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LONDON—A radical Islamist cleric described by prosecutors as a key Al Qaeda operative in Europe was jeered by protesters Tuesday after he was freed from prison following a court ruling that he cannot be deported to Jordan to face terrorism charges.
Abu Qatada was seen smiling as he was driven away from Long Lartin maximum security jail in Worcestershire, central England.
As the Palestinian-born Jordanian cleric arrived at his home in London, a small number of demonstrators gathered to demand his expulsion from Britain, holding aloft a banner that read: "Get rid of Abu Qatada."
Britain's government has attempted since 2001 to remove Abu Qatada, who was convicted in his absence in Jordan over terror plots in 1999 and 2000, but has been repeatedly thwarted by European and British courts.
The cleric won bail at a hearing Monday, when the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which handles major terrorism and deportation cases, upheld his challenge to Britain's decision to send him to Jordan.
Judge John Mitting said he was not convinced the cleric would receive a fair trial, despite the government's insistence that it has won assurances from Jordan over how Abu Qatada's case would be handled — including from Jordan's King Abdullah II. Cameron's office said Abdullah would visit Britain next week.
Mitting said there remained a real risk that evidence obtained through torture would be used against Abu Qatada, which would be a breach of his human rights.
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Under the terms of his bail, Mitting said, the cleric must observe a 16-hour curfew, wear an electronic anklet, cannot use the Internet and is barred from contacting certain people.
Britain's government has said it will appeal against Mitting's ruling, arguing that he applied the wrong criteria in making his decision.
"I am completely fed up with the fact that this man is still at large in our country," Cameron said Tuesday, during a visit to Rome for talks with Italian officials. "He has no right to be there — we believe he is a threat to our country."
Abu Qatada has previously been described in courts in Britain and Spain as a senior Al Qaeda figure in Europe who had close ties to the late Osama bin Laden.
He is accused by Britain of links with Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States over the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and with shoe bomber Richard Reid. Audio recordings of some of the cleric's sermons were found in an apartment in Hamburg, Germany, used by some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Authorities first tried to deport Abu Qatada in 2001, then detained him in 2002 under anti-terrorism laws, which at the time allowed suspected terrorists to be jailed without charge.
Though he was released in 2005 when the unpopular law was overturned, the cleric was kept under close surveillance. He was most recently arrested in April, to be held in custody pending his planned deportation to Jordan.

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A 14-time All-Star and the 1999 American League MVP, Rodriguez plans to make the announcement in Arlington, Texas, where he spent the first 12 of his 21 major league seasons with the Rangers. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not made an announcement.
Now 40, Rodriguez spent the last two seasons with the Washington Nationals. He decided not to accept a contract offer from the Kansas City Royals, who were interested after Salvador Perez injured a knee and needed surgery.


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Classroom footage in this program models a team approach in which classroom teachers and arts specialists work together. You may wish to try this approach in your own classroom.
If you apply these ideas in your classroom, please be prepared to respond to the following question at the next workshop session:
If you are unable to explore these activities with your students at this time:
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The following required readings will support your understanding of Program 3 for the for-credit workshop:
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K-10 panel to recommend safety barriers
November 2, 2011
A panel studying the safety of Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence will ask the state to install two stretches of cable-median barriers near Eudora and De Soto and farther east in Johnson County, two committee members told the Lawrence Journal-World on Tuesday.
"All we can do is get the facts and make the best decision we can possibly make. I think we're on the right road for this," said Eudora Mayor Scott Hopson, a committee member. "We're hopefully going to get these barriers in the right locations."
The possible installation of the barriers on the busy commuter highway in Douglas and Johnson counties has been a hot topic for the Kansas Department of Transportation since a deadly April 16 cross-median crash near Eudora. Two Eudora residents, including 5-year-old Cainan Shutt, died in the accident.
Soon after the crash, Hopson wrote to Gov. Sam Brownback asking him to direct KDOT to install the barriers for 23 miles — between Lawrence and Interstate 435 in Johnson County.
Brownback ordered KDOT to work with local stakeholders to study cable barriers and the highway's safety.
Last summer Johnson County commissioners initiated a proposal for a pilot project that would have KDOT install cable-median barriers along K-10 at a two-mile stretch near the Kansas Highway 7 intersection and a one-mile stretch near Eudora because of the deadly and serious crashes that have occurred in those areas in the last decade. Two Johnson County women were also injured in a cross-median crash in July near Kansas Highway 7.
That project was estimated to cost $125,000 per mile with Johnson County picking up 20 percent of the cost in its county.
Now Johnson County Commissioner Jim Allen, who also wants cable along the whole 23-mile stretch, said the K-10 committee has extended its recommendation for a cable-median barrier from Eudora east to Lexington Avenue in De Soto.
"I think KDOT wants to see a demonstration that cables actually work," Allen said.
The local committee is also expected to ask KDOT to lobby the Kansas Legislature to designate K-10 as a safety corridor — a program modeled after other states — making the highway eligible for higher fines for traffic violations and additional enforcement.
KDOT officials said Deputy Secretary Jerry Younger, the state transportation engineer, would meet with committee members at 10:30 a.m. today at the Eudora Community Center, 1628 Elm St.
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Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar says consistent criticism might have played a part in influencing Sachin Tendulkar's decision to quit One-day cricket and it would have been fantastic had he gone after after completing 50 ODI centuries.
Tendulkar had been struggling for runs for quite some time, leading to debates how long he should continue playing and today he announced that he will no longer play ODIs.
"I think he really cares for Indian cricket. May be whatever he saw, read and heard might have prompted him to make a call. But I feel, he knows his body well," Gavaskar said.
"He is finishing on 49 ODI hundreds. I would have loved to see him get 50 centuries. That would have been fantastic," Gavaskar told NDTV.
On being asked that quitting ODI format would at least give Tendulkar a chance to play 200 Tests, Gavaskar said it should not be looked that way.
"We are looking too far ahead. If he plays the next four Tests, that will take him to 198 and the next two tests will be later in the next year. It's almost a year down the road."
Gavaskar also said that since Tendulkar had already cut down on his appearance in ODIs, people are used to his absence but still losing him is a big loss.
"I think the public, the team, the captain and the selectors are used to not seeing Tendulkar around in ODIs but the fact that he is not there is a big loss," Gavaskar said.
Asked if it was Tendulkar, the batsman or Tendulkar the fielder who has taken the retirement call, Gavaskar said,"It's Tendulkar the cricketer."
"Officially he may have announced it today but mentally, he might have done in March after the Asia Cup."
For Gavaskar, the hurricane knock that Tendulkar played against Australia in Sharjah was his best.
"It has to be the Sharjah one when India had to qualify for the final and not only India need to win the match but score certain runs in certain overs. That was when the real pressure was," Gavaskar said.
Tendulkar had made 143 off 131 balls with nine fours and five sixes in April 1998.
Gavaskar also felt that it would be World Cup win that Tendulkar would cherish the most in his life.
"It's always going to be the World Cup win. There may be many personal achievements but it's entirely different feeling. For me also the 1983 World Cup win is the greatest moment of my career. I did not contribute much and it felt on top of the world and Tendulkar did contribute. It has to be right up there," he said.


