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American Autism and Rehabilitation Center8909 Rand Avenue, Daphne, AL 36526 map
American Autism & Rehabilitation Center (AARC) is a facility aimed at treating a variety of special needs in one convenient location. Our services are for children and adults and include speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, ABA therapy, psychological/diagnostic services, educational services, pharmaceutical services and more. Our highly-trained professionals work collaboratively to provide treatment plans as unique as the individual in order to help patients reach their full potential. We offer a family-centered approach and seek to provide hope and help to each patient and family.
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Autism Diagnostics Clinic - USA Children's and Women's Hospital Pediatric Developmental Medicine1601 Center Street, Mobile, AL 36604 map
The USA Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics operates an Autism Diagnostic Clinic on the campus of USA Children's & Women's Hospital at the Strada Patient Care Center. The mission of this clinic is to improve the lives of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the greater Gulf Coast area through early identification and diagnosis, as well as to provide educational outreach to families, physicians, daycare centers, churches and other organizations who serve children in the community. Services include: Medical Assessments -- By Developmental-Behavioral Pediatricians to evaluate health-related conditions, Cognitive Evaluation -- To determine current developmental level of functioning, Speech/Language Evaluation -- To assess communication level, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) -- To observe social skills and communication abilities during a play session, Assistance with Community Resources -- Upon completion of the evaluation, the staff will assist the family in obtaining appropriate community services and Consultation -- By affiliated specialists with expertise in autism-related conditions.
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Educemiology: the "Epidemiology" of Medical Learning Resources
It is often claimed that Medical Education is much benefited from technological progress. Recent advances in the social web sphere have highlighted the importance of openness, enabled social collaboration, improved participation, allowed for the emergence of social networking and intelligence and have pinpointed key new terms like "Apomediation" and "disintermediation". All these have started playing key roles in educational processes, and have inevitably shifted focus from educators to educational resources and education material that may be shared by online communities of learning through various open educational repositories. Moreover, recent advances in the semantic web front, have shed light and emphasis on the notion of linked data, which basically concerns the publishing of structured data so that it can be interlinked more effectively and hopefully become more useful. This has shifted focus from serving web pages for human readers into sharing information in a way that can be read automatically and "understood" by machines. Inevitably this enables data from different sources to be connected in a better way and be queried more effectively and efficiently. In this paper emphasis is placed on the fusion of the above advances and how these have been approached in mEducator (www.mEducator.net) in order to organise, repurpose, re-use and share medical educational resources, by capitialising novel approaches in both semantic and social web dimensions. We will demonstrate how mash-up tools can create geographical maps of learning resources, thereby representing in a novel (but still familiar way) way connections that are inherited among learning materials and relationships built in the environment amongst the educators and the students as well. This potentially creates a new term which we coin in here, that is, "educemiolody". In an analogous way of defining epidemiology as "the study of the distribution and patterns of health-events, health-characteristics and their causes or influences in well-defined populations", educemiology stands for the creation and study of "epidemiological" maps, displaying how medical learning resources from one Institution or academic teacher or expert are distributed to other places and connected to other resources and people, so as to be used in other educational contexts. It is hoped and envisaged that this will become the cornerstone method of health education research, and help inform policy decisions for shaping new guidelines and standards for medical academic staff development, promotion and upgrades. Moreover, educemiology may be utilised to identify benefits for departmental portfolio implementations, that be targeting in turn towards institutional quality assurance and external audit procedures.
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text: Raising Kids Activities Developmental Benefits of Reading Literature By Rebecca Fraser-Thill | Reviewed by Steven Gans, MD Updated January 08, 2018 Pin Flip Email Print Reading can help your tween experience emotions and even make friends. Maskot/Getty Images More in Raising Kids Activities Celebrations Gear and Products Technology Many tweens enjoy picking up a book or a magazine every now and then. Some tweens are passionate about reading, and the stories they love. But reading literature - such as winners of the Newbery Medal - can aid your tween's development in various ways, including academically, cognitively, socially and emotionally. Below are a few reasons why you may want to encourage your tween to embrace reading, and help make reading fun for him or her. Academic Benefits We tend to focus on the importance of reading instruction during the early to mid-childhood years. In reality, tweens continue to actively develop their ability to read. Studies show that most tweens struggle with reading comprehension. In addition, they are still becoming familiar with common word patterns and meanings of words. Since reading skills are vitally important for excelling in all other subjects - from history to science to math - tweens need to continue to be exposed to high-quality literature in order to develop their reading abilities. Appropriately chosen literature offers enough words that a tween already knows to prevent frustration while introducing enough new words to stretch the particular tween's vocabulary. This means that literature is best chosen for an individual's reading level rather than for a group. Since most school readings are not individually assigned, be alert to signs of frustration or boredom in your tween. Either one is a signal that you may want to step in and supplement required school reading with literature more appropriate to your tween's skill level and interests. Doing so will help them develop to their highest academic potential and embrace reading literature. Cognitive Benefits A key cognitive benefit of reading literature is the development of reasoning skills. Tweens typically believe that there is "one truth" in the world that is not affected by personal biases or perspectives. They accept information that is provided to them by experts - including parents and teachers - and that they themselves experience with their own senses. This type of reasoning is less advanced than that of older teens and twentysomethings, who realize that truth is relative and varies from person to person. According to a paper published in The Reading Teacher, characters in Newbery Medal-winning books can help tweens progress in their ability to reason. These main characters face cognitive and/or moral dilemmas that surpass the types of dilemmas tweens typically experience. As a result of facing such serious dilemmas, the characters must actively move from lower-level to higher-level reasoning over the course of the book. This process models the development of reasoning skills for tween readers in a natural and engaging way. Being exposed to the characters' change in reasoning may in turn aid tweens' own ability to think and reason about the world. Social and Emotional Benefits Have you ever listened in on a conversation your child was having about a favorite book or book series with a friend? Reading literature also aids in social and emotional development. For one, characters in high-quality books often represent diverse backgrounds, including varying economic means, different races and ethnicities and unique regions of the country or the world. Diverse characters expose readers to worlds that a typical American tween never gets to experience firsthand. Exposure to diversity can aid in tweens' empathy for others, tolerance for difference and development of emotional sensitivity. Being exposed to varying backgrounds and perspectives may also help tweens move beyond adolescent egocentrism, which in turn benefits their interactions with peers, teachers, and parents. Finally, reading literature can expand a tween's emotional range. Quality literature naturally extracts a variety of strong emotions from readers - including rage, heartache, and loss. Some of these emotions may never have been previously experienced by the tween. Therefore, reading literature gives tweens an opportunity to grapple with and process strong emotions in a safe setting without feeling overwhelmed by the emotions. This helps to prepare them for future real-world situations - like the death of a grandparent or serious illness in a friend - that will elicit similar strong reactions. View Article Sources Friedman, Audrey A., and Cataldo, Christina A. "Characters at Crossroads: Reflective Decision Makers in Contemporary Newbery Books." The Reading Teacher. 2002, 56: 102-112. Ivey, Gay, and Broaddus, Karen. "Tailoring the Fit: Reading Instruction and Middle School Readers." The Reading Teacher. 2000, 54: 68-78. Continue Reading


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screen print, embroidered patch, book mark and enamel pin set
A hand made set of 5.8 x 8.3 inch screen prints, depicting characters from my novel, "Seek The Throat From Which We Sing" Onnar the Hare, Vorsa and her twin Petulan, Rune of the Startle and a separate image of Rune used as the cover art for the both the hardback and the second edition paperback versions of the book.
