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Robert & Daniel talk about movies, Sasha Velour's "Nightgowns," Drag Race Thailand, & give a listener some advice.
Robert & Daniel talk about attending PodInLive, hanging out with Favy Fav from Latinos Who Lunch & Eva from De Colores Radio, & review their favorites looks from the 2019 Met Gala.
Robert & Daniel talk about their week and highlight some news stories that were quite perplexing: A soldier fell into a volcano, a U.K. man has a peculiar fetish involving horses, spilled gravy led to the arrest of a man from Iowa, and Chemsex Survival Kits are all the rage.
Robert & Daniel celebrate their 7-year wedding anniversary; discuss Ryan O'Conell's Netflix series, "Special"; talk about the new PBS documentary, "State Of The Art."
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Before you end a meeting or session, it's very important to save or send any files you want to keep. When you're done, everything is completely cleaned from the Surface Hub to help protect your privacy and to prepare Surface Hub for the next person.
To send whiteboard files to yourself and other people in the meeting, use the email button in the whiteboard.
Or, if you're using other apps, look for the share option.
Select Email on the Share pane.
Your files will automatically be attached to the message, and the meeting organizer's email address will be in the To: field. Add anyone else you want, and then select Send.
The OneDrive app is another way to save files. Open the app (select Start
To save files to a USB drive, insert the drive into a USB port on the Surface Hub touchscreen. Then use the Save as option in the app you're using to save your file to the USB drive.
If you're working on a file that's saved to an online storage service (like Dropbox), save the file as you normally would.
When you're done with your session, select End session. The Surface Hub is cleaned up for the next person, and the account info you used to sign in to any apps and services will be deleted from the Surface Hub to help protect your privacy.

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Before you can encrypt a volume from the command line you must first convert it to CoreStorage if it isn't already. As volumes on external disks aren't likely to be CoreStorage, let's check using diskutil along with corestorage and then list:
Assuming your volume was already formatted with a non-corestorage format and isn't listed, locate the volume and document the disk identifier (in this case disk2s3). Then, run diskutil corestorage along with the convert verb and the disk, as follows (no need to run this command if it's already listed):
diskutil corestorage list
sudo diskutil corestorage convert disk2s3
The output should look similar to the following:
Started CoreStorage operation on disk2s3 Reco
Resizing disk to fit Core Storage headers
Creating Core Storage Logical Volume Group
Attempting to unmount disk2s3
Switching disk2s3 to Core Storage
Waiting for Logical Volume to appear
Mounting Logical Volume
Core Storage LVG UUID: 19D34AAA-498A-44FC-99A5-3E719D3DB6FB
Core Storage PV UUID: 2639E13A-250D-4510-889A-3EEB3B7F065C
Core Storage LV UUID: 4CC5881F-88B3-42DD-B540-24AA63952E31
Core Storage disk: disk4
Finished CoreStorage operation on disk2s3 Reco
Once converted, the LV UUID (LV is short for Logical Volume) can be used to encrypt the logical volume using a password of crowbar to unlock it:
sudo diskutil corestorage encryptvolume 4CC5881F-88B3-42DD-B540-24AA63952E31 -passphrase crowbar
The output is similar to the following:
Started CoreStorage operation on disk4 Reco
Scheduling encryption of Core Storage Logical Volume
Core Storage LV UUID: 4CC5881F-88B3-42DD-B540-24AA63952E31
Finished CoreStorage operation on disk4 Reco
According to the size, this process can take some time. Monitor the progress using the corestorage list option:
diskutil corestorage list
In all of these commands, replace core storage w/ cs for less typing. I'll use the shortened version as I go. I know that we rarely change passwords, but sometimes it needs to happen. If it needs to happen on a core storage encrypted volume, this can be done from the command line or a script. To do so, use diskutil cs with the changevolumepassphrase option. We'll use -oldpassphrase to provide the old password and -newpassphrase to provide the new passphrase.
diskutil cs changeVolumePassphrase FC6D57CD-15FC-4A9A-B9D7-F7CF26312E00 -oldpassphrase crowbar -newpassphrase hedeservedit
I continue to get prompted when I send the -newpassphrase, so I've taken to using stdin , using -stdinpassphrase. Once encrypted there will occasionally come a time for decrypting, or removing the encryption, from a volume. It's worth noting that neither encrypting or decrypting requires erasing. To decrypt, use the decryptVolume verb, again with the -passphrase option:
diskutil cs decryptvolume 4CC5881F-88B3-42DD-B540-24AA63952E31 -passphrase crowbar
FileVault 2: Encrypting Boot Volumes
Boot volumes are configured a bit differently. This is namely because the boot volume requires FileVault 2, which unifies usernames and passwords with the encryption so that users enter one username and password rather than unlocking drives. To configure FileVault 2, open the Security & Privacy System Preference pane and then click on the FileVault tab. Click on the lock to make changes and then provide the password for an administrative account of the system. Then, click on "Turn On FileVault…"
If there are multiple users, enable each user who should be able to boot the system. On a server, this only needs to be administrators as you likely don't have the password for end users.
When prompted with the Recovery Key, document it and then click on Continue.
Choose whether to restore the recovery key with Apple. If you will be storing the key with Apple then provide the AppleID. Otherwise, simply click the bullet for "Do not store the recovery key with Apple" and then click on the Continue button.
When prompted, click on Restart to reboot and be prompted for the first account that can unlock the FileVaulted system.
Once encrypted, the FileVault tab in the Security & Privacy System Preference pane shows the encryption status, or percent during encryption.
Use the Enable Users… button to enable additional accounts to unlock the volume (note: by default accounts cannot login until their account has been added here).
That's it. Managing FileVault 2 using the System Preferences is about as easy as it can get. But for those who require mass management, Apple has provided a tool called fdesetup for that as well.
Using fdesetup with FileVault 2
FileVault 2 now comes with a nifty configuration utility called fdesetup. To use fdesetup to encrypt the boot volume, first check FileVault's status by entering the fdesetup command along with the –status option (wait, no — required any more!):
fdesetup status
As with most other commands, read the help page before starting to use just in case there are any changes to it between the writing of this article and when you kick off your automated encryption. Done using the help verb:
fdesetup help
After confirming FileVault is off, enable FileVault with the enable option, as follows:
sudo fdesetup enable
Unless additional parameters are specified, an interactive session prompts for the primary user's short name and password. Once enabled, a Recovery key is returned by the fdesetup command. You can also cancel this by just hitting Control-C so we can look at more complicated iterations of the command. It should be recorded or otherwise stored, something easily done by mounting in a script (e.g. a write-only share in a script for key escrowing). If more complicated measures are needed, of course check out Cauliflower Vest at code.google.com. The fdesetup command is now at version 2.36:
fdesetup version
Now, if you run fdesetup and you've deployed a master keychain then you're going to have a little more work to do; namely point the -keychain command at the actual keychain. For example:
sudo fdesetup enable -keychain /Library//Keychains/FileVaultMaster.keychain
To define a certificate:
sudo fdesetup enable -certificate /temp/filename.cer
Adding additional users other than the one who enabled fdesetup is a bit different than the first:
sudo fdesetup add -usertoadd robin
To remove users, just remove them with a remove verb followed by the -user option and the username:
sudo fdesetup remove -user robin
The remove and add options also offer using the -uuid rather than the username. Let's look at Robin's uid :
dscl . read /Users/robin GeneratedUID | cut -c 15-50
Yes, I used cut. If you have a problem with that then take your judgmental fuc… Nevermind. Take that GUID and plug it in as the uuid using the -uuid option. For example, to do so with the remove verb:
sudo fdesetup remove -uuid 31E609D5-39CF-4A42-9F24-CFA2B36F5532
Or for good measure, we can basically replicate -user w/ -uuid for a nice stupid human trick:
sudo fdesetup remove -uuid `dscl . read /Users/robin GeneratedUID | cut -c 15-50`
All of the fdesetup commands can be run interactively or using options to define the variables otherwise provided in the interactive prompt. These are defined well in the man page. Finally, let's look at -defer. Using -defer, you can run the fdesetup tool at the next login, write the key to a plist and then grab it with a script of some sort later. At logout, the user will get prompted for a
sudo fdesetup enable -defer /temp/fdesetupescrow.plist
Or define users concurrently (continuing to use the robin test user):
sudo fdesetup enable -user robin -defer /temp/fdesetupescrow.plist
FileVault accounts can also use accounts from Directory Services automatically. These need to synchronize with the Directory Service routinely as data is cached. To do so:
sudo fdesetup sync
This is really just scratching the surface of what you can do with fdesetup. The definitive source for which is the man page as well as a nicely done article by Rich Trouton.
Encrypting Time Machine Backups
The last full disk encryption to discuss is Time Machine. To encrypt Time Machine backups, use Time Machine's System Preference pane. The reason for this being that doing so automatically maintains mounting information in the Operating System, rather than potentially having an encrypted drive's password get lost or not entered and therefore not have backups run.
To enable disk encryption for Time Machine destinations, open the Time Machine System Preference pane and click on Select Backup Disk… From the backup disk selection screen, choose your backup target and then check the box for "Encrypt backups". Then, click on Use Disk.
At the overlay screen, provide a backup password twice and if you would like, a hint as to what that password is. When you are satisfied with your passwords, click on the Encrypt Disk button.
Now, there are a couple of things to know here. 1. Don't forget that password. 2. If you use an institutional FileVault Key then still don't forget that password as it will not work. 3. Don't forget that password…
Encrypting data in OS X can take on other forms as well. The keychains encrypt passwords and other objects. Additionally, you can still create encrypted dmgs and many file types have built in encryption as well. But the gist is that Apple encrypts a lot. They also sandbox a lot and with the addition of gatekeeper are code signing a lot. But encrypting volumes and disks is mostly about physical security, which these types of encryption provide a substantial solution for.
While all this security might seem like a lot, it's been in Apple's DNA for a long time and really security is about layers and the Mac Systems Administrator batbelt needs a lot of items to allow us to adapt to the changing landscape of security threats. OS X is becoming a little more like iOS as can be expected and so I would suspect that encryption will become more and more transparent as time goes on. Overall, the options allow encrypting every piece of data that goes anywhere near a system. The mechanisms with which data is now encrypted are secure, as is the data at rest. Once data is decrypted, features like Gatekeeper and the application layer firewall supplement traditional network encryption to keep well secured.