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10. Does the Common Core include a national database?
The Common Core website asserts that "There are no data collection requirements of states adopting the Common Core State Standards," but the actions of the Department of Education prove otherwise.1 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan summarized the Obama administration's vision, explaining,
We want to see more states build comprehensive systems that track students from pre-K through college and then link school data to workforce data. We want to know whether Johnny participated in an early learning program and completed college on time and whether those things have any bearing on his earnings as an adult.2
All 50 states have had statewide longitudinal databases in place to track their students' scores on assessments for the past decade. Yet the authors of the Common Core are clear: the success of the standards hinges on the increased collection of student data.3 Every state that agreed to the Common Core in order to receive Race to the Top (RTTT) funding committed "to design, develop, and implement statewide P–20 [preschool through workforce] longitudinal data systems…"4 Data collection must follow the 12 criteria set down in the America COMPETES Act and record, among other things, student demographics, reasons that untested students were not tested, and student success in postsecondary education.5 The 23 states that did not receive RTTT grants but are part of one of the two assessment consortia are also committed to cataloging students from preschool through the workforce.6 In 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor announced $12 million in grants for states to build longitudinal databases linking workforce and education data.7
Earlier this year, the Department of Education unilaterally altered the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA formerly guaranteed that parents could access the data collected by schools concerning their children but barred schools from sharing this information with third parties.8 But the Department of Education has reshaped FERPA so that any government or private entity that the department says is evaluating an education program has access to students' personally identifiable information.9 Notifying the students' parents is no longer required. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy center focusing on civil liberty infringements, warned that this revision will expose "troves of sensitive, non-academic data."10 Combined with the changes to FERPA, the implementation of the Common Core is unleashing what is arguably the most comprehensive tracking of citizens that America has ever seen.
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The dangers of the data systems are not confined to public school students. FERPA does not currently protect homeschooling families in states where families must submit documentation of intent to homeschool.11 Furthermore, at the National Conference on Student Assessment in 2011, officials from Oklahoma explained to CCSSO how the challenge of meeting the data requirements of federal and state education policies are motivating them to "Include student groups not now included (e.g., home-schooled) in the data system."12
Data collection will not be limited to homework grades, extracurricular activities, and future career paths. In February 2013, the Department of Education sponsored a study called Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance which analyzed how to record any factors that might affect educational success including socioeconomic background, classroom climate, personal goals, and emotions during homework assignments. The study laments that functional MRI machines, which can measure specific brain activity, are not practical for use in a school setting. But the authors note that the Gates Foundation is collaborating with researchers to explore other methods of "how specific brain activity is correlated with other cognitive and affective indicators that are practical to measure in school settings."13 The study recommends that facial expression cameras, posture analysis seats, pressure computer mice, eye tracking devices, and computer programs to track a student's mood be used in schools.14 Keeping tabs on the physiological activity of schoolchildren is the trajectory of the data systems developing alongside the Common Core.
Per the revised version of FERPA, information collected on students can be shared with third parties such as education product companies.15 Massive new databases are already in the works. In 2012, the Gates Foundation used $17 million to launch inBloom, a company that has built a $100 million database to track students from kindergarten through college.16
Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Massachusetts committed to upload data from some school districts; Louisiana and New York began uploading almost all of their student records.17 The executive director for the New York Civil Liberties Union chastised the New York school districts saying, "Turning massive amounts of personal data about public school students to a private corporation without any public input is profoundly disturbing and irresponsible."18 The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts similarly lambasted the Massachusetts Board of Education for assisting the Gates Foundation in "building a national 'data store.'"19 After these outcries, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, and Massachusetts announced that they would not upload data to inBloom.20 It has also become apparent that individual school districts in states that are party to inBloom can choose to pull out of the database. Soon after the Jefferson County School District in Colorado withdrew from inBloom, the Colorado State Board of Education decided to pull the entire state out of the system. 21
Thanks to the groundswell of privacy concerns from parents and teachers, inBloom recently announced that it will be shutting its doors.22 Unfortunately, the end of inBloom doesn't spell the end for Common Core privacy intrusions. Replacements for inBloom are already working with the Department of Education to take over the task of data-collection. Regional information centers such as BOCES plan on storing student data to uphold the provisions of states' Race to the Top agreements.23
The Common Core and the enlarged data systems containing detailed student information are not severable. It is almost impossible for states to implement the Common Core without agreeing to help build one of the biggest and most detailed data systems in American history. However, it is not too late to change course. Pushback against third-party data collection succeeded in closing inBloom. With your continued involvement, student information can be protected.
Visit http://advocacy.hslda.org/legislatorsearch.aspx to find your representatives, and tell them you stand against Common Core's data collection.
Document updated June 19, 2014
1 "Frequently Asked Questions," Common Core Standards State Initiative, accessed June 8, 2013, http://www.corestandards.org/resources/frequently-asked-questions .
2 Arne Duncan, "Robust Data Gives U.S. the Roadmap to Reform," U.S. Department of Education , June 8, 2009, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www2.ed.gov/news/speeches/2009/06/06082009.html .
3 Tabitha Grossman, Ryan Reyna, and Stephanie Shipton, Realizing the Potential: How Governors Can Lead Effective Implementation of the Common Core State Standards (National Governors Association, 2011), 10, accessed June 8, 2013, http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/1110CCSSIIMPLEMENTATIONGUIDE.PDF .
4 "Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems," U.S. Department of Education, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www2.ed.gov/programs/slds/factsheet.html .
5 Federal Register 74 no. 221(November 18, 2009): 59836, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2009-11-18/pdf/E9-27427.pdf .
7 Jason Kuruvilla, "US Department of Labor Announces More Than $12 Million in Grants Available to States to Improve Workforce Data Quality," United States Department of Labor, February 12, 2012, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/eta20120352.htm .
8 "Family Educational Records Privacy Extension Act," HSLDA, September 21, 2011, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.hslda.org/Legislation/National/2011/HR2910/default.asp .
9 Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins, "Controlling Education from the Top: Why Common Core Is Bad for America," A Pioneer Institute White Paper no. 87 (May 2012): 19.
10 The changed regulations allow any governmental or private entity that the Department of Education designates as an "authorized representative" and who is evaluating an education program to access students' personally identifiable information without notifying their parents. The Electronic Privacy Information Center challenged these modifications to FERPA in early 2013, but a judge in the U.S. District Court for D.C. dismissed the suit on an issue of standing. For more information, see http://epic.org/apa/ferpa/default.html.
11 "Family Educational Records Privacy Extension Act," HSLDA, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.hslda.org/Legislation/National/2011/HR2910/default.asp .
12 Sunny Becker et al., Data, Data Everywhere: Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations for State Data Systems (HumRRO, July 20, 2011), accessed June 5, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/110361334/Data-Data-Everywhere-CCSSO-Presentation-at-National-Conference-on-Student-Assessment .
13 Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century (U.S. Department of Education, February 2013), 45, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/files/2013/02/OET-Draft-Grit-Report-2-17-13.pdf .
15 Stephanie Simon, "K–12 Student Database Jazzes Tech Startups, Spooks Parents," Reuters, March 3, 2013, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/03/us-education-database-idUSBRE92204W20130303 .
16 "Awarded Grants," Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database#q/k=inbloom.
17 "Awarded Grants," Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database#q/k=inbloom.
18 Corinne Lestch and Ben Chapman, "New York Parents Furious at Program, Inbloom, That Compiles Private Student Information for Companies That Contract with It to Create Teaching Tools," New York Daily News, March 13, 2013, accessed June 18, 2013, http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/student-data-compiling-system-outrages-article-1.1287990?pgno=1 .
19 American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, "Letter to Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education," February 7, 2013, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/sites/default/files/mass_bese_letter.pdf .
20 Stephanie Simon, "School Database Loses Backers as Parents Balk over Privacy," Reuters, May 29, 2013, accessed June 11, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/us-usa-education-database-idUSBRE94S0YU20130529 .
21 Todd Engdahl, "CDE Cuts Its Ties with Inbloom Data Project," EdNews Colorado, November 13, 2013, accessed December 13, 2013, http://www.ednewscolorado.org/brief_text/cde-cuts-its-ties-with-inbloom-data-project.
22 Benjamin Herold, "Data-Privacy Concerns," Education Week, April 21, 2014, accessed May 14, 2014 http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2014/04/inbloom_to_shut_down_amid_growing_data_privacy_concerns.html.
23Gary Stern, "State Ed turns to BOCES to track student data," The Lohud Journal News, April 4, 2014, accessed May 14, 2014 http://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2014/04/03/state-turns-boces/7278285/.
- What is the Common Core?
- Is the Common Core already being implemented?
- How is the federal government involved in the Common Core?
- Does the Common Core have a philosophical bias?
- Does the Common Core provide for individualized education?
- Is there any evidence that centralized education works better than decentralized education?
- Will the Common Core impact homeschools and private schools?
- Does the Common Core lead to a national curriculum?
- Does it matter that testing is being aligned with the Common Core?
- Does the Common Core include a national database?
- Who supports the Common Core and why?
- Who opposes the Common Core and why?


