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Google revamps Analytics with new widgets, layouts, sidebar, recent history, and improved search
Google on Thursday announced a slew of improvements to its Analytics product. As is typical with these types of updates, the company is rolling the changes out slowly, meaning you may already be using some of them, but the company promises all will be available "shortly," though it didn't give an exact date.
So, what's new? First up, Google has added new widgets and layout options:
You can now add maps, devices, and bar chart widgets, customize the layout of your dashboards, and there's even support for advanced segments. The best part, however, is that you can share and export custom dashboards so you don't have to make the same changes twice for yourself or multiple people.
Google has also enabled shortcuts for real-time reports, which allows you to, for example, watch traffic for a specific region. Speaking of shortcuts, the sidebar has been tweaked so that it features quick access to your all-important shortcuts:
Given that Google is all about search, it's naturally expected that the search function gets an improvement. Better Search, as it's rather poorly called, allows you to search across all reports, shortcuts, and dashboards all at once to find what you need. You can also now navigate to recently used reports and profiles quicker with a new Recent History feature:
Last but not least, Google has tweaked the date comparison tool to let you select the previous year for year-over-year analysis and added native Excel XSLX support as well as Google Docs.
Frankly, this isn't a huge update, but it does add quite a bit to the service. For anyone who uses Google Analytics on a frequent basis, these are welcome changes.
See also – Google Analytics may soon be used to measure Google+ Pages and Google opens Google Analytics Content Experiments to all, adds new tracking features too
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Kara Lang's brave bid to return to Canada's women's soccer team is over.
The 27-year-old from Oakville, Ont., has suffered a third devastating knee injury, ending an attempted comeback she started nearly a year ago.
Lang tweeted the news early Thursday morning.
"2 days after being cleared to train w/ #CanWNT my knee literally exploded yesterday. I've torn just about everything you can in a knee," Lang wrote.
The former national team star striker launched a comeback last March nearly two years after two torn ACLs forced her to walk away from her game at the age of 24, tearfully announcing her retirement at a news conference in Oakville.
She put her broadcasting career on hold last March in hopes of returning to the game, and then spent three weeks out of every month in Montreal training with athletic therapists, in a total "rebuild" — a tedious breaking down-building up process meant to prevent her from reinjuring her knee. She joined the women's residency program in Vancouver in the fall.
"Thank U to everyone who's been there for me along this crazy trip. Staying positive b/c I have the best support system anyone could ask for," Lang tweeted Thursday.
The five-foot-eight striker, known for her booming shot, scored 34 goals in 92 games, and played in two World Cups — in 2003 and 2007 — as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
"It's just kind of one of those things where I have to try it," Lang said last summer. "Nothing is guaranteed when you really look at it. I just need to know that I tried."
Having Lang back in the lineup would have been a big boost for Canada's World Cup campaign, and great news to the fans who've followed the five-foot-eight striker since she was part of Canada's silver-medal performance at the FIFA U-19 world championships in Edmonton in 2002.
Lang, who was 15 at that tournament, scored three goals in six games.
She's also the youngest player to be named to the national senior side, making her debut at 15 in March of 2002.

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Whitney Houston's New Jersey Home Up for Sale
Whitney Houston's Mendham, N.J. home is up for sale and the realtor is getting some flack for how he's selling the house. According to Carproperty.com's typo-riddled ad, listing agent Robert Cross promotes the house as the place that "brought down this incredible musical diva over a 15 year cycle." Wow! Really?
The North Jersey home was once inhabited by Whitney and her ex-husband Bobby Brown during their tumultuous marriage and was featured in the 2005 reality show 'Being Bobby Brown.' The house is listed at $1.75 million. Zillow.com also has a listing of the home, as well.
Neighbors who lived in the community feel that the ad is in poor taste. "I think the tactic is inappropriate" Mendham resident Drew Kastner told CBS 2 local news. "I don't think they should be using that to try to help sensationalize the sale of the house."
In his defense, Mr. Cross told WPIX-TV that his advertising tactic was unavoidable and had to be mentioned in order to get some attention for the house. Since Houston's death, interest in the home has doubled.
We can only imagine.
According to the ad, the 12,000 square foot home sits on five acres and has five bedrooms and five bathrooms. Some of the amenities include a hot tub and a swimming pool.
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Socorro Hamfest Marks 75 Years of Local Ham Radio, Oct. 20, 2005
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SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 20, 2005 -- Socorro's amateur radio operators will celebrate the 75th anniversary of ham radio in Socorro as they host electronics enthusiasts from throughout the Southwest at the 16th annual Socorro Hamfest on Saturday, October 29. Sponsored by the Socorro Amateur Radio Association (SARA), the New Mexico Tech Amateur Radio Association (TARA), and the City of Socorro, the hamfest will be held at the New Mexico Firefighters Training Academy from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invited.
"This year's event is special, because we're looking back at 75 years of ham radio in our city, and a long tradition of public service by ham operators," said Ed Wood, SARA president. Socorro's Mayor, Ravi Bhasker, cited the volunteer service of the city's ham operators in a proclamation designating October 29 as "Amateur Radio Recognition Day" in Socorro.
Socorro's radio amateurs have provided a wide range of services to the community, including communications support for athletic events, training classes for potential hams and for weather spotters, and emergency-communications exercises. SARA members currently are converting a trailer donated to the County by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) into a mobile emergency communications command post.
For nearly 30 years, SARA has maintained a repeater system atop M Mountain that greatly extends the effective range of handheld and mobile radios, providing reliable communication over a wide area. This system, which can operate on batteries in case of a power failure, is available for emergency communications and search-and-rescue missions.
"While ham radio is a fascinating hobby, it also serves as a valuable resource for communities when disaster strikes and other systems, such as telephones and police radios, often fail. For example, more than 1,000 amateurs from across the U.S. served for weeks on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, providing vital communications for local authorities, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, and other agencies," Wood said.
Socorro's ham-radio tradition began modestly, in the autumn of 1930, when Donald M. Cook and Clark E. Rodenberg arrived in town to begin their studies at New Mexico Tech (then New Mexico School of Mines). They were the city's first amateur radio operators, appearing in the U.S. government's official list of licensees the following year. There were fewer than 100 hams in the entire state at that time. In 2004, SARA obtained Cook's callsign, W5AQA, for the local repeater, putting the city's first callsign back on the air.
