teach/coach/facilitate)
- transparent learners
- aware of their own learning journey
How can we teach/coach/facilitate blogging and hence writing, if we have not gone through the process ourselves?
What is the most important advice you would give a teacher to start blogging/writing?


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Israeli tank exiting Gaza.
Photo: Reuters
A jittery Israeli military is gearing up for what could become its next big battle: dealing with UN investigations that could result in war-crimes allegations.
The army has beefed up its legal staff, is conducting internal investigations of its wartime actions and has prepared a detailed PR campaign of satellite photos and video clips – hoping to persuade the world that its war against Hamas was justified.
"We take our business seriously, and as such we operate within the rules and regulations under the laws of war," said Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman.
Israel launched the war on July 8 with a massive aerial bombardment of Gaza in response to weeks of heavy rocket fire. It later sent in ground troops to destroy a network of tunnels used by Hamas militants. Hamas and other militant groups fired thousands of rockets and mortars into Israel.
Related stories:
- Israel Law Center to take Hamas to Hague court for execution of 38 Palestinians
- Israel: If Palestinians take us to the ICC, we'll respond in kind
- Palestinian FM to push for Israel war crimes case at ICC
More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed in the 50 days of fighting, most of them civilians, according to UN and Palestinian estimates. Thousands of buildings were destroyed and tens of thousands of people were left homeless. Seventy-two people were killed on the Israeli side, including six civilians.
Israel argues that the heavy civilian death toll is Hamas' fault, accusing the militant group of launching rockets – and drawing retaliation - from school yards, residential areas and mosques. This claim will be central to any defense of the military's conduct.
"What the military has been doing throughout the entire operation is showing Hamas as it truly is, an organization that hides behind civilians and intentionally locates its weapons in houses, schools and mosques," Lerner said.
The argument will be weighed against the principle of proportionality – which is essentially a judgment call on whether the force applied was reasonable.
Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas official in Gaza, dismissed the Israeli allegations, saying the claims that Hamas used houses and mosques for attacks are "to cover the brutal crimes they committed" in Gaza. "The war on Gaza was live on TV screens and the world saw who was under the rubble of the houses and who was killed in the schools," he said.
The threat of international action against Israel is real. Following a similar military operation in 2009, a UN fact-finding mission headed by South African jurist Richard Goldstone found strong evidence that both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes – Israel by deliberately or recklessly targeting Gaza civilians, and Hamas by launching indiscriminate rocket attacks at Israeli cities. While Goldstone later backtracked from his main conclusions, the report was never changed.
The UN Human Rights Council, which has a long history of criticizing Israel, has already appointed a commission of inquiry to look into the latest fighting. The commission's report is expected next March.
Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is also threatening to seek membership in the International Criminal Court in order to press charges against Israel. Officials say he will do so if he fails to persuade the UN Security Council this month to impose a deadline for Israel to withdraw from occupied lands and establish a Palestinian state. The US, which wields veto power in the council, has already reacted coolly to the Palestinian plan.
Turning to the ICC will be risky: Israel could retaliate, and Abbas could lose Western support and expose Hamas – with which he has been trying to reconcile – to the same charges.
Israel has long complained that it is unfairly singled out by what it sees as biased UN institutions and international bodies. It says that if standards were applied consistently, countries like the US, Britain, or Russia would also be called to task for their actions in places like Iraq and Ukraine.
Still, unlike in 2009, Israel appears to have decided not to boycott the Human Rights Council. Instead, it is vigorously mounting a defense, though it remains unclear to what extent it will cooperate with the probe.
"Now that the dust has cleared, we are doing the important work to document exactly what happened," said government spokesman Mark Regev.
Evidence collected includes video clips claiming to show rocket launches next to schools and mosques, "sensitive sites" that Israel decided not to attack and a Hamas training manual, allegedly captured in the fighting and instructing militants how to hide in civilian areas. The authenticity of the manual could not be independently verified.
Even during the fighting, the army says it had a team of legal experts reviewing operations, and often approving attacks after determining they met international laws of war.
The military has launched an investigation into its wartime conduct headed by a major general and has brought in legal and military experts – who did not participate in the war themselves.
In a briefing with reporters this week, a senior intelligence official compared Hamas to a well-trained army, with some 16,000 soldiers and thousands of sophisticated weapons.
He said he was impressed by its tactics and organization.
Many of the group's weapons were imported from abroad, while other locally made rockets used Iranian or Syrian "know-how." He also showed off a glossy hardcover book, purportedly confiscated from a Hamas post, with in-depth details of the Israeli military's units and commanders.
