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It begins with the letter, 'N', and while you reckoned a three letter response, yours has only two. Not one of them is a 'Y', 'E', or 'S', as you may have fancied, so I strongly advise you reassess things.
It is, you'll find, the exact opposite of your expectations. You were likely anticipating a wide smile, corners furling in affirmation; but, instead, you were met with tight lips. Do not misinterpret this as a playful "kissy-face"; inasmuch, you may sense derisive undertones… and you would be quite astute.
Further, do not presume any change. Ever. When earth reverses polarity, when North becomes South, concrete direction may prove ambiguous; however, rest assured, my answer will not.
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Lack of Sleep and Teen Health Problems
Sleep deprivation and early school start times contribute to teenage delinquency, risk-taking, depression, pregnancy, obesity and diabetes, a national sleep expert told Chattanoogans on Thursday.Mary Carskadon spoke at three events sponsored by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga about her research on sleep and the teenage brain. Early school start times, changes in teen sleep patterns and outside social pressure are combining to rob teens of vital sleep, which can cause serious problems, Carskadon said. "Sleep is just getting squeezed out of their lives," she said. Research by her and other scientists, studies by the Brookings Institute and national polls by the National Sleep Foundation show a correlation between early school start times and a host of behavioral, educational and developmental troubles. The biobehavioral scientist spoke at the Oak Street Center in First-Centenary United Methodist Church near UTC on Thursday evening and at two other events earlier in the day. Preteen children tire easily and fall asleep early, which means kids usually get the rest they need, she said. But beginning in puberty, teens' brains begin to allow them to stay up later, often causing them to miss out on the full nine hours of sleep research shows they need for development. UTC criminal justice professor Robert Thompson spearheaded getting Carskadon to speak. Thompson has cited research linking early school start times and delinquency in his push for a look at local juvenile crime problems. Boyd Patterson, coordinator of the Chattanooga Gangs Task Force, spoke briefly at the introduction of the Thursday evening lecture, saying Carskadon's research could benefit the task force's work. He told the crowd of 50 listeners a majority of people in gangs joined when they were teens and among gang members, the teens often commit the most crimes. Understanding teen behavior is crucial to working on gang problems, he said. "Crime suppression and arrests are part of it," Patterson said. "Efforts like this, prevention and intervention, have to be in place." Minnie Pruitt and Brea Watson, both UTC students and criminal justice majors, said they saw connections between sleep problems and both academic success and avoiding trouble. Both women went to high school in Memphis where classes started at 7:45 a.m. Pruitt said her earliest class at UTC is 9 a.m. "I grasp more ideas in class and more information," she said. Dr. Anuj Chandra heads the Advance Center for Sleep Disorders, with offices here and in Cleveland, Tenn., and Trenton, Ga. "As a society, we're all sleep-deprived," Chandra said in an interview before the lecture. He called Carskadon's research pinpointing a biological source for teen sleep patterns "groundbreaking." Before scientists discovered this proof, many just assumed teens were lazy, he said. Chandra's advice to parents is to set limits early, by children's age 9 or 10, to set up good habits. "No TV in the bedroom, cellphones are turned off before bed," he said. (c)2012 the Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, Tenn.) Visit the Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, Tenn.) at www.timesfreepress.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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Posters are prints of images or text, used for decoration, advertisement, or education. Many of our posters are reproductions of classic images and artworks, while some are original works. Add color and character to your home, office, classroom or other personal space.
Our posters are produced by printing on professional-grade art paper, in very high resolution, with Canon LUCIA EX pigment inks. Posters can be displayed as-is, by hanging directly on a wall, and are also suitable for framing.
Choose from three available finishes: matte, high gloss, or satin. Some images may not be available in every finish.
Matte finish reduces reflection from light sources and is the least susceptible to fingerprints. The trade-off is a minor reduction in color vibrancy. If the poster is going to be in a brightly-lit area where readability is a major concern, matte might be the preferable finish.
Gloss finish offers a dramatic or classy feel, which is why many movie posters and photographs are printed in high-gloss. Gloss finish media has a shiny appearance which excels at showing the details and colors of the image, but can create a glare when it reflects bright light, potentially obscuring the detail. If displayed unframed, glossy media is also the most susceptible to fingerprints.
Satin, also known as luster or semi-gloss finish, can be thought of as a midway point between matte and gloss finishes in all areas. Less dramatic and striking than gloss, but also with less glare. Often appropriate for reproductions of paintings.
Our posters are supplied rolled, ready for framing or mounting with any commonly available method.
All of the gallery wraps and posters that we sell are produced on equipment sold and serviced by our sister company, Dorado Graphix LLC.
Canvas wraps are an elegant, frame-less presentation for an art canvas. An image is applied directly onto the canvas, which is then wrapped tightly around a wooden structure called stretcher or strainer bars. Wraps therefore have a printed image not only on the front of the canvas, but also carrying over onto the sides. The "wrapped" imagery on the sides may be a continuation or reflection of the main image, or a solid color or gradient that compliments the main image. On our site, we usually distinguish between the different types using industry standard terms as follows:
Gallery Wraps
Gallery Wraps have an image on the sides of the canvas. For some images, this is merely the continuation of the image on the front, literally wrapped around the sides to the back. In other cases, where this is inappropriate because the main subject of the image is too close to one or more of the edges, the sides may show a reflection of the main image or gradient of the the image's main colors, giving the impression of a seamless continuation of the image without spoiling the subject.
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Lex Valentine is a bestselling, award winning author who writes across genres from contemporary to urban fantasy in both M/M and M/F. A native of Monterey County, California, Lex now lives in a canyon in Orange County, California with Rott, her long haired tattooed husband, and bunch of cats she calls "babies." She loves loud rock and alternative music, builds her own computers, and works full-time at a cemetery as the network administrator. She also enjoys creating cover art with her daughter Nikki, a graphic arts student, as the award winning team of Winterheart Design. Lex is a member of Romance Writers of America and the PASIC, Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal, and Orange County California chapters of RWA. You'll find her door always open to readers at lex at lexvalentine dot com.


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The Southwest Cape Coral Neighborhood Association will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Oasis Charter Elementary School Cafeteria.
The 2013 Mayoral and City Council Candidates will present their views on current issues relating to Cape Coral in a forum-style format.
There will be a Question-and-Answer period after the last candidate has spoken.
The meeting is open to the public. Come early! Bring your neighbors!, organizers said.
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Twenty-two consecutive days of rain! Was starting to feel a bit soggy around the edges. Thankfully, yesterday brought us some real sun, and that has cheered me up no end.
I brought some colour and light into my studio yesterday by making these two journals:
Another embroidered allium, my first time to use a color other than green for the stencilled background. Went with shades of lavender and purple for this one. With the orange/red shades from the flowers, and the spring green of the stems, the colours seem to work. It's cheerful, anyway. This one's in my shops.
Note: I have had to re-open my account with Paypal, as furious as that makes me. I have tried using the alternatives suggested by http://www.screw-paypal.com, but an order last week had me tearing my hair in frustration. Good thing the customer is an old friend, used to my bumbling ways, and so very patient with me! But to have to go through all that with some stranger who is used to snapping things up easily? I realised that it would be too much to ask of the average fairweather shopper—who has never heard of Wikileaks, or doesn't grasp its relevance, at any rate. So I've resolved to donate a small bit of my Paypal sales to Wikileaks, instead, to somehow grapple with the conflicted way I feel about using them to sell my handmade journals. Frustrated. 😦
And another owl journal…this one's for Danielle (aka Miss Hurro Kitty), who just asked me for "an owl" and got this little Tasmanian Masked Owl, riding his own cloud of shampoo bubbles up a staircase to the sky. With bunting, and Words of Wisdom (I have since completed the broken-off sentence, using Danielle's chosen word).
