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Jasper Gerard, a former Lib Dem candidate and speech writer for Sir Menzies Campbell, assesses his political legacy.
Sir Menzies Campbell is the most dignified man I have the privilege of knowing. The problem is, modern politics isn't dignified.
This truly Olympian figure gained huge respect for his measured critique of the disastrous war in Iraq; alas, it sometimes seems party leaders are assessed less by their cool judgment in Parliament than by their "hottie" rating in Facebook.
As someone who has known him for almost two decades I was one of his most fervent supporters when he stood for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats. Yet even I started to wonder how Ming might fare as leader early into his campaign.
A hackette had asked him in an interview why he and his wife, Lady Elspeth, had never reproduced. "Bloody impertinent!" he told me later, still furious. He was right to be angry, of course; the problem is, modern politics IS impertinent.
If David Cameron was too willing to hitch a lift with a husky, perhaps Ming was too stunt-averse. I've provided the occasional line for his speeches and have always found his seriousness humbling.
He reminds me of Sir Edward Grey, the Liberal foreign secretary who warned on the eve of the First World War that "the lamps are going out all over Europe". And so it seemed impertinent to pass on an offer to appear on Top Gear to this Asquithian figure who was somehow more top hat.
Most politicians would kill for that exposure, especially leaders of third parties who have to crowbar their way into the media spotlight. As Capt Paddy "SBS" Ashdown realised, leading the Lib Dems is about guerrilla warfare, not parliamentary procedure.
Ming had barely slipped those long, chalk-striped legs under the leader's desk before snide stories took hold. I grew weary denying to fellow journalists that Ming took naps in the afternoon, or even that he wore sock garters: for the record he simply liked long socks of the sort one finds in Jermyn Street, yet even his elegant dress was turned against him.
The media gave him scant credit for how he steadied a distinctly rocky ship after the fiasco of Charles Kennedy's resignation, or how he seized instantly on the hypocrisy of Gordon Brown's claim to be the motor of "change".
There were frustrations. Nick Clegg and David Laws, two shining talents of the next generation of Lib Dem MPs, secretly drew up an action-packed programme for Ming's first 100 days but it was never fully implemented.
A month into his leadership, party officials were asking me how I thought they should launch Ming; they didn't seem to realise that by then it was already growing too late. Commentators had decided Ming was insufficiently "dynamic".
The irony was that, after a shaky start, Ming often performed well at Prime Minister's Questions, with highly moral denunciations of a cynical government. Alas the braying mob on the Tory and Labour benches had scented blood and were truly savage. Simply, Ming was never given a hearing.
If he wasn't too proud a man to make excuses Ming would say he had a huge job internally to make the party more professional after the often inspirational but sometimes chaotic Kennedy era. He did it diligently. But I never understood why this wasn't undertaken by a backroom operative, leaving Ming free to travel the country and work the media.
Still, I confidently predict the next Liberal Democrat leader will win huge acclaim for a rise in the polls - and much of it on the back of Ming's hard work. The great untold story of Ming's leadership is that – all too quietly – the policies of the party were transformed.
Clegg, the outstanding candidate to replace Ming, carved out a distinctive voice for the Lib Dems on crime: no longer could the party be dismissed as "soft", with Clegg insisting that psychotic criminals who could not be reformed would have to be locked up for longer.
By assuring the public that the party understood its fears, Clegg earned himself the space to develop other more liberal solutions. Chris Huhne, another hugely able leadership contender, tapped into the zeitgeist with original green thinking.
Most importantly, Lib Dems ceased to be defenders of producer interests. Instead the party rediscovered its liberal roots, realising that those who work in public services must treat us like customers rather than grateful recipients of their largesse.
Ming appointed to key positions many of the most talented MPs, mostly from the party's dry "Orange Book" wing, several of whom have been wooed by the Conservatives.
The change has been remarkable, outflanking Blairites and Tories in offering choice to patients and parents.
The Liberal Democrats had decided to raise the threshold on inheritance tax long before the shadow chancellor George Osborne pinched the idea.
Vince Cable, the Treasury spokesman, also pipped Osborne to the policy of closing tax loopholes on non-doms, allowing him to propose a reduction in income tax to 16p in the pound – the lowest rate since Lloyd George was biffing the Kaiser.
Ming gave the party its most credible set of policies since the leadership of Jo Grimond. They challenged the statist, Butskellite consensus of the two old parties. Yet infuriatingly, the Lib Dems seemed incapable of getting their wares into the shop window.
Blaming the media is only partly convincing. Because Ming is such a moral man he could seem happier talking about how a Liberal Democrat government would make you poorer, not how it could make you richer.
Emphasising green taxes might have played well with high-minded, wealthy, progressive sorts but what of the far larger numbers struggling to cope with Brown's high tax, low quality public services? Liberal Democrats had solutions but lacked a savvy salesman.
Ultimately, opinion polls don't lie.
As one MP loyalist told me mournfully: "You can't go on saying the public is wrong if it's not buying your product."
Ming's conference speech was widely regarded as the most substantial of the three party leader's orations, yet could have been even better had he emphasised the party's tax cutting and choice agenda.
Rather like Brown, his friend from Fife, Ming did not seem to fully grasp just how cheated voters felt in the southern, middle class seats many Lib Dem MPs represent. That failure caused consternation in the upper echelons of the party.
Clegg, expected to declare his candidature on Friday, instinctively "gets" the concerns of voters and his easy charm will worry David Cameron.
Finally, the party will have a leader who not only possesses cool judgment but will look hot on Facebook (one excitable female fan coos "he reminds me of Mr Darcy").
As one of his friends tells me "we have only been talking to the 14 per cent of the population that supports us. Nick will address the other 86 per cent."
With its second leadership election in a couple of years, the party will be accused of ruthlessness.
But while senior figures did dispose of Kennedy with clinical efficiency, none wanted to be a Brutus to Ming.
Ming is simply too decent a gent for any friend to undermine him.
Everyone has stories of his courtesy: when I stood for the party in the local elections he went out of his way to thank me; how many party leaders would have bothered? It is a mark of Ming's sense of honour that he walked.
The party should always be grateful to him for steering it through one of the trickiest periods in its history.
Now this great Olympian will pass his baton to Clegg. Brown and Cameron should start to look anxiously over their shoulders.


