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We've been sharing plenty about the work we've done in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for browser users; we also want to share some of the notable advances we've made in the web developer platform in Beta 2. This post serves as an overview of the web platform changes since beta 1 that will be covered in more detail in the coming days and weeks.
The Layout Engine
First and foremost, we've been hard at work improving our standards support – we are now "CSS2.1 property complete," meaning we've implemented every property in CSS 2.1 and are closing in on our goal of complete support for the CSS 2.1 specification by the time we release. This work includes improved support for many existing CSS 2.1 scenarios such as selectors, visual formatting (display, positioning and sizing) and text; significant progress on the features first introduced in Beta 1 such as generated content, counters and outline; and some new and improved features such as the CSS3 writing-mode property (currently behind –ms prefix.) In addition to the standards compliance work we have done, we have contributed more tests for the CSS 2.1 Test Suite including tests in support of the Accessibility Rich Internet Applications (WAI – ARIA) draft standard.
The Programmability Engine
We've continued our Beta 1 investments in cross-domain requests (XDR) by working together with the Web Applications Working Group on improving the Access Control specification, and supporting it from XDR. This makes building interoperable cross-domain requests easier for everyone! Additionally, we updated our DOM Storage implementation to better align with the recent rounds of changes to the HTML 5.0 spec, especially in the localstorage method.
Last, but not least, we've added toStaticHTML/toJSON/fromJSON which is a set of code that sanitizes HTML and JSON content sent through the wire. It's a great partner to the XDR (cross domain request) feature as well as HTML 5.0's XDM (Cross Document Messaging) and delivers safer mashups to the user!
While Beta 1 introduced the tools and provided helpful features like live HTML editing and a JScript debugger, Beta 2 is significantly more powerful with live editing of CSS, save to file, and console.log support. And because you need to make sure your site is not just correct, but fast, Beta 2 also includes a JScript profiler to help you find hotspots and compare design patterns. We'd love feedback on the tool and suggestions on ways to make it even more helpful.
In Closing…
With all the posts about the great things for the people who use the web with Beta 2, we wanted to remind those of you who build the web about the great opportunities you have to give visitors to your sites a fabulous experience. Moreover, we wanted to make sure that you developers had a reference (Internet Explorer Readiness Toolkit) checklist to vet against so your visitors to your site have a good experience as you ponder how to make it great with IE8. As always, you can find more information at the IE Development Center, http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie.
Doug Stamper
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Several weeks ago you might have read my column 'The world won't end if you don't cook them dinner'. If you haven't here it is.
There was so many comments, I thought in the name of freeing up more time for families with younger children, I'd offer two pieces of advice from when our six (remember we had one, then twins, then triplets) were young.
The first is when the children are just beginning to help out around the home, please don't make the mistake we (and many families) did by tying allowances to household chores. All you'll get when you ask them to do something additional is, 'How much will I get paid for doing this?', 'It's not my job'.
I suggest to make weekly allowances independent of chores. Have most jobs around the house categorised as family duties (things your family members do to contribute to running the house like setting the table, washing up, etc.). Special, larger jobs could involve a payment or special treat.
Next is that as the children age, give them more responsibility in all aspects of home life!!!!! Two reasons.
First, everything should not be your and your partners responsibility. Full stop. The kids live, eat and relax at home. Write an extensive list of everything that has to be done to run and maintain the house and family: Cleaning, shopping, cooking, gardening, homework help, driving, sports, sickness, etc.
Using this list, separate out the things that only an adult can do. Then as your children age, add more responsibilities onto their shoulders.
Secondly, not only does it give you more balance, it helps them mature, take responsibility and learn. When your child goes out flatting - you do want them to know how to cook. How to do their laundry. How to keep a kitchen sanitary, don't you. Although them knowing and doing it for themselves is another matter, tee hee hee.
A good idea is to write these on a list and post it on the refrigerator. It's good to rotate the jobs between the children as all jobs won't be equally demanding. We've developed a great rotating job chart from when the kids were younger that you're welcome to download at www.successis.co.nz/jobs.htm
Extra Tip: Allocate a role called 'extra jobs'. This person will cover the chores of someone who is not home.


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Lil Za, who was often smack dab in the middle of several of Justin Bieber's legal headaches over the past year or so, just caught a huge break.
Za, who was crashed out in The Biebs' former Calabasas crib, just had his felony vandalism charge reduced to a misdemeanor. That charge came when he broke a phone while in jail after being arrested for drug possession when Biebs' house was raided due to Egg Gate.
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Za was found with MDMA and Oxycodone, cuffed and hauled off to jail, at the time of the raid. While incarcerated, he threw a hissy fit and broke a phone, adding a felony vandalism charge.
According to TMZ, the L.A. County D.A. has reduced the charge to misdemeanor since the phone was not even worth $400. Vandalized property worth less than $400 is by law a misdemeanor.
Za dodged a legal bullet there. Regarding the drug charges, he may plead guilty to felony drug possession but with a year of good, clean behavior and completion of a drug education course, the charge would be wiped from his record. The "staying out of trouble" is always the hard part in these scenarios.
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Dear committee,
I have some questions and comments about the teams construct introduced in RC2.
It looks like the "omp teams" construct is trying to divide up the threads on accelerators into different teams.
And "omp distribute" is used to fine tune the scheduling of loop iterations among
These two constructs are the major additions to the accelerator support compared to the previous technical report (TR1).
Question 1:
Will the following code example roughly based on TR1 still be valid in RC2?
#pragma omp target device (gpu0) map(fromto: y[0:n]) map(to: x[0:n],a,n)
#pragma omp parallel for shared(x, y, n, a) private(i)
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
y[i] += a * x[i];
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Can you provide a few examples in the Appendix A to show case how users can use "omp target", "omp teams" , and "omp distribute" together to port a loop to GPU?
From a user's point of view, it is best to have an easy migration path from traditional OpenMP code to accelerator code .
My fear is that with "omp teams" and "omp distribute", users have to replace their favorite "omp for" with something totally alien.
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I feel like it is too early to introduce thread teams on accelerators when the support for a single team is still being defined.
Could you share what the urgent needs are to define multiple teams on accelerators?
My understanding is that, the threads on host (CPUs) are mostly managed as a single team, though nested teams are allowed. Thread subteams on CPUs have been discussed for quite a while but are still not formally introduced.
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For accelerator support, I think the number one issue is the lack of a clear canonical architecture model. Part of the success of OpenMP so far relies on its simple, generic SMP architecture model: identical cores/processors attached to a single shared memory. Users and compiler developers can immediately get the big picture and work together.
What is the generic architecture for accelerators? Without a generic architecture for accelerators in mind, it is very hard for users to program and compiler developers to implement the accelerator directives.
It is interesting that the OpenMP specification has sections about execution model and memory model. But the assumptions about the targeted hardware architectures are not really articulated. It may not be necessary when OpenMP tries to support the simple SMP machines. But it may become necessary when dealing with complex types of accelerators.
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Han Hak-ja, widow of Evangelist Reverend Sun-Myung Moon, sits beside the coffin containing Moon's body during a funeral service for the late, founder of the Unification Church, at the CheongShim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, about 37 miles northeast of Seoul. Sun-Myung Moon, 92, a self-declared messiah who founded the church which has millions of followers around the world, died at a retreat in Gapyeong on September 3.
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Hyung-Jin Moon (3rd L), Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon's youngest son and successor and followers gesture for the late Moon during his funeral ceremony. More than 30,000 mourners, many weeping openly, attended the elaborate, flower-strewn funeral in South Korea on September 15 of their "messiah" and Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon.
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Unification Church followers take pictures in front of a large hillside museum (top), where the body of the late Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon is placed, in the church's estate in Gapyeong, about 60 km east of Seoul, on Friday, a day before his funeral. The funeral ceremony is expected to draw 35,000 mourners including 15,000 from abroad.
Unification Church patriarch Sun Myung Moon was 92 when he died on Sept. 3. Famous for conducting mass weddings, he said:
"International and intercultural marriages are the quickest way to bring about an ideal world of peace," Moon said in a 2009 autobiography titled "As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen."