Also included, a 3 inch embroidered patch, a 1 inch enamel pin and a bookmark of the bestiary of animal characters within the novel to aid remembering the different clan names. All of the packaging is screen printed, and the book mark has a screen printed spot varnish to stop wearing.
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My utmost desire for this book is to showcase God's Glory that comes when you choose to forgive!
Houston, Tx (PRWEB) September 07, 2016
Dr. Evelyn Ogletree's new book, A Day With My Father - Choosing The Path To Forgive!, ($14.99, paperback, 9781498476843; $7.99, e-book, 9781498478625) is an emotional true story about a beautiful little girl who grew up estranged from her father and met the challenges of growing up with a single mother. Later at the age of fifty, her father elected to come back into her life causing her to contemplate whether to accept or reject him. Does she open the door of her heart again and let him in or should she keep the door closed and put a dead bolt lock on it forever? She chose to open the door and let her father in – a powerful story of love and forgiveness that no reader will soon forget.
This book encourages every reader to revisit their childhood and discover the secret to who they are and why they function as they do. As Dr. Ogletree experienced, the visit will reveal one's true self-portrait and uncover the thoughts that remain from their childhood, which often manifest in undesired behavior. Anyone who has had their heart broken by someone they love and trust needs to read this book. It will bring them peace and give them the power to reconcile that relationship.
"My purpose and goal for writing this book is to help save families and relationships; marriages, parent/child relationships, siblings, relatives, and friendships," states the author. "My second goal is to bring forgiveness and restoration to broken relationships, redirect marriages to God's original intent and hinder the divorce epidemic that has overtaken Christendom. I want fathers to see what happens when they abandon their children. I want spouses to see what their mate goes through when there is a betrayal. My utmost desire for this book is to showcase God's Glory that comes when you choose to forgive!"
Here's what others are saying about this outstanding book:
"It is amazing how much I can relate to Lady O's story regarding her upbringing and the events that helped shape her into a strong, powerful woman. Having a psychology and spiritual counseling background, I know all too well that in order for many people to go forward in life, they must often times go back and revisit their past. This book should help them to do just that." – Lady Narlene McLaughlin, Co-Founder and Chief Administrator, The Potter's House International Ministries, Jacksonville, FL
"Dr. Evelyn Ogletree's book, A Day with My Father, brings the reader face to face with one of our greatest modern societal needs; deep sub-surface hidden debilitating 'Unforgiveness' and how she learned to deal with it as a model for how we can address it. Her words will inspire you to change the way you see and deal with virtually every conflict in your life." – Archbishop Dr. Sterling Lands II, Sr. Pastor, Greater Calvary Bible Church and Presiding Prelate of the Family Life International Fellowship
Dr. Evelyn Ogletree, affectionately known as Lady O, is Executive Pastor of First Metropolitan Church in Houston, TX. In December of 2012, Lady O received her Doctorate Degree at Texas A&M University in Urban Education. She also holds a Master's Degree in counseling from Prairie View A&M University and a Bachelor's Degree from Texas Southern University. She is a former schoolteacher for HISD, KISD, Cy-Fair ISD (School Counselor) and Adjunct Professor for Lone Star College. Lady O is available to preach, teach, and speak at conferences, workshops, seminars, and retreats.
Xulon Press, a division of Salem Media Group, is the world's largest Christian self-publisher, with more than 15,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order A Day With My Father - Choosing The Path To Forgive! through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The book is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.
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English as an Additional Language (EAL) Policy
At BPS we celebrate children's differing cultures, backgrounds and languages. We aim to offer an inclusive education in which the child's first language is acknowledged and encouraged to develop alongside their acquisition of English.
The attached documents include the school's EAL policy and a booklet outlining admissions procedures at the school.
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Hellooow – Homemade ceramic jewelery and decor items
Durbs may be the last British Outpost in South Africa, but what we are not, is last in the race of entrepreneurship and creativity.
Since Durban-based designer Merewyn de Heer has made her mark with her homemade range of 'Hellooow' ceramics in the 'what's hot' pages of our local mags, she is definitely a designer to be watched.
Her effervescent personality and passion for what she does, shows in each beautifully crafted piece that makes up her extensive range of homemade wares.
Hellooow offers a range of handmade jewelry including necklaces & bangles which have been made using a combination of ceramic buttons, gorgeous hand rolled beads, vintage laces, crocheted roses, and ribbons. Each one is a masterpiece and so individual. I am sure many of you have noticed them roughly piled in huge glass vases for sale in the Urban and Earthchild stores.
Merewyn's team of talented ladies are all HIV positive. Her reward is to see these ladies regain their self worth and confidence by creating masterpieces using recycled paper clay and other interesting raw materials, giving each hand rolled clay bead a robust, unique look.
Her range has naturally progressed from simple jewelry and now includes a range of lighting aptly named 'Shine'. The ladies hand string each and every home -made chandelier!
Wedding and function planners will be thrilled to know that Merewyn is going to be keeping a few of her special pieces for hire which will include these wonderful hanging chandeliars, table candelabra and cake stands. So for the next special occasion, save her contact details. Imagine what an amazingly chic African Vintage theme you could create!
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I don't know very much about the history of my Leonardo Bellini. It was an ebay win, like all of my pre loved Ukuleles, and the seller didn't have any information beyond the obvious - its made by Leonardo Bellini of Naples, (it says so on the soundboard!) I'm guessing its pre WW2 because I haven't seen any Italian Ukuleles like this that are post war? But I don't know this for sure and when I looked the maker up on the Internet I could find nothing on him. To the Ukulele itself - It came with mismatched wooden friction tuners all of which looked like Violin pegs and slightly too big for the holes, Since they weren't a set and I didn't think they looked original anyway I have replaced them with a modern set of friction tuners. The nut is original and the way it has been cut means that the strings have to go straight up into the headstock and this in turn means they come onto the tuners from different sides - adds to the fun when tuning! It also didn't have a saddle when it came - I am unsure whether this type of setup is suppose to have a floating bridge as a saddle but the addition of one here certainly improved the tone and volume making me think it should. I have used an old Banjolele bridge sanded down so it doesn't make the action too high. I would like to know what the original setup was though, and what the original bridge looked like, (I think the anchor bridge has been re-glued at some point?)
