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How To Make Sure Your Next Plastic Surgery Is Safe
If you're dumb, you forget that plastic surgery is surgery with an extra word in front of it, a doctor tells CNN in their article on getting nip/tucked safely. As with any surgery, there's no real way to make it completely safe, but here are five tips from their article that you should follow to improve your odds. In fact, they're probably good tips for any kind of surgical procedure.
- Make sure the doctor is board certified by one of the major professional organizations in his field.
- Make sure the doctor's office is accredited by a national group that inspects facilities to ensure they're safe.
- Ask about prevention plans for complications. With plastic surgery, the big risk comes from deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
- Confirm that your doctor has privileges at a hospital to perform the procedure. Even if he's not going to perform the procedure at the hospital, the hospital should trust him enough to extend those privileges to him. If he says no, say so long. If he says yes, confirm it with the hospital.
- Find out how many times the doctor has performed the procedure. Compare his experience with other doctors in the area.
Update: Heather, who claims she works in the plastic surgery industry, wrote in to provide more information and to highlight the two list items she thinks are most important:
#1 is most important. For plastic surgery, patients should verify that the surgeon is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon (US). This can be done by visiting the American Society of Plastic Surgeon's website- http://www.plasticsurgery.org. In order to become a member of the ASPS, the doctor must be a board certified plastic surgeon and meet additional criteria.
It is very important to note that there are MANY doctors performing plastic surgery (liposuction, breast augmentations, etc.) that are not board certified plastic surgeons. Essentially in the US, any board certified doctor (General Surgery, Dermatology, ENT, etc) can perform plastic surgery.
Many horror stories from plastic surgery arise from non-plastic surgeons. While I am not clear what happened in Ms. Argentina, most people do know about Kanye West's mother. She originally visited a plastic surgeon who said she was not clear to have surgery at that time and needed further attention from her cardiologist. For whatever reason, she selected a different surgeon (not a board certified plastic surgeon) to perform her operation. While, I am sure there are many non-plastic surgeons who perform plastic surgery very well, you do need to question why that doctor did not take the time to acquire the official training necessary.
#4 is very important as well. The surgeon needs to have privileges at a hospital to perform plastic surgery, even if he is not doing the surgery in the hospital. A hospital will only provide privileges to Board Certified Plastic Surgeons to perform plastic surgery in their hospital.
If the doctor is lacking hospital privileges, but does meet accreditation for his/her own operating room, that is simply not enough.
Also, be sure to check out our commenter NickelMD's advice below on how to prepare a realistic risk-assessment before making any decision on cosmetic surgery.
"What really killed the beauty queen?" [CNN]
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Sheila is the founder and CEO of a great new company Care.com. If you're a busy working mom you know the value of a great caregiver for your kids. Care.com helps you find one. Sheila lives in Weston, MA with her husband and two kids, ages 7 and 15. She has a ridiculously impressive background, including several graduate degrees and senior management positions with extremely successful companies. Somehow she manages to juggle it all while also working together with her husband. If you are curious how, check out this great interview we recently did with Sheila.
Can you tell us a bit about your company?
Care.com is an online service that connects families seeking qualified care givers with a national network of trusted providers. Our service offering currently addresses child care, pet care, senior care and tutoring – and we are in the process of evaluating additional services.
Essentially, Care.com is designed to provide a simple and safe way for families and individuals to manage their care needs. We aim to provide peace of mind for families looking to address the lifecycle of specific care needs by providing free background checks and a suite of tools and resources for selecting the best care options possible.
What inspired you to start your business?
The idea stemmed from my own personal struggles to find quality care providers. My husband and I both work; we have two sons as well as two dogs. In the midst of managing a career and raising my children, my father went through quadruple bypass surgery. That experience raised my awareness of the fact that no online site existed for addressing the constantly changing care needs of many families out there. You may have a trusted nanny or a regular pet sitter, but if their personal circumstances change or if they suddenly fall ill, it can be a struggle to find help in a moment's notice.
What did you do in your previous life?
Before starting Care.com, I was part of several Internet ventures including Upromise.com, an online service helping families save money for college, and TheLadders.com, an online service helping people find jobs.
Do you think being an entrepreneur makes it easier or harder to balance your work and family responsibilities? Why?
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Halima Mohammed: Role Model in Her Refugee Camp
Editor's Note: This post comes to us from Hussein Ibrahim, a Nutrition Officer for Action Against Hunger in Dadaab, Kenya. Our thanks to Ibrahim, and to 1,000 Days, a consortium of NGOs dedicated to maximizing a child's critical nutrition window from conception to the 2nd birthday and one of which we're proud to be a part. 1,000 Days is featuring this post as part of its special March for Nutrition campaign, taking place this month.
Halima Mohammed is a mother of six children, and an active member of a Mother to Mother Support Group (MtMSG) established by Action Against Hunger in Kambioos refugee camp, in Dadaab, Kenya. The camp is the newest among the five camps in Dadaab. Almost all refugees in this particular camp entered Kenya from Somalia during the Horn of Africa drought crisis in 2011.