"People should marry across national and cultural boundaries with people from countries they consider to be their enemies so that the world of peace can come that much more quickly."
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Come on, Eric Church. Hurry up and make another great album already. It's been, like, more than a year since you gave us Chief. That's how I feel about waiting on Church. And if you're in the same boat, you are not going to like this news. He is not anywhere close to making his next album, he said in an interview with Billboard . "I'm not in a hurry," he said. "I'm never in a hurry to make records. Never will be. I'm waiting on the creative process to tell me what's next." He said he isn't going to be an artist who makes his records so the label can make its numbers. "That's the worst reason in the world to make music," he said. "I still think there has to be evolution … and it would be very disappointing for us to come to the point we've come to and not have that next record show great evolution because I think the best bands and best artists do that." Well, if he's promising us great evolution, I guess we can wait.


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Report: Celts out of Love chase? | Gibson hoping he's not traded | Reports: Allen leaning toward Cavs | Report: Mavs set to add Nelson, Aminu | Why shooting matters in the NBA
No. 1: Report: Celtics getting out of Love chase? — As it stands this morning, the race to land Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Kevin Love seems to be a two-horse one between the leader (Cleveland Cavaliers) and a couple of others (Chicago Bulls, Golden State Warriors and, perhaps, Denver Nuggets). But what about the Boston Celtics? That team was thought to be a favorite to land Love — especially when he took a trip to Boston shortly after the season — but the Celtics' name has appeared less and less in the Love chatter. According to A. Sherrod Blakely of CSNNE.com, Boston might be ready to move on from its Love pursuit:
There's no waiving of the white flag just yet, but the Boston Celtics appear to be ready to move on from their pursuit of Minnesota star Kevin Love, league sources tell CSNNE.com.
"The more teams step up and show interest in Love, the further Boston falls in the pack," a source said on Wednesday. "Danny [Ainge]'s a smart guy. He knows when to keep pushing for something and when to move on."
That's why the Celtics are reportedly among the clubs to express some interest in being a third team to help facilitate a trade involving Love to what one source said has become his "preferred" destination, Cleveland.
Throughout the Celtics' offseason, they have made no secret about being open to using whatever resources they have (draft picks, trade exceptions, players) to add a high-impact player like Love who earlier this summer had expressed interest in Boston.
But as this summer continues to wind down, acquiring Love or a comparable, high-impact player become less likely with each passing day.
That's because teams, for now at least, are far more consumed by acquiring proven talent as opposed to assets and players with potential (read: young talent).
Boston's most tradable asset is Rajon Rondo, but the market for him is unclear because teams aren't sold on the four-time all-star returning to the form he displayed prior to suffering a torn right ACL injury in 2013.
No. 2: Gibson hoping he's not dealt by Bulls — Chicago Bulls power forward Taj Gibson has a lot of reasons to be excited about the 2014-15 season. With the team using the amnesty provision on Carlos Boozer, he's got a good shot at being the team's starter. There's also the expected healthy return of former MVP Derrick Rose, the offseason additions of Nikola Mirotic, Pau Gasol and Doug McDermott to the roster as well as playing under coach Tom Thibodeau, who always gets the most out of the Bulls' crew. Gibson has heard his name bandied about in the Kevin Love trade talks and as he tells the Chicago Tribune's K.C. Johnson, he's doesn't want to leave the Bulls now:
Each time Taj Gibson works out at the Berto Center, team officials tell him not to focus on trade rumors involving his name.
That said, they're not stopping. And Wednesday brought another round as the Bulls continue talking with the Timberwolves about Kevin Love.
"It's tough, but it's part of the business," Gibson said at his youth basketball camp in Deerfield. "I've been in the league for awhile and have been around some great veterans who taught me a lot about the game. The one thing they always say is be grateful that somebody wants you and that you're in the NBA and just focus on your game.
"Without a doubt (I want to be here). I'm a nonchalant kind of guy. I let my game speak for myself. But this place has been home for me, a lot of good times. I'm looking forward to the future and playing here hopefully for a long time."
Gibson said he talked to his agent on Tuesday and that nothing specific or imminent was relayed to him. Multiple outlets, including the Tribune, reported the Bulls inquired about Love after putting him on the back burner to chase Carmelo Anthony in free agency but that the Cavaliers are firmly in the lead.
The Tribune previously reported that Nikola Mirotic sought a commitment from the Bulls before completing his buyout from Real Madrid. And league sources indicated to the Tribune on Wednesday that reports of offers of Mirotic and first-round acquisition Doug McDermott for Love are "overstated."
"It reminds me of the time we went to the (2011) Eastern Conference finals," Gibson said. "We were real deep. We had at least 10 or 11 guys who could really go. I'm looking forward to it. Everybody on this team is mostly focused on winning championships.
"It's scary at times if you think about the potential of the front line and our depth. (Mirotic) is going to be extremely good. Joakim (Noah), we won't have to put so many minutes on him because every year late in the season he's always banged up."
Gibson praised the Gasol acquisition and said he would have no problem coming off the bench again.
"It's a great addition," Gibson said. "It gives us more depth. We have more size up front. One thing about our bigs is (coach Tom Thibodeau) can have so many different options. He can go small. He can go big. He can go quick. You have a lot of different lineups."
No. 3: Reports: Allen leaning toward signing with Cavs — Roughly a week ago, new Cavs guard Mike Miller told ESPN radio that he's been actively trying to recruit his former Heat teammate, Ray Allen, to join him (and LeBron James) in Cleveland. Apparently the efforts are working as Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe reports that Allen is leaning toward joining his ex-Miami teammates in Ohio:
Former Celtic and Heat standout Ray Allen is leaning towards returning for a 19th NBA season and joining former teammate LeBron James with the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to a league source.
Allen, who turned 39 Sunday, has been pondering retirement since the Heat lost in the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs last month.
But James, along with ex-Heat swingman Mike Miller, who signed with the Cavaliers earlier this month, have been lobbying Allen to join them with the resurrected franchise.
Allen hardly looked as if he was ready to finish his career during the Miami playoff run. He averaged 9.3 points in 20 postseason games.
Allen played two seasons with the Heat after five successful seasons with the Celtics that included the 2008 NBA title and capturing the all-time 3-point mark.
ESPN.com also confirmed the report that Allen is leaning toward heading to Cleveland.
No. 4: Report: Mavs set to add Nelson, Aminu — ICYMI yesterday, the Dallas Mavericks voided the contract of one of their offseason additions, Rashard Lewis, when he failed his physical due to a lingering knee injury. While he won't be with the Mavs anytime soon, Dallas did continue to bolster its roster with more less-heralded moves by reportedly closing in on deals with ex-Magic guard Jameer Nelson and ex-Pelicans forward Al-Farouq Aminu. Eddie Sefko of The Dallas Morning News has more:
When it was determined that 6-10 Rashard Lewis could not pass his physical because of a problem with his right knee, the Mavericks voided the contract he signed last week. The severity of the injury was not known. But the Mavericks elected to void the deal, and Lewis will return to the marketplace as an unrestricted free agent when he recovers from the expected knee surgery.
It's possible the Mavericks could sign him again during the season, but a source said at this time that appears unlikely.
Meanwhile, two sources said the Mavericks were preparing to welcome 6-foot Jameer Nelson to town on Thursday. He is expected to take a physical and if everything is in order, will sign with the Mavericks for their cap-room exception of $2.7 million.
They also reached an agreement on a two-year, $2.1 million contract with New Orleans free agent Al-Farouq Aminu, who has a nose for rebounding and defense but is limited offensively. He would be an option when it comes to guarding the toughest offensive matchups in the Western Conference such as Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant.
No. 5: Why shooting matters in the NBA — The NBA game has changed over the last few seasons and the emergence — and importance — of 3-point shooting has led that transition in how the game is played. Our John Schuhmann takes a look at why shooting in general — whether it's from 3-point range or just good jump shots — matter in today's game and has seven teams who did a great job of addressing their deficiencies in that area in the offseason:
In today's NBA, if you want to win, you have to be able to shoot. There are lots of factors that go into good offense and good defense, but the most important are how well you shoot and how well you defend shots.
