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When it became obvious in the early 1970s that the generation that had established the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry was thinning, an oral history program was begun to record on audio (and sometimes video) tape the reminiscences of many of these figures in the School's early history. Through 1992, some fifty oral histories had been completed. This program has continued intermittently over the last decade.
Ultimately it is our plan to make these oral histories audible directly from this website. Until then, persons desiring to hear any of the oral histories listed below may request copies (at cost) in audio cassette or CD format from the Rare Books & Manuscripts section of the Miner Library.
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Dressed For Wi-Fi
The emperors of wireless freeloading have new clothes. This fun, gimmicky and somewhat useful T-shirt lights up every time a Wi-Fi signal is detected within range. Conjured up by Think Geek senior merchandiser Ty Liotta, the $30 machine-washable shirt features an electroluminescent display attached to the chest with Velcro-like material. A ribbon cable, meanwhile, feeds down the inside into a battery pack on your hip. Powered by three AAA batteries, the pack doubles as a Wi-Fi scanner, which monitors radio frequencies operating on the 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi standards.
Due to its simplicity, the shirt can't detect whether the signals are public or secure, putting hackers and freeloaders out of luck from easily piggy-backing off someone else's connection. But it does measure signal strength. "The shirt is more fun than utilitarian," Liotta says. "But when we thought of the idea, we wanted it to actually work."
This reporter, in fact, purchased and wore the shirt over the weekend, subjecting himself to both praise and parody. Yet despite its dorkiness, the shirt is selling like hot cakes. Since its debut on Think Geek's Web site three weeks ago, thousands of shirts have been sold, Liotta says.
"It's more popular than we thought it would be," he says. "It might be our top-selling holiday product this year."
iPhone Boys
Looking for ways to top their elaborate iPod costumes (we had our own from last Halloween--made out of Plexiglas, a light bulb and portable speakers--Tampa's Reko Rivera and Bobby Hartman, both 21, decided to go all out with Apple's latest and greatest gadget: the iPhone.
The duo first considered a portable DVD player before settling on a video iPod as the source of the getup's video display. Mimicking the iPhone's touchscreen is a borrowed 42-in. LCD patched together with a harness fashioned from PVC pipe. For the costume's outer shell, the pair used insulation board (found commonly in air conditioners), while the TV's speakers blast out techno. The entire costume is powered by a car-battery charger, strapped onto the back for balance. As with many Halloween costumes, a mom did the sewing (in this case, for the iPhone's colorful skin).
The two costumers, however, get the biggest props for the live video demonstration of the iPhone's interface, edited together in Final Cut Pro directly from the raw footage preloaded onto the large iPhone displays hanging in Apple and AT&T stores. "We've been getting all very positive responses," Rivera says. "People come up to us and ask, `Oh my God, how did you do that? How much does it cost? Does Apple pay you guys?' "
Although the outfits cost $250 each to make, the pair has won $2000 in costume prizes--some of which will go to buying a new Xbox 360, they say. Rivera, a professional DJ, and Hartman, who plays in a rock band, have even been approached by companies offering them advertising jobs.
"We're asking ourselves, `How can we top this?' Maybe with multiple screens or real touchscreens," Rivera says.
Digg, the T-Shirt
The popular social news site that allows you to vote, or Digg, for your favorite stories, is about to move off the Web and into the real world. Just don't Digg too hard in real life.
Travis Hydzik, 24, of Perth, Australia, has created a Digg T-shirt that lets you push and watch as an LED counter on the T-shirt increases. Hydzik purchased the DIY Digg-button kit and combined it with a shirt, a spool of conductive thread, foam, a 4-volt battery and nylon netting.
"I regularly browse Digg and just wanted to incorporate Digg into something," says Hydzik, who has a degree in mechatronics (a cross between mechanics, electronics and computing) from the University of Western Australia. "I stumbled upon the plain `Digg Me' shirt and the Digg-button kit and put two and two together."
Hydzik spent his spare time on the weekends soldering and wiring the shirt. "I had never done anything with wearable electronics," he says. "I did quite a bit of research on how to incorporate electronics into clothing, wearable fabric switches and conductive thread."
Three and a half months later, the mechanical 'Digg Me' T-shirt is ready to take on even the most fickle Diggers--although we're sure Hydzik is glad there isn't a "Bury Me" option on the shirt.
Halo Costume Factory
It's taken almost eight years for Adam Grumbo to perfect the design for his Master Chief costume from the hit video-game series Halo. The wearable suit, created out of liquid plastic, comes with a fake light-up gun and a helmet featuring a cooling fan and LEDs.
Grumbo, a graphic designer based in Austin, Texas, invested more than $3000 of his own money and spent years researching liquid plastic and molds in order to create the Master Chief suit. "Everything I tried failed miserably," he says of his initial foray into video-game costuming.
Although it took several attempts to get the outfit right, the results were well worth it: The 26-year-old has earned more than $20,000 selling his original prototypes to Halo fans. "I was just trying to sell them off to get money to pay for a new Xbox," he adds.
To create the costume molds, Grumbo watched how-to videos and read books about molding and casting. These days, he can assemble a full suit in a weekend, with the help of his friends. Because the molds are already created, it now costs about $500 for materials for a new suit, he says. "The hardest part is getting all the pieces of armor to stay on your body,"Grumbo laments. "I went through a lot of pain wearing it to certain places without having it properly attached."
Grumbo says he gets from 10 to 15 messages a day from Halo fans asking him to build suits for them. But instead of doing their work, he directs them to his Web site, which teaches them how to make their own suits.


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Chapter 1: Braving the New World of College Savings.
Chapter 2: Checking Out the Cost of College.
Chapter 3: Realizing All Your Resources.
Chapter 4: Sharpening Your Savings Techniques.
