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Boulder, CO, USA – Hot topics include (1) opposition to the idea that chevron-shaped dunes are indicative of mega-tsunamis; (2) discovery of a complex microbial community that extends the fossil record of cavity-dwelling life by more than 1.5 billion years; (3) documentation of nanoscale, respirable cristobalite fibers in volcanic ash from Chaiten volcano and the likely adverse health effects; (4) closing the gap between Earth's first animals and fossil and geochemical evidence; and (5) the largest trilobites ever found.
New evidence from seismic imaging for subduction during assembly of the North China craton
Tianyu Zheng et al., Seismological Laboratory (SKL-LE), Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China. Pages 395-398.
The "frozen-in" information in the crust plays an important role in improving our understanding of cratonic formation and evolution, and of plate tectonics in the Precambrian. The Trans-North China orogen (TNCO) is a continental-to-continental collision belt generated by the assembly of the North China craton (NCC). The mechanism and modality of the collision are disputed. Here, Zheng et al. present a seismic image of the Western Block and the TNCO of the NCC-derived using receiver function analysis of the teleseismic records from a dense array. A low-velocity zone extending from the middle crust to the Moho is interpreted as a remnant of upper-middle crustal material associated with westward-dipping subduction beneath the Western Block of the NCC. Crustal uplifting and magmatic underplating resulting from subsequent tectonic events were responsible for modifying the remaining subduction architecture. The western boundary of the TNCO is located west of the boundary earlier identified by surface investigation. The results, combined with previous seismic imaging in the eastern NCC, provide insight into the amalgamation of the Eastern and Western Blocks and the subsequent tectonic deformation of the NCC.
Reconstructing Earth's surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition
Qingjun Guo et al., State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China. Pages 399-402.
Earth's atmosphere experienced a substantial increase in free oxygen during the Archean-Proterozoic transition (2650-2100 million years ago), termed the Great Oxidation Event. Although the atmospheric oxygen content was still far less than today, surface environments were affected by oxidation. This change in redox conditions was associated with changes in ocean biogeochemistry. Interestingly, observed geochemical changes appear, in part, to be related also to Earth's earliest ice age. Guo et al. pursued a multi-geochemical study of a respective rock succession, in order to reconstruct the history of atmospheric oxygenation. Time-series data for multiple sulfur isotopes from carbonate-associated sulfate, as well as sulfides in sediments of the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, capture the significant rise of atmospheric oxygen (as well as the protective ozone layer), its subsequent consequences for ocean chemistry and biology, and the loss of atmospheric mass-independent sulfur isotope fractionation. In phase with sulfur is the earliest recorded positive carbon isotope anomaly, convincingly linking these environmental perturbations to the Great Oxidation Event.
"Chevrons" are not mega-tsunami deposits — A sedimentologic assessment
Joanne Bourgeois and Robert Weiss, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. Pages 403-406.
Bourgeois and Weiss challenge the debated hypothesis that impact-generated tsunamis have deposited giant chevron-shaped dunes ("chevrons") on many of the world's coastlines. This highly speculative interpretation made one of its first splashes with a New York Times article (14 Nov. 2006) by Sandra Blakeslee and continues to capture public fascination. The "Holocene Impact Working Group" has argued, primarily outside the peer-reviewed literature, that there are many large, v-shaped dunes in the world that were deposited by mega-tsunamis, generated by oceanic asteroid impacts in the past 10,000 years. Bourgeois and Weiss make a counter-argument using the basic physics of tsunamis and sediment transport. They present three lines of argument: (1) the dunes are not limited to coastlines where mega-tsunamis could strike; (2) the orientation of the dunes does not match the travel direction of modeled tsunami waves; and (3) the giant scale of tsunamis proposed by researchers such as those of the Holocene Impact Working Group would wash out any bedforms such as chevron dunes.
Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo-ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica
Robert D. Larter et al., British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. Pages 411-414.
Larter et al. present the most extensive, continuous area of seafloor sonar imagery collected to date on the Antarctic continental shelf, which reveals the "footprint" of a formerly much more extensive ice sheet. The swath bathymetry data collected on expeditions by the British Antarctic Survey and the German Alfred Wegener Institute show details of former subglacial features on parts of the seabed that are now up to 1600-m deep. The trends and characteristics of these features allow reconstruction of past ice flow paths and provide clues about the processes that enabled fast ice flow. Understanding the processes that control fast ice flow in "ice streams" is important because they account for most ice discharge from the large ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland, and knowledge of how large ice sheets responded to warming at the end of the last glacial period will help predict how the ice sheets will change in response to future warming. The new data indicate that conditions at the base of the former ice sheet were more complex than previously thought, suggesting much more research will be necessary to reliably predict the future behavior of modern ice sheets.
Sulfur content at sulfide saturation in oxidized magmas
Pedro J. Jugo, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada. Pages 415-418.
Although sulfur is a trace element in most magmas, it influences important magmatic processes. For example, sulfides (reduced sulfur) control the behavior of base and precious metals (such as copper, nickel, gold, palladium, platinum, etc.). Therefore, the ability to predict the chemical precipitation of sulfides from a magma is essential in the prediction of where mineral deposits could be located. On the other hand, if magmas are sufficiently oxidized, sulfide is unstable, sulfates become dominant, and no mineral deposits will form. In addition, magmas will tend to accumulate sulfur and metals and release them to the atmosphere during volcanic eruptions. Loss of metals to the atmosphere precludes the formation of ore deposits, but is otherwise inconsequential for geological processes. However, explosive, high-sulfur emissions reaching the stratosphere have strong, short-term impact on global climate, and assessing the impact of high-sulfur volcanism on climate through geologic history requires understanding of how often high-sulfur emissions occur. The study by Jugo links, for the first time, the change in sulfur content as a sulfide-saturated magma becomes progressively oxidized until sulfides are no longer stable. In contrast to long-held views, the study demonstrates that sulfur content increases exponentially with oxidation because of the increasing contribution of dissolved oxidized sulfur (sulfates). The implications are that most magmas related to volcanism in subduction zones have the potential to transport and release more sulfur than previously estimated; therefore, high-sulfur magmatism in geologic history is likely more common than currently assumed. For the formation of mineral deposits, the main implication is that, rather than having an "on-off" system for sulfide or sulfate stability, the transition is continuous. In addition, magma generation from oxidized mantle will enhance the metal transfer from the deep Earth to the crust.