The back has been pressed into a fairly substantial bowl so there is a little of the tendency toward a Mandolin in manufacture but it is all very well put together and all of the inlay work, (yes the flowers on the Gopaedor are inlay not paint or decal as is the decoration around the sound hole), is very well done. Its all in such good condition that there is a doubt in my mind that it is pre WW2 however with the inlay and the history of Italian manufacture it is only a very small doubt. I think losing its floating bridge meant it didn't sound very good so previous owners didn't play it and this is the cause of its condition. Nevertheless I would like to know more about the maker, (and the rest of the Ukuleles history after finding the picture of the nice young lady! for example is she holding this one or did Leonardo make a number of them with similar golpeadors)?
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We haven't been hit by the weather that is affecting the rest of the North Island as yet. It was a bit more crisp through the night and early morning but the flow of the Tongariro has held fairly consistent and there have been cracking fish landed in the last few days. Rodney Wong is in town and he landed a cracking Brown on a small pheasant tail and light tippet. Paddy and Willie are over from Taranaki and the boys have been putting in long hours on the river with great results, mixing up nymphing and wet lining through the day. Good stuff lads.
The Cicada seem to be on their last few legs with noise almost nil in the mornings and the current snap of cold weather has seen to this but anglers commenting that Lace Moth patterns or Vine Hoppers are doing the damage on the dries.
I have been out most days after work and saw a fantastic evening rise the last 2 nights with good numbers rising to take the Sporting Caddis dry pattern from around 8pm on wards and prior to this I was swinging large olive streamers (Wooly Bugger type patterns) through deeper pools using a shooting head and about 3/4 a rod length of leader and getting a few nice fish on the swing. I try to alternate the speeds of the swing of the fly with different mends till I can find what is having the most strikes.
Jared is away at the moment and I am not quite sure how to load photos to this site as yet but when i figure that out I will load some pics of recent catches.
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Froggy is really into dominoes these days. So I gave him the challenge of creating domino runs in different shapes.
He decided to take it a step further and connect the shapes.
Do you see them? Quadrat, Oval, und Dreieck!
Froggy is really into dominoes these days. So I gave him the challenge of creating domino runs in different shapes.
He decided to take it a step further and connect the shapes.
Do you see them? Quadrat, Oval, und Dreieck!
I saw a few different play dough mats for creating shapes on Pinterest. But of course, they were all in English. So I decided to create some in German.
Print them out and laminate them. Then break out the play dough and create some shapes! Just fit them into the shape on the mat.
Download the PDF file here: Formen Play dough Mats GitA
Hippo had fun with the mats after lunch today!
Hippo loves building train tracks with AP3. So that's where they started with their shape-themed activities. It was a simple activity, but sometimes those are best! How many shapes could they make?
For our shape unit, we'll be using some materials I bought a few years ago on TeachersPayTeachers.com. It was created by Open Wide the World, who has a number of German-language units. In fact, the weather unit I used last month was also created by them.
The unit costs only $3.50, and you can purchase it here. And here's what you get:
a single page display featuring all 10 shapes
10 individual posters, one shape & shape name per page
game cards
"Bang!" game cards & directions
3 sets of flashcards for games & drill work: 1 set with shapes and shape names, 1 set with shape images only, 1 set with shape names only
2 mini books
1/4-page sized mini book: trace the shape name and draw the shape
1/2-page sized mini book: fill in the blank with the shape name, color the image, and read aloud with a partner (level = emergent reading, repetitive sentence structure)
word search
includes answer key
I'm excited to start using all these colorful materials!
Our next language unit is going to be all about shapes! Froggy chose the topic. I don't know how many times we've done shape themes in the past 4 years, but it's still a favorite!
I started doing language themes when Froggy was 3 and Hippo was just a baby. Every morning, while Hippo napped, Froggy and I would do a project. Having this structure in his day really helped. And we both had so much fun! We did art projects, science projects, themed baths, books, songs – you name it, if it went with our theme, we tried it! That's when I started collecting ideas on Pinterest boards, too! (Click on my Pinterest button on the right to check out all my daily activity boards!)
Now we are using these themes to help our German. I was off to a good start with Froggy's weather lessons. And now I really want to get Hippo more involved. So I've asked AP3 to help out and try to come up with activities to do with him, while I focus more on Froggy's lessons.
Since we are still in Valentine mode, our first activity was a baking one. We simply made a cake heart! I saw the idea on Pinterest, of course. It was super simple! Froggy helped me make the batter. Then after the cakes cooled, we put them together to make our heart and covered it with pink frosting. I wanted a little chocolate, and I knew Froggy would choose yellow cake with white (or pink) icing, so I added some chocolate chips to one of the cakes.
You bake one 8-inch square cake and one 8-inch round cake (or use 9-inch pans for both). After they cool, place the square cake at an angle, like a diamond. Then cut your round cake in half, and place each semi-circle at the top of the diamond shape. Voila! You now have a heart-shaped cake! I had to cut off the tops of the cakes to get them to be the same height. And I needed a pretty big plate to put it on. Since I didn't have a plate big enough, I used a cutting board. The boys loved it!
Froggy has always loved shapes. And sorting. And sorting shapes. Now that he is 7, he has added another interest: writing in cursive. He's trying to teach himself, since they are not yet teaching cursive at school.
I love it when he takes the initiative to start a project. Especially when that project is in German!
The other night, when I was putting him to bed, he asked if we could work a little more on his latest project. He had grabbed a book off the shelf: Duden's Kennst du das? Die Formen (2009).
He was making a list of the shapes to sort them (and color-coding them, too, of course!).
Some of the words are in cursive, some not. Some are not even spelled correctly. Some he wrote, some I wrote. But it's all good! I was just tickled pink that he was doing something in German by his own choice!
It's that time of year! The leaves are turning fiery colors. The air is getting crisp. And it's time to visit the pumpkin patch! We started the tradition 3 years ago. Our local patch is only about 10 minutes from our house. We can go on a hay ride or pull a Radio Flyer wagon out to the pumpkins. The boys always enjoy being pulled out to the pumpkin patch in the wagon.
We got some small pumpkins this year in addition to the bigger ones we would carve. So Hippo and I got out the paints and started decorating. We used circle-shaped sponge brushes in different sizes to start applying paint. Perfect opportunity to talk about shapes! Hippo started out by making a pattern. I was so impressed! But then he just couldn't stop himself. So it turned into a lovely blue-green pumpkin. That's okay, though. It's they boys' favorite color!
So our little activity allowed us to talk about fall, pumpkins, shapes, and colors.