And danged if it isn't the weirdest thing, but I really loved painting these little owls…their white, heart-shaped faces, their mottled feather patterns…why is it so much fun?
It baffles me a bit, because everyone is doing owls…EVERYONE…and I worry that I am merely caught up and being swept away by the current of faddish subjects that seem to be the same on every craft blog, in every ETSY shop. It does no harm, but at some point I can't tell where the influences end and my own vision begins. I hate to think I am nothing but a mirror, repeating what I see. Scary. I don't seem to have the guts to draw something that comes solely from my own head…
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Astoush over the upcoming auction of mobile spectrum could now go before the Waitangi Tribunal after the Government said it would not set any aside for Maori.
The Government announced yesterday that an auction was likely to be held in the third quarter of this year to allocate the radio spectrum that will become available after the switchover to digital television.
The allocation of this spectrum will allow telecommunications companies to build fourth generation (4G) mobile networks that provide much faster mobile broadband speeds.
At the same time as it confirmed the timing of the auction, the Government also said it would not set any specific allocation of 4G spectrum for Maori.
"The Government recognises the importance of Maori having opportunities to participate in the ICT sector, however, in keeping with the view of successive Governments that spectrum is not a taonga, in our view it does not follow that Maori require further spectrum to be set aside in order to meet our shared objectives of the protection of language and culture," Communications and Information Technology Minister Amy Adams said.
Instead, Adams said the Government would look to establish a $30 million fund which would focus on how the Crown can "assist Maori [to] leverage the potential benefits of new technology".
A coalition of groups - which includes the Maori Council - already put a claim to the tribunal over 4G spectrum in 2009 but this was put on hold pending discussions with the Crown.
A representative of one part of the coalition, Graeme Everton, said yesterday the Government's decision was "short-sighted".
Asked if yesterday's announcement meant the claim to the tribunal would now be pursued, Everton responded: "I don't think the Government has given us another option ... if they see no further opportunity for us to negotiate or change their position then we only have legal means."
Everton said the outcome of the current dispute over water could give some guidance for the 4G claim.
"But at this point [in] time it's reasonable to expect that the tribunal is the right course of action."
Coalition members were to meet last night and may be in a position to provide a statement on their next move today.
Yesterday's announcement was a departure from the Labour Government's stance at the auction of 3G spectrum in 2000.
In that case, the Maori Spectrum Trust (Te Huarahi Tika) was given $5 million in 2000 and rights to buy a chunk of the spectrum at a 5 per cent discount.
It invested most of the money in the local arm of Zimbabwe-based mobile operator Econet through its commercial arm, the Hautaki Trust.
This eventually led to the establishment of the country's third major mobile phone operator, 2degrees.
Telecommunications Users Association head Paul Brislen said the Government had missed an opportunity to "shore up" Hautaki Trust's shareholding in 2degrees, which was being "watered down".
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World consumption of rice continues to rise and outpace production. The trend will continue in 2008, bringing with it a host of factors that will impact U.S. rice producers. Speaking at the recent Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in Memphis, Tenn., Carl Brothers, senior vice president of Riceland Foods, outlined the current status of the U.S. rice industry and gave a summary of key issues on the horizon.
Global ending stocks finished in December 2007 at 72 million tons, an all-time low in supply/use comparison. "If we look at these low stock numbers and the demand we're seeing around the world … it continues to be a concern," says Brothers.
With supplies tight, heavy rice-producing countries are restricting exports, preventing rice from escaping outwards to the international market. Vietnam, Egypt and Guyana have all issued export bans, with India essentially following suit. China has switched from an export subsidy to an export tariff — a cautionary measure in an unstable environment.
"U.S. rice prices stand at $635 per ton. The Asian prices have gone up, both in Thailand and India. If you compare us with Thailand, which is our biggest competitor in Asia, they have shot up to $500 per ton. The market has moved very quickly as there continues to be recognition that things are tight."
Brothers noted that U.S. long grain rice has seen recent trouble and production is down 316 million bushels. The carryin on long grain was 63 million bushels — down 14 percent.
However, medium grain rice promises to be a bright spot for U.S. farmers. Production at 123 million bushels was up 16 percent. The increase was mainly due to plantings in Arkansas. "Arkansas went from 106,000 acres of medium grain a year ago, to about 148,000 acres in 2007."
Of special interest to medium grain growers — Australia has been in a continuous drought. Australia remains hopeful of planting rice this year, but questions linger about governmental allocations of water. Buyers from Australia have been in the U.S. for the past six to nine months to buy medium grain rice.
Brothers spoke bluntly about medium grain rice in the South. "It's a shame that our Southern rice doesn't fit their palate. They came and looked at our rice, but they've chosen California. We in the South need a better medium grain variety. We keep saying that to our researchers, but as of yet we haven't developed one.
"Our medium grain, if you put it together with California and make a comparison — you would choose California. I hate to get up here and say that, but it's just a fact."
Despite Australia's snub, Southern growers may find Turkish buyers eager for medium grain. Turkey, reacting to Egypt's export ban, is looking toward the U.S. to purchase rice, but again, the South will have to compete with California.
Brothers addressed other key markets for both medium and long grain rice. Haiti, traditionally a big puller of U.S. long grain, lingers on the brink of food riots and the Haitian government is under increasing pressure. "That's one place we've got to watch closely and they've been a big player in the long grain market. It's amazing to me as I look at Haiti and the poverty there, because of how much rice they buy and how they're able to pay the high prices."
Iraq has held off from U.S. rice for several months, waiting for lower prices, and instead bought from Thailand and Vietnam. In the next round of buying, Iraq is expected to once again focus on U.S. rice.
Saudi Arabia has become what Brothers calls "the good news story." With India pulling rice out of the market, U.S. rice is moving back into Saudi Arabia, and the shift should continue in the near future.
GE rice persists as an obstacle in the EU, but Brothers does see positive signs developing as supply problems mount in Europe. "The EU is a whole different story with the GE issue. We did get a message that the destination of testing is no longer required in Europe. The European Union is getting themselves in a corner on GE. Something has to give in the EU. That is helping us and hopefully will continue to help us get back in that market."
The illness of Fidel Castro and changes in leadership have brought Cuba back into view as a potential customer. Brothers is optimistic, but believes change will be slow. "Cuba would be a huge market for the United States, and it's right here on our shore."
2008 rice plantings were another issue of focus during Brothers' session. Rice will certainly be affected by the tremendous amount of wheat and corn in the ground, as well as soaring soybean prices.
"Many farmers are telling me they are going to cut their rice acreage. Others are telling me they are going to increase their rice acreage. The best I can call it: last year plus or minus 5 percent," says Brothers.
"It's important to us that you grow rice. Corn doesn't do very well going through a rice mill."
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I retired in 2005 after spending 40 years as a writer, editor and creative director, in locales as scattered as West Virginia, Dallas, Cape Cod, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. I finally settled in California, following my two daughters west–and have been thrilled to watch my four grandchildren–three girls and a boy–growing up. After freelancing as a writer/editor for a few years after retirement, I've now given that up in favor of plain fun–painting, traveling, and volunteering for causes dear to my heart.
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MIDDLEBURY — Visitors to the new M Gallery at 3 Mill Street who fail to discuss the art are missing the point.
"We want to create a community that communicates with each other," said Cha Tori, a Middlebury College senior who helped charter the gallery.
Until Nov. 17, the M Gallery will display "Vision Obscured," an exhibit of abstract photography by seven Middlebury students. The show opened this past Friday, and is curated by Tori.


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The splendor and beauty of Chicken Island would make it an ideal vacation spot – if it weren't for those pirates. A one-legged captain, a gunner, a cutlass-wielding chicken and a treasure hunter… the island is home to countless perils, hidden extras and mysteries. The lords of the island are by no means willing to surrender themselves and their treasure without a fight. Crazy Chicken Pirates 3D is a point & shoot action game where you take aim at birds as they scurry through the island and plunge bravely into the waves for a desperate counterattack. You only have 90 seconds to complete your raid by slaying pirates and collecting all hidden treasures.