Over the last two seasons, 3-point shooting has taken a big jump. From 2007-08 to 2011-12, the league took from 22.2 to 22.6 percent of its shots from 3-point range. Then in 2012-13, that number jumped to 24.3 percent. And last season, it jumped again to 25.9 percent.
The correlation between 3-point shooting and offensive efficiency is strong. And shooting a lot of threes is almost as important as shooting them well.
Ten of the top 15 offenses in the league were above average in terms of 3-point percentage and the percentage of their total shots that were threes. Four of the other five were in the top 10 in one or the other. And teams that didn't shot threes well or often were generally bad offensive teams.
Threes aren't everything, but three is greater than two. And if you have shooting threats on the perimeter, other guys have more space to operate inside. The teams near the bottom of the table above know that to win more games, they have to score more efficiently. And to do that, they need more shooting in their rotation.
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Interesting look at the Sacramento Kings' recent run of moves, some of which have been very puzzling … Why is Eric Bledsoe one of the last big-names still left in the free-agent pond? … ICYMI, Pacers All-Star center Roy Hibbert looks like he's working with Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on polishing his post moves … Cavs forward Anthony Bennett recently had his tonsils removed … Hornets guard Kemba Walker recruited Al Jefferson last summer, and helped recruit Lance Stephenson this summer … Is it time for the Blazers to just part ways with little-used Victor Claver?


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How to Easily Print and Generate PDFs in LightArrow Apps
If you're not familiar with LifeTopix, it's an all-in-one productivity app for business and life available at the Apple App Store. With LifeTopix, you can organize and plan just about anything in your busy life. You can manage projects and tasks, make to do lists, take notes, manage files, make grocery lists, track finances, plan services, manage contacts, track assets, create events, plan travel, manage education, track health and much more.
One of the unique aspects of LifeTopix, is the ability to print agendas, to do lists, checklists, tasks, asset reports, notes, grocery lists and more. Today's post shows you how to get the most out of the printing features of your LifeTopix app.
Printable Calendar Agenda
Knowing what's on your schedule today, tomorrow and the next seven days is key to getting things done on time. That's why LifeTopix includes a unified agenda with your to do lists or checklists, reminders (LifeTopix and iOS) and calendar items (LifeTopix and iOS) all in one easy-to-read view as shown below.
You can easily print your agenda by tapping the icon that's indicated in the above graphic in the upper right corner. After you choose "Print," you can choose whether you want to print in Portrait or Landscape mode. Next, LifeTopix asks if you wish to save the Agenda to the My Documents folder. When you save the file to My Documents, it becomes available for use as a PDF. You can now associate this file with many items in your LifeTopix app, such as projects, tasks, contacts and more. An example of a printable agenda is shown below.
Tapping the icon in the upper-right corner in the screen above allows you to share, print or open the document in a different app.
Printable Asset Reports
One of the unique features of LifeTopix is the ability to keep a list of assets that you own or lease. In fact, you can use LifeTopix's asset features in a variety of ways. For example, real estate agents use assets to track home selling details for their clients.
In LifeTopix, assets hold a variety of information. For example, an asset may include manufacturer, model, SKUs, serial number or VINs as well as other information. Assets also include categories, purchase dates, last updated dates, statuses and optional context tags; in addition, assets can be sorted, organized and printed by these categories.
The images below show an ungrouped and grouped list of assets in the LifeTopix iPad app. The grouped assets are organized by category, which in this example is "For Sale," "In Contract," and "Sold" for a real estate agent's properties. These statuses are flexible and defined by you.
Once you display these assets, you can generate an asset report in portrait or landscape mode by tapping the icon at the bottom left and choosing Print as shown above. Just like the Agenda view, you can choose to save the report to your my Documents folder or go directly to the print button to print the asset report, open it or share it. Examples of the uncategorized and categorized reports are shown below.
Printable To Do Lists and Checklists
One of the most valued features of a to do list app is the ability to print the list, but this feature is not always available from the single purpose apps that you find at the Apple App Store. LifeTopix includes wide-ranging checklist and to do list capabilities in the Notes + Files, Lists topic. You can prioritize, print, re-use, add due dates, copy, and export your to do lists and checklists. In addition, you can convert these lists to "Pro Checklists" in order to add tasks, appointments, reminders, activities, nutrition, health stats, medication and wellness entries to a list.
An example of a LifeTopix checklist for a real estate agent is shown below.
Printing a to do list is simple. Tapping Actions -> Print as shown above displays the checklist and gives you the choice of saving it as a PDF if you wish. An example of the printed checklist is shown below.
Tapping the icon in the upper-right corner in the screen above allows you to share, print or open the to do list in a different app.
Printable Tasks
The LifeTopix Tasks + Projects gives you the ability to organize, enter, prioritize, track and check off even the most complex projects and tasks in a natural, streamlined and easy-to-understand way. An example of a task list for a real estate agent's project is shown below.
Sometimes, you might want to print out a list of tasks for a project. The best way to print a list of tasks for a project is to follow the steps outlined below.
- Tap the Tasks + Projects topic.
- Locate the Projects tile and tap it.
- Locate the project that contains the tasks you wish to print and tap it. Tip: Use the Group By filter to help you locate the project if you have many projects.
- Tap the project to open it.
- Tap Actions -> Print. Once again, you're given the option of whether or not you wish to save a PDF to My Documents.
An example of the printable task list is shown below.
Tapping the icon in the upper-right corner shown in the screen above allows you to share, print or open the task list in a different app.
Printable Grocery Lists
Often times, many users of grocery list apps would like a printable list, but it's not available from all apps. A printable grocery list comes in handy if you wish to easily give a spouse, family member or coworker a shopping or grocery list. You can generate shopping lists in the Shopping + Gifts topic of LifeTopix. The following image shows a shopping list that was generated for a trip to India. As shown, you can simply tap the Actions button and easily print the list.
The list appears as shown below and tapping the icon in the upper-right corner allows you to share, print or open the shopping or grocery list in a different app.
Printable Notes
The Notes + File, Lists topic in LifeTopix includes powerful note-taking, drawing and note organization features. It also includes features for managing online files from Dropbox™, Google Drive™ and OneDrive™ and syncing online notes from Evernote® and Toodledo. LifeTopix's built-in and extensive note-taking features include printable notes. An example of a LifeTopix note created by a real estate agent to hold client's requirements is shown below.
Like other objects in LifeTopix, you are able to easily print a note, as shown above. An example of the printed note is shown in the following image. Tapping the icon in the upper-right corner (below) allows you to share, print or open the note in a different app.
Accessing Your PDF Files
When you save your files to the My Documents folder as described previously in this blog post, you might want to access them later in order to associate them with objects in your LightArrow app or for viewing purposes. For example, you might want to associate a checklist with a project.
To locate your saved files, perform the steps below:
- Tap the Notes + Files, Lists topic.
- Tap Files and then tap the plus sign.
- Tap Folder and then tap Local Files.
- Tap the information icon next to "File."
- Then tap My Documents. A list of your local files is shown. See the image below as an example.
After you locate the file you wish to work with:
- Choose View to see the PDF or choose Select to add it to your list of files.
- In the New File view, tap Save.
- It is now included in your list of files and you can access it by tapping the File tile in the Notes + Files topic.
Now that you've added the PDF as a local file, you can associate it with LifeTopix objects (assets, events, goals, notes, projects, etc.) directly from the object itself or from the file as shown below (Associate Topic or Associate Contact).
In addition, all files saved in the My Documents folder can be shared via AirDrop, sent via text message, opened in other apps (such as Dropbox, Box, Adobe Reader etc.), by tapping the icon in the upper-right corner as shown below.
More Options
In LifeTopix, printing is available in many more views, such as the detailed views of trips, contacts and more. In fact, the LightArrow team is constantly improving the print support.
Please Comment
I hope this post gives you a general overview of the printing capabilities of LifeTopix. If you have any questions about LifeTopix or its printing capabilities, feel free to comment on this post below.


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A critical question – as the world faces the possibility of an Arctic Ocean that may soon be ice-free in late summer.
Through her nomination as the Republican Party's Vice Presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has increased interest in her state and its energy resources. Meanwhile, Russia has become more aggressive in controlling territory with energy resources. Both Russia and the United States are now rushing to claim energy resources that may lie below the Arctic Ocean.