Part II: Piecing Together Section 529 Plans.
Chapter 5: Laying Down the Basics of Section 529 Plans.
Chapter 6: Applying Section 529 Plans to Your Household.
Chapter 7: Weighing the Pros and Cons of Section 529 Plans.
Part III: Uncovering Coverdell Accounts.
Chapter 8: The Changing World of Coverdell Education Savings Accounts.
Chapter 9: The Mechanics of Coverdells.
Chapter 10: Figuring the Pluses and Minuses of Coverdell Accounts.
Part IV: Filling In the Gaps: More Ways to Save for College.
Chapter 11: Saving for College with Qualified U.S. Savings Bonds.
Chapter 12: Setting Up Personal Investment Accounts for Yourself and Your Kids.
Chapter 13: Saving for College in Trust Accounts.
Chapter 14: Saving in Your Retirement Plans: The IRA Dilemma.
Chapter 15: Selling or Refinancing Your Family's House.
Chapter 16: Accessing Scholarships and Awards.
Chapter 17: Turning On the Financial Aid Faucet.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 18: Ten Musts for Successful Savings.
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The Middletown team has been together for about a year now, but this was the first time the department activated them for something of this magnitude, said Chief Henry Tobin. They have executed search warrants, but nothing like this before.
It was the Middletown Police Department S.W.A.T. team's biggest task yet.
They were asked by Delaware State Police to participate in Operation Thunder Clap, a three month long investigation into the drug related activities of the Thunderguards Motorcycle Club.
The Middletown team has been together for about a year now, but this was the first time the department activated them for something of this magnitude, said Chief Henry Tobin. They have executed search warrants, but nothing like this before.
On Nov. 5, the 10 members of the S.W.A.T. team executed a search warrant at a residence in the 500 block of New Street where they arrested Armar C. Womack, 55, and Marquita S. Charlton, 29.
Inside of the New Street residence, police found 178 grams of cocaine, 46 grams of marijuana, digital scales, $2,000 cash, and several pieces of Thunderguard clothing, said Delaware State Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Shavack.
At around the same time that night, nine other warrants were executed in New Castle County, resulting in the arrests of six other people who are members of affiliates of the motorcycle club, police said.
It was an undercover investigation that led to information on a cocaine distribution network operated by the Thunderguards, Shavack said.
An eleventh warrant was executed in Elkton, Md.
In all, "Operation Thunder Clap" netted more than 2,300 grams of cocaine, 167 grams of marijuana, more than $40,000 in cash, guns, and other paraphernalia, State Police said.
Forming its S.W.A.T. team
The town of Middletown had had its own police department for about five years now.
A little over a year ago, Tobin said that they met and decided that they needed to be proactive and create a team with a higher frequency of weapons.
The 10 officers on the S.W.A.T. team participate in monthly training and do their extra assignment voluntarily.
Lt. Michael Kelly serves as the team's commander.
"The officers have to meet certain physical requirements and pass oral board," Tobin said.
There have been major hometown incidents in "hometown U.S.A.," he said. Between those national incidents and workplace violence, the department decided to take a proactive approach.
"We met, discussed, and felt with new and larger businesses coming to town, that we should put something in place as a safeguard," Tobin said.
In July 2011, officers who volunteered to be on the S.W.A.T. team took their 40-hour basic course and completed training with the New Castle County Police Department.
Their first big assignment came that fall when they raided a home on South Cox Street.
There had been reported drug activity and some people were frequenting the house that were known to have a history of drug and weapon charges, Tobin said. The warrant was executed successfully and nobody was injured.
How S.W.A.T. stands out
Grants fund a majority of the team's equipment.
To date, Middletown's S.W.A.T. team has not cost the town anything, Tobin said.
Officers have to be extra physically fit to be a member and have to commit to being on-call in case something happens, he said.
Police officers on the S.W.A.T. team wear upgraded ballistic vests and helmets, use advanced communication systems, and carry 9-millimeter guns and long rifles.
They're equipment is similar to other law enforcement agencies across the state.
"They also take additional advanced training on tactical operations and movement," said Officer E.J. Murray.
Middletown also collaborates and trains with other departments, that way different agencies can work together if the incident is too big for just one team.
The Delaware State Police wrote the warrant for Nov. 5, Tobin said.
At 7 p.m., it was executed.
"Timing was part of the investigation," Tobin said.
Both Womack and Charlton were taken into custody and charged that night.


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No more details about the 64-year-old Scot have been released, but nephew Stephen Gallacher says, "I understand that he is critical but stable.''
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Helping Hummingbirds with Citizen Science
At 6:30 on a Wednesday morning, the early August sun creeps over a rocky ridge at Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. Dense stands of Gambel oak, Utah serviceberry and rabbitbrush spring up from the grassy meadows around Morefield Campground. Birdsong and the whir of hummingbird wings mingle with human whispers in the chilly dawn air. Steve Somora, a retired electrical contractor, peers through the pale light at a hummingbird feeder, which hangs from a frame about 50 feet away. The frame supports a Hall trap, a cylindrical mesh curtain that can be raised and lowered from a distance. As Somora watches, a hummingbird hovers near the trap, then ventures below it, alighting on the feeder's rim. When the tiny creature lowers its head to sip the sugar water, Somora releases the trap, which drops to cover the feeder and the startled bird. He slides his hand inside the mesh and reaches for the bird, holding it gently in his hand; its little head sticks out between his first two fingers. Carefully placing it in a net bag, he carries it over to a picnic table, where it will be identified, measured and banded before it is released.
Like his six fellow volunteers, Somora got up hours before dawn to drive to Mesa Verde. They're all part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network (HMN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to hummingbird conservation. Most of them have been doing this twice a month, May through September, for four years; 2011 marks the fifth year of monitoring at Mesa Verde. Their enthusiasm is palpable, their eyes as bright as the sheen on a hummingbird's feathers.