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Ziff Davis, the digital media company with market-leading positions in the technology, gaming and men's lifestyle markets, has announced expanded licensing agreements with T-Break Media, Times Internet, Media Lizard and Attica Media to bring AskMen, the world's largest men's lifestyle portal, to the Middle East (http://me.askmen.com), India (http://in.askmen.com), Benelux (http://nl.askmen.com) and Greece (http://gr.askmen.com) respectively. Ziff Davis is the Digital Media Division of j2 Global, Inc. (NASDAQGS: JCOM).
Since launching in 1999, AskMen has become the global authority on men's lifestyle matters – encouraging men to improve their lives with inspiring editorial that equips them to live better, know better and think better. The new editions expand AskMen's leadership position in the category into 20 countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Egypt.
The Benelux and Greece editions will be available in Dutch and Greek languages, while the India and Middle East editions will be available in English at launch, with Arabic content to be added to the Middle East edition in the future. All licensed editions will combine content from AskMen's worldwide network of expert contributors with locally-created content specifically for their respective audiences.
Media Lizard is one of the fastest-growing online publishers in the Benelux region, commanding an audience of 2 million people every month across a number of tech, mobile and entertainment brands.
Middle East publisher T-Break Media is backed by twofour54, the region's leading media and entertainment hub.
Attica Media is one of the leading media groups in Greece, with a portfolio of over 35 brands covering magazines, websites and TV.
Times Internet is the digital venture of Times of India Group, India's largest media and entertainment group, and commands a broad portfolio of successful brands that engage millions of users globally.
The four publishing houses already have proven to be successful licensees with Ziff Davis' other sector-leading brands: IGN, the world's largest website for games, entertainment and fan culture, which is represented by these partners in Benelux, the Middle East and India, and PCMag, the world's most trusted brand for technology reviews and news, which is represented by the partners in Benelux and Greece.
Nick Rego, Senior Editor, AskMen Middle East, said: "We are extremely excited to be launching AskMen in the Middle East. The male demographic in the region is known for having an appreciation for a premium lifestyle, and this passion aligns perfectly with the content featured on AskMen.
Puneet Singhvi, SVP & Business Head, Times Local Partners, Times Internet, said: "AskMen has always enjoyed a highly revered space in India and we knew there was high demand for local male lifestyle content. With the launch of AskMen India we enter into an exciting phase of driving top quality audience and authoritative content for aspirational Indian men."
Maarten Blonk, Publisher at Media Lizard, said: "Media Lizard has a lot of beautiful brands that are focused on tech, mobile and entertainment, and we are all thrilled to add lifestyle to the mix with AskMen. With this powerful brand in our portfolio, we are able to establish and build on new and existing content and commercial partnerships."
Kostas Tsitsas, Editor in Chief, AskMen Greece, said: "We have been huge advocates of the AskMen brand and consider it as the Holy Grail of any media company's digital lifestyle crusade. It has always been influential, as a source and as a reference, within the Greek media industry and among Greek consumers – and the timing couldn't be better for us to launch its local edition."
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"There has never been a more exciting time for the AskMen brand, with these new international editions all looking stunning, based on the celebrated re-imagined AskMen site, which won Digiday's 'Best Design Award' in April 2014. We have many new regions planned for AskMen, and welcome discussions with potential licensees in new markets."
Ziff Davis successfully partners with local publishing experts in 70 countries worldwide, with localized content from AskMen, IGN and PCMag.com now available in 16 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
About Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis is a leading digital media company specializing in the technology, gaming and men's lifestyle categories, reaching over 100 million unique visitors per month. Ziff Davis includes among its sites: IGN.com, the world's biggest video gaming information site; PCMag.com, the most-respected and authoritative consumer electronics reviews site; AskMen.com, the world's biggest online male lifestyle media brand; and Ziff Davis Technology, the largest network of technology publishers dedicated to consumer electronics, computing and mobile communications. Ziff Davis publishes in 16 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Russian, and successfully partners with local publishing experts across 70 countries. Ziff Davis is a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc.
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j2 Global, Inc. (JCOM) provides Internet services through two divisions: Business Cloud Services and Digital Media. The Business Cloud Services Division offers Internet fax, virtual phone, hosted email, email marketing, online backup, unified communications and CRM solutions. It markets its services principally under the brand names eFax®, eVoice®, FuseMail®, Campaigner®, KeepItSafe®, Livedrive® and Onebox®, and operates a messaging network spanning 49 countries on six continents. The Digital Media Division offers technology, gaming and lifestyle content through its digital properties, which include PCMag.com, IGN.com, AskMen.com, Toolbox.com and others. The Digital Media Division also operates NetShelter® Powered by BuyerBase®, an advanced digital ad targeting platform, and Ziff Davis B2B, a leading provider of research to enterprise buyers and leads to IT vendors. As of December 31, 2013, j2 had achieved 18 consecutive fiscal years of revenue growth. For more information about j2, please visit http://www.j2global.com.
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Media Lizard is the online publisher of AskMen Benelux, IGN Benelux, Androidworld, PCMag Benelux and Tabletworld. Media Lizard is also the co-organiser of EpiCon. Media Lizard reached more than 2 million people every month, attracting male audiences between 20-49 years of age.
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Supported by and based out of twofour54, T-Break Media is one of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's fastest growing media organizations, focused entirely on creating rich, relevant and timely content online. T-Break's recognized and awarded editorial team produces all of its content in-house, which is published on T-Break Tech, Middle East Movies or IGN Middle East - the leading portals in the region for consumer technology, movies and video games.
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Established in 1994, Attica Media is one of the leading media groups in Greece, with more than 35 press brands in its portfolio covering magazines, radio stations and websites. The company has been listed on the Athens Stock Exchange since September 1999, and has formed many strategic partnerships with major TV channels and newspapers. Attica also has an established profile in the international media space, with business expansions in Bulgaria and Serbia.
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DO-178B and DO-178C
There are many questions related to DO-178B support from T-VEC as well as the implications from the proposed DO-178C. This page provides some information related to these topics.
Who Does it Effect
The Global Aviation Traffic Management (GATM), all commercial airborne systems, in addition to all airborne military and space systems (U.S. Air Force 2001), have to comply with FAA regulations for avionics that require DO-178B certification. This now impacts space flight too.
Tool Qualification
Software tools used to automate aspects of software development or verification that will be applied for certification credit, without formal review, must be qualified. The tool qualification task can be nontrivial and may be seen as a hindrance when choosing to use some types of tools on programs governed by this constraint. However, a major survey conducted as part of the FAA's independently commissioned Streamlining Software Aspects of Certification (SSAC) program within the civil avionics development community included a section on tool qualification. The results of this survey indicated that 60% of the respondents considered the cost attributed to tool qualification to be small or negligible, 36% considered the cost to be substantial, and only 4% considered the cost to be prohibitive (Hayhurst et al. 1999). Fortunately for most users of T-VEC tools, the tool qualification cost should be minimal because the tool qualification packages have been developed for several tool components of the T-VEC tool set.
DO-178 and Tool Qualification History
The use of software tools to assist in developing application software has been common practice since the first assembler program was written to assist in the creation of machine code programs (Salmon 1993). While the correct functionality of a software tool has always been of a concern to the user of the tool, it is not typically a concern of the customer of the application. The responsibility for the functionality of the application is typically left to the application's developer; the customer is not typically interested in how the developer actually produced the application software.
