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A few weeks ago, I contacted Daycraft, in Hong Kong, to express interest in reviewing some of their products. I have seen some recent reviews of their notebooks, and I noticed that there was quite a bit of variety in what I had seen online. I was notified that I would receive a sample package, and within two weeks a package arrived. I was rather surprised when I found two notebooks and two diaries in the package, along with an extensive catalog of products. The catalog demonstrates that Daycraft caters to many different kinds of preferences, from small, sophisticated pocket diaries to the more visually interesting notebooks with designs.
The first item I pulled from the package was this small diary, which Daycraft calls the 2012 Signature Diary (mini size). The color is listed as green, but it is mostly a blue with some green, perhaps a darker teal. The contrast between the color of the color and blood orange pages/ribbon really grabbed my attention. It's not an obvious color pairing, and I like that. It draws on some styling that might be more common in the 60s and 70s. The cover is soft and flexible, and it would be easy to forget that this is in your pocket.
Another cool feature is the year printed across the side of the pages. If you had several years of these little diaries, it would be very easy to identify them as a stack on the shelf. I personally enjoy giving my notebooks labels and dates, so this feature appealed to me.
The inside of the diary is loaded with all kinds of useful information: nutritional details, conversion tables, holidays, information on other countries, etc. All good stuff, especially if you don't have access to the internet at the moment and you need a quick reference guide.
The pages are pretty small, so you get just enough lines to keep track of your obligations, homework assignments, and meetings. If you are a super busy person, than the size might be too small, but I think the format works well for the amount of space involved. The "diary" is clearly more of a planner than a diary, but Daycraft prefers to call it a diary, so that is how I will relay the naming to you.
The pages are very thin, so I'd only recommend using a ballpoint pen, a micro tip (~.38) gel pen, or a pencil. I didn't bother with a writing test, because the characteristics of the paper made the options obvious. If you don't mind using something that puts less ink on the page, this will likely be a great little diary for you.
This is the band that was wrapped around the diary. As you can see, the diary is identified as green, which it most certainly is not, but I still think the color was appealing.
Next we have the SKINZ notebook (A6 size), which features two menacing revolvers and a familiar phrase from Clint Eastwood, "Make My Day," which draws on the Daycraft slogan on the cover of their catalog, "We Make Your Day."
The notebook includes several temporary tattoos. I can't help thinking of the metal band Guns N Roses, which is an easy connection to make given the tattoos being of guns and roses. The tattoos don't appeal to me now, but I would have loved to be displaying these back in the day.
As you can see, the pages have designs at the top, which I personally would rather not have, but it's nice to have something different from time to time. The pages are marketed as being 100 gram, which I thought was very surprising, so I had to try a writing sample.
The Noodler's Piston Filler and Kaweco Sport feathered the most, but in both cases it wasn't terrible (Moleskine is typically much worse). I am guessing that less saturating (watery) inks tend to spread more on this kind of paper, which is not as smooth as Rhodia or Black n' Red. All in all, the paper held up very well, and I'd have limited issues using a fine point fountain pen nib on this paper.
There was some considerable show-through with some of the pens, but I don't typically write on the back pages unless I am using something far less likely to produce show-through. If you mind seeing the ink on the opposite side of the page, you might not be a big fan of the outcome here. I guess it all depends on how particular you are about utilizing both sides of the page.
Another aspects of the pages that might bother you is that the lines do not go all the way to the edge. This helps me keep my hand writing a bit neater, but many people prefer to have the lines go all of the way to the edge. Again, your preference may make this a deal breaker, but it was a bonus for me.
Here is the band that was on the outside of the SKINS notebook.
Next on the list is the D-sign (read: design) notebook (A6 size). Unlike the SKINZ notebook, this one has a hard cover. The SKINZ notebook is firm, but had a softer, more flexible cover.
A statement of what is meant by the image on the front.
Again, the lines do not go the edge of the page, but there is is no design at the top of each page, given you more space than the SKINZ notebook. The pages are a bit smoother than the SKINZ notebook, which I like. I chose not to do a writing sample in this one a) because I am assuming it is just slightly better than the paper in the SKINZ and b) because I would like to have this in pristine shape to giveaway, either on the blog or as a gift.
And here is the band for the D-sign notebook. Some notebooks never give you these details, so I really enjoy that this notebook has a spec sheet of sorts to answer my questions.
Lastly, this is the 2012 Vogue Diary. It was the only one to come in a box, and it has a very tactile cover to it. The color is obviously blue, and it has a stitched square pattern that a bit squishy upon pressing on it. While the design might not be my personal taste, I am pretty sure my sister or girlfriend will snap this one up. Included is a good sized ribbon page marker.
Out of the box, you can see just how shiny the cover is - it is polyurethane, by the way.
The Vogue Diary has month view pages and day view pages, allowing you to get a better sense of your upcoming obligations. This is my preferred format, so you can get a glimpse of the year rather than just being buried in all of the details of daily tasks.
The daily format has specific time slots to notate what you need to get done. If you have a more free-flowing style of planning, this may be too rigid for you. I am very specific about what I need to get done each day, so I thought this layout was perfect, if only the outside of the diary appealed to me more. Again, this is really a planner, not a diary, but Daycraft prefers to call this one a diary, so a diary it is.
And here is the spec sheet band for the 2012 Vogue Diary.
I had asked Mr. Lee, retail and marketing manager at Daycraft, a few questions about the company's goals and mission, and here is what he had to say:
- We hope to sell in US. But up to now, you can find our Cookie Bookie Notebook in MOMA Shop (www.moma.org) in New York only;
- Please refer to the "ABOUT US" in our web-site (www.daycraft.com.hk/en/about); We hope to make good quality, creative but affordable products;
- The paper is outsourced from reliable suppliers. We shall choose suitbale paper for a specific series!
So, there you have it. I thoroughly enjoyed taking a look at what Daycraft has to offer, and I only have a small sample of what is available through Daycraft. They clearly care about considering different tastes and designs, and the paper is very good, depending on what you intend to use it for. I look forward to seeing more of these available in the U.S. once distribution has expanded.