Amateur radio activity continued sporadically through the years. In the 1950s and 1960s, according to longtime local hams, there always were a few operators in town. When staffers from the NRAO began arriving in 1974 and 1975 to build the VLA, several hams were among them. In May of 1976, nine local hams formed SARA.
The young organization got busy quickly, putting the local repeater system on the mountain that same year, and participating in its first Field Day, a nationwide emergency-communications exercise, in 1977. Following a SARA licensing class that trained six new operators, the local ham population reached 38 that year.
By the 1990s, Socorro boasted more than 100 licensed radio amateurs, giving the city nearly five times the average national percentage of hams. That accomplishment led to Socorro being dubbed "Ham City, USA" in a 1996 radio magazine.
This year's hamfest continues a tradition begun in 1989 with a small swapmeet in the Macey Center parking lot. The event moved to the City's Finley Gym in 1991 and grew that year to attract several hundred hams from throughout New Mexico and surrounding states. Because of Socorro's central location, the local hamfest is one of the best-attended radio events in the state.
This year's event at the firefighters academy will feature lectures, demonstrations, door prizes, displays, a radio-electronics swap meet, and commercial electronics vendors. Admission is free.
In addition, the hamfest will feature working amateur radio stations and a hidden-transmitter hunt. Literature on amateur radio and a wide variety of electronic equipment will be available.
Examinations for amateur radio licenses will be given at the hamfest. The examinations begin at noon, with registration for the exams beginning at 11:00 a.m. While the hamfest is free, there is a fee for the examinations. In addition, examinees must bring photo identification and the original plus a copy of any amateur radio license or examination certificate they may have.
For more information, see the SARA Web page, at http://www.socorroara.org/


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Overview of Pacemakers
Overview of Pacemakers
What is a permanent pacemaker?
A permanent pacemaker, a small device that is implanted under the skin (most often in the shoulder area just under the collarbone), sends electrical signals to start or regulate a slow heartbeat. A permanent pacemaker may be used to make the heartbeat if the heart's natural pacemaker (the SA node) is not functioning properly and has developed an abnormal heart rate or rhythm, or if the electrical pathways are blocked.
A new type of pacemaker, called a biventricular pacemaker, is currently used in the treatment of congestive heart failure. Sometimes in heart failure, the two ventricles (lower heart chambers) do not pump together in a normal manner. When this happens, less blood is pumped by the heart. A biventricular pacemaker paces both ventricles at the same time, increasing the amount of blood pumped by the heart. This type of treatment is called cardiac resynchronization therapy.
What is an implantable converter defibrillator (ICD)?
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) looks very similar to a pacemaker, except that it is slightly larger. It has a generator, one or more leads, and an electrode for each lead. These components work very much like a pacemaker. However, the ICD is designed to deliver an electrical shock to the heart when the heart rate becomes dangerously fast, or "fibrillates."
An ICD senses when the heart is beating too fast and delivers an electrical shock to convert the fast rhythm to a normal rhythm. Some devices combine a pacemaker and ICD in one unit for persons who need both functions.
The ICD has another type of treatment for certain fast rhythms called anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP). When ATP is used, a fast pacing impulse is sent to correct the rhythm. After the shock is delivered, a "back-up" pacing mode is used if needed for a short while.
What is the reason for getting a pacemaker or an ICD?
When the heart's natural pacemaker has a dysfunction, the signals it sends out may become erratic: either too slow, too fast, or too irregular to stimulate adequate contractions of the heart chambers. When the heartbeat becomes erratic, it is referred to as an arrhythmia (an abnormal rhythm of the heart, which can cause the heart to pump less effectively).
Arrhythmias can cause problems with contractions of the heart chambers by:
- not allowing the chambers to fill with an adequate amount of blood because the electrical signal is causing the heart to pump too fast.
- not allowing a sufficient amount of blood to be pumped out to the body because the electrical signal is causing the heart to pump too slow or too irregularly.
The heart's electrical system:
The heart is, in the simplest terms, a pump made up of muscle tissue. Like all pumps, the heart requires a source of energy in order to function. The heart's pumping energy comes from an intrinsic electrical conduction system.
How does the heart beat?
An electrical stimulus is generated by the sinus node (also called the sinoatrial node, or SA node), which is a small mass of specialized tissue located in the right atrium (right upper chamber) of the heart. The sinus node generates an electrical stimulus periodically (60-100 times per minute under normal conditions). This electrical stimulus travels down through the conduction pathways (similar to the way electricity flows through power lines from the power plant to your house) and causes the heart's chambers to contract and pump out blood. The right and left atria (the two upper chambers of the heart) are stimulated first and contract a short period of time before the right and left ventricles (the two lower chambers of the heart). The electrical impulse travels from the sinus node to the atrioventricular (AV) node, where it stops for a very short period, then continues down the conduction pathways via the bundle of His into the ventricles. The bundle of His divides into right and left pathways to provide electrical stimulation to both ventricles.
Normally, as the electrical impulse moves through the heart, the heart contracts about 60 to 100 times a minute. Each contraction represents one heartbeat. The atria contract a fraction of a second before the ventricles so their blood empties into the ventricles before the ventricles contract.
Under some conditions, almost all heart tissue is capable of starting a heartbeat, or becoming the pacemaker. An arrhythmia occurs when:
- the heart's natural pacemaker develops an abnormal rate or rhythm
- the normal conduction pathway is interrupted
- another part of the heart takes over as pacemaker
In any of these situations, the body may not receive enough blood because the heart cannot pump out an adequate amount with each beat as a result of the arrhythmia's effects on the heart rate. The effects on the body are often the same, however, whether the heartbeat is too fast, too slow, or too irregular. Some symptoms of arrhythmias include, but are not limited to:
- weakness
- fatigue
- palpitations
- low blood pressure
- dizziness
- fainting
The symptoms of arrhythmias may resemble other medical conditions. Consult your physician for a diagnosis.