However, in the context of applications that have an impact on health or safety, or other high assurance-related areas such as security, the concerns for correct functionality are much greater. In such domains, verification of correct functionality under possibly all operating conditions often is not only a concern of the customer but also of regulatory agencies such as the FAA and FDA. These concerns are formalized in officially published guidelines such as the FAA's DO-178B (U.S. DOT 1999). These guidelines form the basis for FAA approval of software-based avionics applications by establishing software development process completion and functionality verification criteria that must be met by the application developer in order to be approved by the FAA for commercial aviation use. These guidelines, DO-178B specifically, include sections on the use of software tools in the application development process and also introduce the concept of tool qualification. Consequently, to fully understand the meaning tool qualification and its impact on the use of T-VEC, a brief history of its derivation is useful.
History of DO-178B (Paraphrased From Johnson [1998])
In the avionics industry, software was initially viewed as an inexpensive and more flexible way to extend the functionality of mechanical and analog-electrical systems. However, it was quickly realized that the usual statistical approaches to assess the safety and reliability would not work for flight-critical software. An alternative means of assessment, one that addressed design errors rather than component failure rates, was required. From this need, the first version of DO-178 was created.
DO-178 was created to provide a basis for software certification by identifying and documenting software development "best practices," but it was written primarily at a conceptual level. To be compliant, applicants for certification were required to meet the "intent" of DO-178, but there were few details about how to actually do this. Rules of use were developed by trial and error over time. DO-178 was the first to introduce the concept that software verification requirements were dependent on the safety criticality of the software. It divided software applications into three categories: critical, essential, and nonessential.
DO-178 also established the relationship between the software certification process and the other relevant Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), such as the Type Certification Approval, the Technical Standard Order (TSO) Authorization, and the Supplemental Type Certification.
While the first version of DO-178 introduced the concept of software certification, the lessons learned from attempting to apply it quickly pointed out the need for revision. RTCA Special Committee 152 was formed to produce this revision, DO-178A, which was published in 1985. DO-178A turned out to be very different from DO-178.
DO-178A described, in systematic and structured detail, software development and verification processes, something that was deemed missing from DO-178. It maintained the safety categories of software applications, critical, essential, and nonessential, but also introduced the associated concept of software certification Levels 1, 2 and 3 corresponding to these criticality categories. This was done to allow for variance between application criticality and software certification level. The idea was that while an entire application would be assigned a criticality level, the level of certification effort for the software making up the application could be reduced according to the system design and implementation techniques. For example, if adequate partitioning of the design could be shown, some of the software of a critical application may only need a Level 2 or 3 certification effort, rather than Level 1, because of its lesser role in the overall functioning of the critical application. As with DO-178, attempting to apply DO-178A led to many new problems. Interpretation of certification requirements differed from one FAA region to another. Certification deliverables were frequently contended between applicants and the certification authorities and misinterpretation of DO-178A's intent sometimes led to entire software development life cycles being disallowed because they did not follow traditional waterfall-like processes. Lastly, there was an overall lack of understanding and appreciation for the purpose of the certification requirements by the industry in general.
During the time of DO-178A, the avionics industry was undergoing a major shift from analog to digital systems, and software was being applied in ever larger and more complex applications. Many new vendors of avionics applications came into existence and were now subject to software certification constraints for the first time. The lack of available DO-178A documentation, training material, development standards, and experienced people became apparent, and the industry again came to the conclusion that a new version of DO-178 was needed to address these issues and incorporate the new lessons learned from application of DO-178A.
To address these concerns, DO-178B was designed to satisfy the following three primary goals.
- Develop objectives for the life-cycle processes
- Provide a description of the activities and design considerations for achieving those objectives
- Provide a description of the evidence indicating the objectives have been satisfied
The intention was to provide enough information and detail as possible in order to lessen the burden and increasing demand on the few experienced software certification people that were available.
DO-178B made two more changes: nomenclature for describing safety criticality was changed from critical, essential, and nonessential to catastrophic, hazardous/severe-major, major, minor, and no effect; software Levels 1, 2, and 3 were changed to A through E.
One of the more significant aspects of DO-178B was the change made in software verification requirements. Much greater emphasis was placed on requirements-based testing than in earlier versions. This was done to reduce or eliminate the practice of focusing software testing primarily on structural (i.e., white box) coverage without fully testing the requirements, which would then lead to the need for additional tests. Requirements-based testing, with emphasis on the structure coverage of these functional tests, was seen as a more cost-effective and meaningful way to conduct verification testing.
The emphasis on requirements-based testing resulted in a new and significant focus area in DO-178B to ensure the traceability between requirements, code, and the tests that verify that the code satisfy the requirements. Traceability evidence is required to be thorough and bidirectional, demonstrating that requirements trace forward to code and tests and satisfy requirements, and trace backward from tests to code and to the requirements for which the tests were created. At the higher levels of safety and criticality, DO-178B requires that this traceability evidence show 100% structural code coverage.
DO-178B requires that verification and traceability evidence be made available for audit and analysis by the FAA or their DER to support an assessment of completeness and correctness. While this was also true for prior versions, the enhanced rigor and completeness of verification evidence required by DO-178B has proven to be a significant burden to the avionics industry. Some industry representatives have complained that the certification process requires an inordinate amount of time and expense, with some aspects of that process contributing little or no value. In particular, the FAA has received numerous complaints about software aspects of the certification process. (Hayhurst et al. 1998)
The human effort involved in producing the degree of systematically rigorous and complete verification and traceability evidence required by DO-178B can be overwhelming. In addition, as the complexity grows, the cost to produce the associated verification evidence grows exponentially with the size of the application. While tools that provide assistance with development, verification, and traceability have been utilized and undergone qualification throughout the time frame of DO-178 and its three versions, the tools designed specifically to meet the demands of DO-178B are being counted on for automated assistance far beyond those of their predecessors. Consequently, the reliance upon such tools without independent review of their results and artifacts also continues to grow. Thus, the subject of tool qualification takes on additional weight in the context of DO-178B.
Common Questions
Here's an example of a question that may be asked by some users have developed a RTOS that used in airborne system, and they want their RTOS to be certified under DO-178B.
DO-178B is much more than just a certification, it is a process that starts the same day as the development project itself. It is nearly impossible to take an existing application that was not developed in cooperation with the FAA or European equivalent and get it certified for any DO-178B levels, and definitely impossible for Level A applications. At the very beginning of a DO-178B development project, a document called Plans for Software Aspects of Certification is supposed to be created and supplied to the certification authority for approval. This plan describes the process and tools and procedures that the developer will utilitize during the development and verification of the avionics software application. This plan also describes the application and its use in terms of safety impact on the aircraft. The developer and the certification authority will decide what level of safety criticality the application should be developed to and certified to. This determined the objectives and deliverables that must be met and produced during the development and verification phases of the project.
To take an existing application like a customer's RTOS and get it certified under DO-178B, and entire development effort would be necessary - not to produce the actual code itself - but to go back and develop all of the additional material necessary to support the certification. For example, DO-178B Level A requires that verification testing include sufficient tests for 100% MCDC level object code coverage, and all of the tests are required to be traceable back to specific software requirements that the code was designed to satisfy. There are a lot of objects to be met and deliverables required to be produced and sent or made available to the certification authority.


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A grant to Hope College from the Teagle Foundation will enhance the college's ongoing effort to measure and improve student learning.
The award is through a program that the foundation has established to assist colleges in developing exemplary programs of systematic improvement. The four-year, $148,560 grant will support activities running from July 1 of this year through the end of June in 2012.
The grant to Hope will help the college to build students' writing skills and their curiosity and openness to new ideas. The college will be developing new evaluations to measure students' progress in both areas and providing a variety of development opportunities for faculty, such as guest lectures and workshops, as they seek to improve their teaching effectiveness.