Downdip segmentation of strike-slip fault zones in the brittle crust
Eliza S. Nemser and Darrel S. Cowan, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1310, USA. Pages 419-422.
Segmentation within fault zones is widely recognized and can influence earthquake rupture behavior. Both along-strike and downdip segmentation have been observed along fractures and within dip-slip fault zones, whereas only along-strike segmentation has been documented within strike-slip fault zones. Nemser and Cowan report new field evidence of downdip segmentation within a strike-slip fault from the western Salton Trough region of Southern California. In this outcrop example, steeply dipping fault segments step over along mechanically weak stratigraphic units that accommodate bedding-parallel slip. They infer similar geometries at a much larger scale in the form of vertically restricted steep seismicity streaks defined by relocated crustal seismicity data along the nearby southern San Jacinto fault zone. Nemser and Cowan interpret these streaks as evidence of vertically restricted steep fault segments that may be linked by low-angle fault segments (décollements). A lack of spatial correspondence between earthquakes on low-angle fault planes and the locations of inferred décollements suggests that these structures are weak and behave aseisimically. Downdip segmentation of strike-slip faults may be common at a variety of scales; this result may lead to the reinterpretation of fault geometry and kinematics in many strike-slip fault zones.
Evidence for microbial life in synsedimentary cavities from 2.75 Ga terrestrial environments
Birger Rasmussen et al., Dept. of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, Kent St, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Pages 423-426.
Sediments deposited in lakes about 2.75 billion years ago preserve finger-like microbial deposits that grew in the roof of cavities that developed shortly after deposition. Analysis of sulfur isotopes in the structures suggests the presence of sulfur-metabolizing bacteria, while the isotopic composition of carbon in organic debris in the adjacent sediments indicates that methane-cycling microbes were present. Evidently, Earth's ancient land surface supported a complex microbial community, including microbes that inhabited gas-filled hollows in shallow sediments, extending the fossil record of cavity-dwelling life by more than 1.5 billion years. This discovery by Rasmussen et al. provides a new habitat in the search for early life on Earth and an analogue for life on Mars.
Delta-37Cl systematics of a backarc spreading system: The Lau Basin
Graham D. Layne et al., Dept. of Earth Sciences, IIC 1047, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X5, Canada. Pages 427-430.
Although chlorine is an extremely important agent for the dissolution and mass transfer of many elements by natural waters and brines in Earth's crust, the details of its recycling into the deep crust and mantle by plate tectonic action are very poorly understood. Of particular interest are the processes by which chlorine trapped in ocean sediments and in seawater-altered ocean floor basalt may be recycled to the lower crust and mantle as part of the "Subduction Factory," in systems such as the Lau Basin of the western Pacific Ocean. Layne et al. use advanced microanalytical techniques to study the chlorine isotope compositions of lavas returned to the surface during subduction-related volcanism in the Lau Basin in order to learn details of these deep processes, despite the fact that the lavas have often been erupted directly in to the chlorine-rich waters of the modern ocean.
Schwertmannite in wet, acid, and oxic microenvironments beneath polar and polythermal glaciers
R. Raiswell et al., Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Pages 431-434.
Chemical conditions beneath glaciers are difficult to observe and are usually studied by sampling meltwaters emerging from glacial oulets or drill holes. These waters average chemical signals over a large area and cannot record small-scale spatial and temporal variability. By contrast, subglacial sediments contain minute (nanometer-sized) particles of iron oxides that can only have formed in transient geochemical "hotspots." Raiswell et al. have found minute crystals of schwertmannite, an iron hydroxy-sulfate mineral, in glaciers from the Antarctic and Arctic. Schwertmannite is typically found in acid mine drainage, where it forms by the oxidation of pyrite at low pH. These conditions can also be created in subglacial environments, but only in minute hotspots or "microenvironments." There, schwertmannite forms rapidly but is very unstable, and its survival requires freezing into ice within 100 years. So, frozen nanoparticle schwertmannite indicates the presence of transient geochemically active microenvironments deep within glacial ice. The formation, preservation, and delivery of nanoparticles of schwertmannite (and iron oxides) into the Southern Ocean may partially relieve iron-limited photosynthesis and assist in the removal of manmade carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Formation of cristobalite nanofibers during explosive volcanic eruptions
Martin Reich et al., Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. Pages 435-438.
On 2 May 2008, the Chaiten volcano in Patagonia, Chile, started its first historical eruption. Eruption plumes and ash accumulation have forced the complete and permanent evacuation of about 4,000 people from the town of Chaiten and the closure of airports in both Chile and Argentina. Explosive volcanic eruptions, such as at Chaiten, release large amounts of fine particles into the atmosphere, and previous studies have reported the adverse health effects of "respirable" crystalline silica-ash particles (i.e., particles thinner than a human hair that enter directly into the lungs). Reich et al. used high-magnification microscopy techniques (transmission electron microscopy, TEM) to image the "respirable" particles present in volcanic ash sampled during the first week of the eruption. They obtained high-resolution, near-atomic scale images of crystalline silica identified as cristobalite. The presence of cristobalite is especially relevant, because this mineral has been previously identified as a health threat, raising concerns about adverse health effects of long-term exposure to ash. Reich et al.'s detailed TEM images document, for the first time, that "respirable" cristobalite in volcanic ash forms fibers, wires, and needles at the nanoscale. This information is of utmost importance to better assess the health risks of volcanic ash (and its contained nano-fibrous silica) associated with the short-term inhalation of ash during explosive volcanic eruptions, and also long-term exposure in ash-covered areas.
Chlorine enrichment in central Rio Grande Rift basaltic melt inclusions: Evidence for subduction modification of the lithospheric mantle
M.C. Rowe and J.C. Lassiter, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. Pages 439-442.
The study by Rowe and Lassiter draws important conclusions regarding magmatism in the central Rio Grande Rift based on microanalytical techniques. Rowe and Lassiter identify a new potential method for identifying the source of the "geochemical fingerprint" of basaltic lavas, and suggest that approx. 40-million-year-old subduction beneath the western United States altered the source for present-day volcanics.