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6 Hours - Hand-on Tutorial Training
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|Class 3:
|Malware Reverse Engineering
(Felix Leder)
|Hands on with the Honeywall and virtual honeypots
(David Watson)
|Android reverse malware forensics
(Mahmud Ab Rahman)
|Lunch Time
|Malware reverse engineering
(Felix Leder)
|Hands on with the Honeywall and virtual honeypots
(David Watson)
|Android reverse malware forensics
(Mahmud Ab Rahman)
3 Hours - Hand-on Tutorial Training
|Class 4:
|Class 5:
|Class 6:
|Class 7:
|CTF: Hacking for fun and profit
(Angelo Dell'Aera, Mark Schloesser)
|Information Visualization-Bridging the Gap Between Tufte and Firewalls
(Raffael Marty)
|Cuckoo Sandbox: how deep the bird's nest goes
(Claudio Guarnieri)
|Network analysis & forensics
(Guillaume Arcas)
|Lunch Time
|Class 8:
|Class 9:
|Class 10:
|Class 11:
|CTF: Hacking for fun and profit
(Angelo Dell'Aera, Mark Schloesser)
|Visualizing with Parallel Coordinates to find unknown attacks in large volumes
(Sebastien Tricaud)
|How to Win at Windows/Linux memory analysis using Volatility
(Matt Erasmus)
|Network analysis & forensics
(Guillaume Arcas)
|Class 1: Malware Reverse Engineering
|Felix Leder (Norman)
|Instructor bio:
|Felix Leder is working as an innovation and new technologies architect for Norman ASA. After starting with Nokia he turned to his favourite
field of research: IT-Security. During the time he worked for Fraunhofer and the University of Bonn, he joined into researching botnet mitigation tactics and new methodologies for executable and malware analysis. The
results were successful takedowns.
Felix Leder has given world-wide classes on malware analysis, reverse engineering, and anti-botnet approaches. Participants range from governmental institutions, financial & security industries, to military bodies.
|Training summary:
|Some people say that reverse engineering - and especially malware reverse engineering - is an art. Actually it is not. It is just the selection and application of the right methods and tools for the desired goal. This training contains an introduction to reverse engineering and how to approach suspicious and malicious files. The main focus will be on executable malware. The major properties and identification criteria for malware will be discussed together with the methodology to investigate efficiently. This is complemented by presenting and playing around with state-of-the-art tools in real world excercises. Participants are required to have Windows admin or even development knowledge together with basic understanding of major protocols used in the Internet. Basic programming skills (in an arbitrary language) are required, too. Helpful is a basic understanding of the x86 architecture for the second half of the workshop (but not a requirement).
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
* Reverse engineering introduction
* Systematically approaching suspicious applications and files
* The right tools for achieving the desired analysis goal
* Hands-on exercises
|Class 2: Hands on with the Honeywall and virtual honeypots
|David Watson (CRO of The Honeynet Project)
|Instructor bio:
David Watson is the Chief Research Officer for the Honeynet Project, a non-profit security organization dedicated to sharing its research and findings on cyber threats, and was a Director between 2007 and 2012. As an active security researcher he regularly presents at international conferences or workshops and has contributed to various publications in the field of IT security.
David has been involved with deploying honeypots since 1999 and is currently the project manager and lead developer for the Honeynet Project's Global Distributed Honeynet (GDH/HonEeeBox) initiative, which focuses on analysing data gathered from networks of internationally distributed honeypots. He also leads the UK Honeynet Project Chapter, is the Honeynet Project's Google Summer of Code organizational admin and co-owns growing UK open source software development company Isotoma."
|Training summary:
|A chance to spend some hands on time learning about honeynet technologies in a safe, controlled manner. A brief background to the evolution of honeypots followed by an introduction to the Honeywall, which is one of the primary tools used for honeynet data control and data capture. Extracting high interaction I/O activity using Sebek, analysis of attacks against low and high interaction honeypots, using honeypots for automated malware collection and analysis, and an introduction to client honeypots. Hopefully both informative and fun, aiming to show you how honeypots can be used in the real world to improve information security.
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
|* Introduction to low and high interaction server and client honeypots and the Honeywall
* Practical hands on experience installing, deploying and using these tools to investigate network attacks
* By the end of the class students should understand the pros/cons/risks of these technologies and feel comfortable either testing such honeynet tools in their own test lab or evaluating research/production deployments
|Class 3: Android Reverse Malware Forensics
|Mahmud Ab Rahman (MyCERT, Cybersecurity Malaysia)
|Instructor bio:
|Mahmud Ab Rahman currently works as Information Security Specialist for Malaysia Computer Emergency and Response Team (MyCERT) under umbrella of CyberSecurity Malaysia. Prior to that, he worked as an Intrusion Analyst at MyCERT department. His education background comprises of Master Degree in Computer Science from National University of Malaysia in 2006. Prior to that, he obtained a Degree in Computer Science from the same university.
Mahmud has been involved in the computer security field for over 5 years. His area of focus and interest is network security, honeynet, botnet monitoring, and malware analysis. He also engages in several large-scale penetration-testing exercises and to provide solutions for any vulnerability detected. Moreover, he is recognized for conducting numbers of training for organizations to talk on advanced security courses.
He is a occasional speaker at conferences such as DEFCON 19, HITCON 2011, FIRST Annual Conference (FIRST-TC), Honeynet Annual Security Conference, HackInTheBox and Infosec.MY. He currently holds a GIAC's GPEN, GREM and CISCO's (CCNA,CCNP). On 2010, he wrote a paper on "Getting Owned By Malicious PDF" for GIAC GPEN Gold certification. He currently is SANS Mentor for GPEN and GREM.
|Training summary:
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
|Class 4 & Class 8: CTF: Hacking for fun and profit
|Mark Schloesser (RWTH Aachen University)
Angelo Dell'Aera (Communication Valley Reply)
|Instructor bio:
|Angelo Dell'Aera is currently employed at Security Reply, a security service
provider located in Italy, working in the Early Warning Team as Senior Threat
Analyst. Moreover he leads Sysenter Honeynet Project Chapter and his
interests are mainly related to botnet tracking, honeyclient technologies and
malware analysis. Angelo started working as an independent researcher in
networking and security research in 1998 focusing his research both on attack
and defense techniques mainly focusing on *NIX platforms. Meanwhile he worked
as researcher in Politecnico of Bari until June 2004 where his main research
argument was TCP congestion control algorithms. His research led to the design
of the TCP Westwood+ algorithm and the implementation of its support in the
official Linux kernel.
|Instructor bio:
|Mark Schloesser is a research assistant at the RWTH Aachen University's
IT security group. His main focus is malware collection and botnet
monitoring, as well as distributed data sharing and processing. In his
free time he runs the malware collection initiative called
"mwcollect.org Alliance" and likes to compete in Capture-the-Flag
security contests to learn and improve his skills.
|Training summary:
|Learning by doing - solving challenges and puzzles with time constraints. During the training a selected challenge taken from the Honeynet Project Forensic Challenges series will be analyzed as a practical case of study.
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
|Class 5: Information Visualization - Bridging the Gap Between Tufte and Firewalls
|Raffael Marty (Pixlcloud)
|Instructor bio:
|Raffael Marty is a SaaS business expert, data visualization practitioner, and security data analyst. Raffael is in the process of starting a visual analytics company, pixlcloud. Prior, he co-founded Loggly, a cloud-based log management company. He has been a long term data analysis and visualization enthusiast and has spent a lot of time building and defining the security visualization space through open source tools, writing books, a number of papers, and speaking at conferences around the world. He is frequently consulting as an industry expert in all aspects of log analysis, computer security, and data visualization. Raffy has held various positions in the log management space at companies like Splunk, ArcSight, and IBM research where he also earned his masters in computer science. In addition to visualization, big data analysis, and computer security, Raffy is working with a number of startups and has an interest in cloud-based business models.
|Training summary:
|This training provides an actionable introduction to the world of information visualization. We are going to learn about visualization theory and see what Tufte's principles are all about. A hands-on visualization life-cycle will guide us on our visualization journey. The discussion of today's visualization technologies will show that there are many tools that can be used, but not all are equally easy to use and flexible in their application. We will cover tools ranging from R to D3, from processing.js to polymaps, from AfterGlow to Gephi, and from WebGL to Canvas, Google Refine or Fusion Tables anyone?
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
|Attendees will leave this training with an actionable overview of the information visualization space. They will understand the landscape of tools that can be leveraged for their own visualization projects. Visualization is not just a fascinating and fun field, it's one that we can no longer afford to treat like a side project!
|Class6: Cuckoo Sandbox: how deep the bird's nest goes
|Claudio Guarnieri ( iSIGHT Partners )
|Instructor bio:
|Claudio is a Security Researcher at iSIGHT Partners, where he is daily involved with malwares, botnets, cybercrime and general Internet badness.
After work, he usually enjoys some relax time still on malwares and botnets while being core member of The Shadowserver Foundation and of The Honeynet Project.
In the renounced sleep time he develops an open source malware analysis *system* called Cuckoo Sandbox.
|Training summary:
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
|The attendee will dive into the use of sandboxing for automating malware analysis tasks with hands on a ready-to-use tool. The attendee will acquire the knowledge to setup an analysis environment, tune it and adapt it to his own needs. He'll dive into Cuckoo's internals and understand how a sandbox is designed and developed. He'll understand and master the benefits of automating tedious tasks and to innovate his own malware analysis habits.
|Class7: Network analysis & forensics
|Guillaume Arcas (Sekoia)
|Instructor bio:
|Guillaume works as Threat Analyst since 1997 mainly in Internet/Telco and Banking industry. He is also teacher on Security & Newtork Analysis/Forensics at french ESIEA high school and member of French Honeynet Chapter since 2009.
|Training summary:
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
|Attendees will learn how to use Wireshark and Open Source network analysis tools to quickly find key elements in live or dumped network tracks.Training will be based on real-life situation & PCAPs.
|Class9: Visualizing with Parallel Coordinates to find unknown attacks in large volumes
|Sebastien Tricaud (Picviz Labs)
|Instructor bio:
|Sebastien Tricaud is the founder of Picviz Labs. He has more than 15 years' experience in various intrusion detection & prevention systems implementation. He currently serves as Honeynet Project CTO. Sebastien works for major banks and governments on large volume analysis using mathematics, regular IDS analysis and visualization.
|Training summary:
|This training will put people's hand into real cases of finding unknown attacks in a large log volume. It is focused on parallel coordinates only, as it is the only way to visualize such large volumes with so many dimensions. A short introduction on the theory of parallel coordinates will be given, and we will use it right after to blast and find stuff other cannot! To finish the workshop, we will see how best we can write signatures from visualization so the new attack can be automatically detected with tools such are snort and other.
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
You will get a DVD including logs and Picviz to get started. All you need is a bootable machine to run it.
Key learning objectives are:
1) Find unknown attacks using visualization
2) Be able to practice those in real life situations
|Class 10: How to Win at Windows/Linux memory analysis using Volatility
|Matt Erasmus (The Honeynet Project)
|Instructor bio:
|Matt Erasmus works as a security consultant to one of the Big Four auditing firms. In his spare time he likes to wrangle malware, learn new ways to break computers and networks. He heads up the South African chapter of the Honeynet Project with Barry Irwin.
|Training summary:
|I will be going through how I placed in the recent Honeynet Challenge using just Volatility. I will walk through the challenge and show how I answered the questions using the tool. I will also (hopefully) go through some other examples of more useful scenarios with Volatility. This will also include capturing memory dumps on Windows/OS X/Linux.
|Attendee takeaways and key learning objectives:
(1) How to capture memory from target systems
(2) Using Volatility to pull useful information from memory images.