Lynn Udick, a research database designer, sits at the picnic table wearing a magnifying headlamp, with a hummingbird identification manual within reach and an array of small tools and supplies spread out before her, including those staples of volunteer gatherings everywhere, coffee and banana bread. She is the designated bander. Jane Pedersen, a semi-retired psychotherapist (and wife of Steve Somora) records the information on datasheets; another volunteer enters the data into a computer. Yet another sits next to Udick, ready to feed the hummingbird sugar water before it is released.
What brought this disparate group together at Mesa Verde, and at the many other sites maintained by the network, is a love for hummingbirds, those amazingly agile, brilliantly colored, blurred-winged little creatures that enliven our gardens every year, aggressively protecting their flowers -- and feeders -- and sometimes migrating thousands of miles to breed. The landscape of the West is changing rapidly, for many reasons, and hummingbirds face what could be a long and difficult period of adaptation. What keeps the volunteers returning is the knowledge that the work they do may contribute to scientific discoveries that help hummingbirds endure.
Despite their allure, hummingbird populations are not well studied, and no one knows for sure whether their numbers are rising or falling overall. Federal scientists, though, agree that hummingbirds in the Western U.S. are threatened by the loss of their breeding, wintering and migratory stopover habitat, as well as by climate change, which, among other things, affects the availability of their primary food -- flower nectar. In 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service included seven hummingbird species in its list of highest-priority bird-conservation needs: Costa's, Calliope, Lucifer, rufous, Allen's, blue-throated and buff-bellied.
The information gathered around the West by the hundreds of HMN volunteers may be the best defense these hummingbirds have. And it's gathered one bird at a time. At the picnic table, Udick retrieves the net bag from the stand and begins the banding process. HMN protocol dictates that birds cannot hang on the stand for longer than 30 minutes. Once the number of birds in bags reaches the maximum Udick can band in 30 minutes, the trapping stops, and the trapper simply starts counting the hummers that enter the trap's perimeter. Banding provides information about a representative sample of the various local species, while counting gives an estimate of their relative abundance.
Udick checks to see if the bird has a band (it doesn't), and removes it from the bag, holding it in the palm of her hand. The bird doesn't struggle; instead, it seems to watch her intently. "Can everybody see his beautiful red gorget when the light hits it?" she says to the new recruits and other observers. "This guy's a broad-tailed male. They're the ones that make that really loud trilling sound when they're flying, and that's because of the special shape of their outer flight feathers."
Several other species occur at Mesa Verde, including the black-chinned, which breeds in the area, and Calliope and rufous, which both migrate through. Udick keeps track of all kinds of details, including the amount of fat in the bird's breast and other areas (fat helps sustain birds on long migrations), and the presence, or absence, of pollen on the head and bill, which shows whether there are nectar-producing plants nearby.
Udick is very careful not to injure the birds she bands. She has even made a model hummingbird out of little yarn pompoms in order to teach volunteers how to handle the tiny birds. She picks up a minuscule numbered band; 75 of them would fit on the surface of a penny. Volunteer Lee Rogers has customized tools for smoothing and shaping the bands, and has created a tool for measuring birds' legs to ensure a perfect fit. Udick reads out the number on the band so that Pedersen can record it, then closes the band around the hummingbird's tarsus. All of the data collected is sent to the Bird Banding Laboratory run by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Canadian Wildlife Service, which makes it available for use by scientists and the public.
"What has thrilled us the most this past year is the start of our Four-Year Club," says Udick. "Those are the hummingbirds that we've trapped and banded every year of our four years of monitoring out here." They've already seen some five-year hummingbirds this year: "We joke about how we should get them gold bands."


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For those of you who dismissing this as just another 920, we'd suggest you reconsider. The phone feels like a Lumia 720 (which we love) but it has the 920 guts inside, making it a very compelling device for those who want a thinner, lighter phone. It's not an iteration of the 920, but "another expression" of it.
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April 6, 2012by Carolyn SzczepanskiLast month, the League announced its latest round of Bicycle Friendly University awards and the news took flight on Twitter. Students and staff tweeted the good news and, yes, a bit of friendly competitive banter emerged among rival colleges.
April 5, 2012by supportSpring has sprung and that means crunch time for many state legislatures. Across the country, bicycle advocates have their eyes and ears turned toward their state capitol to ensure policymakers advance, rather than curtail, cyclists' rights and safety. With that in mind, here's this week's advocacy roundup:
April 4, 2012by Carolyn SzczepanskiIn late February, we announced a "New National Plan to Transform Bicycling" — the potential unification of the League, Bikes Belong and the Alliance for Biking & Walking into one, powerful national organization.
April 4, 2012by Carolyn SzczepanskiNo doubt the past year has been tough for bicycle advocates at the federal level. Time and again a small but vocal cadre of Congress members have pushed to eliminate important and popular programs, like Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School.
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April 2, 2012by Carolyn SzczepanskiThe 2012 National Bike Summit was an inspiring whirlwind of speakers, workshops, networking and, of course, meetings with elected officials on Capitol Hill. Luckily, photographer Chris Eichler was there to capture it all. Click the links below for images from... Day One
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A small dog got wedged in a mechanized reclining chair at an assisted living facility in suburban Chicago and had to be freed by firefighters.
Naperville firefighters used a saw to cut the chair apart, and reported the dog, who belongs to a resident, didn't appear to have been harmed — either by the chair or the rescue.
Firefighters were called to the Sunrise of Naperville assisted living center Thursday night, the Daily Herald reported. Firefighter/Paramedic Scott Bolda said the dog didn't appear to be in pain when firefighters arrived on scene. A nurse's aide was relieving some of the pressure from the chair to help the dog breathe, he said.