Through the grant, Hope will draw on the insights and data that the college has gained from its participation in two national, multi-school consortia that have been exploring student learning via previous Teagle support. Since 2005 Hope has been part of an eight-institution consortium that has focused on how to help liberal arts colleges better determine how their approaches to teaching are affecting students, with emphasis on writing and critical thinking in particular. Since 2006 Hope has also been participating in "The Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education," which has involved 18 colleges and universities in measuring students' experiences on outcomes including leadership, reasoning and problem-solving, well-being, moral character, integration of learning, intercultural effectiveness and lifelong learning.
Hope's participation in the project is being coordinated by Dr. Caroline Simon, who is the John H. and Jeanne M. Jacobson Professor of Philosophy and director of general education and interdisciplinary studies at Hope.
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Service Broker is SQL Server's internal messaging system. It has been designed as an asynchronous, reliable and transactional messaging system for inter or intra database messaging, or even inter SQL instance messaging.
It is a powerful tool for decoupling extended transactions across time and across databases. It is designed to be reliable across databases stopping and starting, network outages, server migrations and database backups and restores.
It is also a complex configuration. I wanted to prove to myself that message reliability would persist across database restores so I set up a test which I intend to post to this blog at a later date. Meanwhile in trying to configure the test I learnt and used a number of trouble shooting tips.
So what does a DBA need to know regarding service broker?
Catalog views:
Inter SQL instance configurations use endpoints :
select * from sys.service_broker_endpoints
There is a send queue and a receive queue and they communicate using conversations. The send and receive queues are associated with services and are database scoped objects (these catalog views are also database scoped):
-- one row per endpoint of service broker conversation --in current database select * from sys.conversation_endpoints --one row per queue in current database select * from sys.service_queues --transmission queues are internal service broker --queues for storing messages during delivery select * from sys.transmission_queue
Queues are implemented as internal tables that can be viewed with:
select Q.name as queuename, i.name as internalname from sys.service_queues as Q join sys.internal_tables as I on q.object_id = i.parent_object_id
Conversation population explosion:
Conversations need to be closed with the END CONVERSATION command. Conversation endpoints are cached in memory and backed by storage in tempdb, so incorrectly handled conversations can build up un-closed endpoints and ultimately starve SQL Server of memory and disk space. (Conversation endpoints are designed to persist at the target for half an hour or so to prevent a known exploit involving sending duplicate messages)
The fastest way to clear all conversations in a given database is with:
alter database <database name> set new_broker
If you want to be a bit more discerning you could add some filters to this base code (this needs to be run at the sender and receiver):
use <database name> go declare @h uniqueidentifier while exists(select 1 from sys.conversation_endpoints) begin set @h = (select TOP(1)[conversation_handle] from sys.conversation_endpoints) end conversation @h end
Poison messages:
If a message delivery results in an error the message is popped back on the queue and the receiving transaction is rolled back. If the error is not correctly handled then message delivery will fail again, the message will be popped back on the queue, the transaction rolls back…
This can result in an infinite loop and is called the poison message problem. SQL Server service broker defaults to disabling the queue if five message 'rollbacks' in a row are detected.
Backup and restore:
When a database is backed up all service broker objects are backed up too, including queues.
By default, when a database is restored it is restored with service broker disabled (although the identifying service broker GUID is maintained). To handle service broker during the restore process three WITH options are provided for the T-SQL RESTORE command.
ENABLE_BROKER: Service broker is enabled after the restore completes and message delivery can resume immediately. The original GUID is retained.
ERROR_BROKER_CONVERSATIONS: All service broker conversations are ended with an error message, allowing applications to handle cleanup. The original GUID is retained.
NEW_BROKER: Service broker uses GUIDs to identify services. These GUIDs must be unique within the SQL Server instance. If you are restoring a database to a different SQL Server instance you can guarantee a unique GUID by using the NEW_BROKER option. This essentially creates a new service and all conversations are ended with no error messages.
The ssbdiagnose utility:
Service broker is tricky to configure, and equally tricky to debug. SQL Server 2008 ships with a command line tool ssbdiagnose that can scan service broker configurations and report issues. The tool can run in CONFIGURATION mode and check the service broker objects and configuration, or it can run in RUNTIME mode and trace and monitor active conversations.
Full details of all the switches and syntax for the tool are in BOL or here, but by way of example here is the command line I used to check my configuration that used two databases on a single SQL Server instance ('sender' and 'receiver' are service names unique to my configuration):
ssbdiagnose -E CONFIGURATION FROM SERVICE sender -S <machine name> -d <sender database> TO SERVICE receiver -S <machine name> -d <receiver database>
Conclusion: The intention of this post was to share some of the tips and tools that I have been using to troubleshoot service broker. Hopefully they are of use.


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So I looked and we don't have a topic specifically devoted to Feels. So here it is. Its really inspired by an article/interview I read. It was posted somewhere on Collected Animals and I thought you guys would enjoy it to. I thought it was pretty fantastic, and its obviously around the Feels era. http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_a ... id=6547238
cool interview. i like how they said that looking too deeply in to a band is counterproductive to enjoying the music, because music really is all about the listeners interpretation.
i wanted to bump this
not really FEELSing this!~ you feel me?
no, not really. im not FEELSing you. in fact im getting a bad vibe from you and youre hurting my FEELSings
to BEE honest i'm not really FEELSing it! b-side matieral at best! best BEST!
wait, seriously? ive never heard of someone not liking feels
I was listening to Feels again, going through various songs, and Grass is just fantastic. Wow. Wow. I really like MPP, but I think I may just love Feels.
Feels was the first AC album I ever listened to all the way through. I LOVE FEELS BAHHHHHH
I like Feels but not as much as other AC albums. Its the only AC album I have gotten sick of. I have listened to MPP, SJ and ST almost every day for 8 months and I am not tired of them yet. It may be because the lyrics are not as pertinent to me, as with other AC albums. I dont feel Feels.
i cant get sick of feels, too much variety! now SJ, i cant handle that more than once every like 2 weeks
I actually think SJ and Feels are my two favourite albums right now. I love them both.
When I listen to SJ I usually listen to FRG and Fireworks, because they are close to my favorite AC songs. Though I listen to other AC albums such as MPP, STGSTV and ST almost everyday and I am yet to tire of them. I am not sure what you mean by variety Ty, I think that Feels has as much variety as SJ. Unless, you are referring to the overall "emotional effect" because I agree because Feels does convey a lot of different Feelsings.
every sj song has the same vibe, while feels is far from that. for example, purple bottle transitioning into bees
(Just FYI, G.O. will always be honest but it never means he thinks you should not think/feel what you think/feel. It isn't a judgmental thing. It's just his opinion, man.) Feels is an amalgamation to me- it's not as "cohesive" as SJ but it wasn't meant to be "album rock' anyways! MPP is def. album rock.
I love Feels: it was my first album of Animal Collective and started the chain of getting everything I can get my hands on from them. I've had it on repeat for the last day or so in my car, too, and it always takes me back to when I first heard it--the day becomes akin to those days, the sounds bring back the sensual memories of those days. That's a good thing. Although I have to say the strangeness (by which I mean the newness) of it has faded a bit, but I can invoke it by focusing on trying to hear it for the first time again. "Those days" weren't that long ago: it's only been about a year.
"every sj song has the same vibe" what!
That one confuses me as well.
please to cut slack for Tike
When does Ghosty get the slack? NEVER. Erk, my coffee is cold.
I love Feels! Why? For me the drumming and percussion on Feels is so real and so lively (especially on Purple Bottle and DYSTW). This album also has it's more chill songs which are placed perfectly in my opinion, it gives a vibe of the album unlike other AC albums which seem to attack your ears, Feels tends to relax my ears (a good relaxing, not boring). The themes of this album and lyrics are a plus for me, after singing them for a while I get all the Feelsings that I need, and I listen to Feels not that often but I still manage to love it. In my opinion the frequency in which I listen to an album has little to do with how much I love said album.