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Your baby's perfect, your body's beat, you're blissful, you're blue. Welcome to life as a new mom. Here's how to cope.
It's ironic: Just when you're most joyful at the arrival of your new baby, watching his every smile, drool, pee and poop with adoring attention, you're probably most distressed to discover your own body out of shape, your sex drive seemingly gone for good and your emotions more touchy than a teen-ager's.
Welcome to life as a new mom! It takes many of us months to feel "normal" again. (In fact, your life is so altered that your definition of normal might be changed forever.) The truth is that the rate and nature of postpartum recovery can vary greatly, depending on whether or not you had a Cesarean section, how calm or needy your infant may be or how many unrealistic goals you've harbored.
Your mantra must be this: Take it easy. The first weeks postpartum are hard for many new moms. "If you're feeling crummy, remember that you're not a failure," says Allan Lichtman, M.D., a Los Angeles obstetrician and gynecologist who is also a clinical professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. For support (and a reality check), talk to other new moms from your childbirth-education
After the rigors of labor, followed by consecutive nights of interrupted sleep, exhaustion is normal. It usually lifts after about three months as you and your new family gradually develop a routine. Get through it by napping, accepting assistance from friends and family (or hired help) and keeping your expectations realistic. In these first weeks, remember that your main job is to care for your newborn and yourself — not to clean the house or be the perfect hostess to the droves of visitors knocking at the door. "I really encourage women to use help and to nap — and to feel good about those choices," says Los Angeles OB/GYN Allan Lichtman. You cannot let shyness keep you from asking for — or hiring — help at this time. Your sanity depends on it.
Your body just isn't the same for several months after pregnancy and childbirth, so give yourself a break and don't expect it to be. Focus on keeping up healthful eating and exercise habits rather than obsessing about the scale. Buy some flattering clothes and give yourself pep talks. Many women return to their prepregnancy weight within five months of childbirth, but for some it can take nine months to a year or more. The best way to lose the weight is to gradually work exercise back into your daily life. Keep up a diet of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and protein. And remember that breastfeeding can (but does not always) speed up some weight loss.
"Big" is probably the best word to describe your breasts during pregnancy and in the early weeks of breastfeeding (and for this reason many women wear a well-fitting nursing bra 24 hours a day). But what about later? They can lose some firmness after childbirth, according to Kathleen Huggins, R.N., M.S., author of The Nursing Mother's Companion. When weaning occurs, your breasts may seem smaller after so many months of being full of milk. But every woman is different, and much depends on age and genetics.
Bladder Control
Pregnancy stretches your urethra and the ligaments that support your bladder. A vaginal delivery stretches just about every muscle in your pelvis (a Cesarean section won't affect them). As a result, you might find that you leak urine when you sneeze, cough or laugh. This condition usually disappears within several months, but Kegel exercises — the contracting of the muscles around the vagina — will strengthen the pelvic floor and help you regain bladder control more quickly. In the meantime, you may want to wear sanitary napkins.
Sex Drive
Interest in sex usually takes a nose dive after childbirth. Your body has been nurturing a baby all day, every day, and you're worn out; lovemaking is likely the last thing on your mind. "A pressure can develop from your partner," says Lichtman, "but you should only have sex when you want to have sex and because you are ready." Of course, when one spouse wants to resume sex and the other doesn't, tension between a couple can arise, requiring a lot of mutual understanding and compromise. It helps to remember that intercourse is not the only path to intimacy; kissing, embracing, massage and pillow talk might be best in the early weeks. And staying close helps. When you are ready, you might be surprised by the pain of intercourse. An episiotomy or perineal tears might be partly to blame. And lowered hormone levels can cause vaginal dryness. Use foreplay, go slowly, and try over-the-counter lubricants. And unless you want another baby, don't forget contraception!
The stretching of your abdominal-wall muscles will leave your tummy looking flabby in the weeks after childbirth. Breastfeeding often helps, because it stimulates the hormone oxytocin, which contracts the uterus, as does walking and, eventually (with your doctor's approval), a more vigorous exercise routine that includes crunches (see our postpartum workout on page 111). Most mothers regain their abdominal muscle tone in about six months, says Lichtman. If you had a Cesarean section, the area around your scar may be numb for many months.
One minute you're euphoric, the next you're sobbing at a sappy TV commercial. Expect a roller coaster of emotions after childbirth, says Steven Dubovsky, M.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Not only are your hormones still running high, but your entire life has changed. You have a new identity and more responsibilities. You might be overcome by the magic of childbirth yet (especially if you had a C-section) regret that it did not go as you'd hoped. You may experience love and loneliness. You might feel insecure about being a parent. It's all normal.
Up to 70 percent of new moms develop postpartum blues: tearfulness, anxiety and mood swings that begin several days after delivery and may last for two weeks to a month. Postpartum blues subsides on its own and does not require medical care.
Postpartum depression is more serious and long-lasting, affecting an estimated 10 percent of new mothers. It often develops about a month after delivery and can persist until a woman gets treatment, Dubovsky says. Mothers with depression experience days filled with profound sadness. They may have dark attitudes about themselves and their babies and have thoughts of suicide. Physical symptoms include lack of appetite and a sleeplessness unrelated to the new baby's schedule. Call your doctor or midwife if you experience any of these symptoms, and do so immediately if you think you could harm yourself or your baby. Medical care, usually in the form of counseling and/or medication, does help dramatically.
In the weeks following childbirth, you may notice tiny broken blood vessels on your face, particularly around your eyes or nose. These are caused by the tremendous pushing you did during labor and will disappear within days. Happily, most other skin abnormalities that may have developed during pregnancy will diminish, too.
Your period
It will be many months before your period resumes with any regularity. If you nurse, you might get your period back between one to three months after you begin to wean your baby; if you're not nursing, your period will probably resume one to four months after you give birth.
So Happy Together
How soon can a new mom exercise? For some, it's the day after giving birth. Gentle exercises, such as belly breathing and pelvic tilts, may help a new mother relax and feel less stiff and cramped. But after regaining some strength and stamina, finding time for a regular routine can be tricky. New mothers who want to get back in shape may try to exercise when the baby is asleep — but that doesn't always work with a newborn, whose sleeping schedule is unpredictable. Our solution: five easy exercises, designed by fitness editor Linda Shelton, that you can do with your baby. This way, when it's baby's nap time, you can take that much-needed nap, too! This is a progressive training program: As your baby gets heavier, there will more of her to lift, so you'll need to get stronger. For best results, try to do this 15- to 20-minute workout four to five times per week.
Your first moves
Most new moms, even those who had Cesarean sections, are encouraged to walk the day after giving birth to get the circulation flowing. Here are a few basic, easy exercises you may be able to begin in the first few days postpartum.
Kegels Contract the muscles around the vagina and hold for 10 seconds; then slowly release. Aim for 5 sets of 10 reps at a time; do 3–4 times during the day. Strengthens pelvic-floor muscles and may help prevent incontinence.
Belly Breathing
Lie in bed or on the floor, knees bent, feet flat; inhale and expand your abdomen; then contract your abdominals as tightly as possible, pulling your navel in toward your spine. At the same time, tilt your pelvis upward, bringing hips toward your lower ribs. Aim for 15 reps per day, progressing to 20–25. Strengthens abdominals.
Back Stretch and Strength
Kneel on the floor on all fours, knees under hips and arms under shoulders, back straight; round your spine up toward the ceiling, tucking your tailbone underneath you. Relax your head and neck to fully stretch your back. Return to just past neutral, slightly arching spine, head up. Do 4–6 reps. After 2 weeks, progress to mild strengthening: From the same starting position, lift right leg to hip height and left arm to shoulder height without arching back or rounding shoulders. Lower and repeat with opposite arm and leg. Work up to 8–10 reps, alternating sides. Stretches and strengthens back muscles.
Wall sit
Lean your entire back against a wall with feet separated in front of you. Bend knees, lowering thighs to a parallel position, knees in line with ankles. Hold for 10–15 seconds; build up to 30 seconds. When you can hold this squat position for 30 seconds, alternately straighten one leg out in front of you to hip height and hold for a count of 5; keep back against the wall. Begin with 5 reps and build to 10 (1 rep equals 1 leg lift). Strengthens quadriceps.
Mom and baby workout
With your doctor's approval, you may be able to take long walks and add a strengthening workout to the above-mentioned moves at six weeks postpartum (or earlier if all bleeding has stopped, your scars are healing well and you have sufficient energy). The following exercises are designed to increase overall body strength, which will not only help get you back into shape but may also prevent aches and pains, including back strain, as your baby grows. The moves are simple and can be done in the comfort of your home. Equipment needed: one happy baby.
The Exercises
1. Baby ride
Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart. Hold your baby under her armpits, legs straddling you just above your pubic bone [A]. Contract your abdominals and tilt your pelvis to curl your tailbone, buttocks and lower back off the floor, contracting your buttocks at the top of the lift [B]. Release and lower your hips. Do 2 sets of 8 reps. Strengthens abdominals, buttocks, lower back, inner and outer thighs, and ankle flexors.
1. Toes off floor and flexed upward. 2. Open and close knees with toes flexed and off floor. Do 2 sets of 8 of each variation, building to 3 sets of 8. Strengthens quadriceps, buttocks, hamstrings, lower back and abdominals.
2. Baby crunches
Sit on the floor with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Place your baby on your lower legs, with her chest facing you, holding her under her armpits for support. Gently contract your abdominals, tilt your pelvis and roll backward until you're lying flat on the floor with your baby still on your shins and your knees pulled close to your chest [A]. Curl your head, neck and shoulders up and forward off the floor; exhale at the top of the lift [B]. Inhale, return to starting position and repeat. Do 2 sets of 8 reps, building to 4 sets of 8. Strengthens abdominals.
3. Kiss the baby push-ups
Get on your hands and knees, arms straight and slightly in front of your shoulders, with knees behind your hips and your baby lying on the floor between your hands. Contract your abs so your head, neck, spine and hips form one straight line [A]. Inhale and bend elbows out to sides; lower yourself to kiss your baby [B]. Exhale, push yourself back up to the starting position and repeat. Training tip: Lift and lower your body in one straight line without collapsing. Do l set of 8 reps, building to 2 sets of 8. Strengthens chest, front shoulders and triceps.
4. Sit squats
Stand with your back to the seat of a chair, feet hip-width apart, legs straight but not locked. Hold your baby to your chest with your hands. Contract your abdominals so your tailbone points toward the floor and squeeze shoulder blades together [A]. Keeping your back straight and your body weight back toward your heels, bend your knees, lowering your torso into a squat as if to sit down. Your torso will lean forward slightly [B]. When the backs of your thighs barely touch the chair, straighten legs to starting position; repeat. Do 1 set of 12 reps, building to 2 or 3 sets of 12. Strengthens quadriceps, hamstrings and buttocks.
5. Bend-overs
Sit on the edge of a chair with feet wider than hip width. With baby in your arms, abs tight and chest lifted, lean forward from hips, keeping back straight and lowering baby toward floor [A]. Keeping abs tight and back straight, return to a vertical seated position, bringing baby up with you [B]. Repeat. Do 1 set of 8 reps, building to 2 sets of 8. Strengthens back and legs.