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In producing an update for the Planetarium's Ice Worlds show, we discovered political and economic changes that follow the loss of Arctic sea ice. The melting of Arctic Sea ice has opened the Northwest Passage through the Canadian islands, past the coast of northern Alaska and into the northern Pacific Ocean. This course reduces the ocean distance between Europe and Asia by 5,000 nautical miles. An increase in summer shipping through the Arctic is on its way – from cruise ships to oil tankers. Ice cover is lowest in late summer so the passage remains open now for the second summer. It will close again with the cold of Arctic winter.
|photo credit: Steve Deger
Melting Arctic ice will soon open up much of the Arctic Ocean to travel and to the mining of oil and gas underneath Arctic waters. Only five bordering countries can claim parts of the Arctic sea floor: Russia, Norway, Denmark (through its ownership of Greenland), Canada, and the United States. (Here is a territorial map of the Arctic.) Historically, a country could claim exclusive economic control over fishing and mining of resources in an area extending 200 nautical miles from its coastline. This boundary leaves the central Arctic Ocean unclaimed.
However, according to the Law of the Sea treaty, countries can extend their claim in areas that are an extension of that country's undersea continental shelf. The US Geological Survey estimates that 22% of the worlds' undiscovered resources, including oil and natural gas, lie in the extensive continental shelves of the Arctic. Therefore, the shape of these continental shelves is critical in determining who owns these resources.
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The Lomonosov Ridge extends from the continental shelf that borders Canada and Greenland, over the Pole, to Russia's continental shelf. All three nations now claim this ridge as an extension of their continental shelves and seek to extend their territory to the North Pole.
In August 2007, two mini-submarines, the Mir 1 and Mir 2, planted a one meter-high Russian flag on the ridge near the North Pole. Descending to 4,300 meters, the mini-subs collected water and sediment samples from the seabed to shore up the Russian claim that the ridge is an integral part of Russia. If recognized, this claim would give Russia control of almost half of the Arctic Ocean seabed. The "Cold Rush" has begun!
To learn more about the Poles of Earth and the other ice worlds of the solar system, visit the newly revised Ice Worlds show, beginning this weekend.


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Designer Tidbits: Studio K
Spring is certainly in the air, and the flowers have begun to bloom. The
collection captures the essence of Spring, with a nod to Asian decoration and a dash of whimsy.
Johnny Karwan
, the talented artist behind Studio K, is here to talk to us about his latest fabric collection,
Tell us a bit about your background as an artist and designer.
I have a fine arts background and have worked painting background scenes for feature length and television animation. Following that, I spent a decade creating custom paintings, sculpture and assemblage for commercial and residential clients. One of the more memorable being an 80 foot painting of a row of 25 foot tall sunflowers in California's wine country. I still design for commercial and residential projects and also design, sell and license textiles and surface designs out of my studio in San Francisco's historic
What projects do you hope to see using Chinoise?
Chinoiserie, or "Chinoise" as this collection is called, is a French term meaning chinese-esque, and is characterized by fanciful and imaginative florals and whimsical birds and cages. The colors are bright and happy and I hope this collection will be applied in any creative manner where one wants to convey a feeling of happiness and whimsy through bright florals and birds in this contemporary nod to Asian decoration.
Chinoise Quilt Kit
by It's Sew Emma
Where did you find your original inspiration for this collection?
My inspiration in general comes from my passion for all things natural, whimsical, colorful and exotic. When designing
, I drew inspiration from Asian decoration, bright colors and whimsical floral motifs.
What TV show or movie does your collection fit best in?
...at the risk of sounding cheeky, "
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From what aspect of your life do you draw creativity?
I draw creativity from virtually every aspect of my life. Wild parrots flying over my yard in the morning, driftwood sculpted and distressed by the surf, the shadow of a flower in the grass, a smile from a stranger on the street, colorful vegetables and fruits at the market, the twinkle in a friendly eye, the beauty in all I behold!
What is the most challenging part of the design process?
The challenge isn't so much to conceive pleasing designs or meaningful creations or to find a palette that resonates with the concept; rather, it is to bring what was created in my imagination into tangible form. This means hours of relative solitude at my table in my studio where I mix and fine tune colors, lay out designs into harmonious compositions and paint furiously to meet deadlines!!
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Gov. Robert Bentley has already raised more for his re-election campaign than he spent to win the Republican nomination for governor in 2010.
Bentley's campaign filed a campaign finance report showing he raised more than $746,000 in December. That brought his total fundraising to $3.3 million.
Bentley reported spending $2.6 million to win the Republican nomination in 2010. His entire campaign in 2010 cost $8.1 million.
Bentley said he believes people are supporting his re-election campaign because unemployment is the lowest since 2008, taxes haven't been raised, and more than 40,000 new jobs have been announced for Alabama.
Bentley faces former Morgan County Commissioner Stacy George in the Republican primary June 3.


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Date: July 31, 1996
On July 23, 1996, the Senate passed its version of H.R. 3734, the Personal Responsibility, Work Opportunity, and Medicaid Restructuring Act of 1996, by a vote of 74 to 24. H.R. 3734 (as passed) contains the text of S. 1956 as amended on the floor of the Senate. The House passed its version of the bill on July 18, 1996 (see Legislative Bulletin 104-27).
Section I of this bulletin contains descriptions of provisions that appear only in the Senate-passed bill while Section 11 contains descriptions of provisions found in both bills.
SSI Eligibilitv Based on Childhood Disability
- Benefits of those current recipients determined to be ineligible under the new eligibility criteria would terminate for the month beginning on or after the date of the redetermination or July 1, 1997. whichever is later.
- SSA would be required to publish in the Federal Register within 60 days after enactment, and annually thereafter, a request for comments regarding improvements in the disability determin ation procedures for SSI child benefits.
- The bill authorizes funding for Fys 1997-1999 for processing CDRs and redeterminations for individuals affected by these provisions.
Implementation of Payment Prohibition for Prisoners
- The bill provides for iocentive payments from SSI program funds to State and local public institutions, including nursing homes, for furnishing information (date of confinement and certa in identifying information) to SSA which results in suspension or reduction (to 530 personal needs allowance) of 5SI benefits (up to $400 for information received within 30 days of confinement or up to $200 for information received from 31 to 90 days after confinement).
TIle provision is effective on the date of enactment.
- The bill exempts institution reporting agreements from the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act.
Effective upon enactment.
- The bill requires the Commissioner of Social Security to study and report to Congress (within one year of enacunent) on the feasibility of prisoner reporting by courts and mandatory electronic reporting by correctional facilities for purposes of carrying out the suspension of benefits under the SSI program.
- The bill provides for a 10-year period of ineligibility for individuals who make fraudulent statements in order to continue to receive SSI benefits while in prison. This provision would be effective for statements made on or after the date of enactment.
Denial of Federal Means-Tested Benefits for Certain Drug-Related Convictions
- Provides that individuals convicted of crimes relating to illegal possession, use, or distribution of a drug would be ineligible for any Federal means-tested public assistance, including SSI, for a period of 5 years from the date of a misdemeanor conviction or for life in the case of a felony conviction.
- Requires the Attorney General to prescribe regulations no later than December 31, 1996, detailing how Federal and State agencies, courts, and law enforcement agencies will exchange information necessary to enforce the withholding of Federal benefits.
Applies with respect to convictions occurring after the date of enactment.
Social Security Benefits
- Prohibits the payment of Social Security benefits to any noncitizen in the U.S. who is not lawfully present in the U.S. (as determined by the Attorney General).
- Excludes from the nonpayment provision benefits payable under a totalization agreement.
Effective for benefits based on applications filed after the month of enactment.
SSI Benefits
- Prohibits SSI eligibility for all noncitizens except:
- refugees (eligibility limited to the 5-year period after their arrival in the United States);
- asylees (eligibility limited to the 5-year period after the date they are granted asylum);
- noncitizens who have had deportation withheld under INA-section 243(h)(eligibility limited to the 5-year period after the date their deportations are withheld);
- active duty Armed Forces personnel, honorably discharged veterans, and their spouses and dependent children;
- lawful permanent residents who have earned 40 quarters of coverage for Social Security purposes. An individual under age of 18 would be credited with all quarters of coverage earned by his or her parent, and a married individual (including widow(er)) would be credited with all quarters of coverage earned by his or her spouse during the marriage.