He spoke on condition of anonymity under military briefing guidelines.
The official said that Israel is conducting a painstaking process of trying to identify how many militants and how many civilians were killed. While Palestinians say roughly three-quarters of the dead were civilians, Israel says the balance is closer to half and half.
The official said Israel was certain 616 militants were killed. "We have the proof, the full name, certain that they are terrorists for sure," he said. He said it is certain that 706 civilians were killed – leaving 800 or so in question.
The official said Israel makes its determination by cross-checking the names issued by the Palestinian Health Ministry with other sources, including intelligence files, the Israeli military liaison body that deals with the Palestinians, as well as Palestinian hospitals and other sources.
He said all rulings require "at least two sources," but that when the investigation is complete, he expects the ratio to remain the same.
The official said compiling these figures is important for various reasons, including international opinion. "I have to say it very frankly, because it's a big issue in the world," he said


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Chicago, IL – Jason Kipnis smacked a run scoring triple in the third and added a three-run homer in the seventh as the Indians downed the White Sox, 7-5, in the rubber match of a three-game series at U.S. Cellular Field on Thursday.
Asdrubal Cabrera belted a solo shot and knocked in two while Casey Kotchman finished with two hits, an RBI and a run scored as Justin Masterson (1-2) got his first win of the season after allowing three runs on eight hits and three walks in 6 1/3 innings.
"I don't know how it happens because they are a good hitting team," said Masterson. "But they're nice enough to not hit when I face them and I appreciate it."
Chris Perez got the final two outs of the game to record his ninth save of the year as the Indians took the last two of the series after dropping the opener.
Adam Dunn launched a two-run blast in the ninth and Alejandro De Aza added three hits and two RBI for Chicago, which has lost seven of its last nine.
John Danks (2-4) tossed seven innings, but surrendered seven runs -- six earned -- on nine hits and a walk to take the loss.
"I've always been my biggest critic and I am very hard on myself," said Danks. "I know I will get this ship righted, but it's getting pretty frustrating."
The Indians struck first in the top of the second as Michael Brantley legged out an infield single and moved to second on Danks' errant throw before coming around to score on a single from Kotchman for a 1-0 lead.
Johnny Damon started a rally in the third, smacking a double into right field and coming around to score on Kipnis' triple into center field before Cabrera plated Kipnis with a single to center field to extended the margin to 3-0.
Chicago pulled within one in the fifth after Kosuke Fukudome worked a leadoff walk and Gordon Beckham followed with a bunt single. Eduardo Escobar then pushed both runners up with a sacrifice bunt and De Aza followed with a two- run single that deflected off of Masterson and shot into right field, allowing Fukudome and Beckham to score.
Cabrera added a run for the Indians with a solo blast in the sixth, but Chicago responded in the bottom half as A.J. Pierzynski doubled with two outs and Alex Rios plated him with a single to keep it a one-run contest.
Cleveland responded in the seventh to build a four-run cushion as Kipnis launched a three-run blast over the wall in right field to extend the lead to 7-3.
The Sox threatened in the ninth when De Aza ripped a leadoff single and Dunn followed two batters later with his seventh of the year off of Dan Wheeler.
Perez then nailed it down after walking Paul Konerko, fanning Pierzynski before inducing a ground out from Rios to end the game.
Game Notes
Masterson improved to 4-5 lifetime against the White Sox over 16 games (12 starts)...Cleveland finished 4-for-6 with runners in scoring position and left three on base while Chicago went 2-for-9 with RISP and stranded 10 men.


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People with astigmatism need to wear contact lenses that are especially for their condition. If you have astigmatism, you'll want to learn these details about the three types of contacts.
What is Astigmatism?
In people without astigmatism, the cornea of the eye is curved like a dome. This shape allows it to focus light on the retina so that you see crisply and clearly.
But with astigmatism, the cornea is an irregular shape. Rather than being rounded, the surface of the cornea is shaped more like an egg or football, so it can't focus light evenly on the retina. The result is vision that is blurry or distorted.
Correcting Astigmatism with Contacts
The good thing about astigmatism is that it can be corrected with the right prescription eyewear. Eyeglasses are one popular option, but if you're someone who prefers contacts, then your eye doctor will prescribe one of three types of contact lenses for astigmatism: Gas permeable, toric, and hybrid.
Here we'll look at the benefits of each.
Toric Contact Lenses
Toric contacts can be a good choice because these lenses are designed with a special shape that focuses the light using different refractive (or focusing) powers on the vertical and horizontal planes.