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July 18, 2011 | Furthering the Obama Administration's goal to generate 80% of our Nation's electricity from clean energy resources by 2035, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and private partners today launched a project to improve wind forecasting. More accurate forecasting of wind will accelerate the use of wind power in electricity transmission networks by allowing utilities and grid operators to more accurately forecast when, where, and how much electricity will be generated from wind.
Electricity grid operators need to accurately predict and plan for the energy output of wind power plants in their systems. Currently, prediction of large changes in wind speed can be off by several hours, so utilities accommodate by keeping more reserve generation in operation than needed. The Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP) focuses on improving forecast accuracy for large changes in wind speed over periods of time in the range of an hour or less, which will help utilities plan the mix of electricity generators in operation on an hourly basis and ultimately reduce costs. With better forecasting from projects such as WFIP, utilities can more reliably connect variable power sources including wind energy with electricity grids.
In September 2010, DOE competitively selected AWS Truepower LLC in Albany, New York and WindLogics, Inc. in Saint Paul, Minnesota to lead teams of several partners and work with DOE and NOAA on the project, primarily to collect data and assess utility benefits of improved forecasting. DOE funds WFIP with up to $6 million over two years, while NOAA contributes scientific expertise, instrumentation for collecting atmospheric data, and modeling for weather predictions.
As part of the project, atmospheric measurements will be taken in the Upper Midwest and Texas, regions that were selected for their wind resources and numerous wind farms. The project will make use of powerful, custom instruments designed to profile atmospheric conditions, with a focus on wind. Throughout the next 12 months, data will be gathered from this network of sophisticated atmospheric instruments, which includes wind profiling radars, sodars, and anemometers. Wind-profiling radars use radio waves to capture detailed images of wind speed and direction in the atmosphere. Sodars do the same, but use sound waves to detect wind conditions. Anemometers measure wind speed in one particular place, such as the hub of a wind turbine.
NOAA will incorporate data from this network and other sources into an advanced weather forecasting model to provide more accurate forecasts for wind speeds and directions at 300 to 400 feet above ground level – the average height of modern horizontal-axis wind turbines. WFIP researchers will then analyze the savings that these forecasting improvements will enable for utility operations.
WFIP is being carried out under the "Weather-Dependent and Oceanic Renewable Energy Resources" Memorandum of Understanding signed by DOE and NOAA in January 2011, which sets up a framework for the agencies to collaborate on renewable energy modeling and forecasting.
DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy invests in clean energy technologies that strengthen the economy, protect the environment, and reduce dependence on foreign oil. For more information on EERE projects and initiatives please visit their website.


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The Web is Dead. So is the PC. So What?
The Wired cover story, "The Web is Dead," has driven a lot of discussion in the tech world this week -- probably due more to the provocative title than anything else. In many ways, it's like the conversation earlier in the year sparked by Steve Jobs' comment that the tablet would eventually supplant the PC, and that the PC was dead. Note that PC sales look likely to grow by 20 percent or so this year.
These kinds of discussions remind me of a PC Magazine Editors' Day we held about a dozen years ago. We had a panel of columnists on stage, and someone asked about OS/2. John C. Dvorak, always one for a quick answer, said, "It's dead." There was a bunch of arguing on stage. The next question asked about Apple, which was then in a very tough period, and Dvorak's reaction was: "It's dead." And so on through the rest of the panel -- whatever the question was, John had the same answer. It was quite amusing.
But in general, such conversations haven't been particularly enlightening. Once you get past the headline, the Wired story points out the growth of Apps on things like the iPad and the iPhone, and how video is now taking up more bandwidth than "Web" content. That's disregarding the fact that most video is accessed through Web sites like YouTube and Hulu. If you add that back in, my guess is you'll find that Web traffic as a percentage of Internet traffic has actually grown in the past couple of years because peer-to-peer client traffic is a somewhat smaller percentage.
In general, though, I agree with those main points. Apps are becoming more important for Web traffic, and video services that don't use browsers are growing rapidly and are going to consume a lot more bandwidth in the future. That's hardly surprising.
Authors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff then make separate but parallel arguments that the world is moving from open systems, like the Web, back to more closed environments. That's a much more interesting -- and debatable -- topic. I think they are right in many ways, though I would note that there has always been -- and will likely always be -- a tension between open and proprietary platforms. Indeed, I can argue that the tension between these camps -- with open platforms providing more innovation, but proprietary ones doing much of the polishing -- has been positive for the technology industry since the dawn of the PC. I doubt I'll ever see the world adopt either strategy completely.
And that's the problem with the whole "____ is dead" meme to start with. The Wired authors don't actually say the Web is dead. It's just a snappy headline. Even the folks who make the argument don't really believe that the Web is literally dead. They'll admit that it's still growing, but say it's not growing as fast as it once was, and it's no longer where we're seeing the biggest new applications.
The people who say the PC is dead, or who are talking about a Post-PC era, aren't really saying that PCs won't sell going forward, but just that it won't see the kinds of growth it once did, and won't be the focus of innovation. I can argue that the PC hasn't been "the center of innovation" for the past 15 years, but if you compare today's machines with the ones from back then, you'll see some huge innovations and improvements.
So, while the focus of innovation -- and start-ups -- is changing, it seems to be the Web, and the PC, and most any technology that people say is "dead," actually stays alive for a long time. People just like to declare technologies dead. Recall that even mainframe computers -- declared dead by tech pundits when the PC first showed up more than 30 years ago -- remain a multi-billion dollar market.
Of course, all technologies eventually either "die" or evolve into something new. At this point, we can declare Windows 95, which came out 15 years ago this week, as dead. But, despite Microsoft's best attempts to get people to migrate, Windows XP is still alive and kicking. It looks like Windows 7 may eventually replace it in corporate use, but that's still years away.
As John Maynard Keynes famously said, "In the long run we are all dead." But technology has a way of sticking around a lot longer than pundits to predict.


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Not Again: Bus Beating Caught On Tape! (4 Milwaukee Teens Stomp On Another)
CNN reports: "Four teenagers have been arrested for this beating on a Milwaukee school bus. A fifth teen is still being sought by police. The attackers and the victim were all students at a school for students with behavioral problems. The students have been involved in dozens of similar bus fights this year, according to authorities. The victim is expected to recover."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Senator Rand Paul says there is a "war on Christianity" funded by American taxpayers.
Paul and other Republican lawmakers considering running for president addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition's conference of religious conservatives on Thursday.
Paul says the war is being waged by -- quote -- "liberal elites at home and across the world."
Another possible 2016 presidential contender is Florida Senator Marco Rubio. He says that it's a mistake for Republicans not to speak out about Christian values. He says human life has value, whether before or after childbirth.


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The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung has a federal structure with ten Locations in seven of the German states: Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Baden-Württemberg and Hamburg. The headquerters are located inFrankfurt am Main where Senckenberg was founded in 1817.
In 1928 the marine branch in Wilhelmshaven was founded. In 1969 the "Lochmühle" research station was established, serving phycology and environmental research. Due to the growth of this station it soon had to be moved to a larger, more modern building, now in Gelnhausen. In 1983 the Messel Research station came into existence. In 2000 the German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) was founded with locations at Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg. In the same year the Institute for Quaternary Paleontology (now Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology) in Weimar joined Senckenberg. The largest expansion was the fusion of the former Saxon State Museums in Dresden and Görlitz as well as the German Entomological Institut in Müncheberg with Senckenberg on January 1, 2009.
The Senckenberg Research activities follow a Matrix structure with institutes and departments on the one hand and cross-cutting Research Fields on the other.