However. a quarter would not count as one of the required 40 if the noncitizen or person whose quarters are being credited to the noncitizen got federally funded assistance for low-income persons during the quarter the work was done.
Effective upon enactment. However, with regard to individuals on the SSI rolls at the time of enactment, would require the Commissioner, within 1 year after enacttnent, to redetermine the eligibility of all noncitizens who do not meet the new eligibility catego ries. If a noncitizen is not in one of the new categories, his or her eligibility would terminate as of the date of the redetermination.
- Requires the Commissioner to notify all potentially affected beneficiaries on the SSI rolls of the provision by 1/1/97.
Deeming of Sponsors ' Incomes and Resources
- For purposes of eligibility under SSI, deems all of the sponsors' (and sponsors' spouses') income and resources to the noncitizen until citizenship with the following exception:
- Deeming would end before citizenship in the case of lawful permanent residents who earn 40 quarters of coverage. Deeming for children and spouses of workers also could end before citizenship if they are credited with 40 quarters , i.e., an individual under age of 18 would be credited with all quarters of coverage earned by his or her parent, and a married individual (including widow(er)) would be credited with all quarters of coverage earned by his or her spouse during the marriage. However, a quarter would not count as one of the required 40 if the noncitizen or person whose quarters are being credited to the noncitizen got federally funded assistance for low-income persons during the quarter the work was done.
Effective for sponsored noncitizens who are admitted into the country under new, legally enforceable affidavits of support.
Requirements for Affidavits of Support for Sponsorship
- Makes affidavits of support legally enforceable against the sponsor until the noncitizen becomes a U.S. citizen. The affidavit would be enforceable for a period of to years after the noncitizen last received public assistance benefits, including SSI.
- Requires the agency that provides assistance to a noncitizen to request reimbursement from the sponsor for the assistance it provided. If the sponsor does not respond or is unwilling to make reimbursement within 45 days after the agency' s request, the agency may take legal action against the sponsor. Would allow the agency to hire individuals to collect reimbursement.
- Requires the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to develop a standard affidavit of support within 90 days after the date of enactment. Also would require--effective with a date specified by the Attorney General which would be no earlier than 60 and no later than 90 days after development of the standard affidavit--that all newly signed affidavits be legally enforceable.
Reports to INS
- Requires the Commiss ioner to furnish the name, address, and other identifying information to INS of any individual that SSA knows is unlawfully in the United States. Such reports would be required at least 4 times a year. Also requires the Commissioner to ensure that State supplementary program agreements with States include provi sions for the State also to furnish such information.
Effective upon enactment.
SSI Eligibility Based ou Childhood Disability
- Eliminates the comparable severity standard and provides instead that a child under age 18 would be cousidcred under a disability if he/she has a medically determinable impairment which results in marked and severe functional limitations and which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
- Directs SSA to eliminate references to maladaptive behavior in the domain of personallbe havioral function in the Listing of Impairments for children and to discontinue the use of an individualized functional assessment in evaluating a child's disability.
These provisions would be applicable to any individual who applies for SSI disability benefits, or whose claim is finally adjudicated, on or after the date of enactment, without regard to whether implementing regulations have been issued.
- Makes conforming changes in the medical improvement review standard to reflect the new definition of disability for children who file for SSI benefits.
Applicable with respect to benefits for months beginning on or after the date of enactment, without regard to whether implementing regulations have been issued.
Current Recipients
- Requires SSA to notify recipients eligible for SSI disability benefits on enactment date and whose eligibility may be affected by the new childhood disability eligibility criteria, no later than January 1, 1997.
- Requires SSA to redetermine the eligibility of such recipients, using the new childhood disability eligibility criteria no later than 1 year after the date of enactment.
Eligibility Redeterminations and Continuing Disabilitv Reviews (CDRs)
- Requires CDRs:
- once every 3 years for recipients under age 18 with non-permanent impairments; and
- not later than 12 months after birth for low-birth weight babies.
- Requires the representative payee of a recipient whose continuing eligibility is being reviewed to present evidence that the recipient is receiving treatment which is considered medically necessary and available , unless SSA determines that such treatment would be inappropriate or unnecessary. If the representative payee refuses, without good cause, to cooperate, SSA may change the payee.
- Requires an eligibility redetermination, using the adult initial eligibility criteria, during the 1-year period beginning on a recipient's 18th birthday.
Applies to benefits for months beginning on or after the date of enactment, without regard to whether implementing regulations have been issued.
- Repeals the present law requirement in the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of [994 (Public Law 103-296) that SSA (1) redetermine, using the adult eligibility criteria, the eligibility of one-third of the recipients who attain age 18 in or after May 1995 in each of fiscal years 1996 through 1998 and (2) submit a report regarding these reviews to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance not later than October 1, 1998.
Modify the Effective Date of Applications
- Provides that an individual's application for SSI benefits would be effective on the first day of the month following the month in which the application is filed, or in which the individual first becomes eligible, whichever is later. The amendment, in effect, eliminates prorated payments for the month of application.
- Permits the issuance of an emergency advance payment to an individual who is presumptively eligible and has a financial emergency in the month the application is filed (the month prior to the first month of eligibility).
- Requires that the emergency advance payment be repaid through proportional reductions in benefits payable over a period of not more than 6 months.
Effective for applications filed on or after the date of enactment.
Reduction in Cash Benefits Payable to Institutionalized Individuals Whose Medical Costs are Covered by Private Insurance
- Limits to not more than $30 a month cash benefits payable to children who are in an institution receiving medical care covered by private insurance.
Effective with respect to benefits for months beginning 90 or more days after the date of enactment.
Installment Payments of Large Past-Due SSI Payments
- Establishes a schedole for paying retroactive SSI benefit amounts that exceed 12 times the monthly Federal Benefit Rate (FBR) plus the monthly State supplement level. Payments would be made at six-month intervals.
- The first installment would be 12 times the FBR ($5,640 based on 1996 rates) plus any Federally administered State supplement.
- Any remaining retroactive benefits would be paid in a second installment (not to exceed the first payment amount).
- All remaining retroactive benefits would be paid in the third installment.
- Provides that where an underpaid individual has incurred debts to provide for food, clothing or shelter, has expense s for disability-related items and services that exceed the installment limit, or has entered into a contract to purchase a home, the installment payment would be increased by the amount needed to cover these debts, expenses, and obligations.
- Provides that retroactive payments be paid in full to an individual who is terminally ill, or is eligible and is likely to remain so for at least 12 months.
Effective with respect to past-due benefits payable after the third month following the month of enactment.
Dedicated Savings Accounts
- Requires the establishment of a bank account to maintain retroactive SSI benefits that equal or exceed 6 times the FBR for disabled/blind children (smaller amounts may be placed in such accounts once established).
- Allow funds to be used for:
- Education or job skill training.
- Personal needs assistance.
- Special equipment or housing modifications.
- Medical treatment, therapy or rehabilitation.
- Other items or services SSA determines appropriate.
- Requires that expenditures must be for expenses related to the impairment of the child.
- Provides that unauthorized expenditures constitute misapplication of benefits and are recoverable from the payee.
- Requires SSA to establish an accountability system to monitor these accounts and payees are required to report on the use of these funds.
- Provides that accounts are excluded from resource counting and that interest earned is excluded from income.
Effective with respect to payments made after the date of enactment.
Denial of Benefits for Fugitive Felons and Parole Violators/Exchange of Information with Law Enforcement Officers
- Denies eligib ility for SSI with respect to any month in which an individual is fleeing prosecution, a fugitive felon, or violating a condition of probation or parole imposed under State or Federal law.
- Requires SSA to provide upon written request of any law enforcement officer the current address, SSN, and photograph of any SSI recipient, prov ided that the request includes the name of the recipient and other identifying information and notifies SSA that the recipient:
- is flee ing to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement, after a felony conviction;
- is violating a condition of probation or parole; or
- has information that is necessary for the officer to conduct the officer's official duties and the location or apprehension of the recipient is within the officer's official duties.
