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Four Featured in Annual Senior Art Showby Howard Hewitt • April 17, 2013 Share:
Four Wabash senior are wrapping up their careers as Wabash College art majors with the annual Senior Art Show.
The show runs through May 12 at the Eric Dean Gallery in the Randolph Deer Art Wing of the Fine Arts Center.
"The capstone is a directed creative process involving experimentation, research, critical analysis, writing and artistic production," Professor of Art and Department Chairman Doug Calisch. "Collectively, these efforts move our seniors toward developing and refining a sophisticated body of work — a group of related artworks that are both technically accomplished and conceptually cohesive. Preparing for the exhibition requires the seniors to work together with the gallery director and collaborate on all details associated with the exhibition.
"Because of the uniqueness of the work in any senior cohort, the details for the final exhibition are decided by the group. The result is typically a professional looking exhibition featuring the public debut for several talented young artists. This year's group fits the bill."
Patrick Alston's mixed media work questions our cultural understanding of the American dream. Alston combines charcoal drawing, pattern, paint, and collage to illustrate common perceptions about living and working in America.
Joey Fogel showcases a series of paintings, "The Story of African-American Patriots," in which each painting features a lone African American soldier. Fogel's work gives new meaning to our perceptions of the soldiers' experiences in the military. Fogel's father, a war hero, served as the inspiration for these paintings.
Sean Parchman's digital photo collages reflect on the issue of identity. As a Native American who wants to be a Buddhist and a techno-geek who believes in classical ideals, Sean uses these four contradictory "center points" of his being as a basis for imagery and technique in his art.
Chase Tichenor's paintings combine popular movie characters from different eras, both real and animated, that share similar underlying virtues. When juxtaposed in the same environment, these movie icons point to Hollywood's representation of the human condition across time.


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Comzeradd posted a great article recently on how to speed up firefox by moving your ~/.mozilla folder on a tmpfs mount.
As you probably know, firefox keeps track of everything you visit while you browse the web infinity, then allows you to quick-search that history just by typing in its awesome bar –err, address bar 🙂
Unfortunately, after a while the whole thing slows down and gets a bit annoying. So what Comzeradd tried was to move ~/.mozilla (which includes the history database) on a tmpfs mount.
The difference is staggering! Searches are snappy again and even firefox itself feels faster!
Comzeradd offers a script that syncs your tmpfs ~/.mozilla with a folder on your hdd to make sure you won't lose your data on reboot/shutdown/powerfail.
I took this a step further by creating a firefox wrapper script. After you move your ~/.mozilla folder to a safe place, this script makes sure that your data is always synced between the tmpfs folder and your hdd folder on a fixed interval.
what the script does, in steps:
- check that we don't have any stale ~/.mozilla folder
- rsync our hdd copy of .mozilla with our tmpfs
- launch a background process that syncs any changes on the tmpfs .mozilla folder back to our hdd copy every one minute (adjustable)
- launch firefox
- when firefox ends, kill background process and sync back to the hdd one last time
To use the script, you'll first need to mount tmpfs to a folder. On my laptop I have my /var/tmp as tmpfs (useful for gentoo emerges too). To make /var/tmp a tmpfs folder, you need to edit your /etc/fstab file and add the following line:
tmpfs           /var/tmp   tmpfs size=768M,mode=0777        0 0
You should adjust the size= option based on the ram you have available.
Then just mount the "partition" with:
mount /var/tmp
and execute the script
chmod +x speedfox
Thats it! This simple process gives firefox a real boost!
If you start speedfox from a terminal, you can see the rsync info at the beginning and after each minute =]
You can get the script here.
Don't forget to edit it, read the instructions and configure its variables!

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2012 BMW Z4: New Car Review
Pros: Excellent turbocharged engines; impressive mpg with the turbo four; accomplished handling; civilized ride; wonderful optional M sport seats
Cons: Fancy automated manual transmission hurts fuel economy; hard-core driving enthusiasts might prefer something more focused
The 2012 BMW Z4 is one of those cars that tough-guy journalists love to lambast. "It's gone soft," they'll grumble, thinking wistfully of yesteryear's M-powered BMW roadsters with ox-cart suspensions, "and all you can get these days is a turbocharged engine." But that's not even the worst of it. No, the Z4's biggest sin is-horrors!-"it's got [expletive deleted] electric power steering!" You get the sense that these guys are BMW's jilted lovers, romanticizing the past because they're not ready to face the future.
If that means little or nothing to you, good, because that's what it's worth. The fact is that the Z4 is a wonderful car to drive. The new base turbocharged inline-4 punches far above its official numbers, and it sounds enthusiastic, like a more muscular Mini Cooper S. As for the turbocharged inline-6, it's a thrill in either state of tune. The Z4's handling-much maligned by those tough guys in their tough publications-is actually quite capable, and the long-nose proportions add interesting visual drama to the driving experience. And then there's the retractable hard top, which lets you park the Z4 anywhere you want without fear that some ne'er-do-well will slice through your delicate fabric roof.
We grudgingly admit that the Z4 isn't quite a Porsche Boxster (or a used Honda S2000) in terms of driver involvement. There's a little more luxury in the Z4's genes than roadster purists might prefer. On the flip side, we think the Z4 is a compelling lower-priced alternative to the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class; it's that nice. So we encourage those tough guys to get their kicks elsewhere. We'll gladly take their seat time in the rewarding 2012 BMW Z4.
Comfort & Utility
The 2012 BMW Z4 hardtop convertible is offered as the four-cylinder sDrive28i, the six-cylinder sDrive35i and the highest-performance sDrive35is.
The sDrive28i starts with 17-inch alloy wheels, electronically adjustable throttle and steering response, auto stop/start (requires manual transmission), adaptive xenon headlamps, foglamps, heated mirrors, leatherette upholstery, push-button start, cruise control, and iPod/USB and Bluetooth connectivity.
The sDrive35i adds different 17-inch alloy wheels, leather upholstery, eight-way power seats with driver memory and dual-zone automatic climate control. The sDrive35is tacks on 18-inch wheels, a lowered suspension with M-tuned adaptive dampers, M sport seats with 12-way adjustability (including power side bolsters and manual thigh support) and M-themed styling cues.
Notable options include iDrive with hard-drive-based navigation, the sDrive35is model's standard M sport seats and M suspension (available on both sDrive28i and sDrive35i), a cold-weather package with heated seats and steering wheel and a premium audio system.
The Z4's standard front seats are adequate in a straight line, but they don't do much to hug you in place around corners. That's why we consider the available M sport seats almost mandatory. Unless you're sticking to boulevards, you'll want the M seats' exemplary adjustable side bolsters. The view of the road ahead is complemented by the Z4's classic long nose, which is fully visible from the driver's seat. You're really almost sitting on the rear axle in this car, like an old goggle-wearing racing driver from the 1930s.
The Z4's gauges have unusual stylized circular hoods, but they're otherwise classic BMW, with simple white numerals that turn orange at night. The controls, too, are straightforward, although we found that the base sDrive28i's manual climate controls took a little getting used to, if only because it's so rare to find a BMW without automatic climate control. The Z4's interior materials aren't as nice as the ones you'll find in most other BMW products, but they're still identifiably premium. We appreciate that the iDrive information and entertainment system remains optional; not everyone wants a roadster with full frills.