Bolda said the chair's electrical controls stopped working when the dog became wedged, so the only option left was to saw the chair apart.
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Hi All, I'm writing a client application to post an XML document to a servlet (on a JigSaw server). I used Alik's code as it is, and just added following line: /* timeout of 10 secs...*/ HTHost_setEventTimeout(10000); I got response as an XML doc: ------------------------------------------------ Looking up shikhar Looking up shikhar Contacting shikhar Writing 1Kbytes Writing 1Kbytes Reading... Request timeout - server did not respond. Fatal Error: Server timed out In terminate handler... ---Printing response---->HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:08:29 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html Server: Jigsaw/2.2.0 18D <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> <!DOCTYPE pap PUBLIC '-//WAPFORUM//DTD PAP 2.0//EN' 'http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/pap_2.0.dtd' [<?wap-pap-ver supported-versions="2.0,1.*"?>]> <pap> <resultnotification-response push-id="firstname.lastname@example.com" code="1000" desc="The request succeeded"> <address address-value="email@example.com" /> </resultnotification-response> </pap> As in the above output, I get response only after the timeout. but the server responds in 1-2 seconds. Even if I increase the timeout, (say 20 seconds or more!!) I get response printed as above, only after the timer expires. Can you please give an idea, whats happening and why this is so? Also how can I handle timeouts...say in a callback.. Also, how I can send multiple requests simultaneously and handle the response asynchronously, keeping in view that libwww doesn't support requests to server on different threads. How's this possible? This is very much required wrt performance. Thanks in advance. Manoj Nautiyal Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro <email@example.com> on 01/24/2002 10:21:28 PM To: Michel Philip <email@example.com> cc: "'firstname.lastname@example.com'" <email@example.com>, "'email@example.com'" <email@example.com> (bcc: Manoj Nautiyal/HSS) Subject: Re: Problems with data POST (returns -1) Hi everybody! At first place, I would like to thank Michel for the help, it was very, very usefull! :) Looking Michel's answer and comparing my code's traces and server's log, I discovered what was my problem, and, unfortunally, it seems that really it's not the same that Alik and Rob found... In fact, it was my mistake, a very, very, very stupid mistake: my url was mal formed - I forgot the '\n' at the end of the string readed from stdin (I told you it was *very* stupid)... I'm felling like an idiot! I lost many working hours for that.. It's so stupid... Anyway, I noted that, when we set the request's output format to "WWW_RAW", both status and content-length are often (almost always) -1, but I think that maybe a feature, since, in this case, libwww pass the server's response directly to the chunk with all headers (I think that libwww doesn't analize the headers in this case)... Since I began to set the output format to "WWW_SOURCE" or "text/xml", it works well (of course, after my stupid mistake be solved)... In relation to the filters problem that I talked in a previous mail: it's gone, I don't know how... When I introduced the stdin feature (read the url from stdin), I rewrite my code to be more clear, and puft! the filter order problem gone... It still happens in the old code, but in the new one, it disappeared.. I supposed my old code has a bug, but I couldn't see exactly where... Some answers about the Michel's suggestion : Michel Philip wrote: > > For what concerns -1 status return did you tried > > HTRequest_setOutputStream(request,HTBlackHole()); > > >Sorry, >This is not good for the code that Alik wrote for he calls >'HTPostFormAnchorToChunk()' >Nor for the code that Manuele wrote for he calls 'HTLoadToChunk()' >This was ok for me for I call 'HTLoadAbsolute()' > >Then maybe you could find some help with the following. > >For what concerns -1 content-length in a repeated request I did many >patches. >First are you sure that the first request really success ? >I mean that if you do > HTNet_addAfter(errors_callback, NULL, NULL, HT_ERROR, HT_FILTER_LAST); >then errors_callback() is never called. > I introduced an error callback and, indeed, it is called when the status coded returned is -1, in my "mal formed url" situation too. In the last case, the error's location was in HTTPStatustream.. It seems to me that, when the server received the mal formed header, it supposed that my client was some kind of old HTTP client, returning some kind of HTTP/0.9 compilant response (with no status line), and that appearsto be the cause of the stream error... It was a very good idea to introduce this error callback, it is very useful... > >Second check if -1 content-length came from HTReader_read. > Yes, indeed, it came from the stream call "(*net->readStream->isa->putblock)" in HTReader_read... > >I've this patch in HTReader: > > me->b_read = NETREAD(soc, me->data, INPUT_BUFFER_SIZE); > if ( me->b_read < 0 ) { > /* firstname.lastname@example.com */ > me->b_read = 0; > I applied this patch with no problems, but I didn't have enough time to apply the others. I'll try to do it in the next week, and after I tell you if it's ok for request without rawBytesCount... [...] > > >Hope this help. > It did help! A lot! Thanks! :) ManueleReceived on Friday, 25 January 2002 00:55:21 UTC
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Mixed Martial Arts fans are tough to please. The fastest-growing fan base in all of sports is rabid and knowledgeable, but as a group they may be the quickest to boo when the action doesn't deliver the goods. That's one of the many reasons why the stakes were high for THQ when it came time to create UFC 2009 Undisputed, a game which arrives at the height of the sport's popularity. MMA clothing is all the rage, and UFC stars are celebrities -- but as this is the first major MMA videogame in years, any misstep is certain to catch a lot of heat. Luckily for fans demanding greatness from anything and everything occurring inside the octagon, Undisputed delivers outstanding fighting action along with an inside look at the UFC.