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SILVA, Susana y MACHADO, Helena. Legal, medical and lay understanding of embryos in Portugal: alignment with biology?. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2010, vol.5Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1414-3283.
This article provides a contribution to the debate about the processes of circulation of knowledge and meanings among experts and laymen regarding the status of human embryos in Portugal. It weighs up the expectations and concerns regarding the reliability, quality, safety and efficacy of medically assisted reproductive technologies. Individual interviews, aimed at exploring the complexities, similarities and differences among the views and values of jurists, doctors and couples involved in in vitro fertilization treatments, were the data source. This is a qualitative analysis on a case study. While jurists and doctors frame embryo status in biological, technical and/or legal terms, couples establish ontological relationships of moral, affective and social nature with embryos, which turns them into ethical beings, thus contrasting with the medical-legal biologization of the embryos.
Palabras clave : Status of human embryos; Legalization; Biologization; Moralization.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The dollar fell more and Treasury prices stayed under pressure on Thursday after a report showed U.S. jobless claims fell 12,000 to 350,000 in the latest week. The dollar index DXY, +0.06%, which tracks the U.S. unit against a basket of six major currencies, fell to 79.403 from 79.424 before the data and 79.609 in late North American trading on Wednesday. The euro EURUSD, +0.0361% rose to $1.3272 compared with $1.3224 late Wednesday. Yields on 10-year notes TMUBMUSD10Y, +0.00%, which move inversely to prices, stayed up 1 basis point to 1.77%. Indications that Washington may yet be able to cobble together a way to blunt the slowdown expected by going over the fiscal cliff was also supporting equities to the detriment of the dollar and Treasury bonds.
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We don't really have trees in our yard except for some small babies we have planted. But it's been so windy that quite a lot of leaves have been blown into our yard from all the neighbors. I brought out a couple of rakes and started to gather the leaves from the edges of the yard and made a nice big pile for the girls to come and jump in. Mina came and jumped right in and was really enjoying it.
Which really turned out to look like a birds nest.
The other birds were flying around the yard.
(This was the 11th challenge, although we did this one way out of order)
Are you getting out there to enjoy the last of the beautiful fall weather?
Or are you lucky enough to have this kind of weather year round?


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The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, 3rd Edition
The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-470-72196-4 January 2009 560 Pages
With 35% new material, The IMS,IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, 3rd Edition has been completely revised to include updated chapters as well as totally new chapters on IMS multimedia telephony and IMS voice call continuity. Additional new material includes IMS transit, IMS local numbering, emergency sessions, identification of communication services in IMS, new authentication model for fixed access, NAT traversal and globally routable user agents URI. Detailed descriptions of protocol behaviour are provided on a level that can be used for implementation and testing.
Key features of the 3rd edition:
- Two new chapters on IMS multimedia telephony service and IMS Voice Call Continuity
- Updated information on Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 7 level, including architecture, reference points and concepts
- Substantially extended coverage on IMS detailed procedures
- Completely rewritten and extended chapters on IMS services
Table of contents
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
1 Introduction.
1.1 What is the Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)?
1.2 Fixed and Mobile Convergence.
1.3 Example of IMS Services.
1.4 Where did it come from?
1.5 Why a SIP Solution Based on 3GPP Standards?
2 IP Multimedia Subsystem Architecture.
2.1 Architectural Requirements.
2.2 Description of IMS-related Entities and Functionalities.
2.3 IMS Reference Points.
3 IMS Concepts.
3.1 Overview.
3.2 Registration.
3.3 Mechanism to Register Multiple User Identities at a Go.
3.4 Session Initiation.
3.5 Identification.
3.6 IP Multimedia Services Identity Module (ISIM).
3.7 Sharing a Single User Identity between Multiple Devices.
3.8 Discovering the IMS Entry Point.
3.9 S-CSCF Assignment.
3.10 Mechanism for Controlling Bearer Traffic.
3.11 Charging.
3.12 User Profile.
3.13 Service Provision.
3.14 Connectivity between Traditional CS Users and IMS Users.
3.15 IMS Transit.
3.16 Support for Local Dialling Plans.
3.17 IMS Emergency Sessions.
3.18 SIP Compression.
3.19 Combination of CS and IMS Services – Combinational Services.
3.20 Voice Call Continuity.
3.21 Security Services in the IMS.
3.22 Interworking between IPv4 and IPv6 in the IMS.
4 Presence.
4.1 Who will use the Presence Service?
4.2 Presence-Enhanced Services.
4.3 Presence Contributing to Business.
4.4 What is Presence?
4.5 Presence Service in IMS.
4.6 Publishing Presence.
4.7 Subscribing Presence.
4.8 Watcher Information.
4.9 Setting Presence Authorization.
5 Group Management.
5.1 Group Management's Contribution to Business.
5.2 What is Group Management?
5.3 What is XML Configuration Access Protocol?
5.4 What is Common Policy?
5.5 Resource List.
5.6 XCAP Usage for Resource Lists.
5.7 Open Mobile Alliance Solution for Group Management.
5.8 Multimedia Telephony and Service Management.
6 Push to Talk Over Cellular.
6.1 PoC Architecture.
6.2 PoC Features.
6.3 User Plane.
6.4 PoC Service Settings.
7 Messaging.
7.1 Overview of IMS Messaging.
7.2 Immediate Messaging.
7.3 Session-Based Messaging.
7.4 Messaging Interworking.
7.5 Instant Messaging by Open Mobile Alliance.
8 Conferencing.
8.1 IMS Conferencing Architecture and Principles.
8.2 IMS Conferencing Procedures.
9 Multimedia Telephony.
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 Multimedia Telephony Communication.
9.3 Supplementary Services.
10 Introduction to Detailed Procedures.
10.1 The Example Scenario.
10.2 Base Standards.
11 An Example of IMS Registration.
11.1 Overview.
11.2 Initial Parameters and IMS Management Object.
11.3 Signalling PDP Context Establishment.
11.4 P-CSCF Discovery.
11.5 SIP Registration and Registration Routing Aspects.
11.6 Authentication.
11.7 Access Security – IPsec SAs.
11.8 SIP Security Mechanism Agreement.
11.9 IMS Communication Service Identification and other Callee Capabilities.
11.10 Compression Negotiation.
11.11 Access and Location Information.
11.12 Charging-Related Information During Registration.
11.13 User Identities.
11.14 Re-Registration and Re-Authentication.
11.15 De-Registration.
11.16 GPRS-IMS-Bundled Authentication (GIBA).
12 An Example IMS Multimedia Telephony Session.
12.1 Overview.
12.2 Caller and Callee Identities.
12.3 Routing.
12.4 Compression Negotiation.
12.5 Media Negotiation.
12.6 Resource Reservation.
12.7 Charging-Related Procedures During Session Establishment for Sessions.
12.8 Release of a Session.
12.9 Alternative IMS Session Establishment Procedures.
12.10 Routing of GRUUs.
12.11 Routing of PSIs.
12.12 A Short Introduction to GPRS.
13 An example IMS Voice Call Continuity Procedures.
13.1 Overview.
13.2 Configuring the Clients with Communication Continuity Configuration Parameters.
13.3 Setting up the Initial Call and Call Anchoring.
13.4 Domain Transfer: CS to IMS.
13.5 Theresa adds Video to the Call.
13.6 Domain Transfer: IMS to CS.
13.7 Related Standards.
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State Agencies
Medical Home and Pain Management Priorities
Ohio's two major public health intiatives include steming the tide of prescription drug abuse and transforming the delivery of healthcare through patient centered medical homes. The Ohio Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, which is focused on payment reform and engaging patients, and Primary Care Progress, which is targeting medical students and primary care residents, are leading Ohio's efforts to promote primary care. Richard J. Snow, DO, MPH and Ohio ACOFP are representing the OOA and Ohio ACOFP in these initiatives.
The Governor's Cabinet Opioid Action Team (GCOAT) is spearheading efforts to stop prescription drug abuse and eliminate "pill mills" through five working groups: (1) Treatment--includes Medication Assisted Treatment; (2) Professional Education; (3) Public Education; (4) Enforcement; and (5) Recovery Supports. Cleanne Cass, DO, and Jon Wills are representing the OOA in important discussions involving prescribing guidelines and pain management.
Ohio Agency Monitoring
The OOA routinely attends meetings and reviews, analyzes and interprets agency regulations as they are promulgated. For rules and regulations and other information about health-related state agencies, visit the following websites:
- Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation
- Ohio Department of Health
- Ohio Department of Insurance
- Ohio Department of Medicaid
- Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
- Ohio Patient Centered Primary Care Home Education Pilot
- Ohio State Medical Board
- Ohio State Pharmacy Board
Medicare in Ohio
Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Ohio DOs and OOA staff serve on the Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee and the Board of Trustees of Ohio's Quality Improvement Organization (Ohio KePRO, Inc). For helpful Medicare information, use these links.
- Ohio KePro, Inc. (Quality Improvement Organization)
- CGS, Ohio's Medicare Administrative Contractor (Jurisdiction 15)*
- Current Ohio Part B Local Coverage Determinations
- CMS Medicare Physician Center
- Recovery Audit Contractor CGI Federal, Inc.
If you aren't registered for the CGS ListServ, you may not have all the latest information concerning Medicare. CGS is committed to continuous communication and the OOA encourages you to take advantage of this free service. Click here to sign up and select your areas of interest: https://www.cgsmedicare.com/medicare_dynamic/ls/001.asp Upon registration, subscribers will receive critical and timely email notifications targeted towards the contracts they serve.
The Medicare Learning Network (MLN) is the home for education, information, and resources for the Medicare Fee-For-Service provider community. The MLN gives you access to the Medicare Program information you need, when you need it, so you can focus more on providing care to your patients. Serving as the umbrella for a variety of CMS education and communication activities, the MLN offers:
- Educational Products, including MLN Matters® Articles;
- National Provider Call Program;
- Provider Partnership Program;
- CMS MLN e-News; and
- Provider electronic mailing lists.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a series of 11 short video and audio presentations for health care providers on top health care compliance topics. The newest step in OIG's Provider Compliance Training initiative, these free videos, average about four minutes each and cover major health care fraud and abuse laws, the basics of health care compliance programs, and what to do when a compliance issue arises. The site also includes audio podcasts with more detailed information on a variety of compliance topics. Visit the OIG Provider Compliance website here https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/video/2011/heat_modules.asp
Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS)
OARRS is a free on-line tool for physicians and other prescribers to check to see if new or existing patients are potentially abusing dangerous drugs or obtaining prescriptions from multiple providers that could cause adverse drug interactions. Outpatient pharmacies that dispense controlled substances to Ohio residents are required to report information into the database at regular intervals.
Any prescriber can access OARRS to obtain detail prescription drug histories that includes the:
- Patients name, address and phone number
- Patient's date of birth and gender
- Quantity of drug
- Days supply of drug
- Date of dispensing
- Date prescription written or authorized
- Number of refills authorized
- Prescriber's DEA registration number
- Pharmacy's name and contact information
HB 93, passed in 2011, requires all Ohio prescribers to register for OARRS and query the system according to rules established by the Ohio State Medical Board. To establish an account with OARRS:
- Go to http://www.ohiopmp.gov and complete the online registration.
- Print the application and have your signature notarized
- Mail the application and a copy of your driver's license, medical license and DEA registration to the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy
- The registration process takes about two weeks.
CliniSync - Ohio Health Information Partnership
CliniSync, (also known as the Ohio Health Information Partnership) was designated by Governor Ted Strickland in August 2009, to oversee the adoption and use of electronic medical records by Ohio's health care providers. The founding five members included BioOhio, Ohio Hospital Association, Ohio State Medical Association, Ohio Osteopathic Association, and the State of Ohio. The partnership has received more than $43 million in state and federal funding and is charged with implementing and overseeing a statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) that will improve access to data and patient information by authorized health care providers while ensuring patient privacy. CliniSync is collaborating with industry experts to provide educational, technical, and procurement services to health care providers who need to implement electronic medical records and achieve meaningful use to qualify for up to $63,750 in incentive payments from the federal government. OOA has a permanent seat on CliniSync's Executive Committee.
Public Health Initiatives
The OOA maintains ongoing relations with allied health associations and other healthcare organizations. The OOA provides representation on inter-professional coalitions such as the Ohio Tobacco Control Resource Group, Ohio Coalition for Civil Justice, State Planning Committee for Health Education in Ohio, Ohio Coalition of Primary Care Physicians, Ohio Medical Volunteer Corps, Health Policy Institute of Ohio, eHealth Ohio, and similar organizations.