Halima is from the Hawraarsame clan in Somalia, who culturally practice feeding infants water and sugar solutions immediately after birth and breastfeeding on only one breast. As mandated by her culture, Halima breastfed all her five of her older children on one breast and gave them a sugar solution at birth. She breastfed her babies on the right breast, fearing they would develop diarrhea and die if breastfed on the left one. She further believed that colostrum was spoiled milk and chose not to feed any of her children colostrum in the first three days after birth.
When Halima and her husband Abdirahaman Mohammed arrived in Kambioos refugee camp in late 2012, three of their children were immediately admitted to the outpatient therapeutic program as they were severely malnourished.
Halima was pregnant and anemic, and was therefore admitted to the blanket supplementary feeding program. In Kambioos, the health and nutrition programs are run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), while Action Against Hunger supports these programs by implementing a Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) program.
She enrolled in the MtMSG in Section D Block D3 of Kambioos camp to learn more about appropriate infant and young child feeding. In the group, she met other mothers who shared their experiences on breastfeeding.
At nine months, she gave birth to a baby girl, Safwa, and exclusively breastfed her for six months, and on both breasts.
"I no longer spend a lot of money buying medicine to treat sick children," she remarks with relief and satisfaction written clearly across her face.
Action Against Hunger implements the MIYCN Program in Dadaab through funding from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).


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Quick Fact: Hannity cites questionable report that climate experts predicting "mini ice age"
Sean Hannity cited a recent Mail on Sunday article purporting to report on the research of climate scientist Mojib Latif to claim that "several prominent scientists say that we are on the verge of a mini ice age" and commented, "sorry Al [Gore] looks like you may have to put that house boat away for awhile, it's probably going to be too cold to use." But Latif has since challenged the Mail article's use of his research, and at the U.N. climate conference the Mail article references, Latif stated that while temperatures could "cool" temporarily "relative to the present level" due to natural climate variability, there is a clear "long-term warming trend" that is "manmade."
From the January 13 edition of Hannity:
HANNITY: And in tonight's meltdown we bring Al Gore some devastating news, now the vanquished vice president will be alarmed to learn that several prominent scientists say that we are on the verge of a mini ice age. Now their predictions contradict the computer models that are favored by Gore and his gang. Now one of the scientist say that the warming that we've seen over the past several years has "gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler and all of this may well last two decades or longer." Sorry Al, looks like you may have to put away that house boat for awhile. It's probably going to be too cold to use.
Fact: Latif has since challenged Mail report and other media distortions of his research
Guardian: Latif "challenges Mail on Sunday's use of his research." The Guardian reported [1] on January 11 that Latif "has hit out at misleading newspaper reports that linked his research to claims that the current cold weather [2] undermines the scientific case for manmade global warming" and stated of Latif's research, "Despite clarifications from the scientists at the time, who stressed that the research did not [3] challenge the predicted long-term warming trend, the study was widely misreported as signaling a switch from global warming to global cooling."
Latif predicts "nothing that would constitute a little ice age or an ice age." Appearing on Russia Today on January 11, Latif stated [4], "I don't think" we will see decades of global cooling, noting, "There are of course natural climate fluctuations which could warm or cool the Earth. However, they ride on top of the long-term warming trend and at best they can offset the warming trend. And so the net result may be a kind of pause of halt of global warming, maybe a slight cooling, but nothing that would constitute a little ice age or an ice age."
Latif: "They just make these things up." Joe Romm of ClimateProgress.org wrote in a January 11 post [5] that Latif stated of media reports on his research, "I don't know what to do. They just make these things up":
Call Dr. Latif up and ask him if accepts the IPCC's finding that, as he put it, most of the warming in the past century was very likely due to human causes. He had me reread the quotes attributed to him a number of times, asking twice, "those are direct quotes?" After I did, he said to me: "I don't know what to do. They just make these things up." I suggested asking reporters to read quotes back to him.
According to Latif, over a short time span, say, two decades, it's hard to determine exactly what fraction of the temperature change is due to what cause, but Latif does not believe nor ever said what the Daily Mail suggests, which is that you can add those periods together and somehow negate the IPCC's finding. His work simply "does not allow one to make any inferences about global warming."
Latif has NOT predicted a cooling trend -- or a "decades-long deep freeze" -- but rather a short-time span where human-caused warming might be partly offset by ocean cycles, staying at current record levels, but then followed by "accelerated" warming where you catch up to the long-term human-caused trend. He does NOT forecast 2 or 3 decades of cooling.
Fact: Latif has stated that it is clear the "long-term warming trend" is "manmade"
U.N. Conference presentation addressed "decadal variability," noting "we all believe that this long-term warming trend ... is manmade." Latif opened his August 31, 2009, presentation at the U.N. World Climate Conference-3 by stating: "What you see here is just the globally averaged temperature during the 20th century. And you can clearly identify the long-term warming trend, and we all believe that this long-term warming trend is anthropogenic in nature, is manmade. However, you see also a lot of fluctuations superimposed on this trend, interannual, as Tim has pointed out, but also decadal scale variations." Latif went on to discuss the "mechanisms" of decadal variability and the potential for predicting climate at the decadal timescale. [U.N. World Climate Conference -- 3, 8/31/09 [6]]
Latif chart suggests temperatures are "cooling" in the short term, but that these temperatures are still indicative of a long-term warming trend. Latif's chart shows that "cooling" period follows the hottest decade on record last century.