Effective upon enactment.
Denial of SSI Benefits for 10 Years to Individuals Who Have Misrepresented Residence in Order to Obtain Benefits in 2 or More States
- Denies SSI benefits for a period of 10 years to an individual convicted in Federal or State court of having made a fraudul ent statement with respect to his or her place of residence in order to receive benefits simultaneously in two or more States.
Effective upon enactment.
Social Security Card
- Requires the Conunissioner of Social Security to develop a prototype of a counterfeit-resistant Social Security card that:
- is made of durable, tamper-resistant material (e.g., plastic);
- employs technologies that provide security features (e.g., magnetic stripe); and
- provides individuals with reliable proof of citizenship or legal resident alien status.
- Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to study and report on different methods of improving the Social Security card application process, including:
- evaluation of the cost and workload implications of issuing a counterfeit-resistant Social Security card for all individuals over a 3-, 5-, and 10-year period;
- evaluation of the feasibility and cost implications of imposing a user fee for replacement cards and cards issued to individuals who apply for such a card prior to the scheduled 3-, 5-, and 10-year phase-in options.
- Requires the Commissioner to submit the repor t and a facsimile of the prototype card to the Congress within I year of the date of enactment.
- Requires SSA to complete a study and report to Congress within I year of the date of enactment on feasibility of prisoner repor ting by courts and mandatory electronic reporting by correctional facilities.
Expansion of the Federal Parent Locator Service
- Requires HHS to transmit to SSA, for verification purposes, certain information about individuals and employers maintained under the Federal Parent Locator Service in an automated directory to be known as the National Directory of New Hires. SSA would be required to verify the accuracy of, correct, or supply to the extent poss ible, and report to HHS the name, SSN, and birth date of individuals and the employer identification number of employers. SSA would be reimbursed by HHS for the cost of this verification service.
Effective upon enactment.
Collection and Use of SSNs for Use in Child-Support Enforcement
- Provides that State child support enforcement procedures would have to require that the SSN of any applicant for a professional license, commercial driver's license, occupational license, or marriage license be recorded on theapplication. The SSN of any person subject to a divorc e decree, support order, or paternity determination or acknowledgement would have to be placed in the pertinent records. SSN's would also have to be recorded on death certificates.
Effective upon enactment.
Regulations and Miscellaneous
- Generally, require s SSA to pre scribe the regulations needed to implement the amendments within 3 months of the date of enactment.
- Directs SSA to submit final regulations pertaining to the eligibility of children to SSI disability benefits to the Congress at least 45 days before such regulations would be effective.
- Requires SSA to report to the Congress, no later than 180 days following the date of enactment, on its progress in implementing the changes in the SSI disabled children's provisions.
Study by the General Accounting Office (GAO)
- Requires GAO, not later than January I , 1999, to study and report on the impact of the changes made by this Act on the SSI program and the extra expenses incurred by familie s of children receiving 55I benefits that are not covered by other Federal, State, or local programs.
Annnal Report on the SSI Program
- Requires the Commiss ioner to report to the President and Congress regarding the SSI program, not later than May 30 of each year, including:
- a comprehensive description of the program;
- historical and current data on allowances and denials, reconsiderations, administrative law judge hearings and appeals, characteristics of recipients, and program costs;
- projections of future numbers of recipients and program costs, through at least 25 years;
- information on redeterminations, utilization of work incentives, administrative costs, State supplementation programs;
- summaries of relevant research; and
- a historical summary of statutory changes to the SSI law.
- Provides that each member of the Social Security Advisory Board be permitted to include their views on the SSI program in the annual report.
Effective upon enactment.


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Last year, we were nearly giddy over a report that showed religion news had doubled ... to 2 percent of overall media coverage. Hey, we'll take it. In 2011, sadly, we did not see the same level of religion coverage in the press. A new analysis from Pew suggested that the coverage of religion went from 2 percent to .7 percent between 2010 and 2011. I enjoyed former religion beat reporter Eric Gorski's take: Religion reporters: You are the 0.7 percent.
It's no surprise that politics, the economy and foreign policy tops the list, but unlike last year, religion was topped by celebrity/entertainment, the environment, crime and other news coverage.
Six of the top 10 religion stories in 2011 focused at least partly on Islam. Naturally, religion and the elections was the most covered religion story. What surprised me was that the second most covered religion story was Rep. Peter King's congressional hearing on radical Islam in the U.S., accounting for 9.4% of religion coverage. What was it about that story that reporters kept covering it?
The journalistic tendency is to cover conflict, so when religion did make news, it tended to be cover questions about extremism or intolerance. Overall, Islam was subject of 31.3 percent of the religion "newshole," a higher amount compared to the percentage spent on Protestantism (20.1%), Catholicism (11.3%) and Mormonism (9.6%).
Religion and the 2012 election was 13.1 percent of all religion coverage, but it was down from four years earlier when campaign news made up 23.8 percent of 2007 religion coverage. In a reversal from last year, newspapers were somewhat more likely to cover religion, compared to cable TV, online outlets, radio and network news programs who were least likely to cover religion.
Specific stories trickled over from 2010 to 2011, such as Terry Jones, 9/11 commemorations, Westboro and the Catholic priest abuse scandal. Coverage of sexual abuse by Catholic priests received less coverage in 2011, receiving 3.9 percent of the religion coverage compared to 18.8 percent in 2010.
Pew has studied religion in the media for five years now, concluding that religion generally receives little attention compared to the percentage of the country that practices religion.
In a country that is highly religious, the subject is not a major focus of the news. In the 60 months studied, the percentage of stories on religion in any given month rarely fluctuated above or below 1-2% of the space online, in print, on television and on the radio. Another conclusion is that religion tends to make news when it engenders controversy. Deeper questions of faith and its meaning are not, typically, news. Rather, much of the coverage is event-driven. The two biggest religion stories over the past five years were the intense controversy over plans to build an Islamic center, including a mosque, near the World Trade Center site, and Florida pastor Terry Jones' announcement that his church would burn a Koran. The third-biggest story during that time was a visit by the pope to the U.S.
So are priorities at media outlets changing? Perhaps there are many topics that have a strong religion element in them that wouldn't fall in religion coverage per se. For instance, a story on Tim Tebow is not inherently religious, but several reporters covered a religion angle. Or perhaps we are seeing a real decline in religion-focused coverage. Just in the last month, the Chicago Tribune's religion blog, Beliefnet's Belief Beat and the Journal News's (New York) religion blog took a bow for reporters to move on to other duties. Perhaps reporter priorities are shifting away from blogs, but we hope that doesn't mean a shift away from the religion beat overall.
We will most likely continue to see religion and the campaign covered heavily this year, but it's worth considering whether the rest of religion coverage could suffer because of the attention given to politics.
Images Source: Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Copyright 2012, Pew Research Center. http://pewforum.org/.


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MEMPHIS, TENN.—Paul McCartney made his first visit to the one-time home of the King of Rock 'N' Roll and left a gift behind.
According to the official Twitter account of the former Beatle, McCartney dropped a personal guitar pick on Elvis Presley's grave and said it was "so Elvis can play in heaven."
The lifelong Elvis fan toured Graceland, the Memphis mansion, on Sunday.
He was in Memphis to play a show on the North American leg of his "Out There" tour.
The show at FedExForum marked McCartney's first visit to the Bluff City in two decades.


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The Florida case involving the 2012 fatal shooting of an unarmed African American youth and the gunman's acquittal in July proved a social tinder box for racial issues in America.
Diversity leaders on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus have organized a series of public meetings, four dialogue sessions and two town hall meetings built around the high-profile case.
The leaders say the very strands of discord sparked by the Martin case make it a great learning tool. Their hopes are the six meetings will encourage people, particularly students, to engage in civil discourse when faced with hot-button issues.
"It is easy to engage civilly on conversations over matters for which we agree," said Daniel Griffith, director of the IUPUI Intergroup Dialogue Group, one of the series co-sponsors. "The need for civil discourse is especially important for conversations over matters for which there is significant disagreement and strong emotion. Without civil discourse, where conversation becomes strident and negative, the opportunity for learning and the chance for increasing understanding and finding common ground will be lost."
