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Creative Spotlight: Matt Maughan on Adobe Ideas
Oh, the places you'll go with Adobe Touch Apps… literally. For Matt Maughan (@somemattpaint), Touch Apps have transformed not only his creative process, but also his life, as his digital portfolio full of Adobe Ideas creations helped him score commissions and a gallery exhibition!
We connected with Matt over Twitter after coming across some of his creations including video game artwork in the style of a Chinese shadow puppet show. Take a closer look at his creative workflow, learn about some of his favorite features found in the Adobe Ideas v2.5 release, and pick up some tips and tricks.
Also, remember to visit our Facebook and Twitter channels to see Matt's work featured.
Adobe: Describe a favorite creation you've created with Touch Apps
Matt: That's a tough one. Maybe the Charles Bukowski portrait which was a commissioned piece, as I enjoyed doing the shadows and detail and I seemed to make use of all of Adobe Ideas' features to create it.
What role do Adobe Touch Apps play in your creative process?
They are integral, completely and utterly – I can't stress that enough. I create solely on the iPad and both Ideas and PS Touch are my primary apps for creation. Adobe Ideas has all the bases covered from sketching out ideas right through to full projects. PS Touch is most used as a 'finishing school' where projects go to become refined!
How has the integrationof Touch Apps and the Creative Cloud features changed your creative workflow?
The Touch Apps have revolutionized my creative workflow! The simplicity of them, the similarities in the UI which make it incredibly easy to switch between them, the tools offered and ultimately the fact that anything that I create in one app can be progressed, enhanced and polished in another. I'm forever switching between Adobe Ideas and Ps Touch. The Creative Cloud keeps all my artwork safe and allows me to access files quickly, as well as manage them either on my iPad or on my PC.
What are your favorite Adobe Ideas v2.5 features?
Top of the list has to be the new brushes – the tapering paint brush especially. It's just perfect and adds a real artistry to projects. Lines have a fluid, natural look to them and results in a final image that looks more organic than digital. It's also possible to add really fine detail especially for faces and hair!
I'm also a huge fan of the 'fill' function. So much time is saved now that I can fill specific areas with color just with a simple touch.
Next is the ability to merge layers. This essentially allows for unlimited layers so when a project becomes more complex you can merge together finished layers to create new blank layers for additional content. You can just keep going and going. One of the things I love about Adobe Ideas is that it's as simple or complex as the user requires. I can do simple sketches like it's a digital pad and pen or full on, multilayer projects that require duplicated layers, resizing, mirrored layers and varying opacity levels.
What tips/suggestions do you have for creative individuals thinking about getting into Adobe Ideas?
If you want to create digital art on a tablet I personally think Adobe Ideas is a 'must have'. Then experiment and play with it. Play with the brushes, play with the opacity levels, play with everything. Import a photo and create a unique and accurate color palette with the eyedropper. See what happens when you select a layer and resize it, it may just make your artwork more striking. You can't mess up so just experiment.
For veteran users like yourself, what tips and/or techniques can you offer them to improve their creative workflow?
Between Adobe Ideas and PS Touch and any other apps you may have, you have a whole array of tools that can help refine your work. Would shadowing look better if you adjusted the opacity level? Would the background work better if you moved its layer to the left? Is there an effect or feature in PS Touch that would really make your Ideas project pop out? I think it's very easy after working on a project for hours to sit back and say finished! It's always worth giving it a critical eye and remembering that you are working on an incredibly powerful tablet with incredibly powerful apps that just might make a good image wonderful.
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Artist: Clark, Dave, Five
Released: 1964
Genre: Rock
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Perhaps no book in English has opened the thorny problem of struggle and reconciliation in Galilee to more people than Chacour's personal story, told from the perspective of a Galilean native. This is always the first book I offer someone who wants to explore the roots of the conflict and hear personal stories of what it has meant for Christians living there.
A poignant and compelling history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, told by a British Christian scholar who now resides in Cambridge. Chapman was for many years a professor in Beirut and, thanks to his fluency in Arabic, can see this struggle from the inside unlike many others.
In every part of the world, it is vital to hear the authentic voices of those in the local church. Raheb is a pastor in Bethlehem and one of the leading Christian intellectuals in the Palestinian church. American Christians barely know that a Palestinian church exists; here we can meet one of its pastors.
Weber is an evangelical historian who has penned perhaps the most important history of Israel's relationship with the Christian church in America. Winsome, anecdotal, and just plain compelling, Weber tells us why America and its evangelical communities are so ardently pro-Israel.
Two sociologists, one Israeli and one Palestinian, tell their personal stories growing up near each other in Haifa. They recount how the history of the last 50 years has utterly shaped their families, their identities, and how they view the world.1