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Courtesy of SirsiDynix's Chief Statistician Bob Molyneux, here is a link to a map of libraries damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Click on a marker to learn the library's name and the condition of its facilities.
While on that company's Normative Data Project website, check out NDP to see if it's something that might be useful to your library's managers.


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To promote my horror novel, AFRAID, which debuts March 31, I'm appearing on different blogs every single day in March.
Please follow my daily journey, and broaden your blog-reading horizons.
It's Day #20, and I've been featured on 50 different blogs so far. I'd like to thank everyone who has hosted me, and is planning on hosting me. If you wanted to host me, and I haven't replied, try me again.
Busy day today on the tour. I start off at Writer Unboxed and reveal my secrets of self-promotion:
Then I discuss fear over at Feng Shui Assassin:
The incomparable Marshal Zeringue kindly invited me to do Page 69 and Page 99 tests on Afraid:
Joe Rixman gives Afraid a great review:
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Tech Geoscientists Present Research at International Conference, June 20, 2001
SOCORRO, June 20, 2001 -- Several geoscientists from New Mexico Tech will present results of their ongoing research at "Earth System Processes," an international and interdisciplinary conference being held June 24 - 28, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Co-sponsored by two of the oldest Earth science organizations -- the Geological Society of America and the Geological Society of London -- "Earth System Processes" will bring together some of the world's most eminent scientists to take a new look at how the Earth has evolved and how processes controlling the nature of the planet have changed since the birth of our solar system some 4.5 billion years ago.
Harold Tobin, assistant professor of geophysics at New Mexico Tech, will talk on "Fault Structure, Mechanics, and Hydrogeology of Accretionary Prism Décollement Zones Revisited."
Tech graduate student Jennifer Wilson will speak on "Deformation Bands and Fluid-Fault Interaction in Non-Welded Tuffs," a research study conducted in collaboration with Laurel Goodwin, associate professor of geology at Tech.
And, another New Mexico Tech graduate student, Geoffrey Rawling, will present "The Nature of Cataclastic Deformation in Faulted Poorly Lithified Sediments and Its Structural and Hydrologic Implications," a research collaboration which also included Goodwin and Tech hydrology professor John Wilson.
"This will be a new adventure for us all as we are going out of our way to break down discipline barriers and have everyone from the hammer-wielding geologist to the astrobiologist talk to each other," explains Ian Dalziel of the University of Texas at Austin.
Dalziel, who serves as the international conference's technical program co-chair, along with Ian Fairchild of Keele University at Staffordshire, is the Secretary of the Geological Society of America's International Division.


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Map 1: Tennessee and surrounding region.
Map 1 is based on a map Jedidiah Hotchkiss, a mapmaker for the Confederate army, drew in 1880. Chattanooga stands at the southern gateway to the Cumberland and Allegheny Mountains. It also has a natural port on the Tennessee River.
Questions for Map 1
1. What states are near Chattanooga?
2. What prominent natural features are near Chattanooga?
3. How do these features help explain Chattanooga's appeal as a rail center?
4. In the 1840s, a resident of Chattanooga said the city was located at the "funnel of the universe." What did he mean?
5. Can you find another location on this map that has similar natural advantages?
* The map on this screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Map 1, but be aware that the file may take as much as 40 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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How to give your nursery a vintage look.
Q: How do I give our nursery a vintage look?
A: Make sure nothing appears glossy or new, says Norm Wogan of Norm Wogan Design in Los Angeles, who recently created an aviation-themed nursery for the infant son of Extra co-host Dayna Devon. He used such treasures as a World War II-era propeller, faux hot-air balloon (above the crib), old-fashioned airplane seat belts (for curtain tiebacks) and vintage pilot goggles.
An artist decorated the nursery with murals: an antiquated world map on the ceiling and renderings of classic planes on a wall. "We wanted an old Europe feel to the room," says Devon. "It looks like it's always been there."
Tips from Wogan on creating a "vintage" nursery:
-Give new furniture pieces an aged look using a nontoxic, baby-safe glaze or color wash.
-Search secondhand and antique stores, and browse eBay for unique and surprising room accents.
-Find fabrics with a worn look, or wash new fabrics repeatedly before using.


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Reuters – Mon, Feb 4, 2013
(Reuters) – Arizona challenged in federal court U.S. environmental regulators efforts to force Arizona power companies to spend up to $1 billion to install pollution control equipment at three coal plantsto reduce haze in the region's national parks.
Arizona's Attorney General Tom Horne said in a statement last week the emission control measures proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would not affect health or be reduce emissions visible to the human eye.
"This is an absurd action that would significantly raise utility rates for most Arizonans without providing any benefit to anyone," Horne said in a statement.
Officials at the EPA were not immediately available for comment.
On behalf of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, which filed a plan to reduce emissions in 2011 that was replaced by the EPA's proposal, Horne filed with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the EPA's plan to impose new haze restrictions.


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Take a pinch of adventure, add a dash of wanderlust and mix in opportunity. Blend in a passion for deliciousness and what does the recipe yield?
For three chefs with Maryland ties, the dish might be called California dreamin'.
Two are world-famous: celebrity chefs Duff Goldman and Michael Voltaggio. One is an emerging young comer on the culinary scene: sous chef Ryan Coffey.
Yet all three relay their experiences of living a Maryland chef's life in California, whether that's cooking with out-of-this-world produce, hobnobbing with celebrities or introducing folks to favorites from back home.