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In the case of multi-master replication, other masters may process change operations while a given master is being restored. Therefore, when restoration is complete, the new master must also receive new updates that were not included in the restore data. Because restoring a master might take a significant amount of time, the number of pending updates might also be significant.
To allow convergence of these pending updates, newly restored masters are automatically set to read-only mode for client operations after restoration. This is true only when restoring a master by importing data from an LDIF file at the command line, or by using a backup to perform a binary copy.
Therefore, after restoration, a master in a multi-master configuration will process replication updates and allow read operations, but it will return referrals for all write operations from clients.
To verify that the new master is fully synchronized with the other masters before allowing updates, manually enable updates on an initialized master.
With master replicas sending referrals because of this new behavior, clients wanting to perform write operations might reach their configured hop limit. You might need to increase the hop limit configuration for clients so they can reach an available master. If all master replicas are initialized or reinitialized, all write operations will fail because no replica will be accepting client updates.
In any case, monitor initialized masters closely, and set the referral attributes appropriately to maximize server response.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
The following commands can be used in scripts that automate the process of initializing a multi-master replica.
Use the insync tool to ensure that the replica has converged with all other masters.
Replicas are in sync if the delay between modifications on all servers is zero or if the replica has never had any changes to replicate (delay of -1). For more information, see the insync(1) man page.
Begin accepting updates.
$ dsconf set-suffix-prop -h host -p port suffix-DN repl-accept-client-update-enabled:on
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Carlos Botella, head groundsman for the Royal Verd company which is responsible for the turf at Manaus and six other World Cup stadiums, says "Frankly, Manaus is in bad shape."
Measures to improve the dry, patchy surface were in full swing Wednesday.
"We've started to implement an emergency plan to try to save the field and improve it as much as possible, but I don't think it'll be in good condition," by the weekend, Botella told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.
"Yesterday we put fertilizer, and we'll increase the fertilizing process with biostimulants and seeds to try to get the most out of the grass."
Royal Verd installed the drainage system and planted the grass at the $229 million stadium and has worked with local contractors to maintain the surface.
Botella said preparing the pitch has been difficult due to access issues, recent rain and problems with algae when the grass was laid. The northwest Brazil city is in the heart of the world's biggest rainforest and reachable only by plane or boat.
"The maintenance has been complicated in Manaus. There're no roads, all the machinery and materials had to be brought by ship," he said. "There's no fertilizer, no seeds. Everything has been complicated."
The Spain-based Royal Verd is working on World Cup stadiums in Rio, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Fortaleza, Salvador and Recife as well as training venues for 10 national teams during the tournament.
Manaus has been in the headlines since it was selected as a World Cup host, attracting criticism initially in Brazil due to its distance from the country's other major venues. Before the World Cup draw last year, England coach Roy Hodgson upset local officials with remarks about it being "the place ideally to avoid" because of the humid and steamy weather.
Construction of the 42,000-capacity Arena da Amazonia, with its lattice roof of diamond panels that look like snake scales, was marked by three workers' deaths.
Last month, the Manaus city government declared a state of emergency as the waters of an Amazon River tributary swelled, but said it was a preventative measure to assure swift access to emergency resources and didn't expect it to flood.


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A Pagosa Springs man is seeking more than $4 million in damages for injuries he suffered in 2009 while working at a construction site.
A three-week trial is under way in 6th Judicial District Court in La Plata County. Eight people are serving on the jury, including two alternates.
The accident occurred Aug. 7, 2009, on property owned by Justin Grimwood, east of Bayfield near the Archuleta-La Plata county line.
Curtis Webster said he was crushed between a hayfork and the loader arm of a John Deere tractor while attempting to lock the hayfork onto the loader. Grimwood was driving the tractor and operating the hydraulic controls at the time.
Grimwood denies having any responsibility for the accident. He claims Webster was negligent and assumed the risk of injury by attempting to manually lock a self-locking device. Webster was standing about 8 feet away and moved into harms way while Grimwood was looking the other way, said Grimwoods defense lawyer, Benjamin Wegener of Grand Junction.
Mr. Webster walked in there and got himself pinched, Wegener said during opening statements Tuesday.
Websters lawyer, Randal Kelly of Denver, said Grimwood was unfamiliar with how to operate the machinery, and he failed to look out for Websters safety.
If youre going to operate equipment, you need to know how it works, Kelly said.
Webster, who was 28 at the time of the accident, suffered injuries to his head, neck, chest and left shoulder, including a spinal fracture, tear of his left vertebral artery and partial paralysis of the nerves serving the left half of his torso.
He is seeking $3 million to cover lifetime-care expenses and $1 million to cover lost wages for the remainder of his life, based on a $30,000 salary that would adjust with inflation. He is also seeking damages for pain and suffering, but Websters lawyer has not yet assigned an amount.
Grimwoods defense lawyers question whether Webster suffered injuries or financial losses to the extent he claims. He reported good movement and minimal pain about two months after the accident, Wegener said. But he was in an automobile accident in October 2009, after which he began complaining of severe pain and injuries.
His medical bills went from about $50,000 before the automobile accident to more than $100,000 after the crash, Wegener said.
Webster sat in a reclined chair with a back support and a neck support pillow Tuesday in District Court.
The case is being overseen by District Judge Gregory Lyman.


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March 29, 2011
LOS ANGELES -- Raj Iyengar (MFE '10) began his career with Macquarie Group in Sydney, Australia in 2002 and moved to the company's Los Angeles office in 2006. "I was working on the energy trading floor where we structured energy trades with significant embedded optionality," he said. "Those markets can be very complex and companies have to deal with a myriad of risks on their books." In the backdrop of the financial crisis of 2007, it became clear that finance professionals and companies alike needed new skills to meet the challenges ahead.
In January, 2010, Iyengar enrolled in UCLA Anderson's Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program. "I felt it was time to get rigorous training in the technical skills required to more effectively meet future challenges," he said. He explained that the MFE Program teaches students to build, use and most importantly be aware of any potential limitations of mathematical models of complex financial processes. "These models can help you understand how much risk or opportunity an investment can entail. This allows you to price, hedge or advise on an investment appropriately."
Iyengar says the MFE Program complemented his undergrad background in actuarial science, which he likens to applied statistics. He notes that many people in the program have strong analytical backgrounds as well as keen commercial acumen.
Midway through the MFE Program, Iyengar accepted an internship with Morgan Stanley where he got to experience life in New York City. All MFE students do summer internships as part of the program.
"I remember preparing for my internship interview," he said. "I went to meet with Professor Eduardo Schwartz, a prolific financial economist and Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson. I asked him a question about a specific type of asset that I mistakenly felt he might not have had much experience with. However, I was surprised to discover the command he had over the subject. I later learned that he had written one of the seminal papers on the valuation of these securities. In fact, I found that he had written key papers for almost every asset class in existence. Such is the level of academic talent that is at the disposal of the MFE Program for the benefit of its students."
After graduation in December, Iyengar joined Morgan Stanley full-time and moved back to New York. He considers the job a perfect fit.
"I'll be working in the fixed income group on the Securitized Products desk, which is responsible for trading bonds, mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities. These are deeply technical products that require a strong command of the concepts I learned in the program. I'll be helping to ensure that we calculate our risk properly, price trades correctly and help develop the smartest and most creative strategies. And I feel the MFE Program has given me the skills to do those things."
In his new job, Iyengar will use the financial and mathematical tools he learned in the MFE program. "If a trader spots an interesting opportunity and needs an analytical eye on the details, I'll step in and develop a model or tool to better understand the opportunity. If they want a better way of calculating risk, I might advise on that. Or I might conduct some market research. This role will allow me to be a thought leader on my team. I'm excited about it because it's directly relevant to what I've been studying for the past year."
Iyengar says that the financial crisis prompted rapid and continuous change in his industry. Firms are reviewing their technical procedures, embracing new analytical tools and hiring financial engineers. "The industry is definitely evolving," he said. "You don't deal with a crisis by deciding to avoid complex securities. Instead, you solve problems by applying your best people to them."
Some of the financial industry's most widely used models have been developed at UCLA Anderson. "Professor Longstaff and Professor Schwartz actually have a model named after them called the Longstaff-Schwartz Model," Iyengar explained. "This model is used by investment banks and is an elegant and sensible way to price securities that are very complex."
"The past few years have been a historic time to be in the financial industry," said Iyengar. "I think there are great opportunities ahead in the financial markets and I look forward to applying what I've learned. My goal is to become a leading professional in fixed income and use the tools of my trade to add value to the desk on a daily basis. It's extremely exciting and I look forward to it."


