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In the DIY Podcast Sports Demo topic module, astronaut Clayton Anderson samples several sports and demonstrates how different it would be to play them in the microgravity of the space station. Imagine expanding sports beyond the space station to an Earth-orbiting stadium where athletes could play the summer Olympic games or to the moon where gravity is one-sixth of Earth's gravity. Game rules would change and new sports would be invented.
These are just a few thoughts and ideas you might encourage students to use as a springboard to develop their script for a podcast episode on the science of sports in space. Students could generate new versions of games they like to play or create new games as they consider multiple factors that affect playing sports in space. Students could record their game demonstrations and mix their video with Anderson's sports demonstration video clips. Be sure to include narration or on-camera interviews with students or subject matter experts explaining the game rules and the science that would require them to be different in space.
In the Comments section below, share your students' ideas for new or modified games. It might be fun to experiment with the new sports and games that other classrooms develop.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
8 ways to get a child with special needs into sports
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It really warms my heart to see that a disability will not hinder a child from taking part in their dreams and aspirations. Beautiful and well-written! - RReplyDelete
My kid plays hockey on a team for kids with developmental disabilities and being a part of that team has been one of the more profound things I've experienced in my life. There are a lot of hockey teams for kids and adults with all kinds of disabilities. Check out American Special Hockey Association or Special Hockey International.ReplyDelete
I really want to get Baily into some sort of gymnastics or dance because he loves music and is extremely limber. We did the baseball for 2 years and he never enjoyed it. You had an interview with a Special Olympics athlete that competes in Gymnastics and is from Kentucky...anyway you could find out how I can get him into something like that? We are also in Ky.ReplyDelete
Awesome! Thanks for including my sweet Caleb in this post :).ReplyDelete
After trying many, one day Daniel stated he was not into sports. :( Guess his peers and coaches frustration helped this feeling.ReplyDelete
But this was not end of the world. Today he is a good swimmer, avid trampoline jumper, and beets moment & dad at every Wii bowl :)
Ahh, ohh... and he is a daredevil when it comes to rollercoasters & giant water slides.
I would suggest, as with any other aspect in your child life, do not strive to be the main stream.
Let him discover what he loves, and have FUN with it.
Ah! Thanks for including Kenyon! Also, Cassie, I'm thinking Caleb and Kenyon play for the same ML organization! T&C?ReplyDelete
As K gets older and taller, mobility is becoming more and more of an issue. He walks with a walker. He used to participate in a Run Club at school - but this last year he wasn't interested. This next school year we are going to investigate the school district's chapter of Special Olympics and get him into their bowling league.
Loved seeing this post of pictures with kids who CAN. Warm and fuzzy, I tell ya!ReplyDelete
This is great if the facilities exist. Trust me, nothing would give me more pleasure than finding something that Dominic can join in... disability might not hinder, but trust me many other things can. It's not quite as rosy as this blog post suggests in the real world unfortunately.ReplyDelete
Renata, sorry to hear that. I live in the real world, too (er, mostly). I am lucky to have options near me, but I know that not everyone can. I know how much we have on our hands as parents of kids with special needs, but wondering if you and other local parents might be able to start some sort of sports group or team and rope in local sports experts to help? The reason why the Little League Challengers Division exists in our area is because of a mom who started it. Now, this mom went all out—she got her city to build her a field!—but it could have been done on a much smaller scale. Again, I say this knowing how much we all already have on our hands.ReplyDelete
MicJen: Next year might be the year Max gets involved in Special Olympics, too.
Jean: I forgot to mention in this post that Max once ran screaming out of a hockey arena when we tried an adapted team. :} Will try again!
OK, about Kentucky gymnastics facilities, I asked Danielle's mom. MJM Studios in Florence, Kentucky, has dance and tumble classes for kids with special needs: http://www.mjmstudiosinc.com. Danielle's mom, Coleen, says if they got enough interest, they might be able to set a time for rhythmic gymnastics. The owner of that gym, Mary Jo Menning, was Danielle's first coach.
Ellen... the problem is that nothing exists... seriously there isn't even an accessible database with a list of children with physical disabilities like Dominic, no groups, no nothing. There is for learning disabilities or spectrum disorders. I've been trying to find just one child like Dominic who lives locally enough for him to meet and have failed. And really I don't live in the sticks. Perhaps the UK just sucks at looking after kids with physical disabilities? Certainly all the local services have been cut so any chance I had has just been reduced further. It's such a shame.ReplyDelete
I don't know about the UK. Here in the states, there is no such thing as access to lists of children with disabilities, either.ReplyDelete
I have found local, real-life support through blogs and Yahoo groups, and even by joining a national moms group in the U.S. (where I've posted q's about other parents of kids who have special needs). Also, by asking Max's therapists about connecting with other parents. Even if our kids have different flavors of disability, there are commonalities that bonded us.