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Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty': nearly as evasive as its subject
"Is this real world or an exercise?"
The now-famous request for clarification, from an F-16 pilot ordered to scramble to the sky on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, is there in the confused and anguished collage of voices that opens Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's elusive, radically episodic account of the events that led to the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden.
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The voices belong to real people, most of whom, we now know and some of them suspected at the time, were about to be silenced forever. The effect, as the recordings play for two minutes against a black screen, is one of crushing panic. In the screening I attended anger soon clenched the room; women clucked in displeasure and men gave weary sighs. This better not be a trick, we thought, or just another pseudo-action picture using sacred means for "gritty realist" ends. This better be good.
Perhaps evoking anger is what Bigelow and her screenwriting collaborator Mark Boal (the pair's last film, the fervently, bafflingly esteemed Hurt Locker, won them both Oscars) had in mind. I'm still not sure. The two have been sticking to their blandly evasive story of intent: the idea, they say, was to mingle journalism and entertainment, revealing recent, largely classified events to a vested public in neutral, experiential terms. But where its sympathies aren't obvious, Zero Dark Thirty's pretense of a strict, presentational style is undermined by the subject matter, so that context, subtext, and sequence swell to fill the film's meticulous gaps in character, meaning, and moral perspective.
It's no accident, for instance, that we move from the recording of a woman pleading for her life in the burning towers to a scene, set two years later, of a Saudi man being tortured at a C.I.A. "black site." The suggestion is one of cause and effect, perhaps even tit for tat. But the filmmakers afford themselves a retreat behind their "just the facts, sort of" stance, pushing the moral onus of the scene back onto the audience. Does it feel good to see someone suffer now? Does it make sense? The images, of course, speak for themselves. What they depict is not neutral, and reenacting intimate, historically and otherwise charged violations on film without a clear narrative perspective risks reducing them to pure sensation.
Auditing one of the two early torture scenes is the young C.I.A. "targeter" who becomes our escort through the 10 years of failures and lurches forward that lead to the raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. Her name is Maya (Jessica Chastain, action-hero opaque), and Bigelow gives her a Blonde Venus Does Black Ops kind of entrance. Covered, like her fellow agents, in head-to-toe black, as Maya peels off her balaclava a strawberry braid tumbles forth like a lotus in the desert.
"Washington says she's a killer," the field director (Kyle Chandler) tells a fellow agent named Dan (Jason Clarke), a hoo-ah type who mocks Maya's big-girl pantsuit. Dan is at the center of the "enhanced interrogation" sequences, where along with detailed and pointedly repulsive depictions of torture, we suffer Boal's awkwardly inflamed dialogue. "This is what defeat looks like, bro," Dan gloats to his freshly waterboarded prisoner Ammar (Reda Kateb), identified as the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. "Your jihad is over."
Well, not quite, as the next datelined event suggests. A year has passed and al-Qaeda has made another successful attack, on Saudi Arabia's Khobar compound. It also turns out that torture proves a less successful interrogation tactic than some well-timed smokes and tabouli, served with a side of psychological gamesmanship. Ammar gives up the vaguely identifying nom de guerre of bin Laden's courier over a groaning table, but the search for the trusted aide's full name continues.
Time passes in the form of more dates already grimly imprinted in memory: July 5, 2005, the London bombings; and Sept. 20, 2008, when a truck bomb was detonated in front of the Islamabad Marriott, where Maya and her colleague Jessica (warmly played by Jennifer Ehle) happen to be dining at the time of the attack. Maya remains convinced that the courier is the key; Dan, more concerned with not being "the last one holding a dog collar when the oversight committee comes," puts in for a transfer back home.
It's a rare and jarring moment of acknowledgment. On the subject of torture even the agents, including Maya, display little agency. They are shown merely following orders: if you say torture they torture; say stop and they'll stop, though a wistful reference to the bad old days might occasionally slip out. In one curious scene the agents are shown silently watching television as a newly elected President Obama vows that America does and will not torture. It's one of many moments where the real world and this entertainment exercise are pointedly intertwined, and the latter comes up short.
In that room and others, Maya, our escort through woefully interesting times, is blankest of all. During a recent interview, Charlie Rose twice flummoxed Bigelow with queries about her central character: Is Maya lonely? What kind of person spends 10 years searching for an international villain? Bigelow, attempting a tease, says we'd have to watch the movie to find out.
Depicted as a jobbing agent for the first half of the movie, Maya's first real statement of intent comes after the 2009 suicide bombing of a C.I.A. outpost in Afghanistan. "I'm gonna smoke everybody involved in this op," she vows, "and then I'm going to kill bin Laden." As in most action movies, things speed up once the mission gets personal, and Maya shifts from cipher to holy fanatic. Her rare utterances turn mystical: "I believe I was spared so I could finish the job."
By this point Zero Dark Thirty has abandoned a dateline structure in favor of illustrative subsections with titles including "Tradecraft" and "The Canaries." The former details the tracking of the courier, whose full name, it turns out, has been known but lost in a C.I.A. intel matrix for years. The latter is the main event, the execution we've all been waiting for, itself a brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed reenactment of the May 1, 2011 raid. The sequence holds the kind of galvanizing, clarifying power—it literally lights up, if barely, the awful thing we do and don't want to see—that the rest of this uneasy blend of action procedural and public service attempts more obliquely.
Predictably, Bigelow is at her best when she's on a mission, blowing something up, or about to blow something up. The devastating Khost bombing, the tracking sequence, and the raid in particular catch Zero Dark Thirty up in pure, procedural bliss. And Bigelow remains enamored of insider frisson, from the title and other military shorthand (helicopter = "hee-lo") to her introduction of Seal Team Six, depicted here as a collection of extravagantly skilled chuckleheads in playoff beards (Chris Pratt and Joel Edgerton among them), at an Area 51 air base. Framed as extensions of the movie's true heroine, it's the Seals who inject much-needed human energy into a task that's clinical by design, perhaps necessity.
If she resisted analyzing her heroine, in her "Charlie Rose" interview Bigelow was more comfortable confirming that killing bin Laden (the working title for the film) was "kind of the story of a lifetime," full of inherent drama, so good in fact that even a rhesus monkey, to paraphrase John Goodman's Argo producer, couldn't fuck it up. Rose and Boal shook their heads: the good lady had slipped them again; some girls just can't take a compliment.
But even good stories don't tell themselves, especially not if they aim to be great. Watching her wriggle free from the story of a lifetime's every formal and narrative constraint confirms Kathryn Bigelow as some kind of escape artist. Leaving Zero Dark Thirty, neither documentary nor pure genre, journalism nor entertainment, real world nor an exercise, and which ends with a whiskery glimpse of our generation's greatest escape artist, that was all I knew or felt for sure.


