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The original language is Ancient Icelandic.
Egil Saga (tłumaczenie na angielski)
Egil Saga
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Changed! (although we have only Icelandic..)
I really appreciate this! It's so helpful Although, it took me a little extra time to catch the pronunciation because the edhs were replaced with ds and the thorns were replaced with ps. Got it though!
But a note for people who are having some difficulty reading it:
Some of the Ds sound like th as in 'this' 'that' or 'other'
and some of the Ps sound like th as in 'thing' 'thorn' or 'think'
Again, many thanks! And to those who read that, I hope I helped a little
Yes, original language is Old Norse (or Old Icelandic), definitely not modern Icelandic, as the song was inspired by Egills saga Skalla-Grímssonar chapter 72 titled "Egill kom til Þorfinns bónda."
I've been studying Old Norse and the Sagas and even modern Icelandic for some time now, and I think the most appropriate lyrics (with proper letters that were missing above) are as follows:
Hefir hún haft langan vanmátt,
ok þat var kröm mikil.
Fékk hún enga nótt svefn
ok var sem hamstoli væri.
Ristnar hafa verið rúnar,
ok er sá einn bóndason
heðan skammt í brott, er þat gerði,
ok er síðan miklu verr en áðr
Egill reist rúnar
ok lagði undir hægindið í hvíluna,
þar er hún hvíldi.
Henni þótti sem hún vaknaði ór svefni
ok sagði, at hún var þá heil
Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
nema ráða vel kunni,
þat verðr mörgum manni,
es of myrkvan staf villisk;
sák á telgðu tálkni
tíu launstafi ristna,
þat hefr lauka lindi
langs ofrtrega fengit.
I can also say the translation above is adequate from what I've learned. You at least get the "jist" of what is being told in the story, but a couple of lines could be translated differently. For example, "ok þat var kröm mikil" is more like "and it is a strong sickness", as in one that will soon bring death. And "es of myrkvan staf villisk" isn't necessarily "of dark forces" but "of spells with hidden powers". Nonetheless, it's a great translation of one of many beautiful inspirations by Faun. :bigsmile:


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In the window_cl.doc autodoc under the WINDOW_PopupGadget attribute there is a paragraph with this sentence:
"If the WINDOW_JumpScreenMenu attribute is set and there is more than one public screen open, the menu will also have a "Jump to Screen" option."
I searched the SDK and can't find WINDOW_JumpScreenMenu listed anywhere else. However, I later found WINDOW_JumpScreensMenu (Screens is plural while the above sentence has Screen singular). Can someone please add an "s" to the "Window_JumpScreenMenu" item in the above sentence so that it accurately reads "WINDOW_JumpScreensMenu".

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Patient safety is a critical component of health care quality. As health care organizations continually strive to improve, there is growing recognition of the importance of establishing a culture of patient safety. Achieving a culture of patient safety requires an understanding of the values, beliefs, and norms about what is important in an organization and what attitudes and behaviors related to patient safety are supported, rewarded, and expected.
Survey Content
Recognizing the need for a measurement tool to assess the culture of patient safety in health care organizations, the Medical Errors Workgroup of the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) sponsored the development of a hospital survey focusing on patient safety culture. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded and supervised development of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (hospital survey). Developers reviewed research pertaining to safety, patient safety, error and accidents, and error reporting. They also examined existing published and unpublished safety culture assessment tools. In addition, hospital employees and administrators were interviewed to identify key patient safety and error-reporting issues.
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, released by AHRQ in November 2004, was designed to assess hospital staff opinions about patient safety issues, medical errors, and event reporting. The survey includes 42 items that measure 12 areas, or composites, of patient safety culture. Each of the 12 patient safety culture composites is listed and defined in Table 1-1.
The survey also includes two questions that ask respondents to provide an overall grade on patient safety for their work area/unit and to indicate the number of events they have reported over the past 12 months. In addition, respondents are asked to provide limited background demographic information about themselves (their work area/unit, staff position, whether they have direct interaction with patients, etc.).
The survey's toolkit materials are available at the AHRQ Web site (http://www/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/index.html) and include the survey, survey items and dimensions, user's guide, feedback report template, information about the Microsoft Excel™ Data Entry and Analysis Tool, and the Hospital Patient Safety Improvement Resource List. The toolkit provides hospitals with the basic knowledge and tools needed to conduct a patient safety culture assessment and ideas regarding how to use the data.
2011 User Comparative Database and Report
Since its release, the hospital survey has been widely implemented across the United States. Hospitals administering the survey have expressed interest in comparing their results with those of other hospitals as an additional source of information to help them identify areas of strength and areas for improvement. In response to these requests, AHRQ funded the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database to enable hospitals to compare their most recent survey results with those of other hospitals and to examine trends in patient safety culture over time. Hospitals interested in submitting to the database should go to the AHRQ Web site for more information (http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/y2dbsubmission.html).
Data Limitations
The survey results presented in this report represent the largest compilation of hospital survey data currently available and therefore provide a useful reference for comparison. However, several limitations to these data should be kept in mind.
First, the hospitals that submitted data to the database are not a statistically selected sample of all U.S. hospitals, since only hospitals that administered the survey on their own and were willing to submit their data for inclusion in the database are represented. However, the characteristics of the database hospitals are fairly consistent with the distribution of hospitals registered with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and are described further in Chapter 3.
Second, hospitals that administered the survey were not required to undergo any training and administered it in different ways. Some hospitals used a paper-only survey, others used Web-only surveys, and others used a combination of these two methods to collect the data. It is possible that these different modes could lead to differences in survey responses; further research is needed to determine whether and how different modes affect the results.
In addition, some hospitals conducted a census, surveying all hospital staff, while others administered the survey to a sample of staff. When a sample was drawn, no data were obtained to determine the methodology used to draw the sample. Survey administration statistics that were obtained about the database hospitals, such as survey administration modes and response rates, are provided in Chapter 2.
Finally, the data hospitals submitted have been cleaned for out-of-range values (e.g., invalid response values due to data entry errors) and blank records (where responses to all survey items were missing). In addition, some logic checks were made. Otherwise, data are presented as submitted. No additional attempts were made to verify or audit the accuracy of the data submitted.


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Palin's PAC has over $1M in the bank
With her Fox News days behind her, Sarah Palin is signaling she intends to become more involved in Republican primaries, and a Monday filing shows she has the cash to back it up.
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Palin's leadership political action committee, Sarah PAC, finished the year with $1.2 million in the bank, according to a report to the Federal Election Commission covering roughly the final month of the year.
Perhaps as significant as the cash on hand, Palin's PAC has continued spending to build her fundraising list, which sources say contains about 100,000 addresses. The PAC paid $28,000 in December for fundraising related expenses including direct mail, online fundraising and thank you notes to donors, the report shows.
In all, a POLITICO analysis of FEC filings found, Sarah PAC spent $1.5 million on fundraising in 2012 — accounting for more than 60 percent of all its spending and far outstripping the $236,000 it donated to candidates.
Palin has used the PAC to maintain a small political staff, travel the country speaking to political audiences and build a donor list.
It will become even more important for the former Alaska governor if she intends to keep a foothold in politics, since her split last week from Fox News after three years as a paid commentator on the right-leaning network deprives her of her largest platform. Additionally, Palin's political star power dimmed since her 2008 GOP vice presidential campaign has faded into the past, and the tea party movement that embraced her has seemed to lose steam.
Sarah PAC paid $585,000 in 2012 to a small team of consultants — including speechwriter Rebecca Mansour, finance director Tim Crawford and coalitions activist Pam Pryor — who form the backbone of Palin's political operation.
And her endorsements — along with accompanying Sarah PAC donations — were welcomed by several tea party candidates who defeated more establishment candidates in GOP primaries, earning her allies in the GOP freshman class and signaling that she can still be a force in the conservative base.