The Z4's power folding hard top is a work of art, really, doing its intricate origami folding act in minimal time and with minimal fuss. Trunk space isn't bad at all for a compact hardtop roadster, measuring 10.9 cubic feet with the top up and 6.3 cubic feet with it folded down.
The base sDrive28i model comes standard with iPod/USB and Bluetooth connectivity, but that's about it, so you can have a reasonably elemental Z4 if you want it. Otherwise, prepare to pony up for the optional hard-drive-based navigation system, which brings with it a beautiful pop-up 8.8-inch wide-screen display and the familiar console-mounted iDrive control knob. The latest version of iDrive is markedly improved from the old days, boasting a simplified interface with a number of physical buttons that allow direct access to common pathways. There's also room on the hard drive to store your digital music.
Performance & Fuel Economy
The Z4 sDrive28i is motivated by a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 that's officially rated at 240 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque. We say "officially" because we know the turbo four actually puts out considerably more oomph than BMW is letting on. Acceleration is strong well into illegal territory, and we enjoy the four's enthusiastic noises, which vaguely put us in mind of the exuberant Mini Cooper S. The default transmission is a satisfying six-speed manual; an eight-speed automatic is optional.
The Z4 sDrive35i gets a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 good for 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque via either a six-speed conventional manual or seven-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission. That's a bunch of power for a diminutive roadster-and this inline-6 is also considerably underrated by BMW-so the 35i really gets up and goes, with a snarky exhaust note as a bonus. But the sDrive35is is still faster, boasting a tweaked version of the twin-turbo inline-6 that cranks out 335 hp and 332 lb-ft, increasing to 369 lb-ft for brief stretches at full throttle. For better or worse, the 35is is only offered with the seven-speed automated manual transmission.
All Z4s are rear-wheel drive. Fuel economy ranges from a remarkable 23 mpg city/34 mpg highway for the sDrive28i (24/33 mpg with the automatic) to just 17/24 mpg for both the sDrive35is and the sDrive35i with the automated manual (19/26 with the regular manual).
The 2012 BMW Z4 comes with standard stability control, four-wheel ABS, a rollover protection system and six airbags (front, knee and side). It has not been subjected to any crash testing on U.S. soil.
Driving Impressions
The Z4 has BMW's trademark solid feel at speed, and the cabin is downright civilized with the top up-you could take a chatty road trip with a friend and not raise your voice once. The ride is quite civilized, too, which is one reason why we see the current Z4 as a cut-rate competitor to the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class. Wind buffeting is kept nicely in check with the top down. On the handling front, the Z4's somewhat numb electric-assist steering doesn't channel the spirit of older BMWs, it's true, but we're quite pleased with this roadster's determined grip and disciplined body motions. You can toss the Z4 around if the mood strikes. The Boxster is definitely sharper, but it's not nearly as good at being a luxury coupe with the top up. Decisions, decisions.
Other Cars to Consider
Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class: We've mentioned the SL, but that roadster is twice the Z4's price. The real rival from Benz is the pint-size SLK-Class, recently restyled and distinctly less sporty than the BMW, but also less attractive, we think.
Porsche Boxster: With a redesign just around the corner, now might be the perfect time to get a Boxster on the cheap. For pure driving thrills, the vinyl-top Porsche is still the one.
Chevrolet Corvette convertible: Believe it or not, the Corvette and the Z4 are price peers. Different philosophies, to be sure, but you might be a 'Vette convert after some quality time with the standard 6.2-liter V8.
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We never thought we'd be saying this, but the four-cylinder Z4 is actually a really compelling package. We'd save our money-well, as much of it as we could-and get a Z4 sDrive28i with the basic Sport package, which includes sport seats and adaptive dampers.


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If at any point in your life you've wondered whether you could EVER get tired of watching naked Amazon beauties shaking their bodacious ta-tas in your face in the most shamless, joyful way possible, Russ Meyer's Mondo Topless will solve that little mystery for you. Possibly the most absolutely pure distillation of an eccentric director's visual obsessions ever committed to film, this movie offers a solid hour of gigantic bouncing boobs in just about every configuration, all expertly filmed in Meyer's trademark crisp, primary color style, without any consideration of such things as "plot," "character," or anything else that might dilute the filmmaker's glorious, neurotic vision. If you make it to the end credits and find yourself still thinking "Go baby GO!", then congratulations: you're an insatiable perv.
As the name implies, Mondo Topless is patterned after the infamous "Mondo" documentary films that were all the rage in the 60s and 70s. However, whereas the 1962 genre-creator Mondo Cane and its many imitators focused on real-life scenes of animal cruelty, grevious human injury, and strange (often gruesome) cultural practices from the far-flung corners of the globe to shock and titillate audiences, Meyer instead turns his lens on the world of topless dancers. (At the time of filming, topless dancing was still considered largely underground and shockingly perverse by most Americans, restricted in the public mind at least to hellholes of cultural depravity like San Francisco and New York City.) The result is something more than the nudie-cutie drive-in and grindhouse reels that had been the repressed US's main expression of naked-lady fetishism up to that point--it comes across as part documentary, part satire, and all a 100% unfiltered glimpse into Meyer's personal psychosexual fixations.
Translated: free-spirited girls with absolutely colossal breasts shakin' 'em like Polaroids to an endless surf-guitar soundtrack. That's the show, folks. Interested?
Of course you are.
Like I said earlier, there's really no plot to speak of here. The whole thing is presented in documentary style, with some of the most hypertensive narration you could imagine laid over a one-hour montage of boob-shaking Meyer girls. Narrator and Meyer-comrade John Furlong (who also provided the spectacular opening narration for Meyer's masterpiece Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) waxes all Fruedian poetic at top volume, reeling off a series of some of the most groan-worthy double-entendres possible. Here are a few of the gems we get along our Grand Tetons Travelogue:
"This is San Francisco calling! ...With its BULGING PEAKS and DEEP CANYONS, Wide-eyed tourists and vacationeers are still dragged to [the city's] CAPACIOUS BOSOM!"
Furlong gets even more worked up when he moves from double-entendres to straight-out single entendres:
"The World's LOVELIEST BUXOTICS!"
"Darlene Gray--England's answer to THE BIGGEST AND THE BEST!"
"Greta Thornwald, the Nordic Nymph, whose pulchritude is unrivaled by any showgirl in Denmark!"
"Babette Bardot! SPEAK TO US, BABBETTE BABY!"
it took your momma 9 months to make 'em.
Merely reading those lines can't do the narration justice. There were times when I was seriously worried for Furlong's blood-pressure levels--like the go-go club customers in FPKK!, he often sounds more pissed off than titillated, ready to pop a vital blood vessel at any given moment. Furlong's voice-work is so over the top that many have pointed to it as evidence of Meyer's sly satirical wit--however, I'm not at all sure it wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
"BUT ENOUGH OF THIS PALAVER!" (As Furlong screams early on.) What about the girls? Well, they run the gamut from "cute and vivacious" to "kind of scary looking" to "weathered but with great knockers" to "OMFG HOW DOES SHE WALK?" The prize-winner in the latter category is definitely the aforementioned Darlene Gray, who talks about the hardships of having to buy a plus-size dress and then take in the waist to her more modest sub-boobular proportions.