The fighting itself more than measures up, especially in terms of collision detection -- so those worried that Undisputed will suffer from the clipping and choreographed sequences of THQ's wrestling games can heave a sigh of relief. Fighters can act and react simultaneously, and instead of strikes either connecting or getting blocked, both can happen on the same strike. Kicks that hit an opponent's arm initially can still get through and do some damage to the body; punches can glance off a shoulder and still catch some chin.
The ground game is a trickier animal, as transitions controlled by partial turns of the right stick are more difficult to master than the relatively easy punches and kicks mapped to the four face buttons. Also difficult: submissions. These require you to click the right stick and spin it as fast as possible. While your moves on the ground are somewhat limited in comparison with the rest of what the game offers, the attention to detail in terms of the differentiation between Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, and Wresting (the three available grappling skills) shows that the developers did their homework.
Luckily for those of us whose exposure to martial arts consists of grade-school Jujitsu classes or Karate Kid films, Undisputed sports a deep tutorial, a feature that comes heavily recommended from this corner. It's clear, extensive, and an absolute necessity for those who want to bring more to the octagon than just punches, kicks, elbows, and knees. It's almost required to go through the tutorial more than once in order to pick up the nuances of grappling and submissions, since it's difficult to defeat anybody worth his Affliction t-shirt if the stand-up game is all you feel comfortable with.
If you want to dive in and start with exhibition fights using guys from the UFC roster, that's understandable. After all, pretty much everyone of note is readily available, and their faces, bodies, skills, and special moves are on the money. However, I'd recommend creating a fighter and jumping into career mode, because it's downright addictive. After you outfit your character (I couldn't resist giving my guy a mohawk and getting the word "RAGE" tattooed on his right arm), choose which striking and grappling skills he'll specialize in, and divvy up the measly amount of points handed to you in the beginning, it's time to build your badass from the ground up... and that's where the fun of Undisputed really begins.


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Rebuttal reinforced my point
Written by Neil Davis Thursday, 07 July 2011 13:35
In my June 22 letter I wrote about the Bush administration's handling of funding for democracy promotion and civil society groups in Egypt. The writer of a June 29 letter quoted, "The Government of Egypt has resisted USAID/Egypt's democracy and governance program..." and "Per the Egyptian government's complaints, the U.S. now limits it's funding to NGOs registered with the (Egyptian) government, therefore excluding most human rights groups..." They wrote, "Most times there are two sides to a story."
I fail to see how this added information is another side of the story. It only reinforces my point that (as perhaps the weakest president we have ever had) Obama didn't want that fight and cut funding for the people of Egypt. I was under the impression that Democrats are the "party of the people." Obama helped bring about the likelihood that radicals (Muslim Brotherhood) will come to power there. He seems to have no problem funding whatever government that might bring. Will they keep the Suez Canal open?
Bush was under the same pressure from the Egyptian government, but had the determination to go around President Mubarak, who I wrote, was no humanitarian toward his people. From a Washington Post article: "The George W. Bush administration tried to change the dynamic regarding civil society funding, though its effort met with fierce resistance by the Egyptian government." and "The Bush administration's effort was also backed by Congress, which...directed that assistance shall not be subject to the prior approval by the government of any foreign country."
In the same article: "Toward the end of Bush's term, his fiscal year 2009 budget proposed spending $45 million on democracy and good-governance programs…$20 million on promoting civil society…the same as 2008." and "A 2009 audit of Egyptian aid by the USAID inspector general found that the results of the U.S. government's democracy effort were mixed, though the greatest success was achieved in programs funded directly by the United States." Since we were already giving them money, it seems to me that Bush's policy was more effective (and less harmful).
The writer found it ironic that Republican tea partiers are against funding socialism in our country, "but don't seem to mind the aid that goes to foreign countries." First of all, tea partiers are not exclusively Republican. Many are also Libertarians and fiscal Democrats. Secondly, the broad statement about foreign aid shows ignorance of tea party views. Many oppose involvement in foreign ventures, e.g. presidential candidate Ron Paul. Nothing in my letter implied that I was for or against the funding. I wrote, "at least there was peace." But, there was also corruption and suffering.
Bruce K. Rutherford, author of "Egypt After Mubarak," commented on Obama's cuts in contrast to his Cairo speech. "There was the perception that he did the opposite of what he said he would do and there is anger and disillusionment at the U.S. and Obama in general among almost everyone I talk to in Egypt." Thanks Barry!
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UI Development
User Interface
SAP Fiori
SAP Fiori is the specification of our user experience (UX) design for all SAP products.
With SAP Fiori, we reimagined the entire user experience for applications built by us, our partners, and our customers to provide a great experience for the end user. As a specification, SAP Fiori provides a blueprint of how the UX patterns fit together.
SAP Fiori is also the name of several tools we have written to support the framework.
SAPUI5 is a JavaScript UI library from SAP used to build responsive HTML5-based apps.
The core of SAPUI5 manages many aspects of modern web app development behind the scenes. A variety of UI controls are included, ranging from basic elements to complex UX patterns, ready to be used to style your app. In addition, SAPUI5 is designed with SAP Fiori UX in mind so it can be used for any UX design concept.
OpenUI5, the open source version of SAPUI5, is available on GitHub and encompasses the complete core plus the main UI controls of SAPUI5.
SAP Web IDE
SAP Web IDE, built on top of SAP Cloud Platform, is our IDE tool that enables you to create a web-based or mobile-based UI design quickly and efficiently.
SAP Web IDE includes many features designed to simplify app development such as app templates and wizards, code completion, WYSIWYG editors, API reference support, app preview for any screen size, Git integration and mock data. Additionally, plugins to SAP Web IDE enable OData model editing and validation, compiling of hybrid apps with Apache Cordova and overview page creation for your apps.
Under the hood
This is the big picture view of SAP Fiori development.