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Neurosurgeon: Darwin doesn't matter
Award-winning neurosurgeon Michael Egnor makes the obvious clear: Contrary to promotional campaigns aimed at students - at taxpayer expense - Darwinian evolution is not a useful asset to a medical doctor.
Of course not. Basically, the doctor has to deal with a human patient in front of her today. Suppose the doctor has a patient just diagnosed with adult onset diabetes - we'll call her Mrs. Plunkett (wow, does she love sugar in her tea). What difference would it make if cave women never got diabetes? Or always did? The information would be interesting - but not useful. The doctor must persuade Mrs. Plunkett to quit smoking, give up her charge account at Fanny Farmer's, get more exercise, and lose some weight. And so forth. Whatever the evolutionary history of diabetes is, it's just history. The doctor is concerned with futures - specifically, Mrs. Plunkett's future, especially if she doesn't listen to the wise advice she is offered.
Egnor now blogs with the evil Discos (follow the link above).
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Joyce Carlson is a 50-year member of the Kansas Livestock Association
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Joyce Carlson of Lincolnville has been in the cattle-feeding business since he was a teenager. He helped his father feed cattle while growing up just one mile across the Marion County line in Morris County.
When Carlson got married, he and his father partnered to buy a farm just two miles south of the home place in Marion County. He developed his own cattle-feeding operation there, where he and his wife, Ruth Ann, lived for 65 years.
On Saturday, Carlson will be the grand marshal of the Lincolnville Octoberfest parade, just eight days before his 89th birthday.
Carlson was born Oct. 14, 1923, to Oscar and Anna Carlson. He had two older sisters. He was 8 years old in 1929 when his parents built a spacious two-story house. A new barn had been built earlier. His parents kept meticulous records of their farming operation. Because of the efforts of his sister, Myrtle Peterson, the farm eventually was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Carlson grew up during the Great Depression. Although the family had plenty of home-raised food, cash was scarce. Eggs and milk were sold to purchase necessities.
"If you got a nickel to buy an ice cream cone, you were pretty lucky," he said.
Two banks in the nearby town of Burdick were closed in the 1930s economic bust. Carlson's father had invested his money in the new house, so he didn't have much to lose. Many farmers in the area lost their farms if they had land debts.
Carlson worked on the farm with his father and several uncles. He remembers cultivating fields with a team of horses, King and Queen, at age 10. He continued to farm with his father after graduating from Diamond Valley High School in Burdick in 1941.
Ruth Ann Meierhoff of Clements came to the area to teach school at Burdick in the fall of 1945. They began dating in February and it was love at first sight, according to Carlson.
"We fell for each other right away," Carlson said.
In April, Ruth Ann had to tell the school board whether or not she would agree to another year of teaching.
"We decided we might as well get married," Carlson said.
As the custom was at the time, that ended her public teaching career. He gave her an engagement ring, and they were married the following August in Clements.
Their farm house northeast of Lincolnville was a small house, but it had one advantage over his birthplace, it had electricity. It was one of the last rural houses in the area to get electricity before the U.S. entered World War II, which shut down installations for 10 years.
Carlson said his mother sometimes hitched horses to a wagon and brought her clothing to their house just to use an electric iron.
Carlson said it took some time for him to get used to living in a small house. The bedroom was barely large enough for a bed, a small built-in closet, and a crib when the babies started coming. They eventually enlarged the house.
The farm didn't have facilities for feeding cattle. Carlson stored his grain at his parents' farm. He had to grind it there and transport it by wagon to his farm. One winter, a big snowstorm prevented him from getting to his parents' place, and he ran out of feed. After a couple of days, he decided to walk the two miles to grind the feed, harness the horses, and haul it to his place.
That's when he began making some improvements. He built a large concrete water tank — large enough to hold a car — in the cattle-feeding pen and piped water to it from a windmill. A concrete hog tank built in the adjacent hog pen was filled with water from the cattle tank. The cattle tank is still in use, and the hog tank is still there, although not in use. Later, the pump was operated by an electric motor.
Carlson also built an upright silo for silage feed, which later was replaced with a trench silo. He then added a barn and feed-grinding facilities.
As Carlson's three sons — Ronnie, Duane, and Marcus — came along, he expanded his cattle-feeding operation.
"A lot of people didn't know how many cattle I had," he said. "I always had a few at home, but I placed some in other feed yards."
He said he bought cattle from several auction barns in the area.
"I was a familiar face to a lot of people," he said, "but I couldn't remember their names."
An award
Carlson was active in the Kansas Livestock Association for many years. At the annual convention of the KLA on Dec. 1, Carlson will receive an award as a 50-year member of the organization. Earlier, he received a belt buckle from the national association for his achievements in recruiting new members.
Carlson also was active in his community, serving on the board of directors for the Lincolnville Cooperative Association, the board of Tri-County Telephone Association, and in his church.
Carlson's sons have followed in his footsteps. All three of them own their own farms east of Lincolnville and all three have cattle-feeding operations.
"I have to give a lot of credit to my boys," he said. "I didn't make them farm. They chose to be farmers."
Carlson's wife, Ruth Ann, was active in the community for many years, and they enjoyed traveling. Unfortunately, in February 2011, she suffered the first of two strokes and is living in a group home at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro. He visits her two times a week.
Carlson moved in with son Marcus and his wife, Peggy, about a year ago. His grandson, Eric Carlson and his wife, Bethany, moved into Carlson's farm home in July.
Carlson said he goes to visit them from time to time, and it creates a lot of nostalgia.
"It's hard to go back to your home after you've left it," he said.
He is thankful for a supportive family. They transport him wherever he needs to go. He spends time at each of his children's homes, including daughter Judy's in Wichita. He takes in school events now and then.
The Carlsons have 11 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and another great-grandchild on the way.
Carlson acknowledged that his health is failing. He has poor eyesight and uses a cane to get around. However, he has a lot of satisfying memories when he looks back on his life.
"I've had a good life," he said. "There have been some disappointments but not many."