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Wednesday: Partly cloudy, a bit milder than recent days. Clouds increase again later in the day with showers arriving at night. High temperatures in the upper 40s.
Thursday: Chance for an early morning shower. Otherwise, milder with a mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the 50s. Showers redeveloping at night.
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Infosys to power web services at 1.3L post offices
Infosys has partnered with India Post for developing a service delivery platform that will allow more than 1,30,000 rural post offices to offer online services.
The platform will also connect and manage more than 130,000 handheld devices used by rural postal workers for distribution of social benefits under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and process Electronic Money Orders, Infosys said in a statement.
With this agreement, Infosys will facilitate India Post's Rural Systems Integration (RSI) programme, which will increase adoption of the department's services and enhance the reach of postal services to the country's rural population.
As part of an earlier agreement, Infosys is also partnering with India Post to transform its financial services operations and end-user experience under the Financial Services System Integration programme.
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Started out thinking about Christmas, about unique gifts, and somehow began to believe a Jack-in-the-Beanstalk gift might be a one-size-fits-all solution.
Pause, rewind and realize that the idea of some magic, cure-all-ills seeds is what got us into today's troubles.
For all our formal education, we haven't learned there's a give-and-take to everything on our planet, that the cure for beautiful imported water hyacinth might not be nutria, or that allowing the use of silver and bighead carp to control algae in catfish ponds is good in the Far East, but not such a hot move in Mississippi because when they escape, they could take over at least five major river systems.
There's no easy cure for the scourge that's come in the forms of water hyacinth, nutria, silver/bighead carp, nor any of the other hundreds of nonnative species in our state.
Wait, there's way to control nutria?
Yes, pay cash to those with licenses to shoot these critters that threaten the very survival of Louisiana's marshes. Just bring us the nutria tails, and we'll hand you cash on the barrel. Several million nutria have gone to the great marsh in the sky because this bounty system was put in place.
Sure, I know that's not the kind of Christmas spirit-like column any of you expected to see, but it illustrates a point we can all hope our government will heed in the coming months, that there are direct ways to deal with a problem that might provoke a vocal minority's anger, but at least it's a simple something that could work and not spend billions doing it.
We can hope that our local, state and federal governing bodies and the executives of each understand that we hire them to run our country. Seems like we elect, and instead of the elected taking a manager's job, they take ownership.
All we want is honest, wise, intelligent use of the resources given them to do their job.
But that brings to mind a story about Thibodeaux driving along A1A in Florida last summer. He was alone, the road was mostly deserted (it was 4 a.m.) and a cloud appeared, then parted in front of his car.
A voice boomed from the cloud: "Thibodeaux, I know you're a God-fearing man, a man who has lived his life by the Golden Rule. Is there any way I can reward you?"
Thibodeaux said he'd always wanted to go to France to find any ancestors he might have there but explained that he had a great fear of flying. Could someone build a bridge across the Atlantic so he could drive to France?
"Can't do that," the voice responded. "It would use the entire resources of your planet to build such a span. Is there anything else I can do for you?"
Thibodeaux responded that he'd been thinking on the morning after the second presidential debate that he would like to have a president and Congress that acted in a wise, prudent and responsible manner.
The voice shot back, "Do you want the bridge two-lane or four-lane?"
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Boneless chicken and broccoli make a delicious pairing in a tomato-garlic sauce. Use your favorite shaped pasta - penne and shells work well.
I agree that this recipe needed something. I prepared it by browning the chicken, then added the onions and lots of garlic, cooked it until the onions were soft, then added the brocolli and 1/2 cup of chicken broth. (The chicken broth helps take away the natural bitterness of the brocolli). I then added a 24 oz. can of crushed tomatoes, basil, oregano, parmesan cheese, and a cup of dry red wine. I then let it simmer for 30 minutes and tossed with rigatoni. Turned out very well and I would definitely make it again! - 01 May 2002 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I used chicken broth to cook the chicken, onion and garlic in and skipped the cheese so it was very low-fat. I also added more onion and garlic and a heaping teaspoon of both oregano flakes and basil flakes. My husband and I both thought it was terrific! - 01 Feb 2001 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Very good! I added extra garlic (5 cloves), one large onion, a tsp+ of oregano, and some canned mild green chilies (drained). I also added a fresh yellow pepper from the garden which added a nice flavor. I didn't have fresh broccoli, but the frozen worked great. This recipe is not for people who like thick tomato sauces, but the end result is a very flavorful, fresh-tasting dish. - 02 Aug 2004 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


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Associate Professor, Partner Institute, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
Neonatologist, BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Room A4-147, 4th floor Translational Research Building
950 West 28th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
As a neonatologist, I am regularly involved in the medical care of infants needing intensive medical care at birth. Newborns are particularly vulnerable to infections. Infection and prematurity are leading causes of mortality and long-term health problems. My lab focuses on understanding the development of the immune system in humans before and at birth, and how to use this knowledge to prevent diseases in this age group.
We also work on understanding why some human individuals are more susceptible to infections or auto-immune/inflammatory conditions compared to others, in the general population and across development. To do so, we employ a combination of translational research approaches (population-based clinical studies, epidemiology, but lab-based human immunology and molecular biology, but also clinical trials/interventional studies. We also have ongoing collaboration nationally and internationally (US/Europe) to understand risk factors for neonatal infections, genetics of BPD, HIV, vaccine development, microbiome and human immunology traits.
We aim to define characteristics of innate and adaptive immune system in newborns as well as preterm infants that sometimes fail to protect them against infection and inflammatory-mediated neonatal diseases. We study adaptive T cell function in the context of vaccine responses. We develop small scaled immunoassays to characterize the immunological phenotype of these infants from 24 weeks to the term of gestation. We employ molecular and human cell-based immunology approaches (advanced flow cytometry). Our current focus is on the Toll-like receptor/inflammasome innate immune pathways as well as neonatal T cell differentiation.
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a form of chronic inflammatory-mediated lung disease affecting thousands of infants born prematurely each year in Canada. BPD is a serious disease which often results in significant morbidity and mortality. Clinicians lack a cure for BPD and current treatments can have serious side-effects. Evidence suggests that susceptibility to this condition is in part genetically inherited. In this study, we collaborate with other neonatal centres internationally to examine the role of common gene polymorphisms in clinically well-characterized cohorts of preterm infants, in order to understand how genetic factors interact in the regulation of inflammation and how they predispose infants to BPD and neonatal conditions more generally.
We are one of the leading centres of the CIHR-funded MOBYDICK Canadian multi-centre randomized clinical trial to determine whether maternal omega-3 supplementation effectively reduces bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very preterm infants.
We employ system-based approaches to understand what factors make human individuals respond differently to immune stimulation. We work on generating genomics datasets in healthy reference humans across blood immune cell types and age groups (24 weeks to 65 years of age) to investigate components of the immune responses regulating cellular biological outcomes.
Chang BA, Huang Q, Quan J, Chau V, Ladd M, Kwan E, McFadden DE, Lacaze-Masmonteil T, Miller SP, Lavoie PM. Early inflammation in the absence of overt infection in preterm neonates exposed to intensive care. Cytokine. 2011 Dec;56(3):621-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2011.08.028. Epub 2011 Sep 21. PMID: 21940177
Lavoie PM, Huang Q, Jolette E, Ladd M, Nuyt AM, Audibert F, Speert DP, Lacaze-Masmonteil T, Soudeyns H, Kollmann TR (2010). Profound lack of IL-12/23p40 in neonates born early in gestation influencing the risk of early-onset sepsis. J Infect Dis; 202(11):1754-63. PMID: 20977341
Corbett NP, Blimkie D, Ho KC, Cai B, Sutherland DP, Kallos A, Crabtree J, Rein-Weston A, Lavoie PM, Turvey S, Hawkins NR, Self SG, Wilson CB, Hajjar AM, Fortuno ES, Kollmann TR (2010). Ontogeny of Toll-Like Receptor mediated cytokine responses of human blood mononuclear cells. PloS One; 5(11):e15041. PMID: 21152080
Lavoie PM, Lavoie JC, Watson C, Rouleau T, Chang BA, Chessex P (2010). Inflammatory response in preterm infants is induced early in life by oxygen and modulated by total parenteral nutrition. Pediatr Res; 68(3):248-51. PMID: 20703144
Abu-Sharar Z, Robinson A, Lavoie PM (2010). Incidence of septicemia immediately following elective gastrointestinal contrast procedures in infants: A cohort study. J Pediatr Surg; 45(3):507-12. PMID: 20223312
Lavoie PM (2009). Earlier initiation of enteral nutrition is associated with lower risk of late-onset bacteremia only in most mature very low birth weight infants. J Perinatol; 29(6):448-54. PMID: 19212326 Neonatal Natural Killer T cell development
Sharma A, Chew L, Ladd M, Jen R, Lavoie PM (2011). Ex vivo purification and characterization of human invariant natural killer T cells. J Immunol Methods; 373(1-2):1-7. PMID: 21854781
Ladd M, Sharma A, Huang Q, Wang AY, Xu L, Genowati I, Levings MK, Lavoie PM (2010). Natural Killer T cells constitutively expressing the IL-2 receptor alpha chain early in life are primed to respond to lower antigenic stimulation. Immunology; 131(2):289-99. PMID: 20545784 Heritability of bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Huusko JM, Karjalainen MK, Mahlman M, Haataja R, Kari MA, Andersson S, Toldi G, Tammela O, Rämet M, Lavoie PM, Hallman M; A study of genes encoding cytokines (IL6, IL10, TNF), cytokine receptors (IL6R, IL6ST), and glucocorticoid receptor (NR3C1) and susceptibility to bronchopulmonary dysplasia.Gen-BPD Study Group. BMC Med Genet. 2014 Nov 1;15:120. doi: 10.1186/s12881-014-0120-7. PMID: 25409741
Marr N, Hirschfeld AF, Lam A, Wang S, Lavoie PM, Turvey SE. Assessment of genetic associations between common single nucleotide polymorphisms in RIG-I-like receptor and IL-4 signaling genes and severe respiratory syncytial virus infection in children: a candidate gene case-control study.PLoS One. 2014 Jun 20;9(6):e100269. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100269. eCollection 2014. PMID: 24949794
Ali S, Hirschfeld AF, Mayer ML, Fortuno ES 3rd, Corbett N, Kaplan M, Wang S, Schneiderman J, Fjell CD, Yan J, Akhabir L, Aminuddin F, Marr N, Lacaze-Masmonteil T, Hegele RG, Becker A, Chan-Yeung M, Hancock RE, Kollmann TR, Daley D, Sandford AJ, Lavoie PM, Turvey SE. Functional genetic variation in NFKBIA and susceptibility to childhood asthma, bronchiolitis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. J Immunol. 2013 Apr 15;190(8):3949-58. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201015. Epub 2013 Mar 13. PMID: 23487427
Lavoie PM, Ladd M, Hirschfeld AF, Huusko J, Mahlman M, Speert DP, Hallman M, Lacaze-Masmonteil T, Turvey SE. Influence of common non-synonymous Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms on bronchopulmonary dysplasia and prematurity in human infants. PLoS One. 2012;7(2):e31351. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031351. Epub 2012 Feb 14. PMID: 22348075
Lavoie PM, Dubé MP. Genetics of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in the age of genomics. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2010 Apr;22(2):134-8. doi: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e328336eb85. Review. PMID: 20087186
Lavoie PM, Pham C, Jang KL. Heritability of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, defined according to the consensus statement of the national institutes of health. Pediatrics. 2008 Sep;122(3):479-85. doi: 10.1542/peds.2007-2313. PMID: 18762515
Lavoie PM, Ladd M, Hirschfeld AF, Huusko J, Mahlman M, Speert DP, Hallman M, Lacaze-Masmonteil T, Turvey SE (2012). Influence of common non-synonymous Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms on bronchopulmonary dysplasia and prematurity in human infants. PloS One; 7(2): e31351. PMID: 22348075
Lavoie PM, Dubé MP (2010). Genetics of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in the age of genomics. Curr Opin Pediatr; 22(2):134-8. PMID: 20087186
Lavoie PM, Brant R (2009). Twin zygosity studies and the genetic basis of neonatal morbidities – author's reply. Pediatrics; 123(2):e352-3. PMID: 19171586
Lavoie PM, Pham C, Jang KL (2008). Heritability of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, defined according to the consensus statement of the National Institute of Health. Pediatrics; 122(3):479-85. Related commentary by Abman S et al. Pediatrics; 122(3):658-9. PMID: 18762515
Other publications can be found on PubMed.
CIHR Operating Grant – Project: "Maternal Omega-3 supplementation to reduce Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in very Preterm Infants : A Randomized Controlled Trial (MOBYDIck Trial)" (2014-2019)
CIHR Operating Grant – Project: "Understanding the immunological basis for early-life infections in preterm infants" (2012-2017)
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research – Career Investigator Award – 2011-2019
CFRI Clinician-Scientist Award – 2008-2013
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In the July 2011 decision Georgetown County League of Women Voters v. Smith Land Co., Inc., the South Carolina Supreme Court held that the Department of Health and Environmental Control ("DHEC") has jurisdiction to regulate isolated wetlands under the South Carolina Pollution Control Act ("SCPCA" or "Act"), an expansion of DHEC's regulatory authority over isolated wetlands throughout the State, beyond the eight "coastal zone" counties governed by the coastal management program organized pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act ("CZMA").
In the decision, Smith Land Company (the "Developer") began developing a lot on Pawleys Island in 2007. At the time, there was roughly 0.19 acres of wetlands on the property, which included vegetation and a pond. The Developer notified the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") of its plans to fill the pond and surrounding wetlands and the property was delineated as "isolated wetlands" by the Corps. Relying on the United States Supreme Court's 2001 decision in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("SWANCC"), which held that the Corps' jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act did not extend to isolated wetlands (those bodies of water not adjacent to open water), the Developer notified DHEC of its plans, but did not seek or obtain a permit from the agency.
Thereafter, in 2009, the Georgetown County League of Women Voters ("League") filed suit against the Developer under the SCPCA, arguing that the Developer failed to comply with its legal obligations under the Act in failing to obtain a permit before filling the isolated wetlands on the property. The League sought a declaration from the lower court that the Developer had unlawfully filled the wetlands, and an injunction requiring it to perform certain restoration work.
The lower court dismissed the claim, ruling that, pursuant to the SWANCC decision, DHEC lacked jurisdiction over isolated wetlands under the SCPCA, and that the Developer was in compliance with all legal requirements when it performed the work. The Court also ruled that the SCPCA did not provide for a private right of action such that the League had standing to bring suit, reasoning that the legislature had intended that only government agencies, not private citizens, could bring suit under the Act against non-complying parties.
The League appealed to the South Carolina Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court's decision. By a unanimous decision, the Court expanded upon its 2010 decision in Spectre, LLC v. South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control, which held that DHEC's regulatory authority over wetlands pursuant to the coastal management program under the CZMA was not limited to wetlands linked with the downstream system of coastal rivers and creeks, nor was it affected by the limitations on federal authority over wetlands set forth in the SWANCC decision. Here, DHEC had jurisdiction to regulate isolated wetlands pursuant to the SCPCA, which required the Developer to first obtain a permit before discharging fill material into wetlands. As such, the Court held that the Developer was in violation of the SCPCA for failing to obtain a permit from DHEC prior to development.
In a split decision, the Court also held that a private right of action exists under the SCPCA, inuring to "any person or persons damaged as the result of any such violation" of the Act. The Court found the damages alleged by the League – that its members were harmed by the filling of the wetlands because it destroyed bird and wildlife habitats, impacting the members' ability to enjoy their recreational and aesthetic interests – were sufficient to maintain suit under the SCPCA.
While the broadening of private rights of action under the SCPCA will likely lead to increased litigation under the Act, the expansion of DHEC's regulatory authority under the SCPCA over isolated wetlands beyond the coastal zone regions poses an immediate and significant concern to both property owners and developers throughout the State. The Court's use of the SCPCA to require a permit prior to filling even isolated wetlands will necessitate a more thorough evaluation of permitting needs prior to the development of property, regardless of the region of the State in which development will take place.