From Latif's World Climate Conference PowerPoint presentation [7]:
Latif: "It may well happen that you enter a decade, or maybe even two ... when the temperature cools ... relative to the present level." Latif stated that due to natural climate variability over the decade-long timescale, "it may well happen that you enter a decade, or maybe even two, you know, when the temperature cools, all right, relative to the present level." Latif added: "And then, you know, I know what's going to happen. You know, I will get, you know, millions of phone calls, you know -- 'What's going on?' 'So is global warming disappearing, you know?' 'Have you lied on us, you know?' So, and, therefore, this is the reason why we need to address this decadal prediction issue." [U.N. World Climate Conference -- 3, 8/31/09 [6]]
Latif: Media mistakenly think of global warming as "a monotonic process," in which "each year is warmer than the preceding year." During his presentation, Latif stated: "All right, so, first point: Why decadal prediction? Now, people who know me, at least my German colleagues, know that I do a lot of media work, OK. There is almost no day in the year when I'm not called by some media person, OK. And so, they basically think about global warming as a kind of slowly evolving process and a monotonic process, OK -- so each year is warmer than the preceding year." He added: "However, we all know there is variability." [U.N. World Climate Conference -- 3, 8/31/09 [6]]
Latif: "[I]f my name was not Mojib Latif, my name would be global warming." Latif stated, "Everybody who knows me is aware of the fact that I am definitely not one of the skeptics, OK. And if my name was not Mojib Latif, my name would be global warming, all right." Latif then stated of decadal variability within the long-term warming trend, "[W]e have to ask the nasty questions ourselves, all right, or some other people will do it." [UN World Climate Conference -- 3, 8/31/09 [6]]
Fact: Greater natural variability in shorter-term modeling of climate than in longer-term trend
Latif: "[I]nternal variability" is "dominating uncertainty" on "interannual and decadal timescales." During his presentation, Latif stated, "If we look at the next 100 years, there are different uncertainties, OK. So AR-4, the last IPCC report, basically was the boundary force problem, so, it -- the uncertainty arose mostly from the scenario uncertainty and from the model bias, OK." Latif continued: "However, if you look at short lead times, right, then you see that the internal variability is really the dominating uncertainty in the climate change forecasts or, slash, projections. And especially on interannual and decadal timescales, this is true." Internal variability is defined [8] as "climate variability not forced by external agents."
IPCC Report: "[N]atural climate variability" is larger factor on time scales of less than 50 years. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC concluded that "[m]ost of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations." The report further noted that "[d]ifficulties remain in reliably simulating and attributing observed temperature changes at smaller scales. On these scales, natural climate variability is relatively larger making it harder to distinguish changes expected due to external forcings." [IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report [9]]
From the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report:
Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations12. This is an advance since the TAR's [Third Assessment Report] conclusion that "most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations". Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns.
Difficulties remain in reliably simulating and attributing observed temperature changes at smaller scales. On these scales, natural climate variability is relatively larger making it harder to distinguish changes expected due to external forcings. Uncertainties in local forcings and feedbacks also make it difficult to estimate the contribution of greenhouse gas increases to observed small-scale temperature changes.
Vicky Pope, Met Office: "In many ways we know more about what will happen in the 2050s than next year." Vicky Pope, the head of Climate Change for Government at the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre, has reportedly said that when predicting climate conditions over the next few years, "natural variability was as important as the long term warming trend." She further stated, "In many ways we know more about what will happen in the 2050s than next year." [The UK Daily Mail, 9/10/09 [10]]
Met Office: Climate shows "continued variability, but an underlying trend of warming in the previously steady long-term averages." The Met Office states [11]: "In 1998 the world experienced the warmest year since records began. In the decade since, however, this high point has not been surpassed. Some have seized on this as evidence that global warming has stopped, or even that we have entered a period of 'global cooling'. This is far from the truth and climate scientists have, in fact, recognised that a temporary slowdown in warming is possible even under increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions." [Met Office, accessed 9/22/09 [11]]
The Met Office further notes:
After three decades of warming caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, why would there suddenly be a period of relative temperature stability -- despite more greenhouse gases being emitted than ever before? This is because of what is known as internal climate variability. In the same way that our weather can be warm and sunny one day, cool and wet the next, so our climate naturally varies from year to year, and decade to decade.
Before the twentieth century, when man-made greenhouse gas emissions really took off, there was an underlying stability to global climate. The temperature varied from year to year, or decade to decade, but stayed within a certain range and averaged out to an approximately steady level.
In the twentieth century we have had continued variability, but an underlying trend of warming in the previously steady long-term averages. This is what we observed in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Now we have seen a decade of little change in the average global temperature -- but that doesn't mean climate change has stopped, it's just another part of natural variability.