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Sunday, February 27, 2011
In Defense of Genealogical Societies
Several bloggers have recently posted their reasons for quitting or not joining their local genealogical societies. This may a symptom of the downward trend in overall genealogical society membership, one which is especially noticeable for societies that are not welcoming, especially to younger people and "noobs," or do not do programming that reflects advances in technology, online resources, and social networking that can be used to advance our research.
At the same time, however, we see some genealogical societies with active programming and involvement and a very visible online presence to promote their activities; several of the blogs I follow are for genealogical societies, for example. Two that are probably familiar to readers are the Southern California Genealogical Society and the Illinois State Genealogical Society, and readers can probably name at least several more.
I would include my local society, the Fairfax Genealogical Society (FxGS), in this group.
What does FxGS do to attract and keep members?
It starts at the beginning of our monthly meetings, which take place on the fourth Thursday of September through through May, except for December. The Society President's welcoming remarks include asking that people who are attending for the first time stand up, introduce themselves, and indicate the geographical areas (states or countries) where their research is focused. They are welcomed and given information on the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that would be relevant to their research. If the SIG leaders are present, they are asked to stand up so that the new attendees can get in touch with them after the meeting.
There are quite a few SIGs: Beginners, BCG, Carolinas and Georgia, Methodology, Family History Writing, German, Irish, Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, New England, New York, NGS Home Study Course, Old Dominion, Pennsylvania, Speakers, Surnames Projects and Genetic Genealogy, and Technology. Some of these SIGs are currently in need of leaders, it is true, but usually if there is enough interest someone will step up. I attended one of the SIG meetings held in the local Family History Center, and it was quite lively! We sat at computer monitors while the SIG leader introduced us to some new databases and provided tips on successfully navigating the databases. Afterward several people shared brickwall problems and we all brainstormed possible solutions.
On the Saturdays following the monthly meetings there is a two-hour education class which may take the form of a lecture or workshop. Each year there are usually beginning and advanced brickwall workshops.
In March the FxGS holds a Spring Conference (Friday night and Saturday) and in October there is a Fall Fair (Saturday). Vendors are present at both events, and the conference includes four tracks (one is always a beginner-level track) with speakers, workshops, and consultations.
The Society also organizes field trips; destinations have included the Library of Congress, DAR, NARA, Library of Virginia, and Pennsylvania research facilities as well as introductory sessions at the local Family History Center. In the past members have traveled as a group on Salt Lake City tours, and the Society often has a table at FGS and NGS events as well as other genealogical society events.
FxGS is involved at both the institutional and member level in a number of volunteer projects: tombstone transcription, 1812 Pension Files, Colonial Census Substitute, and Family Search indexing, to name a few. The Society solicits and delivers donations to a number of genealogical causes, including the Virginia Room of the Fairfax County Public Library, and cooperates with other local societies, such as the Mount Vernon Genealogical Society, to keep track of and publicize all local history and genealogy events.
FxGS has a website, blog (hi, Myrt!), a Facebook presence, and a newsletter that can be received in electronic and/or paper form. Members receive regular e-mail notification, including downloadable syllabi, for upcoming meetings and events. The website has maps and instructions that are also aimed at helping out-of-towners find their way to events.
All of these things would be nice but not enough to retain members were it not for the friendly and welcoming attitude of FxGS members. The Society has a large number of professionals as well as highly skilled and devoted amateurs. Yet they welcome newcomers and novices and have dedicated programming for the beginner level. When I take the initiative to introduce myself, I always get a friendly reply and usually end up in a good conversation on subjects such as research trips, brick walls, and interests.
No society, of course, is perfect. As I mentioned, not all leadership spots are always filled. The Society does have the usual skewing toward the gray end of the age spectrum, and people retire, move away, and unfortunately become physically no longer able to maintain their previous level of activity. Nevertheless, there are some relatively young people in some of the leadership spots and people "pinch hit" when they can.
Smaller local genealogical societies may not be able to emulate the larger ones such as FxGS in every aspect, but could perhaps do a few of these things (especially the welcoming part!) and might think of joining up with other local societies for some of the online alternatives that have been proposed recently, such as webinars and combined online resources. Denise Olson at Moultrie Creek Gazette has written about this in "Is It Time for a Virtual Genealogy Society?"
I continue to believe that genealogical societies can be one of the primary vehicles for continuing genealogical education and hope that by adapting, looking for new approaches, and combining resources, they will be able to survive.
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I totally agree. And there is also something to be said about the social aspects of the societies. Our hobby can often be very singular and connecting with other genealogists through societies help to break up that monotony.ReplyDelete
Our society has been having a coffee and cookie and gab session before each meeting where we can meet with others and welcome them to our meetings. We do introduce new members and guests and ask where and who they are researching at the meetingsReplyDelete
Great perspective. One of the things I love about my local genealogical society is the opportunity to interact with others face to face. At the last meeting I attended, one of our winter visitors from Montana gave me a lead on some information. You never know where those research opportunities will pop up!ReplyDelete
Heather - Agree completely on the social aspect. It's so much fun to strike up a conversation with the people seated around me before a meeting - the conversations can get quite animated!ReplyDelete
Charles - That's a great way to start a meeting. It really breaks the ice and gives people a chance to contact others who many be doing research in the same areas.
Michelle - Yup, I have definitely been helped by people who, upon hearing who and where I was researching, had some great ideas and advice on where to search.


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The PSP's long-awaited firmware 3.90 update, which includes Skype, has finally arrived. PSP Slim owners can now use the network update function to snag it.
Given that lots of mobile devices currently support Skype, we decided to take the PSP implementation for a spin to see if it would be worth using for any significant amount of time. We walked away pretty impressed: Skype works wonderfully on the PSP. The interface is clean and attractive, meshing with the existing XMB. Contacts are sorted neatly by status first and then alphabetically, and generously-sized display pictures complement the contact names. The sound is crystal clear, even coming through the PSP speakers in our test calls. Best of all, much of the functionality of Skype remains intact, from editing personal settings to accessing call history and dialing with SkypeOut.
However, there is one caveat. In order to use Skype, you must have the PSP Headset plugged in via the Slim-specific remote control. This is a downer; the Slim-specific remote doesn't actually come with the unit. That means you must, at the very least, buy the PSP Slim remote. The PSP Slim headphones and remote combo retail for $29.99.
Besides the fact that the feature requires an extra accessory and you must be near a WiFi hot spot to make use of it, Skype adds yet another dimension to the increasingly-useful PSP.