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President Barack Obama's inauguration, last week, was historic. For one thing, he's America's first black president. It's historic because there are still people alive who can remember a time when the only way a black man would have gotten into the Oval Office would have been to clean it.
If anyone had any doubt about the outpouring of support and the depth of good wishes for the new president, they must have missed the sight of about 1.8 million people in and along the National Mall for Inauguration Day, 2009.
There has been no event in Washington, D.C' s history that drew a larger crowd. Only the jumbotron viewing screens allowed the many sections of the crowd that flowed down the National Mall to witness the ceremonies.
There may not have been any snow on Capitol Square this week, but temperatures were low and the winds were high enough to make them seem even lower. Those who had to venture outside moved a lot more quickly as a result.
Displaying good timing and cleverness, members of the Virginia Credit Union League – credit union employees from across the state – sported long red knitted scarves as they made their way around Capitol Square. The scarves were impossible to miss, making the credit union employees simultaneously notable and warm.
Just last week we were all a part of an important chapter in American history as we witnessed the historic Inauguration of our 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. Every four years we come together as a nation, at noon on January 20th, to mark the start of a President's new term. This year was particularly significant since we swore in the first African American as President.
If there's one hallmark that should define the new Congress and the new Administration, it's that we are ushering in a new era of accountability for our government, our corporations, and ourselves. The era of blank-check bailouts is over.
President Obama said in his inauguration speech, "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world…This is the price and the promise of citizenship."
The chopping block
I would like to address the article in this past week's paper. In reading about the school budget I could not help but notice that no one from the school board office is on the chopping block.
I am a parent concerned about the cutting teachers from schools that already have overcrowding issues. Students cannot learn in environments that are being brought about with this budget proposal.
... Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. they are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met. On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
State and local governments all over America are hoping that Obama Claus leaves them the economic stimulus presents, next month, that they've asked for.
Now that we have a new president the work can begin to establish a better reputation for the United States around the world, and that means a new beginning in foreign policy.
With Barack Obama as president, Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Sen. John Kerry chairing the foreign relations committee, all the right players are in place to change the arrogance and hubris that marked the last administration's approach to the world.
America is about ready to do something it has never done before, as a nation. This is an historic moment in our history. On Tuesday at around noon we inaugurated the 44th president of the United States. As we are all aware of our new president is black man. This is an Historic Moment because of the election of the first black president in our nation's history… Congratulations, Barack Obama.
This year's General Assembly began with all of the customary events taking place. Legislators reacquainted themselves with their surroundings and started the process of reviewing bills that have been assigned to their committees. On opening day, Governor Kaine delivered his State of the Commonwealth Address with all of the usual ceremony. But although much was similar to past sessions, there are a lot of differences this year.
Last week, in the opening hours of the 111th Congress, I introduced bipartisan legislation that would amend the United States Constitution to force Congress to rein in spending by balancing the federal budget. I am pleased that over 130 Members of the House, Republicans and Democrats alike, have signed on in support of my legislation, House Joint Resolution (H.J. Res) One, which ensures that the federal government is held accountable and that the money our citizens work so hard to earn is not squandered on wasteful spending and programs.
In this historic Inauguration week for our nation, let us look forward with hope towards a new kind of politics in Washington that puts problem-solving ahead of partisanship. Let us work together towards an economic recovery for working families that heeds Dr. King's call for economic justice.
A good start
Tom Perriello is off to a grand start as the new Congressional Representative for the 5th District of VA. He has already been back to many areas meeting with business leaders and local representatives listening to their concerns and looking for new ways to help the 5th. Tom has also been busy on Capital Hill. He has taken a seat on two committees, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Veteran's Affairs Committee.
From Hampton Roads to L.A., St. Paul to San Angelo, communities across this nation are making their lists.
And they're checking those lists twice, hoping that President-elect Barack Obama will shower them with Christmas in February gifts from his $775 billion (and growing) stimulus package that is supposed to cure the financial aches and pains being felt in pocketbooks of hard-working Americans. We can't trust government to provide the answer to this.
I pontificated on the meaning of "change" in this space back on Oct. 1. I noted that the word "change" is meaningless as it could be a change for the better, or for the worse.
In the last year or so there have been some very visible bumper stickers that say "1/20/09: Bush's Last Day." Those of us who have long awaited the departure of this particular president now have only days to go.
When the question about a president's "legacy" is centered around whether or not he's the worst president ever, well, enough said. Even Bush's most ardent supporters have only one line to run with: History hasn't yet rendered its judgment.
Social Security has a new online retirement application and a new celebrity spokesperson to help spread the word.
You can apply for retirement benefits from the comfort of your home or office at www.socialsecurity.gov. There's no need to drive to your local Social Security office or wait for an appointment with a Social Security representative. You can complete the new online retirement application in as little as 15 minutes. It's so easy
The single greatest challenge facing our country in the new year and the years ahead is asserting the kind of affirmative and creative leadership necessary to regain the confidence of the American people in our system of governance, our nation's leaders and our standing in the world.
Just a few weeks ago, we marked the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations' adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document, a direct result of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany during World War II, was intended to clarify the international consensus on the most fundamental of human rights. Despite growing international support for the core ideals such as the right to life, liberty and security of person contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, you just have to turn on your nightly news to see blatant violations of these princ
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Find out every Thursday at 8pm when the Brooklyn and PTown drag starlet Mona Mour hosts a free team trivia game at Branded Saloon in Prospect Heights. Will your team walk away the winner or will Mona stump you with her vast knowledge? Prizes for first, second, and last place! Grab some grub and guzzle some booze as you put your brains to the test. Weekly at 8pm. Free.
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A twist on storytelling events! 6:30 PM
Bring your old & new photos, love letters, cards, documents, birth, death & marriage certificates, newspaper clippings, home movie clips, instruments, dolls, quilts, uniforms etc from your family archives & tell us about them! What do you know about them, the object & the people who documented, collected & lived these moments. Share your personal history through these objects.
Can you imagine what we will see & share? So go search your closets, attics, basement, storage units, boxes & bags & bring that item that means something to you.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New, non-invasive tests for chromosomal disorders should be reserved for pregnant women with a higher-than-average risk of having a baby with Down syndrome, doctors said this week.
The screening tests, which find small amounts of DNA from the fetus in the blood of pregnant women, can help diagnose a few genetic disorders starting late in the first trimester.
Women at higher risk include those who are 35 and older, have a family history of genetic disorders or have abnormalities spotted on their ultrasounds.
"This test is a great test in high-risk women, but it tests for very limited numbers of disorders," said Dr. Nancy Rose, chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Genetics and a reproductive genetics researcher at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah.
"This is a very exciting time for this kind of technology," she added. "We believe it will soon be more expansive and cover more disorders."
Babies with Down syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, have three copies of their 21st chromosome instead of two and develop slower than other kids, both physically and mentally.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, close to 12 out of every 10,000 babies born in the U.S. in 1999 through 2003 had Down syndrome.
Other genetic disorders that can be spotted on the blood tests occur when there's an extra copy of the 13th or 18th chromosome.
In its new committee statement, ACOG says there is not enough evidence to recommend the non-invasive tests for all women, but they seem to be effective for at-risk mothers-to-be.
The tests have been available in the U.S. for about a year, and have caught on quickly for that higher-risk group.
Ob-gyns say the blood tests can pick up about 98 percent of Down syndrome cases with a false positive rate of 0.5 percent - meaning one in 200 babies without Down syndrome will mistakenly get a positive result.
For all women who screen positive for Down syndrome or trisomy 13 or 18, ACOG recommends referral to a genetic counselor as well as more invasive follow-up testing, such as with amniocentesis.
"It's a screening test - it doesn't tell you for certain that you have a baby with one of these disorders," Rose told Reuters Health.
Her committee's statement is published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
One of the main advantages of the blood tests is they often all but rule out Down syndrome and make more invasive testing unnecessary, according to Dr. Diana Bianchi, head of the Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
"The invasive procedures have some very small, but real risks of miscarriage," said Bianchi, who is also on the clinical advisory board of Verinata Health, which offers a version of the DNA test.
Both Bianchi and Glenn Palomaki, who has studied the technique at Women & Infants Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, told Reuters Health they agreed with the new statement.
"Although this is a really good test, it still isn't perfect," said Palomaki, who, like Bianchi, wasn't on the ACOG committee.
He said with more research - and once the price of the tests goes down - they may be offered to all pregnant women. Palomaki also said companies are developing more uses for them, such as to identify gender and other genetic disorders like Turner syndrome.
Running the blood tests now costs $1,200 to $2,700 each, according to Bianchi, but the majority of that is typically covered by insurance.
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The cost to replace new public school buildings in NSW would be $664 million less than what was paid for them under the federal government's Building the Education Revolution program, a new audit has found.
The NSW Auditor-General found the NSW Department of Education's revaluation figures showed the replacement cost of some buildings after revaluation was up to 84 per cent lower than actual costs for the BER buildings.
Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli said $664 million could buy 20 new primary schools and nine new high schools.
"This is just further evidence of the awful waste under Labor's BER program," he said.
Auditor-General Peter Achterstraat said the significant decrease in replacement cost in the department's revaluation of BER buildings - from $1.89 billion originally to $1.23 billion now - may be due to the actual costs paid for them being too high.
Another possible explanation was that construction prices may have been higher at the time of construction or replacement cost rates used in the revaluation process may be incorrect.
Mr Achterstraat said he found the department could not substantiate the results of its revaluation of 27,000 buildings at schools, TAFE colleges and new BER buildings.
"There were flaws in the process used and more work is needed to support the values recorded," he said.
"This work may confirm the value of the buildings is correct or it may highlight shortcomings in the revaluation process."
A spokesman for the Department of Education and Communities said the department has addressed some of the audit concerns.
KPMG has been engaged to independently review the methodology used to carry out the revaluation to ensure the department complies with accounting standards.
A steering committee has also been established including senior staff from the Department of Education, NSW Treasury and the Department of Finance and Services.
"The NSW Audit Office will be invited to monitor project progress and governance," the spokesman said.
"A dedicated project team – independent from core operating activities – has been established to implement the revaluation for 2012-13.
"That project team will report regularly to the DEC Executive, the Audit and Risk Committee and the Minister for Education."
Greens NSW MP John Kaye said the former NSW Labor government ''squandered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create world-class public education buildings''.
''By allowing the head contractors to skim off large profits and by also refusing to listen to the teachers and the community, many public schools ended up with a lot less than they might have had.
"It looks like more than $660 million was wasted. Parents, teachers and students will be left wondering what they could have achieved for their school with the additional funds.
"The bureaucrat charged with getting value for money out of the BER was the then head of the Department of Education and Training, Michael Coutts-Trotter ... who was subsequently promoted by the O'Farrell government to lead the Department of Finance and Services.
"In the new year I will be asking the Education budget estimates committee to convene an inquiry into NSW's BER spending."
Anna Patty is Workplace Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a former Education Editor, State Political Reporter and Health Reporter.