Giant trilobites and trilobite clusters from the Ordovician of Portugal
Juan C. Gutierrez-Marco et. al., Departamento de Paleontologia, Instituto de Geologia Economica (CSIC-UCM), Facultad de Ciencias Geologicas, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Pages 443-446.
Fossils from 465 million years ago recently discovered in Portugal have revealed the huge size reached by trilobites, the most diverse group of extinct marine arthropods. Gutierrez-Marco et al. describe the largest trilobites ever found, which, in life, would have reached up to 90 centimeters (35 inches). This remarkable record suggests evidence of polar gigantism in an area of Gondwana close to the South Pole during the Ordovician. The Portuguese trilobites also show an astounding array of behavioral clustering — with some patches reaching groups of over a thousand specimens — revealing a very diverse social conduct, including hiding from predators and sexual aggregations. This could have played a major role in the undisputed success of this group through the Paleozoic Era. The original discovery site and its fossils are one of the main attractions of the recently established Arouca Geopark in northern Portugal.
Blake Nose stable isotopic evidence against the mid-Cenomanian glaciation hypothesis
Atsushi Ando et al., Dept. of Paleobiology, MRC NHB 121, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA. Pages 451-454.
A recent debate in paleoclimatic research concerns whether a transient glaciation event occurred across the mid-Cenomanian time interval (about 96 million years ago) despite the prevalence of an extensive greenhouse condition. In a study by Ando et al., this greenhouse glaciation hypothesis is rigorously tested through detailed stable isotope analyses of multiple calcareous microfossil groups from a Blake Nose deep-sea section off northern Florida. A significant advancement is achieved by the establishment of carbon isotope stratigraphy, facilitating precise correlation of their northwest Atlantic oxygen isotope trends with the European sedimentary records of sea-level change. Ando et al. find that the Cenomanian upper ocean oxygen isotope composition remained constant across the duration of rapid sea-level fall. This observation contradicts what is predicted from the glaciation hypothesis.
Low-angle collision with Earth: The elliptical impact crater Matt Wilson, Northern Territory, Australia
Thomas Kenkmann and Michael H. Poelchau, Museum fur Naturkunde, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Pages 459-462.
Nearly all meteorite impact craters on Earth are circular. Elongated crater structures are expected only at impacts at angles lower than 12 degrees from the horizontal. Kenkmann and Poelchau document the first elliptical crater on Earth that provides insights into the mechanisms of crater formation at low angles. The diameter of the Proterozoic Matt Wilson impact structure (Northern Territory, Australia) is 7.5 by 6.3 kilometers, with its long axis trending northeast-southwest. The exposed crater floor shows a preferred stacking of thrust sheets within the central uplift, indicating a material transport top-to-southwest. This is explained by remnant horizontal momentum transferred from the impacting projectile to the target rocks. The Matt Wilson structure provides evidence for the usefulness of structural asymmetries as a diagnostic tool to infer the direction of impact.
Field evidence for climate-driven changes in sediment supply leading to strath terrace formation
Theodore K. Fuller et al., National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA. Pages 467-470.
Along the South Fork of the Eel River in northern California, the widest and most extensive bedrock terraces are covered with alluvial sediment, which was deposited when the landscape was eroding twice as fast as modern erosion rates. This study by Fuller et al. supports the hypothesis that extensive bedrock terraces are carved during conditions of elevated sediment supply. In addition, dating of terrace deposits reveals that the period of elevated sediment supply correlates in time with increased rates of annual precipitation during the late Pleistocene. Thus, their data suggest a link between climate-driven increases in sediment supply and the carving of bedrock terraces. Finally, a comparison between basin-wide erosion rates and estimated rates of vertical channel incision indicate that local hillslope relief has been increasing over the past 20,000 years.
Early Neoproterozoic origin of the metazoan clade recorded in carbonate rock texture
Fritz Neuweiler et al., Departement de Geologie et Genie geologique, Universite Laval, 1065, Avenue de la Medecine, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. Pages 475-478.
The Neoproterozoic interval of "hidden" evolution refers to a gap of unknown duration between the time when animals first evolved (uncertain) and the oldest known fossil or geochemical evidence of animals (latest Neoproterozoic, about 600-650 million years ago). Neuweiler et al. now propose to fill this gap. They describe distinctive, microscopic features in early Neoproterozoic limestone (between 779 and 1083 million years old) from the Northwest Territories of Canada, consisting of highly structured zones with multi-generational arrays of carbonate minerals, secondary voids, and internal sediment. Today, such a texture develops when aragonite crystals precipitate on the decaying connective tissue (collagen) of sponges in sediment on the sea floor. As sponge decay progresses, a complex fabric of calcareous material and voids is produced, which is identical to fabrics in Phanerozoic limestones (less than 542 million years old) containing known sponge body fossils and to the fabrics now reported from the early Neoproterozoic. Collagenous connective tissue is a fundamental character of all metazoans (animals), and so the presence in early Neoproterozoic rocks of a microscopic fabric directly associated with it implies that metazoan-grade organisms existed at that time. These purported ancestral metazoans did not have a canal system that would relate them to sponges, the simplest form of animal known today. Instead, they likely represent a structured consortium of protists in a shared collagenous scaffold. These results push back the earliest geologic evidence for animals by around 200 million years. This timing corroborates results of an integrated phylochronology and supports the concept of a biosphere that persisted through Snowball Earth.


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They traveled a great distance to bring the baby Jesus presents of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
In addition, the many ancient winter solstice festivals also featured an exchange of gifts, and it's believed the Christmas tradition may have borrowed from those festivals as well.
And according to lore, the Santa Claus of old Europe was said to be a kind old man who would leave gifts for the good children, or perhaps a stick or some coal for those who've been naughty.
As Christmas has grown as a secular holiday in this country, the tradition of gift-giving certainly has evolved into a massive business. Most retailers look at the holiday period as their most significant time of the year for making sales.

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The initial objective of MT was to develop a DP system that complied with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) guidelines for a DP 2 class system. Only sixteen months after the foundation of the company in 2002, the first vessel with a DP system from MT received its DP-2 notation from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The vessel, M/V AMBER, is a 280′ OSV owned by the Edison Chouest Offshore companies on charter to BHP Billiton. Since that time, MT has delivered more than a hundred DP systems worldwide, the majority being DP class 2.