Regular contacts have a spherical surface, like a slice of a beach ball. Toric lenses, on the other hand, are shaped like a slice of the side of a donut. The name comes from the word "torus," which is a geometric shape that looks like a donut.
What to consider:
Fit is extremely critical for toric lenses. Because they have a specific orientation (horizontal and vertical), they must be placed in your eye in a certain way. Toric lenses have a middle axis, much like the equator, so that your line of vision stays clear. If you have ill-fitting lenses, you won't achieve the visual clarity you need.
You can get toric lenses in a daily version or other disposable options, and your doctor will help you choose between soft contact lenses or rigid gas permeable lenses. While soft torics can be more comfortable, some people experience that they don't stay in place quite as well as RGP lenses. You may need more time to adjust to RGP lenses, and they can be drier and more delicate.
Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) Contact Lenses
Oftentimes, these lenses can correct astigmatism even without the toric shape. That's because rigid gas permeable lenses retain their shape when placed on the eye, taking the place of the misshapen cornea to focus light correctly on the retina. This is unlike soft lenses, which conform to the corneal surface.
If you have a higher amount of astigmatism, your eye doctor may recommend RGP lenses with a toric design, but many people with astigmatism report much sharper vision with standard RGP lenses.
What to consider:
Because these contacts are rigid and are also smaller in diameter than soft contact lenses, they can take some time getting used to. Some people feel they can never get accustomed to the sensation of a rigid contact on their eye.
Like torics, the fitting process for RGP must be precise. These lenses can be more expensive than soft contact lenses, and for some users, they can pop out on occasion (such as when participating in sports).
Hybrid Contact Lenses
Hybrid contacts are another option that combines the best of both torics and RGP lenses, starting with their construction. At the center is a rigid gas permeable material, and that's surrounded by a "skirt" composed of either silicone hydrogel material or soft hydrogel.
What to consider:
They offer sharp visual acuity, like RGP contacts, but comfort that is comparable to soft toric lenses. They also have thinner edges than RGP lenses, so they may be less likely to pop out during certain activities.
The fit of these lenses must also be spot on, and just like RGP lenses, they can be more expensive.
Finding the right contact lenses is key to eye health, but how can you know which ones are right for you? Schedule and eye exam. Our eye care professionals are skilled at educating you about the different types of contacts, and ensuring you achieve the perfect fit for your contact lenses.


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How do you amp up a performance car package as complete as the new Ford Mustang Boss 302 - already a street-legal race car in its own right? Pull out everything that doesn't make it go faster and add in more of what does. The result is the limited-production Laguna Seca package - the ultimate 2012 Boss, named to commemorate the first-place Boss 302 finish at the 1970 Trans-Am series opener.
"The Laguna Seca package puts a race-ready version of the new Mustang Boss 302 directly into enthusiasts' hands," said Mark Fields, Ford president of The Americas. "Laguna Seca isn't intended for Boss buyers who simply want an exhilarating daily driver. Think of it like a factory-built race car, which we hope avid racers and track-day fans are going to love."
Boss Laguna Seca builds on the bumper-to-bumper improvements found on the standard Boss while further stiffening the chassis and installing an aerodynamics package carried over almost in its entirety from the Ford Racing Boss 302R.
"Drivers who know how to get the most from a tuned race car on a closed course are going to be amazed by what the Laguna Seca is capable of," said Derrick Kuzak, group vice president, Global Product Development. "The balance, agility and tuning of each vehicle system places the driver at the center of the machine, completely connected to everything the car is doing."
Chassis enhancements Laguna Seca cars are powered by the same smooth, high-winding 440-bhp 5.0 liter V8 as the standard Boss, since the engine was already tuned specifically for road racing. Instead, engineers turned their attention toward delivering power to the ground most efficiently, and getting the car around a track in the quickest possible time.
"When we built the Boss, we had to step back and ask ourselves 'How do we improve on this?'" said David Pericak, Ford Mustang chief engineer. "That car is so strong we realized the Laguna Seca package was going to have to be just a fraction of a step back from the Ford Racing 302R to top it. So we went back and threw daily-driver practicality out the window, cut some things we couldn't cut on the volume model, like the back seat, and built it the way we would set up a production Boss for pure competition."
Laguna Seca cars eliminate the rear seats, instead adding a cross-car X-brace that couples the structure between the rear wheels. The brace offers chassis stiffness improvements of as much as 10 percent and allows the suspension tuning - precisely calibrated by Mustang team members - to better do its job.
Standard Recaro front seats were designed by Ford SVT in cooperation with Recaro for high performance Mustang models, and are shared between the Boss and GT500. An Alcantara-covered race steering wheel provides a solid grip for hard cornering.