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- This article is about the organization. For the episode with a similar name, see "The Warriors of Kyoshi".
|"The Kyoshi Warriors are a skilled group of fighters. Trustworthy, too. They're good friends of ours."
|— Sokka to Earth King Kuei.[1]
The Kyoshi Warriors are an order of female warriors named after Avatar Kyoshi, who founded them to protect her homeland, Kyoshi Island.[2] With their unique and individual fighting style, these elite fighters ensured the safety and isolationism of their homeland during the Hundred Year War. However, when Avatar Aang visited the island in late 99 AG, he inspired a group of warriors, led by Suki, to travel to the Earth Kingdom and help the defenseless there.[3] Even though most members of this group were imprisoned by the Fire Nation after a lost fight against Princess Azula's team, Suki was later freed and helped to end the war as part of Team Avatar. After the war, Suki's Kyoshi Warriors continued their service, and in 101 AG, they volunteered to become the Fire Lord's bodyguards.
Though their fighting style and clothing mimic those of Avatar Kyoshi, they seemingly did not implement any of the bending arts in their physical movements. They are clad in ornate, armored, green kimonos, metal headdresses, and white-faced makeup designed to intimidate opponents. The Kyoshi Warriors used metal fans as their main weapons like Avatar Kyoshi, but also implemented katanas and retractable shields. The warriors' most prominent fighting style was not about strength, but rather about using their opponents' force against them. Primarily, the warriors dealt with the disorderly traders and travelers who, after a night of carousing in the port of Kyoshi, often stumbled into the village and caused trouble.[4]
Early history
Prior to Kyoshi Island's separation from the Earth Kingdom mainland, Avatar Kyoshi witnessed women being mistreated by rowdy men. She had often defended the women in the village's seaside marketplace and endeavored to teach them defensive combat. Within a few years, Kyoshi had gathered a small band of disciples consisting of fisherwomen, weavers, and homemakers who eventually developed into the first Kyoshi Warriors.[5]
The female warriors do not take kindly to training outsiders or men in their unique methods of fighting. However, Sokka was admitted to the group despite possessing both of the aforementioned qualities on the condition that he had to adhere to all of the traditions of the female Kyoshi Warrior, including wearing their style of armor and traditional make-up. In the organization's history, there have been only a few male warriors. The only other known outsider to join them is Ty Lee, who was born in the Fire Nation.[6]
Hundred Year War
Although the Kyoshi Warriors had long remained neutral in the Hundred Year War against the Earth Kingdom, their ideals changed after Avatar Aang arrived on the island in late 99 AG. Chasing the Air Nomad, Prince Zuko and his troops attacked Suki's village and forced the warriors to defend their home. After repelling the attack with the aid of Team Avatar,[3] Suki's band of Kyoshi Warriors decided to assist the Earth Kingdom military in its attempts to fight against the Fire Nation. The warriors did not enter the front lines but instead served as guards for the ferries to Ba Sing Se.[7]
Desiring to do more, they started roaming the Earth Kingdom and stumbled upon Appa, who at that point had gotten separated from Aang and had grown fearful of humans. The Kyoshi Warriors worked together to gain the flying bison's trust and clean him up, intending to reunite him with his owner. Before they could do so, however, they were discovered by Azula's team. The Kyoshi Warriors immediately grouped to defend Appa, sacrificing their own freedom in order to buy Appa enough time to escape capture at the hands of Princess Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee.[2]
In Ba Sing Se, Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee infiltrated the city disguised as members of the Kyoshi Warriors.[1] The real Kyoshi Warriors were imprisoned following their defeat.[8] The Kyoshi Warriors were sent to the Capital City Prison, with the exception of their leader Suki, who was taken to the Boiling Rock Prison.[9] Suki was eventually freed by Sokka and Zuko with the help of Mai.[10]
The rest of the Kyoshi Warriors were finally freed after the Hundred Year War ended, and Suki resumed her role as their leader. They were in full uniform at Zuko's coronation and even contained a new member: Ty Lee. She noted the bond that she had formed with the warriors while they in prison. Ty Lee also provided the Kyoshi Warriors with some lessons in the art of chi blocking.[6]
As the Fire Lord's bodyguards
A year after the end of the Hundred Year War, Mai asked the Kyoshi Warriors for help with the security of the Fire Nation Royal Palace following a series of assassination attempts, most notably by Kori, the daughter of Yu Dao's mayor, which had put in evidence the inefficiency of the palace bodyguards.[11]
The Kyoshi Warriors were tasked by Zuko to oversee Azula when she was conversing with her father, and they were quick to intervene when she attacked her brother. They left their post on Zuko's inquiry, however, as he wanted to give his family some privacy. They continued escorting the Fire Lord, ensuring his safety on the palace grounds, and followed his orders. After Zuko left with Azula and part of Team Avatar, they remained at the Fire Nation Royal Palace to assist the interim Fire Lord, Iroh.[12]
After warning Zuko of an impending ambush by the New Ozai Society mere hours before his return to the capital, Suki rendezvoused with the Fire Lord and his family near a secret route leading to the Royal Palace. From there, Suki and several other Kyoshi Warriors escorted the royal family to their destination while Iroh acted as a decoy on the main road. Their plan failed, however, as Ozai loyalist, who had given the Kyoshi Warriors false information about their plans, surrounded the Fire Lord's entourage and attacked. While initially overwhelmed by the society, the Kyoshi Warriors and Zuko were able to tip the scale in their favor when reinforcements in the form of another squad of Kyoshi Warriors led by Ty Lee came to their aid.[13]
The Kyoshi Warriors dressed in adorned metal headdresses and heavily armored green kimonos and wore face paint while on duty. This uniform was designed to resemble the attire that Avatar Kyoshi wore during her life, as well as her face paint that was meant to intimidate opponents.[4] The golden insignia represented the "honor of a warrior's heart", and the silk threads symbolized the "brave blood that flows through [their] veins".[3] Wearing such attire is a high honor for the Kyoshi Warriors.