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The color of money is about to have a big year.
Pantone, the leading authority on color used in paint and fabrics, announce emerald as its Color of the Year for 2013. Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, picked emerald for social, economic and political reasons.
"One of the attributes of emerald is that it is the color of prosperity," Eiseman told Today.com. "We are now in a political year where we have seen a lot of arguments going on about concerns with the economy and we're all hoping for a brighter future and a glimpse of prosperity. It's still something people aspire to have."
The color was top secret until its official announcement on Thursday, after a selection process that began in spring. Pantone looks to the entertainment industry, traveling art collections, new artists, popular travel destinations and socio-economic conditions to select a color, according to their press release.
The Color of the Year for 2012 was Tangerine Tango, which was the "energy boost we needed to recharge and move forward," Pantone said.
The cheerful orange popped up in clothing, pillows and kitchenware. The more subdued emerald "is absolutely the opposite of 2012 Color of the Year," Eiseman told The Wall Street Journal.
Like its predecessors, emerald green has already influenced product development across multiple industries including fashion, home design and beauty products.
Le Creuset launched cast iron, ceramic and silicone cookware in a deep green they named "fennel," according to director of marketing, Judy Baker.
"A lot of people use cookware and tea kettles as fashion for their kitchen," Baker told the Journal.
Pantone will collaborate with Sephora on a makeup line in March and JCPenny Home on a line of emerald-accented bed and bath products slated to launch in February, NBC reported.
The color also made a splash on runways this fall. The color infused the Spring 2013 collections of designers such as Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Marni, Vivienne Tam and Zac Posen.


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I recently went on my first scuba diving trip. It was more otherworldly than I could have imagined. Of course, I have been snorkeling many times and even done a little free diving but this is very different. I felt more unified with my surroundings and was entranced by the deep peacefulness, mystique and magic of the underwater environment.
This was a relatively shallow dive, during which we explored beautiful coral reefs and marveled at colorful fish and sea creatures. I can not fully describe how amazing an experience it was in the crystal clear waters of the Bahamas. I wanted to take it slow the first time. But for more experienced divers the islands of the Bahamas offer numerous opportunities for some real adventure, including shark dives, cave and bluehole diving, and diving around shipwrecks.
There are really too many extraordinary dive sites throughout the Bahamas islands to mention all of them, but New Providence, Andros, The Bimini Islands, San Salvador, Grand Bahama and the Exumas are amongst the top islands featuring an abundance of unique and spectacular Bahamas diving sites with locations suitable for novice divers and also intermediate and advanced divers.


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Australian scientific agency the CSIRO reports that a $12 million upgrade to its radio telescope, which will boost bandwidth from 128 MHz to 2 GHz, is almost completed.
The Australia Telescope Compact Array, a set of six radio dishes near Narrabri in NSW, was touted by CSIRO chief executive Dr Megan Clark as leading the next generation of signal processing.
The upgrade makes the Compact Array's bandwidth sixteen times greater, and turns the instrument's data stream into a torrent.
"It's like going from dial-up access to the universe to having broadband," the CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) assistant director Graeme Carrad said, adding that the upgrade allows eighty times more data to flow from the antennas to the rest of the system.
"All this data could be captured, although astronomers may or may not choose to do so," Carrad said.
Thirty-two special processing boards, each with 26 layers and 4000 components, were designed and built by the ATNF for this project.
According to the agency, the radio dishes and receivers that perform the initial amplification of cosmic radio signals remain unchanged, but almost every other piece of equipment the signals pass through has been changed.
The increase in bandwidth makes the telescope four times more sensitive to faint signals, and cosmic objects will be able to be detected more quickly and travelling at a wider range of velocities, ATNF's acting director Dr Lewis Ball said.
"They'll also be able to pick up new features in objects that have been studied before," Ball said.
Five radio observatories around the world have been sold offshoots of the new system.
The Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB) project feeds into the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), a $3 billion telescope being developed by CSIRO which will comprise of 36 antennas, each 12m in diameter, and will be a pathfinder instrument for the full Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
The seven year CABB project received funding under the government's Major National Research Facilities program, and led to other improvements at the 64 metre Parkes dish in central-west NSW and the 22 metre Mopra dish near Coonabarabran, NSW.


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Project Street Fighter, our '66 Mustang, gets a much-needed cooling system from Be Cool.
one of the most frustrating and embarrassing car problems is overheating. Of course, it usually happens when it's extremely hot out, and dealing with boiling coolant on the side of the road is a nightmare. From day one, this Mustang couldn't make it anywhere without overheating, and spewing a big, brown, rusty water puddle wherever it went. That's not how we do things over here.
By necessity, our first major project on the Mustang had to be the radiator-preempting everything, including our planned Windsor small-block swap. The first choice we had to make was copper/brass, or aluminum for the material. Technically, copper/brass dissipates heat better than aluminum, but aluminum can be pressed thinner to give more cooling surface area. The other advantage is weight. This is the nose of the car, so weight is always a consideration. Aluminum is lighter than copper/brass, which works for us since aftermarket radiator companies produce more radiators out of aluminum than of any other material. Having said that, you want the radiator as big as it needs to be, without being oversized.
Early Mustangs are known for having very limited space for a radiator. Ours was puking with the existing six-cylinder. With a much larger engine planned, we needed a long-term fix that would handle around 600 hp easy. The factory unit sits against a 3-inch-tall raised portion, measures 20×18 inches, and was not even enough to cool the stock engine.
We chose a Be Cool unit built to combat this problem. It measures 33×18 inches; that makes the original look like a tranny cooler. In order to install this monstrous radiator, some cutting and fabrication is necessary. The radiator support has a hump that pushes the radiator closer to the engine; this needs to be trimmed to allow the new unit to lay flush with the support. Last month, we installed a battery relocation kit to prepare for the cooling system, so keep in mind the battery too will have to be moved if it hasn't already. There are small things bolted to the support that can be relocated easily, such as the voltage regulator. When talking to Be Cool, they told us the radiator will look too big at first, but that it will indeed fit.
While installing the radiator, we decided to replace our belt-driven fan with a dual electric fan setup. The Spal setup we used is sold by Be Cool, and is integrated with a shroud that increases airflow through the radiator. You always want to have a good shroud to maximize your airflow. Instead of being operated by a simple on-off switch, Be Cool offers a programmable module with a high and low setting to keep the coolant at a stable temperature, and to draw the least amount of current.
Our plans for this Mustang will most definitely tax the cooling system. Without some heavy-duty, high-capacity parts, the Mustang wouldn't make it very far. With hot days on the streets of Southern California, and hotter days planned for the track, getting the cooling system dialed in is a must.
Be Cool aluminum radiator 60187 $666.39
Be Cool fans/module package 95007 $559.95
Be Cool overflow tank 70003 $114.95
Be Cool radiator cap 70001 $39.95
Coolant flushing fluid $5.99
Distilled water (5 gallons) $3.50
Coolant $7.39
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Stephenie Meyer's official web site has been updated today with the announcement that Chris Weitz has indeed been given the director's position for New Moon. The announcement comes with her own feelings about missing Catherine Hardwicke as an authentic voice for the Twilight world and a good friend, as well as her hopes for working with Chris in the future.
There is a letter from Chris to the fandom because, yes, he is very much aware of how much these books mean to all of us. He talks about how much he enjoyed Twilight as a film and how devoted he is to bringing a faithful version of New Moon to the big screen.
Stephenie also updated her movie page with photos from the premiere.