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Action Required: WHO International Ketamine Rescheduling
The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a change to the international scheduling of ketamine, proposed by China. YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED to ask the FDA to protect doctors' and veterinarians' access to this critical drug. Elevating international regulation of ketamine as a Schedule 1 drug could mean that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for U.S. practitioners to use.
On October 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a request for comments regarding the abuse potential, actual abuse, medical usefulness, trafficking and impact of scheduling changes on the availability for medical use of 10 drug substances – including ketamine. The comments, DUE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, will be considered as FDA prepares a response to the WHO regarding the abuse liability and diversion of these drugs and will be provided to the 36th Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD), which will meet in Geneva November 16-20.
NABR has drafted a letter to the FDA that generally explains how critical ketamine is to veterinary and human medicine and how important it is that it remain accessible to biomedical research. We encourage you to use this template as a starting point to submit your own letter to the FDA. Below are the question(s) WHO has asked be addressed in your response:
- Ketamine use in clinical settings - when is ketamine the anesthetic, sedative or analgesic agent of choice for any of the following: emergency situations; conducting procedures with pediatric patients; short surgical procedures; long surgical procedures; surgery conducted outside a hospital without respiratory support facilities; and other.
- Veterinary therapeutic indications approved for ketamine (choices offered: anesthesia; pain management; sedation; no approved uses; other).
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The Sentinel
Written by A.F. Moritz
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Publication Date April 01, 2008
Mortality, Love, Ethics, Civilization, Divine Presence, Human Body, Modernity, The Natural World, and Constructed Spaces. The Sentinel watches and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and worthy of trust. Whether describing renewal and regeneration, the despair brought on by global capitalism, or a place where decay and loss meet their antithesis, A. F. Moritz's magisterial voice, rare insight, and supple craft are on impressive display.
Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize 2009
Short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Awards: Poetry 2008
Selected for the Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year 2009
A.F. Moritz
A. F. Moritz has written fifteen books of poetry, and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection The Sentinel won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year. He lives in Toronto.
"...A.F. Moritz's work leaves me reassured about the potential efficacy of poetry, of mind engaged with world on all fronts - politically, mythically, philosophically." Don McKay
"...praise is justified...Moritz's sensibility is unique: melancholic, intellectual, comic, erotic, pitying...Moritz is a difficult, often obscure poet, whose works can defy paraphrase. With images culled from dreams, he constructs allegories of love and oppression that communicate by strange association and mysterious overtones and vague or mysterious words...the emotional content of Moritz's work is so abundant and accessible that the reader is never lost. The Sentinel is a good place to become acquainted with Moritz's work...a masterpiece...Moritz's free verse takes on a classical quality...The Sentinel is an exploration of the possibilities of hope...[Moritz is a] rare poet..." National Post
"Al Moritz is a poet of high seriousness - rare in this quick and confessional age. And so, all the more to be valued." P.K. Page
"An ancient voice, mournful like the wind, speaks to itself yet means to be overheard in A.F. Moritz's amazing poems...We seem to hear shattered echoes from the Bible, Dante, Petrarch, or Sceve bound up in Maldoror's cruel eloquence." John Ashbery
"Moritz is at his best when he combines his poetic sensibility-his ear for rhythm, precise phrasing, nuanced shifts in tone and register, and lyrical imagery-with his knowledge of mythic and literary conventions and his cogent political and philosophical observations" Canadian Literature
"The Sentinel is filled with moments like this: graceful, adroit, surprising. There is something reassuring in art of this calibre; it reminds us how things matter. Moritz's voice is unmistakable. His readers, his admiring peers and his reviewers have long felt this, but it has become so obvious that it must finally be said: A.F. Moritz is one of the true master poets of his generation." Globe and Mail


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Last Wednesday, Kate Spade posted a special Labor Day Sale at Kate Spade Outlets!
My mom and I knew this would be the last time to shop together before I left for Boston so we jumped at the chance to shop the sale and spend a final adventure together.
The sale definitely did not disappoint and is going on until September 3!
I got this amazing Dictionary Clutch on an amazing sale I had been dying to get a looong time ago.
Trench: Brooks Brothers (last seen here) | Top: J. Crew | Pants: GAP | Shoes: Hunter | Purse: Kate Spade | Phone Case: J. Crew | Belt: Kate Spade | Necklace: J. Crew | Sunnies: Kate Spade
If you follow me on my Instagram, I recently wore a similar outfit to my local
J. Crew Style Guide Session where I met Jade Scott from A Spoonful of Style!


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This long block of apartments, built in a quiet residential part of Westend, is an apartment version of Kairamo's duplexes built on Liinasaarenkuja, just a short distance away the previous year. As with Liinasaarenkuja, a highly articulated brise-soleil of balconies, and solariums has been applied to the south side of a very unarticulated block made of pre-cast concrete panels. While the 1982 duplexes were free-standing buildings and as such were viewed more three-dimensionally, this exaggerated difference between the pre-fab box and the applied elements is common to both.
Like most Finnish apartment buildings, this is a point access type with five entrances serving nine dwellings per floor, a total of thirty three dwellings, that vary in size from two to four bedrooms. This long block is built on a terrace that sets back from the street and an open parking area on the south. The terrace is several feet higher than the parking and thus provides privacy for the ground floor dwellings. The building steps in height along its length from 3 to four floors and, at mid-building, there is a public passageway through the building to the parking area behind. There is parking at the rear and garages at grade along the north side of the building. The apartments are planned with a large room on the south, which is a combined kitchen, living, dining, and a zone of small bedrooms along the north side. The living area takes up the full width of the module. A separate block of service spaces separates the two zones. This module contains the bathroom and sauna. Most of the dwellings are similar and the modular characteristics of the pre-fabricated panel construction is clearly evident. Slightly different dwellings are placed at each end to avoid the blank ends typical to the zeilenbau slab.
The main mass of the slab is rendered as a minimalist functionalist apartment block with strip windows, flat roof, articulated entrances and vertical stair halls on the north. On the south facade a structure of balconies, glazed solariums, trellises, vertical lattices, railings, and planters is attached to the building; a brise-soleil of architectonic accessories and spaces that qualify and enhance the south-facing living spaces. The basic module of the pre-cast panel system that it used on the main building is also used for the brise-soleil, however, secondary and overlapping divisions and variations in height, width and composition all reinforce the reading of a complex, concatenated independent element. The pre-cast panels on the main building are covered with small ceramic tiles while the vertical structure of the balcony structure is left painted concrete. This fact coupled with the elaborate steel, frosted glass, and wood accessories which are coded with different colors all aid in the perception of a different, independent element. The zone of the south terrace, which includes a concrete block retaining wall, steel railings and several blue steel stairs may be seen as an extended part of the brise-soleil mechanism. The practical benefits of passive solar heating, sunny terraces and private outdoor space are obvious. In addition the deadly "monotony of elements" typical to panel construction has been greatly qualified, at least on the south facade.