What are the components of a permanent pacemaker/ICD?
A permanent pacemaker has three components:
- a pulse generator which has a sealed lithium battery and an electronic circuitry package. The pulse generator produces the electrical signals that make the heart beat. Many pulse generators also have the capability to receive and respond to signals that are sent by the heart itself.
- one or two wires (also called leads). Leads are insulated flexible wires that conduct electrical signals to the heart from the pulse generator. The leads may also relay signals from the heart to the pulse generator. One end of the lead is attached to the pulse generator and the electrode end of the lead is positioned in the atrium (the upper chamber of the heart) or in the ventricle (the lower chamber of the heart).
- electrodes on each lead
Older pacemakers sent out electrical signals at a constant rate, regardless of the heart's own rate. Pacemaker technology is now much more advanced. Today, pacemakers can "sense" when the heart's natural rate falls below the rate that has been programmed into the pacemaker's circuitry.
Pacemaker leads may be positioned in the atrium or ventricle or both, depending on the condition requiring the pacemaker to be inserted. An atrial arrhythmia (an arrhythmia caused by a dysfunction of the sinus node or the development of another atrial pacemaker within the heart tissue that takes over the function of the sinus node) may be treated with an atrial permanent pacemaker whose lead wire is located in the atrium.
A ventricular arrhythmia (an arrhythmia caused by a dysfunction of the sinus node, an interruption in the conduction pathways, or the development of another pacemaker within the heart tissue that takes over the function of the sinus node) may be treated with a ventricular pacemaker whose lead wire is located in the ventricle. It is possible to have both atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, and there are pacemakers which have lead wires positioned in both the atrium and the ventricle. There may be one lead wire for each chamber, or one lead wire may be capable of sensing and pacing both chambers.
An ICD has a lead wire that is positioned in the ventricle, as it is used primarily for fast ventricular arrhythmias.
Pacemakers that pace either the right atrium or the right ventricle are called "single-chamber" pacemakers. Pacemakers that pace both the right atrium and right ventricle of the heart and require two pacing leads are called "dual-chamber" pacemakers.
How is a pacemaker/ICD implanted?
Pacemaker/ICD insertion is usually an outpatient procedure, done in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, or the electrophysiology laboratory. The patient is awake during the procedure, although sedation may be given to help the patient relax during the procedure.
Shown here is a chest x-ray. The large, white space in the middle is the heart. The dark spaces on either side are the lungs. The small object in the upper corner is an implanted pacemaker.
A small incision is made just under the collarbone. The pacemaker/ICD lead(s) is inserted into the heart through a blood vessel which runs under the collarbone. Once the lead is in place, it is tested to make sure it is in the right place and is functional. The lead is then attached to the generator, which is placed just under the skin through the incision made earlier. Once the procedure has been completed, the patient goes through a recovery period of several hours and often is allowed to go home the day of the procedure.
There are certain instructions related to having an implanted permanent pacemaker or ICD. For example, after you receive your pacemaker or ICD, you will receive an identification card from the manufacturer that includes information about your specific model of pacemaker and the serial number. You should carry this card with you at all times so that the information is always available to any healthcare professional who may have reason to examine and/or treat you.


text: The Grants Office at Hostos Community College About Us The Grants Office at Hostos is committed to supporting the college's faculty and staff in their efforts to secure external funding for faculty research projects, college-wide special programs, academic support services for students and community collaborative projects. We assist the College community in finding additional resources for ideas that support and enhance the mission of the College and its long-term strategic plan. The Grants Office provides training and technical assistance to prepare and submit proposals, estimate project costs and prepare budgets, and design evaluation plans. Workshops are presented throughout the year on these and other topics. In addition, we coordinate all grant applications and submissions. Once an award has been made, the Grants Office serves as liaison to the funding sponsor and, with the participation of the Research Foundation of CUNY, handles all post-award administrative and fiscal issues. We assist principal investigators, project directors and program coordinators in the hiring of all project personnel, the purchase of all materials, services and equipment, in keeping with Research Foundation policies and procedures, and provide guidance in all contract compliance issues. As you know, most proposals are now submitted online. The Grants Office is the College's authorized organizational representative for the submission of grant proposals to the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and most federal government agencies. We ask that you come by and notify us early in the process of your intent to submit an application. Searching for funding opportunities: Applying for Grants: The Pre-Award Stage Managing Your Project: The Post-Award Stage List of Proposals Submitted – July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015 Active Awards 2014 - 2015 Research Program Spotlight Responsible Conduct in Research: IRB and Other Compliance Issues Comments, Suggestions and Contact Information


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – As the Georgia College golf team and head coach Jimmy Wilson prepare to defend their 2010 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament title next week, the team has earned slots in the top 10 in two different ranking systems. GC is No. 8 in the Golf World/Nike Golf Poll, and owns the No. 6 slot in the GolfStat Rankings
The Golf World/Nike Golf poll is voted on by a select committee of the nation's Division II coaches. GC is No. 8, with Chico State University taking the top slot. The Bobcats are tops among the five Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams listed, ahead of No. 13 Columbus State University. Armstrong Atlantic is No. 15, with USC Aiken is No. 18 and UNC Pembroke in No. 21.
The GolfStat Rankings use a head-to-head formula to calculate the nation's best teams, with GC in sixth. Chico State also leads this list, followed by the University of Central Oklahoma. The University of West Florida is third, with the Abilene Christian fourth and Lynn University fifth.
The Bobcats have 289.2 stroke average over their 10 events this season, good for three-over par. Senior Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) leads the team with a 71.2 average, followed closely by senior Billy Shida (Berkeley Lakes, Ga.) at 72.5 and sophomore Patrick Garrett (Kennesaw, Ga.) at 73.2. All three have each won tournaments this year, as Young picked up the individual title at the most recent tourney for GC, the Bearcat Golf Classic.
The Bobcats are back in action April 11-12 in Savannah, Ga. at the PBC Championship.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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An all-new line of Miller Condor G-series sprayers with mechanical drive includes the G40 and G75 models. The new machines feature a new styling that matches that of the 4000 series Nitro sprayers and a new hood design that is easy to open. Also new is the ability to add the Spray-Air air boom with widths up to 103 ft. to the G40 sprayer and a dual-fan configuration on booms up to 120 ft. wide on the G75 sprayer.