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The key to the movie's success, I think, lies in the decision to bring Mike and Sully to MU from two different social and psychological worlds. Mike, who's not really THAT scary on the surface, is the ambitious nerd who seeks to get through the School of Scaring by sheer force of effort and will. Sully, the shaggy scion of what appears to pass for "nobility" in the monster world, expects to glide through school on the strength of his family name alone -- and we learn rather late in the game that this is an elaborate cover to hide some legitimate insecurity about his own scare-abilities. The approach ensures that character will take precedence in this narrative, first and foremost, and that we will be full partners in the long, strange (even for a couple of monsters) journey that will end with Mike and Sully as best friends. All the frat gags and pranks in the world won't be able to obscure those simple facts. It goes without saying that the casting of Crystal and Sullivan, who clicked so well in the original movie, made the social-class aspects of MU much easier to believe.
Ultimately thrown together in an unwilling alliance with each other -- plus a friendly, much-put-upon fraternity of "geeks and feebs" who hold initiation ceremonies in a member's mother's basement -- Mike and Sully must prove their true mettle in the Scare Games, a fraternity event to determine which society is the scariest. I was a little nervous when the storyline narrowed down to this pursuit; it reminded me all too much of the contrived X-Games competition in An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000), in which Max and PJ's campus seemed to all but shut down academic activities to focus on extreme sports. We literally never saw Mike and Sully in class for the entire second half of the movie. In the case of the Scare Games, however, a version of official sanction was present in the forbidding form of the legendary Dean Hardscrabble (Helen Mirren), so I imagine that the monsters must have gotten co-curricular credit, or something similar, for participating. The Scare Games proceed as you might expect, and the finish seems eminently predictable, but then the narrative takes a clever swerve that carries us through to a somewhat unexpected, but emotionally satisfying, conclusion. Suffice it to say that Mike and Sully learn that you can achieve your lifelong ambition -- you just may have to take a different path than you originally anticipated.
The Blue Umbrella, the Pixar short that preceded MU, turned out to be a rarity -- a Pixar short that I found myself disliking intensely. The "animate inanimate objects fall in love, are separated, yet come back together in a contrived manner" plot has so been done, of course, but what made Umbrella particularly creepy was the fact that EVERYTHING in the city was alive -- drainpipes, walk signals, mailboxes, storefronts, you name it. Some might call this imaginative and whimsical; I call it something that might give an impressionable kid (the kind of kid who tiptoes past portraits at night because he or she is convinced that the eyes are moving) serious nightmares for weeks.
Monsters University was, of course, accompanied by a raft of "coming attractions" previews for various 3-D animated projects, some of which looked reasonably good (Despicable Me 2) and some of which... did not (The Smurfs 2, which is probably two too many). The thing that struck me about all of them was the utter SAMENESS of their approaches. No matter what sorts of creatures were involved, you saw the same kind of smart-ass humor, the same non-stop references to pop culture, the same wild physical action. Just as the immense success of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast locked the "Hollywood Musical" template in place for a decade, the Shrek movies unquestionably inspired the aesthetic directions of many of the subsequent 3-D animated films. (One could argue that Aladdin anticipated the trend, but that was more of a "Hollywood Musical" with contemporary throw-ins, most of which were confined to the Genie and Iago.)
By my reckoning, the Shrek cycle should have just about run its course. The problem is that the movie industry is even more aesthetically reactionary now than it was in the late 1980s and 1990s, and so it will take an even bolder creator to buck the play-it-safe mentality. Even Disney's own 3-D division seems to have joined the herd (though Wreck-it Ralph was certainly a high-quality example of the genre), leaving Pixar as the one 3-D animation factory that seems to be making an effort to keep its output somewhat diverse. (This, I think, is why Pixar's increased reliance on sequels and prequels has elicited such a negative reaction, even from those who have tended to like the results.) Also tempering the drive for innovation is the fact that, thanks to the omnipresent use of CGI, many of today's "big" movies are, in essence, mixtures of live-action and animation. This leaves precious little wiggle room for an animated director to produce something truly different from either a bog-standard, Shrek-style smirkfest or an action/adventure film that simply mimics effects-filled live-action fare without the human element. Among recent releases, The Adventures of Tintin came the closest to splitting this difference, and that movie's disappointing American b.o. is a cause for concern.
The "predictability factor" in animated films is, if possible, even more pronounced in newspaper comic strips. Nicky and I don't get a daily paper, so I hadn't glanced through a daily comics page for quite some time before perusing the KANSAS CITY STAR at breakfast during the AP Statistics Reading. Remember the old gags about Ernie Bushmiller preparing his comic strip NANCY using a rubber stamp and a joke book? Well, reading all of those "badly drawn domestic sitcom strips featuring badly drawn humans and/or sentient animals performing more or less funny verbal gags" made me think that Bushmiller was ahead of his time. There wasn't a SINGLE truly innovative strip -- and by "innovative," I mean in the narrow sense of simply not BEING one of the aforementioned offerings -- in the bunch. I knew that newspaper strips were in trouble, but I was unaware as to just how rotten things had gotten. The vast chasm between these space-fillers and the old strips in the book collections I've been enjoying and blogging about would give even Nik Wallenda pause before he attempted a crossing.
Unlike animated films, newspaper strips are probably not making an aesthetic comeback. The inability of syndicates to even comprehend a different "universe" is probably inherent at this point. The newspaper industry is in parlous shape (it's hard not to be so when half of the country thinks you're biased against it and the other half is busy texting, tweeting, and so forth), and so the most likely location for outstanding strips in the future will probably be the Internet. (Indeed, I think so highly of KEVIN AND KELL and DAY BY DAY that I have links to them on my Web site.) We are more likely to see renewed innovation on the large screen, provided that the creators can negotiate the corporate boardrooms, ethical back alleys, and sociopolitical prejudices that have made it so difficult for modern Hollywood to produce anything truly lasting.