The public meetings, titled "A Dialogue Series on Race, Politics and the Pursuit of Justice: America After Trayvon Martin," kick off with a town hall meeting from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in the auditorium of Hine Hall, formerly the University Place Conference Center, 850 W. Michigan St.
According to Wayne Hilson, the interim director of the IUPUI Multicultural Success Center and director of Multicultural Academic Relations, the series is a prime example of the spirit of the IUPUI 2013-15 Common Theme, "Find Your Voice and Hear My Voice."
"People seem to have increasing difficulty speaking to one another about serious matters in a civilized manner," Hilson said. "We think it's vital that our young people learn how to engage in productive, positive discourse, even on issues that can be divisive or uncomfortable."
Hilson and the other organizers are hopeful that participants from various ethnic and racial backgrounds will attend and not just those who might empathize more with Martin because of their own racial or ethnic backgrounds.
"This is for everyone," Hilson said. "Any true dialogue begins with a willingness to come and learn some things. These meetings will be a safe place to share one's opinion regardless of what side of the fence you are on."
The IUPUI Multicultural Success Center, the IUPUI Intergroup Dialogue Group and various academic units are co-sponsors of the series.
Following are the dates, times, locations and topics of the sessions:
- Oct. 31, Dialogue Session 1: "Legal Aspects + Implications of the Trayvon Martin Case," featuring IU McKinney School of Law faculty and legal experts from the greater Indianapolis community, 6 to 8 p.m., Room 132, Hine Hall
- Nov. 7, Dialogue Session 2: "The Impact of Social Injustice: The History and Impact of Profiling," featuring faculty from the Department of Africana Studies in the School of Liberal Arts, 6 to 8 p.m., Room 132, Hine Hall.
- Nov. 12, Dialogue Session 3: "Being Stopped by the Police or Others: Managing Confrontation, Avoiding Conflict," featuring IU Police Department officers and representatives from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, 6 to 8 p.m., Presidents Room, The Tower, formerly the University Place Hotel.
- Nov. 21, Dialogue Session 4: "Cultivating Positive Change on Campus and in the Classroom," featuring faculty from the Department of Psychology in the Purdue School of Science and the IU School of Education, 6 to 8 p.m., Room 132, Hine Hall.
- Dec. 5, Town Hall Meeting: Closing session, 6 to 9 p.m., Hine Hall Auditorium.


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One of my friends is an impressive campaign operative. He flies across the country each week advising campaigns, from congressional races to presidential ones. He's smart and savvy and has energy to burn. And even though he's much younger than I am, he's been doing it for more than 15 years. He started as a young homeschooler. The oldest of six, he began working on campaigns as a way to get practical experience and work skills. He turned out to be really good at it. I've covered races he's been involved with and I've met many other former homeschoolers on staff. It's a real thing (and not just in the way that increasing numbers of families are turning to homeschooling in general).
So I was delighted to read Daniel Burke's piece on "Rick Santorum's secret army: home-schoolers" via Religion News Service.
He begins by pointing to a "ragtag but politically potent army" helping out the campaign, organizing rallies, posting favorable features on social media and ringing doorbells:
"Santorum has been very aggressive in reaching out to the home-schooling community, especially in the last month," said Rebecca Keliher, the CEO and publisher of Home Educating Family Publishing.
Drawing on his experience as a home-schooling father of seven, the former Pennsylvania senator has also sought to rally enthusiasm by pledging to continue that course in the White House.
"It's a great sacrifice that my wife, Karen, and I have made to try to give what we think is the best possible opportunity for our children to be successful," Santorum said during a March 1 campaign stop in Georgia. "Not just economically, but in a whole lot of other areas that we think are important -- virtue and character and spirituality."
Rallying home-schoolers could provide a huge boost to Santorum's bare-bones campaign. The tightly knit and predominantly Christian communities are famous for furnishing favored candidates with hundreds of steadfast foot soldiers. Studies show that home-schoolers are disproportionately likely to vote, donate and volunteer for campaigns.
Well, considering that this country is predominantly Christian, it's not exactly helpful to know that homeschoolers are too. Thankfully, we get some stats:
An estimated 2 million children are home-educated in the U.S., according to Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute. Nearly three-quarters have conservative Christian parents who seek to instill the moral and religious values that they believe are lacking in public schools, according to Ray and other experts.
Despite their growing diversity, home-schoolers also tend to be politically conservative.
Different friends of mine who were also home-schooled, used to intern at political offices (albeit not campaigns) at pretty young ages. They loved the chance to interact and learn from others as well as hone their office skills. The article addresses how home-school families see the benefit in what they do:
Home-schooling families often use campaigns as real-world civics lessons, with mothers taking their children along on afternoons as they make calls and volunteer at campaign headquarters, Keliher said.
"And you have triple or quadruple the effort when they bring the children," she added.
We get some info on "one of the country's most famous -- and largest -- home-schooling families" who are campaigning with Santorum.
The story also points out that some home-schoolers support Ron Paul and explains why they don't support Santorum. On that point, the story also did a good job of explaining the appeal of Santorum's social conservatism to the conservative Christian home-school families.
Just a great campaign story -- and so different than most of the on-the-trail stuff you read.
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While the Apple faithful wait on tenterhooks for news of the new iPhone, rumours are starting to surface that we will see a new version of Apple's browser Safari launched at WWDC on 7 June.
MacGeneration, a French apple news site, is claiming that Safari will be overhauled, getting a boost to Safari 5 when the Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off on Monday.
New to Safari 5 will apparently be "a Reader functionality that will make web page reading easier by extracting and organizing the text" as well as "The search field will now include Bing as well as Yahoo and Google."
Other features will be under the hood, including yet another speed boost to compete with the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, via a new Javascript render that is 25 per cent faster than currently available.
It will also include more DNS prefetching and caching to help with speed and a greater support for HTML5, something Apple has just suddenly got very keen on.
Elsewhere there appears to be lots of boring developer fixes and improvements, although those who like a bit of private browsing might be drawn to the addition of a new icon that lets you turn it on and off without digging through the standard drop down menu.
If the thought of a new browser wasn't enough to get you giddy with excitement (we know how you roll) then the news that Apple is also supposedly planning on releasing Mac OS X 10.6.4 will probably send you orgasmic.
But with that supposedly being about bug fixes, that euphoric excitement might be a little, how should we say it, premature.


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Ring-necked snakes remain concealed in leaf litter and rotted logs or under trash piles. When molested they may turn their tail upside-down in a tight coil to expose the bright orange underside. They lay from 2-5 eggs.
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Located in the heart of metropolitan Los Angeles, the world famous Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits represents the only active urban paleontological excavation site in the world.
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NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, considered a possible Democratic contender for the U.S. presidency in 2016, has signed a deal to write a biography that publisher HarperCollins said on Tuesday would be a "full and frank" look at his private and public life.
The publisher said it has acquired world rights to the as-yet untitled book, which it expects to be on the shelves in 2014.
The book will cover his years growing up in Queens, New York, his tenure as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton and his election to the state's top office in 2010.
"He will reveal the story of his history and will share personal and private moments that shaped his life: his father's legacy, his personal trials and tribulations, and his role as a father to his three girls, twins Mariah and Cara and his youngest, Michaela," HarperCollins said in a statement.
Cuomo's father, Mario, also served as governor of New York.
Cuomo, 55, was married to Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, for more than a decade until their divorce in 2005. He lives with his girlfriend, Food Network host Sandra Lee, in Westchester County in New York.
The book will also cover his four years as New York's attorney general before becoming the state's 56th governor.
Cuomo will discuss several major events during his governorship, "from signing same-sex marriage legislation to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy and his subsequent work with President Obama to help those who were ravaged by the storm," according to HarperCollins.
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While it may not really be Summer yet, I consider it Summer in my book. I have shared some of my Sounds of Summer! in my recent post.