Bridge Mate DP Concept
The overall goal of Marine Technologies is to support market demand with cost effective systems that provide added value for the customer based on:
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The Bridge Mate dynamic positioning concept consists of a number of DP and joystick systems designed to meet the IMO-MSC/Circ. 645 guidelines for vessels with dynamic positioning systems and other relevant classification notations. Click here to view the basic Bridge Mate DP system control scheme. The different modules in the flow chart are described in more detail in the DP Operator Manual.
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Local GPs in Stockport are encouraging residents to get 'appy' and look after their health by using their smartphones and tablets.
It's estimated that four out of five people in the borough have a smartphone and medics want to tap in to this growing trend.
A Stockport Health & Care Finder app has been created to give people a chance to take more control of their own health. This will help to increase people's understanding of how to use and access local health and social care services, self-care options and lifestyle opportunities.
The app will give users rapid and easy access to up-to-date local health and social care information including a directory of pharmacies, GPs, hospitals, clinics, care homes and other services.
At a touch of a button users will be able to find the services that are nearest to them at any time. For example, if you're trying to find a late night chemist, the app will automatically sort out which are the closest to you and then give you the opening hours, address and contact details.
You can also set up favourites for faster access to the services you're interested in and dial them directly from your app.
There are links on it to videos about how best to take care of yourself if you are ill and how to prevent ill health. The app can also be used to send out reminders about health checks and screening entitlements.
It's also hoped the app will help to encourage high users of NHS services to get the right care in the right place.
We now have WiFi installed at the practice which is free for our patients to use when they next visit the surgery, please look out for the log on details in the waiting room. Maybe you could.......
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You should use the NHS 111 service if you urgently need medical help or advice but it's not a life-threatening situation. Please visit the following website for further information:-
We have today installed a hearing loop at the practice. A hearing loop is a special type of sound system for use by people with hearing aids. The hearing loop provides a magnetic, wireless signal that is picked up by the hearing aid when it is set to 'T' (Telecoil) setting. We hope this will help our hard of hearing patients have a better experience at the practice.
Here at Adswood Road Surgery we believe in a fair and equal society for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people and have recently achieved our Gold Award from the LGBT Foundation. The LGBT Foundation is a charity based provider of a wide range of services to over 40,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people each year. Please take a look at their website for further information:-
Other useful websites:-
https://www.theproudtrust.org/ -an organisation for young LGBT people, runs youth groups
http://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ - an organisation for trans children (under 13)
http://firstwednesday.lgbt/ - for LGBT people seeking asylum and refuge
http://www.stockportplus.org/ - local LGBT support group with weekly meet-up
https://imaanlondon.wordpress.com/about/ - LGBT Muslim charity
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"To amaze, inspire, and excite" - A conversation about Return to Europe with ESI
Interview with Gerald Knaus about Return to Europe
The making of Return to Europe
Videoclips from the films
Why this documentary series?
Europe is discovering its fascination for the Balkans. After years of bloody conflict, this region has become again a region of hope. Romania and Bulgaria have joined the European Union. There is peace. A new generation desires change. The magic word that echoes from Tirana to Belgrade, from Sarajevo to Istanbul is "Europeanisation". But there are also ongoing tensions in some parts of the region.
In 2005 an international commission headed by Giuliano Amato, the former Italian Prime Minister and current Minister of the Interior, warned that "the smell of violence still hangs in the air" in the Balkans. Contested borders, social tensions, oppressed minorities, weak states: all these continue to be realities in Europe's southeast.
The expression "Balkan conditions" describes a world of tribal feuds and of vendettas, of political insecurity and of mafia structures. But there are also other things to be found across the region today: the ability to forgive, the return of displaced people, entrepreneurship and creativity. There is fanaticism but also tolerance, animosity but also co-existence of different cultures. Throughout the region there are activists trying to tap dormant potentials.
A journey through the Balkans is a journey through Europe's past and its future. The British author Timothy Garton Ash writes that a European century full of folly and destruction began in Sarajevo in the summer of 1914. At the time, the founding fathers of the European Union, Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet, were 28 and 26 years old respectively, and their dream of a unified Europe can be traced back to the experiences of that summer. One century later, the pax europea has become a reality in almost every corner of the continent.
To present the changing Balkans to a wider public ESI has embarked on a journey of discovery. Like many European stories, our trip starts in Rome, the eternal city. From there it leads across South Eastern Europe as far as Istanbul, the region's largest city since the 4th century. In between we stop in Kotor on the Adriatic Sea, Novi Sad on the Danube, Tirana in the Albanian coastal plains, and in Thessaloniki on the Aegean Sea. The journey ends near the Ottoman "Fortress of Europe" (Rumeli Hisari) in Istanbul, city of patriarchs and caliphs. We visit Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece.
It is a journey of colours: the facades of Tirana, the painted mosques of Travnik, the fabulous old houses of Plovdiv and the spectacular blue of water - dark in the Bay of Kotor, emerald in the river valleys of Bosnia, deep blue in Ohrid, twinkling in the Aegean Sea and on the Bosporus.


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Here is a slender feline that has a lot to say with just a body pose and the stare from her eyes. Another great Halloween lesson on the way that will be as easy as writing out the numbers 1,2,3. Today, I will be showing you "how to draw a Halloween cat for kids", step by step. The black cat is one of the most popular cat color of any domestic feline species. They have made a name for themselves as being a vessel for witches to hide their identities. They are also watchers of their magical master's dwellings, as well as being known for their "bad luck" spell that they will cast upon you if you cross their paths during the whole month of October. I wanted to create a super easy cat design that will be easy enough for my sister to replicate. So here is drawing a black Halloween cat for kids. I do hope you enjoy this lesson, and I also hope you show off your skills by placing your finished drawing on a window, wall or fridge. Adios people!
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What is SessionRegistry?
Maintains a registry of SessionInformation instances.What is SessionInformation?
Source: Spring Security 3 API for SessionRegistry
Represents a record of a session within the Spring Security framework.We begin by inquiring how to query the SessionRegistry. A search on Spring Security Reference 3 gives us the following information:
This is primarily used for concurrent session support.