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Five years ago I learned that I was pregnant. A month later I was told that I am HIV-positive. Today I am pregnant by choice, but in the last five years, there has been a number of changes to the care of women who are pregnant and HIV positive. I will share them with you now.
My first question after recovering from the shock of being told that I am HIV positive was, "What are my child's chances of getting HIV from me?"
Five years ago the answer was: HIV is transmitted about 25% of the time nationally. (In the state of Georgia, that number was 13 to 15% of the time.) Shortly after my daughter was born, the use of AZT (Retrovir) was recommended as a result of a study (ACTG 076) showing that AZT can reduce the risk of transmission to 8%. In this study, AZT was given to women after 14 weeks of pregnancy, first during labor and then to the newborn for six weeks after birth. Today that risk is between 5 to 8% with the use of AZT and other antiretrovirals.
My next question was, "How is HIV transmitted to my child and when is my child most at risk?"
The answer to that question is the same today as it was five years ago:
During pregnancy
During labor and delivery
Through breast feeding
For me, not being able to breast feed my child will always be a constant reminder of how I could have prevented all of this in the first place. That may sound as though I am being hard on myself. I have known about the risk around HIV since 1986, and never took heed because I never saw myself as someone who could be at risk of acquiring HIV.
After considering the risk to my unborn child, I then wanted to know the risk to myself. Five years ago, the risk to the mother was unknown, but since my t-cell (CD4) count was 733 at that time, my obstetrician felt that I could safely carry my child. I lost several t-cells during that pregnancy and dropped down to 588. After my daughter was born, my t-cell count also returned and I remained HIV-positive and asymptomatic (displaying no symptoms) until 1997.
Today for women who are asymptomatic, HIV does not appear to affect pregnancy. Over the years, pregnancy has not been shown to speed up the progression of HIV.
"How soon after my child is born would I have to wait to learn if she was HIV-positive or not?"
All children are born with their mother's antibodies. A child will take somewhere between 12 and 24 months to develop his or her own antibodies. Five years ago, it was through the same test used to check adults to find out if they are HIV-positive or not that they tested children. Therefore, it took 12 months before we learned that my daughter is not HIV-positive. Today a PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test looks for the DNA of the virus. (This is not the same test as the viral load PCR test used in individuals who have already test positive for HIV.)
At four weeks of age, if an infant's PCR test result is negative, the test is 90% accurate. At six months of age, the test is 99% accurate. If the PCR is positive it means that the infant is most likely HIV positive. Since there are very few cases of false positives, this test is very accurate most of the time. If the infant tests negative for HIV, it may still test antibody positive for up to 18-24 months of age. This means that by approximately six weeks of age, I will know if the child I am carrying now is HIV positive or negative. This will be a lot less stressful than with my first child.
"Is there anything else that can increase the risk of transmission to my child?"
Five years ago we knew that t-cell counts were an indicator of my HIV progression. Higher t-cell counts usually mean the risk of transmission is decreased. Today we also know that the lower the viral load PCR count is, the smaller the chance of the infant being exposed to the virus. This is why my obstetrician and infectious disease doctors are both monitoring my t-cell and viral load results very carefully.
"Is there anything that might help to reduce the risk of transmission or will increase the risk any more?"
An elective C-section prior to the water breaking (rupture of membranes) can prevent the infant from being exposed to maternal blood and secretions while passing through the birth canal. This could reduce the risk of transmission to the newborn to less than 2%. Studies have shown that delivery more than four hours after the water breaks doubles the risk of transmission. It is recommended that, if you are considering a child or are pregnant now, you plan ahead and discuss the possibility of a C-section with your obstetrician.
Risk to the infant can be further increased before and during delivery with the use of the following procedures: amniocentesis, fetal scalp monitoring, internal fetal monitoring, PUBS (percutaneous umbilical blood sampling), urinary catheters, artificial rupturing of membranes, forceps and vacuum extractors. This does not rule out the use of these procedures. It should always be determined based on individual clinical factors.
Today we know that AZT monotherapy is not useful in the fight against HIV. Therefore, many women choose to use a combination therapy. There is very little information available about the use of other antiretrovirals, including protease inhibitors, by pregnant women. It has been strongly recommended that women who are pregnant not use ritonavir (Norvir) or efavirenz (Sustiva) during pregnancy due to some results from preliminary studies.
We do not know which child will or will not be HIV-positive. For that reason, I have made a point of getting good prenatal care and regular visits to my infectious disease doctors as often as needed. Sometimes the doctor's appointments seem to take up more time than I have, but in the long run I know that it will all be worth it.
Five years ago when I was diagnosed with HIV, I did not deal with it. Instead I bottled it up and focused strictly on my pregnancy and completing college. As a result, I became very sick from the mental stress that I was keeping inside. This stress caused me to become very ill and I began to vomit up to six times a day, and developed diarrhea that persisted for ten straight days, losing ten pounds in my first trimester. All of this became a very big threat to the survival of my unborn child and my own health.
Today I am more aware of the impact that HIV has on my own health and the risk to my partner and child. I felt very educated going into this pregnancy since I have spent many of hours in researching HIV and perinatal transmission. I felt that with all the research I have done, nothing could surprise me. I have since learned that no matter how much we know about HIV and perinatal transmission, we still have much to learn. During this pregnancy, I have had difficulties with tolerating my medications and with the flu, once again threatening my own health and that of my unborn child.
Many women who decide to have children or learn that they are HIV-positive after they are pregnant never have any physical difficulties with their pregnancy. However, the stress that goes along with the unknown factors involving the unborn child, living with HIV and disclosure make it necessary to seek out some type of support system. For myself, I have found support in educating myself by making use of our Treatment Resource Center, attending Operation: Survive! (the next one is on May 22 & 23), AIDS service organizations, speaking with my partner, therapist, friends, family, pastor and church, and attending support groups. Please call AIDS Survival Project to speak with one of our trained peer counselors if you are looking for support yourself or for someone you love at 404-874-7926.
The Current Federal Guidelines for the use of antiviral therapy in pregnancy are:
A woman who has never received antiviral therapy (treatment naïve):
Should be offered a treatment combination that includes the use of AZT.
Women who are in the first trimester of pregnancy may want to consider waiting until after the first trimester.
It is recommended that AZT be given intravenously during labor and that the newborn begin taking it within 12-24 hours for 6 weeks.
A woman who is already on antiviral therapy when she finds out she is pregnant:
If it is after the first trimester, she should stay on the medications.
If during her first trimester, she should consider both the benefits and the risk of staying on combo therapy.
If she decides to stop taking the HIV drugs for the first trimester, she should stop them all at once in order to try to prevent resistance.
If the current treatment regimen that she is already on does not include AZT, she should consider adding it or substituting for another nucleoside like ddI (Videx), ddC (Hivid), 3TC (Epivir), or d4T (Zerit) after 14 weeks of pregnancy, regardless of prior history of AZT use.
It is recommended that AZT be given intravenously during labor and that the newborn begin taking it within 12-24 hours for 6 weeks.
Women in labor who have never taken any HIV drugs:
Should be given AZT during labor. AZT is recommended for the baby starting within 12-24 hours after birth, for 6 weeks.
The woman should have her t-cell and viral load counts checked to see if she needs to begin combination therapy.
For infants born to HIV+ mothers who have not taken any medications:
AZT is recommended for the baby starting within 12-24 hours after birth, for 6 weeks.
Some doctors prescribe combination therapy, although it is not known what the side effects are or whether or not this reduces the risk of HIV infection.
The woman should have her t-cell and viral load counts checked to see if she needs to begin combination therapy.


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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert Barham announced the following actions in portions of the Barataria Basin in Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes effective immediately today, May 27.
Fishing Openings
The portion of state inside waters north of the inside/outside shrimp line and south of the Mississippi River from the southern shoreline of Red Pass at 89 degrees 28 minutes 13.4 seconds north latitude westward to the western shoreline of the Empire Canal; thence north along the western shoreline of the Empire Canal to 29 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds north latitude; thence west along 29 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds north latitude to the western shoreline of Grand Bayou; thence north along the western shoreline of Grand Bayou. This area was part of a precautionary closure. To date no oil has been confirmed in this area.
Fishing Closures
That portion of state inside waters north of 29 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds north latitude and south of 29 degrees 35 minutes 00 seconds north latitude from 89 degrees 52 minutes west longitude near the western shoreline of Bay Batiste westward to 90 degrees 14 minutes 00 seconds west longitude near the western shoreline of Little Lake. This closure is due to confirmed reports of oil
Precautionary closures of recreational and commercial fishing have been implemented based on the best information the Secretary of the Department receives from field biologists, staff and trajectory models from NOAA.
Once reports of oil are received, LDWF initiates a field survey and immediate seafood testing in the suspected areas. Closures are subsequently made with the intent to be as safe as possible, while not closing any fishing areas unnecessarily. As test results come back clearing the area, effected waters are then reopened.
All other closures remain in place.
To view maps of the amended fishing closures: http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/pdfs/news/FISHING-CLOSURE.jpg
For more information related to the oil spill, visit http://www.emergency.louisiana.gov. Connect with us on www.facebook.com/GOHSEP and on Twitter @GOHSEP. View photos in from the state's response efforts at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lagohsep.
For more information please contact Laura Deslatte at firstname.lastname@example.com or 225.765.2335 or 225.610.2363


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|In this segment, we'll get the latest on climate news around the world -- from new rifts in Antarctic ice, to the new round of international climate talks now underway in Poland. Will the US be part of the global warming solution -- and will the coming change in administration in Washington signal a change in US climate policy? Plus, how lakes and rivers under the glaciers might shift the Antarctic ice sheets, and investigating puzzling gases in the icy Arctic tundra. Could freezing tundra actually release methane?


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Reading Rainbow raises $1 million in one day
Levar Burton reacts emotionally after finding out that the million-dollar goal for Reading Rainbow was reached less than a day after the campaign was launched. The money is for bringing books and videos from the app into classrooms in need. Shannon Rae Green
It's the show that anyone could recognize by it theme song: Reading Rainbow aired on PBS for 26 years. Now, Levar Burton wants the popular app's content moved to a website, and taken to classrooms in need. Shannon Rae Green
LeVar Burton and the Reading Rainbow team have reached their $1 million goal on Kickstarter in less than a day -- and the fundraising campaign is still going!
Burton and his team launched a Kickstarter campaign Wednesday in the hopes of raising $1 million to accomplish three goals: Get Reading Rainbow on the Internet, develop a version that teachers can use in the classroom and be able to give RR to low-income schools for free.
The PBS show, whose 26-year run was helmed by host LeVar Burton from 1983 and 2009, has already been reimagined in the form of a tablet app two years ago. But Burton and his company RRKidz are looking to go even further with the Web-based version, which would be able to reach more children. While 97% of children have access to the Internet, only 33% have access to a tablet, Burton tells the Verge.
Burton details his mission on the Kickstarter page:
I believe that every child has a right, and a need, to be literate. We have a responsibility to prepare our children… and right now, the numbers show that we, as a society, are failing in that responsibility. And here's the problem: Right now, 1 out of every 4 children in America will grow up illiterate.
Thanks to donors, now more kids will be able to "take a look, it's in a book — a reading rainbow!"
A version of this article was originally posted on Entertain This!