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Is Megan Fox a force for good or evil? If the results of a recent Moviefone.com poll are to be believed, audiences aren't entirely sure, voting her both sexiest female star and the worst actress of the year.
(To be entirely fair, the Moviefone poll asked "Which actress gave the worst performance?," so for all we know, America en masse may think Fox is a very talented actress who just had a series of really bad days.)
Fox's dual wins were reflected in the movie she won for, as well; Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen managed to win both Best Action Movie of 2009 and Worst Movie of 2009. Well, at least one of those is right.
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November 2010 |   Volume: 42 |   Number: 11
The member magazine of the Institute of Industrial and Engineers
Work measurement tools could cut software development prices by 30 percent
By Murali Chemuturi
Industrial engineers have been measuring various activities of human endeavor in manufacturing and construction for a long time. It is accepted that wherever there is a need for norms or baselines for the pace of working, IEs can do it. IEs specify the standard time for many activities of human endeavor. The industrial engineering fraternity has developed a number of techniques for work measurement, such as time and motion study, synthesis, analytical time estimation and work sampling. These techniques have provided credible results in fields that include service industries, construction industries and manufacturing industries, including mass production, batch production, flow-process production and job order production. The manufacturing industry also includes computer hardware manufacturing, where work measurement by IEs is well-accepted. But when it comes to software development, the scenario is entirely different.
The computer industry is of recent origin, having developed after World War II. While other machines have only a hardware component, computers are driven by two components: hardware and software. Thus, the computer industry includes manufacturing operations for hardware and computer programming operations to develop the software. Early on, the computer programming operations were handled by scientists, and the software component cost was miniscule, typically about 20 percent. Software was supplied with and tightly coupled with the hardware. The software consisted of two components: system software and application software.
When Apple Computers started offering microcomputers for home use, it employed a separate company, Digital Research, to develop software for home computers. With every Apple computer sold, one copy of Control Program for Microcomputers was sold to the customers. This was the major step in hiving off software development as an independent business. Although the microcomputers originally were targeted at homes, development of the word processing program WordStar took Apple computers into offices and journalism. A small database management system, dBaseII, took the microcomputers into other areas of manufacturing. Many word processing programs hit the market from independent software developers. All these heralded the software development into an independent business.
But the real impetus came from IBM's 1982 introduction of the PC (personal computer), which had much greater computing power than its competitors. The PC stormed the manufacturing industry, moving computing from electronic data processing departments to end users. This unleashed an unprecedented opportunity for independent software developers, firmly decoupling software development from hardware. Hardware manufacturers sold hardware, and users could select the software separately. Independent software developers mushroomed, and organizations that wanted specialized software for their operations had more options.
Whenever there is a vendor-vendee relationship for specialized services, the issue of pricing comes in. Whenever price is to be set for an assignment, cost estimation needs to be carried out. In software development, the major component of pricing is estimating the effort needed from the human resources to execute the assignment. When human effort needs to be estimated, we need productivity.
Initially software development was priced on a time and material basis. In this pricing system, software developers assigned a set of programmers to work at the customer's location under their supervision and guidance. The customer pays the developer organization an hourly rate, also reimbursing any out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the programmers. In time, the programmers stayed at their employer and payment was based on the approved timesheets submitted by the vendor.
Obviously, this put customers at a disadvantage because they couldn't estimate expenses to control budgets. It is not an exaggeration to say that in those days, budgets were set not to achieve a defined functionality but to cap expenditures. Whatever functionality that could be achieved within the allocated budget was all that the organization could hope for. In time, the customers started wanting vendors to define what functionality would be delivered at a fixed price. But software engineers did not have accurate tools, such as engineering drawings, to define the functionality of the proposed product before building it.
Initially, the number of lines of code (LOC) measured the size of the delivered software. But industry could not come to a common definition for LOC. Some program lines had less than 10 characters, while others had more. Languages like COBOL and FORTRAN allowed up to 80 characters per line, but some later languages allowed up to 255 characters per line. Still, LOC was used effectively in COBOL-based software.
IBM worked on this problem and developed function points (FP) to measure the software size from a user's perspective. This alleviated the issue of defining the size and functionality of the software to be delivered against the agreed price. Even today, some organizations agree to pay on a "per-FP" basis. They measure the size of the delivered software product and pay the vendor based on the number of FPs of software actually delivered. FP became popular enough to spawn a user group, the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG). IFPUG conducts a certified function point specialist examination to certify people in measuring FP for software products. But to date, a conversion factor for deriving person-hours of human effort from FP eludes common agreement.
In time, other software size measures were introduced, including object points, use case points, FPA Mark II (function point analysis Mark II), feature points, Internet points, story points and software size units (SSU). Test points and software test units measure the size of software testing projects. Each measure is being used and each one, including FP, has its merits, demerits, adherents and critics.
First and foremost, all size measures, with the exception of SSU, use complexity to increase software size. Complexity would never increase the size or amount of the work to be completed. Rather, it would reduce the productivity. In other words, complexity means it takes more time to complete a piece of work. For example, walking a mile on a well-paved street takes less time than walking one mile on a mountain trail. Trekking six miles on a mountain trail takes less time than trekking that same six miles climbing Mount Everest. The complexity is reducing the rate of achievement (productivity), not increasing the size (distance). The people who use complexity to increase the quantum of work argue that if 10 function points are multiplied by two hours or five FPs are multiplied by four hours, the result is 20 hours. This shows a higher quantum of work and suits the software development organizations that charge based on size, not productivity.
Second, there is no agreed conversion factor between these size measures. We can convert kilometers into miles or pounds into kilograms and vice versa. No conversion factor converts function points into use case points and vice versa. So if two people measure the size of the same software product using two different size measures (say FP and object points), we do not know if either sized the product accurately.
Third, while proponents claim these size measures are easy to use, it's not true. The fact that certification is needed indicates their complexity. We do not have certification requirements for cost estimation in other industries. IFPUG runs a discussion board on FP, and the sheer number of queries and diverse opinions indicate the extent of confusion.
Other issues exist, but they are beyond the scope of this article.
Function points came into use in 1978. Still, there is no accepted way to convert an FP into person-hours. The same is true for other software size measures. Seminars were conducted, articles were written and books were penned about software estimation. Some professional associations such as IFPUG and the Software Process Improvement Network tried to benchmark a productivity figure, but couldn't. One website says producing an FP could vary from two person-hours to 135.
But none, other than this author, suggested that industrial engineering methods be used to set productivity for software development activities. Using work study could set productivity norms for software development activities.
Most authors wanted to derive productivity using an organization's historical records. One book suggested that productivity baselines need to be adjusted using the data of every completed project on a continuing basis. Obviously, most people in the software development industry have not heard of the concept of "a fair day's work for a fair day's pay," as software developers are paid far more fairly than others.
Now what is the problem with that? They estimate costs, make profits and pay their staff well. Why should we begrudge them? Unfortunately, the cost of software is much higher than it should be. If IEs went to work on software development methods and productivity, it could cut costs in the U.S. alone by 30 percent and reduce outsourcing.
No credible published data gives productivity figures for software development. The International Software Benchmarking Standards Group sells some data, but they are mostly benchmarks based on completed projects. IEs know that past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance, especially in changing environments.