Source: Spring Security 3 API for SessionInformation
Setting up concurrency-control, either through the namespace or using plain beans has the useful side effect of providing you with a reference to the SessionRegistry which you can use directly within your application ...Based on this reference we need to setup the concurrency control to access the SessionRegistry.
The getAllPrincipals() method supplies you with a list of the currently authenticated users. You can list a user's sessions by calling the getAllSessions(Object principal, boolean includeExpiredSessions) method, which returns a list of SessionInformation objects. You can also expire a user's session by calling expireNow() on a SessionInformation instance.
Source: 11.3.1 Querying the SessionRegistry for currently authenticated users and their sessions
Here's what we need to do:
1. "To use concurrent session support, you'll need to add the following to web.xml"
2. "In addition, you will need to add the ConcurrentSessionFilter to your FilterChainProxy."
We add this in the http tag
3. "The ConcurrentSessionFilter requires two properties, sessionRegistry, which generally points to an instance of SessionRegistryImpl, and expiredUrl, which points to the page to display when a session has expired.".
We add the concurrencyFilter bean and sessionRegistry bean.
4. "Authentication by mechanisms which perform a redirect after authenticating (such as form-login) will not be detected by SessionManagementFilter, as the filter will not be invoked during the authenticating request. Session-management functionality has to be handled separately in these cases."
This means we can not use the following form-login tag anymore
5. This means we set the auto-config property to false:
6. Because we disabled auto-config and removed the form-login tag, we must manually assign an AuthenticationEntryPoint:
7. And because we don't have an option to set the default success url, we must add our own handler:
8. And because we don't have an option to set the default failure url, we must add our own handler as well:
9. To activate these handlers, we need to assign them to an AuthenticationFilter:
10. The AuthenticationFilter references an authenticationManager. We are required to set this as an alias:
11. We need to replace the default AuthenticationFilter with our customized filter. We do this by adding it to the FilterChainProxy
12. Define a concrete concurrent control strategy (after all, this is what we really need to activate):
We're done with the steps.
Let's now examine our final Spring XML configurations. Remember we're still dealing with a Spring MVC application.
To test this configuration, we create a JSP that displays the a list of currently authenticated users along with their associated details.
To serve this JSP, we add a third request handler in our existing primary controller.
Notice we have injected the SessionRegistry:
To access all logged-in users, we called the following method:
sessionRegistry.getAllPrincipals()To access all sessions of the current user, we use the following:
sessionRegistry.getAllSessions()When we run this application, the logs show the following:
[DEBUG] Received request to show users page [DEBUG] Total logged-in users: 2 [DEBUG] List of logged-in users: [DEBUG] org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User@31a92e: Username: jane; Password: [PROTECTED]; Enabled: true; AccountNonExpired: true; credentialsNonExpired: true; AccountNonLocked: true; Granted Authorities: ROLE_USER [DEBUG] org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User@31dd0b: Username: john; Password: [PROTECTED]; Enabled: true; AccountNonExpired: true; credentialsNonExpired: true; AccountNonLocked: true; Granted Authorities: ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER [DEBUG] Total sessions including expired ones: 1 [DEBUG] Total sessions: 1And here's the actual JSP page:
http://localhost:8080/spring-security-sessionregistry/krams/main/usersThat's it. We've managed to setup a working Spring MVC 3 application that's secured by Spring Security. We've managed to enable concurrent session control and access session information of all currently authenticated users. We've just touched the surface of concurrent session control, specifically SessionRegistry.
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I don't care if it's in our best interest for the Bengals to lose - cheer for them to beat those a$$holes in Dallas anyway !!!
We'll take care of Cinci ourselves in two weeks !
I don't care if it's in our best interest for the Bengals to lose - cheer for them to beat those a$$holes in Dallas anyway !!!
We'll take care of Cinci ourselves in two weeks !
Dallas beat Cincy
Pittsburgh beat Dallas
Pittsburgh beat Cincy
Hope this helps...
not rooting for cinci.
Cleveland Browns suck!
Why? And then we just get an angry and desperate cowboys team the following week. Plus I just don't like rooting for a division rival
Absolutely not lol. Dallas beats Cincy (helps us), Dallas overly confident going into next week (helps us), we beat Dallas in Dallas (helps us), we beat Cincy in Pittsburgh (helps us)...
What you said is literally the complete opposite of what every Steelers fan should want.
op needs drug test. You want cinci to lose to benefit us. wow.
In either scenario Cinci wouldn't make the playoffs - but if Dallas loses then THEY probably won't make the playoffs also. And any Steelers fan should always be happy when they see Dallas not make the playoffs !!!
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Vincent, hating the cowboys is one thing, but why wouldn't you want a division rival (who has the same record as us) to lose to a team in an entirely different conference.
Your priorities are severely out of whack. Time to put the cowboy hatred away and hate the teams in our division instead!
"Today, I'm officially retiring a Pittsburgh Steeler. And as much as I will miss football, my teammates, coaches and everything about the game, I don't want to play it in any other uniform. The black and gold runs deep in me, and I will remain a Steeler for life."--Hines Ward
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(Reuters) - Owners of a planned horse slaughterhouse in New Mexico that would be the first such facility to operate in the United States in years filed notice on Monday of their plan to sue the state attorney general for slander over his efforts to block the plant from opening.
State Attorney General Gary King last month sued and secured a temporary restraining order against Valley Meat Co, which had planned to convert its cattle slaughterhouse in Roswell, New Mexico, to one processing horsemeat beginning on January 1.
Characterizing King's lawsuit as a libelous act of political grandstanding, an attorney for Valley Meat said the company would likely seek several million dollars in damages in a suit it plans to file next month. The lawsuit will claim slander, harassment and malicious abuse of process, according to the letter of intent.
"He defamed a whole product and a whole industry," Valley Meat Co attorney A. Blair Dunn said of King. "My clients are not horrible environmental actors like he's trying to claim."
The move is the latest in an ongoing legal battle that has pitted opponents of horse slaughter against an industry fighting to regain a foothold in the United States.
A spokesman for the attorney general, a Democrat who has announced plans to run for New Mexico governor in 2014, dismissed the lawsuit as frivolous and insisted it would not sway his boss from fighting to keep the facility from opening.
"We've taken a very strong stand against horse slaughter in New Mexico and this lawsuit appears to be an attempt to intimidate," said the spokesman, Phil Sisneros. "We're not giving up."