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StrikeForce Technologies, a small vendor of a keystroke encryption technology, is accusing Microsoft of not acting fast enough to fix a browser issue that it says is preventing StrikeForce's technology from working with Internet Explorer 9.
The problem was first reported to Microsoft, and acknowledged by the company, in April, said George Waller, executive vice president of StrikeForce. Since then, Microsoft has been saying it will fix the problem but has not gotten around to doing it yet, Waller said.
"I've been calling Microsoft every two weeks since April," said Waller, who sent Computerworld the text of what he said were several email exchanges StrikeForce has had with Microsoft on the issue over the past few months. "They keep on saying we are working on it each time we call them," he said.
In an emailed statement, Microsoft told Computerworld that it is looking into the matter. "Our engineering team is actively investigating the claim that this third-party toolbar is no longer working in IE9; upon completion of that investigation, any necessary updates will be provided," the company said.
"Windows customers and Internet Explorer users should know there is no impact to their security or browsing experience as a result of this claim," Microsoft added.
Waller said the issue has caused considerable frustration for StrikeForce and the nearly 2 million users of its technology. "Our anti keylogging technology is useless with Microsoft's IE9 browser because of Microsoft," he said. "What we have been doing is walking everyone through removing IE9 and putting IE8 back to work," he said.
StrikeForce is a maker of several authentication, keystroke encryption and mobile security products. The publicly listed company sells mainly to small and medium businesses and individual consumers though Waller says it has recently begun pushing into the enterprise space as well.
StrikeForce's products are also resold by other security vendors such as Trend Micro and Identity Guard.
The product at issue is called GuardedID Keystroke Encryption, a $30 product that is designed to protect users against keystroke-logging malware. One of its components includes a toolbar that sits within either IE or Mozilla's Firefox and automatically launches each time the browser is opened.
Guarded ID automatically encrypts all keystrokes made by a user and sends it to the browser where it is decrypted into the web application that the user has logged into.
The product worked fine with Microsoft's beta version of IE9 but doesn't do the same with the production version of the browser Waller said. The browser problem basically doesn't allow GuardedID to decrypt the keystrokes as it should, Waller said.
In one email from April, a Microsoft engineer acknowledges the issue and claims that it is "at the highest point of escalation" at Microsoft. "The product team has already reviewed this issue and they have confirmed that this was an unintentional regression," the engineer said. "A fix request has also been submitted."
Though it has been several months since that email, Microsoft has yet to address the issue, Waller said.


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A hearty congratulations are in order for Michael Cook: he has been named the winner of the 2014 Holberg Prize, an award given annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law, or theology.
The 2014 Holberg committee says of the laureate that, "Michael Cook is one of today's leading experts on the history and religious thought of Islam. He has reshaped fields that span Ottoman studies, the genesis of early Islamic polity, the history of the Wahhabiya movement, and Islamic law, ethics, and theology. His contribution to the entire field, from Islam's genesis to the present, displays a mastery of textual, economic, and social approaches."
Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, and is widely considered one of today's leading experts on the history and religious thoughtof Islam. His work explicitly asserts the role of religion in the formation of Islamic civilization, stretching from the medieval period to the present. His newest book, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (2014) carefully considers the connection between modern fundamentalism and the political role of religion in Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. He is also the author of Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought and A Brief History of the Human Race, among other books. He is also the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam.


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A 30-year-old landmark in the Poconos continues to forge ahead with the help of curious locals and tourists. The Water Gap Trolley on Route 611 South has been attracting a steady stream of tourists since it was opened in 1982 by Tom and Prudence Bridger.
A 30-year-old landmark in the Poconos continues to forge ahead with the help of curious locals and tourists.
The Water Gap Trolley on Route 611 South has been attracting a steady stream of tourists since it was opened in 1982 by Tom and Prudence Bridger. Owners of the nearby Glenwood Hotel, the Bridgers launched the trolley service as a way of giving patrons of their hotel a way to explore and learn more about the area. Now owned by Debby Ketterer, who purchased it from her mother in 1996, in partnership with Stu Christman, the trolley continues to showcase and enhance preserving the history of the Delaware Water Gap.
Stops on the 13-mile tour include the Point of the Gap, Cold Air Cave, Appalachian Trail, Dutot Museum, the Old Stone House, Castle Inn, historic Shawnee Presbyterian Church, Indian Head and homes of celebrities.
For Ketterer and the trolley, however, history requires a certain amount of curiosity to be sustained, and in the wake of the recent economy, that thirst for local lore seems to have dissipated for some. As far as Ketterer is concerned, senior citizens have been hit the hardest.
"My senior bus tours are down, which I totally attribute to the economy," Ketterer said. "Regular customers are about the same as last year although last year was not the best. I believe if you speak with other businesses they will agree that 2008 and 2009 were the last decent years."
Ketterer continues to promote her and other local businesses. In late 2010, she started "Passport to the Poconos," a discount card that costs $20 and can be used for a year at more than 125 local businesses at various discounts. Information about vendors and ways to purchase the card can be found atpassporttothepoconos.com. The card can also be purchased at the Delaware Water Gap Trolley.
"I started the card not just to generate business for the trolley but also as a way to bring more business to the Poconos," Ketterer said. "It's taken longer (to catch on) than I expected. The more I get on board, the more want to purchase it. It's taking (the idea) out of the box and has taken time to get moving but it's getting there."
She said Forrest & Sons Co. printed rack cards for the discount card, and her trolley rack card also has a Passport to the Poconos section on the back and has been distributed to visitor centers around the state.
Cherry Valley Vineyards, the Shawnee Playhouse, the Stroudsmoor Country Inn, and the Kittatinny Campgrounds are just a few of the local vendors that offer discounts unique to the Passport to the Poconos discount card. Owners of the card can also get 10 percent off a tour at the Delaware Water Gap Trolley in addition to free mini-golf offered there.
Besides the discount card, Ketterer has found other ways to generate business for the trolley with the golf, a gift shop and a scenic pavilion that can be used for parties.
There are also three different tour packages that groups can purchase. They include shopping and meals after the trolley tour. Ketterer says the most popular package is the second, which includes lunch at the Big A Grillehouse, entertainment and shopping.
Ketterer has also worked to make the tour more feasible for customers despite the economy by including coupons on the trolley's website (watergaptrolley.com).
Although the tour has not changed much over the years, Ketterer said they were considering a slight change to the tours this spring. Although the three trolleys (named Ike, Mike, and Look-Alike) are described as "all-weather" trolleys, strong winds that sometimes reach up to 25 or even 35 mph during the second half of the tour may force Ketterer to only offer the first part of the tour during the windy season. That won't affect its busiest season. Autumn is when the trolley sees the most business, because of the area's fall foliage that draws tens of thousands of visitors every year.
Ketterer's book, "Delaware Water Gap — Then and Now," is further testament to her passion for preserving the history of the area.
"The book is so that if anything happens to me, and the trolley is no longer run in the same way, at least the history will be preserved," Ketterer said.
Ketterer said the Delaware Water Gap's history still fascinates many.
"I like to hear a lot about the history of Native Americans in this area," said Beth Leetch of Maryland, who was visiting the Poconos with her parents.
Marge DuPrey, from Columbus, Ohio, said that for her, the Delaware Water Gap trolley was a nostalgia trip. "I grew up where there were buses and public transportation was plentiful and cheap, and then I spent a lot of time in Pittsburgh where they had a lot of trolleys, always on rails," DuPrey said. "I'm a history buff, and it's interesting, the history of individual places."
Although the trolley hosts visitors from all over the country, residents curious about the hidden history of their area are always welcome as well.
For tours information, call 570-476-9766 or visit the website, watergaptrolley.com.