Metal headdress
Initially, all warriors besides Suki wore a simple green headband. During and after the spring of 100 AG, however, the warriors wore distinct, individualized headdresses, allowing one to discern specific warriors, such as the unnamed warrior who was present with Suki and also when being hugged by Ty Lee at Zuko's coronation.[6]
The Kyoshi Warriors utilized a wide range of weapons in combat, varying from simple fans to deadly katanas.
The Kyoshi Warriors used a set of two metal fans in imitation of Avatar Kyoshi.[14] They wielded these fans in conjunction with a specialized fighting style that was based on the concept of turning an opponent's energy against them and exploiting openings. These implements were used for defense, but they could also be thrown elliptically as boomerangs or propelled as projectiles. These fans were the primary weapons of the Kyoshi Warriors and usually the first to be used in battle. Later, when teaching Sokka about the way of the Kyoshi Warriors, Suki said that it was like an extension of the arm.[3]
The Kyoshi Warriors each carried a round retractable shield that could be combined to protect the entire unit. The combined shields were capable of withstanding a fire blast from Azula.[2] They bear a likeness to the Earth Kingdom's emblem.
Each of the Kyoshi Warriors also carried a katana, which is a long, thin sword. The blade is moderately curved and single edged. Although rarely used in combat, the Kyoshi Warriors did employ katanas when battling Azula and her elite team,[2] where they proved to be well-suited for both self-defense and offense, as evidenced by Suki, who used hers to keep Azula at bay and nearly struck a deadly blow that the princess barely dodged.
- With the white face, red lips and accents, and black eye and brow streaks, their makeup is a cross between two traditional Japanese styles, Geisha and Kabuki, more dramatic than the former but less than the latter.
- The green kimonos are inspired by Kabuki theater.
- Sokka is the only known male to be trained, to any extent, by the Kyoshi Warriors. He is also the only known male to have ever worn their uniform.
- Their makeup is water resistant.[7]
- The Kyoshi Warriors' use of fans is similar to Tessenjutsu, a martial art that is characterized by the use of war fans.
- Their weaponry is similar to that of the samurai warrior, making them one of the few groups in Avatar: The Last Airbender to be based on Japanese culture; for example, katanas are primarily used by the samurai.
- All known members of the Kyoshi Warriors are nonbenders, except for Avatar Kyoshi, their founder.
- While there is a band of Kyoshi Warriors in every village on Kyoshi Island,[4] the only division that has been seen is the one that protected Oyaji's village, led by Suki.


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Just when the National Security Agency looked as though it had finally scored a victory for its maligned surveillance programs, Edward Snowden again crashed the party.
The fugitive's newest leak, reported by The Washington Post over the weekend, claims that the vast majority of accounts scooped up in a foreign-intelligence program are not those of actual overseas targets but ordinary Internet users whose communications with those targets are incidentally collected.
The contents of the surveillance files — almost half of which contained information from U.S. citizens or residents — "tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes," The Post reports.
While revealing on its face, Snowden's latest revelation also arrived just days after the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent watchdog agency, deemed spying under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legal and effective.
Section 702, amended in 2008 by Congress, allows intelligence agencies to spy on the communications of foreigners believed to be living outside the United States. It provides the legal authority for an NSA program known as "PRISM," in which the agency demands that Facebook, Google, and other Internet companies hand over users' communications. Section 702 also allows intelligence agencies to tap into the Internet backbone to collect massive amounts of international communications, a program unofficially known as "Upstream."
Whether intentional or not, the timely Post article — the culmination of a four-month investigation of 160,000 email and instant-message conversations — serves in part as a rebuke to the privacy board's conclusions, civil-liberties groups say, and calls into question the completeness of its review, which stands in stark contrast to the board's critical review earlier this year of the spying on domestic phone records under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.
"There definitely seem to be discrepancies" between the reports, said Liza Goitein, codirector of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. "It appears that, in the Snowden documents, that [American] information is collected deliberately in far broader circumstances than what the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board discussed."
Goitein said the privacy board did not have access to large samples of intercepted communications and instead relied heavily on the testimony of NSA officials when crafting its 200-page report. "Testimony is well and good, but show me the money," she added.
That divergence of source material has resulted in several inconsistencies, according to privacy advocates, such as the board's insistence that NSA targets are "individualized" and correspond to something akin to an email address. The Post story, however, reports that the NSA has targeted Internet Protocol addresses of servers, which could conceivably correspond to hundreds or even thousands of Internet users.