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Nathan makes an interesting comment on my blog.
With my Perl background, I've got a lot of sympathy for that position. It's almost, but not quite, completely wrong though.
Extensible Containers are all the same and yet different
Vectors or trees or hashes or whatever, do have something in common. They are all capable of storing a bunch of things. You can have operations such as store and retrieve. That's true of course. The difference lies in how long it takes to do an operation.
- You want to find a particular item in a singly linked list? That'll take N/2. Insertion is constant.
- Insertion into a balanced binary tree takes log2 N. Finding an item also takes log2 N.
- Iterating over a sorted range of keys in a tree? log2 N + length of range. In a hash? N log2 N.
When I want to implement a database, or whatever, this sort of thing matters. I could always implement it on top of singly linked list, or a hash, or a vector but it would be terribly inefficient.
The English Effect
Paul Graham once mentioned The Blub Paradox where a user of a particular programming language doesn't understand the value in unfamiliar (more powerful) constructs in another language1.
Actually the effect is not just restricted to languages, it affects all kinds of useful things. And they don't have to be more or less powerful than other things, just different. So someone who is constrained into a scalar/array/hash view of the world, won't necessarily see the value in binary trees2.
I think of this as The English Effect. English isn't more or less powerful than other languages. But a native english speaker will tend to look at other languages and not see any value in learning them. They will be unaware that there are ideas that can be expressed much more elegantly in other languages.
The same ideas can be described, albeit in a clumsy way, just the same as binary trees can be implemented in assembler.
Take for example, the German doch. The number of times I have wished there was a simple disagreement with a negative assertion in English and the working efficiency it would impart is uncountable.
Oh, that idea you have, it is never going to work, the boss will never okay it and it will take to long and there are instances it won't cover and, and, and.
You simply respond with Doch! And your negative colleague has no possible comeback. You are all able to proceed with your work and do so gladly 😉
1. I tend to find that the way it is phrased is quite condescending. And how is it a paradox anyway?
2. Looking at Nathan's blog though, he does Lisp. And in Lisp, the basic datatype is a tree. So he's not unfamiliar with that stuff which makes his comment even more strange to me.


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As IT tides shift in Washington, D.C., the Federal Communications Commission has a special opportunity to become an expert technology agency in the federal government.
We have been hard at work in redesigning FCC.gov: defining personas of citizens and business both current and potential, building our data infrastructure (as I mentioned in my O'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit talk), combing through first-ever site analytics and user surveys, and talking to people both online and off about how they would reimagine FCC.gov.
Today, I'm happy to announce that this agency will be rebuilding FCC.gov using Drupal. This decision is a significant step towards modernizing our own underlying online infrastructure -- a key stage in redesigning and rebuilding FCC.gov.
We're excited to join a group of pioneering agencies and offices -- like Whitehouse.gov, Commerce.gov, and Ed.gov -- that have helped activate a movement that embraces and promotes inter-agency website efforts, while helping to usher in systemic change. As an open source content management system, Drupal also enjoys a robust and active community of users, code contributors, and evangelists. We look forward to engaging with this community to help us innovate and learn, as we build out our own budding community of citizen developers.
We understand that citizen shareholders deserve a government that moves quickly to deliver information, facilitate transactions, and inform and engage Americans. As we continue to reimagine what FCC.gov can -- and will -- be, we're excited to do so alongside the Drupal community.
I'm sure it was an excellent choice!
Drupal rocks!
Terrific news -- congratulations!
(It's somewhat daunting to realize that even this comment is part of the official record now :-) ).
We are witnessing the next big shift in government IT; the adoption of Open Source software for services delivery, and it is a good thing. Go LAMP, go Drupal!
Jason Ingalls
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That's great! Drupal is growing by the day.
Welcome to the Drupal family! I'm excited to hear more-and-more Gov't projects are leveraging Open Source projects — it's definitely a trend!
Excellent! Dries was very happy to hear this today!
Best regards,
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Excellent news! Best of luck with the new platform.
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Accomplish the indicated achievement to get the corresponding number of Gamerscore points:
- Wired (10 points): Destroy an enemy with a razorwire.
- Playing The Field (15 points): Play a game in each mode - Xbox LIVE, Local Co-Op, Wingman Bot Training, and Uberschizoid.
- Sploderific (10 points): Destroy all enemies on level 12 ("Smartbomb") with a single smartbomb.
- Barber Of Schizzville (20 points): Shave the Orbiddles from 8 Astramoebas on a level, without destroying Astramoebas or losing a life.
- Schiz Hunter (20 points): Destroy 30 Schizzes on a single level, using powerups and without losing any lives.
- Flitt Breeder (10 points): Get a gold medal on level 5 ("My Man Flitt") without destroying any Flitts.
- 21st Century Schizoid Man (15 points): Complete level 21 ("Tyger Tyger") either in Local Co-Op, Xbox LIVE, or Uberschizoid.
- One Mind, Two Goals (20 points): Earn 20 silver or gold medals in Uberschizoid mode.
- Schizoid Sensei (20 points): Earn 10 medals (any combination of gold, silver, and bronze) over Xbox LIVE.
- Huevos Done Naked (20 points): Gold level 47 ("Los Huevos") without activating any powerups.
- Seafood Buffet (20 points): Destroy 2500 Scorpios.
- Corpus Callosum Severed (20 points): Complete level 119 ("Ragnarok") in Uberschizoid mode.