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Last weekend, while crossing the border back to Ontario from Buffalo, our car was stopped by a customs officer. "What were you guys doing in the States?" he asked. "Do any shopping?" "Okay, have a great day."
Nothing strange here, except for one detail: this man had a U.S. flag on his sleeve. He stopped every car before waving them on to Canadian border guards who repeated the process all over again. It felt like a glimpse into Fortress North America, a not so distant future in which U.S. security officers are the gatekeepers not just of the U.S. border but of the entire continent.
Post September 11, many Canadians see some border integration as the unavoidable price of protecting our $700-billion annual trade relationship with the U.S. Exports now make up 43 per cent of Canada's GDP, up dramatically from 25 per cent a decade ago. Eighty seven per cent of those exports go directly to the U.S. With almost half of our economy now directly dependent on an open border, it's difficult to see how Canada can stand up to U.S. pressure.


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The owner of a New Jersey auto shop said up to a dozen people stop by his business every month just to see his toilet, which once belonged to Adolf Hitler.
Greg Kohfeldt, owner of Kohfeldt's Auto Repair in Florence, said the toilet was installed by the previous owner of the shop in the 1950s and came from the German dictator's favorite yacht, the Aviso Grille, The Times, Trenton, N.J., reported Monday.
The yacht was commissioned in December 1934 and was taken by the British following World War II. The vessel was stripped down for scrap in the early 1950s and the toilet and sink ended up at the auto repair shop, which Kohfeldt purchased 19 years ago, the report said.
Kohfeldt said the toilet and sink would draw one or two visitors each month and the number jumps to six to 12 people a month whenever the items appear on TV or in print media.
The owner said he is planning to remodel his bathroom and put the Hitler toilet up for display.
"If someone actually had an interest in what is left of the sink and the toilet I would probably sell it," he said. "But they'd have to have an interest ... if someone is just going to offer me $100, it'll sit here forever."


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House, Senate pass first Sandy bill
Congress approved and sent to the White House Friday emergency legislation raising the borrowing authority for the national flood insurance program to pay tens of thousands of claims piling up after Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast in October.
The $9.7 billion bill sailed through the House on a 354-67 vote despite protests from outside conservative groups like the Club for Growth and the notable defection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the Budget Committee chairman and GOP vice presidential candidate.
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The Senate acted hours later under a unanimous consent agreement to speed the bill to President Barack Obama for his signature before a deadline next week when the insurance fund is slated to run out of money.
Indeed the Senate has already approved the same flood insurance language as part of a larger $60.4 billion disaster aid package that was allowed to die with the 112th Congress after Speaker John Boehner opted to abruptly pull the measure from the House calendar.
Boehner's decision Tuesday night — overruling Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) — set off a furious reaction from Northeast Republicans including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. After a meeting Wednesday, Friday's vote was hastily scheduled to make amends and serve as a down payment toward a Jan 15 debate on a larger aid package.
"It's important to put past recriminations behind us…Let's go forward standing as one," said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who had been among the loudest in condemning Boehner's handling to the situation. But Democrats were not about to totally let up.
"While it is never too late to do the right thing, it is late that we are doing this thing and we are doing only the bare minimum," said Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) said that Friday's vote was only a "promissory note" that will mean nothing unless followed by a fuller package this month.
"We have a promissory note. I'm concerned until the promissory note has been put into the bank and stamped that it has sufficient funds," Meeks said. "And in this case it has got to be put in the bank and stamped that we have the votes that are necessary for the people of this region.
"They've been suffering," he added emotionally. "They have been suffered long enough. They need to hear from their government that their government is with them just as it has been with everybody else in this country"
Chastened by the uproar this week, Republicans split 161-67 voted for the bill, and the whole debate seemed designed at times to tamp down any stampede by the right.
The bill's manager was no less than Rep, Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), a fiscal conservative who famously voted against an early Katrina aid bill in 2005. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), with strong leadership credentials and the chairmanship now of the House Financial Services Committee added his support as did Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.).


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Fashion forecasting is a process of analysing upcoming trends by predicting colours, fabrics and styles that will be a part of latest collections in the stores. The forecaster works on all categories and variants of the fashion industry, explains Ankita Sodhi.
Haute couture, pret-o-porter or ready-to-wear and street wear or mass market, all can benefit from trend forecasting. It also involves a study of emerging trends in make-up, beauty and cosmetics, to predict a complete look of the season.
Various practices involved in forecasting are:
- Study of various fashion seasons
- As an impact of globalisation, mapping of megatrends by analysing collections at fashion capitals of the world
- Comparative study of current and previous trends
- Identifying the niche market/client/group
- Understanding and analysing the demographic and psycho graphic structure of the targeted market/client/group
- Predicting themes, stories and trends for upcoming season by generating a style and trend report
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Design collections are launched as per specific seasons. These include:
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The two biggest seasons are Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. These collections are showcased at major fashion weeks almost six months prior to when they appear in stores. These include both haute couture as well as ready-to-wear collections.
High summer is when some fashion houses or brands launch a collection after Spring/Summer collection has been launched. Several times, these collections are extremely impactful on trends that will emerge in the upcoming season.
Resort/cruise collections are launched for those who are keen on wearing trendy comfort wear at holidays or while travelling for leisure.
Pre-Fall collections have a wide customer range but they are launched to target the elite fashion fanatics and leaders. These fashion leaders are fond of an updated wardrobe. Celebrities of various fields are often the first to get these fresh off the runway outfits.


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Birds & Souls
Naming your first release after your band is an auspicious way to introduce oneself, to say the least, but Birds & Souls have done just that—and the results more than live up to their sensational packaging.
Birds & Souls' lead single "Birds & Souls" (from the debut Birds & Souls EP on Spectral Sound) is an exuberant track built more for rock shows than dancefloors, charting a journey from giddy, congas-and-claves house to synth-drenched space disco to ecstatic arpeggiated bliss and back again. At "Birds & Souls"' apex, Birds & Souls member Sergio Giorgini intones "My soul, it weighs a thousand pounds / touch the mountain, touch the ground"—at that moment, the duo seem everywhere at once, their feet stomping out a primal 4-on-the-floor, their heads soaring through the clouds.
B-side "Birds & Souls (Birds & Beats Version)" indulges the track's cosmic side, emphasizing repetition, atmosphere, and chanting backing vocals; while "Birds & Souls (Runaway's Mountain & Ground Remix)" sees the Brooklyn-based DJ/producers and DFA alumni drag "Birds & Souls" into the dank, half-lit gloom of a sweaty basement party, all room-consuming bass and dirty, groaning keyboard stabs.