The new Snowden leak "certainly shows that the PCLOB may not have received the full story from the intelligence community," said Mark Jaycox, a legislative analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The Washington Post article introduces entirely new facts that should've been addressed by the PCLOB and found in the PCLOB report."
The board's chairman, David Medine, and Patricia Wald, a former D.C. Circuit judge appointed by Jimmy Carter, pressed for stronger safeguards that would require intelligence agencies to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before searching American data collection via 702 programs.
In a statement accompanying the board's unanimous report, Medine and Wald note:
"The Section 702 program has collected hundreds of millions of Internet communications. Even if only a small percentage of those communications are to or from an American, the total number of Americans' communications is likely significant. Furthermore, these communications, which may be maintained for many years in government databases in searchable form, may contain sensitive and confidential matters having nothing to do with the foreign intelligence purposes of the Section 702 program."
In an interview with National Journal, Wald confirmed that the board did not have access to specific numbers, such as those reported in The Washington Post, which concluded that nine accounts of Internet data are collected incidentally on average for every one target.
"We did not know anything about the percentage that would be intercepted as non-targeted, or as a subset of that, Americans that were not targeted," Wald said. "If true, [the Snowden leak] adds more numbers to [our analysis]."
In May, the House passed legislation that would require the government to obtain a warrant before searching the communications of Americans' data gathered incidentally under 702 authority. The privacy board, however, did not endorse any legislation that would close so-called backdoor domestic searches. The Senate Judiciary Committee has said it will take up NSA reform this summer, and Chairman Patrick Leahy has indicated that backdoor searches may be a top area of focus.
The Snowden leak additionally appears to confirm what privacy groups have long assumed: that private, sensitive information belonging to Americans is being collected and kept through 702 surveillance. The batch of communications data examined by The Post, which reportedly included nearly 900 email addresses that could be "strongly linked" to Americans, includes pictures of infants in bathtubs and women modeling lingerie. The article does not make it explicitly clear which or how many images reviewed by NSA analysts belong to Americans.
During the privacy board's meeting last week, multiple members mentioned that they hoped its report would clear up misconceptions about 702 surveillance.
"I'd like to dispel any notion that this program is likely to give the government a complete or even a significant picture of an American's private life," said Rachel Brand, a conservative member of the five-member panel, during her opening remarks.
But privacy groups strongly pushed back on that assertion.
"The idea that intimate details are not being collected "¦ is not the whole story," said Neema Guliani, legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union. "And the Post story really speaks to that."
Brand would not comment about the Post article, except to say the new Snowden leak made her "concerned about the privacy implications of the NSA's inability to safeguard this data."
Wald additionally noted that incidental collection could show "a slice of life" but would likely not be able to reveal a complete portrait of an American's personal life.
The Brennan Center's Goitein disagreed with that assessment.
"There's no reason why surveillance has to be comprehensive to be abused," Goitein said. "All you need is one incriminating or embarrassing piece of information about a person to make their life difficult."


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It might have taken me a little while to post, but it's well worth the wait. Here are the A-main runs of some of the worlds top best RC drivers running on IIC's super fast carpet track. The speeds are so fast, one is left to wonder how RC cars are controlled at that speed and amazed on how quick the drivers responses are. I was given a chance to run some laps during the practice session and was thoroughly impressed with how much traction the track had, which gave my car a slot car feel to it. The IIC was a great success and there is no better place to hold a race than in Sin City Las Vegas! Thank you to Scotty Ernst and his crew, along with all the sponsors that made the IIC happen. I look forward to next years event and only for this one weekend of the year, what happens in vegas, will be shared with the world! – Joel Navarro
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Just what is the "Tunnel Shun"? It is a tunnel boycott, pure and simple, and it's about the VDOT/ERCO contract, not just a toll. Though it is also extremely important for Portsmouth residents to support our businesses here due to the magnified negative impact of the tolls and the MLK-X bypass on our little city, the primary goal of the Tunnel Shun is to keep traffic out of the tunnels whenever possible. We don't wish to discourage visitors from other cities, we just want them to take another route and keep the tunnel revenue down beyond the expected diversion time.
To help people remap routes and find alternatives to old habitats east of the river, please feel free to share your suggestions here.
We know that not everyone in Portsmouth can participate 100% in a boycott–just do what you can to support Portsmouth businesses and save our city from the disaster predicted by Dr. Koch's recent economic impact study.
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NMT Represented at STC Conference, Oct. 17, 2000
Thanks to Rick Young, TC major, for supplying this news
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 17, 2000 -- New Mexico Tech was well represented at the Society for Technical Communication's (STC) recent Region 5 annual conference. The STC is an international society for professional technical communicators; Region 5 members come from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. There were in excess of 100 attendees representing the whole region, with 42 people giving presentations over the two days.
The first day of the conference, October 13, current and former NMT students and professors gave five out of the eight presentations in the Weavers' Room at Sheraton Old Town in Albuquerque. Starting the day was former head of the TC program Dr. Jonathan Price, the program director for the conference, who introduced the keynote speaker Paula Berger of Solutions, Inc., an international TC firm headquartered in Boston, MA. Dr. Chuck Campbell gave the first session in the Weaver's Room on transformational grammar, "Making It Read Better: Syntactic Strategies." Dr. Campbell, NMT professor emeritus and former Humanities Department chair, retired from NMT this past May.