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Researchers to debate the call for sexual abstinence education in schools
Introducing abstinence education into UK schools could be a less effective substitute for comprehensive Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) aimed at children and young adults, say a research team led by Sheffield Hallam University.
As part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science 2012, Sheffield Hallam and partners will host a one day event to debate the issues surrounding abstinence education.
Dr Julia Hirst, from the Public Health Hub at Sheffield Hallam, says "We hope to bring together politicians, teachers, youth workers, young people and their parents to discuss the re-emergence in our society of views promoting abstinence education in schools and youth settings."
Research shows that existing evidence fails to support the view that teaching abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid unintended pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and HIV.
"Extensive research undertaken in the US points to negative outcomes associated with abstinence education including increased risks of unprotected sex and a more reluctance to seek advice or treatment related to sexual health and relationship matters," says Steve Slack, Director of the Centre for Sexual Health and HIV in Sheffield.
There is clear evidence that access to comprehensive SRE can have positive effects in terms of increasing the age of a first sexual encounter.
"By widening understanding of safer sexual practices and equipping young people with the skills and confidence to protect their sexual and emotional health reduces the risk of unprotected sex, unwanted sex, unwanted pregnancies, and STI's. Comprehensive SRE also includes strategies for young people who want support in abstaining from sexual activity." Dr Hirst points out.
Research shows that comprehensive sex education should include a greater focus on the issue of relationships, as well as sexuality, include more discussion of safer sexual activity and further debate regarding values and up-bringing in shaping attitudes to sex.
Steve Slack agrees: "Our discussions with young people consistently suggest that while there are pockets of good practice in terms of SRE in the UK, sex education overall is too little and too late and often fails to address young people's expressed needs for across-the-board sex and relationships education."
"If we look to countries with the lowest rates of unwanted pregnancy and STIs, the least relationship abuse and more attention paid to relationships, for example, the Netherlands or Sweden; these are the countries which have age-appropriate SRE embedded in their curriculum and it is supported by youth friendly sexual health services and well-informed parents. This is what we would like to see for young people in this country." Dr Hirst concludes.
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Dave Marcel is an experienced deep-sea diver and shark lover. On routine diving tours, he likes to attract the generally docile nurse shark over, and invites people to give them hugs and kisses. Aww. Only this time he went for the lips. And then the obvious happens.
Once again, Marcel is a pretty experienced diver and knows his way around shark courtship. The nurse shark is considered to be one of the more approachable sharks in nature, so planting one on their bellies is often pretty benign. But that doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. These guys eat stingrays, the animal that took Steve Irwin down, for breakfast. So kissing one on the mouth? A little riskier. Spider-Man frenching one? Crazy.
Marcel contends that the animal probably didn't mean to hurt him. It just couldn't tell that he wasn't food, what with its being upside-down and all. Maybe if he looked into eyes then? [Huffington Post]


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When was the last time you heard of an American with the name Benedict? Almost never happens, right? That's because that word is associated with a man who betrayed colonial forces in the Revolutionary War, earning Benedict Arnold a level of scorn and infamy that's practically eternal.
Well, in the PS3 exclusive missions for Assassin's Creed III, it sure looks like you might get to kill him.
The video above shows off highlights of the Benedict Arnold missions — which will be available with George Washington asking Connor to root out Arnold's turncoat activities as he prepares to surrender the fort at West Point to the British. Now, in real life, Arnold became a British soldier and died in London. Assassin's Creed games have a way of letting you kill historical figures. It will be interesting to see Arnold meets his end in ACIII at players' hands or in a fashion that hews closer to how he actually died.
Assassin's Creed III: Expose Benedict Arnold Exclusively on PS3 [PlayStation Blog]


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Cookware safety often relates to factors in your control: the quality of the pots you buy, their care, and choosing the right pan for the job. A cast iron skillet browns meat beautifully, for instance, but reacts with certain acidic foods, such as tomatoes, altering the taste of ingredients. Knowing your cookware is your best bet for cooking well -- and safely.
On average, each American uses a staggering 2,200 paper napkins a year, none of which are recycled. Why not reduce waste (and deforestation) by choosing cloth instead? You might even boost your mindful eating quotient: It's much easier to linger over dinner with the table set the old-fashioned way.
There are a few simple guidelines to follow to make microwave use safer, including avoiding certain plastics when reheating. Use the microwave infrequently, if at all. Cook and reheat foods on a conventional stove or in the oven.Microwave ovens do leak radiation, but at very low levels that the FDA and most scientists believe are harmless.
If you need to use plastic, learn a little food-storage know-how, so you can easily spot the best -- and the safest-plastic for the job.
As is, baking soda won't necessarily clear a pathway. It first needs to change its chemical composition. Don't worry, it sounds more complicated than it actually is. Boiling water converts baking soda to sodium carbonate, a more effective drain cleaner. Pour 1 cup of baking soda down the drain, followed by 3 cups of boiling water, and let science take over. It's a much safer choice than commercial drain cleaners, which can harm skin, eyes, lungs, and the water supply.
Use aluminum foil sparingly -- and reuse it before you recycle it. Stop wrapping leftovers in foil; store them in glass containers instead. The manufacture of new foil is energy intensive -- another reason to ration. Buy recycled foil, which is produced using 95 percent less energy.
Take a recycled pillowcase bag to the store or farmers' market and cut down on plastic
Give the oven (and the planet) a breather by making delicious no-cook meals.


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Katie joined the 5NEWS team in October 2012 as a general assignment reporter. She previously worked as a news writer for WGN-TV in Chicago.
Katie likes to stay active and can often be found hiking in one of the many state parks or jogging around town. She also likes to travel (be it half way around the world or on a road trip across town), practice yoga and listen to music. She loves to learn and is always on a quest to try new things.
Katie received her B.A. from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN and her M.A. in Journalism from DePaul University in Chicago.


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Watch as Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke have a blast driving the lunar rover around the moon. According to NASA, the 16mm film became known as the "lunar rover Grand Prix".
Make sure to expand to full screen and turn on the HD option. [NASA via Kottke]


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I am a grad student working on a project to visualize how the HTML markup is translated into a webpage in a browser. I am not a programmer, and thus am confused by how all the following concepts relate to one another. The goal lis to list them in a logical order and describe how one concept leads to the next in a sequential manner.
Id like to create a hierarchal list of all these terms and their definitions as a start. Heres what I have so far.
Tried to start with the most basic, and work my way up Any help would be appreciated. Any errors?
WC3 / WHTWG Specification
Defines the semantics, structure, syntax, and rendering of HTML code
elements in HTML5 (tags)
any element in the HTML namespace (as per the doctype declaration) - refers to all tags and their attributes - these tags are used to describe the meaning of the content they contain
content model types (tags can fit in one ore more of these categories of model types)
(metadata, flow, sectioning, heeding, phrasing, embedded, interactive)
Outline Algorithm (definition)
Definition in the HTML5 spec of the rules that user agents should use when parsing code in order creating an outline of section content elements in an HTML document
the outline (based on their ranking)
HMTL5 Document - the document contenting HTML elements and authored content
Document Semantics - the meaning associated with each HTML element Tag
the collection of tags with meaning form the semantic structure of the HTML document
Document Structure (combination of ordered semantic elements) - the order and nesting of tags, and the associations associated with the levels of nesting (ranking) create the document structure
understanding the W3C outline Algorithm helps the author decide how and when to chose which elements to properly structure content
understanding the process that HTML5 uses to outline documents will help in this decision
User Agent (browser)-
the browser (application that user operates to interact with HTML documents
parsing algorithm (executed) - the rules the browser uses to parses (walks through) the elements in order to establish its structure and add to the outline using a parsing engine
examples: webkit (safari) and gecko (firefox)
body is established as the outline root (beginning)
the result of the parsing is a Document object Model (DOM) and the Document Ouline
Document outline - the nested, hierarchical outline created by the browser parsing the html documents structure and content
each part of the outline is considered a node
(relationships in the node are described with family tree terms like parent, child, and sibling.)
sectioning and heading elements are used to define the outline
sectioning elements are containers - so any elements contented within a a section is nested as a child in the parents section
The DOM is the structure created by the DOM API in which CSS and Javascript interact with and modify the HTML
based on an object structure that closely resembles the structure of the documents it models.
structure similar to that of a tree - in which every element is a node
similar to the document outline, but instead of a hierarchical list, the DOM is a tree diagram
Final webpage