Engine power routes through a six-speed close-ratio manual gearbox to a standard 3.73-ratio Torsen limited-slip differential, helping the revised rear suspension deliver maximum torque and traction under the punishing conditions encountered on the track.
Higher spring rates and a larger rear stabilizer bar - all upgraded over Boss specifications - help generate unrelenting grip. And drivers can dial in exactly the level of shock stiffness a particular track requires using the four standard, independently adjustable dampers with Laguna Seca-specific valving.
The final touch for a proper race car was to add the proper wheels and tires: Laguna Seca models use lightweight 19-inch alloy racing wheels in staggered widths: 9 inches in front, 10 inches in the rear. R-compound ultra-high-performance tires, 255/40ZR-19 in the front, 285/35ZR-19 in the rear, maintain contact with the pavement - a job that ended up being trickier than expected.
"The R-compound tires on the Laguna Seca are so sticky we had to really work on the rear suspension tuning to make sure drivers can get the most out of them," explains Pericak. "The rear stabilizer bar is the largest we've ever installed on a production Mustang - including any SVT product. The rear spring rate was also maximized to work with the massive rear tires and balance the car for minimal lap times."
While standard Boss 302 cars get vented brake dust shields to help cool the rotors, Laguna Seca models receive Ford Racing front brake ducts that force outside air directly onto the 14-inch vented front rotors, helping to eliminate brake fade and ensure hard, repeatable late braking on the track. Combined, the braking changes help refine the sense for drivers of being directly connected to the pads - an essential edge during car-to-car combat on a road course.
Added up, the further improvements to Boss Laguna Seca result in the best-handling Mustang ever, with more than 1.03 g of lateral acceleration, stopping distances shortened by three feet from 60 mph over Boss, 0-60 acceleration improvements of one tenth of a second, and an overall expected lap time improvement of one to two seconds over the standard Boss on a typical road course.
As a race car should, Boss 302 models with the Laguna Seca package look like nothing else on the road. A bright red C-stripe offsets either Black or Ingot Silver paint, and is complemented by a red roof panel. Red also sets off the front grille, mirror caps and rear pedestal spoiler, while Laguna Seca rear badging and unique two-tone red and silver wheels complete the transformation.
Adding both to appearance and aerodynamics, an aggressive front splitter for track use adds downforce at the front of the car, while helping channel air under and around the car. At the same time, air impacting the front end is funneled into the radiator and brake ducts, supporting cooling even under grueling race conditions.
"The Laguna Seca front splitter is really a Ford Racing piece we've lightly adapted for our purposes," explains Pericak. "It's been tested and refined for the last six months on the Boss 302R to perform exactly as required on the track; we just made a few changes so it could be adapted to the production Boss - though owners will still want to avoid speed bumps and parking blocks."
At the back, a large rear spoiler is sized to exactly complement the effect provided by the front splitter and underbody aero treatments, with the combination adding as much as 90 pounds of downforce at 140 mph.
"Balance is the key on Boss, and even more so on Laguna Seca," said Pericak. "A winning race car has to do everything well, and we've had the ability to test all the engineering that went into Boss Laguna Seca on the Ford Racing 302R. It's not for everyone: It's stiffer, there's no back seat, and the aero package is designed for downforce, not speed bumps in the mall parking lot. But for hard-core Mustang racers who want something they can occasionally drive on the street, to shows or whatever, Laguna Seca is the car they've been waiting for, and they're not going to be disappointed."
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AUSTIN, Texas — He's known for coloring outside the lines in the staid U.S. Senate. Now children large and small can color in U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
Just in time for the holidays, St. Louis publisher Really Big Coloring Books Inc. is offering a coloring and activity book featuring the Texas tea party darling.
Company founder Wayne Bell said Thursday the book is already in its third printing after just six days. The first run of around 10,000 sold out in barely 24 hours, and the second went nearly as fast.
"At this point, I would almost call it a phenomenon," Bell said. "It's beyond us. We're just trying to catch up with the printing."
"U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to the Future" is intended for "all ages." Cruz did not cooperate in its production.
The cover features the beaming senator pointing at a flourishing tea plant whose stalks are stenciled with "Ten Commandments" and "U.S. Constitution." It has leaves that include "Gun rights," "Free Enterprise," and "Lower Taxes."
It's the perfect political Christmas gift. It's inexpensive, it benefits a small business in the US of A, and it's perfect as a sincere gift for Tea Partiers, a semi-ironic one for RINOs, and a gag gift for liberals. Everyone wins!