The attorney general's lawsuit said that Valley Meat had a long history of violating state environmental rules, including leaving piles of cattle carcasses to rot and be eaten by maggots.
It also asserts that because many horses are administered scores of drugs while alive, their meat is likely adulterated, unsuitable for human consumption and in violation of state food safety laws.
Dunn counters that the horses, whose meat would be sold as zoo animal feed in the United States and for human consumption in parts of Europe and Asia, would be taken off any drugs before slaughter and given time to flush the substances from their system.
The piles of rotting cattle described in the suit consisted of at least 80 percent manure and were in fact compost piles, Dunn said.
The Valley Meat facility would be equipped to slaughter 120 horses a day, Dunn said. The company would buy unwanted horses at auction and from the stock of free-roaming horses of domestic ancestry on Native American tribal lands.
Congress effectively banned horse slaughter in 2006 by saying the U.S. Department of Agriculture could not spend any money to inspect the plants. The ban had been extended a year at a time as part of USDA funding bills, but the language was omitted in 2011.
A federal appeals court in Colorado last month vacated a temporary ban on USDA inspections at slaughterhouse facilities, ruling against animal protection groups seeking to block Valley Meat and other aspiring horse slaughter facilities from opening. The restraining order the attorney general secured against Valley Meat in a New Mexico court remains in effect.
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Field learning lies at the heart of social work education and your development as a social worker. Within the context of the field placement experience, and aligned practice courses, you will have the opportunity to integrate theory and practice. Because the Silver School of Social Work has developed unique partnerships with over 600 public and nonprofit agencies throughout the tri-state area, our placement sites are varied, of high quality, and offer students a rich learning environment. No school devotes as much effort to matching students with appropriate field learning opportunities.
Field learning will immerse you in the extraordinary range of human and social problems that lead clients to reach out for help. It will provide you the opportunity to develop skills and appreciate the realities of coping with complex problems in the context of specific service-delivery systems.
You will be trained to work with a wide range of populations in diverse practice settings. With an emphasis on training for social work practice that promotes social and economic justice, your field education will advance your learning as a relationship-centered, reflective practitioner, preparing you for work with individuals, groups, families, and communities.
For MSW students, in your first, or generalist practice, year, the primary goal of field learning is to provide a foundation of social work practice skills within a generalist perspective.
In the second, or specialized practice, year, MSW students focus their graduate education on specific aspects of social work within specific practice systems (fields of practice) along with their professional development and growth. The faculty advisor, in the capacity of educational consultant, assists students with the development of educational goals and objectives for the specialized practice year.
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What Is The Difference Between A Finger Stick Blood Glucose Test And A Plasma Glucose Test?
Dr. Siminerio answers the question: 'Finger Stick Test vs. Plasma Glucose?'
-- Question: What is the difference between a finger stick test and a plasma test?
Answer: A finger stick glucose test is exactly what it is: it's a finger stick. So a little poke is make in the finger, and a little teeny, tiny drop of blood is withdrawn. And in that capillary blood we're able to determine blood sugar levels. And that's become a very good way to test blood sugars. You know, we have blood glucose meters now -- the technology's fantastic, where people, hospitals, doctors' offices can use the meter and use a finger stick to be able to determine a blood sugar level at that time.
A plasma glucose level is also important and is used for other reasons, but this is blood that is taken from the vein and sent to a laboratory. Now, sometimes those two numbers don't always correlate directly, so there might be a slight different between the two. And if there is a slight difference, I think that's something that a person with diabetes would want to discuss with their physician or their nurse.
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John, I'd be interested to see Stereophile spill a little ink on Bluetooth solutions that handle AAC directly. The potential advantage is that the player can (and will) stream the file--unfettered--to the other end and the "Bluetoothness" aspect becomes irrelevant for those who buy music from the world's largest online music seller, or make the effort to choose AAC over some other lossy format before putting songs on their phone, regardless of brand or OS.
Arcam rBlink Bluetooth D/A processor
There. I've said it. I am not an audiophile; ie, someone who's in love with recorded sound for its own sake. The search for ideal sound can leave a person burned out and broke.
That might be why I love Internet radio via Bluetooth. So much content. So convenient, via smartphone or laptop. As for computer-audio downloads, they're too complicated, chaotic, and costly.
I might pay for streaming high-resolution audio, if the content and convenience are there. More than one computer guru has said that digital subscriptions are the future. Who wants to "own" and store physical media?
I love Musical Fidelity's M1SDAC with aptX Bluetooth (see "Sam's Space" in October), even though my iPhone 4, updated to iOS 7, doesn't support aptX.
The aptX codec is said to automatically optimize the Bluetooth receiving device for the best sound quality possible with each incoming aptX signal. I have it now, with my new (June 2013) Macbook Air.
Is aptX a big deal? Some say it's not. As my colleague Bob Deutsch says, "It depends on the implementation."
AptX is back-compatible with earlier Bluetooth codecs. It streams at up to 380kbps, but it can work with devices that stream at lower bitrates, including 128 and 256kbps.
When my iPhone 4 ran iOS4, Bluetooth streamed at 128kbps, if I'm not mistaken. Now, with iOS7 installed, it streams at 256kbps, with better sound: more resolution, more air, fewer dropouts, more there there. If you have an iPhone 4 or later, it's definitely worth installing iOS7.
I'll pass along a couple of iPhone tips.
If you no longer get a Bluetooth connection, or you keep losing it, you may have a dirty dock. Some folks online have recommended that you brush around the dock's connections with a clean, soft toothbrush. Or flatten the tip of a cotton swab with a pair of pliers, dip it in grain alcohol, and wiggle it around. (I didn't tell you to do this.) This worked for a while.
Then, a genius at a bar told me another secret: Keep fewer programs running in the background. That was like a visit to the dental hygienist. Bluetooth became Cleanteeth: brighter, cleaner, more refreshing, less stale. Now the difference between my iPhone 4 with iOS7 and my Macbook Air with Mountain Lion running aptX Bluetooth was less pronounced. Of course, if you really want aptX on your smartphone or tablet, you can look to Samsung.