I can kinda see what Ty is saying about SJ songs having the same vibe. there is not the same variety of feelings as in Feels as in SJ, but that is why Feels is called Feels. I almost never get sick of AC, but I find myself getting sick of Feels. It may be because I dont have the same memories attached to Feels as with other AC albums. The first time I heard MPP, was the first time I heard/fell in love with AC. The other songs off of other AC albums I fell in love with individually, not as much with Feels. I have no memories associated with Feels.
i have a very emotional connection with feels simply because Grass pulled me out of a mini-deppresion and compelled me to look into their other stuff
maybe replace flesh canoe and daffy duck with ficko syko and tikwid and you'd be half way there! the album would have been SO much more upbeat/ fun then!
Once again, your brilliance shines
Tikwid definetly should have been on Feels instead of Flesh Canoe or Daffy Duck, and maybe they could have stuck Fickle Cycle on the album without removing another song. I like Flesh Canoe and Daffy Duck too much NOW to say that they shouldn't have been on the actual album.
What I need (boom chicka boom) is good adive (boom chicka boom) Cooked on plates (boom tsi boom tsi)
ewww flesh canoe eww canoe of flesh that bears you across the waters to heaven.... hmm.
Flesh Canoe iz vunderfull. I lurve ze image of ze people ze making funny faces in ze mirror of ze bathroom. I vant to do that zomtime.
I think Flesh Canoe is my favorite song off of Feels. I love the imagery and the feeling.
Narnie, that is a wonderful part of love...it Feels amazing.
Once I read an interpretation of what Flesh Canoe means, I could never unthink it. Sounds weird coming from Avey.
Think of the words FLESH, human skin, and CANOE, a small boat shaped like a trough. It explains itself.
Just wanted to say that Feels is one of my favorite things ever alongside Kid A and Age of Adz. I even got my friend into Animal Collective with this album!
Welcome to the board Elusive! Please feel free to start new threads and resurrect old ones! Ziggster is also from Houston and while I realize it is a large city, maybe you know the same people/bands/areas.
Thanks a lot! Im actually not from Houston, lol! I just really love the ending of Bat You'll Fly!
I have a flesh canoe.
Age of Adz deserves it's own thread! I'll going to make it happen!
Do it. Do it. I think I should save my comments until you start it. I'll be waiting.
Oh, you're not from Houston, Elusive? [img]http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/6/60171/1754886-forever_alone_icon.png[/img] Haha, jk. Welcome to the boards! Feels probably took the longest for me to get into. But I do love it now.
I feel really bad about my username now I shouldve done "april's phantom" or "row alvin"! Or maybe something unrelated to spirit, idk.
Well, there's a Houston county in Georgia, where I am. And there's Houston Street in New York, from which the term Soho' is derived. Both of which are pronounced HOW stun. Let's pretend those are the Howstuns in which you are elusive.
Elowsive. Elowsive in Howstun.
Im elusive in toronto, tbh, but i dont really like the sound of that. But we can always pretend!
we were fated to pretend! howstunning! make sure to send it to ron too!
hugh... stan... we have a bra-blem! ish


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Residents and tourists alike in the US sate of Louisiana were given a special treat this week when an extremely rare pink dolphin put on a show leaping out of the water.
Dubbed 'Pinkie' by locals, the dolphin was first spotted in 2007 and is actually believed to be albino, leaving experts with mixed opinions as to why she appears pink in colour.
Pinkie is a bottlenose dolphin and these photos show her having a fun time frolicking in the waters of Lousiana's Lake Calcasieu.
While it's technically a lake, the water there is slightly salty, so it's comfortable for Pinkie and other dolphins to swim in.
Since she was first spotted almost ten years ago she's become a bit of a local celebrity, and after she was recently reported to be seen mating with another dolphin, hope's are high that Pinkie may soon become a mum!
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Taylor Swift's 2014 Red Tour Heading to Asia
Taylor Swift is, without a doubt, a worldwide superstar. Her Red Tour has impacted North America, Australia, New Zealand, London and Berlin, and she's just announced the run will be heading to Asia in June!
Swift made the exciting announcement on YouTube, listing off the Asian countries she'll be painting red, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. Specific cities include Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Looking elegant in a dark turtleneck and wavy hair, Swift beamed as she shared: "We're actually going to be continuing the tour into June of 2014!"
"We are going to be bringing the Red Tour to Asia," she added.
With the addition of an Asian leg, Swift's fans on that side of the world will be able to experience the superstar in her element onstage. "I can't wait to see you and I hope you guys have a great time at the show," the star exclaimed. "I'll see you there."
Dates for the extended 2014 Red Tour in Asia span June 4-12. Visit Swift's website for ticket information.
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I voted in the early election voting. Not only that, I was an early election voting official, so I can imagine the energy going on all around me at the precincts as I write.
Many polls had people in Monday night, setting up the equipment, getting ready for the 7am Tuesday start.
Poll workers arrive by 6am to turn on all the equipment and run checks. Outside, citizens are lining up waiting. Who knows when they showed up. By the time this is printed, we will know how early, how many — even who won.
To be a poll worker, you go through training for your particular job in advance. I had training as a poll book operator. I was new to this. I had used early voting in 2010 as a voting citizen; it was great for someone like me who has an irregular schedule. So this year I volunteered to help. As it turns out, you get paid to be a poll worker.
When you sign in to vote, there are two people facing you. These two people are from different parties, keeping things fair. So you sit every other person, Democrat, Republican or an unaffiliated voter, all day. Long days.
At the Edgewater Library where I was assigned, the congeniality among voting officials was wonderful. People wanted to get to know each other, across party lines, cooperating, organizing, laughing, happy, kind.
And the voters. Who could have expected there to be an hour-long line of citizens waiting to vote at 10am Saturday, October 27, at the Edgewater library, queuing down Stepney Lane? And 300 people in line by noon on Sunday when we opened the polls? People of all parties stood together in that long line, cooperating, laughing, happy, kind.
Folks who had trouble standing in line had their place marked and were escorted to chairs at the door so they didn't have to stand for an hour or more.
It was exciting. From the time we opened on Saturday, we had a long line of voters. People still in line at 8pm got to vote, no matter how long the line was, and it was out the door.
I was in a very special community, the voting community of Edgewater, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for this year's election. I had the privilege of working in the midst of a diversity of citizens. We cooperated in bipartisan, tripartisan, multipartisan ways.
If my guy loses and initiatives I voted for do not prevail, I will stand up and honor the will of the majority. I will show respect for the president. This is what democracy means.
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Stigmatization Slows Kenya's Efforts to Avert Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
Pregnant women in Kenya are giving birth to HIV-infected babies either because they do not know their HIV status or they are avoiding the hospitals. Stigma and discrimination are driving their behaviors. At a recent forum in Nairobi, on mother-to-child HIV transmission, Dr. William Maina, head of Kenya's National AIDS/STD Control Program (Nascop), said that in spite of the country's great improvements in the fight against HIV, stigmatization is still a challenge. People with the disease are frowned upon, and, as a result, the fear keeps women away from the hospital.
An estimated 13,000 women give birth to HIV positive babies annually, a decrease from approximately 23,000 in 2007. The reduction is due to the government's efforts to strengthen prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services offered in the country. PMTCT services are available at approximately 5,000 private and public health facilities and are free at public hospitals. Also, pregnant women who go to the hospital for delivery or attend a prenatal clinic are given the HIV test. If the result is positive, they are counseled and encouraged to attend clinics. Maina noted that only about 67 percent of pregnant women who know their status fully attend prenatal clinics. Many women avoid the clinics and hospital and resort to traditional birth attendants or deliver in poorly equipped health centers. Without treatment or proper counseling, mothers may transmit the disease to the infant in the womb, during the birth process, or when breastfeeding.