Biff Diddle of the Free Beacon reviewed the coloring book and found it a font of liberal indoctrination. Ha.
The moment I opened Cruz to the Future I fell face-first into a poisonous cloud of liberalism. There was socialist icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a collage of "Historic American Leaders." One of the characters in the book holds, yes, a frisbee. I rest my case.
For its part Really Big Coloring Books is a politically agnostic shop, catering to whomever might have a hankering to color. And, their political titles have done quite well, with one exception:
Bell said his company has received some offensive and even threatening calls since the book's debut. It also produced a top-selling 2008 coloring book on President Barack Obama's inauguration, though a second edition produced in 2012 flopped.
The company also offers an Occupy Wall Street coloring booking and a free online coloring page on October's partial government shutdown.
Bell said a non-political title, "The Big Book of Dinosaurs," was traditionally the company's most-popular book, with more than 1 million copies sold. But he said the 2008 Obama book outsold it, and that a more-recent title, the "Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids" broke even that record.
For those of you who have no need for paper on which to paint in the bright bold colors of conservatism because you live it, man—or, you know, because you prefer an iPhone to a coloring book— introducing the official President Ronald Reagan app.
But not to fear, space age Tea Partiers. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has devised a way for you to carry the Gipper with you every where you go, whether you have immediate access to a keyboard or not. Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, the Official Ronald Reagan App was born and launches today on the iTunes and Google Play stores.
The iconic 40th president of the United States is now featured in "Ronald Reagan: The Official App," launched by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The app provides speeches, video of the Gipper and quotes where you can be inspired by hearing Reagan's famous sayings such as "there you go again" and "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
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Sketchbooks are very difficult to present faithfully in any kind of exhibition. You really can't display original art as removing the images from the binding compromises the entire book, it is also clunky to ask a viewer to flip through an open book on a pedestal. As many of my students have seen at the Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University, we have an extensive collection of Robert Weaver's sketchbooks. What the students always say is "Why did he draw on the BACK of this amazing drawing with ANOTHER amazing drawing!" I made hi-res color prints and foam laminated them for hanging. My short introduction follows.
I love to draw. There is something magical about the solitude of pen, paper, and a voice. To me, the joy of making images is the opportunity to tell a small story. Not a lofty or unique goal, to be sure, but one that I enjoy. Working everyday as an editorial and book illustrator, I don't consider drawing a mystical event, but a process. That said, there is something transcendental about the linear improvisation of working in a sketchbook. Much like jazz, it is unpredictable, exciting and unfiltered... with very good and very bad results.
Though I agonize over my more finished and composed drawings, the accidental doodads in my sketchbook represent the very best part of my work. I attend church every Sunday, and I draw during the sermon. All of these pages were done in a pew at Grace & Peace Fellowship, a Presbyterian church a few blocks east on Delmar. The images on the wall are a small collection of my favorites. Though I don't bring my watercolors with me (that waits till I get home and have an upcoming deadline) I draw with a variety of colored pens and inks. The collision of text and image on a page can bring new meaning not found in either passage alone. This is also true in the language of faith, as the parables of Jesus bring new meaning to difficult ideas. Simultaneous drawing and listening can transform familiar language into something new- a feedback loop of symbols, theology and wonder. -John Hendrix
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VANCOUVER — Adam Henrique scored a pair of goals as the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 Sunday afternoon.
Derek Grant had a goal and an assist while Brendan Guhle and Sam Steel also scored for the Ducks (24-27-7), who have wins in two of their last three games.
The Ducks scored twice on the power play after going 1 for 21 with the extra man over their last eight games. Anaheim was coming off a 6-0 loss to Calgary at home Thursday night.
Elias Pettersson scored for the Canucks (32-22-5), who saw a two-game win streak end and are 2-4-1 in their last seven games.
The loss leaves the Canucks one point behind the Edmonton Oilers in the race for first place in the Pacific Division and one point ahead of the Vegas Golden Knights. The Ducks remain 11 points out of a playoff spot.
Anaheim goaltender John Gibson made 37 saves. Vancouver's Thatcher Demko stopped 23 shots.
"The #Canucks do so much in the community, so to keep working with them is going to be a lot of fun. Hopefully we can do a lot of good things." – Daniel Sedin #ThankYouSedins pic.twitter.com/caq125QOiK
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Steel put Anaheim ahead 4-1 at 5:12 of the third with a shot through a crowd of players. Guhle padded the lead at 13:44, scoring his second of the season on a 2-on-1 with Grant.
The teams exchanged second-period goals.
Henrique scored his second of the game on a power play at 7:25. Troy Terry fed him a pass and Henrique scored notched his 20th of the season with a laser shot from the face-off circle.