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Collaborative computing is more than just another catchy computer term; collaborative computing is a way of using computer technology to do business more efficiently. In the traditional business environment, employees work alone, sometimes in a vacuum. When people need to work together, they have to exert special effort to meet with each other and more effort to complete a project. The farther apart those people are, the more effort overcoming the distance takes. Usually, the result suffers.Collaborative computing consists of several technologies and processes for short-circuiting the isolation of individual employees and constructing a new, cooperative business model. The basis of collaborative computing is that employees are resources, not islands, and to get the best result, you need to put the resources together in the most efficient way.
Picture the average business: Lots of frontline employees work away at their assigned tasks; then they present the results of their work to managers, who collate the work of multiple employees and present the results to their managers, and so on. If two groups--engineering and sales, for example--have to contribute work, the collation probably takes place a couple of levels up the chain, and the people who did the work never see how the company is going to use what they created.
Collation usually occurs in meetings, and meetings are an inefficient way to run a business. Meetings take people away from their regular work and require extra time--the time necessary to prepare for the meeting, to participate, and to deal with the results. Because large companies tend to be geographically dispersed, meetings usually require time and money for travel, too. This process is hierarchical: Employees report to managers, who report to their managers, and so on.
By contrast, a collaborative environment is project oriented. If a project requires both sales and engineering people, those people work together directly and produce a result that reflects both departments' efforts, undiluted by passing through multiple managers. Collaborative projects demand few meetings and--thanks to the wonders of wide area networking and the Internet--little travel.
Putting collaborative technologies to work in a company changes the structure of the company to accommodate the process. If the work requires people from various departments or divisions or even from several companies, companies often form workgroups that cut across layers. If a person has knowledge the workgroup needs, the person's level in the company (frontline, middle management, top management) is not important. Such workgroups tend to flatten corporate structures.
The costs of implementing collaborative technologies can be high, especially if you select high-end components such as videoconferencing and video-enabled email. But collaborative technologies also can offer tremendous cost offsets. Telephone and travel expenses decrease significantly, and individual worker productivity increases in a collaborative environment. Costs can vary from free (if you use software and systems you already have) to "Hoo boy!" for the highest quality, most expensive videoconferencing equipment. For example, PictureTel manufactures very high-end LAN-enabled equipment that can cost $3000 per seat--or more, if you want a dedicated videoconferencing facility.
Too much money? Not necessarily. You can create collaborative--even multimedia-enabled--offices less expensively. I used videoconferencing as an example to scare you, but here's an example to reassure you: If you're willing to accept excellent audio but less than broadcast-quality video, you can use Connectix's Color QuickCam and VideoPhone software to create a multimedia collaborative environment for less than $300 a seat. Yep, $300. Not a typo. What do you give up? Multipoint videoconferencing (more than two locations conferencing simultaneously) and excellent video quality. Video quality can be downright awful at times, especially when the frame includes a lot of movement.
Types of Collaborative Technology
OK, let's talk technologies. Four categories of collaborative technologies are email, groupware, whiteboards, and videoconferencing. Many applications, however, offer two or more of these technologies, and you can split each technology into several sublevels of capability. For example, email can be text only; text and audio; or text, audio, and video. You can use groupware applications for document management only, or you can add revision control.
You can categorize these technologies into two types of collaboration: your-time and realtime. In your-time collaboration, each person in the collaboration works during that person's normal working hours, regardless of the location of their coworkers. Your-time collaboration uses technologies such as email and groupware that accommodate workers' diverse schedules. If you're working on a project with other people who are a few time zones away or halfway across the globe, when you're working, they're sleeping and vice versa. Collaborative systems can take this difference into account by not requiring immediate response.
A realtime environment lets people communicate directly and immediately, usually by voice or video across the network, regardless of their locations. Whiteboarding and videoconferencing are examples of realtime collaboration.
Each technology requires a certain level of hardware. Email requires a client (such as the Windows NT Exchange Client or a third-party email client) at each workstation and as many servers (such as the Exchange Server) as you have groups or locations. If you're supporting a regional or global enterprise, you need some method--an intranet or the Internet--of getting mail from one site to another. You probably already have everything you need. Likewise, groupware doesn't require anything more than LAN/WAN connections and the appropriate software, such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Team Manager.
The costs go up when you add multimedia to the mix. Adding sound capabilities to email means that each client needs a sound card, speakers or a headset, and a microphone, so figure around $200 per set. As I mentioned earlier, adding video can be as inexpensive as $300 or as much as $3000, depending on the minimum level of quality you can accept. So now that I've alerted you to the costs, let's take a look at what each of these technologies can do for you
You are probably using the simplest form of collaborative computing: email. It lets two or more people communicate quickly and economically, but most important, it lets them work when they choose to work. Email delivers messages across the building or around the world in seconds, so two people working at the same time can see each other's labors almost immediately. Others working farther apart can write or respond during their respective working hours. So email can be either realtime or your-time.
Collaborations via email can be as simple as passing ideas back and forth until the participants reach consensus, or passing files as attachments between team members. Advanced environments add the capability of sound- and video-enabled email to incorporate voice inflections and body language to head off misunderstanding.
If you're not already using email, what do you need to set it up? Surprisingly little. NT and Windows 95 both include the Microsoft Exchange client, which is a perfectly acceptable email program. Exchange supports all types of attachments, including sound and video, so you can use it for multimedia-enabled email. In fact, because Windows supports file associations, you can receive an email with a video object and merely double-click the object from within your email program to launch the video player and see the message. One nice thing about the Exchange client is that it supports the Internet's Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), the most popular method of attaching email servers to clients.
In addition to the email client at the workstation, you need one or more email servers, especially if you communicate across networks or the Internet. Microsoft's Exchange Server is one possibility, but other third-party server programs work with the Exchange client.
The next step up from email in the collaborative continuum is groupware. IBM's Lotus Notes program is probably the best known example, but Netscape Communications (Communicator), Microsoft (Exchange and other products), Novell (GroupWise), and others all have offerings in this arena. Like email, groupware is still for your-time collaborations, which let people work on a common project but at their own pace.
Groupware encompasses email and adds many features. A typical groupware package includes document and revision management, group calendars and scheduling features, and the ability to plug in other capabilities specific to your needs. Hundreds of programs--from enhanced email to sophisticated production management systems--are available for Lotus Notes alone. You can use standard programming and scripting languages to create these capabilities, or you can buy them from third-party vendors.
These programs are typically tightly integrated with the operating system they run on. This integration means, for example, that a Notes environment running on NT works with the Registry for user and configuration management, and users have one logon to access both Notes and the NT domain. The newest versions of most popular groupware packages are also Internet-enabled, so users with a Web browser (and the appropriate security authentication) can access the groupware environment from anywhere.
The real power of groupware is its document management capabilities. Traditional collaborative projects are usually paper based. They start as ideas, progress into proposals, mutate into specifications, and then break down into many individual documents that detail components, compare prices, track development, and discuss problems. In a traditional environment, one person has custody of each document. That person has responsibility for seeing that the document remains up-to-date and is properly distributed to those who need to see it. Users give their changes to the custodians, and the custodians alone have permission to make those changes. How inefficient!
With groupware, the system is the custodian, and anyone who needs to see or change a document can do so. The software tracks changes separately, and users can quickly and easily see the revision history and the document in its current state. The groupware system can resolve conflicts, such as two people making changes at the same time, or ask for help in conflict resolution.
The group calendar and scheduling features in groupware packages are also useful, but in a fully collaborative environment, users don't use these features very often. Why schedule a meeting when all the participants can obtain the same information, express their opinions, and arrive at consensus without leaving their desks?
From these your-time applications, you can take the big step up, to realtime. Progressing to realtime collaboration is a big step for several reasons, not the least of which is cost. Collaborative your-time technologies aren't hardware intensive, and most 386 and slower 486 vintage processors can run email and groupware programs acceptably. When you step up to realtime collaborations, you need the latest generation of both hardware and software, so the expense can be a little scary.
One realtime technology, whiteboarding, won't cost you an arm and a leg. Whiteboarding lets two or more people at different locations view and operate the same computer program simultaneously. One person's computer acts as a host and executes the application while the whiteboarding program duplicates that screen across all the participants' screens and collects keyboard and mouse input from any of them. The whiteboarding program also lets users highlight and draw arrows and other symbols on the screen without changing the application data. This feature is very useful for discussions.
Whiteboarding can be a tremendous benefit in several areas: brainstorming, presentation preparation, product or systems design, and troubleshooting. Intel's ProShare LANDesk Personal Conferencing Manager is probably the best-known example of a whiteboarding application, but many other good programs are available.
In addition to the software, all you need for whiteboarding is a network connection between the participants. The connection speed can be Ethernet fast, dial-up slow, or a combination of the two. Because only screen displays and keystrokes (and the keystrokes are compressed) are shipped around the network, network utilization is very low. Usually, participants communicate via a telephone conference call while they're whiteboarding, so people can discuss what they are seeing, but whiteboarding is also an excellent complement to videoconferencing.
Videoconferencing is the top of the line in collaborative technologies. Depending on the level of your computer network and the quality of video and audio you're willing to accept, you might be able to use videoconferencing for a low price. If you have an old, slow network and old computers, you'll probably have to invest a substantial amount of money on upgrades before you begin to use realtime video.
That caveat is not to say that you won't be able to use video at all. It takes a fairly recent computer to create video, but any Intel-based computer with a late 386 or better chip can play back video adequately. Video capability opens the door to using sound- and video-enabled email to communicate with coworkers, other employees, and customers using the same videoconferencing equipment you use for realtime communications with your more advanced peers.
Singing the praises of videoconferencing is not hard. Having the ability to see, hear, and talk to the people you're working with, regardless of distance, boosts productivity and saves money, even within one building. Let's say you have an urgent matter that includes going over some product specifications with a coworker. Unfortunately, the coworker is in the New York office, and you're in Los Angeles. Without videoconferencing, you have two options: Ship the specifications overnight to New York and then discuss them over the phone (with the possibility that you might miss something), or fly, expensively and uncomfortably, to the other side of the country. This situation occurs all the time in large corporations. You lose two days of productivity to travel time and incur the expense of airfare and hotel, not to mention all that yummy airport food.
If you have videoconferencing, you can just comb your hair and open a videoconferencing session with that person on the spot. You could both look at the specifications on your respective screens simultaneously while each of you appears in a small box in the other's screen. With the source documents and the problem solvers in the same virtual place at the same time, you can iron out problems and be done. No lost productivity, no extra expense, and no airport hot dogs.
Using Collaborative Technology
So how does all this stuff work? As I mentioned earlier, you can use collaborative computing in your-time and in realtime. In a your-time environment, you arrive at the office around 8:00 a.m. and log on to email. A note from Budapest says that while you slept, the East European work team added three new spreadsheets to the fiscal projections project and made some changes to the sales forecast. You reply with a "Good work!" message, and then start your groupware application (Microsoft Team Manager, in this case). Team Manager shows you which documents your coworkers revised and lets you see both the revisions and the original numbers. You notice that one change has a significant positive effect on costs and decide to acknowledge this discovery. You start the video recorder application and record a brief congratulatory message to the cost containment team. You jump into email again and send the video message as an attachment to senior management, the financial people, and the Europeans. Now it's time for some coffee.
Not so fast. Let's assume that your systems have realtime capability, too. Just as you start to get out of your chair, a tone announces an incoming videocall. You sigh and activate the videoconferencing application. The smiling face of your manufacturing manager appears in a small window on screen, and she tells you that the re-engineering taskforce just figured out a way to save oodles of money by implementing a small change in the manufacturing process for your most popular product. You're a little confused by what she's telling you, so she calls up the engineering diagrams in her CAD program, then links you to the whiteboarding application so that she can point out what she's talking about. You see the changes, and they're good ones. You approve the changes, and she logs them into the groupware system. With a click of the mouse, you close the video window, and now you can go get that coffee.
Science fiction? Not at all. These technologies are available off the shelf for very little money. All you need is a desire to improve your business and the commitment to see the process through. Collaborative computing has many benefits, ranging from immediate communication to reduced costs to improved processes, and very few drawbacks.