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'Logynon' contraceptive pills, Berlin, Germany, 1986
'Loygnon' is a brand of triphasic oral contraceptive pills. Triphasic means the pills are taken in three phases during the menstrual cycle. The three different pills contain different levels of hormones. Phasic contraceptives are designed to reduce the amounts of hormones taken. The high hormone levels of first generation contraceptives caused heart and circulatory problems. The pill needs to be taken within a 12 hour window to maintain its effectiveness. The days of the week on the packet are to help keep track of the pills. Loygnon was introduced in 1980 and tests showed that it was as effective as other contraceptives but was more expensive.
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APNewsBreak: Girl said Uzi was too much for her
PHOENIX (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed an instructor with an Uzi at an Arizona shooting range said immediately after the shooting that she felt the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder, according to police reports released Tuesday.
Her family members were focused on the girl because they thought she was injured by the gun's recoil and didn't immediately realize instructor Charles Vacca had been shot until one of his colleagues ran over to him.
The family, whose hometown hasn't been revealed by investigators, had taken a shuttle on Aug. 25 from Las Vegas about 60 miles south to the Last Stop range in White Hills, Arizona.
The report did not say why the family had gone to the range or why they let the girl handle the Uzi.
After arriving, the girl, her parents, sister and brother took a monster truck ride before heading out to the shooting range.
The girl's father was the first one in the party to handle a weapon. After he fired shots, Vacca instructed the girl on how to shoot the gun, showed her a shooting stance, and helped her fire a few rounds.
Then, he stepped back and let her hold the Uzi by herself. She fired the gun, and its recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, killing Vacca with a shot to the head, according to the report.
The girl dropped the Uzi, and Vacca fell to the ground. The girl ran toward her family, who huddled around her as she held her shoulder. Another instructor rushed over to help to Vacca. The other children were then taken away from the range, according to the report.
The report describes the family as shaken by the accident.
Prosecutors are not filing charges in the case. Arizona's workplace safety agency is investigating the shooting-range death.
County prosecutors say the instructor was probably the most criminally negligent person involved in the accident for having allowed the child to hold the gun without enough training. They also said the parents and child weren't criminally culpable.
The girl's mother had video-recorded the accident on her phone.
"All right, go ahead and give me one shot," Vacca tells the girl in the video. He then cheers when she fires one round at the target.
"All right full auto," Vacca says. The video, which does not show the actual incident, ends with a series of shots being heard.
The shooting set off a powerful debate over youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle a submachine gun.
Sam Scarmardo, the range's operator, has said the parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules and were standing nearby when the accident occurred. He also had said he never had a safety problem before at the range and said his policy of allowing children 8 and older to fire guns under adult supervision and an instructor's watchful eye is standard industry practice, though he noted his policies are under review.
Vacca's ex-wife and children said last week that they harbored no ill feelings toward the girl or her family. Instead, they feel sorry for the child and want to comfort her.


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My first impression of Battlegrounds
So last night I waited 45 minutes to play an eight minute game of CTF in the Warsong Gulch Battleground. Those eight minutes were pretty fun but once it was all over the server booted me back out to wait in line again for another game. I guess I didn't understand how Battlegrounds was going to work.
You can't just go and play BG. A person couldn't say "tonight I'm just going to play a bunch of Battlegrounds." and then do that. It's not like Quake or Battlefield in that way. I guess I sort of thought it would be. What you do is get yourself in the Queue and then you go off and play Wow just like normal. You do your quests and you grind your mobs and maybe once every hour or so you get to play a BG game. It seems like it's designed to compliment your regular WOW play, rather than provide an alternative for people tired of grinding and questing.
I quit playing wow about a month ago at level 51. I'd been playing it since early beta and I just felt like I was doing the same thing over and over again. I guess I was, I mean that's what an MMO is all about. I think WOW is certainly the best of the MMO's but it's still an MMO and I can only do so many kill quests before I get tired of it. I figured BG would bring me back around to WOW because it would give me something else to do with a character I am very fond of in a world I love. It isn't exactly what I thought it would be though.
I can say that it has inspired me to grab those last nine levels so that I can be more useful in BG. While waiting in line tonight for some BG action I'll probably run up to Felwood and try to grab a level or two. If nothing else my month long hiatus has given me quite a bit of rest that should make the next few levels a breeze. I'd also like to give the Alterac BG a try as I understand that one provides a much more robust play experience beyond basic CTF. I'll give it another go tonight and probably talk more about it this week.
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Mark G Lebwohl, MD Email Mark Lebwohl
- Position
- PROFESSOR AND SYSTEM CHAIR | Dermatology
- Specialty
- Dermatology
- Languages
- English
- Spanish
- Hebrew
- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Queens
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
- Phone
- Mount Sinai Doctors East 98th Street 212-241-9728 212-241-9728
Dr. Mark Lebwohl graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in 1974 and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1978. He completed residencies in internal medicine and dermatology, both at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Lebwohl has been practicing dermatology since 1983. He is the Waldman Professor and Chairman of the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Lebwohl has served as president of the New York Dermatological Society, the Manhattan Dermatologic Society, and the New York State Society of Dermatology, and as chairman of the Dermatology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Lebwohl is a past chairman of the Psoriasis Task Force of the American Academy of Dermatology, and has directed the AAD's annual Psoriasis Symposium, Diagnostic Update Symposium and Therapeutics Symposium. In 2015-16 he served as President of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Dr. Lebwohl is chairman emeritus of the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis Foundation. He is the founding editor of Psoriasis Forum as well as medical editor of the bulletin of the National Psoriasis Foundation, Psoriasis Advance. He has been on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and the Journal of Skin Cancer. He is editor of the Dermatology Section of Scientific American Medicine and co-Editor-in-Chief of Skin, the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine. Dr. Lebwohl has chaired numerous symposia and has written or edited several books including the first atlas devoted entirely to cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease, and the leading book on dermatologic therapy, Treatment of Skin Disease, now in its fifth edition. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages, including French, Portuguese, Chinese and Polish. Other books include Difficult Diagnoses in Dermatology and Psoriasis. He has authored or co-authored over 500 publications including articles, chapters and abstracts. Dr. Lebwohl is actively involved in clinical trials of many new dermatologic treatments.In The News
Dr. Lebwohl discusses skin cancer in The Daily News.
American Board of Dermatology
American Board of Internal Medicine
Clinical Focus
- Actinic Keratosis
- Alopecia Areata
- Biopsy
- Cutaneous Lymphoma
- Eczema
- Psoriasis
- Skin Cancer
- Vitiligo
MD, Harvard Medical School
Residency, Internal Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital
Residency, Dermatology
Mount Sinai Hospital
English, Spanish, Hebrew
America's Top Doctors
Castle Connolly
Best Doctors
New York Magazine
President's Volunteer Service Award
American Academy of Dermatology Bronze Award
Leadership Circle for Volunteerism
Presidential Citation
American Academy of Dermatology
Best Teacher & Mentor of the Millenium
Dermatology Residents, Mount Sinai
Lebwohl M, editor. Difficult Diagnoses in Dermatology (1988). New York, Churchill Livingston;.
Lebwohl M, Zanolli M, editors. Psoriasis (1995). Philadelphia, Dermatologic Clinics of North America. W. B. Saunders;.
Lebwohl M. Atlas of the Skin and Systemic Disease (1995). New York, Churchill Livingstone;.
Lebwohl MG. The Skin and Systemic Disease: A Color Atlas and Text, 2nd edition (2004). New York, Churchill Livingstone;.
Koo JM, Lebwohl MG, Lee CS, editors. Mild-to-Moderate Psoriasis (2006). New York, Informa Healthcare;.
Koo JM, Lebwohl MG, Lee CS. Mid-to-Moderate Psoriasis (2008). New York, Informa Healthcare;.
Koo JM, Lebwohl MG, Lee CS. Moderate-to-Severe Psoriasis (2009). New York, Informa Healthcare;.
Lebwohl M, Heymann WR, Berth-Jones J, Coulson I, editors. Treatment of Skin Disease, 3rd edition (2010). London, Mosby;.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Lebwohl during 2018 and/or 2019. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
- Applied Biology, Inc.
- Celsus Therapeutics Plc
- Columbia Laboratories, Inc.
- Coronado Biosciences
- Covagen AG
- Dermira
- Forward Pharma
- Genentech, Inc.
- Meda Pharmaceuticals
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Onset Dermatologics LLC
- Pfizer Inc.
- PharmAthene, Inc.
- Sandoz (Hexal AG)
- Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.
- Thesan Pharmaceuticals
- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
- Xoma (US) LLC
Other activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- AbGenomics International Inc.
- Amgen Inc.
- CanFite BioPharma Ltd.
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Janssen Biotech, Inc., formerly Centocor Biotech, Inc.
- LEO Pharma Inc.
- Novartis
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
Physicians who provide services at hospitals and facilities in the Mount Sinai Health System might not participate in the same health plans as those Mount Sinai hospitals and facilities (even if the physicians are employed or contracted by those hospitals or facilities).
Information regarding insurance participation and billing by this physician may be found on this page, and can also be obtained by contacting this provider directly. Because physicians insurance participation can change, the insurance information on this page may not always be up-to-date. Please contact this physician directly to obtain the most up-to-date insurance information.
Insurance and health plan networks that the various Mount Sinai Health System hospitals and facilities participate in can be found on the Mount Sinai Health System website.