IEs know what productivity is, and they express it in terms of standard time. Productivity is used in the context of human endeavor and is applied at the smallest possible granularity. They also know what capacity means – that capacity is the throughput of a facility achieved by performing multiple disparate and dissimilar activities at different workstations by differently skilled professionals.
When we say that a car factory produces 1,000 cars a day, we mean the throughput of the factory is 1,000 cars per day. We do not say that the productivity of the factory is 1,000 cars per day. But we specify productivity for a threading operation on a lathe machine. Productivity comes with a set of adjectives such as the type of operation, the type of tools and workstation used, the methods of working and so on. We specify capacity without such adjectives.
A couple of fertilizer plants may possess capacity to produce 100 tons per day, even though each has entirely different technologies, manpower, fuels, machinery and methods. We need not specify other details while expressing capacity. But the productivity of different types of lathe machines in different shops cannot be the same until all factors are identical.
Productivity is specific to an organization, to the equipment used, the methods in practice and the tools used. It is micro in nature. It is for human endeavor. Capacity is macro; it is for a facility. Capacity comprises multiple activities performed by multiple people. Capacity is throughput.
Capacity is designed and productivity is measured. The term "capacity" is used in the context of a facility, and the term "productivity" is used in the context of human endeavor.
Productivity can be improved without adding equipment or manpower. Capacity cannot be increased without adding equipment or manpower.
Right now, the software development industry means capacity when using the term productivity. It states productivity as 100 LOC per day or 0.7 FP per day. This usage is erroneous from, at least, the industrial engineering standpoint.
Software, like any other deliverable, needs multiple disparate activities to develop it. Software development begins with a feasibility study to determine if computers should be used, what it would cost and its probable benefits. The next activity defines the proposed software's user requirements, collating them from users of the present system and documenting them along with auxiliary requirements for ensuring security, ease of use, protection against malicious (intended or unintended) use, intruder prevention, reliability and safety.
Using the user requirements document, a software requirements specification document is prepared detailing the high level design, software architecture, screens and report design. Next, the software design description is prepared, containing the detailed program design, detailed design of screens and reports, test plans and test cases. Next, the developer produces the source code, executable code, unit testing, integration and integration testing. The last activity before delivery is additional testing such as system testing, acceptance testing, load testing and parallel testing. This software engineering methodology comes from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' software engineering standards.
All these macro activities have their own set of micro activities. Each activity needs a differently skilled person, and no one person can carry out all these activities. Lumping all these activities together and specifying one single figure of productivity is not correct. But that is precisely what happens in the software development industry today.
Almost all software estimation theorists advocate using empirical methods to derive productivity for software development. But in software development, it's normal for every few years to yield a new operating system, new programming language or new version of a programming language. This makes the efficacy of empirical methods not very high.
Take Windows for example. It first was released in 1985 as an add-on to the MS-DOS operating system. Windows 2.0 was released in 1987; Windows 3.0 in 1990 migrating through version 2.1; it was upgraded to Windows 3.1 in 1992. Then came Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium, Windows XP, Windows Vista in 2007 and now Windows 7 in 2010.
Environmental stability, a prerequisite to using empirical methods, is lacking in the software development field, except for the much more stable mainframe platforms. But the fresh programming on mainframes is miniscule compared to the software development taking place on personal computers. For the analysis to produce reliable results, empirical methods need a large base of data from which to extract meaningful generalizations. And the generalizations prove to be true only over a large set of usage.
For example, over a large number of coin tosses, the coin has a 50 percent probability for landing heads or tails. For any one toss, this probability is of no use to predict the outcome. In software estimation, we need precise data to predict every outcome, not an average over a large number of outcomes. It is not adequate to say that the average productivity is 10 hours per function point with a range from two to 135. We need to predict for each project what the effort is going to be within an acceptable level of error. Empirical methods do not give that kind of predictability; industrial engineering studies do.
There is no wonder that in the real world of software estimation, the dictum oft heard is "Estimate taking all variable values on the higher side, then multiply the final values by a figure of 2.5 and then pray for it to be met."
As the determination of productivity figures using empirical methods is from historical data, it does not tell us if it was the "right" performance. The past performance could have been skewed, ranging from super-performance to poor performance.
The past performance may have been influenced by extreme conditions. Consider the following possibilities:
We can list some more factors, but they all affect the productivity derived using empirical methods. If we combine all such projects and empirically derive productivity for use in the organization, how can the results be accurate? When we derive productivity bunching a number of activities together, the impact of the factors enumerated above is severe. If we derive productivity at a more granular level, we will have a more reliable set of figures.
In empirically derived productivity (combining all activities including requirements analysis, software design, software construction and software testing together), the different methods used in performing these activities would not be considered at all. When we derive productivity at activity level, we can consider the different methods of performing the activities and thus have a better set of figures, for example:
The above list is not exhaustive. Using the synthesis technique, we can estimate with much better accuracy as well as set targets with better confidence while carrying out actual work.
There is an argument that software development is a creative endeavor. It was so at the beginning, but is not so anymore. Nowadays, the programmers work with the assistance of a design document just as shop floor workers work with the assistance of a drawing. The software development methodologies have matured, and a body of knowledge has been established for developing software.
All in all, the software development industry is on an erroneous track when it come s to setting productivity norms for software development, norms that would be used in software estimation as well as target setting during project execution. Somehow, IEs have not been utilized by this industry for this purpose. Perhaps IEs have not shown any initiative to aid the software development industry in setting productivity norms. The net result is the customers are overpaying, and the cost of goods is on the higher side. Microsoft, according to published sources, sold 1 million copies of its operating system Windows Vista in one year. Now, if a car can sell that many units in one year, the car price surely would be reduced by at least 20 percent. IEs need to get involved in this area.
Murali Chemuturi is a fellow of industrial engineering from the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering. He has a total of 40 years of work experience, with 15 years in manufacturing and the rest in information technology. He has handled software development, data processing, training and consulting. He wrote Software Estimation, Best Practices, Tools and Techniques and has developed various software estimation tools. He presently leads Chemuturi Consultants.
These days, work is more dynamic, and changes in responsibilities have accelerated, argue Edward L. Levine and Juan I. Sanchez in the 2007 volume of Ergometrika: A Journal of Work Measurement Research.
That means work analysis methods must change to maintain validity. The authors report that the increase in self-directed work teams and networks of people and machines organized into work systems mandates the addition of team or system level descriptors in addition to descriptors applicable to individual performers. And disciplines like industrial engineering, ergonomics and industrial and organizational psychology must have an interdisciplinary focus.
Work measurement specialists also should add targets or beneficiaries of work processes, including customers and clients, to their sources of data. The methods of collecting that data have advanced to include electronic performance monitoring and reviews of recorded phone calls to analyze critical incidents. The traditional surveys and interviews can be done online or via telecommunications.
As work and its context increases in complexity, so should the levels and units of work analysis. When reviewing a network, team or system, the measurer must include the activities, tasks and personal attributes of individual team members along with an analysis of team level work flow and work sequencing. Specialists also can use theoretically derived dictionaries of descriptors for various aspects of the analysis to streamline and make the analyzed information more valid.