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The biggest thrill with NZONE Skydive
When you finally get to tick off New Zealand from your bucket list, you want to have the best experience once you're there.
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Dolphins and nature are memorable, but our time in Queenstown is something we will remember forever. It's not every day you get to jump out of an airplane..
As a travel blogger I'm very passionate about travelling. With the limited I have I try to make the most of every trip I organize. New Zealand was a nice challenge! In a little over 3 weeks we managed to visit both islands. One of our highlights on the South Island was our visit to Queenstown. We heard it was THE place for the more 'extreme acitivities', and they were right. We decided to test our limits by making a reservation with NZONE for our very first skydive!
It was a beautiful summer day when we had our skydive reservation at 3 pm. 'Go hard or go home' is our motto, so we chose the 15.000 feet jump. Once we were all checked in we hopped in the van to make our way to the drop off zone.
After gearing up and meeting the persons who would jump with us it was time to get in the Cessna plane! It was a clear day so we really had a nice view on Queenstown. First we made a 'quick stop' to let out the 9000 feet people before climbing even more, up to 15000 feet! Yes, you're psyched and a little scared, but you forget all about that once you get to jump out of that plane. It was an incredible feeling having that long freefall over Queenstown.
About a minute later it was time to slow down: the parachute went up and I got to steer a little bit before making a nice smooth landing at the drop off zone. We both had the same feeling: again! But first we wanted to view our pictures and video that were shot during our skydive. It's one of the precious memories that we will remember forever. If you're in Queenstown: don't hesitate to do something crazy like skydiving!


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Processing Check Request Forms
For purchases for goods and services (including non-travel-related, out-of-pocket College expenses) over $500, please refer to the Purchasing Procedures. For purchases under $500, please follow the procedures for the Check Request forms below.
Check Request Form Procedures
In order for a Check Request form to be processed by Accounts Payable, the following documentation must be submitted to Accounts Payable:
- Completed and approved Check Request form (instructions are printed on the form).
- Actual invoice or receipt (detailed, showing all items purchased, rather than the credit card receipt) for expenditure.
- The actual invoice or receipt must provide a detailed description of the purchase. Copies of receipts, receipts for credit card transactions, or actual credit card statements will not be accepted in the normal course. In the rare case that an actual receipt is not available, a copy of the receipt or credit card statement will be accepted under the condition that the employee sign a statement attesting that no actual receipt is available and that a duplicate charge will not be submitted. Employees who repeatedly avail themselves of the receipt alternative may have this privilege revoked.
- Description of the business purpose of the expenditure.
Authorization of Check Request Form
All Check Request forms must be signed by an authorized employee, generally the budget officer for the department. For out-of-pocket expense reimbursements, the employee's supervisor must approve the Check Request form. For Department Heads, Vice Presidents and the President, the Vice President for Finance must review the Check Request form. Any issues or concerns regarding these expenses will be discussed with the Chief Operating Officer (or with the President with regards to the expenses of the Chief Operating Officer).
- When reimbursing outside consultants for services or a guest lecturer, the tax address and either the Social Security number or EIN of the payee must be included.
- All payments to Barnard College employees (including Barnard student employees) for stipends, honoraria, or extra services to other departments must be paid through Payroll.
Please use your legal name on a check request. Please do not use nicknames.
Digital signatures are not allowed on any check requests, advance requests, or expense reports. We require original signatures.
Please note Barnard College is tax exempt; therefore, sales tax paid on goods and services (restaurant meals are an exception) in New York State should never be included in amounts to be paid or reimbursed. However, if a member of the Barnard community purchases items outside of New York State and is charged sales tax, the College will reimburse for those taxes paid. Tax exempt forms may be obtained from myBarnard under the myFinance tab or requested from either the Purchasing or Accounts Payable departments via email before purchases are made.
Check Request forms should be submitted on a timely basis to Accounts Payable for processing.
All requests for payment of or reimbursement of expenses must be submitted to the Finance & Operations office within the fiscal year the expense was incurred (e.g., expenses incurred between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020, or Fiscal Year 2020, must be submitted to Finance by the end-of-fiscal year deadline, July 5, 2020).
The following is the schedule for the Accounts Payable Department:
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2013: Tabbed a first team All-American by the NFHCA … Also named to the NFHCA All-South Region first team and the All-ACC second team while starting all 24 contests on the Blue Devils' backline … Part of a defensive unit that ranked 18th nationally, holding opponents to 1.47 goals per game … Helped the defense post four shutouts, including against No. 13 Stanford and No. 15 Old Dominion … Scored a goal in the Blue Devils' upset of top-seeded Maryland in the NCAA semifinals (Nov. 22) … Earned a spot on the NCAA All-Tournament team after leading Duke to the championship match for the first time since 2005 … Tallied a defensive save against Syracuse during the regular season (Oct. 11) … Selected to compete in the NFHCA Div. I Senior Game … Collected All-ACC Academic Team and NFHCA National Academic Squad recognition.
2012: Started all 18 games during her junior campaign ... A mainstay on the Duke defensive line ... Scored her first collegiate goal against California on Oct. 19, securing a Duke victory ... Earned two assists throughout the season to give her a total of four points on the season ... Garnered Longstreth/NFHCA third-team All-America, All-ACC, First Team All-South region, ACC All-Academic and ACC Academic Honor Roll recognition.
2011: Appeared in all 22 games, starting 21 on the Duke backline ... Part of a Duke defense that ranked second in the ACC and eighth nationally in goals against average (1.2).
2010: Appeared in 18 contests as a rookie, starting five ... Key contributor to the Duke defense off the bench, earning the starting spot in the final two games of the season.
Prior to Duke: Four-year letterwinner at Upper Perkiomen ... 2007 second team all-league defense ... 2008 second team all-league midfield ... 2008 Pennsylvania All-State honorable mention ... 2009 second team all-league midfield ... 2009 first team Pennsylvania All-State ... 2005-08 National Field Hockey Festival gold medalist ... 2006 and 2010 National Indoor Tournament gold medalist ... 2007 Disney College Field Hockey Showcase gold medal winner ... 2008 Disney College Field Hockey Showcase silver medalist ... Also lettered in softball and lacrosse.
Personal: Born June 4, 1992 ... Daughter of Robert and Dana Heimbach ... Has one sister (Alyssa) ... Majoring in evolutionary anthropology.