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Note: Has your vehicle been branded? If so, how would you know? In this two-part series, we explain why a vehicle gets branded and how you can find that out, as well as some problems you might encounter in trying to figure out whether a vehicle has been branded.
Every vehicle has a life story and often, we don't know what that story is. If a vehicle gets stolen or reported to be in a major accident, it gets branded as such.
According to the website of Service Nova Scotia (SNS) — the provincial government department responsible for this — Nova Scotia belongs to a country-wide database which tracks all stolen and wrecked vehicles.
Specifically, there are four ways a vehicle gets branded.
When the police report a vehicle as "stolen," that information goes into the database and no plates or permits will be issued for it. If the vehicle is recovered by police, the brand will be removed from the vehicle's registration.
A vehicle branded as "non-repairable" is one which has been so badly damaged that it cannot be put back on the road. No plates or permits will ever be issued for this kind of vehicle. Non-repairable vehicles can only be sold as scrap for parts or meet their fate at the junkyard.
A "salvage" vehicle is one that costs more to repair it than the vehicle is worth. For a salvage vehicle to get back on the road, it would necessitate that it be properly repaired by a licensed mechanic who would issue a Certificate of Mechanical Fitness for it. Without this certificate, no permit or plates will be issued for the vehicle.
If the certificate is issued, the vehicle will be branded as "rebuilt" and this label will stay with the vehicle for life.
So, how does somebody purchasing a used vehicle know if their vehicle has been branded in any of the four ways mentioned?
The branding of the vehicle should appear on the most recent Certificate of Registration from Access Nova Scotia/Registry of Motor Vehicles, says Tracy Barron, a spokesperson with SNS in an email.
"Buyers of used cars should also review the commercial vehicle information package on the internet to confirm the history of a vehicle," she says.
For a fee, people can order reports from companies such as CarProof and Carfax to get information on a vehicle's history. While product offerings differ from company to company, some of the information consumers are interested in may include a vehicle's accident history and whether there's a lien on it.
At present, when selling a vehicle, dealers and individuals are not responsible for disclosing whether a vehicle has been branded when selling it. While the information should be on the Certificate of Registration, Barron recommends that consumers independently confirm the vehicle's history through one of these online reports.
When purchasing a used vehicle, it's also a good idea to have a mechanic take a look at the vehicle to identify any issues, including potential damage from past collisions.
Something that is important for people to know is that if their vehicle gets into an accident, they may have a responsibility to report that.
"When an individual is involved in a motor vehicle accident involving personal injury or damage to property exceeding $2,000, they are obligated to report the incident to the nearest police office," says Barron.
Police also have a responsibility to report serious incidents involving damage, injury or death. Those reports are sent to the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
"Insurers are also responsible to report vehicles to the Registrar if incapable of operating on a highway due to the damage caused by the collision, or the damage exceeds the fair market price," says Barron.
Car insurance fraud takes many forms
Car insurance fraud is a costly business in Canada. In Ontario alone, car insurance fraud adds an estimated $1.6 billion a year to insurance premiums and health care, emergency services and court costs, says the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC).
Statistics on the value of car insurance fraud in Nova Scotia and across Canada do not exist, says IBC.
There are many different types of car insurance fraud, some obvious and some not-so-obvious.
One example is a staged collision. This occurs when a driver intentionally causes a collision with another driver by targeting that driver and making it look as if the innocent driver is at fault. The driver staging the collision then files a claim so they can collect accident benefits.
Staged collisions are more advanced than one might think. On its website, the U.S.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau, nicb.com, recently posted videos showing how staged collisions work. The videos identified four different types: curb drive down, four vehicles fraud, swoop and squat, and left lane fraud.
Another form of car insurance fraud is filing for false medical claims. In this scam, medical clinics will have a claimant sign a blank accident benefit form and then "add false information about the claimant's treatment and bill insurers for services never rendered," says IBC.
One final example of car insurance fraud is padding claims. This happens when an individual exaggerates their injuries to receive more money as part of what is an otherwise legitimate insurance claim.