SAP Fiori apps are built using SAPUI5 and follow the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines. While the SAP Fiori design guidelines help you in specifying streamlined user experience, SAPUI5 lets you physically develop the app. SAP Web IDE accelerates this development by providing a cloud-based development environment that supports the end-to-end application lifecycle.
Upgrade an existing UI
- Read through the SAP Fiori UX design guidelines
- Set up HANA Cloud Connector to connect to your on-premise systems
- Start on the mobile web application tutorial series
- Review the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines
- Check out the tutorials in the SAPUI5 Demo Kit
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Ian's Thoughts
From FamiLAB Wiki
Thanks to Mack for creating the graphic and starting this, I'm just building off his ideas, but didnt want to edit his page :)
We need to get a real space planning session going...hopefully with a professional...
Some good pics from techshop (not saying we should be techshop, just good ideas on workbenches, part storage in a shared space...) - http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/09/techshop-geek-h.html#axzz1fwhSpVT4
1 Social Working / Meeting / Group Therapy Area
- Couch
- Coffee tables
- Laptop bar? YES!
- Wall of fame/shame (graffiti, Polaroid pics of members)
- Wall of Announcements
- Wall of Rules
- Projects looking for owners
- Project teams looking for members
2 Lounge
- This is now incorporated as part of room 1. (physical consensus from 11/30 meeting) The kitchenette will likely be in space 6 due to plumbing considerations (DWW).
- Mack suggested knocking down the wall separating this room from room 1.
3 Bathroom
- None of us have seen it yet
- Make it really nice to start with and maybe it will stay that way.
4 Tiny office
- ADMIN OFFICE! - We need space for Internet connection, wall mount server rack, small desk, locking file cabinet for inventory, our paperwork, etc. Also provides a small quiet working space as needed.
- Would be used by Lab assistant / intern / employee, etc. at the point we get there. Think Willow Brugh - http://www.linkedin.com/in/willowbrugh @ Pumping Station One / Space Federation... Lab ambassador...
- I would NOT use for laser. The Maker space (and laser access) need to be more clearly delineated. This also keeps people from venting out our expensive air conditioned air!
5 Classroom
- My thoughts on a Classroom equipment list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmJwW1v2PEFIdERYUVFGbWtJcDBNYkxHTHg1Wm9Ja0E
- Need a short throw projector
- Ideally with A/V rack so presenters can hook up to projector easily - i love the IN3916 network / wifi projectors we use at work - no need to hook to it unless you want fast motion video.
- Consider extending further into warehouse area IN THE FUTURE.
6 Kitchenette
- Close this in.
- Put in small workbench for "Thinker" level members so they can do basic hand tool stuff / soldering.
- Egress to warehouse space so should also be subject to access control - YEP. A window on this door to the shop would be good. Or we could just use the door & windows from space 10 (the odd closet)
- Add sink/counter to bottom wall. Yes - and this extra plumbing work can help provide a shop sink on the backside.
- Add outlets above counter (GFCI)
- Install FULL-SIZED fridge (may need to add an outlet)
- Clean old glue from floor. Remove carpet, epoxy concrete or put down something cheap that can be mopped.
7 Bay Area
- Flex working space - I'm thinking we mark it off in 10x10 (or 12x12) grid so that people can "reserve" a zone for a project or a period of time. We just can't block egress, etc. The zones near the offices stay free for class space, meetings, etc.
- Matt had a great idea of letting members store a rolling cart something like: http://www.harborfreight.com/580-lb-capacity-four-drawer-roller-cart-95659.html - we create a cart corral, or make sure that they can slide under our standard workbenches. Members come and can roll their cart to wherever they want to work. They can lock their tools, parts, etc. in their cart. Carts not in use can have a door (or other wood) laid across them to create movable, temporary workbenches...
- Palette rack could be used as workbenches, storage, and walls...
8 Quadcopter Arena
- Could the quadcopter arena be suspended with a ladder and hook on a pole for quad rescues?
- If possible, I'd love to have a small area targeted for Young Makers - including a Toy Hacking area...I've got a supply of electronic toys I've been saving for the right time :)
9 Power Panel
- Breaker panel is on left wall
- Vent stack on top wall, unused right now, but could be used for shop sink
- 3 walls around this section, this is our best area for dust / filing collection, also furthest from the general population.
- We might need to enclose some of these spaces at some point - and look at providing some climate control / ventilation
- Candidates include: CNC router, Grinding, Milling, Welding, Screen printing, etc.
10 Tiny Closet
- Used to be an entrance into room 5
- Has a door and tiny windows on each side
- Use as room for A/V kit for classroom?
Loft Area
- There is a (not really) loft area above the office space
- Suitable for light storage (fire hazard?)
- Sprinkler piping comes down from ceiling
- Need to add railing
- In general NOT FOR PEOPLE. We should build railing AND BLOCK THE STAIRS with a warning.
- Raised DJ Booth should be built once stairs are up to speed, and then it should have proper decking and have railing to keep people off the rest of the ceiling.


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Eric S. Raymond writes on his blog: "There's been a lot of debate in the community about how OSI should properly handle Microsoft's planned submission of some of its licenses for OSD certification. That debate has been been going on within OSI, too. OSI's official position, from the beginning, which I helped formulate and have expressed to any number of reporters and analysts, is that OSI will treat any licenses submitted to Microsoft strictly on their merits, without fear or favor. That remains OSI's position. But I find that my resolve is being sorely tested."


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Audio Return Channel (ARC)
- What is the Audio Return Channel (ARC) feature?
- How to use the Audio Return Channel (ARC) feature.
- There is no sound when using a TV or audio system with the Audio Return Channel (ARC) feature.
Setup & Connectivity
- System Connection Guide
- How to hear the television sound through the speakers of a stereo receiver.
- What gauge of speaker wire is recommended for connecting the speakers?