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Reviewed by Brittany B. (age 8) and Samantha W. (age 8)
We would like to recommend this book because it was very interesting. Why? Well, we?ll tell you. It made you feel like you were there. The pages made you feel like they were real notebook pages because the illustrator made lines like real notebooks and made it look like a kid was drawing pictures of cities, schools and people in the notebook. Amy Hest chose describing words to describe Janie and how she was which made the book more interesting.


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Before traveling to the Mainland, please determine your medical plan type and review your Guide to Benefits to know what plan benefits are available for you where you are traveling. Be sure always to carry your HMSA membership card with you while traveling.
Emergency care
If you need emergency care on the Mainland, go to the nearest emergency room. For more information, please read When to use the emergency room.
PPO plan members
Follow the directions below to find a BlueCard PPO provider. If you receive services from a Mainland BlueCard PPO provider, your benefit is similar to receiving health care from participating providers in Hawaii. In areas where BlueCard PPO providers aren't available, you may still receive BlueCard PPO advantages if you receive services from a BlueCard participating provider. You are also free to see a nonparticipating provider, but your cost may be significantly more. For more information, please read Does My PPO Plan Cover Services on the Mainland? and Why Your Cost may be More when You See a Nonparticipating Provider.
HMO plan members
If you need urgent care, follow the directions below to find a BlueCard participating provider. Please note that you must arrange your urgent care appointment with BlueCard in order for the service to be covered. For more information, please read Does My HMO Plan Cover Services on the Mainland?
HMO plans do not normally have coverage for routine care on the Mainland while traveling, but if you will be temporarily living away from Hawaii for more than 90 days, you may be eligible for our Guest Membership program.
How to locate a preferred or participating provider on the Mainland.
- Visit BlueCard's National Doctor and Hospital Finder or call BlueCard at 1-800-810-BLUE (2583) to find a physician or facility. The BlueCard number is listed on your HMSA membership card for easy reference.
- Call to make your appointment and confirm if the provider is BlueCard preferred or participating.
- Present your HMSA membership card to the participating provider's office.
- Be sure to contact your primary care provider when you return home so that your doctor can update your records and assist you if additional care is needed.
Filing claims
All participating and most nonparticipating providers will file claims for you. If your nonparticipating or out-of-state provider doesn't file a claim for you, please follow the instructions in Filing medical claims for services from nonparticipating providers.
If you have questions about a plan type not mentioned or would like us to review your plan's travel benefits with you, please contact HMSA Customer Relations.


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Penshaw Saturday Run
A Saturday Morning Trail run around Penshaw monument and the surrounding area. Routes will range from 7 miles upwards at easy to moderade pace with penty of re-grouping. Due to the muddy nature of...Find out more »


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At long last, I have a playable form of Skygarden! This is a late alpha/early beta. There is still work to do on the bots, hints, lighting, and music, but the map is playable. Recommended for 32 to 64 players. Here are the title card screenshots and a download link.
URL: http://www.mediafire.com/download/iknia16du325uot/ut4_skygarden_alpha16.pk3


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It wasn't that long ago that the radio was kind of a big deal. Even a young'un like me is old enough to remember inexpertly dodging commercials for local car dealerships while recording embarrassing mix-tapes. But the times have changed. A lot. Do you ever listen to the radio anymore? Is there any reason to, at all?
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Update -- May 27, 2014: NASA successfully launched the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS, payload aboard a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 3:35 a.m. EDT on May 24, 2014, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Principal investigator Kevin France at the University of Colorado at Boulder reports that good data was received and the mission was a success. Recovery of the payload is in progress, as planned.
May 23, 2014 -- In deep space, floating between the stars, lies an abundance of atoms -- carbon, oxygen, hydrogen -- that over millions of years will grow into new stars and new planets. Early in the morning on May 24, 2014, at 2 a.m. EDT, a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket will carry a payload for a 15-minute flight to observe this star nursery more comprehensively and in better detail than has been done by a single instrument ever before.
"These atoms are the raw materials, the very building blocks for the next generation of stars and planets," said Kevin France at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "We're making detailed measurements of how many atoms have transitioned into molecules, which is the very first step toward star formation."
The sounding rocket payload, Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph or CHESS, will launch from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. CHESS is equipped with what's known as a spectrograph, which can parse out just how much of any given wavelength of light is present. CHESS will soar above Earth's atmosphere to look at the ultraviolet light from a bright star -- light that is blocked by the atmosphere and can't be seen from the ground. As this light courses toward Earth, it bumps into the interstellar atoms and molecules along the way, each of which can block certain wavelengths of light. Scientists know which wavelength is blocked by what, so by measuring what light is missing, they can map out the atoms and molecules that are present in space.
The CHESS spectrograph provides such detailed and comprehensive observations that it can measure not only what atoms and molecules are present, but how fast they are moving and how turbulent the gas is. Together, this information helps characterize how mature a given cloud of dust is.
"Carbon, for example, will appear differently over time," said France. "Early on the cloud will have carbon with a missing electron, called ionized carbon. As the gas gets denser, the carbon atoms gain back their electrons, so you have neutral carbon. As you get even denser clouds, the carbon binds to oxygen creating carbon monoxide molecules -- and at that point you can probe the cloud conditions that precede the collapse into a star."
Using something like CHESS to see whether you have ionized or neutral carbon, or even carbon monoxide molecules tells you more about how old the cloud is and can help scientists learn how stars form from these clouds. It's still not known exactly how long it takes before a cloud collapses to begin making a star, for example. It might be anywhere between 1 to 100 million years.
By flying such newly-developed instruments on a relatively inexpensive sounding rocket, scientists do more than just gather solid science data. They also have the chance to test and improve their instruments, perhaps to someday fly long-term on a satellite in space.
CHESS is supported through the NASA Sounding Rocket Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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- Date: 12/08/2018 12:00 AM - 10:00 PM
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I've seen mock musicals for a good number of video games, but still I enjoyed this excerpt from Pac-Man The Musical entitled "A Pacapella Song". (Though if I'm being a stickler, it's not technically a cappella, since the song is instrumental musical accompaniment.)
In the song, the ghosts from Pac-Man sing about how excited they are to eat the little yellow guy, and the various ways that they'll prepare him. I'm no Pac-Man lore obsessive, but I always felt a bit like it was Pac-Man who ate the ghosts, but that they simply struck him down with their ectoplasm? Anyway, enough nitpicking, it's a funny song, well performed, and with a predictable yet goofy punch-line. Bonus points for reminding me of the Danny Elfman-penned (and performed!) "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Props to AJ Pinkerton, who wrote the song, and to the rest of his cast, for giving it their all.