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Darius Rucker vs. Kenny Chesney – The Showdown
It's a superstar Showdown to begin the week. After making short work of Craig Morgan on Friday, Darius Rucker is hoping his fans will take his new ballad 'True Believers' to win No. 4 of the five needed to advance to the Showdown Hall of Fame. With Kenny Chesney in the opposite corner, voting online and on the phone at Taste of Country Nights radio promises to reach all-time highs.
Chesney's 'El Cerrito Place' returns to the Showdown after being edged out by country newcomer Brett Eldredge last month. The introspective, searching-for-lost-love song epitomizes the new, more thoughtful direction the singer has steered toward on recent albums. It remains to be seen if his fans will back this new style as aggressively as stadium anthems from early in his career.
Listen to clips of both Rucker's and Chesney's songs and vote for your favorite here. You can vote once every hour online, so come back and vote often to be sure your artist wins. Hear the full versions of the songs tonight after 10PM on Taste of Country Nights. Help your favorite song win by placing additional votes at (888) 678-9995. Call as many times as you like! You can listen to the show online through any of the 41 radio stations that carry it. Voting will end tonight at 10:40PM CT.
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May 1, 2019Economics
The economic performance of lower-income developing countries will be crucial to reducing poverty further. Although these economies face significant headwinds, they could also seize important new gro…
May 22, 2019Election 2020
The Democratic and Republican presidential contenders have begun defining their approach to major foreign policy issues as they jockey for position in their parties' primaries.
March 26, 2019Economics
With new sources of uncertainty proliferating by the day, the world should brace for a broad economic slowdown or, at minimum, a lengthy period of slower growth.
March 3, 2019North Korea
President Trump's walk away from his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is being compared to President Reagan's walk away from the 1986 Reykjavik summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev …
March 15, 2019China
Representative Michael McCaul discusses global hot spots, including the crisis in Venezuela, the implications of China's Belt and Road Initiative, the relationship between the United States and Russi…
March 8, 2019United States
President Trump has made reducing the U.S. trade deficit a priority, blaming trade deals like NAFTA, but economists disagree over how policymakers should respond.
March 7, 2019Cuba
President Trump is rolling back some of his predecessor's Cuba policies, likely closing out a historic period of détente between the two longtime adversaries.
February 28, 2019Taiwan
A new memo from the Center for Preventive Action by Michael S. Chase details how the United States can prevent a cross-strait crisis or de-escalate one should it occur.
March 1, 2019Sub-Saharan Africa
The Trump Administration's recent announcement of its Africa strategy offers renewed opportunities for the development of closer economic ties between the United States and Africa under a set of business-driven initiatives outlined as "Prosper Africa" in a December speech by National Security Adviser John Bolton.
February 27, 2019India
Countries that wish for peace must press Pakistan to make better choices and uphold its obligations as a UN member state.


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Google has just released a new open source web API that allows developers to create interactive 3D applications in the browser. O3D, which runs on both Windows and Mac (and even Linux with some tweaking), is provided as a plugin that will run on most popular browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer (more details at our Google O3D API Profile).
The Google Code Blog announced the release of O3D:
The Javascript-based API, even in its early stages, provides access to a rich set of methods, and O3D includes the ability to import existing content in several formats, including Google Sketchup. Developers eager to start working with O3D should check out the Technical Overview, API Reference, FAQs, and samples that showcase much of the current functionality and features available with O3D.
This is certainly an interesting new API for developers interested in engaging users with a rich way of visualizing content and data. We're looking forward to seeing how O3D will evolve, given its status as an open source project, and we're excited to see the creative and meaningful ways in which developers will leverage this API. Note that a new O3D blog has also launched as well.