The G-series sprayers are powered with a Cummins 6.7-liter engine with 240 hp in the G40 model and 275 hp in the G75 model. The new models are equipped with cruise control, improved lighting, and adjustable "fixed" tread width bars. Retail prices start at $189,655.
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If you took a close gander at Roosevelt Road in South Bend, Indiana, what would you see? Nothing but an ordinary country scene complete with trees and shrubbery, a powerline, and an average-looking (well, maybe slightly better than average) street ... right?
Right, except for one thing. That innocent rural lane may provide some of the answers to our need for energy-efficient and ecologically sound construction. You see, that thoroughfare used to get so torn up by the harsh wear and tear of raining and freezing and thawing and freezing and thawing again that—every spring—the highway became completely impassable. School buses had to make a three-mile detour around the chuckholed road section, while patch upon patch of added asphalt cracked off ineffectively.
Yet that same road was reconstructed in 1969 using "soil stabilization" chemicals developed by a gentleman named Gordon L. Schneider. That was 10 years ago. The St. Joseph County Highway Department hasn't spent a single maintenance dollar on Roosevelt Road since, but the byway still looks brand silver-dollar-shiny new!
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Mr. Schneider has been building highways with his Earth Technology Systems for some 18 years, so the stretch of perfect Indiana pavement is hardly a one-shot fluke. The construction chemist has been responsible for roads laid through a marshy bog in Florida, along heavily used turnpike routes in Tennessee, next to a frequently flooded national park campground in Missouri, and in scores of other places across the United States. Every one of his projects has held up perfectly, and they've all cost less (10%, 38%, 75%—even as much as 600%—less!) than do roads made by people using the accepted building methods!
Most important, though, Gordon's highways are environmentally sound. His methods "stretch" and completely recycle old asphalt so that the petrochemicals that would have gone into making each ton of the road covering can instead be made into 240 gallons of fuel oil! The construction procedures can also eliminate the need to import tons of "foundation" gravel by solidifying the underlying soil into a base that's hard enough to withstand the entire weight of a heavily used thoroughfare. Moreover, Gordon's ecologically harmless "stabilizing" agents are derived from sulfonic acid byproducts of the oil industry—materials that are otherwise dumped as waste!
As you might imagine, this simple ground—and highway—hardening system could mean incredible savings for our country in terms of materials, labor, and that all-too-precious oil supply. In fact, a conservative estimate presented to the U.S. Department of Transportation noted that—by using soil stabilizing techniques on government roads built in 1974 alone—this country could have saved 46,012,199 barrels of crude oil for an improvement in our international balance of payments of $598,158,587!
Breakthrough Technology
Unfortunately, the giant asphalt, cement, lime, rock, and gravel industries have—up to this point—had very little interest in saving resources and haven't bothered to investigate Mr. Schneider's recycling methods. The present oil crunch, however, is beginning to force such businesses to take a closer look at Gordon's economical methods and impressive results.
Yet—just as the highway business "door" is finally opening—the innovative chemist is developing a new use for his soil-hardening compounds, one that could soon dwarf even the greatly beneficial effects of his road-building methods. Mr. Schneider intends to use his compounds in the construction of houses.
MOTHER EARTH NEWS' researchers are especially excited by the prospects of using Schneider's techniques to produce building materials, because a couple of years back we tried hard to develop soil building blocks ourselves. At that time our efforts at finding any "liquid marble" compounds were pretty inconclusive. But Gordon Schneider's amazing and quite real success with hardening road soils has brightened our hopes again.
And just think of the possibilities! Homes, small dams, farm buildings, fences, and more could be built from sand, loam, clay, old newspapers, sawdust, straw—perhaps even sewage sludge! The construction materials could be poured into forms, shaped into blocks or "particle boards," and become suitable for nailing, painting, and even wallpapering.
In addition, the "dirt" building matter would be ideal for earth-sheltered and passively solar-heated homes: Walls and their surfaces could be designed with the specific thermal mass or insulation properties needed to suit their individual locations. And the ground surrounding earth-bermed homes could be made totally waterproof or even shaped into forms for the house walls themselves.
And all this while—instead of further reducing our forests and other scarce resources—home builders would be using inexpensive, right-at-their-feet, ordinary soil!
Well, you'd best believe MOTHER EARTH NEWS is not letting this fish get away! We've grabbed ahold of Gordon and are taking him out to our research center so he can build everything from an all-organic road to side and back walls for a solar greenhouse.
Gordon Schneider's Earth Technology could be the key to making plain ol' backyard dirt into the "building material of the future". We're hoping—for all our sakes—that it will be.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Although Gordon Schneider's house building experiments are just beginning, his "turnpike techniques" are tried-and-true successes. And he's offered to help road-building-business people in MOTHER EARTH NEWS' readership learn the skills of using his moneysaving soil agents.


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My work explores the micro-relationships within extended friendship groups. The faces struggle to emerge from behind the hand-drawn doodles. My work reflects on how deep connections between two people can fracture larger groups and reminds us how relationships grow, change and evolve around us. I created the images through the manipulation of image transfers, pastel and ink, that I digitised and combined with hand drawings.


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The Manchester United fanzine Red Issue has provoked anger among football fans on Twitter by taking aim at the public reaction to the collapse of Bolton player Fabrice Muamba.
The front cover of the latest edition of the magazine shows a picture of paramedics attempting to save Muamba's life on the pitch with the headline "Grief junkies run riot".
It also shows speech bubbles with mocked-up quotes from fans in the stadium at White Hart Lane saying "Is he dead?", "I've Tweeted my condolences just in case" and "Good mourning".
Muamba, 23, is still recovering in hospital in London after he collapsed at the Tottenham v Bolton Wanderers FA Cup quarter final match on March 17. Medics said his heart stopped for 78 minutes as they battled to save his life.
The magazine's Private Eye-style attempt to lampoon the public response to his collapse provoked a massive reaction on Twitter this afternoon and the words 'red issue' were trending on the social media site.