During the lengthy dance sequences, the girls all respond to interview questions about life as a topless dancer, the difference between "topless" and "exotic" dancing (answer: exotic is more about sensuality, topless more about "fun"--i.e., shakin' your money-makers), and their typically free-wheeling attitudes about sex. Probably the most entertaining of these interview segments are those with Sin Lenee and Babette Bardot. Linee is probably the most svelte and least-endowed of the dancers here, and is presented as a kind of flower-child free spirit, always wearing a long strand of love-beads while she moves to the music. For instance, she talks about how she loves being out "in a bunch of green" (the color), and later muses in a far-out voice "Almost any type of music makes me feel sex. Also, color makes me feel sex."
Bardot, on the other hand, is all Euro-sex kitten, and has some strong opinions on the subject of seduction. "I don't believe a woman should tease a man unless she's going to give him something," she opines early on, and later makes fun of the roundabout seduction techniques of American males. "If he wants sex, he should SAY he wants it! Not say, 'Oh, would you like to see my stamp collection.' Unless he really wants to show his stamp collection, which is nice, but if he wants sex, he should say it!" That's the kind of wisdom we're getting here.
Other than that it's all surf-guitar and Furlong, who narrates a few European dance numbers from Belgium, Paris, and Denmark (which are obviously NOT photographed in Europe, but rather on the same draped studio set--two of the models, supposedly nations apart, even sport the same leather belt) and some other strange sequences, such as Babette's opening nude drive through San Francisco, an underwater photography sequence, and a delineation of what it takes to be a successful topless dancer:
"A body well above the average in physical beauty, unblemished by an uneven suntan! A bustline that is firm and youthful! The topless dancer's face as well must bear an equal burden with the body, encouraging sensuous and provocative expression, supplementing her physically exciting figure!"
Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill! and two years before his next big success Vixen!, Mondo Topless may very well be the closest Meyer ever came to filming what was actually going on in his vibrantly twisted imagination. Despite all the flesh on display throughout, there is no actual sex anywhere in the movie--in fact, save for a few street scenes and Furlong's maniacal voice, no male figures of any description appear at all. It's all just rock music, smiling faces, and big bouncing breasts.
Meyer, who despite his title as "King of the Nudies" was on the record as being disgusted by hardcore and graphic simulated sex scenes (in his later movies he did film some of these, but reportedly always for financial rather than artistic reasons), preferred the joyful, innocently sexual pin-up mystique to just about anything else, and it shows here--all the girls in Mondo Topless seem to be having a blast, rocking out to the surf-guitar and reveling in their feminine beauty. For Meyer, it must have been a little slice of heaven.
For viewers used to plot and character and "stuff making sense," Mondo Topless may prove a bit wearing. Even with its scant 1-hour runtime, I found myself fast-forwarding through some of the less-inspired dance numbers. But as a cultural artifact and a document of a fascinatingly twisted filmmaker's not-so-secret obsessions, Mondo Topless is aces. 2.5 thumbs from your friendly Vicar.
Talk to me, baby!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Mondo Topless (1966): or, It's Exactly What You Think It Is
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 9:00 AM
Labels: '60s, 2-3 thumbs, Mondo, Russ Meyer, Sexploitation, Shockumentary
8 comments:
- Tenebrous Kate said...
I'd argue that the movie also has a lot to offer for Loud Staccato Narrator fetishists like me.
OH CRAP! That was the Out-Loud Voice--I meant to say like my friend. Or... I read about it in an article... or something like that.
Awesome review of this curious little (enormous?) flick, Vicar. One of the things I've found amusing about Meyer's body of work is that sex is an almost entirely above-the-waistline effort, while steering carefully clear of ever wandering above the neck ;)
- December 18, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- The Duke of DVD said...
Bravo, dearest Vicar, for bringing the word "buxotic" to our attention. I simply must remember to use it in my everyday vernacular, whether to describe the attributes of my latest serving girl or the qualities of a mother opossum found in the nave a fortnight ago.
Meyer deserves all of the praise one can throw his way. While giant fun bags aren't quite my bag, baby, I do appreciate his worship of the female form. The fact that he included little to no sausage just underscores his dedication.
- December 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM
- Karswell said...
MONDO BLOGGO: just in time for this review comes along a nice 'n floppy blog I just happened to stumble upon yesterday:
- December 18, 2008 at 11:28 AM
- prof. grewbeard said...
Mondo Topless sounds wonderful. but could it better than my all-time favorite boob-a-rama, My Tale Is Hot?...
- December 18, 2008 at 11:24 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Empress--if you love Loud Staccato Narrators, you should definitely spin this one up. Or should I say, NOW IS THE TIME TO INSERT THIS DISC INTO THE WAITING APERTURE OF YOUR BUZZING DVD DRIVE, WHERE IT CAN SPIN, BABY, SPIN, LIKE A DERVISH OF PIXELLATED PASSION! ;)
Duke--even if the giant funbag obsession doesn't work for you, there's still something hypnotic about Meyer's devotion here. Either that, or I share more with him than I should probably admit in public, Damn!
Karswell--thanks for the link! If anyone wants to check out some footage from the movie in question, click on over!
And finally, Professor--I haven't seen "My Tale is Hot," but now I'm interested. Too late to update my xmas list, though...
- December 19, 2008 at 9:05 AM
- Rev. Fred Phantom said...
This and Black Snake are the only two Meyer films to pass me by over the years. Not sure why. I don't think I was even aware that this was on DVD. Excellent review of a film that sounds hard to review.
- December 19, 2008 at 2:57 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
I believe the only official DVD of this one is a region 2 PAL release, part of an expensive Meyer box set.
However, it's still possible to come by the movie in the US, if you know what I mean...
No, wait, THAT'S not what I mean!
Although, come to think of it... ;)
- December 19, 2008 at 4:43 PM
Thank you for the full, well-rounded review. I sincerely believe that any adult who was once breast-fed or knows what a bra is should watch Mondo Topless. It is classic cinema, nipping on the heels of his previous release, "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" and is certainly a titillating masterwork of the genius of Russ Meyer. But remember, it is merely a sensitive part -- some say the pinnacle -- of the large body of his legendary, mountainous accomplishments.