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There are many opportunities to leverage telehealth and telemedicine to increase access to preventive and specialty care, address health disparities affecting vulnerable populations, and save costs. For rural and underserved areas in particular, telehealth can reduce transportation barriers and address workforce shortages due to shared health professional staffing. State and territorial public health agencies (S/THAs) can be leaders or partners in initiatives that promote telehealth. Given S/THA interest and needs on telehealth, ASTHO's Center for Population Health Strategies has supported several activities including direct technical assistance to states, developing resources, and hosting public webinars. Available resources are described below.
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July 18, 2018
The Intersection of Workforce Incentive Programs and Telehealth Policy webinar featured Kathy Wibberly, PhD and Keisha L. Smith, MPA, who discussed how telemedicine policy impacts workforce incentive programs. The presentation covered interstate licensure laws and compacts, summarized NHSC policies related to acceptable telehealth technologies, and distinguished the challenges and opportunities for telehealth in addressing rural workforce needs. The development of this webinar was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and hosted by the National Organization of State & Rural Health Offices (NOSORH). | Webinar slides
August 23, 2017
ASTHO, with the support of the Health Resources & Services Administration, held a webinar in August 2017 on the use of interstate compacts as one method states can undertake to address access to care issues and workforce gaps through the use of telemedicine, particularly for patients in underserved or rural areas. The webinar featured an overview of two interstate compacts: Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
Aug. 7, 2017
ASTHO, with the support of the Health Resources & Services Administration, held a webinar in August 2017 on the use of telepsychiatry to improve access to behavioral health care for rural populations. The webinar featured an overview of telepsychiatry programs' regulatory, programmatic and technical considerations, as well as presentations from two speakers from North Carolina and Washington about their state's telepsychiatry program.
July 26, 2017
ASTHO, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, held a webinar in June 2017 on Project ECHO. Project ECHO is a guided practice model for medical education to increase workforce capacity and access to high quality specialty care and reduce health disparities. ASTHO, in partnership with the Center for Connected Health Policy, worked with four states to support and advance their telehealth efforts to improve population health. This webinar is part of this collaboration and related technical assistance activities.
May 24, 2017
ASTHO, with the support of CDC, hosted a webinar devoted to sharing strategies for engaging patients and providers using telehealth. This webinar featured Mei Wa Kwong, Policy Advisory and Project Director at the Center for Connected Health Policy. The webinar described the 1) Importance of provider and consumer support for a telehealth program to succeed; 2) Current efforts to engage and educate providers and consumers in the use of telehealth; and 3) Strategies attendees can employ to engage their providers and patients.
April 21, 2017
ASTHO, with the support of CDC, hosted a webinar devoted to telehealth program development and policies. This webinar featured Mei Wa Kwong, Policy Advisory and Project Director at the Center for Connected Health Policy. With the rapid diffusion of health information technology, wider expansion of current telehealth programs is possible. Many opportunities exist to leverage telehealth to increase access to preventative and specialty care and address health disparities affecting vulnerable populations, while also saving costs. This webinar presentation: 1) Provided a foundation for telehealth program development by describing telehealth modalities and relevant state and federal laws and regulations; 2) Described the steps necessary to develop a telehealth program, from design to implementation; and 3) Shared resources to support healthcare providers and public health agencies develop telehealth programs.
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Given significant barriers to accessing care for rural and underserved populations, states are interested in innovative strategies for health promotion and care delivery, such as telehealth. Telehealth can be used to provide appropriate and timely services, ranging from health prevention and primary care to specialty services. ASTHO partnered with HRSA to host this webinar to describe the policy framework necessary for public health agencies to support telehealth programs and also highlight two examples of current and emerging telehealth initiatives in Hawaii and Alaska.
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Why do I get a system crash when using printf() with a GUIX and Dave 2D implementation?
Does the current release of SSP 1.0.0 crash when printf uses a floating point argument with GUIX and Dave 2D also used together? What can I do about this?
If sprintf() is used with a floating point argument, in a GUIX project, it can crash GUIX. This is caused by the fact that the Dave2D heap gets allocated in the middle of the normal heap:
.heap 0x2005e340 0x8400 load address 0x000b5140
0x2005e340 __HeapBase = .
0x2005e340 __end__ = .
0x2005e340 end = __end__
.heap_d1 0x2005e340 0x8000 ./synergy/ssp/src/framework/sf_tes_2d_drw/sf_tes_2d_drw_memory.o
.heap 0x20066340 0x400 ./synergy/ssp/src/bsp/cmsis/Device/RENESAS/S7G2/Source/startup_S7G2.o
0x20066740 __HeapLimit = .
and as sprintf() with floating point arguments uses quite alot of memory from the heap, the Dave2D heap area gets altered by sprintf(), leading to the system crash.
So, an alteration of the linker map is required, to locate the dave2D heap outside the normal heap :-
.heap (NOLOAD):
KEEP(*(.heap_d1)) <<<<<<<<< Addition to move the Dave2D heap
__HeapBase = .;
__end__ = .;
end = __end__;
__HeapLimit = .;
This then leads to the memory allocation for the heap :
.heap 0x2005e340 0x8400 load address 0x000b5140
.heap_d1 0x2005e340 0x8000 ./synergy/ssp/src/framework/sf_tes_2d_drw/sf_tes_2d_drw_memory.o
0x20066340 __HeapBase = .
0x20066340 __end__ = .
0x20066340 end = __end__
.heap 0x20066340 0x400 ./synergy/ssp/src/bsp/cmsis/Device/RENESAS/S7G2/Source/startup_S7G2.o
0x20066740 __HeapLimit = .
Also, for SSP 1.0 there is a bug with the malloc code in the GCC newlib, meaning malloc will be allocated memory all the way to the current stack pointer, rather than the limit of the stack (this is fixed in SSP 1.1.0), so an external version of _sbrk() is required (this is taken from SSP 1.1.0) :-
caddr_t _sbrk(int incr)
extern char _Heap_Begin __asm ("__HeapBase"); ///< Defined by the linker.
extern char _Heap_Limit __asm ("__HeapLimit"); ///< Defined by the linker.
static char* current_heap_end = 0;
char* current_block_address;
if (current_heap_end == 0)
current_heap_end = &_Heap_Begin;
current_block_address = current_heap_end;
/** Need to align heap to word boundary, else will get */
/** hard faults on Cortex-M0. So we assume that heap starts on */
/** word boundary, hence make sure we always add a multiple of */
/** 4 to it. */
incr = (incr + 3) & (~3); ///< align value to 4
if (current_heap_end + incr > &_Heap_Limit)
/** Heap has overflowed */
errno = ENOMEM;
return (caddr_t) - 1;
current_heap_end += incr;
return (caddr_t) current_block_address;
With these changes, sprintf() with floating point arguments doesn't crash GUIX.