Marja-Riitta Norri (ed), An Architectural Present-7 Approaches, (exhibit catalogue), , Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, 1992, p.28.
Arvi Ilonen, Helsinki, An Architectural Guide, Otava, Helsinki, 1992, p. 158.


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Happy New Year you filthy animals. How was your festive break? Mine was so nice, I actually switched off a little, it was all about oodles of chocolates, trashy Christmas flicks, long puppy walks, and spending time with my loved ones. It was quiet and I loved it and now I look at my to-do list for the next month I'm grateful for a little time off, but I can tell you it has been hard getting back into work mode. So like most people I always start a new year jotting down all my goals, dreams and plans, as
Timeless Coat Under £30
Each winter my search for a timeless coat becomes harder, I have something specific in mind, colour, shape and length, and each year I fail miserably. This year, I decided to just go for something nearly perfect to see how I got on. The strange thing is, I didn't think a brown coat costing less than £30 would be the one, I actually just thought it would be the one for just right now, but hey I've fallen in love. This timeless coat is from New Look, yeah I wouldn't have guessed either, except I was the one who bought
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If you haven't already noticed I do like a good bag, I tend to love lots of different styles, shapes and colours, actually more colour the better, I actually don't have that many black bags, and I do love finding new labels to lust over, especially if they are British, and I have a great one for you today, Lily Lyn. I discovered this Manchester-based designer label at Pure London, chatting with the founder and designer Jayshree Patel was such a pleasure, her passion for her handbags is infectious, and I instantly fell in love with the Lyn bag, named after
A Floral Moment
When it comes to everyday dressing my skinny jeans, in all shades of blue, black and grey are generally my first port of call, so I've been trying to branch away from the statement tee and sweatshirts, for something more feminine, and this floral boho-style blouse that I picked up for half price in New Look is perfect for that. I'm a fan of dark florals, they add a touch of girlie, without being too bright, plus I've found that darker moodier hues aren't just for winter, especially when you can find a print like this with light blue and
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This week's Off the Record is an excellent little summation of the videogame industry's current status because all we can talk about its Electronic Arts. Why? Because EA has just bought everyone else in the industry ¿ that's right Sega, Nintendo, Namco, Sony, everyone! Ha! Just kidding. But doesn't it sometimes seem that way?
Reflections and Midway
The fine makes of Destruction Derby 1 & 2 are currently in a deal to bring the highly anticipated Driver our favorite system, PlayStation. Driver, as you may know, is a mission-based driving game. You are a getaway driver who must keep your bank robber friends from getting thrown in jail, but the game is frickin' beautiful, and any comparisons to Grand Theft Auto should be thrown out entirely. Midway could announce this little ditty as soon as early October if everything goes well.
Eidos Still Poised to Pounce on Psygnosis
As of this writing, the deal may very well be being signed between Eidos and Psygnosis. As IGNPSX has reported in the past few weeks, Eidos has been eyeing the Liverpool-based company quite hungrily. And Eidos is believed to have bought Psygnosis by now. It's not for sure, it's still rumor, but we have a funny feeling about the whole thing, and by early next week if not by early Monday, it should be announced by Eidos. Look for it on IGNPSX first.
Sony Woos Dreamcast Developers Away
A well-placed source (sounds corny, but it's true) has told us that Sony is stealthily peeling blurry-eyed Dreamcast developers away from the mega-console with an undisclosed means. It's likely that Sony executives are attempting to screw back on the heads of many a developer (most of whom drool if you even mention the word Dreamcast), by bringing them down to earth.
How is that possible? Sony execs are believed to be explaining Sega's past to them in slow, numerical terms. After all, which of Sega's home consoles succeeded? Only one ¿ the Genesis. So, despite the gold rush mentality to run into development like a madman, Sony is hoping to pluck companies one-by-one back into the world that is Sony's, and to make them remember how good PlayStation 1 has been to them, and how great PlayStation 2 will be.
SCEA Could Spring Surprises This Fall
At least two games are likely to arrive this fall from Sony Computer Entertainment of America, and we're not sure what exactly they will be. However, one of them is likely to be Star Ocean: Second Story, which we have reported before. But the others are likely to be brand new games. What could they be?


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Sport-&-Health Boasts Energy Fitness At New Location
Mar 11, 2015, 01:30 ET
ROCKVILLE, Md., March 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In addition to meeting the physical fitness demands of today's club member, the opening of Sport-&-Health's newest location, a 32,000 square foot, three-level facility located in the Pike & Rose development in Rockville, MD is also meeting the demand for responsible energy usage. The company hired Recurrent, LLC to design and install a fully integrated automation system for the club. Alongside state of the art equipment and luxurious aesthetics, the new Building Automation System will continuously monitor all operating equipment parameters to ensure that space conditions stay within the required comfort ranges, and in an efficient manner.
Fully integrated equipment includes 15 air handling units, chilled water system, outside air/exhaust system, domestic hot water system and lighting, all using Tridium Niagara AX on the front-end and Johnson Control Facility Explorer unit controllers.
Recurrent's Remote Operations Center (RENOC) is immediately alerted to any malfunctions or space condition anomalies. This includes space temperature, space humidity and space CO2 levels. Remote techs are able to assess the situation and equipment variables, immediately alerting the club staff and field techs of condition anomalies, and often times can remedy the issue before members even notice a change.
Recurrent's Director of Building Automation Systems, Ryan Fauquier, says, "Sport-&-Health's commitment to energy and operational efficiency has been taken to the next level at their new Rockville club. The installed building controls systems allow full control of nearly every aspect of the club from lighting, HVAC, hot water and space scheduling. This system goes beyond standard temperature control, with the ability to detect fluctuations in occupancy through motion, humidity, and carbon dioxide sensors, and make real-time adjustments that will keep club members comfortable."
Sport-&-Health's Vice President of Facilities, Chris Lopiccolo adds, "Installing an advanced control system at our newest club was an easy decision to make after the successes we've had at several of our other clubs. By utilizing Recurrent's Remote Network Operations Center, Recurrent technicians are able to identify and correct issues before anyone in the club notices a problem. This frees me up to do what's most important to me; focusing on the member experience."
RECURRENT, LLC press contact: Leslie Mazzocco, 301-795-1440
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Coming home and discovering your house has been burglarized can be stressful and unsettling. After an incident like this has occurred, there are a few measures you'll need to take to stay safe, determine your losses, and prevent it from happening again. The staff at American Tri-Star National City is here to walk you through some of the most important steps.
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A proponent of the scientific method, Paul Fisher was issued a patent on the original AG7 Anti-Gravity pen in 1965. Sadly, Paul Fisher died in 2006, but his legacy continues under the leadership of his son, Gary; and the 100 seasoned employees who have long been devoted to the Fisher Space Pen Company and the Paul Fisher vision.