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Brazil Minimum Wage May Top R$800 by 2015al minimum wage in Brazil will top R$800 per month by 2015, according to predictions by a federal budget proposal unveiled recently. Presenting the proposal to Congress, the Joint Budget Committee said that the minimum wage in Brazil in 2015 would reach R$817.97, an increase of fifty percent.
Planning Minister Miriam Belchior unveiled predictions of a R$817.97 minimum wage for Brazilians by 2015, photo by José Cruz/ABr.
The current minimum wage is R$545, paid thirteen times a year, and is already slated to rise fourteen percent in 2012. Earlier this year a mechanism based on GDP performance and inflation was approved for indexing the rate up to 2015.
For those on the minimum wage, like Hemilly Shirloanny who works in sales, the news of further increase is welcome. "It's definitely good news, although how much difference will be felt is another issue as if wages go up, taxes and prices will go up, too," she said to The Rio Times.
As pensions are pegged to the minimum wage, pensioners are also behind the plans – although many believe they will still have to work to supplement their income given the high cost of living in Brazil.
Some analysts believe that higher wages will boost consumer confidence and therefore the economy, but others are more skeptical about whether the country will be able to afford it.
Luiz Alberto Esteves, professor of economics at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), points out that the country's minimum wage has already gone through significant growth – and that this has brought with it a number of positive effects for the economy.
"Between 2002 and 2010 the minimum wage increased by some sixty percent, but between 1997 and 2002 productivity in Brazil increased more than wages did: this gave room for expansion. But I don't see the same room for large-scale increases now. A fifty percent increase in the minimum wage [by 2015] could possibly bring Brazil's economy more harm than good," he explains to The Rio Times.
But Professor João Saboia from Rio de Janeiro Federal University's Instituto de Economia says there is plenty of good to be taken from the plans. "A number of studies have shown that increasing the minimum wage over the last few years had a big influence in reducing inequality and helped improve distribution of wealth around the country. Staying with the same policy will continue this favorable trend," he said to Globo News.
Experts believe that although a minimum wage of R$815 will prove favorable for some sectors such as banking, technology, construction, manufacturing and the civil service, it could bring significant negative consequences for other labor-intensive, low-skilled sectors, such as shop workers and cleaners, and those requiring less work experience.
President Rousseff's predecessor, President Lula, gained support from voters with a higher minimum wage, photo by Wilson Dias/ABr.
Brazil's current minimum wage rate is fairly in-line when compared to other Latin American countries, such as Argentina and Venezuela, which are higher, but Brazil has fewer people earning just the minimum wage.
When comparing the other BRICS countries though, Brazil is considerably higher: it is around double that of China or India, for example.
But few doubt that the 47 million workers in Brazil who earn the rate will appreciate this move.
Although President Rousseff's first legislative victory in office was to restrict a rise in the minimum wage to control inflation and public spending, analysts still see a political motive behind this massive wage increase.
"Increases in the minimum wage under President Lula secured him a political legacy that led not only to his reelection in 2006, but also of whomever he picked to succeed him, i.e. President Dilma Rousseff," says Professor Esteves of UFPR's economics department.
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New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries tweeted this a week ago, but somehow we only just discovered it this afternoon.
This is the best tweet an athlete has ever tweeted. Here's why:
1. Plot twists. This tweet is a series of bait and switches.
"Just offered a homeless person money" (Oh wow, Kris Humphries is so nice.)
"but got rejected" (What! I hate homeless people.)
"because it turns out they weren't homeless." (OMG Kris Humphries you idiot just because people aren't wearing the Kardashian Kollection doesn't mean they're homeless. He's the worst.)
"Only in NY." (Wait, does he REALLY think this is some sort of honest mistake?)
Hack writers and artists have been trying and failing to construct 140-character "stories" since the dawn of Twitter. But it was Humphries, the has-been reality star, who was able to craft a truly compelling narrative in an impossibly small space.
2. Ambiguity. It seems like he's making a joke about something here. But what is it? Is he referencing hipster fashion? Is he poking fun at himself? What is happening?
The tweet is undeniably funny. But at the same time, we aren't really sure what it's about, or if it's meant to be about anything at all.
3. Immediacy. Twitter is a real-time medium, and this is seemingly a real-time tweet. Humphries shot this out as he was walking away from the non-homeless person, ostensibly while the person was still within sight.
And in that way, the tweet is authentic. It's true to the medium.