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Practical, simple and functional, our quality silicone wedding rings are perfect for those who live an active lifestyle. Whether you are constantly hitting the gym, or if you have an unusually active job that poses a risk for an expensive, metal ring, you will want to do everything in your power to keep that wedding band safe and secure on your finger.
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Graduation is coming up! What should I wear?
Whether you are picking up a diploma yourself or simply supporting someone, graduations are one of life's most frameable moments. So when considering what you're going to wear, make sure you go for something classic and proper, above all else. There are a few questions you should ask yourself when shopping for the big day. Will I still like this look in 10 years? Is my ensemble appropriate for classmates, faculty, and grandparents alike? Do I look stylish and wise? Can I walk comfortably? With this mind, here are some tips for passing the outfit test with flying colours.
Styling Suggestion #1: Go for a classic dress. If the dress looks like something either Audrey Hepburn would wear to a ladies' lunch or something the First Lady would wear to a daytime benefit, you're going to hit the mark. A simple fit-and-fladress that hits right below the knee feels equally on-trend and timeless. Sleeveless or three-quarter sleeves are best, as they won't bulk up your shoulders under a graduation gown.
Styling Suggestion #2: Add a skinny belt. You don't want to look like you're wearing a tent, so be sure to nip in your waist with a slim belt. When in doubt, go for something understated and in a neutral colour, like beige or black.
Styling Suggestion #3: Resist wearing sky-high platforms or wedges. These styles can definitely feel dated and can be difficult to walk in. Instead opt for a timeless pump--pointy or roundtoe--that won't steal the show. This is another great time to introduce a pop of colour into your look.
Styling Suggestion #4: Keep your accessories to a minimum. We like simple gold studs or pearls, little necklaces, or a special, dainty watch. Save your statement pieces for the after-party, if you must!
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The dream of equality shared by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not end with his death.
MOREHEAD CITY � The dream of equality shared by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not end with his death.
Rose Langston of Newport said it�s the responsibility of every citizen to live the message of the late civil rights leader to ensure his message of unity continues.
�He left us with a task to carry on the legacy that all men are created equal,� she said.
Langston was among the crowd that filled the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City Monday for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration.
Langston said she has attended since the event began and said that spreading King�s message begins with the individual.
�If we instill that ideology in ourselves, it radiates outward,� she said.
King�s leadership during the civil rights movement and belief in non-violent protest helped to bring social change.
There have been advancements in civil rights in the decades since King�s death, said motivational speaker Christopher L. King of Newport, but to become comfortable or complacent now would be a step backward.
�That�s the danger of our moment right now,� he said.
The famous �I Have a Dream� speech given by King was a beginning.
�We can dream that it is one day going to be a reality,� said Pauline Walker, chairwoman of the volunteer committee that organizes the annual Carteret County MLK celebration.
It was the first year attending the Carteret County event for Melanie Reels of Havelock, a member of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Beaufort.
She said honoring King and events such as the Carteret County celebration are particularly important to ensure today�s youth and future generations know of his message of peace and unity.
�He was an exquisite leader as we can see here today,� she said, noting the strong attendance.
The Mt. Zion Youth Choir and the group Family Worship, also of Beaufort, provided musical performances during the event.
Contact Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-2557 or email@example.com.


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NEW HAVEN — In the final days of the Addison County Fair and Field Days this past August, Ken Button, one of the fair's directors, was counting the tickets that had been collected that week. He was trying to get a sense of how many people had come through the gates. On the table in front of him lay stacks of exhibitor day passes and season passes arranged by type of ticket.
But when he looked closely at the stacks of tickets, something didn't look right.
BRISTOL — Police are urging local businesses and vendors at Addison County Fair and Field Days to be on the lookout for counterfeit $5 and $10 bills this week.
An anonymous tip led Bristol police and the U.S. Secret Service agents on Tuesday to arrest Mildred Martin, 29, of Bristol for possession of a regulated drug.
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You know those ultra-thin, bare-naked sandals that make you feel like you're not wearing shoes?
Xero Shoes, formerly Invisible Shoes, a "minimalist sandal" manufacturer in Boulder, is a startup with big barefoot dreams. The company co-founders, husband and wife Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix, will appear on ABC's "Shark Tank" Friday to pitch the sharks on investing in their idea.
Of course they're sworn to secrecy about how the show turns out, but Phoenix said she and her husband spent three years watching the reality TV series and rehearsing answers in case they got the chance to stand in front of the venture capitalists, or sharks.
At the moment, they're scrambling to get their social media set up, setting up a slingbox so they can see the East Coast feed an hour before it airs in Colorado. A group of "Shark Tank" alums are helping them get ready for the inevitable heavy traffic. "We know some who sold 3,000-5,000 units of their item just during the show," Sashen said.
So which Shark was toughest to deal with? "I didn't find any of them tough to deal with. They were all really trying to find their way in. I didn't feel like anyone was being combative….It's television first, business second. They do what they can to make it a good show."


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Bunting 40ft 12 metres single sided shabby chic Wedding party multi floral
This is my Garden chic & shabby style single sided fabric bunting
This is a single sided bunting .
Measuring 40 feet in total . 12metres.
It is sewn into strong white tape.
Each length is made up of a selection of cotton and poly-cotton fabrics
Flags are 9 inches x 7 inches. 40 flags per length
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Today is National Fresh Breath Day, a day to discuss the importance of oral hygiene, and the importance of having minty fresh breath. Coincidentally, it also happens to be my 6-year-old daughter's birthday — just look at those beautiful, pearly whites thanks to her new Sonicare for Kids toothbrush! (Happy Birthday, Baby!!!)
Seriously, this was a child that I battled with regularly over brushing her teeth, and she's now thrilled to brush her teeth every morning, noon, and night. These brushes are on the pricey side, but the savings we're sure to see on dental bills makes them a much more reasonable proposition. Three cheers for clean teeth without any arguments!
In celebration of National Fresh Breath Day, Sonicare would like to give one lucky Deal Seeking Mom two Sonicare brush head refills for the Sonicare toothbrush of your choice!
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Stunning design. I initially purchased this three watering can set for watering outdoor and indoor planters. And all three sizes work perfectly for different types of planters and watering needs. But in addition to those usages, I am using them as vases and they are just stunningly beautiful. Even without placing any flowers, just by setting them on tables and kitchen counters, they are a conversation piece and a great addition to home decor. Highly recommended to purchase all three sizes as each is unique and serves different purposes.
Blend the practicalities of watering with stylish fixtures and containers. Gardeners and plant lovers will enjoy the many options for keeping vegetation healthy and happy. Faucets sport ornamentals with an array of wildlife themes as well as double and quad spouts for multiple hoses. Aqua cones do the work for you while beautiful brass cans make indoor care fun and easy.


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Incorporated Society of Irish American Lawyers
ISIAL is a unique bar association of Michigan attorneys and law students who meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and information in a fun, social setting. Founded in 1978, ISIAL is the local Irish American legal community. Each meeting is filled with judges, private and public-sector attorneys, professors, and others who are interested in things Irish.
Quite simply, ISIAL offers great networking, but more importantly, it provides its members with friendship, camaraderie, and the opportunity to form lasting professional and personal acquaintances.
The Murphy (Student) Chapter aspires to bridge the gap between students and local legal professionals by creating an opportunity for the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law student body to meet with and establish connections with the local legal community.


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Today's Barcelona Hostal Residencia Australia recommendation,is:
In the brand new and beautiful Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the table on
everyone's lips is with no doubt: Moments.
The Chef Carme Ruscalleda and her son Raül Balam are revisiting Catalan
recipes and even inventing the first anti-aging menu of Barcelona..
On the Catalan side of the menu you will discover totally renewed classical
dishes like Arroz caldoso de gamba con picada de pescador (rice dish with
broth) – Fricandó (veal stew) and suquet (fish stew) – Shrimp Tartar-
Seabass with fig chutney and hibiscus salt – Veal Cheeks with turnip
vegetable ravioli and red fruits..
A delight and lot of imagination!!
But even more visionary and trendy: a "anti-aging" menuwhere the food
chosen by Carme Ruscalleda and Dr. Manuel Sanchez – head of the Anti-aging
Unit Clinic Planas- , specialist in the anti-age treatments, conceal only
the most miraculous properties to preserve an "iron constitution"
In this menu, mini pizza pies with artichokes and the Joselito ham, or
macaroni with buckwheat accompanied by scallops and vegetables… a great
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