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WILLIAMSPORT -- A company involved in the natural gas industry has agreed to plead guilty to harboring and transporting illegal immigrants to the Williamsport area, according to federal prosecutors.
The company used to conduct business inside a building on West Third Street in Williamsport, but in June of 2011, GPX was accused of hiring and employing 19 illegal aliens.
The United States Attorney's office recently announced GPX agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to harbor illegals.
"It's hard to even find a job here in Williamsport, let alone for immigrants to find a job," Mary Townsend said.
Townsend spent the day at Careerlink in Williamsport trying to find a job. She has been out of work since last November, and was upset to find out illegal immigrants were hired for jobs she could have done.
"I don't think it's right. They shouldn't be doing that because it takes from the people here," Townsend said.
Some other people in Williamsport agree.
"All these illegal immigrants are taking away from the people that are local, people that need work. It's damaging to the local economy," Derek Viera said.
"I don't have anything against people that come to this country and want to work, but first you should give the people who live here a chance," Navarro Adams said.
GPX was charged with harboring and transporting illegal aliens last May. The company is based out of Texas and provides surveys for the oil and gas industry.
In addition to pleading guilty to conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, GPX must also pay a $25,000 fine.
"I don't know if they'll learn their lesson from a simple fine," Viera said.
A court date for the guilty plea has not yet been scheduled.


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Selena Gomez's Celebrity Playlist
Selena Gomez gets silly with Just Jared in this new behind-the-scenes shot from our exclusive chat earlier this month.
The 18-year-old actress also took over YouTube yesterday afternoon to reveal her celebrity playlist of tunes that she can't live without.
Selena also chatted about her involvement with UNICEF and her crush on Greg Kurka, a musician who actually wrote a song just for her! Check out her video interview and playlist below!
Selena Gomez – YouTube Playlist
Selena Gomez's Celebrity Playlist
– Selena Gomez & the Scene: A Year Without Rain
– Achieving Zero
– Text Me With Your Phone
– Jackie & Debra
– Greg Kurka: Selena Gomez
– What the Buck – Another Cinderella Story
– Box of Pocky
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Phishing, Cyberbullies, Online Predators
Children are being targeted every day.
The internet offers a world of opportunities. People of all ages share photos and videos, build online profiles and text each other. For children, especially, these ways of socializing and communicating can be fulfilling, and yet, they come with risks. This presentation covers what parents need to know to help protect their children and reduce the risks by talking to your kids about how they communicate – online and off – and encouraging them to engage in conduct they can be proud of.


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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich today said prosecutors trying to pressure his friend and former fundraiser Christoper Kelly to testify against Blagojevich are at least partly responsible for Kelly's death>.
"Chris Kelly took his life because of the pressure he was under," Blagojevich said today at the start of his radio show on WLS-AM.
He vowed to fight and win the charges against him in court.
"My friend Chris Kelly's death will not be in vain."
During the radio show, Blagojevich continued to lash out at prosecutors for cutting deals with his co-defendants, who he says are being pressured to "lie" about the former governor's political dealings.


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"Could there be another Chernobyl? . . . Red Atom is both a history and a warning—and a bitter indictment of an industry that was once thought to be the 'radiant' path to the future."—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"An intriguing history of a scientific and social disaster in the making."--Internet Bookwatch
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All aboard – the giant ice rink!
A rink was opened in the century-old Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall.
A Post reporter became the first person to put on a pair of skates and glide over the 5,000 pounds of synthetic surface before straphangers watched a Disney On Ice performance.
Sue Seifman, 62, of Murray Hill caught the show while going to Grand Central Station to purchase bread, and said she was a little surprised to see ice-skating. "You never know what you will find," she said.
Josephine Hoemark, 22, an au pair from Sweden, said her host family's four-year-old child Rye loved watching the skating. "It was perfect," she said, adding that it was also easy to get to the transportation hub to watch the show.
Steven Yaros, a regional vice president for Feld Entertainment which organized the performance, said the company picked Grand Central so they could expose the 300,000 people who use the station everyday to the Disney On Ice performance.
"It's an iconic location in the heart of the city," he said.


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This traditional home plan has railed porch, arch-top gabled dormer, home office up front. Stairstep windows provide natural light for stairway and vaulted entry. Family living area spans the rear of the main floor and opens onto a good-size patio.
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Brighton built around informal open space
Families that prefer the roominess of one large gathering space, rather than two or more smaller rooms, will appreciate the Brighton. In this informal, midsize, four-bedroom home, about two-thirds of the main floor is devoted to a sun-washed family living area that fits this description to a T.
Entering, you walk across the covered porch into a two-story vaulted entry with a stairway wrapping up the left side and light washing in through three stair-step windows. A coat closet/storage space is tucked under the stairs where the entry segues into the family room.
The window-bright family room, anchored by a fireplace, flows into a dining area that is open to the kitchen. A raised eating bar marks the boundary between these areas, as does a rectangular window bay that expands and illuminates the dining room. Centrally placed glass doors slide open to provide access to a large patio.
Kitchen work space is in ample supply, with counters that wrap around three sides. Laundry appliances are easily accessible in a passthrough utility room that connects to the garage.
Just inside the entry, double doors open into a room that could be used as a home office, guest room, shared family study, hobby room, or whatever suits. Another door, on the opposite wall, opens into small hallway right opposite a bathroom, and convenient to the family living area.
In the Brighton, the master suite is on the upper level along with three more bedrooms and a shared bathroom. In addition to a vaulted ceiling, master suite amenities include a large walk-in closet and a private bathroom with dual vanity, spa tub, separately enclosed shower and toilet.