- July 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM


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Katie Branic has changed the brand of makeup she uses more than a dozen times.The 23-year-old also recently switched to baby shampoo and even dropped gluten from her diet.But no matter what Branic does, she can't stop the red, scaly rash that forms on her eyelids and around her lips. "I can tell you lots of tears were shed from frustration over this," said Branic, an information-technology analyst for a Columbus-area financial institution. "Makeup couldn't cover it up anymore. I had to do something." Branic, of Worthington, has contact dermatitis, an allergic reaction caused by direct contact with a substance. The red, itchy rash you get after touching poison ivy is contact dermatitis. So are the bumps caused by latex gloves. Those are easy ones. The list of substances that can cause the condition is seemingly endless. And to make matters worse, anyone can become allergic to nearly anything at any time. That's why contact dermatitis ranks among the top 10 reasons people visit primary-care physicians and is among the most-common reasons for work-related disability.For doctors and patients alike, the condition can be frustrating. Creams, lotions and even steroids can help control symptoms, but the underlying cause and its effects might linger for years.Branic had seen three doctors. None could help. Then she was referred to Dr. Matt Zirwas, a dermatologist and director of Ohio State University's Contact Dermatitis Center. "Contact dermatitis kind of falls between the cracks between allergists and dermatologists, so it goes unnoticed and not treated so many times," said Zirwas, who has spent the past eight years dedicated to solving mysterious rashes.The work has earned him a reputation among colleagues and his staff. "I call him the Sherlock Holmes of skin allergies," said Denise Close, Zirwas' physician assistant. "He will figure out the allergies no one else has been able to." But before we get to how Zirwas cracks the tough cases, it's important to look at why patients end up in his office.Susan Nedorost, the president of the American Contact Dermatitis Society, said one reason is that most rashes don't appear right away. And many are caused by something a patient has used for years. But what makes it even more difficult is that most people aren't allergic to one product. Instead, they are allergic to specific chemicals, some that stretch 20 letters long and are nearly impossible to distinguish in most physician offices.One textbook contains more than 1,000 pages of substances that can cause contact dermatitis. "It's very difficult for patients to deduce the cause -- much harder to be their own detective," said Nedorost, a professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.Few dermatologists do the skin-allergy work that Zirwas does to track down the cause of a patient's contact dermatitis. Patients travel to Ohio State from Pennsylvania, Kansas and even Alaska to see him. Over the years, Zirwas has tied allergies to the glue in a patient's shoes, dyes in clothing and even a chemical found in the black rubber on escalator hand rails."It's the hidden exposure in everyday things," he said. Once patients get to Zirwas, they undergo an initial consultation to figure out what to test for. Then they undergo patch-testing, during which discs that contain potential allergens are taped to their backs for two days to see what they react to.Branic recently was tested for 103 allergens. Zirwas said he is focusing on chemicals in the makeup and fragrances she wears.She said she is tired of having to take off work because of the rashes. "It's so unpredictable, and I always have my fingers and toes crossed that it won't flare up," Branic said. "But that's no way to live life." So far, Branic has learned that she is mildly allergic to a few fragrances. But Zirwas isn't convinced those are the only culprits.He said he will continue to work with Branic until he cracks the code. Once he does, she will be told how to find products that don't contain any allergens that trigger her rashes. "For the people who have this, it's one of the very, very few things in medicine we essentially have a cure for," Zirwas said. "There's nothing else where we can say, 'Just make these changes, and you will never have to deal with this ever again."" (c)2013 The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) Visit The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) at www.dispatch.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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0) TITLE: Designing Device Design DeliverablesColor cover sheet on Elmo.
1) Who is here?I want this to be interactive, so don't mind me if I wander, and feel free to yell out if I say something confusing. And I'll start with a survey: Why aren't you all learning about iPads? I mean, Apple is gonna take over the world, right? Seriously, I want to make sure I am talking about stuff relevant to your jobs, so raise your hand if you design devices or device interface directly? How about if you work with or for an operator/carrier on their home deck, or other customization? Who else is left? ... why do you care about this? DISCUSS
2) Designing Device UIsI think this topic is important for everyone. Because we are all designing device UIs. And that's not just overdoing the semantics -- Really thinking about interactive design holistically, contextually, means each little app is device design. Your product can change the user's perception of their whole interaction with the device. So your app or widget or site better be mobile (and when possible comply with the device design paradigms) or you are ruining the device UI. So, you better understand what the device's native UI means.
3) Design, or Modifying DesignAnd, you should know what "Native" even means. For example, what I call overlays. Have two RAZRs. The black one is a world phone, straight from Motorola's secret volcano factory, exactly as they intended it. The red one is a Sprint phone my dad used for years. Basically the same model, but... three softkeys, etc. Different UI. And for those that say featurephones don't matter, there are 2.1 BILLION of them out there. Vs. 620 MM smartphones (and only 80 MM iphones).
3a) Yes, Even for SmartphonesHave Hero, Galaxy and other Samsung, at least. Same for smartphones. Look at the array of android devices I have here. Not the hardware, but the UI changes. Some with variations as the OS marches on, but some with OEM customization, or with Operator demands.
4) Design and DocumentationBut I want to talk more about documentation than devices themselves, or design of the devices. I have always believed there is a strong relationship between design and documentation. There's no such thing as internal (in your mind) design. A design is only valuable if it can be put on paper. In a meaningful manner. For specifications, there's another key attribute of this. A design is not valuable unless you can communicate it to other people.
5) Converting Document SpecsAbout 18 months ago we got a project from a large national operator to, basically, fix their featurephone device specification. Since then we've done the same for a series of smartphones for the same people, and have written device design specs from scratch for a tablet/reader device, and so on. I turned a lot of my previous documentation best practices into actual codified postulated on that first operator project, and confirmed them since then. Since it's /semi/ recent, as well as easy to disguise, so I'll be using it for most of this discussion. Original device spec (redacted) with KA&A. This was the original, historical, specification for a particular state of a handset UI. A requirement or two, and often /pages/ of tables outlining... really not very much. This is a "Key Assignments & Actions" table, covering what each hardware key and what each on-screen key, do in the particular state. But these tables were /rife/ with errors. And most errors were inconsistencies. Needless extra confusion to the end user, and if executed needless extra work for developers. Early in this project it was obvious these had to go. It took a bit to decide what format to settle on, but eventually I settled on this: Printout of new KA&A drawing, both in the requirements and the intro one. The vast bulk of these Key Assignments are the same across the whole interface. So, they are defined on this page up front. "Up" moves up, when there's a list or array, for example. When you look at a requirement, there's a little compressed version which refers to it (at the bottom) and the little colored keys are the /exceptions/ to the default states. What I've already started doing is discussing some general principles of design -- you should make up design objectives for each project, but these are general design and documentation principles.
6) First two design principlesPrintout of design principles. CLEAR – Remove ambiguity and the ability to interpret documentation in multiple ways. CONSISTENT – Terminology and document style should be employed consistently for all requirements and documents.
7) Rest of the Design PrinciplesLet me explain the rest of these principles, as they apply to this same Key Assignments chart. I could use another example, but this will shorten things, and it's a pretty good example of the process. EXTENSIBLE - Use systems, such as permanent requirement numbering, that will not expire rapidly, and do not need to change as documents are added, removed, merged, or modified. It doesn't matter if you add or remove a key, or even if the method moves towards on-screen display. A version of this exists for softkeys. If you don't think that, say, the menu on Android is functionally a softkey, think again. ACCURATE - Review for accuracy, but also design a process that encourages accurate documentation. AVOIDS DUPLICATION - Design a system of writing, organizing, and storing requirements that avoids or eliminates stating requirements in multiple locations, eliminating inconsistency due to out-of-synch updates. Remember how I said most of these tables were just repeating the default state? REFERENCES - All references to other documents, other requirements and related tables, figures, or examples will be explicitly referenced in a consistent, repeatable, and discoverable manner. This diagram refers back to the default conditions. And the same chart is used in other documents (the behavior of cameras is in a special document, for example) but the default conditions stay one place, in teh core document.
8) Document ConsumersBut how did I get specifically to this style, or even decide these are the key principles of design documentation? By considering the consumer. Not the traditional consumer, not the end user, but the /document/ consumer. Here, mostly the developer. Now, where are they? Do they speak English as a first language? Do they work on your products full time? Are they new, or experienced? Do they use your documents, or have their own requirements management system? Where are they located? Can you talk to them? How do they receive the deliverables? These are just some of the questions I actually asked. Because over the years I've developed a lot of heuristics. I understand all sorts of user types. But sometimes a new one comes up. And frankly this is a user we hadn't really examined, even though we worked with them. So, we did research. Sat down with them and found out how their process works, at several different manufacturers. Then just like working with different types of people, made a best-guess median consumable. With the principles above, but also tactical and operational details like:
- Images to side of text.