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Fastening/Assembly Technology
New Technology Enhances Hardware Insertion
EuroBlech visitors last October in Germany got a good taste of how to improve the productivity of their fastener-insertion processes at the booth of Haeger, Inc., which displayed two of its newest products—the WindowTouch-3 that features a new and improved turret tool, expanded networking features and capabilities, and new laser part-locating light. InsertionGraphics software provides a visual guide to the operator throughout the insertion process. The new Turret Insertion System (TIS-2) enables a metalformer to insert as many as four different fasteners in one part-handling operation. And tool-position feedback helps eliminate missing fasteners by preventing the operator from moving to the next fastener until all of the current fasteners have been inserted.
Haeger also displayed its OneTouch-3 with robotic integration, for customized automated hardware-insertion cells. It employs Motoman robots with part-handling capacity from 6.6 to 1100 lb. A servo-driven tool changer offers 3-sec. automatic tool changes; the machine offers part clearance to 5.5 in.; and, as with the WindowTouch-3, the unit can insert as many as four different fasteners in one material-handling step.
Haeger, Inc.: 209/848-4000; www.haeger.com
See also: Haeger, Inc.
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Cancun's Most Extravagant All-Inclusive
With 311 luxury guest rooms & suites, stunning facilities, ocean views and plenty of beach front, the Grand Park Royal Cancun Caribe has been thoroughly renovated and re-imagined. There is still simply no other value like it in the Cancun vacation market.
Four restaurants, a fully equipped fitness center, spa and yoga studio, two dreamy swimming pools, central access to the entire Cancun region and a beachfront that just won't quit, all combine to give you the Caribbean vacation of a lifetime. With 24-hour room service, an All-Inclusive plan that includes all day munchies, a loaded activities program, sail boats, snorkeling and live nightly entertainment, it may be more Cancun than you bargained for.
Almost like having your own private beach, the lovely beachside Grand Park Royal Cancun Caribe hotel provides spectacular views of the Mexican Caribbean while you experience your dream vacation. You can be as active or as relaxed as you want to be, the choice is yours. This delightful luxury hotel is ideally located, facing a white-sand beach and brilliant blue ocean waters. Plus, Cancun Caribe is within walking distance of the heart of the Cancun hotel zone, giving you easy access to local restaurants and entertainment. Also within walking distance of this luxury beachside hotel are golf courses and shopping malls, where you can enjoy something more active when you`re not relaxing by the pool or on the beach. You will know your vacation dreams have become reality when you wake up to a breathtaking Caribbean view from your private terrace or balcony of any of the hotel`s 311 remodeled and upgraded rooms or suites. Each of the rooms - including the Deluxe Garden and Ocean View, Beach Front Rooms and Royal Tower Rooms - are equipped for your comfort with air conditioning, bath and shower facilities, flat screen TV, mini-bar, high-speed Internet and more.
Grand Park Royal Cancun Caribe provides a wide range of services guaranteed to satisfy the needs and desires of the most discerning Guest. The resort offers a stress-free experience designed to delight the senses. Reward yourself with a stay at the Grand Park Royal Cancun Caribe and experience the wonders of the Mexican Caribbean in an elegant setting you will remember forever.
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The Grand Park Royal Cancun Caribe All-Inclusive plan lets you enjoy:With our All Inclusive system, you can enjoy:
- Unlimited meals at four outstanding restaurants
- Unlimited drinks & kids' drinks at four lounges
- Never-ending In-Room Mini Bar
- All day munchies in three refreshment stands
- Paninis & pizza, expresso, ice cream and more.
Daily activity programs include everything for adults and kids. There's beach and pool volleyball, live entertainment and bingo. Kids' beach & pool activities last all day with super heroes, crafts and games. Plus grown-ups get:
- All taxes & gratuities included
- All (non-motorized) water sports
- Nightly entertainment in three restaurants.
You can visit every area of the hotel and grounds and never miss the wallet locked safely in your room.


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With the completion of the human genome and rapid progress in understanding the proteome, it now is clear that the next phase of molecular bioscience largely will, by necessity, focus on post-translational modifications (PTMs) and their regulation of protein functions. There are more than 400 known PTMs, and, almost without exception, virtually all polypeptides are post-translationally modified. Given the relatively small number of genes and polypeptides in complex organisms, PTMs create the enormous and highly dynamic structural and functional diversity required to regulate essential cellular functions. In recent years, the technologies used to quantitatively study PTMs at the molecular and structural level have developed rapidly, particularly in the area of mass spectrometry. This biannual meeting brings together leading experts in the study of a wide variety of different PTMs to allow cross-fertilization, presentation of the most exciting breakthroughs in the methodology and biological functions of PTMs and lively discussions of new concepts and approaches.
Most of the talks will be selected from abstracts submitted by participants, allowing discussion of the most recent and exciting developments within the field. However, there are several scheduled presentations:
• Tony Hunter of the Salk Institute will present the keynote lecture on the role of protein phosphorylation and other PTMs in the regulation of cell growth and cell division.
• Alma Burlingame of the University of California, San Francisco, will describe his work on the development of state-of-the-art methodologies in mass spectrometry to study O-GlcNAc modifications and the GlcNAc/phosphorylation interplay.
• Brent Martin of the Scripps Research Institute will discuss novel approaches for large-scale analyses of protein palmitoylation in mammalian cells.
• Robert Chalkley of the University of California, San Francisco, will describe innovative developments using database searches for analysis of PTMs.
Post-translational Modifications: Detection and Physiological Evaluation
Oct. 21 – 24, 2010
Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Short talk and poster abstract submission deadline: Sept. 15, 2010
Early registration deadline: Aug. 15, 2010
• Richard D. Cummings of the Emory University School of Medicine will present his pioneering work on the roles of complex protein-bound glycans in cell adhesion, development and microbial or viral pathogenesis.
• Donald F. Hunt of the University of Virginia will discuss his work on the development of new methods and instrumentation for the characterization of post-translational modifications and their application to epigenetics.
• Stuart A. Lipton of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research will present his work on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and stroke, including his discovery of the roles of protein S-nitrosylation.
• Kevin L. Moore of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation will describe his novel work on the enzymology, biology and functions of tyrosine sulfation.
• Akhilesh Pandey of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will share his findings and views with respect to PTMs and signaling and recent developments in databases for system analyses of PTM biology.
• Tony Pawson of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute will lecture on mechanisms that underlie intracellular signal transduction by modular-protein domains.
• Pierre Thibault of the Université de Montreal will talk about high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) and phosphorylation and about his recent work on protein sumoylation.
Based on the enormous success of the first meeting held two years ago in Lake Tahoe, this meeting not only will benefit newcomers to the field of PTMs but it also will provide a forum for sharing breakthroughs in both methodology and biology for established investigators.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
"The Crystal Skull" by Manda Scott
5 comments:
- daydream said...
Well anyways what genre is this. I mean it's not fantasy, but seems to be something in the paranormal obscure line. Of course it can be something along the spectrum of the "DaVinchi Code". I am interested in this. The cover is really cool.
- April 28, 2008 at 4:31 PM
- Dark Wolf said...
Is a thriller and you're right it is in the spectrum of "Da Vinci Code" :)
- April 28, 2008 at 8:04 PM
- daydream said...
I'm so intuitive, when it comes to that! Sounds so good.
PS: These graphics in order to post comments are twisting way too much. I need new pair of eyes!
- April 28, 2008 at 8:06 PM
- Robert said...
I'm glad you reviewed this Mihai :) It was in my review pile and I was planning on reading it, but I'm just so far behind, I had to skip it. So it's good to know that it's worth the effort and I'll definitely revisit the book when I have more time...
- April 29, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- Dark Wolf said...
Robert I'm glad I could help you with my review ;)
- April 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM