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It has recently dawned on me that whilst speaking with my wife's brothers, who live in Italy where we spent Christmas, about house and land prices in Mauritius (my wife is Mauritian, I am British) that we could sell our house here in the South of France, where we moved from the UK 4 and a half years ago, and buy a house or two outright (I have seen, for example, two nice bungalows side by side with land in the North-West of Mauritius about 4 minutes from the beach). As I am currently 43 it would be nice to erradicate the mortgage plus as I am paid in sterling and have a 50% share in my food publishing business my income would be higher relatively there with rupees than it is here in France and I think I could quite easily run the business from Mauritius. I would like my clients to think that I am still in France and I think that this is feasible via a rerouting system so that they phone my French number and I receive the telephone calls and faxes in Mauritius.
Would it be possible to buy such houses as my wife has Mauritian nationality and passport and she can get me a Mauritian passport as well?
I look forward to your comments.


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Had a great time at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival launching our new graphic novel The Red Shoes and Other Tales. In fact we were so busy we completely forgot to take pictures! Jeremy Briggs was kind enough to send us photos he took throughout the weekend.
|'Shiny New Red Shoes' launch talk chaired by Melanie Gibson
|One of our three Family Zone events at the
Westmorland Shopping Centre
Thanks to Melanie Gibson for being such a fantastic chairperson, to Page 45 for their support in launching the book and to the incredible festival team for making the weekend such a success and looking after everyone so well.
|At the Page 45 book stall...
We only managed to go and see the Steve Bell talk which was packed, but wished we could have gone to more events. It was great meeting and catching with Bryan and Mary Talbot, Simon Grennan, Nicola Streeten, Corinne Pearlman of Myriad, Darryl Cunningham, Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve who stayed with us at the amazing Ash Meadows guest house, Chris Pitzer over from the US, John Freeman, Benoit Peeters, Gary Erskine and Mhairi Stewart, Paul Gravett, John McShane, Stref, Bill Morrison of The Simpsons, Matthew Gibbs (thanks for the books!), Stephane Beaujean and so many other great people.
|Steve Bell talk
|The prize for the 'Draw a Ballerina' competition
However, their mum Sofi Croft, author of YA books, sent us these pictures. It seems the shoes have come to life and her daughter can't stop dancing.


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Cauliflower kale and potato pie
For the past couple of days (and the following 2 weeks) I've traded my flip flops and light summer dresses for cardigans, coats, really big scarves and warm jeans. Summer sun transformed into winter snow and I'm freezing my a** off when I go outside in the morning. But truth be told, am loving every moment of it because I'm currently in the home I grew up in, surrounded by family I have not seen in years. Cold and happy times, with lots of baking.
Yes, as is with most people, cold weather makes me wanna bake a lot. I still indulge in fresh fruits and salads, smoothies and juices, but I bake more pies, tarts, cookies and veggies. What's better than the aromas coming from a hot oven, baking away veggies for dinner until they reach sweet golden perfection? Maybe only the aroma of homemade hot mulled wine pimped up with winter spices. Winter has its perks.
I made this cauliflower kale and potato pie the other day and it was so delicious that what should normally feed four wasn't enough for three. I could easily serve half of it just by myself. It tastes so good that even I, the salad's biggest fan, want to skip the side salad and have just the pie! The crust is perfectly crunchy while the filling is moist, creamy and packed with flavor. I did not use any creams or eggs to bind everything together, just boiled mashed potatoes. It's all just veggies and spices, really! And as per the usual me, it is very very easy to make.
- For the crust:
- 2/3 cups your choice of wholemeal flour (I used spelt)
- 2/3 cups almond meal
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon, ground
- pinch of sea salt
- 1/8 cup good olive oil
- 1/8 cup water
- For the filling:
- 4 regular potatoes, boiled
- 1 green onion (or a shallot onion), finely minced
- 1/4 cauliflower
- 3 big kale leaves (or any other winter greens you have), finely chopped
- 1 TBSP dry dill
- 1.5 TBSP veggie stock powder (link to recipe below)
- 2/3 tsp nutmeg
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- chili flakes, optional, to taste
- Begin by boiling the potatoes and them allowing them to cool before peeling and mashing them.
- While potatoes are boiling, preheat the oven to 180C.
- To make the crust, mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Separately, mix the wet ingredients. Add these to the dry ingredients and mix by hand until you have your dough. Continue to knead for 2-3 minutes.
- Press the dough in a baking pan lined with baking paper and poke with a fork several times on the bottom. This ensures your dough will not puff up when baking.
- Bake the crust for 10 minutes, until the sides turn golden brown.
- Take it out of the oven and allow to slightly cool for few minutes.
- While the dough is baking, add the cauliflower cut into florets to a food processor and blitz it until it looks like rice.
- Add the cauliflower, chopped kale, green onion and all the spices (dill, salt, pepper, chili, veggie stock powder) to the mashed potatoes and mix everything very well. A big spoon or spatula does the job. Or you can even do it by hand.
- Add the filling to the crust and press it firmly.
- Brush the pie with olive oil and bake it at 180C for 15 minutes.
- After 15 minutes, cover it with baking paper (make sure the edges of the paper don't go outside of the baking pan) or aluminium foil and continue to bake it another 15-20 minutes, until the top gets golden brown.
- Serve warm with simple side salad.
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Sprint Corp. will stand by its unlimited data plans for cellphone users for a long time, but not necessarily the price of those options, its chief executive said Tuesday.
Dan Hesse, fielding questions at an investor conference in Las Vegas, said the Overland Park-based company has the capacity to deliver all the data that subscribers of its unlimited plans could use.
"That doesn't mean the price stays the same," Hesse said.
Future unlimited plans, he said, are likely to appeal to a group of customers who will pay a premium so they don't have to worry about how much data they have available.
He pointed out that Sprint added a $10 data surcharge to smartphone users because of their additional use of data-hungry features, which include watching videos and downloading apps.
T-Mobile US also offers unlimited data plans. AT&T and Verizon don't have unlimited plans for new customers, instead offering plans that provide a set amount of data use each month.
Hesse said Sprint can keep its unlimited-for-life promise to those who sign up for such plans now because it has ample capacity from its wireless spectrum. These are the licensed airwaves that carry signals to mobile devices. Sprint gained a big swath of spectrum with its purchase of Clearwire Corp. last July.
The company does not have to offer unlimited data to new customers "forever," Hesse said.
Separately, Sprint said its fastest service, dubbed Sprint Spark, is now available in six new markets mostly in Texas, in addition to five others announced previously. Spark takes advantage of the Clearwire spectrum and other technologies to promise increasing Internet speeds for mobile users.
Sprint also announced a new multiline wireless offering it calls the Sprint Framily Plan, which begins Friday. It "lets consumers decide who they consider family" by allowing friends, neighbors or any group to combine under one plan.
Accounts under the same plan can be billed separately.
The $55-a-month-per-line plan provides unlimited talk and texting plus 1 gigabyte of data. Unlimited data adds $20 to the bill. Up to 10 lines can share one plan, earning discounts of $5 each for additional line up to seven lines.