Mercy Achieng, an HIV positive woman who mentors HIV-positive pregnant women, explained that stigmatization is a major hindrance to the country's goal to eliminate perinatal transmission of HIV. She noted that the discrimination is worse for pregnant women, and it begins with the family. Also, at the hospital, some nurses stigmatize patients, abuse them, and make negative comments. As a result, the women may choose not return to the hospital or clinic. In addition, violence against women and poverty contribute to mother-to-child HIV infections. Women are unable to negotiate condom use with their husbands or make them go for an HIV test, and many men who know their status do not inform their wives. Some women breastfeed their infants because they cannot afford to buy formula, and thus may pass the disease to a baby that was born healthy.
Kenya aims to eliminate perinatal HIV transmission by 2015. Toward this end, the country recently launched a program called Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.


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"A great nation must have its own large commercial aircraft. The air transportation industry of China cannot completely rely on imports."
— Li Jiaxiang, head of China's civil aviation authority, at the unveiling of China's first large passenger jet, the C919. November 2, 2015.
"Flying is a great equalizer. The plane doesn't know or care about your gender as a pilot, nor do the ground troops who need your support. You just have to perform. That's all anyone cares about when you're up there - that you can do your job, and that you do it exceptionally well."
— Lt. Col. Christine Mau, 33rd Fighter Wing Operations Group deputy commander, on being the first female to fly the F-35. Story in MyPanhandle.com, 6 May 2015.
It's congenital really. we're an aspiring species that doesn't have wings. What else would we dream of?"
— Mark Vanhoenacker, British Airways B747 pilot and aviation author, on dreams of flight. Story in Financial Times newspaper, 17 April 2015.
"Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots."
— David Neeleman, 19 March 2014. Yes, the date is right. 2014. Over a year before the Germanwings 9525. Article in Popular Mechanics magazine.
"For God's sake, open the door!"
— Captain Patrick Sondheimer, Germanwings 9525, 10:32 local time, 24 March 2015.
"Oh the Bluemanity"
— JetBlue Airways tweet. They apparently didn't notice the newest name of one of their A320's also references one of the most horrific US commercial aviation accidents. "We apologize. The post was not well thought-out and has been removed." 26 February 2015.
"Some of our freighter companies are asking us for [single pilot airliners]. We are quite confident, technologically, that the toolkit is filled. With respect to commercial airplanes, there is no doubt in our minds that we can solve the problem of autonomous flight."
— John Tracy, Chief Technology Officer, Boeing. Article in Air Transport World, March 2015.
"I have seen the curvature of the earth. I have seen sights most people will never see. Flying at more than 70,000 feet is really beautiful and peaceful. I enjoy the quiet, hearing myself breathing, and the hum of the engine. I never take it for granted."
— Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesda, first African-American female to pilot the U-2. Article in Good Black News, 18 February 2015.
"I hate sailing."
— Troy Bradley, first words upon landing in the sea just off Mexico after crossing the Pacific from Japan in a balloon, smashing the all-time balloon distance and endurance records. Reported by The Guardian newspaper, 31 January 2015.
"We don�t really have any kind of regulatory structure at all."
— President Obama, commenting on the state of FAA regulations regards drones, UAVs and model flying airplanes. Interview with CNN following a drone flown by a drunk crash landing on the White House lawn. 27 January 2015.
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."
— Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking � The Distilled Kingsley Amis. 2008.
"Clearly this was an out of the ordinary landing, but I was just doing my job and any one of our pilots would have taken the same actions."
— Captain David Williams, Virgin Atlantic flight 43. He safely landed his B747 at London Gatwick with 447 people on board with no starboard outer main landing gear. BBC News, 31 December 2014.
"Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven : — That is by letters written with their quills."
— Leonardo da Vinci, English translation by Edward McCurdy, Leonardo Da Vunci's Note-books.
"Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves."
— Richard Bach, 'The Pleasure of Their Company,' in Flying magazine, April 1968.
"Or like a poet woo the Moon,
— Roy Campbell, The Festivals of Flight, 1930.
"It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it."
— Samuel Hynes, 'A Teller of Tales Tells His Own,' in the New York Times, 7 September 1997.
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Two years ago, Joe Pojman, director of the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life spoke against re-election of the current Speaker of the House Joe Straus (R-121) and endorsed his rival Ken Paxton.
"Speaker Straus cannot be called pro-life. He has failed to pledge to oppose public funding for Planned Parenthood, received a $1,000 campaign contribution from a Planned Parenthood PAC, and has been given high praise by Planned Parenthood for his 'tireless efforts' during the last legislative session," Pojman told Life News.
Fast forward to this election season and you will find Pojman standing firmly behind the San Antonio Republican.
The Texas Alliance for Life and the Texas Life Coalition announced their endorsement for Straus Friday, just 25 days before the primary.
"It is our view that Speaker Straus is well-deserving of the support of pro-life voters in House District 121," Pojman said in a press release. "Under his leadership as Speaker during the 82nd Legislature and the First Called Special Session, the Texas Legislature passed more pro-life legislation than in any other session in the history of Texas."
Matt Beebe, Straus' opponent who has labeled himself the "true conservative" in the race, could have a more difficult time positioning himself to the right of Straus following the endorsements.


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Skype is hoping to appease VoIP customers hit by the widespread Skype outage last week by offering a week of free service to paying customers.
The company has sent an email to customers who pay for its premium services informing them of the offer, Skype spokeswoman Imogen Bailey said today.
"As a goodwill gesture to all you faithful Skype Pro, Skype Unlimited, SkypeIn or Skype Voicemail customers, we're adding an additional seven days to your current subscription free of charge," the email said. "And even if you didn't miss out on using Skype last week, you can still have a week free on Skype, on the house."
The widespread collapse of the peer-to-peer VoIP service last week occurred when millions of Windows users tried to log on to Skype at the same time, after downloading a software update from Microsoft and rebooting their machines. Many people had problems logging on early Thursday morning and were unable to connect until Saturday.
Whether the free week's service will keep paying customers from dropping the peer-to-peer VoIP service remains to be seen. The interruption was a major inconvenience for business users, although some took the service failure in their stride.
Joyce Brecknell, program director at Freeform Dynamics, is a paying Skype customer and a "big user of VoIP service, both professionally and privately".
"I know where Skype works and where it still has some limitations," she said. "My expectation of VoIP is that it's still a backup service. I have multiple communication channels - like my mobile phone - just in case."


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Pop provocateurs Lady Gaga and Eminem may have brought more compelling career stories to the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, but on a shocking night the big trophies went home Sunday with Southern trio Lady Antebellum and Montreal indie-rock band Arcade Fire.
Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now," a harmony hit of closing-time yearning, was named record and song of the year (the former is for best overall track; the latter is specifically for song writing), while the best album honors went to Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs," the third studio album from the seven-member band led by the married couple Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.
Grammy Awards: An article in the Feb. 14 Section A about winners of the 2011 Grammy Awards said that the line "You think I give a damn about a Grammy?" came from rapper Eminem's first single, 1999's "My Name Is." The line comes from "The Real Slim Shady" in 2000. —
A dizzying string of envelope surprises at Staples Center began with perhaps the biggest shock of all: Esperanza Spalding, the 26-year-old jazz bassist and vocalist from Portland, Ore., was named best new artist, beating out far more famous nominees, among them kid-pop sensation Justin Bieber and rapper-singer Drake.
Spalding is the first jazz artist to win the coveted best new artist award, but her win recalled the 2008 show when Herbie Hancock took home the album of the year honors.
"I take this honor to heart so sincerely, and I'll do my damnedest to make great music for all of you. It's such an honor, and God bless," said a shocked Spalding, who released her third album, "The Chamber Music Society," last year.