Pettersson cut into the lead at 11:00. He scored his team-leading 24th of the year with a shot from the top of the circle on a power play.
Canuck defenceman Troy Stecher had a rough first period, helping the Ducks take a 2-0 lead.
First, on Anaheim's opening goal at 5:38, Henrique flipped a puck in front of the net, where Stecher put his stick on the ice hoping to block it. Instead the puck hit the stick and deflected through Demko's legs.
Ryan Getzlaf made a nice play on Grant's power-play goal at 12:22. He carried the puck behind the Canuck goal, then dropped a no-look pass to Grant who had a wide-open net.
Stecher was in the penalty box after being called for unsportsmanlike conduct for complaining to the referee over a hit Nick Ritchie had laid on him.
READ MORE: Sedins' jerseys retired as Canucks blank Blackhawks 3-0
NOTES: Canuck forward Brock Boeser missed his third game with an upper-body injury. … Vancouver forward Tyler Motte returned to practice Saturday after missing seven games with an upper-body injury… Forward Nicolas Deslauriers signed a two-year contract with Anaheim on Saturday… To wrap up a week-long celebration surrounding the retiring of Daniel and Henrik Sedin's numbers, the community work done by the Swedish Twins was recognized prior to the game.
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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Tuesday urged urban leaders and policymakers they need to take the lead now in fighting climate change.
Bill Clinton to urban leaders in Seoul: What will you do about climate change?
"What are you going to do and how much are you going to spend?" Clinton asked leaders from the world's biggest cities at a climate summit being held in South Korea's capital, Seoul.
Officials from the world's 40 biggest cities plus 17 affiliate municipalities are attending the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, which ends on Thursday.
Waiting for nations to take the lead with a new climate protocol in Copenhagen in December is not an option, said David Miller, mayor of Toronto and chairman of the C40 Cities Leadership Group.
"If governments talk about reducing CO2 (carbon dioxide), cities are the ones that show how it's done," Miller said. "The point is that cities act, and working together we have a scale and a size that we dramatically increase people's ability to fight climate change.
"The challenge for national governments is that while they can sometimes reach agreement they don't know how to act collectively," Miller continued. "For cities, that's easier. We all have climate strategies, but can make our actions work better and make the partnerships to do that."
The Seoul summit is the third conference by cities held to discuss responses to climate change. The C40 group was established in London in 2005. A second summit was held in New York in 2007. Watch efforts to make New York's Empire State Building more eco-friendly »
Much of the talk at this week's conference was how major urban centers could work toward adhering to the Kyoto Protocol, the existing environmental treaty that sets targets for nations to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations. Adopted in December 1997, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force in February 2005.
In countries that did not sign up to the Kyoto agreement, cities took it upon themselves to reduce their carbon footprint. While the United States did not sign Kyoto, 825 U.S. cities and towns signed up to a climate protection agreement that embraced that protocol's goals.
Some nations that signed Kyoto have set more ambitious environmental targets. Copenhagen, for example, aims to be the world's first carbon neutral capital by 2025.
Toronto, like other cities, will be sending a city delegation to Copenhagen for the U.N. summit in December. There to lobby governments and for a parallel cities summit, Miller hopes that the actions that cities are taking now, and the partnership that he expects to be made while in Seoul this week, will serve as examples that the carbon reduction goals can be reached.
"Copenhagen is very important for all countries to agree, because we are losing the battle. Cities will be there and we're going to be very active. We'll have credibility because we are actually doing things. We'll be able to say to governments that they need to engage, empower and resource cities so we can accomplish the goals."
How to actually reduce CO2 emissions is the purpose of the Seoul summit, Clinton reminded delegates. Representing around 600 million people worldwide, mayors and policymakers in Seoul have the ability to make a difference with climate change policies, the former U.S. president added.
If the methods of reducing a city's carbon footprint are known there is still the question of the means, which vary wildly between the first world urban areas such as Seoul, London and Toronto, and other attendees from cities in the developing world, such as Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Lagos, Nigeria.
Miller believes that providing good examples of effective climate change policies and grasping the opportunity for cities to take the lead in planning for a low-carbon future should not be missed.
He highlighted Toronto's own "tower renewal" project, retrofitting buildings in a run-down area of town that he hopes will be an example of a carbon-neutral urban renewal project that can be applicable elsewhere.
New building projects in two areas of London and the creation of a new city in central Florida -- Destiny -- were among 16 projects announced at the summit as climate-positive initiatives and supported by the Clinton Climate Initiative. Once built, these projects will absorb more CO2 than they use, supporters claimed.