- Dual coding (pictures and words -- most use both, but some see pictures better, some see words better).
- Flow chart of section front.
- Glanceable documents (Pictures again help, but also diagrams for the introduction, and clear titles on each page for scanning and finding).
- Piecemeal consumption (Do not assume anyone starts at page 1 and reads to the end. Even been in meetings where development mangers literally ripped a document at the staple and gave pages and sections to his team. No one gets the whole document).


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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
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The Event Manager uses the status codes returned by event subscription rule functions to monitor the status of subscription processing for an event. If a rule function returns a status code of WARNING or ERROR, indicating that a warning condition or an error occurred during subscription processing, the Event Manager places the event message on the standard WF_ERROR queue associated with the WF_ERROR agent. For a WARNING status, the Event Manager then continues subscription processing for the event. For an ERROR status, the Event Manager halts subscription processing for the event and rolls back any subscriptions already executed for the event.
Note: All subscription processing is rolled back in the case of an error in order to allow the system administrator to handle the error by retrying the event, if appropriate. In this way, Oracle Workflow ensures that no subscription is duplicated when subscription processing is restarted.
Note: If a rule function raises an exception, the Event Manager rolls back all subscription processing for the event and raises the error to the calling application. In this case the event message is not placed on the WF_ERROR queue.
The WF_ERROR agent is a standard agent for error handling that is automatically defined on the local system when you install Oracle Workflow. You must schedule a listener to monitor the WF_ERROR agent. When this listener dequeues an event message from the WF_ERROR queue, the message is assigned a source type of Error. The Event Manager then searches for and executes any subscriptions by the local system to that event or to the Any event with the source type Error. If no subscriptions are found, the Event Manager executes any subscriptions by the local system to the Unexpected event with the source type Error.
Oracle Workflow provides one predefined subscription to the Unexpected event with the source type Error. This subscription performs the default error handling for any errored event for which you have not defined a custom Error subscription. The subscription sends the event message to the Default Event Error process in the System: Error item type.
Attention: You must not change or disable the definition of the Unexpected event or of the predefined Error subscription to that event. If you do, the Event Manager will not be able to perform default error handling for event and subscription processing.
The Default Event Error process sends a notification to the system administrator. For a warning condition, no response is required. For an error, the process allows the system administrator to abort or retry the event subscription processing.
You can set up custom error handling for a particular event by defining a subscription to that event with a source type of Error and specifying the custom processing you want to execute as the subscription action. In this case, the Event Manager will not perform the default error handling, since the errored event will no longer be an unexpected event. Instead, your custom error handling will replace the default error handling.
Oracle Workflow also uses the Default Event Error process to handle unexpected events. If an event is received from an external source, but the local system does not have any subscriptions to that event, the Event Manager automatically searches for subscriptions to the Unexpected event with the source type External. Oracle Workflow provides a predefined External subscription to the Unexpected event that sends the event message to the Default Event Error process.
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2 dead after Angel Flight crashes in upstate New York, official says
EPHRATAH, N.Y. – Divers searched a large pond while investigators combed nearby woods Saturday for any sign of the pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed, killing two passengers.
The plane's passengers were found dead Friday night near where the small plane crashed in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany, Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said. The bulk of the plane was found submerged in a pond, he said.
Angel Flight is a nonprofit group that arranges free air transportation for sick patients from volunteer pilots. Larry Camerlin, president and founder of Angel Flight Northeast, said the organization was "tremendously saddened" by news of the crash.
"We all offer our thoughts and prayers to the families of those affected," Camerlin said in a statement. "Our volunteer pilots are the most compassionate and generous individuals who donate their time, aircraft and fuel to transport patients and loved ones for free to essential medical care that would otherwise not be readily available to them. There are no words that can adequately express our sorrow."
Officials haven't yet identified the passengers or pilot.
The twin-engine Piper PA 34 departed from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome, N.Y., before it crashed just after 5 p.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
Ephratah resident Roger Berry, 75, told The Associated Press that he was outside chopping wood when the plane crashed.
"When I heard it I knew something was wrong," Berry said. "It made one circle and came back around."
Berry said he heard a bang, then saw pieces of the plane fall out of the air. "Then I heard a thud," he said.
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The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating what might have caused the crash.
Visibility at the time in Rome was 10 miles, said National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Montgomery. It was slightly raining with rinds of 13 to 14 mph.
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During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden insisted that paying your taxes is a patriotic duty. No, scratch that. He said that supporting a tax hike was the American thing to do. "It's time to be patriotic," he told America's putative tax slackers. When asked whether he might be questioning the patriotism of people who don't want higher taxes, Biden, as is his wont, took things to the next rhetorical level. Forget patriotism, insisted Joe, paying higher taxes is a religious obligation.
The man who gave an average of $369 a year to charity over the previous decade fulfills
religious obligations by cutting a tax check -- a check he's required to cut by law.
Now it's always perilous to take Biden's statements too seriously, but it does seem eminently fair to say that his comments reflect a common, if not universal, attitude among Democrats. Taxes aren't a "necessary evil" so much as a joyous affirmation of the possibilities of government and the lifeblood of a more hopeful society. "Taxes are what you pay to be an American" -- like "membership fees," says Democratic language guru George Lakoff.
President Obama merely says that taxes are necessary to "spread the wealth," which is better for everybody. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman frames the issue more reasonably: "Nobody likes paying taxes ... [but] most Americans also care a lot about the things taxes pay for." In other words, paying taxes -- and raising taxes in Krugman's view -- is the adult, serious, morally responsible thing to do. Government needs every last penny, and holdouts must be smoked out.
Now, whatever the best articulation of liberal attitudes toward taxation may be, reasonable people can agree that they inject a lot of moralizing, righteousness and finger-wagging into the issue.
As one leading Democrat put it: "Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."
That Democrat was then-Sen. Tom Daschle in 1998. The same Tom Daschle, we've since learned, who failed to pay more than $100,000 in back taxes for perks he received as one of Washington's most relentless influence-peddlers -- that is, until he realized he might receive a job in the Obama administration spending the money most Americans conscientiously send to Washington.
Daschle's hardly alone. The recently confirmed Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, also failed to pay taxes he owed (even though he surely must have known he owed them) until it became politically expedient to pay them. Now he runs the IRS. Take that, suckers.
Meanwhile, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the supreme tax-writing body in the United States, the House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for, among other things, dodging taxes. His excuse for his admitted mistakes is that he was sloppy and ignorant, but not criminal. Geithner and Daschle make similar noises.
But doesn't that miss the point?
When moralizing conservatives get caught, say, cheating on their wives or challenging stall mates to robust Greco-Roman wrestling in airport bathrooms, liberals justifiably howl at the hypocrisy of it all (even though conservative moralizing has no teeth, while the IRS has agents with guns). When liberals fail to pay taxes -- the wellspring of a just society -- it's merely, to borrow an old phrase from Daschle, "sad and disappointing," but ultimately not that big a deal.
When he was still running the Democratic Party, Howard Dean made fighting hypocrisy his top priority. "Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings."