Toby Sims wrote: "Absolutely disgusted by the red issue cover. I'm a united fan but that's just awful."
One fan tweeted: "That really is insensitive and disgraceful" while another wrote: "Seen the cover of Red Issue. I can see the point they are making, but it's a very crass and insensitive way of putting it across."
But the magazine was unrepentant, posting a message saying: "No wonder the Twitterati aren't happy with the cover - it's them who are being lampooned #griefjunkies"
A spokesman for the magazine also defended the cover, telling the MEN that it was 'in no way' aimed at the player himself.
He added: "It's aimed at the people who latched onto the situation and all their fake sentiments The self-satisfaction of so many people on Twitter and other social networks as though their thoughts and prayers
were responsible for his (Muamba's) recovery rather than the paramedics and those involved and the player's own fitness.
"You see it more and more. Whenever celebrities become unstuck it's a big issue while there are people being killed in Syria and Afghanistan who are not worth a mention.
"In no way was this intended as a dig at Muamba, why would it be? It was at the circus surrounding it."
It is understood the cover will appear on an edition of the fanzine which will be on sale ahead of tonight's match at Old Trafford between United and Fulham.
The latest cover comes after copies of Red Issue were confiscated by police before United's FA Cup clash with Liverpool in February.
The magazine contained a spoof Ku Klux Klan mask poking fun at Liverpool's Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez, who was banned for eight matches after racially abusing United's French defender Patrice Evra.
Police claimed the image was 'potentially offensive' but the seized copies were handed back when Crown Prosecution lawyers decided not to press charges.


text: Malaysian tribunal finds Bush, Blair guilty of war crimes for plotting the invasion of Iraq Malaysian tribunal finds Bush and Blair guilty of war crimes Dear Mark, We in the IndictBushNow movement wanted to wish you and your family a happy and healthy holiday. We also wanted to thank you for your continued support for this critical cause. The global movement for accountability is growing. People are in the streets throughout the world. In Cairo, Mubarak awaits trial as hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the streets demanding economic, social and political justice. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are also wanted for their criminal acts that took so many innocent lives in Iraq. "Former U.S. president George W. Bush and British ex-prime minister Tony Blair were Tuesday found guilty" by an independent tribunal in Malaysia for committing "crimes against peace" during the Iraq war, according to Agence France-Presse. Global Movement: Grassroots Democracy in Action Our movement, which demands accountability, is part of an international effort led by human rights activists, legal scholars, elected officials and progressive organizations. People around the world are responsible for a dramatic shift in the political climate. This is grassroots democracy in action. No power is greater. The Malaysian War Crimes Tribunal, which had the active support of former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad, found the former leaders guilty after a four-day hearing. "The Tribunal deliberated over the case and decided unanimously that the first accused George Bush and second accused Blair have been found guilty of crimes against peace," the tribunal said in a statement. "Unlawful use of force threatens the world to return to a state of lawlessness. The acts of the accused were unlawful." The AFP reports, "A seven-member panel chaired by former Malaysian Federal Court judge Abdul Kadir Sulaiman presided over the trial, which began last Saturday, and both Bush and Blair were tried in absentia." "The evidence showed that the drums of wars were being beaten long before the invasion. The accused in their own memoirs have admitted their own intention to invade Iraq regardless of international law," it said. All of us want to express our gratitude to the hard work of the people of Malaysia who are doing their part in the global effort to hold war criminals accountable for their actions. Please take a moment to tell your friends, relatives and co-workers about IndictBushNow and invite them to join this mass grassroots movement for justice and accountability using the buttons below. — From all of us at IndictBushNow


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Englewood, FL – Englewood Community Hospital has earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval™ for its Heart Failure Program by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission's national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-specific care. The certification award recognizes Englewood Community Hospital's dedication to continuous compliance with The Joint Commission's state-of-the- art standards.
Englewood Community Hospital underwent a rigorous on-site survey in July, 2012. A team of Joint Commission expert surveyors evaluated Englewood Community Hospital for compliance with standards of care specific to the needs of patients and families, including infection prevention and control, leadership and medication management.
"In achieving Joint Commission certification, Englewood Community Hospital has demonstrated its commitment to the highest level of care for its patients with Heart Failure," says Jean Range, M.S., R.N., C.P.H.Q. executive director, Disease-Specific Care Certification, The Joint Commission. "Certification is a voluntary process and I commend Englewood Community Hospital for successfully undertaking this challenge to elevate its standard of care and instill confidence in the community it serves."
"With Joint Commission certification, we are making a significant investment in quality on a day-to-day basis from the top down. Joint Commission accreditation provides us a framework to take our organization to the next level and helps create a culture of excellence," says Tom Rice, CEO, Englewood Community Hospital. "Achieving Joint Commission certification in Heart Failure, for our organization, is a major step toward maintaining excellence and continually improving the care we provide."
The Joint Commission's Disease-Specific Care Certification Program, launched in 2002, is designed to evaluate clinical programs across the continuum of care. Certification requirements address three core areas: compliance with consensus-based national standards; effective use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to manage and optimize care; and an organized approach to performance measurement and improvement activities.
Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including more than 10,300 hospitals and home care organizations, and more than 6,500 other health care organizations that provide long term care, behavioral health care, laboratory and ambulatory care services. The Joint Commission currently certifies more than 2,000 disease-specific care programs, focused on the care of patients with chronic illnesses such as stroke, joint replacement, stroke rehabilitation, heart failure and many others. The Joint Commission also provides health care staffing services certification for more than 750 staffing offices. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Learn more about The Joint Commission at www.jointcommission.org.


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The Right-Wing Media's "Real Unemployment Rate" Deflection
Research ››› ››› TERRY KREPEL, THOMAS BISHOP & ALBERT KLEINE
Despite hopeful signs of economic progress, the right-wing media have attempted to downplay positive economic news by using alternative measures to argue that the "real unemployment rate" is much higher than has been reported. In fact, these alternative measures are not appropriate substitutes for the official unemployment rate.