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Chingy (Feat. Ludacris & Bobby Valentino) - Gimme Dat Gushy
3 days before the so-called "Yahoo! Premiere" comes out, I just happen to get the video for the best song off of "Hate It Or Love It". I still will up the Yahoo one when it comes out though, this isn't the greatest quality and the audio's "too" cleaned out. Chingy Feat. Ludacris and Bobby Valentino - Gimme Dat (Gushy)&IP=220.127.116.11
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ATLANTA—The Birmingham-Southern men's soccer team lost a tough road match on Saturday to No. 25 Oglethorpe University, 3-2, in Atlanta.
The Panthers fall to 8-6 overall and 4-3 in the SCAC, while the Stormy Petrels move to 13-2 overall and 7-0 in conference play.
Oglethorpe started the scoring with a goal in the 25th minute by Nikos Papanikolopoul. BSC thought they had tied the game off a Tony Crocker goal, but it was called back due to an offsides call. BSC succeeded in tying the game in the 42nd minute off a long ball played into the box by Brynjar Arnason off a free kick. Senior Tyler Evans went up and flicked the ball over the Oglethorpe goalkeeper to score his eighth goal of the season.
Oglethorpe answered three minutes later to take a 2-1 lead into halftime. The Petrels looked to put the game out of reach with a goal in the 65th minute, but the Panthers continued to push and in the 84th minute Evans placed a ball across the face of the goal and senior Garner Shivers shot and scored his ninth goal of the season. The Panthers thought they had a penalty called in the Oglethorpe box when Evans looked to be pushed down from behind on a cross inside the six yard box, but no call. Time expired with Oglethorpe on top, 3-2.
Sophomore goalkeeper Sveinbo Grimsson made seven saves for the Panthers in 90 minutes. Oglethorpe out-shot BSC 18-6 overall and 10-4 on-goal.
BSC returns home next weekend for the first time since Oct. 2, taking on Sewanee, Friday, Oct. 28 at 8 p.m., and Centre, Sunday, Oct. 30 at 2 p.m.


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Welcome back, Scarlet.
The winds kicked up and the greens hardened during Friday's second round of the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational and the famed Scarlet Course at Ohio State University regained its teeth.
Friday's best scores turned out to be 4-under-par 67s, a far cry from Thursday's pushover of an opener, which featured seven rounds of 66 or better, including a course-record, 8-under 63 by Jonathan Kaye.
Steady winds of 10-20 mph helped the Scarlet Course produce a scoring average of 72.805, nearly two full strokes above its par of 71, and about a stroke and a half higher than Thursday.
"Anything under par is a good round today," said Californian Michael Putnam, who shot a 2-under 69 to reach 6-under 136 and take the second-round lead. "The wind is the worst for golfers. It just blows the ball everywhere and it's tough conditions to play in."
Conditions made it difficult for many to move forward. The goal, instead, was to keep from moving too far backward.
Putnam missed some short birdie putts in the middle of his round but held things together and sits atop a jammed leaderboard with a one-stroke lead over Alistair Presnell (69), Nick Flanagan (71), Scott Brown (72) and Camilo Benedetti (70). Eight players are tied for sixth at 4 under, including Russell Henley of the University of Georgia, one of 10 top amateurs given sponsor exemptions this week.
First-round leader Kaye hit only four of 14 fairways, made no birdies and struggled to a 5-over 76, 13 strokes higher than his record-setter. Despite the stumble, Kaye is still in the hunt at 3 under and three back heading into the weekend.
"It seemed like today you just couldn't get it close to the hole," said Putnam, who held onto the lead thanks to a closing two-putt par from 60 feet on the 18th hole. "It's a really good golf course."
Benedetti joined the group in second place late in the afternoon, saving par from 10 feet after dumping his second in a greenside bunker.
"It was tough out there today. It seemed like the wind was coming across on every hole, and then it was switching," said the former Florida Gator. "This is a tough golf course no matter what the wind is doing. We've played some courses recently where you can hit it all over the place and still score. Out here if you hit it well you're going to score well but if you hit it bad you're going to fight it."
Flanagan, a former U.S. Amateur champion, has struggled with his game but has managed to keep his head above water.
"I'm not making many bogeys," said the Australia native. "I'm making a lot of putts from 5 to 10 feet, which is always handy. So I'm not making those mistakes and going backwards."
Flanagan has hit barely half of the fairways and two out of three greens but finds himself in contention.
"It's more frustration than anything," he said. "Knowing that I'm around the lead, and if I can possibly have some decent ball striking round that I can pull away from some of these guys. But that is just the way golf goes. You can't hit it perfect every day."
So far, he has hasn't had to.
Second-Round Notes: Nate Smith has an interesting tale to tell. His tee shot on the par-4 seventh hole went into the right rough and before he could get there to hit his second, a crow swooped into the grass, picked up his ball and flew off with it into some nearby trees. No one saw the ball drop and so Smith called a Rules Official over, explained the situation and was eventually allowed to drop another ball in the approximate location of the original. He incurred no penalty and wound up making a par on the hole. "The bird must not have been a Duke fan," said Smith, a Blue Devil grad. Smith shot a 2-under 69 and is tied for 14th.
John Riegger, John Douma, David Branshaw and Dicky Pride all withdrew during the second round due to injury. … Camilo Benedetti birdied the par-3 eight, after he aced the same hole on Thursday. … Matt Davidson leads the field in driving accuracy, hitting 23 of 28 fairways thus far. … Brendan Steele is No. 1 in greens in regulation, with 32 of 36. … Aaron Watkins tops the group in putts per round with 26.000.
A total of 72 players made the 36-hole cut, which came at 1-over-par 143. The cut line moved thanks to the fine play of two amateurs, Russell Henley and Morgan Hoffman. The cut on the Nationwide Tour consists of the low 60 professionals and ties. There were a total of 61 players at even-par 142, but that number included the two amateurs. As a result, in order to get to 60 pros, the cut fell back to 1 over, bringing 11 additional pros into the field for the weekend. … Leading money winner Tommy Gainey (72-70-142) is at even-par for two days and will play on the weekend. Gainey won last week's Chiquita Classic by three strokes with a 27-under-par total.