Well, I hear a lot of lecturing from Democrats about why I should be ashamed for not liking taxes more because "the children" need it. Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson defended the so-called stimulus bill last week by saying it "shelters the homeless, and heals the sick. It helps us to look forward to a day where we beat our swords into plowshares."
By the Democrats' own logic, not wanting to pay for that is selfish, unpatriotic and immoral. But who do they think tax cheats are cheating?
"I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy," Dean promised. "I'm not going to be lectured as a Democrat -- we've got some pretty strong moral values in my party, and maybe we ought to do a better job standing up and fighting for them."
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This Date In Royals History – October 9, 1980
For a 42 year-old life long Royals fan it is too much for me not to return to the 1980 American League Championship Series for another look back on today's date. This one is extra special because of the reaction shot of George Steinbrenner captured on the TV broadcast following a key eighth inning play at the plate (if you saw it then you know exactly what I'm taking about).
Game 2 of the 1980 ALCS took place on Thursday, October 9 at Royals Stadium and was the final game to be played in Kansas City. It seemed imperative that the Royals get the Yankees down two games and go to New York only needing to capture one of a possible three to finally get to the World Series. The scoring was confined to two innings with the Royals getting on the board first.
With one out in the third Darrell Porter and Frank White singled and Willie Wilson followed with a triple to score them both. UL Washington then drove Wilson in with an RBI Double and the Royals were out front 3-0. The Yankees plated two runs in the top of the fifth including an inside-the-park HR off the bat of Graig Nettles. The play of the game came in the eighth when Willie Randolph was thrown out at home to end the inning on a great relay from Willie Wilson (LF) to George Brett (3B) to Darrell Porter (C) on a Bob Watson double. This is the play that got Steinbrenner's goat, but it wasn't the Yankees last scoring chance.
Manager Jim Frey sent Dennis Leonard to the mound to start the ninth inning. After a lead-off Reggie Jackson single he called to the bullpen for Dan Quisenberry. With one out Rick Cerone singled and the tying run was in scoring position. Then Quiz induced a groundball double play from Graig Nettles – game over. The Royals had a 3-2 win and more importantly, as Denny Matthews said on the radio broadcast, they had pushed the Yankees to the end.
Just A Bit More: It actually pushed the Yankees owner over the edge. The eighth inning play at the plate in Game 2 of the 1980 ALCS was important in Royals history for even more than saving that game itself. Steinbrenner was furious with the play and placed the blame squarely on third base coach Mike Ferraro. In fact you can read his lips in the reaction shot shown on TV…"Ferraro!"
Despite the 103 win season, the series loss to the Royals (and the play in Game 2 particularly) stuck in Steinbrenner's craw so much that he insisted Ferraro be replaced (some say he asked that Ferraro be relieved before ALCS Game 3 was to be played). Howser refused and weeks later left the Yankees in order to 'pursue other business opportunities' – which is Steinbrennerese for your fired. One of those unspecified opportunities came in late August of 1981 when Howser became the manager of the Kansas City Royals.
Our eternal thanks to George Steinbrenner for his petulance…
(Curt Nelson, Director – Royals Hall of Fame)
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Awesome post on the memories of the day.
It is moments like these that can make someone a fan for the rest of their lives. Both of either team, or of baseball as a whole.
Royals have a very deep history and should be very proud of what has happen in the past, the present and their future.
I am going to be sure to come back and see the next great moment.
Thanks for reliving the magic with us.
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Obviously, the game the next day in New York was the one everybody remembers.
But this game, in particular how played out, was really was more important. This was ALWAYS the game the Royals lost. They had yet to win more than one game in a row against the Yankees in the playoffs and really things were going to script, a Royals rout in game one, nail biter the next night. Only problem, we always lost the nail biters.
The only significant difference was Quiz and his not being around in ?76-?78 plus his unique outlook on pressure was the difference.
Lost in the commotion over Steinbrenner?s tantrum on the 8th inning play was one of the most exciting relay plays I?ve ever seen. Willie Wilson fielded the ball off the base of the leftfield corner, over-threw the intended cutoff man (UL Washington) and the throw was taken by Brett who was the trailer. Brett threw an absolute seed to the plate just ahead of Willie Randolph. George took his ball and went home.


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The city of Delhi employs 100 "cow catchers" to deal with the approximately 40,000 cows which freely wander the city's streets. Theirs is truly "mission impossible" as they deal with crafty or uncooperative cows on one hand and irate Hindus on the other who object to their manhandling the sacred animal. But recently, according to an article in the New York Times by Barry Bearak, "The cow catcher's mission has taken on added urgency because the urban cow has encountered a vicious new enemy: the plastic garbage bag. With little grass to graze on in the paved cityscape, cows scavenge through trash that is increasingly packed into polyethylene." "Inside the cows we find glass, iron, wire, electrical cords, shoes, shirts and razor blades, but the real killer is the plastic," Dr. Vijay Chaudry told the Times. He is a veterinarian who runs a refuge where the catchers deliver captured cows. "We lose two or three cows a day, and when we cut them open, it is terrible what we find. For an animal so sacred, they die a bad death."
Animal rights groups in Delhi have launched a campaign to ban plastic packaging, but the effort may be futile. "In modern India," says the Times, "the utility of the garbage bag may be a force beyond even the spirituality of the cow." It is common for cows to ingest metal, and special magnets are made to be swallowed by the cow which keeps the metal all in one place. For plastic, though, there is no remedy.
Meanwhile urban cowboys go about their business. "There are many difficulties to this work," Raman Kumar Sharma, a cow catcher foreman, told the Times. "Old cows are tired and sick, and these are easy to catch. Young, healthy cows, well, this is something else. The cow is quick. The cow is intelligent. The cow has learned to recognize our truck." Sharma relies upon stealth to rope the critters, then, "If you grab the ears and put your hand in its mouth, the cow won't run," explained Aji Ram, eldest of Sharma's crew. That doesn't mean the job is over. Bearak witnessed one futile hour-long attempt to load a cow in their truck. The cow, he wrote, "used Gandhian tactics of civil disobedience and went limp." It worked. Eventually Sharma announced, "I don't think we catch this cow." That was fine with bystanders, who had shouted at the crew, "Why don't you quit torturing the poor animal!"


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A Framework for End-to-end Simulation of High-performance Computing Systems and Its Applications
Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010
Hamerschlag Hall 1112 (Note the change in location)
1:00 pm (Note the special time)
Jian Li
We present an end-to-end simulation framework that is capable of simulating High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems with hundreds of thousands of interconnected processors. It provides semantically correct replay of MPI application traces and maintains reasonable simulation details of both the processors in general and specifically the interÂconnection network. Among other things, it features several network topologies, flexible routing schemes, arbitrary application task placement, point-to-point statistics collection, and data visualization. This tool has been used for high-level system design as well as for performance projection and application tuning of future HPC systems.