Right-Wing Media Hype Alternative Measure As The "Real Unemployment Rate"
Trump On Fox: 7.8 Percent Rate Is "Phony," The "Real Number" Is "15 Percent, 16 Percent." On Fox & Friends, Donald Trump declared that the 7.8 percent unemployment rate reported for September is "not the real number" and a "phony number," adding, "The real number is 15 percent, 16 percent. People even say 21 percent." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/15/12]
Peter Ferrara: U-6 Number "Better Reflects The Reality." Appearing on Fox & Friends, conservative analyst Peter Ferrara claimed that that the U-6 employment rate, "better reflects the reality" of unemployment. Co-host Alisyn Camerota echoed Ferrara, suggesting that the U-6 number, which was 14.7 percent in September, is "the real authentic number ... the real number that captures the pain that Americans are feeling by not being fully employed." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/14/12]
Fox Graphic Calls U-6 Rate "The 'Real' Unemployment Rate." During Ferrara's segment, an on-screen graphic appeared that declared "The 'Real' Unemployment Rate" to be 14.7 percent, the U-6 number for September:
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/14/12]
Fox Business' Shapiro Declares "Real Unemployment Rate" To Be 14.7 Percent. Appearing on Fox News, Fox Business reporter Adam Shapiro said: "If you were to factor in the people who want to work part-time, the people who've dropped out of the work force -- that's the labor participation rate -- to what the real unemployment rate would be, it would be 14.7 percent." [Fox News, Fox & Friends First, 10/8/12]
Fox Business Reporter: "Take A Hard Look" At U-6 Rate. Under the headline "Time to Focus on the Real Unemployment Rate," an article by Fox Business reporter Dunstan Prial stated: Forget the official 8.2% unemployment rate. Take a hard look instead at what's known as the U6 rate, which tracks not only those out of work but those who've essentially given up looking for work. That rate stands at about 14.5%, or nearly double the official unemployment rate." [FoxBusiness.com, 4/6/12]
Right-Wing Media Have Also Used Labor Force, Discouraged Worker Stats To Downplay Unemployment Drop
Ferrara: Americans "Fleeing The Work Force Under Obama." In his Fox & Friends appearance, Ferrara also claimed that one reason unemployment rates have declined is because "they've counted 8.2 million Americans as fleeing the work force under Obama." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/14/12]
Fox's Doocy: "Real Unemployment Rate" Covers "Tens Of Millions" Who Are "Unemployed, Stopped Looking, Or Have Taken Part-Time Jobs." Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy said that "when you look at the real unemployment number, you know, all those who are unemployed, stopped looking, or have taken part-time jobs, you're talking about tens of millions of people, and for them, the unemployment or underemployment problem is 100 percent." [Fox News, Fox & Friends,10/8/12]
In Fact, Economists Have Identified "Benign Reasons" For Labor Force Drop
Washington Post: Labor Force Improvement Suggests The Fall In Unemployment Rate Reflects A Real Improvement." The Washington Post's Ezra Klein noted in his October 5 article that the improvement in the labor force participation rate "reflects a real improvement, rather than people stopping their work search":
[The Washington Post, 10/5/12]
Kansas City Federal Reserve: Long Term Trends Account For About Half Of The Decline In Labor Force Participation From 2007 To 2011. In a 2012 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and published in the journal Economic Review, researchers found that long term trends such as changing demographics accounted for "about half of the decline" in the labor force participation rate (LFPR) with economic factors accounting for the other half:
The recent strengthening of the association between the LFPR and the unemployment rate, as measured by the correlations over time or across U.S. states, suggests that labor market participation has become more sensitive to the cyclical weakness in the labor market. Thus, the labor market slump may be an important factor for understanding the recent decline in participation.
[T]he LFPR declined from 66.0 percent in 2007 to 64.1 percent in 2011 ... 1.1 percentage points of this decline (58 percent) [are attributable] to the cyclical downturn. Long-term trend factors, such as demographics, account for the remaining 0.8 percentage point of the decline (42 percent). [Economic Review, 2012]
Huffington Post: "We Shouldn't Assume That Everybody Is Just Dropping Out Of The Labor Force ... Because They Are Simply Discouraged." Following a labor force participation drop in September, Huffington Post chief financial writer Mark Gongloff noted that while the number of Americans "not in the labor force has risen by 2.7 million in the past year to 88.9 million," fewer than "7 million people who are out of the labor force say they still want a job." From the Huffington Post:
And what are the majority of these 2.2 million people who don't want a job doing instead? Retiring, it seems. About 1.6 million people who have dropped out of the labor force in the past year are 65 and over, according to the BLS.
That leaves another 600,000 dropping out for other reasons besides retirement or an inability to find a job. Some could be teens going back to school -- the number of teenagers not in the labor force has grown by 245,000 in the past year. People could be going to college to get better skills. Unfortunately, we don't know for sure, because the BLS doesn't have a detailed breakdown of what people do when they leave the labor force.
But we shouldn't just assume that everybody dropping out of the labor force, or even most of the people dropping out, are doing so because they're simply discouraged. We just don't know that for sure. [The Huffington Post, 9/07/12]
U-6 Is Not The "Real" Unemployment Rate
The Washington Post: "U-6 Is Not An Unemployment Measure." In an updated article also published on October 5, The Washington Post's Ezra Klein pointed out that "U6 is not an unemployment measure because it includes part-time workers who want full time employment":
U6 is not an unemployment measure. It includes part-time workers who want full-time work. So it doesn't count the increase in part-time work. But every measure of actual unemployment -- U1, U2, U3, U4, and U5 -- went down. You can see them all here. Again, there's no mystery. [The Washington Post, 10/5/12]
BLS Spokesman: U-6 Is Not An "Unemployment Rate." In February, FactCheck.org quoted a BLS spokesman who explained that "the agency does not refer to U-6" as an unemployment rate, instead using the official number which "has been calculated the same way for decades":
Romney calls the U-6 number the "real unemployment rate," but BLS spokesman Gary Steinberg said the agency does not refer to U-6 as any kind of "unemployment rate," real or otherwise, because it includes people who are employed, albeit part-time. The U-3 figure is the "official unemployment rate," Steinberg said, and has been calculated the same way for decades. [FactCheck.org, 2/10/12]
The Heritage Foundation: "The Chief Utility Of The U-6 Rate ... Is Often Just Its Shock Value." In 2010, Rea S. Hederman, Jr., a research fellow at theconservative Heritage Foundation, quoted a BLS economist pointing out that the "marginally attached" category which is included in the U-6 rate is "so broad, it includes every person who has ever thought about one day having a job." Hederman noted that referring to U-6 as the unemployment rate is only useful for "its shock value":
The problem, however, is that this number is startlingly high only in relation to the levels of unemployment that the official unemployment rate -- the much more restrictive U-3 figure -- has accustomed us to seeing. The chief utility of the U-6 rate for anyone but labor economists, then, is often just its shock value.