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Graham Tuckwell is not exactly a household name, even among his fellow tycoons.
The Australian entrepreneur who built the multi-billion-dollar financial empire ETF Securities has long avoided the press, scandals and flashy spending. But he's making headlines recently with his announcement that he's giving $50 million to Australian National University for scholarships.
The big news was not so much the gift, but the reason for the donation. Wealth, he said, can ruin your children, so much better to give it away.
"Lots of money is poisonous to have," he said of his kids. "If they create things themselves, then it's a sense of achievement. Whereas if you just give them stuff, it almost destroys their desire to do things and you actually end up with kids that are a lot worse off."


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Washington, D.C. (November 4, 2013) — Today, Genetic Alliance and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) announced an initiative to explore the use of a technology-enabled, crowd-sourcing approach to patient engagement as a complement to ongoing patient-focused drug development efforts under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA V).
As part of the reauthorization of PDUFA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committed to gain the patient perspective on 20 disease areas in public meetings to be held between 2012 and 2017.
"PhRMA is fully supportive of FDA's efforts to advance patient-focused drug development and seeks to contribute additional patient-driven data that reflect a range of patient perspectives on issues such as severity of conditions and unmet medical needs over time," stated Sascha Haverfield, PhD, Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at PhRMA.
After issuing a Request for Proposals, Genetic Alliance chose advocacy organizations representing three disease areas that will be the focus of FDA patient-focused drug development public meetings in 2014 and 2015. The patient communities in these three disease areas will pilot a crowd-sourcing, technology-enabled approach to gathering input from a diverse set of patients on key benefit-risk questions.
"Using the Platform for Engaging Everyone Responsibly (PEER), there is an opportunity to demonstrate the power of a secure, crowd-sourced approach to provide additional insight into patients' experience with a disease or condition," stated Sharon Terry, President and CEO of Genetic Alliance. "The organizations we selected are expert at broad and diverse engagement from the very people that have a vested interest in patient-focused drug development. We are excited to engage these communities."
The following organizations were selected to engage the sickle cell disease community:
- North Alabama Sickle Cell Foundation, Inc.
- Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Southern Connecticut Inc.
- Sickle Cell Warriors
- The William E. Proudford Sickle Cell Fund, Inc.
The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis was chosen to engage the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis community.
The Gastroparesis Patient Association for Cures and Treatments, Inc. and Share and Care Cockayne Syndrome Network were selected to engage the irritable bowel syndrome, gastroparesis and gastroesophageal reflux community.
Genetic Alliance will provide the participating organizations with a customized version of the PEER system, through which they will engage in a systematic collection of affected individuals' perspectives on a condition's severity and current unmet medical needs.
Private Access is Genetic Alliance's technology partner for this project. Private Access is a pioneer in developing participant-centric access controls and privacy management systems. Private Access empowers each individual to set meaningful sharing and privacy preferences that reflect his or her needs and interests.
For more information about this initiative, visit http://www.geneticalliance.org/pfdd.
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Genetic Alliance is the world's leading nonprofit health advocacy organization committed to transforming health through genetics and works to connect consumers to the smart services they need to make informed decisions about their health and healthcare. Genetic Alliance's network includes more than 1,200 disease-specific advocacy organizations, as well as thousands of universities, private companies, government agencies, and public policy organizations. For more information about Genetic Alliance, visit www.geneticalliance.org.
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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading innovative biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Since 2000, PhRMA member companies have invested approximately $550 billion in the search for new treatments and cures, including an estimated $48.5 billion in 2012 alone.
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Folk religion
Folk religion, sometimes also termed popular belief, consists of ethnic or regional religious customs under the umbrella of a religion, but outside of official doctrine and practices.[1] Folk religion has been defined as "the totality of all those views and practices of religion that exist among the people apart from and alongside the strictly theological and liturgical forms of the official religion."[2]
The term "folk religion" is generally held to encompass two related but separate subjects. The first is the religious dimension of folk culture, or the folk-cultural dimensions of religion. The second refers to the study of syncretisms between two cultures with different stages of formal expression, such as the melange of African folk beliefs and Roman Catholicism that led to the development of Vodun and Santería, and similar mixtures of formal religions with folk cultures.[3]
Chinese folk religion, Folk Christianity, Folk Hinduism, and Folk Islam are examples of folk religion associated with major religions. The term is also used, especially by the clergy of the faiths involved, to describe the desire of people who otherwise infrequently attend religious worship, do not belong to a church or similar religious society, and who have not made a formal profession of faith in a particular creed, to have religious weddings or funerals, or (among Christians) to have their children baptised.[1]
Aspects of many, but not all, folk religions include:
- popular theophanies, and similar phenomena like Marian apparitions, originating outside the formal liturgy and hierarchy of the faiths in question.
magical thinking
- protective qualities ascribed to religious objects like a particular copy of the Bible, Voodoo pouches, a crucifix, stones, crystals, eagle feathers, or any other "power" object.
- belief in traditional systems of magic (hoodoo, voodoo, pow-wow, Benedicaria, Palo Monte, Anito, Santería and Catimbó)
- rituals to ward off the Evil Eye, curses, demons, witchcraft, etc.
- Chinese folk religion 1
- Folk Christianity 2
- Folk Islam 3
- Folk Hinduism 4
- In sociology 5
- See also 6
- References 7
- Further reading 8
- External links 9
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion or Shenism[4][5][6] are labels used to describe the collection of ethnic religious traditions which have historically comprised the predominant belief system in China and among Han Chinese ethnic groups up to the present day. Shenism describes Chinese mythology and includes the worship of shen (spirit, god, awareness, consciousness) which can be nature deities, Taizu or clan deities, city gods, national deities, culture heroes and demigods, dragons and ancestors. "Shenism" as a term was first published by AJA Elliot in 1955.[7]
Chinese folk religion is sometimes categorized with Taoism, since over the centuries institutional Taoism has been attempting to assimilate or administrate local religions. More accurately, Taoism can be defined as a branch of Shenism, since it sprang out of folk religion and Chinese philosophy. Chinese folk religion is sometimes seen as a constituent part of Chinese traditional religion, but more often, the two are regarded as synonymous. With around 454 million adherents, or about 6.6% of the world population,[8] Chinese folk religion is one of the major religious traditions in the world. In China more than 30% of the population adheres to Shenism or Taoism.[9]
Despite being heavily suppressed during the last two centuries, from the Taiping Rebellion to the Cultural Revolution, it is currently experiencing a modern revival in both Mainland China and Taiwan.[10][11] Various forms have received support by the Government of the People's Republic of China, such as Mazuism in Southern China (officially about 160 million Chinese are Mazuists),[12] Huangdi worship,[13][14] Black Dragon worship in Shaanxi,[15][16][17] and Cai Shen worship.[18]
Folk Christianity
Folk Christianity is defined differently by various scholars. Definitions include "the Christianity practiced by a conquered people",[19] Christianity as most people live it – a term used to "overcome the division of beliefs into Orthodox and unorthodox",[20] Christianity as impacted by superstition as practiced by certain geographical Christian groups,[21] and Christianity defined "in cultural terms without reference to the theologies and histories."[22]
Folk Islam
Folk Islam is an umbrella term used to collectively describe forms of Islam that incorporate native folk beliefs and practices.[23] Folk Islam has been described as the Islam of the "urban poor, country people, and tribes",[24] in contrast to orthodox or "High" Islam (Gellner, 1992)[25] Sufism and Sufi concepts are often integrated into Folk Islam.
Various practices and beliefs have been identified with the concept of "folk Islam". They include the following:
- belief in traditional magic systems and ecstatic rituals[26][27]
- the use of shrines and amulets[28]
- veneration of saints[29][30]
- incorporation of animistic beliefs[31]
Folk Hinduism
The Hindu epics and puranas have contributed to the foundation of Folk Hinduism.[32] Folk Hinduism also includes the Native Dravidian religion, Sanamahism, Bathouism, etc. But today, folk Hinduism ("Indian folk religion" or "popular Hinduism") may still be distinguished from "high" forms of Hindu philosophy, or mystical or ascetic forms.
In sociology
In sociology, folk religion is often contrasted with elite religion. Folk religion is defined as the beliefs, practices, rituals and symbols originating from sources other than the religion's leadership. Folk religion in many instances is tolerated by the religion's leadership, although they may consider it an error.[33]
See also
- Appalachian Granny Magic
- Civil religion
- Ethnic religion
- Cunning folk
- Ethnoreligious group
- Faith healing
- Folk medicine
- Magic and religion
- Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena
- Popular piety
- Pre-Christian Alpine traditions
- Prehistoric religion
- Thunderstone (folklore)
- Veneration of the dead
- ^ a b Bowman, Marion (2004). "Chapter 1: Phenomenology, Fieldwork, and Folk Religion". In Sutcliffe, Steven. Religion: empirical studies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 3–4.
- ^ Yoder, Don (January 1974). "Toward a Definition of Folk Religion". Western Folklore 33 (1): 1–15.
- ^ Don Yoder, "Toward a Definition of Folk Religion", above
- ^ Reinventing Chinese Syncretic Religion: Shenism. Google. 2007-02-23. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "How we came to 'pai shen'". Straits times. 2009-09-07. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ Religious Diversity in Singapore. Google. 2001-09-11. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ High beam.
- ^ "Religion", .
- ^ "Chinese Folk Religion Adherents by Country". Charts bin. 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "Roundtable before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "The Upsurge of Religion in China" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "China's Leaders Harness Folk Religion For Their Aims". Npr.org. 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "Over 10,000 Chinese Worship Huangdi in Henan". China.org.cn. 2006-04-01. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ Compatriots across the strait honor their ancestry
- ^ "Return to folk religions brings about renewal in rural China". Wwrn.org. 2001-09-14. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ The Policy of Legitimation and the Revival of Popular Religion in Shaanbei, North-Central China
- ^ Miraculous response: doing popular religion in contemporary China. Books.google.it. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "苍南金乡玄坛庙成华夏第八财神庙". Blog.voc.com.cn. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ Brown, Peter Robert Lamont (2003). The rise of Western Christendom. Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. ISBN 0-631-22138-7, p. 341. Last accessed July 2009.
- ^ Rock, Stella (2007). Popular religion in Russia. Routledge ISBN 0-415-31771-1, p. 11. Last accessed July 2009.
- ^ Snape, Michael Francis (2003). The Church of England in industrialising society. Boydell Press, ISBN 1-84383-014-0, p. 45. Last accessed July 2009
- ^ Corduan, Winfried (1998). Neighboring faiths: a Christian introduction to world religions. InterVarsity Press, ISBN 0-8308-1524-4, p. 37. Last accessed July 2009.
- ^ Cook, Chris (2009). Spirituality and Psychiatry.
- ^ Ridgeon, Lloyd (2003). Major World Religions: From Their Origins To The Present.
- ^
- ^ Masud, Muhammad Khalid; et al (2009). Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates.
- ^ Makris, JP (2006). Islam in the Middle East: A Living Tradition.
- ^ Chelkowski, Peter J; et al (1988). Ideology and Power in the Middle East: Studies in Honor of George Lenczowski.
- ^ Hinde, Robert (2009). Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religion.
- ^ Hefner, Robert W; et al (1997). Islam In an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia.
- ^ Khan, IK (2006). Islam in Modern Asia. MD Publications. p. 281.
- ^ Collier's encyclopedia - Volume 10 of Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index. 1957. p. 68.
- ^ Leibman, Charles. "The Religion of the American Jew". The Ambivalent American Jew. Jewish Publication Society. 1975.
Further reading
- Allen, Catherine. The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989; second edition, 2002.
- Badone, Ellen, ed. Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
- Bastide, Roger. The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations. Trans. by Helen Sebba. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
- Blackburn, Stuart H. Death and Deification: Folk Cults in Hinduism, History of Religions (1985).
- Brintnal, Douglas. Revolt against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1979.
- Christian, William A., Jr. Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
- Gellner, David N. Hinduism. None, one or many?, Social Anthropology (2004), 12: 367-371 Cambridge University* Johnson, Paul Christopher. Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Gorshunova, Olga V. (2008). Svjashennye derevja Khodzhi Barora…, ( Sacred Trees of Khodzhi Baror: Phytolatry and the Cult of Female Deity in Central Asia) in Etnoragraficheskoe Obozrenie, № 1, pp. 71–82. ISSN 0869-5415. (Russian).
- Nepstad, Sharon Erickson (1996). "Popular Religion, Protest, and Revolt: The Emergence of Political Insurgency in the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Churches of the 1960s–80s". In Smith, Christian. Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism. New York: Routledge. pp. 105–124.
- Nash, June (1996). "Religious Rituals of Resistance and Class Consciousness in Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities". In Smith, Christian. Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism. New York: Routledge. pp. 87–104.
- Nutini, Hugo. Ritual Kinship: Ideological and Structural Integration of the Compadrazgo System in Rural Tlaxcala. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
- Nutini, Hugo. Todos Santos in Rural Tlaxcala: A Syncretic, Expressive, and Symbolic Analysis of the Cult of the Dead. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
- Panchenko, Aleksandr. 'Popular Orthodoxy' and identity in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities. Ed. by Mark Bassin and Catriona Kelly. Cambridge, 2012, pp. 321-340
- Sinha, Vineeta. Problematizing Received Categories: Revisiting 'Folk Hinduism' and 'Sanskritization', Current Sociology, Vol. 54, No. 1, 98-111 (2006)
- Sinha, Vineeta. Persistence of 'Folk Hinduism' in Malaysia and Singapore, Australian Religion Studies Review Vol. 18 No. 2 (Nov 2005):211-234
- Stuart H. Blackburn, Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India, UCP (1996), ch. 3: " Ambivalent Accommodations: Bhakti and Folk Hinduism".
- Taylor, Lawrence J. Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
- Thomas, Keith (1971). Religion and the Decline of Magic. Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
External links
- Folk Christianity in the Philippines
- "Myths over Miami": an account of the folk religion of children living in homeless shelters in Miami, circa 1997.