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon introduced the South Korean capital's ambitious environmental plans, including building a vast path of park land bisecting the capital.
Delegates cited practical challenges they are facing. The spread of the H1N1 virus had crippled Mexico City's economy by scaring off tourists, officials from that city said at the summit. Without money, they said, even the most promising environmental plans can struggle.
Luis Castaneda Lossio, the mayor of Lima, Peru, highlighted the initiatives his city is trying to pursue. Compared to Seoul's thousands of acres of parkland, he admitted they had struggled to plant 150 trees in the traffic-clogged city.
"Solidarity is essential!" Lossio said with verve as a final remark during his address on making Lima a low-carbon city.
It was a sentiment echoed by Miller, who highlighted the opportunities for cities such as Toronto to take a lead during the global economic recession.
"I've always believed in activist governments. The private sector is in retreat. The green agenda is a way to restart the economy by doing the right thing. If there are ways for the governments to create incentives, like grants for solar power, then you can kick-start the economy on the right path, but cities and government importantly have to do that now. We have a great opportunity."
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In 1986, legendary science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote a book that explored what the world might look like in the year 2019. Titled July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century, the book has predictions about everything from transportation to sex. But it's his predictions about sports of the future that may raise a few eyebrows for baseball fans here in the year 2013. Bionic shoulders, 57-year-old third basemen, and open steroid use? Just a regular day for Major League Baseball in the year 2019, according to Clarke.
Clarke's predictions were presented in the form of a 2019 L.A. Dodgers scouting report for the New York Yankees by Don Mattingly. (In a fun present-day twist, Mattingly spent his entire career with the Yankees but is currently the Dodgers manager).
As we can see from the report, teams now get to make drastic physical changes to their stadiums in order to throw off the opposing team. Worried about home runs? Just swing your fences out a couple hundred feet. Want to steal more bases? Swap out the astroturf to your preferred quality.
Opponent: Los Angeles Dodgers
Prospectus: It's our power and fielding against their pitching and speed. Our Sportspak computers say we'll win if we get 4.2 runs a game.
Away Games: LA. will swing the Dodgersdome fences out beyond 500 feet to cut down our home-run production. And they'll stick with their hardest artificial turf so they get better bounce and traction for base-stealing.
Home Games: We'll roll out our softest Astroturf to slow them down, and with our short 450-foot fences and our boron bats, we should light up the sky in the Yankeesdome with homers. Also, the computers show the Dodgers win 11 percent fewer games when the temperature falls below 68°F; we'll turn off the indoor heating systems and retract the dome, using the late autumn chill to our advantage.
Rufus Lincoln—right-hander. Throws fastballs, fastballs, fastballs, but never gets tired. Since his bionic shoulder and elbow implant two years back, he can go 9 innings every other day. We've clocked him at 120 mph.
Sol "The Prof" Hershowitz—southpaw with pinpoint control. The Dodgers have the best biomechanical analysis system in baseball. The Prof has spent more time perfecting his pitching motion with the digitizer and high-speed videotape than he has on the mound.
Tom "Twitch" Sully—their right-handed ace. He had augmented electrical muscle impulses cloned from Hall-of-Famer Dwight Gooden's muscles the year before Gooden retired. Consequently, his fastball breaks bats and his curveball could swerve around the corner of a building. You can rile him, though—they forgot to save Gooden's alpha brain waves.
Ralph Shandy—15-year-old rookie relief pitcher who throws with both hands. He has a terrific screwball and forkball, but he's pretty wild. It seems the Dodgers have been racing him along too fast with the growth hormones.
Cary Goiter—right-hander. Always had a consistent bat and a great arm. Until last year, though, he couldn't hold onto knuckleballs, and years of catching had turned his hand to sausage. The deep-webbed impact-free mitt solved all his problems.
Jerry Rodriguez—right-handed third baseman. Diludin-crystal derivatives could only hold off his aging process so long. At 57, his reflexes are slipping. But he's already planning his next career—racing a solar sail around the Moon.
Bud Garvey—right-handed first baseman. He can hit any kind of pitch you throw Steve Garvey the Dodgers's old first baseman, sired him so well that he keeps getting black market requests around the league to produce more offspring.
Sam Juice—southpaw second baseman. Good speed but sloppy with the glove. His dad ignored his infant anatomy profile, which showed he was best suited for football.
Gary Yamamoto—shortstop. Yamamoto made a big mistake when he switched from the Tokyo to the Tucson National Baseball Camp at the age of 12. The Tucson graduates all have trouble hitting curveballs.