For economists, these last two definitions of unemployment can help provide some insight into labor-market movements. In particular, the spread between U-5 and U-6 can show how quickly businesses are returning to normalcy after a recession, because it offers a way to gauge changes in the number of hours worked as well as in the number of workers hired. An increase in U-6, meanwhile, can provide evidence that employers are shifting more workers to part-time schedules in response to declining economic conditions. But beyond these limited assessments, the significance of the U-5 and U-6 numbers is far from clear -- and surely not as great as many commentators recklessly suggest. [Heritage Foundation, 7/5/2010]
U-6 is Categorically Higher Than The Official Unemployment Rate, But The Two Figures Trend Together
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Data: U-6 Rate Has Declined Along With U-3 Rate. Data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve shows that historically, the U-3 and U-6 figures have trended together. Furthermore, while both measures of unemployment rose during the recession, they have been on a downward trend since 2009:
[Federal Reserve Economic Data, compiled 10/14/12]
While The Gap Between U-6 and U-3 Widened During The Recession, It Has Remained Relatively Flat Since Obama Took Office. When viewing the gap between the rates from the day Obama took office (January 20, 2012) to the most recently available date (September 1, 2012), the difference between U-6 and U-3 has only risen by 0.1 percentage points. From the St. Louis Fed:
[Federal Reserve Economic Data, compiled 10/14/12]
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text: Ben Mayer wrote: >>However, most code doesn't vectorize too well (even, as you say, with >>directives), so people would end up getting 25 MFLOPs out of 300 MFLOPs >>possible -- faster than a desktop, sure, but using a multimillion dollar >>machine to get a factor of MAYBE 10 in speedup compared to (at the time) >>$5-10K machines. > > > What the people who run these centers have told me that a > supercomputer is worth the cost if you can get a speed up of 30x over > serial. What do others think of this? I thought a good new machine should be 4-10x the current speed of your old machine. A "supercomputer" is a hard thing to define in general terms. If you look at it like "at least 2 orders of magnitude faster than what you can do today" with not such a significant effort (e.g. not rewriting your 100k line code from scratch) ... [...] > So what we should really be trying to do is matching code to the > machine. "Portable code is not fast, fast code is not portable" There is a a price for every decision. How hard are you willing to work to make your code fast? How much time (or money) are you willing to spend to do this? [...] > The manual for the X1 provides some information and examples. Are the > Apple G{3,4,5} the only processors who have real vector units? I have > not really looked at SSE(2), but remember that they were not full > precision. Altivec are just SIMD units, but with a saner instruction set design than SSEx. Here is hoping that SSE4 will have a real maximum/minimum function. :( Not sure what you mean by full precision. SSE2 has a variety of formats, and the ISA design makes it hard to get data in and out of the SIMD registers. Packing/unpacking are very expensive. >>For me, I just revel in the Computer Age. A decade ago, people were >>predicting all sorts of problems breaking the GHz barrier. Today CPUs >>are routinely clocked at 3+ GHz, reaching for 4 and beyond. A decade > > > I just picked up a Semptron 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, 120GB HD, CD-ROM, video, > 10/100 + intel 1000 Pro for $540 shipped. I was amazed. Well we are going to run into some thermodynamical (structural stability) limits pretty soon. At some feature size (haven't done the calculations, guessing in the 10-30nm region) the defect formation energies will become comparible to the thermal energy. When this happens, the devices do a pretty good job of destroying themselves, usually with threading dislocations (this happened in the early days of blue LEDs). The usual tricks to stabilize structures get harder at smaller sizes, and the electronic structure effects of surface deformations underneath the wires lead to some interesting electronic responses. I have doubts that we will ever see 1 atom wires. Then again, things like carbon nanotubes and other self assembling bits are quite intriguing. And they are small and quite rigid. Still, I am waiting for bosonic computation (photons). Enough of these fermions (electrons/holes). Massively parallel by design. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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Drunk Golf Trick Shot Ends With Expected Results
Mick and Bobbe thought it'd be a fun idea to take 9 shots of punch vodka and play a few rounds of golf. That kind of thinking is probably what lead to this ingenuity of a trick shot. You must play the wall where it lies. See what this guy does.
Did you see it coming?


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At 77, Doug Erbeck is retired — technically — but you won't find him sitting in a rocking chair killing time.
When he's not angling for panfish on Twin Cities-area lakes, which is frequently, or competing in long-distance running races, or gardening, or volunteering with the Fur, Fin & Feather Club in Osseo, the former veterinary pathologist peddles an easy-tie fishing jig he invented and sells.
He calls it the Fisherbeck lure.
"I guarantee you'll catch more and larger bluegills with the easiest-to-thread jig on the market today,'' said the gregarious Erbeck, of Crystal.
Fumbling while trying to tie 2-pound-test fishing line onto a small jig one cold winter morning several years ago, Erbeck had a light bulb moment. "Those darn little bitty jigs have such small eyes, they're hard to thread,'' he said.
And paint must first be removed from them — a tedious affair. Erbeck figured he could do better.
In 2010, he made a clay model and brainstormed with son-in-law Marty Stone of Arden Hills, an engineer. The result: Fisherbeck Easy Threading Jigs, which have funnels to thread the line through instead of a small eye. He got a patent, found a manufacturer and began making and selling them.
"It's easier to thread for everybody, but it's particularly attractive for elderly people, for handicapped people, for kids and for ice fishing, because your hands get cold,'' he said.