As a case study, we use the tool to evaluate two complementary techniques to manage the power consumption of large-scale systems with a packet-switched interconnection network. First, we propose Thrifty Interconnection Network (TIN), where the network links are activated and de-activated dynamically with little or no overhead by using inherent system events to trigger link activation or de-activation timely. Second, we propose Wavefront Power Shifting (WPS) that dynamically shifts the power budget between the compute nodes and the interconnection network. WPS and TIN together activate and train the links in the interconnection network, just-in-time before the network communication is about to happen, and put them into a low-power mode thriftily when communication is finished, hence reducing unnecessary network power consumption. At the mean time, the compute nodes can absorb the extra power budget shifted from the thrifty network and increase their operating frequency for higher computing speed. Our simulation results on a set of real world HPC workload traces show that TIN and WPS together achieve on average 35% network power reduction, 5% system performance improvement, and 7% system energy reduction. Some other work will be discussed as well.
Jian Li is a research staff member with the Novel Systems Architecture group at IBM Austin Research Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. He has worked in the areas of architectural support for power- and variation-aware computing, interconnection network design for high-performance computing systems, workload-driven three-dimensional (3D) integration architecture, architectural applications of nonvolatile memory (NVM) and storage class memory (SCM), energy-efficient interconnection networks, and cache/memory subsystem design, with a strong emphasis on entertaining his family members in Austin, Texas.


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Flickr photo by KOMUnewsFor some parents, one of the scariest things they can hear is that their child has autism. They wonder if they did anything to cause it. They wonder if they could have done something to prevent it. But autism is a mysterious disease, and no one knows for sure what triggers it.
We do know that it's increasing. Autism rates have soared nationwide in the past three decades -- from 1 in 10,000 children in the 1980's, to 1 in 500, to 1 in 250, to 1 in 150. Today, autism affects 1 in 100 children (1 in every 58 boys).
We do know some of the children it affects. According to the National Institutes of Health, autism is more prevalent in certain groups of people: boys, siblings of those with autism, and people with certain other developmental disorders (Fragile X syndrome, for example).
Some research suggests that autism rates are much higher in some parts of the U.S. than others. For example, a child born in northwest Los Angeles is four times as likely to be diagnosed with autism as a child elsewhere in California. Scientists are still trying to figure out whether those differences reflect higher actual risk or a difference in awareness among residents.
Autism varies by state, too. According to Fighting Autism, Minnesota had the highest prevalence of 8-year-old children with autism in public schools in 2008-2009; Vermont had the lowest.
While no one knows for sure what causes most cases of autism, researchers are trying their best to find out. Here, some of the most popular theories.
Theory 1: Vaccines Cause Autism
- According to the journal Pediatrics, one in four parents currently believes that some vaccines cause autism in healthy children.
- A 1998 study by Andrew Wakefield published in The Lancet showed the possibility of a link between the mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. A 2009 investigation into his research found that Wakefield had fixed his data. Earlier this year, The Lancet issued a full retraction of the study.
Theory 2: Autism is a Genetic Disease
- According to the Autism Society of America some individuals are genetically predisposed to autism: those who have certain medical conditions, including Fragile X syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, congenital rubella syndrome, and untreated phenylketonuria (PKU).
- In March 2010, scientists announced the identification of two genes associated with susceptibility to autism spectrum disorders (Leucine-Rich Repeat Genes) in a study published in Molecular Autism.
- Research conducted by scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and published in the February 2010 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, found that a gene mutation was linked to autism-like symptoms in mice.
Theory 3: The Age of the Parents Adds to Autism Risk
- A 10-year study published in the February 2010 issue of Autism Research suggests that the risk of having a child with full syndrome autism increases with maternal age. The researchers examined 4.9 million births in the 1990s.
- A 2007 Kaiser Permanente study conducted in California reported that autism risk increased with both the mother's and father's age.
Theory 4: Environmental Toxins Pay a Role in Autism
- In a January 2010 article "What Causes Autism? Exploring the Environmental Contribution," in the medical journal Current Opinion in Pediatrics, Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., a professor of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, calls for more research into the autism-environment link. He writes, "[The] likelihood is high that many of the materials ... have potential to cause injury to the developing brain and to produce neurodevelopmental disorders, possibly autism among them." His short list of "human developmental neurotoxicants": lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), arsenic, manganese, organophosphate insecticides, DDT and ethyl alcohol.
- A 2009 study in the journal Epidemiology says that environmental culprits may be to blame for autism: pesticides, viruses, and chemicals in household products.
- Studies have found that disproportionate numbers of children develop autism after they're exposed to medications in the womb -- thalidomide, misoprostol, and valproic acid. Of children born to women who took valproic acid early in pregnancy, 11 percent were autistic.
- A 2007 study done by the University of California at San Francisco showed a link between toxins in breast milk and developmental disorders.The study was done on rats, but researchers were alarmed that women are being exposed to certain widespread environmental chemicals (PCEs and PBDEs) that may add to the risk of onset of these developmental disorders in children.
Whatever the "real" cause(s), it's important that research continues, as it will lead the way to better therapies -- and maybe even prevention in some cases. There are currently several large studies underway which may shed some light on the causes of autism.
- The National Children's Study -- "This study will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21. The study defines environment broadly, taking a number of natural and man-made environmental, biological, genetic and psychosocial factors into account. Findings from the study will be made available as the research progresses, making potential benefits known to the public as soon as possible."
- The Study to Explore Early Development -- "SEED is a multi-year study funded by CDC. It is currently the largest study in the United States to help identify factors that may put children at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other developmental disabilities."
Let's all hope that these studies solve the autism mystery, and let's do our part by helping to spread the word about autism awareness.
What's your theory about what causes autism?


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Joe Maddon just purchased a new RV, which is at the Trop today (see image below). It is a 2014 40-foot Tiffin Phaeton, which retails for approximately $300,000. Of course, the real star of the show is what is going on inside.
Here is a tour of a 2014 Phaeton. You can see Maddon's below. And if you prefer a short video tour, there is one of those below also…
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#Rays manager Maddon's new toy parked outside the Trop – a 40 foot RV pic.twitter.com/KfscdasBBt
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Wrapping up: the Digital Economy Act
The Digital Economy Act received Royal Assent - it was passed into law - on 8 April. It did so without the section dealing with creators' rights (Clause 43 in its last incarnation as a Bill before Parliament). The Conservative Party at the last minute (of a process rushed throughout) decided to oppose this and the section that would have funded trial regional news consortia.
The Creators' Rights Alliance throughout sought constructive engagement. We sought to put a common position in the interests of all kinds of creator. We worked closely with organisations that are democratically representative of creators, both in the Alliance and beyond. We worked with Lords to assist drafting amendments that could add the safeguards necessary to ensure creators' interests were not compromised by the proposals for extended collective licensing and licensing of orphan works. At this stage the CRA prioritised three issues:
making the so-called "moral rights" - the rights to be identified and to defend the integrity of works - available to and enforceable by all creators;
giving creators the right to stay identified by making the current rather theoretical prohibition on removing "metadata" - which includes the creator's credit - enforceable; and
making it clear that only bodies that genuinely represent creators (and other "rightsholders") may issue either kind of licence.
Our activity has had positive results, however. It put these issues on the political agenda more clearly than they have been for decades or longer.
We are "all creators now. I create when I post on my website: you create when you post a note on your Facebook wall, we create when we tweet to each other." That was David Lammy, the government Minister responsible for intellectual property, speaking to a meeting called on 23 March by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property on the "moral rights".
"Any artist puts not just effort but quite a lot of themselves into their work," he went on: "...it's clear that the value of that work is largely because of the huge endeavour which that artist has put in and there is a powerful sense that it still remains theirs, their offering to the world, and that is why moral rights are important." Sympathetic words indeed - though Lammy acknowledged that he won't be a Minister for long, unless his party is re-elected.