After a break, Dr. Scott Sanders, a former professor at NMT and chair of the Humanities Department at UNM, presented "Rhetoric, Space, and Motion in the Landscape of Web Page Design." Dr. Rick Johnson-Sheehan and Craig Baehr, PhD candidate, presenting "Thinking Visually/Spatially about Hypertexts", followed him. Dr. Johnson-Sheehan represented UNM and Baehr the US Corps of Engineers. Rounding out the time slot was Rick Young of New Mexico Tech, presenting his senior thesis "I'm out of context, can you get me some?" Young is majoring in TC and will graduate in May.
In the afternoon, the first two sessions were presentations by scientists representing LANL. "Mankind's Leap into the Cosmos," by Dr. Steven Howe and "Quantum Information Revolution: From Quantum Interrogation to Quantum Computation," by Dr Paul Kwiat.
The last sessions of the day were by Rebecca Ideus, NMT graduate (BS TC 1999) who represented Compaq Computer Corporation and presented "Developing a Support Web Site for a "Best in Class" Help Desk." The help desk is Compaq's Intranet on-line help system. Colombe "Mimi" Leland, editor of Paydirt, the NMT student newspaper, who spoke about teamwork and virtual teams, followed Ideus. Her presentation, "Everything I Know about Teams I Learned from Small Newspapers," finished the sessions for the day.
Belinda Westling, NMT graduate (BS TC 1999) was involved in the conference planning, made the posters for the conference, and represented Sandia National Laboratory. Other students and former students attending the conference were Valerie Kimble and Norma Cervantes, both seniors in the TC program; Nathan Taylor (BS TC 1999) representing Compaq; and Randy Scasny (BS TC 1999) former editor of Paydirt and now content editor for Internet.com's Chicago bureau.


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By krys March 19, 2012
Whether you live in the north or the south, spring cleaning is a common chore which many perform in order to rid the winter blues. Clearing your home of unwanted clutter, dust, and other material can create more space, a brighter living space, and a freshly cleansed home feeling. Typically, most people will pack up their winter gear and store it during their spring cleaning, but forget about making a home feel like spring has finally arrived. Creating a home that not only feels fresh and smells fresh is a great way to alleviate the winter blues. Here are five spring friendly ideas that not only tidy up a space but help welcome in the new season!


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Postcard, private collection. On Front: Photo only copyright 1908 by Bamforth & Co. On back: Holmfirth. Bamforth & Co. Publishers (England) and New York. Series No. 1392. Printed in England.
Postmarked: Carberry, Man. MR 24 09 PM
Addressed to: Mr. Myrle Bond, Kenton, Man
Hello, Myrl
This is Sunday and it is storming I guess I aint going to be able to see Kenton this winter We unloaded our Auto's this week and they are just slick. I found that 35¢ of yours up stairs on dresser. So goodbye Hugh.


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The good news: It's a great time to be an online retailer. In fact, this year's Black Friday saw a record number of online shoppers. For the first time in history, online sales exceeded transactions in brick-and-mortar shops.
The not-so-good news? More fraudsters than ever are targeting online businesses. Credit card fraud attempts grew from 2014 to 2015, and thanks to the October EMV rollout that makes physical credit cards much harder to counterfeit, experts predict that more criminals will move online. When examining the numbers from other countries that implemented EMV cards, retailers saw exponential growth in online fraud in the following years, increasing anywhere from 30 to 60 percent.
So, what can merchants operating online do to prepare for the inevitable flood of shoppers, both good and bad? Knowing how to spot the suspicious shoppers is key. In this slideshow, Jason Tan, CEO and co-founder of Sift Science, and Emily Chin, market manager at Sift Science, have pulled together the most common types of fraud that you might encounter.