Taken collectively, the honors for Spalding, Arcade Fire and Lady Antebellum were vivid reminders that the 13,000 voters of the Recording Academy aren't marching to the same beat as music consumers or even music critics.
The Antebellum victories — they won in five of the six categories in which they were nominated — show the consolidated power of the industry's country-rooted constituency that has powered major category upsets in recent years for the Dixie Chicks, Taylor Swift and the twang-informed duo of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
Formed in Nashville in 2006, the trio of Hillary Scott, Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley saw a bookend quality to their Staples Center success on Sunday. As they pointed out during their acceptance speech, their performance of "Need You Now" on last year's Grammy Awards was a key turning point in the single's success.
"We just cried our eyes out backstage," Kelley said.
The audience at Staples Center seemed incredulous as the winners were announced — these days most award shows are the stuff of predictable ritual, not roller-coaster surprise — and there will be considerable debate whether the academy's choices were boldly out of the box or blatantly out of touch with the hip-hop generation.
The night continued a grim Grammy tradition for Eminem, who has won 13 of the trophies in his career but none in the top four categories despite seven nominations. The rapper may now be regretting a spiky lyric from his first single, "My Name Is," in 1999: "You think I give a damn about a Grammy?"
There were plenty of other unexpected moments during the show. The CBS broadcast was marked by silences enforced by network censors when performers such as Cee Lo Green and Eminem dropped F-bombs during their songs and also when Gaga let loose with an especially ripe exclamation of surprise when accepting one of her three awards from her album "The Fame Monster."
Presenter Seth Rogen, famed for his bong-hit films, veered off his scripted teleprompter patter to make a joke about smoking pot with Miley Cyrus backstage and, far more upsetting, a dancer fell hard from a riser during Bieber's number with Usher and Jaden Smith. By all appearances, the performer appeared only temporarily dazed by the tumble; he continued performing after his fall.
In a couple of other historic benchmarks, a Grammy for the first time went to a composition written for a video game: Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu," which was named best instrumental recording; and the version of Train's song "Hey, Soul Sister" that won best pop performance by a duo or group was from the iTunes Session EP, the first time iTunes original content has won a Grammy.
The Grammy show is billed as "music's biggest night," but the next-day discussion will be just as much about the visuals — Cee Lo decked out like a funky peacock and surrounded by puppets, Bieber dancing with stackable ninjas and Gaga's show-stealing stage arrival inside something resembling an intergalactic egg and then performing her song "Born This Way" while wearing a yolk-yellow outfit.
As far as performances, the show was a mix of major stars of the past, present and, perhaps, the future. All five nominees in the best new artist category performed, and three icons whose recording careers date to the early 1960s took turns at the microphone: Bob Dylan sang "Maggie's Farm," Barbra Streisand performed "Evergreen" and Mick Jagger tore through a version of "Everybody Needs Somebody" as a tribute to the late Solomon Burke.
The show opened with a squadron of siren voices — Christina Aguilera, Yolanda Adams, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride and Florence Welch — performing a medley of hits associated with Aretha Franklin, the soul queen who has been ailing in recent months. A video message from Franklin followed the number, and the 68-year-old said she hoped to make it to the show in person "next year."
The final surprise was an unprecedented encore at the end of the show. After their acceptance speech, Arcade Fire members returned to their instruments and launched into "Ready to Start," their second number of the night. Some in the audience thought that it was a punk-spirited coup of the microphone, but Grammy executive producer Ken Erhlich said in recent days that he would let the band do an extra song if the show was running ahead of schedule.
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In a memo sent to journalists covering this month's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the Neighbourhood asked that its early-afternoon set be photographed only in black and white. A silly request? For sure. But it's one entirely in keeping with the devotion to style that runs through "Sweater Weather," this young L.A. band's current alt-rock radio hit, in which frontman Jesse Rutherford admires a lady friend's "little high-waisted shorts" before laying out his hopes for where their evening might go: "One love, two mouths / One love, one house / No shirt, no blouse."
That exacting attention to sartorial detail -- "high-waisted shorts"! -- distinguishes the Neighbourhood from many of the rather burlier bros on KROQ. With its processed vocals and man-machine groove, though, "Sweater Weather" is just one of a growing number of lightly bionic rock songs that have crossed over recently from alternative to pop audiences -- think of Neon Trees' "Everybody Talks," Awolnation's "Sail" and "It's Time" by Imagine Dragons. Or recall "Pumped Up Kicks," the 2011 single that L.A.'s Foster the People rode all the way to No. 3 on the Hot 100.
All these tunes feel like part of rock's attempt to appeal to Gen Y listeners who've largely grown up without the genre, an effort the Neighbourhood appears aligned with throughout its debut album. In "W.D.Y.W.F.M?" Rutherford takes a crack at Rihanna's trademark vocal stutter, while "Let It Go" has him more or less rapping over a squelchy, dubstep-inspired bass line. And though the album is full of guitars, they're often manipulated to sound like synthesizers, as in "Female Robbery" and "Everybody's Watching Me (Uh Oh)."
But if the Neighbourhood shares those other acts' textural know-how (and occasionally improves upon them), it rarely holds onto the ear it's figured out how to grab. Where "Everybody Talks" and "It's Time" condense rock thrills to pop dimensions, the songs on "I Love You" stretch out into dreary electro-goth atmospherics; they lack any kind of urgency, even when Rutherford is singing in "Flawless" about how he "just can't wait for love to destroy us."
A lack of urgency, of course, might precisely be the Neighbourhood's point on an album that seems to want to say something about the dangers of wasting one's youth in the Coachella VIP. As a lyricist, Rutherford packs a lot of miserable information into hashtag-ready lines like those that open "W.D.Y.W.F.M?": "Two nights ago, she got that look in her eyes / Kaleidoscope." And the group's listlessness is convincing in "Alleyways," which lifts a desolate one-note guitar riff from the xx.
On "I Love You," though, the Neighbourhood burns through those colors pretty quickly. The band does black and white, but nothing in between.
The Neighbourhood
"I Love You"
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Everyone's been all a-twitter (not a-Twitter, but probably that, too) about the possibility that there will be a feature film version of MacGyver, the TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson as a master of mechanical improv. While that sounds okay, I guess, it also sounds a little, I dunno, dull. If it were up to me, I'd totally greenlight a movie version of the 1986 TV series The Wizard.
Considered an extremely lucid fever-dream by most people who remember seeing the show, The Wizard starred the 4-foot-tall actor David Rappaport (Time Bandits, The Bride) as wealthy toymaker Simon McKay, who was also a brilliant scientist, designing equipment for the disabled and non-military technology for the U.S. government. With his government liaison Alex Jagger (Douglas Barr, Designing Women) and his old friend Tillie Russell (Fran Ryan, Forever Knight), he solved mysteries using high-tech equipment pulled out of his satchel, frequently crossing paths with his arch-nemesis, Troyan (Roy Dotrice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer). It was like a cross between MacGyver and F/X, and the serious treatment of a character of Rappaport's height made the show stand out in a sea of normal-sized action/adventure shows. So why not translate it to the big screen and set it apart from other summer blockbusters?
We're living in the age of some of the greatest little actors of our time. Did someone say Verne Troyer? If so, please leave, because by no means should he ever be given a speaking part in a movie ever again. No, we were thinking Peter Dinklage (Nip/Tuck, The Station Agent) for the role of Simon, although that's certainly aiming high. Somehow, he seems above starring in a remake of a TV show, although he was in Prince Caspian and Elf. Martin Klebba is another possibility, having co-starred in Pirates of the Caribbean and Scrubs, but so is Danny Woodburn, of Seinfeld and Watchmen fame.
For more from Television Without Pity:
The Classic TV Shows That Should Be Remade
Brilliant But Cancelled: Dramas Axed Too Soon
Tubey Awards: Cast a Vote from TV's Best & Worst
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