- How to connect a portable audio player to a stereo system.
Errors & Troubleshooting
- PROTECT or PROTECTOR is flashing in the display of the home audio device.
- Error: UNLOCK is displayed on the Audio/Video (A/V) receiver.
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By Timothy Heritage and Sonia Elks
MOSCOW, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Russia will ban smoking in many public places from June under a law central to President Vladimir Putin's plans to make citizens healthier, raise life expectancy and help the economy.
Under the law, signed by Putin on Saturday and passed by parliament last week, smoking will gradually be banned at work, in the subway, restaurants, cafes, ships and long-distance trains in a nation with one of the world's top smoking rates.
The legislation will also restrict cigarette sales and ban advertising and sponsorship of events by tobacco companies.
It was opposed by foreign firms such as British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco , and Philip Morris, which control more than 90 percent of a Russian cigarette market worth about $20 billion annually.
Putin's aim is to force a lifestyle change on millions of Russians in a country where bars and restaurants are often filled with a thick blue haze of smoke.
But in a sign that many will resist, smokers rights' groups oppose the law and a website has sprung up which, in a nod to Russia's Communist past, declares: "Smokers of the world unite."
"I'm categorically against this stupid ban. Smoking is heavily restricted now anyway. No smoking in offices, no smoking in staircases, nowhere," said Grigory, a 60-year-old businessmen in Moscow who declined to give his second name. "I'll go out even less now as there's nowhere to go for us chain-smokers."
The law will be phased in, with smoking banned in some public places, such as subways and schools from June 1. The ban will be broadened to include restaurants and cafes a year later.
Sales of tobacco products will be forbidden at street kiosks from June 1, 2014, advertising and displaying cigarettes will be restricted, and minimum prices will be set for cigarettes which mostly cost 50 to 60 roubles for a pack of 20 (less than $2).
The law is part of Putin's drive to reverse a population decline that began after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. He hopes it will increase productivity and promote economic growth.
Putin has stepped up these efforts since his return to the presidency in May, mounting a campaign reminiscent of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to crack down on drinking under his failed "perestroika" reforms of the late 1980s.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said last year almost 400,000 Russians die each year from smoking-related causes. The World Bank says 40 percent of Russians smoke regularly.
World Bank figures show Russia's population slumped to 141.9 million in 2011 from 148.6 million in 1991, with average life expectancy at 69 years, against 78 in the United States. Failure to expand the workforce would limit economic growth.
Announcing Putin had signed the law, the Kremlin said on Monday it would bring Russia into line with a World Health Organization tobacco control treaty which it ratified in 2008.
Owners of the ubiquitous kiosks, which many convenience shoppers rely on, say many could go out of business, especially as they have already been hit by restriction on alcohol sales.
The All-Russian Smokers' Rights Movement said the law would not work and called instead for moves to discourage youngsters from starting smoking.
Erik Bloomquist, an analyst at Berenberg Bank, said: "In aggregate ... we do not expect the restrictions to make much difference in overall consumption or prevalence, and think the smoking bans will be honoured more in the breach than in actuality."
He said increases planned in excise taxes were likely to have a bigger impact on consumption.
The move is a blow to Japan Tobacco, in which the Japanese government pans to sell about a third of its stake.
Like other tobacco companies, it said it would abide by the law but several firms said the law could increase illicit trade.
"Implementation of sales restrictions accompanied by the extensive year-on-year growth of excise in Russia may lead to a massive inflow of cheaper products from neighbouring states," said Alexander Lioutyi, Corporate Affairs Director, BAT Russia.


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Executive director to give historic speech to IIHF
BERNE – Paul Kelly, the executive director of the NHLPA, is in Berne ready to address the IIHF Council on Saturday during its Annual Congress. He is the first representative from the NHLPA ever to do so, and IIHF.com sat down with him to discuss various international hockey issues. This is Part One of a two-part interview.Why did you ask to speak to the Council and what are you going to say?
I'm a big proponent of international hockey, and in the short time I've been on the job—18 months—I've dealt with a number of international issues, preparations for the Olympics, the World Championships and World Juniors, so we have a growing relationship with the IIHF. I want to get to know the key players to a greater degree, and I want to talk about how we view the international stage, from the perspective of the players, and what we'd like to see in the coming years, and about cooperation. There are a lot of tensions right now over contracts, transfer agreements, things we should be able to get beyond for the benefit of the game.How do you see hockey growing?
I think it's important to press into other geographic areas. We'd like to see the sport grow more in the Far East, China, unusual places like Australia, Israel, maybe South America, the non-traditional places. We'd like to help promote growth. It will be difficult and will take a long time, but if we make appearances, televise games, we can gain a foothold, I think. There are a number of tensions we have to get through, but I think the IIHF can take a leadership role in this regard. I think René Fasel has done an effective job doing that, and he has to keep doing that. I think the Olympics are a big part of that. There is no bigger event to expose our sport to non-traditional countries. Swimming is a great example. In Beijing, swimming was exposed around the world in a way never before, and my understanding is that after the Games there was a huge growth in the number of people who signed up for swimming classes and racing teams around the world in the aftermath of Beijing. I think we saw some of that in the United States following the Miracle on Ice in 1980. There was a spurt in hockey, and we hope Vancouver will do the same.So if the players want to go to Sochi, how do you get the NHL on board?