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College of Education launches 3-D virtual environment Second Life IslandUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Partly funded by the Department of Educational Technology LEI Aloha's Connections to Teaching Careers grant project, the COE SL Island was built with the help of an advisory board, consisting of COE faculty and students as well as faculty from the Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. The island features a replica of Wist and Everly Halls, Diamond Head Amphitheatre, Holomua Learning Area, Get FIT program tree house, Hale Anuenue dormitory, and a dockside coffee shop.
COE assistant professor Peter Leong directed the COE SL island development project and teaches a course entirely in SL. "We wanted to create spaces on the island for faculty and students to socialize and collaborate; for experimental teaching and research; and for outreach, cultural and entrepreneurial initiatives," he said. "In addition, we felt strongly about creating a virtual campus with a Hawaiian sense of place and made the decision to design our virtual campus to partially resemble our real campus while creating other new fictitious places, such as an amphitheatre inside the crater of a virtual Diamond Head and the Holomua Learning Area which features Hawaiian hale, taro patches and waterfalls."
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WEB ONTOLOGY WORKING GROUP TELECON February 13, 2003 Chair: Guus Schreiber Scribe: Jeff Heflin Chat Log: http://www.w3.org/2003/02/13-webont-irc#T19-00-40 1) ADMIN (10-15 min) 1.1 Role Call Present: NickG, DanC, PeterFPS, JeffHeflin, IanH, LeoObrst, ChrisW, Marwan_Sabbouh, Yassar, Baget, PatH, M_Smith, Evan_Wallace, DeborahMcG, MikeDean Joined Late: ZivH, Guus, Jeremy, JosD Regrets: Dale, Hendler, Klein, van Harmelen, Hori 1.2 Approval of Minutes of last telecon ACCEPTED the following as a true record of Feb 6 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Feb/0126.html 1.3 Agenda Amendments None 1.4 Telecon Schedule Next telecon: February 20 Scribe: Leo Orbst 1.5 Tech plenary Tech plenary page: http://www.w3.org/2002/10/allgroupoverview.html - Mar 4: editor's meeting on Tuesday Deb would like to have speaker phone at meeting - Mar 6-7: Initial Tech Plenary Semantic Web Architecture page - http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/meetings/tech-200303/ 2. STATUS RDFCore LC REVIEWS (15-20 min.) 2.1 RDF Schema Review by Volz: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Feb/0064.html Discussion about "social meaning." Although, WG members disagree on this topic, most feel the wording should at least be clarified ACTION: Guus will do summary review of this doc 2.2 RDF Semantics Agenda item postponed 2.3 RDF Concepts baget's review of concepts, plus a couple other messages http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Feb/0056.html Jeremey suggested that social meaning be discussed at tech plenary 3 ISSUETTES (60-75 min) 3.1 Annotations See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Jan/0490.html RESOLVED: to adopt Peter's Proposal 2 (from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Feb/0128.html) with an explcit type label for annotation properties (e.g. owl:AnnotationProperty) (abstains: Ian, Jos DeRoo, Mike Dean, Mike Smith) ACTION: Jeremy to add 0542 case to test suite ACTION Schreiber: explain AnnototationProperty in ref ACTION Schreiber: specify in owl.owl that label, seeAlso, isDefinedBy ACTION: Mike will update guide to discuss annotations 3.2 Imports and entailments ACTION: Ian to get Sean to generate syntax checker test case for imports (i.e., on failure assume doc is OWL-FULL) ACTION Jos: send negative experience on imports to list 3.3 rdf:XMLLiteral, xml:lang in OWL Lite Dan: Use case for XML literals and cardinality constraints: A product has XML descriptions in different files, but can only have one description. Are the two files consistent? RESOLVED: abstract syntax uses same syntax as RDF for literals (abstains: Connolly) ACTION Jeremy: to produce test case for XML literal 3.4 RDF compatibility Item not discussed 3.5 OWL DL syntax Item not discussed 3.6 Relation OWL Lite with RDF(S) Item not discussed 4. DOCUMENT STATUS (10-15 min.) RESOLVED: rename AS&S to S&AS (Semantics & Abstract Syntax). (Abstain: Pat) ACTION: Massimo publish reference (continued) ACTION: Connolly get Tests publishedReceived on Thursday, 13 February 2003 14:35:59 UTC
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Celebrating the Grammy Awards earlier this week brought to mind the power of music to heal us. Numerous studies have shown the therapeutic effects of music for those with everything from Alzheimer's disease to autism.
Anecdotally, Kim Campbell, who is now caregiver to her husband, country music icon Glen Campbell (who was diagnosed last year with Alzheimer's), has said in several interviews that music has helped her 75-year-old husband continue to do what he loves — perform for live audiences, which he did all last year on his Farewell Tour. And I recently spoke to music legend and multiple Grammy winner Quincy Jones about his latest passion projects, which include the amazing effects of music as therapy for children with Down Syndrome and older Americans with dementia.
Is music one of the keys to a longer, happier life, despite health issues?
Although music has been with us since the dawn of time, in the last few decades studies have shown that music as a therapeutic tool can increase cognitive function in Alzheimer's patients, help premature infants gain weight, encourage autistic children to communicate, lead stroke patients to regain speech and mobility, and manage anxiety and depression for psychiatric patients.
Since music is associated with one of the five senses — hearing —which is controlled by the brain, it makes sense we should exercise our brains with music listening to spur cognitive function in the same way we use physical therapy to exercise our limbs, muscles and joints to regain mobility and physical function.
Studies have shown that music reduces agitation or improves behavioral issues such as violent outbursts in dementia patients. In one pilot program, 45 patients with middle- to late-stage dementia had one hour of personalized music therapy three times a week for 10 months, and improved their scores on a cognitive-function test by 50 percent on average.
And music therapy is not just used with older patients. When it comes to those children diagnosed on the autism spectrum, music therapy allows these children to develop identification and appropriate expression of their emotions; music becomes the universal language. Many people with diagnoses on the autism spectrum have innate musical talents so music therapy can provide these kids a sense of accomplishment and success.
When I spoke to Holly Robinson Peete, the successful actress, talk show host and singer, about her son R.J., who was diagnosed at age 3 with autism, she said he loves music and he has even recorded a song. In fact, Holly finds music a great way for her entire family to connect with R.J. and to enter his world.
She told me, "I think music makes him more comfortable. It is a way for R.J. to communicate without being judged."
Music – A Cure for Caregiver Chaos
Music as therapy is not just for your loved one. We know caregivers encounter increased stress over caring for a loved one — in fact caregivers who reported their health was impacted by caring for a loved one cite stress as their No. 1 challenge. Studies show listening to music can lead to increased secretion levels of melatonin, a hormone associated with mood regulation, lower aggression, reduced depression and enhanced sleep. Using music to cope with these common caregiver complaints can be a welcome relief to caregiver burn-out.
5-Note Caregiver Music Therapy Program:
- Discover the "happy times tunes": Talk to your loved one about happy times in their life and understand the music associations with that time are essential to their sense of happiness. Whether it is big band, gospel, rock 'n' roll, country, opera or blues, find out what tunes make your parent or spouse smile. Most older loved ones, especially Alzheimer's patients who retain long-term memory as opposed to short-term memory, find tunes from their youth the most joyful. But be careful, music also can evoke sad memories. One Holocaust survivor in a pilot program reportedly became very upset upon hearing a Wagner opera which reminded him of that traumatic era of his life.
- Engage younger generations: You can help create emotional intimacy when spouses and families share creative music experiences. Whether it is downloading songs from iTunes, creating a Pandora play list or using the latest technical creation for digital music files, engage your kids in interacting with their grandparent or sibling with special needs to choose their favorite music.
- Pick the right setting: It may not be as simple as turning on a radio. The radio can be distracting with constant advertising that breaks the peace of music. Instead, try internet radio like Pandora channels, or use an iPod or CD player. And be careful with headphones: Some may take comfort in the privacy of headphones while others will become irritated or uncomfortable. Also consider live music situations carefully. For author Gail Sheehy who wrote about her caregiving journey in Passages in Caregiving, being able to take her husband (who was suffering from cancer) to a last jazz night out on the town was a gift she will always treasure. But for special needs children and some older adults, the unsettling activity of a live concert or band can be frightening.
- Let your music play: As a caregiver music is your therapy as well. Whether it is creating your own playlist to lift your mood when you have the blues or just taking pleasure in watching your loved one become engaged, music can make your heart soar. Celia Pomerantz, author of A Mother's Daughter's Journey, found that her mother, who grew up in Puerto Rico, loved a certain era of salsa music such as Tito Puente. She created song lists of her mom's favorite tunes while her mother was in a nursing home. Celia became enchanted as her mother blossomed into the woman residents called "the dancing queen." The joy of music and watching her mother dance lifted Celia's spirits about her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis.
- Find a professional music therapist: The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), a non-profit organization that represents over 5,000 music therapists, corporate members and related associations worldwide, offers information about music therapy studies and a listing of credentialed music therapists.
Music can both evoke and create memories that last forever. I close with this heartwarming story from the AMTA website:
When a couple danced together for the first time after five years of the husband's deterioration from probable Alzheimer's disease, the wife said: "Thank you for helping us dance. It's the first time in three years that my husband held me in his arms."
Tearfully, she said that she had missed him just holding her and that music therapy had made that possible.
This is an excerpt from Sherri Snelling's book, A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care, published by Balboa Press on February 13, 2013.
Learn More:
- Activities for People with Alzheimer's
- Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiver Center
- How Caregivers Can Use Pet Therapy to Care for Their Loved One
- Caregiver Message Boards
About Blog Author Sherri Snelling
Sherri Snelling, CEO and founder of the Caregiving Club, is a nationally recognized expert on America's 65 million family caregivers with special emphasis on how to help caregivers balance "self care" while caring for a loved one. She is the former chairman of the National Alliance for Caregiving and is author of A Cast of Caregivers, a book about celebrities who have been caregivers.


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History student honored for civic contributions
Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
A Pittsburg State University student is one of seven in Kansas being honored this year for their leadership and problem-solving ambitions.
Jordan Boyd, a senior history major from Afton, Okla., is one of just 181 students nationwide to receive the 2013 Newman Civic Fellows award from Campus Contact. This honor recognizes students who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges within their communities.
Boyd, who hopes to work as a museum curator after graduation, was recognized for his work at two area museums. He has assisted in planning, operations and fundraising for the Dobson Museum in Miami, Okla., and most recently at the Miners Hall Museum in Franklin. He was nominated for the award by PSU President Steve Scott.
"I was shocked to learn of this award, to be honest," Boyd said. "I wasn't expecting it at all. I certainly didn't see it coming."
Boyd said he is proud to represent PSU on the list of this year's recipients.
"It's a great honor for me to represent Pittsburg State," he said. "This is a wonderful honor for me personally, but it means even more that Pittsburg State University is recognized on the list of recipients."
President Scott praised Boyd for his "commitment to preserving the history of the region."
"This came about after a recent meeting with the executive director of the Kansas Campus Compact here on campus," Scott said. "As this person described the Newman Civic Fellows Award, it immediately became apparent to me that Jordan was the perfect candidate for such recognition.
"There is no doubt we have many students who have affected their communities in positive ways," he said, "but it's clear that with Jordan's volunteer work in area museums and his commitment to preserving the history of the region, his contributions are unique and extraordinary."
Boyd, who works as a student employee in the PSU Financial Assistance office, is also a candidate for PSU Student Employee of the Year. Earlier this year, he earned a Golden Gorilla, a student honor given on Apple Day to recognize students who have made exemplary contributions in community service, academic excellence and campus involvement.
Newman Civic Fellows awards are made in memory of Frank Newman, who dedicated his life to creating systemic change through education reform.
Campus Compact is a national coalition of almost 1,200 college and university presidents, representing about 6 million students, who are committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education.
More information about the award and the organization can be found at www.compact.org.
The seven Kansas students who received a Newman Civic Fellows award are:
* Ross Allen, Kansas State University
* Jordan Boyd, Pittsburg State University
* Emma Flynn, Hutchinson Community College
* Renata Herrmann, Butler Community College
* Sally McGuire, Southwestern College
* Kelly Nuckolls, Fort Hays State University
* Alexandra Rose, University of Kansas