The eighth generation of original founder Kaspar Faber was inspired by selected writing instruments produced by his ancestors. Anton-Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell saw it as a personal challenge to rediscover these pens and pencils of a past age. He brought them to up to date with the use of modern technology and the results are the fascinating writing instruments shown here.
The Lamy brand stands for high-quality writing instruments defined by their timeless modern aesthetics and perfect functionality. Its success story began over 50 years ago with the LAMY 2000: in 1966, the model established the clear and unmistakable design which still defines the style of the brand's products today – the Lamy design.
As an independent family business, Lamy has been associated with Heidelberg since it was first founded in 1930 and therefore guarantees consistent high quality, "Made in Germany". With an annual production of over 8 million writing instruments, Lamy today is not only the market leader in Germany but has developed to become an internationally sought-after brand. Lamy has inspired writing enthusiasts around the world with its innovative colors and surface finishes.


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Wednesday, 28 February 2007
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I should post about my job at some point, but, equally, I should go to bed.
5 comments:
- Adrian said...
Where's my "beer" label? I demand its return. I'm very likely to catalogue my beer drinking adventures over the years, and may wish to gaze longingly back at the beverages I've sampled upon a time.
- 11:54 pm
Could there be a wonderful parents label? I notice there are not quite so many references to the wonderfulness of your parents as the situations of life might warrant. heaven forfend that I should be immodest, but the world could glow on reading of my wonderfulness, having a label might prompt you to write of this essentila topic more often
(Your wonderful father)
PS Remember the original meaning of wonderful
- 7:18 am
Hello, Clan Dobson!
I'd not checked into DobLog for quite some time...since my self-imposed January and early Feb ban on blogs and blogging, in fact.
It looks at least 4.3 times as good as it used to. Very slick.
Adrian looks a bit strange in his little picture, and why isn't there one for Emma? You should impose one on to her, at the very least!
- 5:45 pm
- j.preece said...
Boxes? I'm intrigued.
- 12:57 pm
- Mark said...
a) I'd be interested in fully-fledged beer reviews, but the most specific that you got was to say that you had a lager on the way somewhere. Rubbish.
b) A good idea. I suggest you audit all the posts for traces of parental grandeur.
c) Adrian always looks strange. I suggest you impose one on Emma - you're much more proximate.
d) You'd have been disappointed.
- 5:05 pm


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'Amnesia Love' Lacks Wit and Inspiration
Paolo Ballesteros stars in a problematic film about a gay man who forgets who he is
Amnesia Love tells the story of celebrity stylist Kimmer (Paolo Ballesteros), who falls off a seaside cliff while hiking and washes up on the shore of a remote island in Mindoro. He wakes up with amnesia, remembering nothing about who he is or what he does. He doesn't even remember that he's gay, and he soon gets roped into a romantic rivalry concerning the barangay captain's daughter, Doray (Yam Concepcion). Doray actually starts to become infatuated with him, which becomes a problem as his memories begin to slowly surface, and the truth about who he is comes closer to being revealed.
The first sequence of this movie is indicative of what the rest of it is like. In it, Kimmer walks into a club with his friends, and two characters we don't know and don't really see again talk about the character to introduce a mountain of exposition. Rather than let us get to know Kimmer in an organic way, the movie just awkwardly has characters spilling way too much dialogue to talk about the history of the character. It's indicative of a general lack of wit and inspiration, the movie often taking the clumsiest, most artless route toward delivering its scattered narrative.
The film invests early on in the general awfulness of Kimmer, which would make one assume that the story might be about the character learning to be more decent to the people around him. But that isn't what happens. The character doesn't really get to grow, because the character as introduced isn't really around for most of the movie. Macky is for all intents and purposes a completely different character. And there really isn't much in the plot that involves him trying to remember who he is. The bulk of the film just plays out as these barely-connected vignettes, detailing how the character's inherent homosexuality is expressing itself in spite of the loss of memory.
The movie seems to play much of this as comedy, the scenes depicting stereotypically gay qualities as a punchline. Macky trips and delivers a high-pitched scream. Macky sees some nets and starts wearing it like a head scarf. Macky is disgusted with Doray's sexual advances, and instead glances over at a hunky fisherman. For as much as the film displays an acceptance of homosexuality as a whole, it still feels weirdly dated in its attitudes. This doesn't even get into its depiction of women, particularly Doray, who gets really problematic in the third act.
The direction does little to help the comedy along, and the production values don't quite feel up to snuff. It feels like local TV in the worst way. Paolo Ballesteros is a naturally charming performer, but this is far from his best role. Yam Concepcion is clearly game in any scene that she's in, but there just isn't much to this character. Vandolph Quizon shows up as the butt of an overly long joke, but he does occasionally add a layer of slight depth to a character written to be nothing more than an empty villain.
Amnesia Love isn't much. It's light on wit and inspiration, its attempts at comedy often falling flat due to stodgy filmmaking. Its premise is potentially intriguing, but the screenplay doesn't really latch on to anything that really takes advantage of its more unique elements. It floats aimlessly for an hour before heading into a baffling third act that involves completely bonkers character decisions and a completely unearned stab at sentiment. It certainly could be worse, but there's very little in here to recommend.


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Professor, Department of Genetics
Professor, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Genetics
Director, Division of Molecular Genetics, Department of Genetics
Nicholas E. Baker, PhD
PhD 1986 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK
Postdoc HHMI & Department of Molecular Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1991-present
Signaling pathways regulating development, differentiation and growth
One of the unresolved questions in biology is that of how organs grow. Extracellular signals are known to play positive and negative roles in cell proliferation and growth, which is also influenced by nutrients, but so far it is not possible to explain how organs measure their size, stop or renew growth, and how growth is coordinated with morphogenesis to determine organ shape. It is very plausible that cancer as well as degenerative diseases including neurodegenerative diseases reflect defects in these as-yet undefined but fundamental processes.
In order to uncover and characterize new genes controlling growth, our group uses genetics to identify and study mutations with growth defects in Drosophila melanogaster. Our current research addresses the following new mechanisms of growth regulation: 1) the relationship between cell fate and cell proliferation, and how cell determination genes control the cell cycle, especially during development of the nervous system; 2) new mechanisms by which ribosomes regulate growth; 3) cell competition, which is a way growing tissues respond to the presence of cells with different growth properties.
The approaches used include mutagenesis studies to identify new regulators of neural development, incorporating whole genome sequencing and novel mapping methods for mutant identification, physical biochemical studies of protein dimerization in vitro, methods to detect specific protein dimers in vivo, and developmental genetic analysis of gene function in vivo.