Between now and Sochi, our Collective Bargaining Agreement comes to an end, and another one has to be put in place, so there will be a window of opportunity to negotiate various terms, and one of the items will clearly be the Olympics, and not just Sochi but beyond. We will have some conclusion. Maybe the new CBA won't have provision to go to the Olympics, or, more likely, we will convince the NHL that this is the way to go and it will be written into the CBA. I've spoken to many owners who want to go to the Olympics, and I've spoken to most of the general managers and they also share that opinion. But there are some people, for very legitimate reasons, who say that to take a break in a critical part of the NHL season for two full weeks is not good business. That said, the Olympics are such an important vehicle to promote the game and the sport that it shouldn't be a substantial issue to overcome.Is there something we can learn from soccer where the World Cup isn't viewed as competition to pro leagues but something that is complementary? How do we get past this in hockey, where the view is often that these events are competing with the NHL?
We strongly support the regular, periodic playing of a World Cup of Hockey. Somehow we need to blend the three big events, the Olympics, the World Championships, the World Cup, and do it in a way that is good for hockey. You can over-saturate the market. René and I do have a little bit of a different view on this. I think holding the World Championships in an Olympic year is probably too much. In my view, it makes more sense, and makes the World Championships a more important event, if we hold it every two years and not overlap with the Olympics. I'd like to see it worked out so that every year there is one major event, without conflict, and I think the various constituents have to sit down and look at the next ten years and decide how to lay this out. I'm a proponent of breaking the NHL season every year for two weeks, every February. One year we should do the Olympics, one year we should do something special for hockey, hold a worldwide youth tournament, a hockey summit, then the World Cup, maybe in Europe one year and North America the next. That said, the NHL doesn't share my view right now. Everybody's got to give a little for the greater good. We need to do a better job of making the sport more accessible to people.One of the issues we're seeing become more important at the World Championship is insurance because player contracts are so large now. What are your views about handling this?
That is a difficult issue. We don't support putting restraints on contracts. We believe there should be maximum flexibility by NHL general managers to sign guys to long-term contracts. For example, if you have Alexander Ovechkin, you want him to be part of your team for as long as you can. You don't want to sign him for three years and then run the risk of losing him. He's such a tremendous athlete. He has single-handedly grown the sport in Washington and the eastern United States. So, if the Capitals want to sign him to a long-term deal, God bless them. That said, I know insurance companies won't insure past a certain number of years, six years, and when you get contracts that run into tens of millions of dollars, I understand that is a daunting financial problem. We somehow have to figure out a way to pool our resources so we can come at it from a position of strength and self-insure. In the meanwhile, we want to see the players adequately protected. There isn't an easy answer to a complex problem.There are always some 18- and 19-year-old players in the NHL who are still eligible to play in the World Junior Championships but clubs won't release them. Is there enough interest among the players to include a clause in the next CBA to allow these players to go if they so desire?
I tracked that closely this year because I knew a lot of the young players—Steve Stamkos, Drew Doughty, Luke Schenn—who were playing full-time for NHL teams had played successfully in the World Juniors. I can tell you that once those guys cross that threshold and are playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs or whatever, that their focus is playing for their NHL team. I don't think they would have liked to be pulled out of that environment and gone to the World Juniors for three weeks. They want to be with their NHL team, developing as young players.One thing the IIHF wants that you don't want is to increase the window for signing drafted players from two years to four. Can you see this ever happening?
I don't see it going to four. We believe that players should be treated equally regardless what country they're from in terms of NHL draft rights, and we don't see a reason why European players should be treated differently from North American players. I have heard the argument that some European players mature later than their North American counterparts. I don't know if that is accurate or not. What we have done is increase the mandatory return provision. It used to be that 18- and 19-year-olds had to be returned to their home country if they didn't make their NHL roster at the start of the season. We have expressed a desire to expand that to include 20- and 21-year-olds.Do you think a new Player Transfer Agreement is important?
Yes, I do. We need an agreement that allows national leagues to develop players. It's important for the European clubs to be strong and have enough talent to stock their teams, draw crowds, provide players for national teams. When you don't have a transfer agreement, what you have is hostility and competition. I don't know that hockey without a transfer agreement is in the best interests of European or Russian communities because most young players with talent are going to want to play in the NHL. The NHL will exist without a transfer agreement. In fact, it will flourish without an agreement, but I'm not so sure the flip side is so. We just went a full season without an agreement, and millions of dollars which could have been used to develop players and programs did not get back to the European federations, and that's unfortunate. The IIHF has sent a proposal for a new PTA and we responded. They sent a counter-proposal, and I think the ball is in our court—the NHL and Players' Association—to respond again. I'm hopeful we'll be able to find something that works.ANDREW PODNIEKS & LUCAS AYKROYD


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President Obama Makes Emotional Plea for Gun Reform
Submitted: 02/12/2013
Washington, D.C.
- Several weeks ago, you saw President Obama roll out an aggressively progressive agenda during his inauguration speech.Tonight, the nation watched to see if that theme would continue in the State of the Union address.At first, the president rehashed many of the topics that dominated his campaign.He talked health care, tax code and immigration reform.He talked about bringing jobs back home, improving education, and moving toward sustainable energy. But just after the one hour mark, the President seemed to change his tone.That's because there's been one big change since he was reelected - the Sandy Hook shooting.The President called on the House and Senate to at least vote on his gun reform proposals.Gabby Giffords was in the audience, along with more than two dozen others affected by gun violence. "Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote," said the President, continuing on with other examples of gun violence. "They deserve a simple vote."He said the country has debated gun violence before, but "this time it's different."He called for "common sense reform," in particular requiring background checks for individuals who want to buy guns.He also talked about police chiefs working together to get high capacity magazines off the streets.In the audience was Oak Creek shooting survivor Lieutenant Brian Murphy."Brian was the first to arrive, and he did not consider his own safety," the President said. "He fought back until help arrived, and ordered his fellow officers to protect the safety of the fellow Americans worshiping inside, even as he lay bleeding from 12 bullet wounds."The President also said 34,000 troops will be home by the end of this year, and the war in Afghanistan will be finished by the end of next year.
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