Lance Nihilator—switch-hitting center fielder who can catch any ball hit within a block of him. The Dodgers's steroid program has helped him get down to 8.7 seconds in the 100-meter dash, just .3 off the world record. He stole 207 bases this season.
Bill Black—southpaw left fielder. Almost as fast as Nihilator. His leg was shattered while parachuting between ski slopes during the off season, and we thought it might slow him down, but the trainer sealed up all the cracks immediately with bonding solution. Electric stim has almost got the bone back to full strength.
Enos Tramweigh—right-handed right fielder. This rookie could barely hit or throw a ball across a room at the start of the season. The Dodgers lasered away some bone chips in his elbow, then hooked him up with electrodes to a computerized strength-training machine day after day. Now he's got a gun for an arm and ended up hitting 30 homers.
What's perhaps most interesting is that even those innovations that could scientifically happen in the next six years likely won't; there are few sports more averse to change than baseball, and few more tightly regulated. Growth hormones and steroids played their part in the 90s and early 2000s but have been beaten back with strict penalties; even when career-extending equipment does get introduced, players are loathe to adopt it.
It's tempting to suggest that Clarke should have aimed lower, but it's probably pointless setting any sort of bar for a sport that didn't embrace instant replay until just five back.
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Boeing to cut 40 percent jobs at El Paso plant
Boeing Co said it will cut a little more than 40 percent of jobs, or 160 positions, at its El Paso plant as it looks to reduce the impact of planned U.S. defense budget cuts.
The company said it will reduce occupied square footage 50 percent at the plant by moving from three buildings to one. The plant in Texas manufactures electronics for a variety of Boeing products.
The reductions will be completed by the end of 2014, the company said.
Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division in November that would cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities and consolidate several business units.
The company's shares closed at $77.09 on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
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Oracle today issued an emergency update to patch the critical vulnerabilities hackers have been using in increasing numbers to hijack Windows PCs.
According to Rapid7, the security firm that maintains the Metasploit open-source penetration framework, the so-called "out-of-band" update will stymie the current attack campaigns.
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"It appears that it's effective in blocking the exploit," Tod Beardsley, the engineering manager for Metasploit, said early Thursday. "We just finished testing it 10 minutes ago."
Oracle posted the update -- designated "1.7.0_07-b10" -- published a bare-bones release note on its website, and followed that with an alert shortly after 1 p.m. ET listing the three security vulnerabilities addressed and a single defense-in-depth change it included.
The company also posted a short blog entry on the update.
Hackers had been exploiting two of the bugs for some time in targeted attacks, but in the last several days the scale of those campaigns had dramatically increased.
Adam Gowdiak, the founder and CEO of Polish security firm Security Explorations, who in early April reported the vulnerabilities, also confirmed that Thursday's Java update shuts down the in-use exploits.
"None of the original code that we sent to Oracle in April 2012 can be used to achieve a complete Java security sandbox bypass [after the update is applied]," said Gowdiak in an email reply to questions.
Yesterday, the IDG News Service, which like Computerworld is operated by IDG, reported that Gowdiak had told Oracle of the exploited flaws four months ago, on April 2.
Oracle did not give Gowdiak a heads-up that it would be shipping an out-of-band update today. "[But] we expected that they would do this, taking into account the recent events surrounding the zero-day attack code and the widespread surprise that the serious security flaws we reported to the company in April 2012 had not been addressed earlier," said Gowdiak.
Gowdiak, Beardsley, and others also commented on the unusual nature of an emergency update from Oracle.
"If we assume that they heard about [the vulnerabilities] the same time they went public, then getting a patch out in four days was lightning quick," said Beardsley. "And if the rumor is true that they've had it for several months, it's still pretty quick for them ... they usually take six months or more."
Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security, also applauded Oracle's speed. "Let's give them a little credit and say they delivered the patch in about a week of it going public," said Storms. "I'd say not bad on the turn-around, [so] hat tip to the dev team."
Gowdiak agreed. "We are glad that Oracle didn't wait with the update till October," he said, referring to the next regularly-scheduled Oracle patch date of Oct. 16. "We hope that out-of-band patches will become more common and will be used whenever a need arises to protect users of Oracle software."
But Storms blasted Oracle's communication skills. "Talk to the hand for the [security] PR team," he said. "Oracle is so horrible at security PR, unless they want to let you know that their products are supposedly unbreakable."
Until today, Oracle had refused to comment on the bugs or the in-the-wild exploits.
Users can obtain the emergency update from Oracle's website.
Lucian Constantin, of the IDG News Service, contributed to this report.
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