The Musical Fidelity MS1DAC sounds very good indeed; it's a DAC, a headphone amp, a line stage, and a headphone amp, all in one. But if all you want is aptX Bluetooth, you might not want to pay $1499 for an MS1DAC. You may already have a DAC you like. There must be a cheaper way to do this.
Ho, ho, ho, there is. At $249.95, the Arcam rBlink seems expensive for a tiny black box measuring only 2.9" (75mm) wide by 1" (26mm) high by 3.9" (100mm) deep and weighing just 12oz (350gm). But it will put Internet radio wirelessly at your fingertips, from laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
Arcam describes the rBlink as a "high-performance Bluetooth audio receiver and digital-to-analog converter." It works well, whether or not you already own a DAC. The rBlink has its own digital-to-analog converter and left and right analog outputs. Just connect it to your integrated amplifier or preamp. Arcam even includes interconnects to get you up and running fast. (But consider getting better interconnects.)
Don't dis the rBlink's built-in DAC, which uses Burr-Brown's PCM5102 DAC chip. It's no slouch, as the Brits like to say. Don't feel you need buy a separate DAC.
On the other hand, if you already own a DAC, you can use the rBlink's S/PDIF coaxial output. I used my Musical Fidelity V-DACII, now replaced by the V90-DAC.
I ran the rBlink into the Croft Acoustics Phono Integrated amplifier, first using the rBlink's analog RCA outputs and a decent set of interconnects. I cackled when I heard the sound. Art Dudley and Stephen Mejias are right: The Croft is crazy good in musical rather than in audiophile terms. You can tell from its rich, full-bodied sound that it wasn't designed with test tones in mind.
In the blink of an eye, I had Internet radio in excellent sound, depending on the quality of the stream.
Why are some streams so crummyand from the same station? Classical New Englandnow re-rebranded as WCRB in order to show its real share in the ratingsbroadcasts live concerts from its Fraser Performance Studio, always in excellent sound. Yet when they broadcast from Boston's Symphony Hall or Tanglewood, the sound deteriorates.
The day after I received the rBlink, John DeVore, of DeVore Fidelity, drove up to my digs with his new beast: the Orangutan O/93 loudspeakers. John groused but didn't growl about the Bluetooth sound, but that was before I got the Macbook Air and upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS7.
I didn't let on to John, but CDs do sound better than Bluetooth at the moment. But we can expect Bluetooth to evolve and improve. It's one good reason not to plop down more than $249.
I rattled the zookeeper's cage.
"The sound is fine by me," I told John. "I just DeVore it. It's all free. Swiss Radio Jazz. Nostalgie Jazz. BBC 3. Classic FM. France Musique. Symphonycast.com. Radio Dismuke, with music from the 1920s and '30s. If I want Perfect Sound Forever, I'll get off my butt and fetch a CD."
Which brings up a point: I never found the rBlink irritating. Well, I did with a few piss-poor streams, but these are easily avoided. The rBlink seemed to hold on to the signalfewer dropoutsbetter with my Macbook Air than with my long-in-the-tooth iPhone, until I installed iOS7.
The rBlink has one oddity: To pair it with a Bluetooth device, you need to push in the pairing button with the tip of a pen. I have no blinking idea why Arcam doesn't provide a simple pushbutton. While pairing, the rBlink changes from steady red to blinking purple. Pairing completed, the purple light glows steadily. When the rBlink is connected to a Bluetooth device, the light glows a steady blue. I love this thing!
Since the Croft's measurements rattled John Atkinson in October, I tried my LFD LE IV integrated amplifier. I got the same excellent results. The aptX codec no longer mattered so much, although you might as well have it, if you can.
If you're looking for a gift idea, and Mom and Dad have Bluetooth devices, put an Arcam rBlink under the tree. While you're at it, get another for yourself. You can bring Bluetooth to just about any audio device, including a kitchen radio.
Highly recommended.
Deckeda, that sounds cool but I'm not familiar with that possibility. Can you link to some products that do so, or any technical writings or forum posts that point to this possibility?
On another note, though I am duly impressed with the rBlink, glad there is a Bluetooth receiver that has proper measurements and a digital out, etc. the elephant in the room is the Apple TV. Using Airplay, you can use your wifi network (no pesky 25-foot rule - don't have to be on the same floor) and stream losslessly. How do ya like them apples? The obvious limitation is that you have to be using Apple devices, excluding a few workarounds. But if you're using an iPhone/iPod touch, a Macbook Air or Pro or iMac or what have you, Airplay is there and it does 16/44.1 and 16/48 losslessly. The Apple TV has an optical out and no analog out, so it's only for the DAC crowd, but it works great and has Ethernet and Wi-Fi. It's also notable that is is only $99 new rather than $249.
Mr. Tellig, it appears you use an iPhone, so I'd love to see you try out an Apple TV. Return it if you are not pleased!
All that said, I have a dead simple Bluetooth radio in my bedroom that I use plenty for listening to podcast while I clean up or send audio from JRiver to it using JRemote. Choice is a beautiful thing.
I'm sorry but I don't know where I read it. This review got me researching aptX because I'd read the earlier hosanas about it here. That's when I learned all aptX transmissions require the transcode through the "aptX codec".
Somewhere in there is when I also read that AAC gets sent as-is (assuming an AAC file source) and decoded at the Bluetooth reciever.
I'm sure the devil's in the details and especially so with cheap transmitters and recievers.
In my experience, AirPlaying music over to an AppleTV is a recipe for despair. All of them necessarily resample to 16/48 and likely, not terriby well. But 16/48 is ideal for most video sources, so there's that. More to the point, it's never sounded good to me for music, and not by a little bit. Could also be an issue with what happens when the audio gets sent out of the HDMI or TosLINK since ATVs lack their own DAC.
AirPlaying over to my Marantz receiver (built-in AirPlay) is just dandy, as is any AirPort Express, which keeps everything at 16/44.1 bit perfect. And by the way these comparisons were done on the same stereo system.
But I'm with you. If your source is 16/44.1 via either iTunes on a computer or iOS device, an AirPort Express is, and has remained for 10 years, the defacto no-brainer streaming solution for both ease of use and sound quality.
Wow, thanks for the tip. I had no idea. Makes perfect sense for video but not good for audio.