There is something magical in the noise that mother natures critters make when waking up in the Spring and Summer. I personally come alive after feeling dormant indoors all Winter long. I do not like Winter at all and hope to retire somewhere warm soon
Now I posted some little snippets of things that I have been doing trying to catch up with everything as tax time always puts me behind. Yes, I do my own taxes and have done so since I was 16 when my daddy showed me how. There have only been 2 times I went to a tax professional and that was because we sold our homes and relocated with a job where we got relocation money.
Anyway, I would really love to hear what some others favorite Spring and Summer time sounds and memories are. It's not all about me
And yes I love the smell of fresh cut grass and wild onions. Mmmmm! Acho! hee hee


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CARSON, Calif. – On Tuesday, 18-year-old right back Oscar Sorto signed a contract with the LA Galaxy becoming the fourth Homegrown signing in club history and the first defender ever. While the contract marked the start of his professional career, his journey to become a professional athlete began at the tender age of six.
READ: LA Galaxy sign defender Oscar Sorto as Homegrown Player
That's when Sorto and his father Oscar were driving down the street and went past McAllister Field on the campus of USC. The field, typically reserved for the USC women's soccer team, had a different team training on it that day—the LA Galaxy.
"I remember seeing Cobi Jones because he had the colorful hair and, of course, Mauricio Cienfuegos," said Sorto. "It was one of the moments that really motivated me because even though it's hard, seeing a pro team train across the street from my home is something that helped me decide to become a soccer player.
"I remember [my dad] telling me to 'look at that player, he's a smart player'," said Sorto. "That's the only thing that I remember. He told me that 'I want you to be one of those important players.'"
The player that his father was pointing to? LA Galaxy legend Mauricio Cienfuegos, who is a national hero in El Salvador, the birth country of Oscar's father and mother.
The connection that Sorto felt to the club and the community is something that remains important for Galaxy Vice President Chris Klein, in addition to the youngster's soccer acumen.
"It's another example of a kid that grew up close to The HDC, following the Galaxy, that is going to be on our roster," Klein said. "We feel that he has tremendous potential to make an impact for our club. Also, this is the first defender that we've signed out of academy, which shows the growth of what we're doing with integrating [Academy] players into the first team roster."
However, life wasn't always so easy for Sorto, who grew up in a heavily Salvadoran portion of South Central Los Angeles. Although South Central is considered one of the roughest neighborhoods in Southern California, Sorto first learned his love for the game on the various parks and schoolyards of his neighborhood.
Even though Sorto did his best to stay away from gangs and other negative influences, it did not prevent the youngster from coming face to face with tragedy at age 11.
"I remember one day a friend was playing with me and then out of nowhere, he just walked home," Sorto said. "The next day, we learned that he was in a drive-by shooting and he passed away. I took all those things in my head and it got me thinking that if I went down the wrong direction then I could be one of them too.
"Growing up there was tough because there are a lot of wrong directions that you can take or go, but you need to always stay focused," Sorto added. "Like my dad always told me, 'you just need to stay focused and not listen to anyone on the streets so if you just play soccer then one day you'll become big.'
"I think he was right because here I am."
Highlights: Galaxy win Reserve League title
Sorto has surely made his family proud through his recent series of accomplishments, both on and off the field.
The 18-year-old recently graduated from Manuel Arts High School and has blossomed into one of the Galaxy Academy's finest young talents. In 2012, Sorto spent half of the season training with the first team while also serving as a regular contributor for the MLS Reserve League Western Division championship winning side, appearing in seven of their 10 games. Sorto has also made a total of seven appearances for the Galaxy Under-18 side during the 2012/13 season, tallying three goals from his right back position.
READ: Galaxy Reserves show development by winning Reserve League West Division title
"What I do best is that I make the right decisions, I don't try to force balls into players and I like to give my best," said Sorto. "I'm humble and a quiet player, but on the field I try to do my best to do what I can for the team."
When Sorto makes his debut, he'll be able to finally don the shirt of his hero Cienfuegos in a competitive match after watching him on the practice field more than a decade ago. While Cienfuegos remains a lynchpin for the Galaxy's Salvadoran fan base, Sorto hopes to follow in those celebrated footprints.
"I think it's a lot of pressure especially living in Los Angeles where there is a lot of Salvadorans because their passion for soccer is something special," said Sorto. "Playing for the Galaxy is going to be big and I'm going to try and represent my blood as well as the people that I look up to."
READ: Sorto developing into one of the Galaxy's finest young prospects
But before the Galaxy wunderkind takes the field during the preseason, he's aware that there's much work to be done to get ready for the rigors that 2013 will bring.
"I'm already working on my fitness and I'm going to try and get a little bit stronger," said Sorto. "I want to be ready to go for the preseason."
Adam Serrano is the LA Galaxy Insider. Read his blog at LAGalaxy.com/Insider and contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Playwrights: Grosch, Jansen & Curley, adptd from Janet Letnes Martin & Suzann Nelson
Director: Michael Misko
After church ladies
everywhere dashed to the theatre last spring for Sierra Rep's production of
the original Church Basement Ladies, SRT
is bringing back the heartwarming humor and antics of this favorite flock of
Lutheran ladies from rural Minnesota. A Second Helping picks
up the story in 1969 with the world changing. As Vietnam War protests swell and
women everywhere demand equal pay for equal work, the finely tuned ladies
running the church basement kitchen face changes of their own. From the elderly
matriarch to the young mom-to-be, these women find strength in each other as
they deal with the joys and upheavals from below the House of God!Tickets and info: sierrarep.org; (209) 532-3120Caption: Becky
Saunders, Nancy O'Bryan, Paige Herschell and Caitlin Randall. Photo: Rich
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New stores opening on Route 9
Route 9 in Chestnut Hill has been a bustle of construction activity for nearly a year: Now some of those long-planned developments are taking shape.
Several new stores along the busy corridor are opening in the coming weeks, additional road improvements are scheduled for this spring, and Wegmans, the specialty grocery store chain, will open later this fall.
WS Development and New England Development, among the major players in the Route 9 changes, said their companies are significantly modernizing one of the region's central shopping districts.
"I think we're really reinvigorating the Chestnut Hill market," said Doug Karp, executive vice president of New England Development. "This will be the 3.0 version."
For Newton, these redevelopments will also mean more tax revenue for the city's coffers. Together, the projects are estimated to bring in up to $2 million in additional taxes annually to the city.
New England Development is building Wegmans, part of the new Chestnut Hill Square project, on the site of the former Omni Foods Supermarkets. Several other retailers, restaurants, and medical offices are also opening in Chestnut Hill Square and a residential tower is planned in the future.
On the other side of the street, WS Development has given the old Chestnut Hill Shopping Center a face lift and a new name: The Street.
Sports Club/LA opened last week in that shopping center. City Sports, a longtime tenant, and Pottery Barn, which had been at The Atrium, have relocated and were scheduled to officially open at The Street over the weekend, said Michael McNaughton, a spokesman for WS Development.
Trendy burger joint Shake Shack, yoga clothier Lululemon, and frozen yogurt supplier Pinkberry will all open at The Street by the end of March, McNaughton said.
"Over the next three weeks we've got quite a bit happening," he said.
The Showcase Super Lux Cinema featuring Davio's Cucina, a movie theater and restaurant combination that will anchor the shopping center, will open in May, McNaughton said.
WS Development tore down the former Macy's building for the new project.
The company has also started demolishing the old City Sports building a few hundred feet away and will be constructing a three-story office and retail building.
On the south side of Route 9, Chestnut Hill Square has been a more complex undertaking.
To fit Wegmans, along with the retailers, restaurants and medical offices on the Chestnut Hill Square site, New England Development had to make about $14 million in infrastructure improvements to the area.
The cost of the infrastructure work is being split between the developer and the state and includes widening approach roads, adding traffic lights, and installing a median break on Route 9, so westbound travelers can turn left into the shopping center.
Residents in Newton and Brookline have long been worried that Chestnut Hill Square would worsen traffic on already busy Route 9. Traffic concerns delayed approval of the project for years and New England Development eventually scaled back its plans to win support.
Much of the road work has been done at night to avoid conflicts with everyday traffic along Route 9, Karp said.
All the road work should be finished by the end of the summer, he said.
"We're excited for this to open; it's been a long time coming," Karp said.
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