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I'm ok with the proposals. -- Regards, Benoit mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 1:30:40 PM, Lofton Henderson wrote: > WebCGM WG -- > Here are draft replies to the three i18n-core comments. > Comments and suggestions are welcome... > At 10:52 PM 7/7/2006 +0900, Felix Sasaki wrote: >>Hello, >> >>These are comments on >> >>WebCGM 2.0, http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-webcgm20-20060623/ >> >>sent on behalf of the i18n core working group. >> >>Best regards, Felix Sasaki. >> >>Comment 1 (editorial): <title> elements in some files are confusing >>It seems that some <title> elements contain "OASIS CGM Open >>specification - ...", e.g. >>http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-webcgm20-20060623/WebCGM20-TOC.html >>"OASIS CGM Open specification - WebCGM Profile - Expanded Table of Contents" >>This is just confusing and should be fixed. > PROPOSAL for Comment 1: > Agreed, we will fix it. Thanks for catching this. The <title> elements > should match the text that immediately precedes the horizontal rule at the > top of each chapter. >>Comment 2 (editorial): Reference to Unicode >>In >>http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-webcgm20-20060623/WebCGM20-Intro.html#norm-ref >> , you have two references to Unicode, one generic reference, and one to >>version 4.01. Is there a reason for that? If not, please reference to >>Unicode following the description at >>http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#sec-RefUnicode , that is, only in a >>generic manner. > PROPOSAL for Comment 2: > Originally we had considered that both generic and specific were > appropriate, as described in CharMod C063 [1] (and its immediately > preceding comment). Upon further discussion, the WebCGM WG believes that > generic alone suffices. The References will be changed to contain only the > generic reference. > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#C063 >>Comment 3 (editorial): Why not Unicode as the default encoding? >>In >>http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-webcgm20-20060623/WebCGM20-Concepts.html#webcgm_2_4 >>, (sec. 2.5.4), you describe isolatin1 as the default "character set". >>We would propose to describe UTF-8 as the default character encoding, >>and to use the term "character encoding" instead of "character set". See >>also http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#C020 . > PROPOSAL for Comment 3: > The basic reason is "legacy". WebCGM 2.0 is an upgrade of WebCGM 1.0, > which is a profile of ISO CGM:1999. In ISO CGM:1999 (and :1992, :1987 > before it), the default is isolatin1. Because the default is implicit > (nothing in the CGM file declares it), and because of the mechanism which > ISO CGM specifies for changing to a non-default character encoding for a > metafile instance, in fact it would be technically ill-specified (i.e., > unimplementable) for a profile such as WebCGM 2.0 to prescribe that the > implicit default is other than isolatin1. > We agree that WebCGM 2.0 should use the proper terminology, "character > encoding", where ever possible. In some places it is not possible, such as > the proper names of ISO CGM:1999 elements (e.g., "CHARACTER SET > LIST"). But we will make appropriate changes in the descriptive, prose > parts of the profile. > -Lofton.Received on Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:57:05 UTC
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Supernova Remnant N 63A Menagerie
A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a massive star that exploded, spewing its gaseous layers out into an already turbulent region.
The supernova remnant is a member of N 63, a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Visible from the southern hemisphere, the LMC is an irregular galaxy lying 160,000 light-years from our own Milky Way galaxy. The LMC provides excellent examples of active star formation and supernova remnants to be studied with Hubble.
Many of the stars in the immediate vicinity of N 63A are extremely massive. It is estimated that the progenitor of the supernova that produced the remnant seen here was about 50 times more massive than our own Sun. Such a massive star has strong stellar winds that can clear away its ambient medium, forming a wind-blown bubble. The supernova that formed N 63A is thought to have exploded inside the central cavity of such a wind-blown bubble, which was itself embedded in a clumpy portion of the LMC's interstellar medium.
Images in the infrared, X-ray, and radio emission of this supernova remnant show the much more expanded bubble that totally encompasses the optical emission seen by Hubble. Odd-shaped mini-clouds or cloudlets that were too dense for the stellar wind to clear away are now engulfed in the bubble interior. The supernova generated a propagating shock wave, that continues to move rapidly through the low-density bubble interior, and shocks these cloudlets, shredding them fiercely.
Supernova remnants have long been thought to set off episodes of star formation when their expanding shock encounters nearby gas. As the Hubble images have illustrated, N 63A is still young and its ruthless shocks destroy the ambient gas clouds, rather than coercing them to collapse and form stars. Data obtained at various wavelengths from other detectors reveal on-going formation of stars at 10 to 15 light-years from N 63A. In a few million years, the supernova ejecta from N 63A would reach this star-formation site and may be incorporated into the formation of planets around solar-type stars there, much like the early history of the solar system.
The Hubble image of N 63A is a color representation of data taken in 1997 and 2000 with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Color filters were used to sample light emitted by sulfur (shown in red), oxygen (shown in blue), and hydrogen (shown in green).
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The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear two major cases involving gay marriage, SCOTUSBlog is reporting.
The court will take up both Proposition 8, which outlawed gay marriage in California, and a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Proposition 8
In Prop 8, the Ninth Circuit appeals court affirmed that California's voter-approved ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. Prop 8 had no purpose except lessening " the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California," that court found.
California's own Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage in 2008, but voters overturned that ruling with Prop 8 the same day Obama got elected for the first time.
One of the key issues the Supreme Court will consider is whether the proponents of Proposition 8 have standing to defend it, according to SCOTUSBlog.
Some gay rights advocates have argued it might be premature for the high court to take up Proposition 8. If the court overturns the Ninth Circuit, it could be a huge setback for gays everywhere.
DOMA bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage and defines the institution as being between a man and a woman.
The law, which the Obama administration has renounced, has the practical effect of sometimes requiring gay couples to pay more federal taxes, and gays often view the law as a symbolically hateful gesture.
The New York Times' first openly gay columnist Frank Bruni has called the law "nasty."
Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law in 1996, after it breezed through the Republican-controlled Congress.
Then-Georgia Congressman Bob Barr authored DOMA following an outcry over a Hawaii Supreme Court decision indicating it was leaning toward giving gay couples the right to marry.
However, even Barr eventually admitted there was no " defending the Defense of Marriage Act."
The high court is likely to hear the cases in March, according to SCOTUSBlog.