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Baby, It's Cold Inside
Here's Taz in my loft, trying to stay warm. And my loft is the warmest room in the house. And it's only November. An unseasonably warm one at that.
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Smith '69, Purdue '75. Anarchist; agnostic. Writer. Steward of the Pascal Emory house, an 1871 Second-Empire Victorian; of Sylvie, a 1974 Mercedes-Benz 450SL; and of Taz, a purebred Cockador who sets the standard for her breed. Happy enough for the present in Massachusetts, but always looking East.
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REAL TALK 101: Your wedding photos are about SO much more than a pretty picture. In today's world of technology and cellphones with wild portrait capabilities, let's all face it: now everyone is a photographer. Your day is different though. These photos aren't cookie cutter, one size fits all, and neither are you. Your wedding and those photos are the culmination of every high and low you've endured in your relationship leading up to this very day. They are the testimony of a love that won. Taking on the title of 'wedding photographer' is big deal. When I started this journey that spiraled into my career, I had an idea of what it entailed: the ultimate celebration of love and emotion. Now, after years of experience, I know there is a whole lot more to being a wedding photographer than that generality. This isn't just creation through the click of a button and I'm not there to be a fly on the wall. Actually, I will be by your side more than anyone else at your wedding (even the one you're about to marry). I'll be there for the laughs among friends and tears behind closed doors that no one else will see. I'll be there when those tears have dried up and drinks are poured as music blasts throughout the air. If you're seeking comfort, a hug (or really just need someone to pour you a shot), I'm right there. There will be big moments & quieter ones that sneak right by you; that's what I'm there to see and to showcase; at any time of day, any place in the world, doing whatever it takes, because that's what you deserve. A photographer that truly cares about the shit that matters to you and that's what I will be.
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In "Girl Driver," a young woman, Freddie Charleston (Susan Lawrence), is a mechanic and car lover running for Auto Club President at the local high school. She is the first girl to do so.
But a sexist boy at school, Mac (Steve Doubet), doesn't believe that a female can possibly know anything about cars.
Hoping to settle the matter, Mrs. Thomas (Joanna Cameron) organizes a rally, a competition for the two drivers. It will occur in the mountains, and involve successfully following a map.
Mac, however, decides to cheat.
It's a decision he comes to regret, however, when he runs his car off the road, and nearly dies.
Fortunately, Isis is nearby and ready to intervene…
This episode of Isis (1975 – 1976) confronts an "attitude that is pretty old fashioned," namely that women cannot be leaders, or even more basically, decent mechanics. Mac is the male chauvinist pig who says things like "No girl is gonna beat me!"
Of course, to prove his point about the inherent superiority of men, Mac cheats and nearly gets himself killed.
Isis intervenes in the battle of the sexes and teaches Mac a lesson about treating people fairly. By the end of the episode, he concedes that Freddie is not so bad "for a girl" and that he might even vote for her for Auto Club President.
Isis demonstrates some amazing powers in this episode. She snuffs out a gasoline fire in Freddie's garage by declaring: "Power of fire at my command, disappear when I raise my hand."
Later, she gently rides Mac's plummeting car down the mountainside to a cushioned impact.
Perhaps most impressively, Isis is able to look back in time, into the past, and see Mac cheating during the rally. That's a power she has never used before, if memory serves.
Every week there's a lesson to learn on Isis, which can make the series a chore to get through. On the other hand, it was aimed at kids and every now and then a story would really work, sometimes in spite of itself.
For some reason I can't fully fathom, I found "Girl Driver" rather engaging, and found myself looking to see how Freddie would manage a win in the rally, especially with a competitor dedicated to cheating.
Next week: "Scuba Duba."


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All modern utilities have one thing in common: they have a large customer base which in turn means large number of transactions occurring every single day. Recent studies show that close to 4 billion customers were over billed in the last year. Utilities who switch their business process to enable RPA can see upto 60% reduction in these errors.
IDC highlights Welsh Water's partnership with Infosys as a success story in laying out foundational elements in the utility's journey of digital transformation. The IDC report, 'Welsh Water Executing for its Digital Future,' (DOC # EMEA41791917, DECEMBER 2017) discusses how the company overhauled its legacy IT systems and modernized its technology landscape to unlock innovation across several business areas.
Kislay Rastogi, a lead consultant with Infosys, has outlayed the latest developments that artificial intelligence (AI) has made possible in electricity distribution.
The utilities, oil and gas, and energy sector is proving to be one of the most innovative in its use of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), automation and advanced analytics. Nearly one in three companies in the industry has already deployed AI technologies.
Infosys has been positioned in the Winner's Circle in the HfS Research Blueprint Report for Utility Operations – 2017. The HfS Blueprint evaluated 14 global service providers of the utility industry.
Infosys has been positioned as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Service Providers for EMEA Utilities 2017 Vendor Assessment (doc #EMEA41387516, February 2017). The company has been recognized for its 'Renew and New' strategy of transforming core IT services and leveraging emerging technologies like AI and analytics for new products and services.
According to Ashiss Dash – Vice President, Utilities & Resources Industry Head , Infosys, the digital revolution is disrupting the electric, gas, and water utilities. Every aspect of generation, transmission, and distribution / supply is being transformed by digital and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. It is a compelling proposition for customers who can better understand where power energy comes from, how it was generated, where it was generated, how it is consumed, when to anticipate disruptions, how to conserve it, and more.
From the utility industry's perspective, digital revolution can optimize user experience (UX), and offer bots and artificial intelligence (AI) to resolve customer issues before they become problems. He believes that the digital revolution will accelerate the disintermediation of the energy value chain, by bringing producers and consumers closer significantly.
Published with the permission from Utility Market Connections (UMC)
Gaia Gallotti, Research Manager – IDC, talks about Infosys being recognized as a major player in worldwide utilities customer operations space.
IDC has mentioned the following strengths in their report – "Infosys is a trusted transformation and outsourcing partner for utilities across North America, Europe (particularly the U.K.), and Asia / Pacific. The company has deep expertise in utilities and a full lineup of services for customer operations, including a suite of business services and platforms for social business, mobility, and analytics."
Utilities today need a single enterprise-wide fieldwork solution that supports a mixture of field activities and ensures economy in allocation of task to crews, with optimal street-level routing. This article delves into real-time workforce scheduling and its benefits.
Published with the permission of Energy Central
The November 2013 edition of UtilityWeek features an Infosys perspective on key factors that are crucial to consider for smart grid implementation. The write-up provides a detailed description of the benefits that can be obtained from them.
Published with the permission of UtilityWeek
Infosys' expert proposes a cryptographic solution based on asymmetric keys to secure customer data in a smart grid.
Published with permission of Energy Central
Pre-configured package solutions integrate meter-to-cash and customer service processes to address challenges in customer care and regulatory compliance.
Proactive leak management helps gas utilities ensure uninterrupted supply and comply with regulation.
Published with permission of Pipeline & Gas Journal
Smart meters must be integrated with advanced distribution automation applications to implement the smart grid, according to Infosys' expert.
Published with permission of EnergyPulse
Utilities can improve operations and reduce their carbon footprint with robust systems for asset and data management.
From customer experience and smart meters to modernizing customer information systems, read about the trends that are keys to success in the new utilities business landscape.
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Whoa, whats that antenna tower thing behind them @ 1:15 ? Looks like little Pelco cameras.. the kind you can pan/zoom from remote. Is that military spy gear to look on people at this peak? If so, is this peak kinda like the public Welcome Center for the base that doesn't exist?
Or should these guys be worried that Camo Dudes will be on the way soon since they're spotted on camera? And if that's the case... slow response time?
Confused. Seeing that radio/camera/tower thing made my brain hurt. It's late...edit on 3-3-2013 by Heliophant because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by gariac
I really wouldn't advise doing this trip in Feb or even March. You really need to camp out overnight to get decent shots of the base.
Originally posted by gariac
You can watch the base with binoculars. I use the Navy astronomical data to insure there is an hour at least between two hours after sunset and before the moon rises. That was there is enough darkness to do a test.
Originally posted by gariac
I used a youtube "grabber" to try to get better video. Unfortunately, what was uploaded wasn't particularly good. Be that as it may, here are my comments after watching it again. First, when the person on the peak saw headlights of a vehicle suddenly go out, they did not turn off their headlights. Rather the terrain around the front gate has many hills. The vehicle went behind a hill. Note all people tend to look like hell if camped out in the desert for any period of time, while the investigators looked kind of Hollywood. ;-) When the woman says she was alone and out of radio contract, I guess the cameraman doesn't count.


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26 Oct 2016 ID: 426157489
The NV300 is Nissan's all new competitor in the mid-sized van segment, and the eagerly anticipated replacement for the Primastar. Sitting in the range between the NV200/e-NV200 and the NV400, it's a hugely important vehicle for Nissan as it completes the rejuvenation of the brand's LCV family line-up.
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Nissan is setting the standard with its light commercial vehicle range, which is one of the widest in Europe. With the arrival of the NV300 – unveiled at the recent Hannover Motor Show – the rejuvenation of the line-up is now complete.
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Following a tantalising glimpse of its distinctive V-motion grille ahead of the UEFA Champions League Final in May, Nissan has now revealed the all-new NV300 van in full.
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A quick glance at our stand here and you cannot be in the dark about how proud we are of our partnership with the UEFA Champions League. With the new season underway, this great relationship enters its third year.