But Erbeck found it difficult getting into the tackle-making business; there's lots of competition.
"I did the patent all by myself, without any lawyers,'' he said proudly. "The first lawyer I talked to wanted $15,000 to do it. So I went online. The patent office people actually helped me.''
He sells the jigs three for $5 on his website (www.fisherbeck.com), at fishing shows and a few bait shops, including Frankies Bait in Chisago City, Capra's Sporting Goods in Blaine, Harty's Bait Shop at Medicine Lake and Vados Bait in Spring Lake Park.
Sales have been good, but Erbeck laughs when asked if he's getting rich.
"It's coming slow but sure,'' he said. "I'm not making a lot of money, just enough to put back into the business.''
He's adding a second jig, one to target big crappies. "It will be the same as the Fisherbeck, only a different color, white glow-in-the-dark with pink eyes. Hopefully, this will take off.''
His jigs originally were made in China, but he's found a manufacturer in Illinois to make the next batch, including the new crappie jigs. All are made of tin instead of lead.
"It's environmentally friendly,'' Erbeck said. "And with tin, it sinks a bit slower and the fish will grab it.''
The orange and black jigs are meant to be especially effective on bluegills, Erbeck's favorite fish.
"To me, bluegills are the premier eating fish of Minnesota," he said. "And it's so much fun.''
He knows Minnesota is a walleye state. "But I'm completely into bluegills; I catch walleyes accidentally.''
And crappies.
"I catch a lot of crappies,'' Erbeck said. "Yesterday I caught twice as many crappies as bluegills.''
He doesn't use minnows. "I use a white plastic twister tail, or a couple of waxworms,'' Erbeck said. Sometimes he jigs or casts his lure, sometimes he uses a bobber and still-fishes.
Regardless, he's on the water about twice a week, year-round.
"I limit myself to lakes right in the Twin Cities,'' he said. He figures he's fished about 40 metro lakes.
"I make one exception: Lake Osakis. That's my nirvana,'' Erbeck said. "Just like walleye fishermen go to Mille Lacs, I go to Osakis. I know some spots and I catch some really big bluegills.
"I furnish cleaned, fileted fish for all my friends and my big extended family.''
His advice: 'Stay active'
Erbeck spent most of his life in Wisconsin. He was born in Superior, grew up near Green Bay and, after becoming a veterinarian, operated two small-animal hospitals and a clinic in the Chippewa Falls-Eau Claire area.
"At age 50, I felt I was getting behind what was happening in medicine, so I went back to school and got a Ph.D. in veterinary pathology, which took me to Kentucky,'' he said.
Where he got hooked on panfish. "People there were really into crappies, and I started fishing for them and found huge bluegills,'' Erbeck said.
He moved to Minnesota 12 years ago and did cancer research, then retired three years ago — only to go into the tackle-making business with two partners, son-in-law Stone and daughter Amy.
Erbeck is a member of the Minnesota Distance Runners Association, and ran a half-marathon this spring in 2 hours, 23 minutes. "At my age, I was happy with it,'' he said. "I think running has helped my health and mental well-being.''
He also has an understanding partner. "My wife, Faye, has supported my fishing and hunting all 53 years of our marriage,'' Erbeck said. They have three daughters and nine grandchildren.
And a fledgling business.
"I'm just having fun in life, I really am,'' Erbeck said.
His advice to retirees: "Be active, have fun … and go fishing.''
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Event Type: Children's
Age Group(s): Toddler (18mo-36mo)
Date: 2/25/2019
Start Time: 11:15 AM
End Time: 11:45 AM
Read books, sing songs, make friends, and have fun at the library! For ages 18-36 months. Pre-registration with the Children's Department is required. Current session runs September-November. Contact the Children's Department for details.Library: Hagerstown (Central) Washington County Free Library
*** Due to the high level of interest for this program, families who are absent for more than 3 consecutive weeks without notice may have their place given to a family on our wait list. In this event, you can to add your name to the wait list and resume attending when space permits. Thank you for your understanding!
Location: Story Time Room - 227 (Hagerstown)
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NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the U.S. journalists who reported on spy agency analyst Edward Snowden's leaks exposing mass government surveillance, returned to the United States on Friday for the first time since revealing the programs in 2013.
Greenwald and Poitras flew into New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on the same flight to receive a George Polk journalism award for their reports on how the U.S. government has secretly gathered information on millions of Americans, among other revelations.
Their reporting on the leaks, which began last June, has sparked international debate over the limits of government surveillance and prompted President Barack Obama to curb the spying powers of the National Security Agency earlier this year.
"I really didn't expect anything to happen, which is why we finally came," Greenwald said to reporters shortly after embracing his partner, David Miranda, who had earlier said he was nervous as he waited for Greenwald to pass through airport security.
Last August, British authorities detained Miranda, a Brazilian citizen who lives with Greenwald in Rio, and questioned him for nine hours under anti-terrorism legislation when he landed at London's Heathrow Airport carrying encrypted Snowden documents.
Advocates for a free press have decried Miranda's detention and the British government's efforts to prevent the Guardian newspaper, which published many of Greenwald's articles, from running further stories about the Snowden documents.
Greenwald said he believed the U.S. government "wouldn't be that incredibly stupid and self-destructive" to detain him and Poitras in a similar way. When asked if he had carried Snowden documents with him, Greenwald repeated the question incredulously and laughed, saying, "No, I didn't."
Russia granted Snowden temporary asylum last year after the U.S. Justice Department charged him with violating the Espionage Act. Attorney General Eric Holder has said he does not plan to prosecute Greenwald for receiving and reporting on the leaks.
Poitras, an American citizen who lives in Berlin, has said U.S. authorities have detained and questioned her dozens of times when re-entering the United States and seized and copied her cellphone, laptop and notebooks.
She has said the increased scrutiny began after the 2006 release of her film "My Country, My Country", an Academy Award-nominated documentary about the effect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 on Iraqi civilians and American soldiers.
Greenwald and Poitras are receiving their award jointly with the Washington Post's Barton Gellman, who also received documents from Snowden, and the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill, both of whom have been in the United States while reporting on the leaks. (Writing by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Scott Malone and Tom Brown)