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Windsor's Trenton Noller, Regis' Quinn Vandekoppel, pick college football programs
Two more Coloradans have decided on college football programs.
Trenton Noller of Windsor, a lineman, announced on Twitter that he would play at Navy and Regis Jesuit linebacker Quinn Vandekoppel stated in an e-mail that it would be CSU-Pueblo for him.
At 6-foot-2, about 330 pounds, Noller played multiple positions across the Wizards' fronts. He helped the team to a 9-3 record in 2013 and had stated repeatedly that his preference included the service academies. Noller was a member of The Denver Post 2013 All-Colorado Team.
Concerning Vandekoppel, he gets to play in state and with an interesting program. He helped the Raiders to a 9-2 record in 2013 — they fell to neighboring Grandview in the second round. At 6-1, 220, he led Regis Jesuit in tackles (103), and had two interceptions and five fumble recoveries.


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Boiled Potatoes: 2
Finely Chopped Green Chillies: 3-4
Ginger Garlic Paste: 1 tsp
Finely Chopped Coriander Leaves: 1 tbsp
Lemon Jucice: 1 tsp
Salt to Taste
Wheat Flour: 2 Cups
Salt to Taste
Oil for Deep Frying and for Cover
Mix salt and small amount of oil in a wheat flour very well. Then add some water and knead the dough. Dough should be just like chapati dough. Cover this dough and keep aside for a while.
Then grate boiled potatoes. Add all other ingredients of stuffing in potatoes. Mix this stuffing mixture very well. Make small ball of dough. Apply some oil on both palms & flatten the ball to form a 2 inch roti. Take small portion of stuffing and wrap that stuffing in each roti and roll into a small ball. Roll this ball to form a 3-4 inch round kachori. Heat the oil in kadhai. Now lift the rolled kachori and carefully slip it into the hot oil. Immediately start flickering hot oil over the top of it with a spatula so that it will swell up. Flip the kachori and cook both sides till it become golden brown.
Serve this hot kachori with Tamarind and mint chutney...


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I've seen a lot of code on how to add a
first and
last class to a WordPress menu, but in my instance I would like to add a
last class to the last li in the sub-menu that WP generates. Here's what I would like to achieve in it's simplest form.

Menu item one

Menu item two

Sub menu item one

Sub menu item two

Sub menu item three

Menu item three

And here is what I currently have, that adds first and last classes to only the parent menu items. Could this be adapted?
function add_first_and_last($items) {
$items[1]->classes[] = 'first';
$items[count($items)]->classes[] = 'last';
return $items;
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_objects', 'add_first_and_last');
I would like to stick with php for this and not use either
:last-child (want it to work in ie7 & 8) or jQuery.


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I grew up in Clear Lake, South Dakota. The 60's and 70's exposed me to some legendary country music. I continued my appreciation for country music thru the 80's, 90's and up to present day. And I've spent a great deal of time studying it. When I sit down to do the KXRB Morning Show each day, I have a library of music that is like nothing else in the world. I have songs spanning over seven decades to play and talk about. Hosting the show is not a job, it's a thrill. On the personal side, I'm blessed with a wonderful family with my wife Lorlane and son Mark Jr. We enjoy spending time together with movies, cooking, dining out, traveling, biking, playing baseball, fishing once in a while, and whatever else we feel like doing together.