Are creators better off with Clause 43 being dropped? In the words of CRA member the Society of Authors:
It remains to be seen whether we will look back on the copyright provisions that have been dropped as having been the best compromise that could have been reached, or a poor compromise mercifully avoided. One thing is certain: the question of how to enable orphan works to be used legitimately, and how to license a limited range of digital rights more practically, have not gone away.
Now concerned organisations will have to get on with the job of ensuring, through the promised consultations, that the sections that were included in the Act do not, for example, imperil freedom of expression.
Mike Holderness
Text of the Act: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2010/ukpga_20100024_en_1


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Number 1 on the "KnifeCenter least favorite knife-themed comments list" is the venerable favorite that's not a knife, this is a knife. Thus, it is with much groaning that I proclaim that this is a knife. Technically, these are knives would be more appropriate, since there are two models and one is a combo, but I digress. Bottom line, Down Under Knives is making some very cool, very well built product, at a very reasonable price.
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All, I'm in the process of writing a series of articles for my site on the semantic web. The goal of the articles is to raise awareness of the importance that the semantic web will play in businesses and internet advertising. So far I have it broken down into 5 articles: 1. Interoperability as a Business Model 2. SEO 3. Linked Data in E-Stores 4. Understanding Trust 5. Knowledge for the Future Marketing Professional I'd really be honored if someone took the time to provide input - either on the structure of the series or in the individual articles. I'll be sure to give credit when things go public. Below is the first article, Interoperability as a Business Model. If I've made any mistakes, overlooked any tools that you feel are important, or you feel driven to make any kind of emotional outburst, I'm open to it. I'm still very new to this stuff, so I expect there to be some issues with the article. << I want to start with your business model, since without it you won't get very far. Marketing, contrary to being just liquor and guessing, is about making the truth interesting. That presupposes a truth to advertise. No matter what business you're in, you're going to have a stack of information you need to process. Even individuals are likely to be overwhelmed keeping up with relevant online data. Businesses, on the other hand, can spend millions of dollars trying to come to a consensus on information within a single program; the resources required to get "dark<http://semanticarts.com/articles/a-semantic-enterprise-architecture%22%3E%22dark>matter" programs to communicate with each other is simply staggering. If you were to honestly ask yourself how easily you could transfer your business data to every computer operating system or every business application software available, I doubt you'd be happy with the answer. At it's heart, interoperability is the ability of your information to be moved between programs with ease. Some might be wondering what the point of such a transfer would be. For folks who have spent 15 years working with Microsoft Access as their primary database management software and who expect to be doing it another 20, being able to communicate with other systems won't seem as important. Unfortunately, sticking with the tried and true might not be a viable strategy over the long term. Consider this: your company sticks with the tried and true methods of database management. You spend money buying old fashioned proprietary software, hours setting up simple commands, and a huge amount of time piecing together simple reports. Informing your manager about the day to day operations of your job involve running extensive queries and spending hours piecing the information into a spreadsheet. This was, at some point, an effective way of doing business. However, your competitor stores information in a format that allows it to be transferred to free, open-source systems in the blink of an eye. When their database becomes ineffective, they switch to a better program with little downtime. When informing their bosses about projects, they can examine data across the entire enterprise quickly. Interoperability should be both a business strategy and a philosophy. It's more than just cutting reporting time, it's about having access to customer data before other people do and seeing relationships in that data that aren't immediately apparent. It saves you time, money, and a big headache. Granted, it extends beyond marketing and many marketers will feel that this is too technical for them to be concerned with. But consider these two facts: 1. The more you know about your customer, the better position you'll be in to sell a product that interests them. If you know what they like to do, where they like to go, and who they like to spend time with, placing targeted advertisements becomes easy. 2. The flow of information about the product is the marketer's domain. Whether its referrals, advertisements, or conversations on the street, the marketing professional is always looking to direct that information in a way that leads to sales. Software interoperability is key for both of these. First, being able to quickly access data in your CRM and incorporate it with survey responses, inventory counts, and feedback from your marketing campaigns will allow you to target your customers better. Second, if (as this series will show is the case) the internet is becoming more semantic, it will unleash a wave of information sharing that's simply never been seen before. Taking advantage of that, internally and externally, will naturally lead to more sales. But it will also free up time for you to focus on the parts of your job that are more rewarding than filling in spreadsheet cells. So how do you do it? When writing about the semantic web, sometimes it's a little too easy to make the whole thing sound like a magic pill that solves all your business problems. Let me be clear: it's not, but it does make certain things easier. Here are some tools to help you take advantage of interoperability.

SAP. This software is absolutely fantastic when it comes to interoperability and searchability. SAP has extensive features for inventory management, finance, human resources, and more. The fact that the software can be used in so many departments makes computer communication easy. This<http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/21313%22%3EThis>article demonstrates how SAP is working to provide a semantic framework for data. Their approach is to develop standards within the bounds of what people need, and not from a removed academic standpoint. SAP's approach will take what is useful for businesses from academia and grow these standards in a commercial environment. SAP's<http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/index?rid=/webcontent/uuid/e091c215-de48-2a10-51b5-ca6a08c81a1a%22%3ESAP's>NetWeaver really takes this to the next level. This<http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-businessclient%22%3EThis>program allows users to interact with any SAP program without hassle. The ability to access your enterprise software from a central point and get different programs to communicate with each other easily is key to operating your business effectively and serving your customer efficiently.
Cloud computing. Cloud computing is simply the practice of doing work online. Software companies provide the programs, data, and resources online rather than on your hardrive. Because of the expansion of cloud software, companies have begun making their software interoperable. Google can save documents in RTF, PDF, XLS, and more, meaning you can use the documents in other programs you might have. Zoho has plugins that interact with Google and Microsoft. Cloud companies often provide ways for developers to contribute and have been been open to efforts to interact with competitors' software. Not to mention hardware compatibility. Cloud computing lets you go to any computer, even if it's your cell phone, and access your data.
Open source vs. controlled programming languages. Again, a bit techy, but it's something you need to know. Proprietary website and database management systems cost money, require corporate technical support, and are painful to upgrade. They're also written in programming languages that are exclusive to that company, which means that developing applications to disect data can be difficult. Open source software is different. You can build an entire website and run a database for free while a support community develops new applications that can be put to use almost immediately. Many open source programs, such as Mediawiki (the software that powers Wikipedia) allow you to export and import to XML, a machine-readable format that marketing folks are likely to have experience with in SEO work (sitemaps) and social media marketing (RSS feeds). As more content management systems begin supporting XML, migrating data between sites becomes easy. Have no control over using a controlled language? Fear</a<http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27636%22%3EFear%3C/a>> not.</a<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/interop/%22%3Enot.%3C/a>> Using open source but still want to pay? Oracle<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/semantic-tech/index.html%22%3EOracle>can help.
 Interoperability is essential, but it's more than just about software and information; it's about departmental interoperability and human connections. >> --- Brandon | http://www.boomajoom.com Visit my affiliate store: http://astore.amazon.com/boomajoom-20 Twitter <http://twitter.com/boomajoom> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonjschwartz> | Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Boomajoom/116385835083090>Received on Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:13:05 UTC
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