Here is some objective verification (yes, measurements included) and details about the current Airport Express for you, Tellig, Atkinson or anyone else! The SRC will downsample up to 24/96 to 16/44.1 - seems fair enough to me. In my case I'm using an Oppo (and later a dedicated DAC) for DLNA with JRiver so this would be more for myself or my GF being able to play Spotify, podcasts, internet radio etc. quickly and easily without any extra fuss, sending the optical out to a DAC.
The summary:
- 16 bit / 44.1 kHz music -> Bit Perfect
- 16 bit / 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz -> Not Bit Perfect but does play through the AE at 16/44.1.
- 24 bit / 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz -> Not Bit Perfect but does play through the AE at 16/44.1.
Howver, it's nothing new. The original AirPort Express, and 2nd gen (updated to 802.11n) behaved similarly: take most any PCM and give you 16/44.
Chris at Computer Audiophile noted why this is, despite the new AE having a 24/192 DAC. It's the AirPlay standard that limits audio to 16/44. Nothing higher ever leaves the sending computer or iDevice. Doesn't matter how you setup a computer. AirPlay stipulates a transcode on the fly to Apple Lossless 16/44 regardless of the file you're playing back.
You can get the original AE used, from eBay for $40 or less and it'll be just as good as the new one for audio. Windows users might be OK as-is. Mac users would need an OS no newer than 10.7 to configure it, or a script that lets later versions of OS X run AirPort Utility 5.6.1 (The second gen AE, also likely inexpensive now, can I think still be configured with AirPort Utility 6.3)
Just avoid Bluetooth if you want to pick on it's limitations.
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On January 14, 2010, collegiate soccer standout Kwame Watson-Siriboe sat on an airplane in Miami, anxiously awaiting a phone call that would change his life. Bound for Los Angeles, flight attendants were moments away from shutting the cabin doors and the 6-3 defender kept looking at his phone. The anticipated call might be missed with the five-hour cell phone blackout he was about to experience.
Then it rang.
The voice on the other end said, "Chicago Fire, second round," and he breathed a sigh of relief – eventually.
"I actually couldn't breathe at first," said Watson-Siriboe. "I was so excited and relieved because I really wanted to be drafted -- it took a few minutes to calm down. My mom was there with me and that helped. I was going to start living my dream."
Minutes later the plane took off and Watson-Siriboe wasn't able to immediately tell friends about what would become the next chapter in his life.
Watson-Siriboe came to the Fire from the University of Connecticut, where he appeared in 55 matches, scoring three goals in his four-year collegiate career. In recent seasons, the Huskies have produced a number of players that have gone to Major League Soccer: O'Brian White (Toronto FC), Julius James (DC United), Chukuwudi Chijindu (Chivas USA) and Toni Stahl (Philadelphia Union).
"UCONN has a rich tradition in college soccer and everyone there strives to become a professional."
Perhaps most famous of the UCONN alumni with an MLS pedigree is former Fire striker Damani Ralph, who spoke to Watson-Siriboe after the club selected him in this year's MLS SuperDraft.
"Damani told me that Chicago was a great place to live and the team and organization were very professional – there were worse places for a rookie to end up. "
Two-and-a-half months later, following a grueling preseason trip through Phoenix, Guadalajara, Brandon, MS and Houston, Watson-Siriboe made his MLS debut last Saturday, going the full 90 in the Fire's 2-2 draw away to the Colorado Rapids. The first of the four Fire rookies to play this season, the 23-year-old replaced dominant veteran center back Wilman Conde, who was out with an injury.
"I didn't find out until game day that I would be start. We knew Wilman was banged up but I thought they might go with one of the veteran defenders. I was surprised, but prepared myself."
Lining up against one of the league's most dynamic striking partnerships in U.S. international Conor Casey and his Jamaican counterpart Omar Cummings, the rookie held his own, working his way towards a comfort level.
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The funding commitment is an essential step for the county to eliminate its backlog -currently estimated at 4,071 cases - in testing the collections of evidence, known as rape kits. But a comprehensive plan on rape kit testing and increased oversight from the County Board of Supervisors are also essential to successful testing of the kits, Human Rights Watch said. The letter from Yaroslavsky was dated September 1, 2009.
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In "Testing Justice," released in March, Human Rights Watch reported that at least 5,000 untested rape kits were in the Sheriff's Department's evidence storage facilities. Testing a rape kit can identify a suspect, connect evidence from apparently unrelated crimes, corroborate the victim's account, and exonerate innocent suspects. It can bolster investigations, and move more rape cases through the criminal justice system.
In June, the Sheriff's Department announced it had suspended rape kit testing due to a lack of funds, and that, of the 200 kits that had been tested prior to June 2009, only six profiles were entered into the DNA database for possible criminal and crime scene matches. On September 1, the Sheriff's Department announced that, of the 283 rape kits tested so far from the backlog, 42 profiles had been entered into the DNA databank, leading to eight arrests.
Human Rights Watch urged the Sheriff's Department to develop a detailed plan for rape kit testing and the County Board of Supervisors to enhance its oversight of the department's progress.
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What's the general SO stance on questions that ask for script recommendations? Be it jquery plugin recommendations, like this one, or those that involve other programming languages or criteria. I think the question that I linked to is too localized, but what if it was more generalized?
Do these kinds of questions fit into the criteria described in the FAQ?
- a specific programming problem - No
- a software algorithm - No
- software tools commonly used by programmers - Does packaged code count as a tool?
- matters that are unique to the programming profession - iffy
I found this question on meta : How do you feel about "Help me with this jQuery plugin" type questions?
It's close but not exactly what I'm looking for.


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I've learned partial fractions but I couldn't really understand one thing. When we have a case when one of the factors has multiplicity $> 1$, we got to make a kind of "stairs". e.g.
$$\frac{1}{(x-1)(x+2)^2} = \frac{A}{(x-1)} + \frac{B}{(x+2)} + \frac{C}{(x+2)^2}.$$
But I thought $why$ couldn't it be written like this:
$$\frac{1}{(x-1)(x+2)^2} =\frac{A}{(x-1)} + \frac{B}{(x+2)^2}.$$
After some pencil and paper working, I realized it doesn't seem to work (and I don't know why!) I've been trying this for weeks, but I've got nowhere. So, if you could help me visualize a reason, I'd be grateful.
Thank you.