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This Friday, March 29th, at 7:30, BERKELEY SYMPHONY meets PIEDMONT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Piedmont Center--in a partnership with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra--will host a talented, professional quartet playing Mozart and Brahms featuring violinist Rene Mandel, who also is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Symphony.
The Piedmont program will consist of the first Piano Quartets of Mozart and of Brahms, both in G minor, with local pianist Aileen Chanco, cellist Peter Wyrick and violist Natalie Racine completing the ensemble.
The evening before the performance at Piedmont Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Symphony's concert "THE IDEALISTS" at Zellerbach Hall will present The Stars and the Roses by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky set to the poetry of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet and former UCB professor Czesław Miłosz and featuring the stunning voice of tenor Noah Stewart. Along with these will be Bruckner's Symphony No. 4. Joanna Carniero conducts.
Rene Mandel is now the Executive Director of the Berkeley Symphony but was a violin prodigy, winning the Los Angeles Philharmonic "Star" Contest at 14 where he soloed under the baton of the late Calvin Simmons. At 20, he became a member LA Chamber Orchestra for 11 years. Mandel came to the Bay Area in the early 90's to become a founding member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra. He has been featured as a soloist with the SF Ballet Orchestra and the Knoxville Symphony, and has played with San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as in chamber concerts throughout the US and Europe.
During his years in Los Angeles, Mandel was also a studio musician where he performed on the sound tracks of such classic movies as "Schindler's List," "Titanic," "Jurassic Park," and "Die Hard."
Peter Wyrick is associate principal cellist with the San Francisco Symphony with whom Mandel has played often. Natalie Racine plays with the Montreal Symphony whose music director is Kent Nagano who was the music director of the Berkeley Symphony for two decades.
Immediately before coming to the Berkeley Symphony, Mandel was the Director of Artistic Operations/Executive Producer at the Montreal Symphony. From 2006 to 2009, he was The The Berkeley Symphony's Artistic Administrator and Orchestra Manager where he hired musicians and soloists, managed the concert programming and successfully aided in the artistic expansion of the orchestra.
Mandel studied under such notable teachers as Manuel Compinsky in Los Angeles, Josef Gingold at Indiana University, and Stuart Canin at UC Santa Barbara where he earned his Bachelor of Music.
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The Piedmont Center for the Arts is at 801 Magnolia Street in Piedmont, across from Piedmont High.
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To obtain these Tracking Data, Gallup uses third party analytics providers ("Third Party Analytics Providers"). The Third Party Analytics Providers use cookies to help us analyze how users use Gallup websites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of Gallup websites, including your IP address, will be transmitted to and stored by Third Party Analytics Providers' servers. On behalf of Gallup, the Third Party Analytics Providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of Gallup websites, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity. The Third Party Analytics Providers will not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. This processing is necessary for the purpose of Gallup's legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f) GDPR, in particular, to ensure the proper functioning of our website.
For the abovementioned purpose Gallup uses the following Third Party Analytics Providers: Google Analytics, Selligent, Oracle, Dynatrace and Zendesk. The list includes information about the use of each cookie, how to prevent the collection and use of information collected by the cookie.
One of our Third Party Analytic Providers is Google Analytics:
Google Analytics is a service from Google, Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google") using cookies which are saved on your computer. The information generated by the cookie is transferred to and stored on a Google server (generally) located in the USA. Google uses this information on our behalf in order to analyze the use of our websites. The IP address transferred from your browser through Google Analytics is not merged with other data by Google for profiling purposes.
You can prevent Google Analytics' collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available here. Gallup uses IP anonymization, which truncates/anonymizes the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA.
Further information can be found in the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
Only designated administrators of Gallup can access the information gathered by Google Analytics, and the information is used only for administrative and planning purposes to meet the needs of our users, such as to improve the content of the site and to customize the content and/or layout of the site for individuals or groups of users.
b. Cookies for advertising
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may use cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness. You can still decide whether you want to accept these cookies by way of consent. You may adjust your browser settings to prevent the reception of third-party cookies, or to provide notification whenever such third-party cookies are sent to you. If you do not accept these cookies, we will not be able to show you personalized content and ads.
2. Information Collected Directly
Gallup also collects Personal Information and other information that users voluntarily provide. It is entirely your decision to provide the requested information.
Gallup keeps all information directly collected confidential, and will only use the information for the particular purpose stated at the point of collection. Gallup will seek your specific permission for any additional use. You may choose to have this information removed at any time. Gallup will never barter, trade, or sell access to your information without your specific consent.
2.1. User Account Data
When setting up an account on one of the Gallup Websites ("User Account"), you may be asked to provide Personal Information including, but not limited to, your name, e-mail address, and your phone number. If you choose to purchase any products, services, access codes or other items for sale by Gallup, you will be asked to provide payment details and your full address for billing purposes.
As a customer/user of Gallup, we may obtain Personal Information about you when you register to use one of our websites or services/products or when you provide feedback about our products or services. The processing is necessary to perform the contract with you according to Article 6 (1) 1 lit. b) GDPR. As a customer/user, we will use your Personal Information, unless otherwise prohibited by law, for the following purposes:
- To provide you with the products and services you request.
- To communicate with you about your account or transactions with us and send you changes to our policies.
- To provide support including, but not limited to, product updates, product patches and fixes and other similar communications.
Furthermore we will use your Personal Information for our legitimate interests according to Article 6 (1) 1 lit. f) GDPR to notify you about information about features on our site, new product releases and service developments and to advertise Gallup's products and services in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Any User Account data will only be stored until you decide to terminate your User Account (see clause III.1. below). In case we are obliged to further store your Personal Information due to statutory retention requirements, your Personal Information will be barred for further use by Gallup and only be stored until such retention periods expire.
2.2. Other Personal Information Provided Directly
Personal Information provided by you on Gallup Websites, e.g. via contact forms, or via telephone will be stored in our service database and retained for the period necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you in accordance with Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. b) GDPR unless a longer retention period is required by law.
Many Gallup websites offer users the opportunity to participate in surveys or assessments via the internet. Gallup will provide information about the purpose and process for each survey or assessment as part of the applicable survey or assessment.
1. Access to your Survey or Assessment Results from Another User Account
Another online user may purchase an access code to a Gallup survey or assessment for you. Please note that when participating in a survey or assessment, your results will also be accessible to the online user who purchased the Gallup access code. The data accessible to that account holder may include your name and your results, but will not include your specific answers to individual questions within the survey or assessment. In addition, the account holder cannot modify, alter, or delete any of your results or User Account data.
After completion of the survey or assessment, you will at all times have the opportunity to change the settings for sharing your results with other account holders and opt-out from sharing your results.
2. Sharing your Survey Results with other people
After completion of the survey or assessment, you may have the opportunity to share your survey or assessment results via e-mail, or social networks. Please note that only your name and results will be displayed. By sharing your information from your User Account with any social media service, you are authorizing us to share information we collect from and about you with the social media service provider, other users, and your network of contacts on the social media service, and you understand that the social media service's use of the shared information will be governed by the social media service's privacy policy. If you do not want your Personal Information shared in this way, please do not connect your Gallup information to a social media service provider.
1. Correcting and Changing User Information and Preferences; Deletion of User Accounts
If you have given your consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) 1 lit. a) GDPR to receiving e-mail communications from Gallup but wish to withdraw your consent and discontinue this service, you may do so at any time by contacting us (see also below clause III.8. "Your rights"). In addition, as a registered user, you can change your settings within your User Account under "MY ACCOUNT" by updating your "Contact Me" settings.
You also have the option at all times to have your User Account deleted for any of the Gallup websites or to request a revision of your user information at any time. To do so, please contact us.
2. Information Security
Gallup employees understand the need for user privacy, and we maintain reasonable and appropriate security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into due account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information. Gallup has appointed a Privacy Policy Administrator to monitor privacy practices. Access to user data is strictly limited to specific individuals who are trained to respect user privacy. The access given to these employees is restricted to their need for such information for business purposes. A log of those who accessed the data is maintained and monitored to prevent security breaches.
3. Third-Party Information Storage
We provide Personal Information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use service providers such as Amazon cloud for data storage. Any vendor or agent that we retain are not allowed to use Personal Information they receive from us for any other purpose that to perform the contracted services we have contracted them to perform. Like Gallup, they will never barter, trade, or sell access to your information. Gallup remains responsible and liable under the Privacy Shield Principles if third-party agents that Gallup engages to process the Personal Information on Gallup's behalf do so in a manner inconsistent with the Principles, unless Gallup proves that Gallup is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.
4. Children and Privacy
Gallup encourages parents and guardians to spend time with their children online and to be fully familiar with the sites visited by their children. Gallup sites do not contain content that is generally considered unsuitable for children.
5. Links to Other Sites
Gallup websites may contain links to sites owned and/or operated by other organizations, and the privacy policies of those sites may differ from that of Gallup. These sites may collect data and make use of it in ways that Gallup does not. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on all third-party sites.
6. Location of Data Collection and Processing and Storage
In personally accessing Gallup websites, you may be submitting Personal Information and survey or assessment results that Gallup will use for business purposes that are consistent with this Privacy Statement. As a worldwide organization, Gallup collects information that may be processed internationally throughout Gallup offices worldwide. Your information may be processed in the United States or any other country in which Gallup maintains facilities including any Gallup subsidiary (a complete list of Gallup companies can be found on Gallup.com).
Gallup keeps Personal Information gathered and processed for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement for as long as there is a business purpose.
7. Compliance and Cooperation with Regulatory Authorities
Gallup complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss - U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of Personal Information transferred from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States respectively. Gallup has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Statement and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov.
8. Your rights
You have the right to access the Personal Information that we hold about you and to correct, update, amend, suppress, delete or otherwise modify any Personal Information where it is inaccurate, or has been processed in violation of the EU-US Privacy Shield Principles. When updating your Personal Information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act upon your request.
You may also, if governed by the General Data Protection Regulations, object to the use or processing of your Personal Information or withdraw consent to use your Personal Information at any time.
Under the General Data Protection Regulations, regarding the processing of your Personal Information, you have the following rights:
- the right to require free of charge (i) information whether your Personal Information is retained and (ii) access to and/or (iii) duplicates of the Personal Information retained. However, if the request affects the rights and freedoms of others or is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee (taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested) or refuse to act on the request;
- the right to request proper rectification, removal or restriction of your Personal Information;
- where processing of your Personal Information is either based on your consent or necessary for the performance of a contract with you and processing is carried out by automated means, the right to receive the Personal Information concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to have your Personal Information transmitted directly to another company, where technically feasible (data portability);
- where the processing of your Personal Information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw your consent at any time without impact to data processing activities that have taken place before such withdrawal or to any other existing legal justification of the processing activity in question;the right not to be subject to any automatic individual decisions which produces legal effects on you or similarly significantly affects you and
- the right to take legal actions in relation to any breach of your rights regarding the processing of the Personal Information, as well as to lodge complaints before the competent data protection regulators.
To exercise the rights referred to above, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
As far as we process your Personal Information on the basis of our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 1) lit. f) GDPR, you may object to processing at any time. You may find the detailed description of our processing activities and the legal basis in the sections before. If you object we will no longer process your Personal Information unless there are compelling and prevailing legitimate grounds for the processing or the data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. If you object to such processing, we ask you to state the grounds of you objection in order for us to examine the processing of your Personal Information and decide whether to adjust the processing accordingly.
Please note that the processing of your Personal Information may involve advertising activities as described above. If you do not want that we process your Personal Information for direct marketing activities, you can object free of charge at any time via e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Gallup will obtain your consent before sharing your Personal Information with any third party that is not acting as an agent or vendor to perform tasks on our behalf or to use the information for a purpose materially different from the purpose for which it was initially collected or subsequently authorized by you. An exception to this will be (among others) where Gallup's processing of Personal Information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under the applicable law.
9. Sensitive Information
For processing of your sensitive information (e.g. medical information, Personal Information revealing ethnic or racial origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or a natural's person sex life or sexual orientation), we will obtain your explicit consent.
Gallup is among others not required to obtain explicit consent with respect to sensitive information where the processing is (a) necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent; (b) necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity; (c) necessary to carry out Gallup's obligations in the field of employment law in so far as it is authorized by European Union or Member State Law or a collective agreement pursuant to Member State Law providing for appropriate safeguards for the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject; or (d) related to information that is manifestly made public by the individual.
10. Dispute Resolution
If you have any complaints regarding our compliance with this Policy or a Privacy Shield related or general privacy related complaint, you should first contact us. We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of Personal Information in accordance with this Policy.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S. based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield.
With respect to human resources data, Gallup will cooperate and comply with the EU DPA's and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) with the advice given by such authorities with respect to human resources data transferred from the EU and Switzerland in the context of the employment relationship. If you do not receive timely acknowledgement of your complaint from Gallup, or if we have not addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, you may contact the EU DPA's for more information or to file a complaint. The services of the EU DPA's are provided at no cost to you.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, you have the possibility to invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
Gallup is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
11. Policy Updates
This Privacy Statement is Gallup's promise to its websites users and Users with a registered User Account. Additional information that is particular to specific Gallup sites may exist, and updates to this policy may be posted. For these reasons, we suggest that users who may have specific concerns about the information being gathered and use of that information regularly view the Privacy Statement on each site. Gallup reserves the right to change the policy on use of information collected at any time.
12. Additional Questions or Comments
If you have any inquiries, complaints, access requests and any other questions arising under Privacy Shield or comments regarding Gallup's Privacy Policy, please contact us. Gallup will respond to you within 30 days of receiving a complaint.