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ZTE Warp Sequent hard reset
You can reset your ZTE device's password: Turn off your phone, then turn it on. Select emergency dial. Input *983*987# in emergency dial-up pad. It will restore factory settings and your personal data will be erased.1. From the Home screen, press the Menu Key and touch Settings.
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When you are taking care of a loved one, make time to care for yourself, too. The emotional and physical stress of caregiving can cause health problems.
A caregiver is someone who helps a family member, friend, or neighbor who is sick or has a disability. An informal or family caregiver often helps a loved one with basic daily tasks.
You may be a caregiver if you regularly help someone with:
About 1 in 3 Americans are caregivers. Most caregivers also have other jobs and spend an average of 24 hours a week caring for a loved one.
When you are caring for a loved one, it can be hard to take care of your own health. Caregivers are more at risk for colds and the flu. They are also more likely to have long-term health problems, like arthritis, diabetes, or depression.
Here are some signs you may have caregiver stress:
Find out more about caregiver stress.
The good news is that you can lower your risk for health problems if you take care of yourself and get support.
Take these steps to lower the stress of caregiving.
Caregiving can be stressful. Stress can lead to problems like back pain and trouble sleeping. Taking care of yourself will give you the energy and strength to handle the demands of caregiving.
You don't need to do it all yourself. Ask family members, friends, and neighbors to share caregiving tasks.
It's also a good idea to find out about professional and volunteer services that can help. Use these links to find:
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