1) The proneural bHLH proteins are the master regulators for most neuronal differentiation. These transcription factors also coordinate the cell cycle behavior. Defects in bHLH expression activate the Hippo pathway of tumor suppressors and eliminate progenitor cells. Current projects include how the dimerization choices of different HLH proteins control differentiation and growth, new evidence that protein stability is important, and how HLH proteins and the Hippo pathway also affect Wnt signaling. Aspects of these studies are potentially relevant to schizophrenia, which is linked to certain bHLH proteins, possibly through control of dendrite morphogenesis.
2) Ribosomes are, of course, essential for growth because they are essential for protein synthesis. Our group has discovered surprising novel signaling pathways activated by defects in ribosome assembly. These signals may play the major role in the growth defects that result, more than any direct effects on translation. These signaling pathways may explain the symptoms of different human ribosomopathies and may underlie the evidence that ribosomal protein genes can be tumor suppressors, since they are unexpectedly mutated in multiple human tumors. We will be undertaking molecular studies of transcription and other mechanisms of gene regulation in the Drosophila pathways, and exploring the function of their mouse counterparts in novel growth-regulatory pathways.
3) An emerging aspect of organ growth is 'cell competition'. When organs contain cells growing at different speeds, cell competition can causes selective apoptosis of the out-competed cells only when they are close to the competing cell type. Even normal cells can be out-competed, for example if they are exposed to cells with an extra gene copy of the proto-oncogene Myc. Cell competition is thought to select for the fittest progenitor cells during organ growth and eliminate defective cells. Cell competition is suggested to play positive or negative roles in cancer development and may be a factor in the success of stem cell transplantation and regenerative therapies. Our lab is studying how differences in growth lead to cell competition, and its consequences for the detection and removal of cells with damaged DNA following irradiation and during aging, and plans to characterize the role of cell competition in mammals.
For more details, and complete list of publications, please see our website at
Recent publications
Li, K. and Baker, N.E. (2018). Regulation of the Drosophila Id protein Extra macrochaetae by proneural dimerization partners. Elife 7: e33967
Kale, A., Ji, Z., Kiparaki, M., Blanco, J., Rimesso, G., Flibotte, S., and Baker, N.E. (2018). Ribosomal protein S12e has a distinct function in cell competition. Dev Cell 44: 42-55.
Bhattacharya, A., Li, K., Quiquand, M., Rimesso, G., and Baker, N.E. (2017). The Notch pathway regulates the Second Mitotic Wave cell cycle independently of bHLH proteins. Dev Biol 431: 309-320.
Baker, N.E. (2017) Patterning the eye: a role for the cell cycle? Dev. Biol. 430: 263-5. PMID: 28733162
Baker, N.E. (2017) Mechanisms of cell competition emerging from Drosophila studies Curr Opin Cell Biol 48: 40-46. PMID: 28600967
Lee, C.-H., Rimesso, G., Reynolds, D., Cai, J. and Baker, N.E. (2016) Whole genome sequencing and iPLEX MassARRAY genotyping map an EMS-induced mutation affecting cell competition in Drosophila melanogaster. G3(Bethesda) 6: 3207-3217. PMID: 27574103
Baker, N.E. and Kale, A. (2016). Ribosomal protein mutations: apoptosis, cell competition and cancer. Mol Cell Oncol 3:1, e1029065. PMID: 27308545.
Kale, A., Rimesso, G. and Baker, N.E. (2016). Local cell death changes the orientation of cell division in the developing Drosophila wing imaginal disc without using Fat or Dachsous as orienting signals. PLoS One 11: e0167637.
Wang, L.-H. and Baker, N.E. (2015) E-proteins and Id-proteins: helix-loop-helix partners in development and disease. Dev Cell 35: 269-280. PMID: 26555048
Kale, A., Li, W., Lee, C.-H. and Baker, N.E (2015) Apoptotic mechanisms during competition of ribosomal protein mutant cells: roles of the initiator caspases Dronc and Dream/Strica. Cell Death Different 22:1300-1312. PMID: 25613379
Wang, L.-H. and Baker, N.E. (2015) Salvador-Warts-Hippo pathway in a developmental checkpoint monitoring Helix-Loop-Helix proteins. Dev Cell 32:191-202. PMID: 25579975
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USA Today quotes Dr. Nicholas Baker about a recent paper in Nature that found a gene which may be responsible for the color and patterns that appear on insect wings.


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English: An Art, or a Torture Device?
You're given the task of persuading the rest of the students that school uniforms will affect them in more positive ways than negative. The teacher expects an essay. Is that really the best way though? Students tend to have rather short attention spans, most of them anyway. They're not going to want to read your 3000 word essay that gives them the same facts that they've been given each and every other time school uniforms came up. Perhaps something shorter, and wittier would be more effective. Teacher may (read: will) disagree.
The deadlines for your assignments are all laid out for you, with little to no discussion. The only chance of a flexible date is you're away, or some big event is coming up. It doesn't happen too often. Who's to say I'm in the mood to write a poem at the moment? What if I have something I want to try to persuade people about right now? What if what I want to do is going to take more time than I'm given? What if you have a whole lot of homework in other courses? I realize that if there were no deadlines, everything would be handed in at the end of the year, so there must some sort of rule imposed. (Besides, there's no rebellion without rules.) It would be nice if the teachers could set a date to have however many assignments done by. They could be any kind of assignment from a list. This would also keep the teacher from having to mark the same thing over and over, relieving boredom.
Novel studies are a particular chore for me. Most of the time, the teacher has chosen a very boring book to look at. The last one I had to do was on Emma, a book about a 19th century ditz. It was rather painful. Had I the choice, I would have probably chosen something more interesting. I'm sure everyone would have. I would have enjoyed both the book, and the assignment, and taken a lot more from it. All I learned from Emma was a hatred of Jane Austen.
Art is all about creativity. The schools have decided that English is an art. Fine. But how can I be creative when I have so many rules? What is ironic is that they teach the art aspects, poetry, reading, etc. as a science, and the science aspects, like spelling and grammar, as an art. Nobody knows how to spell anymore! The comma is all but extinct, let alone capitalization. It pains me to read some people's work.


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I have a PRISMA 320P Acer Scanner. It worked perfectly in Windows ME but when I installed Windows XP, it didn't work.
. I've tried a new driver from the Acer website and BenQ website(www.benq.com/drivers/imaging_drivers.html), still no luck. The Mira-Scan Welcome came up but it then said "Scanner Not Found" and U32SCAN
TWAIN error. [T009] Error in getting the first TWAIN data source. [T021] Unable to find the TWAIN source manager (TWAIN_32.DLL) file from you source disk to you Windows folder. [T039].
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Product Group Tests
Vulnerability assessment 2007
Group Summary
At between $2,000 and $4,000 for the appliance, plus $25,000 for a class C license, Rapid7 Nexpose is not cheap. But it delivers a lot of bang for the buck and we rate it our Best Buy in the hybrid class. In the scanner-only class, we rate NetClarity's Branch Auditor 5.0 a Best Buy for its powerful performance, ease of use and excellent documentation. We rate Saint Scanner + Exploit Recommended for its useful combination of scanner and penetration tool. Support is first rate with Core Impact 6.0 from Core Security Technologies. Although the product seems pricey at $25,000, that license covers an unlimited range of IP addresses. We rate Core Impact as Lab Approved for its comprehensive capability in a production environment, performance and ease of use.