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Study predicts that extreme weather events will occur more often.
Some of the worst El Nios, the infamous climate patterns that shake up weather around the world, could double in frequency in upcoming decades due to global warming, says a new study out Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. During an El Nio, water temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean tend to be warmer-than-average for an extended period of time typically at least three to five months. This warm water brings about significant changes in global weather patterns. The most powerful El Nios such as the ones that developed in 1982-83 and 1997-98 are forecast to occur once every 10 years throughout the rest of this century, according to study lead author Wenju Cai of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency. Over the past 100 years or so, however these "extreme" El Nios occurred only once every 20 years, he said. This means that the extreme weather events fueled by El Nios such as droughts and wildfires in Australia, floods in South America and powerful rainstorms along the U.S. West Coast will occur more often. The most recent El Nio ended in 2010. The research results came from an aggregation of 20 climate models, which were used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
The models found that this doubling of extreme El Nio episodes is caused by increased surface warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean because of climate change. This area of the ocean warms faster than the surrounding waters, the researchers found. But Cai acknowledges those findings stand in contrast.to previous studies that found no solid consensus on how El Nios will change because of global warming. "The question of how global warming will change the frequency of extreme El Nio events has challenged scientists for more than 20 years," said study co-author Mike McPhaden of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "This research is the first comprehensive examination of the issue to produce robust and convincing results." "It looks like a solid study," said meteorologist Michael Mann of Penn State University, who was not involved in the research. "The authors appear to provide reasonably convincing evidence that El Nio events are likely to become more extreme as the climate continues to warm, in turn implying greater future regional climate/weather extremes than past studies." However, another expert, senior scientist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo, said that some aspects of the study are not really new, although it is cast in a new way. He notes that there remain issues in how well models simulate El Nio events, which means uncertainty remains on just how El Nio and the climate of the tropical Pacific will actually change. He suggests that a way forward is to also look at the atmospheric component of El Nio and how that is changing. "Even if the projection for this increased frequency of extreme El Ninos is correct, there will still be extended periods of infrequent and weak El Ninos, such as has been experienced since the late 1990s (since the last big event of 1997-98)," said Lisa Goddard, director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society with Columbia University. "This is likely the result of decadal variability, which is something the climate community is actively researching at present," she added.
A separate study published in Nature Climate Change in 2013 found that El Nios appeared to occur a lot more than normal over the last 50 years, just as temperatures worldwide rose because of global warming, also suggesting a connection.