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SendGrid Email Marketing Service Tutorial: How to Use The Weblink and Unsubscribe TagsJillian Smith
We're happy to continue our VidGrid tutorial series in support of the release of our Marketing Email Service. This series will walk you through each step of creating your email marketing campaign to make sure that you have the best experience possible.
In this video, Customer Success Rep, Matt provides specific tips for using the unsubscribe and weblink code as part of your HTML. The weblink appears at the top of your email and gives recipients the opportunity to view your mail as a web page. What follows are important details for all of you HTML junkies!
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We are going to briefly go over what the weblink and unsubscribe tags are when creating a newsletter. When you get to the design step of the newsletter, you are able to pick a template that you would like to use or you can choose to use the drag and drop wizard or the HTML editor. All of the templates and the drag and drop wizard already include modules for the weblink so that your recipients can view this message in their browser. It's here at the top and additionally it includes the unsubscribe link here at the bottom.
If you'd like to take a look at how that works you can just click the edit icon here, click on the link itself, and you can see that it is pointing to a weblink URL. So these ones are in here by default and you don't have any way to delete those, but you are able to enter these tags elsewhere in your message if you would like to. So I just added one here in the middle to make it a little more obvious for users. When you view the message in your browser it just kind of looks like this. This is my test from this newsletter that we were just working on.
Now if you are working in the HTML editor, when you get to the design step you will notice that there already is a lot of code in here. This code is actually the weblink here at the top and the unsubscribe link here at the bottom. So one of the most common things that we run into is that our users will delete all of the code that's in here thinking that it's not needed, but what they are actually doing is deleting the weblink and the unsubscribe link so you just want to make sure that you leave those links in there and you can put your content here in the middle. When you preview these to view it in your browser, it's going to look like this. And that's it!


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Description: This recall involves aftermarket parts sold by Valeo. Valeo is recalling certain engine cooling fans, part numbers 696121, 696273, and 696275, used as service replacement parts for model year 2008-2011 BMW 1-Series, 2006-2011 BMW 3-Series, 2000-2009 BMW 5-Series, 2004-2005 BMW 6-Series, and 2006-2007 BMW 7-Series vehicles. A metal-oxide semiconductor may overheat due to insufficient screwing of the semiconductor on the aluminum heat sink. This primary failure could cause adjacent components on the fan assembly motor circuit board to overheat and short.
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By Michael R. Katz
In his classic study Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1929), the literary theorist, scholar, and philosopher of language, Mikhail Bakhtin included a brilliant "exercise" in literary "what-ifs." In the chapter entitled "The Hero in Dostoevsky's Art," Bakhtin analyzes as a characteristic example of the Leo Tolstoy's "monologic manner" and poses the following question: "How would [Tolstoy's] 'Three Deaths' look if… Dostoevsky had written them, that is, if they had been structured in a polyphonic manner?"
The critic goes on to make a more general point:
Of course, Dostoevsky would never have depicted three deaths: in his world, where self-consciousness is the dominant of a person's image and where the interaction of full and autonomous consciousness is the fundamental event, death cannot function as something that finalizes and elucidates life. Death in the Tolstoyan interpretation of it is totally absent from Dostoevsky's world.
Bakhtin's 1963 edition contains further provocations:
In Dostoevsky there are considerably fewer deaths than in Tolstoy – and in most cases Dostoevsky's deaths are murders and suicides. In Tolstoy there are a great many deaths…. Dostoevsky never depicts death from within. Final agony and death are observed by others. Death cannot be a fact of consciousness itself…. In Dostoevsky's world death finalizes nothing, because death does not affect the most important thing in this world – consciousness for its own sake…. In Dostoevsky's world there are only murders, suicides, and insanity, that is, there are only death-acts, responsively conscious….
There are indeed, as Bakhtin states, "a great many deaths in Tolstoy," and they have attracted a considerable amount of attention from literary critics. The list covers Tolstoy's entire career, from beginning to end, from his early work Childhood (1852) to his short story "Alyosha-the-Pot" (1904), published posthumously.
On the other hand, only a small number of "natural deaths" ever occur in Dostoevsky's fiction. The author's real interests and talents are revealed in the assortment of murders, both literal and metaphorical, committed in every one of his novels. There are numerous murders and suicides, responsively conscious "death acts" that span his literary career as a novelist from his first novel, Crime and Punishment (1866), to his last, The Brothers Karamazov (1880).
For example, in Dostoevsky's Devils, there are two contrasting deaths in quick succession. Stepan Verkhovensky dies nearing the end of his bizarre pilgrimage to the monastery at Spasov, accompanied at first by the gospel seller, Sofiya Ulitina, then joined by Varvara Stavrogina. Languishing in a large hut, a doctor is summoned who announces that one should expect "even the very worst." A priest is sent for and Stepan undergoes a sort of conversion. The narrator explains:
Whether he really had converted or whether the majestic ceremony attendant on the administration of the sacrament had impressed him deeply and aroused his artistic sensibility, still, firmly and, it's said, with great emotion, he uttered several things in direct contradiction to his former convictions.
Stepan dies "three days" later (the number three marking the death of a person who is "saved"). He is buried in hallowed ground, the churchyard in Skvoreshniki, and his grave is covered over with a marble slab.
Stepan's death is followed immediately by the discovery of Nikolai Stavrogin's suicide in his mother's house in Skvoreshniki. She rushes up the stairs to the attic in "his part of the house," and discovers her son's body hanging by a strong silk cord amply smeared with soap, behind the door. A note declares: "No one is to blame, I did myself." The narrator concludes: "Everything indicated premeditation and consciousness up to the very last minute." The final line of the novel confirms both the medical diagnosis and the hero's spiritual desolation: "At the postmortem our medical experts absolutely and emphatically rejected the possibility of insanity."
Stepan's demise contains clear echoes of two deaths in Tolstoy's novels: Prince Andrei in War and Peace and Ivan Ilych in The Death of Ivan Ilych. In a curious way, the description of Stepan's strange pilgrimage and departure foreshadows Tolstoy's own real-life pilgrimage and departure forty years after the novel was written. An article in the recent Dostoevsky Encyclopedia published in Moscow in 2008 even suggests that Dostoevsky
…as it were exactly described exactly forty years (!) before it happened, the last days of L. N. Tolstoy: his 'departure,' feverish illness en route, and his death in a stranger's bed, in an accidental house….
Dostoevsky contrasts the death of Stepan Verkhovensky with the "murder" (suicide) of Nikolai Stavrogin, thus juxtaposing two primary forms of "death-departure." Bakhtin argued that "righteous men," earn "a special place occupied by their death-departures" in Dostoevsky's novels. Stepan Verkhovensky's end represents the epitome of the "death-departure" of a righteous man, one who was not always righteous, but who became so at the end. Nikolai Stavrogin's strange and pitiful suicide is much more typical of the death-acts described in Dostoevsky's novels than is Stepan Verkhovensky's "Tolstoyan" "conversion."
Michael R. Katz is C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East Eur. Studies at Middlebury College. He is the editor and translator of the Oxford World's Classics edition of Devils.
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