Full Group Summary
This month we looked at vulnerability assessment and penetration test tools. The leading difference between last year's tests and this year's is that this year we saw more hybrid products that offered both vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. We also reviewed a passive scanner for the first time and saw a lot more attention to meeting regulatory requirements, especially in the payment card industry.
As always, we had a nice bunch of products that included appliances and software-only. We had one product that is strictly a penetration testing tool and, as we had some other products that included vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, this forced us to break the group up into three sub-groups. These groups are vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and hybrid (both).
Our general observation is that appliances are becoming the platform du jour for this product group. Generally, the appliances offered more features than software-only products and the reporting was more robust. Additionally, we are seeing more products based on the open source version of Nessus. We included Nessus in this review because it is one of the most popular vulnerability scanners available. The differentiators for the products using Nessus as a core platform are ease of use and the available extensions, such as advanced reporting, user interface, dashboard, etc.
Finally, another important trend is distributed scanners reporting to a central console that acts both as a management console and results correlator. These systems usually offer sophisticated management, correlation and reporting capabilities, as well as add-on services, such as patch notification, trouble ticketing and remediation assistance.
Hybrid products are not always the best bet for all organizations. There are reasons to scan only, reasons to buy a solid penetration testing tool, and reasons to buy a hybrid tool that scans and penetrates. We see straight vulnerability testing tools as appropriate for ongoing testing. Regular scanning reports now can be integrated into multipurpose devices, SIM/SEM products and the new category of security risk management (SRM) products to give a more complete view of the network's security posture. We recommend that all organizations use some sort of regular vulnerability scanning.
Penetration is appropriate as an add-in to scanning. Scanners will tell you where the holes are likely to be, but penetration testing tools can attempt to exploit those potential holes to let you know for certain. If you have neither, a hybrid is a good bet. Moreover, vulnerability testing is a bit difficult in the sense that scanners often find false positives. Some products recognize a possible false positive and tag it for you. The most reliable approach is to use two scanners or a scanner and a penetration tool.
Penetration by itself is not reliable unless the penetration tool performs a preliminary scan to decide where to test. Core Impact, for example, uses this technique if you run all of the scripted test sequences, but it is a penetration tool and cannot be considered to be a scanner. Scanning simply is part of its overall technique to identify possible holes.
How we tested
Our vulnerability test bed consisted of examples of several operating environments, both patched and unpatched. Our victim suite included MS Windows XP and 2000, both as shipped and with current service packs and updates, Solaris, and two versions of Linux. We took vulnerabilities detected from the scanners and we measured the ability to exploit holes for the penetration tools.
We also ran penetration scripts when available. This technique runs a suite of penetration tests based on such things as operating environment, version and patch levels and open services.
From the functional perspective we looked for ease of use in a production environment where tests must be run by few people in little time. We liked the penetration tools to prove they penetrated by placing a shell agent on the victim or placing files.
We evaluated the number and type of reports, whether custom reports are possible and how the product presents its findings on a dashboard or other standard output. We especially favored those products that take advantage of the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) to define vulnerabilities unambiguously.
In general, we found this year's batch of tools to be a significant improvement over last year's and we were impressed with their utility, ease of use and comprehensive reporting.


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Ah, the summer busy season – conferences and black belt testing, with impatient customers and the condo board's irregularly scheduled crisis to boot. I looked at my todo list for the first time in a few months about a week ago. The weekends have been so full that I've only gotten back to a little bit of programming just recently.
A while ago, attending one of the JS.chi meetings, I decided that virtually all discussions of Javascript's object system turn into discussions of how to make it act like a class/instance system. Meanwhile, I've used the prototypal inheritance to my advantage (or at least my amusement) on at least two occasions.
One of the things that occurred to me is that I might be able to use Naked Javascript for object diagrams. Better yet, with a little work, I could use it for interactive experiments if there were any questions. Consequently, I've spent some of the last week adding long needed features.
System Update
I built NJS on top of bunch of libraries, mainly jQuery and a beta version of jQueryUI. jQueryUI is out of beta and looking a little more polished now (complete with interactive theme designer), although I still ran into some difficulties with dialog placement (fixed in edge) and trickier sizing (not yet evaluated in edge)
Function Execution
The first big thing was adding function execution, which led to most of the other features. I knew the basic strategy was to create an object representing the parameters and then browse that, but of course there were details to work out. One minor hitch is that most system functions don't have declared parameters. Furthermore, since I don't have much occasion to use them interactively, I've made zero-declared-arguments execute without asking for arguments as an interface optimization.
Scratching an Itch
If a function executes in the computer, and no one receives the value, did it really execute? (Depends on whether it's a pure function or modified mutable state – but that's almost a different story.) I do need to display a return value somewhere. At first I made up a one element object to browse, though this is somewhat overkill for simple values. Next up, I created a single scratchpad object. Of course, I almost always immediately browse compound objects, so those get automatically opened. I suppose if one is doing more than my short tests, the scratchpad will eventually get crowded, so I may have to add a way to delete properties.
What a Drag
One thing that was difficult to do was executing functions on complex values. One seemly obvious way to do this to enable drag and drop between objects. jQueryUI's draggable and droppable behaviors made this relatively easy, although it still took a fair bit of tweaking to get the details sorted out. I also ended up going for the behavior which highlighted a hovered target instead of all eligible targets, because the massive screen refresh of the later during a drag operation would cause a screen blank out, at least on the firefox I using.
The Grapevine
A difficulty with functions that they can potentially change anything. Even editing a simple value can have remote effects thanks to prototypal inheritance. I've finally got some code in place to update things when a value changes. Most of the time this devolves to a global update, and possibly multiple updates per object (where an update is replacing some or all of the DOM representing an object from scratch). It works well enough for my limited purposes.
Test Harness
Looking at some possible exploratory work, I added some functions to my test objects for some basic operations: deriving an object and adding a property. I've actually got two versions now; I started with methods on a playground object that operated directly on it, but now I've also got some methods which operate on arbitrary objects.
Dangerously Fun
Writing this up was slowed significantly by thinking of new things to try out. Since function are objects, can you derive an object from them (yes, but it behaves funny) Adding system methods (i.e., toString) can also be tricky; I modified my property adding methods take both a name and value, rather than just a name to work around that difficulty.
It may have come together just in time – the JS.chi people just sent out a message saying their other talks canceled on short notice.
I haven't updated the live demo yet, but the new code is in the Naked Javascript BitBucket repository if you are really curious.


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