Do you know Stacie at Mama Lewis, also in UK? Great blogger. http://mamalewis.wordpress.com/ I know your kids have different issues, but might not hurt to connect with her.
Thanks for including Simon! Re: Gymnastics and finding programs - sometimes if you call a facility for "typical" kids and ask they have or know of programs designed for children who are differently abled. That was how we found the "You can do it too" program in our area (MD). I'd imagine this may work for other sports as well.ReplyDelete
Renata, I happened to spot this group on Twitter this a.m.: http://mumsmeetup.com/. Description: "Where Mums find & meet other Mums with children of similar age or circumstances in their own local areas of the UK online and offline."ReplyDelete
woohoo! Ellen knows I coach a SN soccer team, and LOVE it. They're awesome and it gives kids w/o special needs to come and work with kids with cp/autism/ds/etc.ReplyDelete
My soccer kids ROCK! I am honored to be one of their coaches.
oh, for parents: the program is the AYSO VIP program.ReplyDelete
So would these types of camps and/or special olympics also work for kids who have heart conditions that require modifications? It's so difficult on a lot of the kids/teens I work with to not be able to play sports but I'm wondering if it's possible to adapt some activities through programs like these so that they can play. Please let me know what you think! :-)ReplyDelete
Maya, I can't say for sure, but camps and programs generally geared toward kids with special needs know just how to modify programs to suit a child's needs. So it seems like they would be open to tailoring a program toward a kid with heart issues. Also, many children with Down syndrome participate in the Special Olympics, and it's not uncommon for kids with DS to have heart issues.ReplyDelete
I just found your blog & I love love it!! I am also a mom to a special needs child. My oldest has spastic paraparesis. When she was younger, we thought she had cerebral palsy.ReplyDelete
I remember all the speech, PT, & OT visits. I can remember when Ashleigh was discharged in speech because her speech was that of a child of her age. I could not believe it.
Ash was involved with Special Olympics. If I could get her there now, she would be in that still. One van family. She also does a program called "I can do it, You can do it" It is a national program. It focuses on nutrition & exercise. We also get Ash on a horse as much as we can. There is a baseball program here, too, but we have not put her in it. I may.
Hi,I am from Bombay,India.my son is 9 yrs old and is having problem of mild mental retardation.he is not able to study but is good in sports (swimming)if any one would suggest me something abt this pls mail me @ firstname.lastname@example.com
- AnonymousJune 2, 2012 at 5:35 PM
I recently learned about SAFE Baseball(Sports are for everyone).It is a team/leauage for kids 5 and up psycial/mental disablitesReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2013 at 3:40 PM
We are high school students from Hewitt-Trussville High School. For our senior engineering project we are designing a ball that we hope will help the visually and hearing impaired further participate in athletic activities. If you would respond to our survey or could send this to other interested people who could help us better our project, it would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time.ReplyDelete

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Although the number of malicious browser extensions has significantly increased in the past year many security products fail to offer adequate protection against them, while others are simply not designed to do so, according to a security researcher.
Attackers have already used such extensions to perform click fraud by inserting rogue advertisements into websites or by hijacking search queries, but research has shown that this type of malware has the potential to cause much more damage.
Last year Zoltan Balazs, an IT security consultant with professional services firm Deloitte in Hungary, created a proof-of-concept malicious extension that could be controlled remotely by an attacker and could steal authentication credentials, hijack accounts, modify locally displayed Web pages, take screenshots through the computer's webcam, bypass two-factor authentication systems and even download and execute malicious files on a victim's computer.
And last week the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) warned in its midyear report: "An increase in malicious browser extensions has been registered, aimed at taking over social network accounts."
Earlier this year Balazs investigated how various security products protect users against malicious browser extensions and presented his findings at the OHM2013 security conference near Amsterdam in August. He performed tests against browser security extensions, sandboxing software, Internet security suites, anti-keylogging applications and financial fraud prevention programs recommended by some banks.
Many of these products either don't detect and block malicious extensions at all, or their protection can be bypassed, sometimes very easily, he found.
Not all of the tested products claim to protect against malicious extensions, but Balazs said he tested them because some users might believe they do.
For example, the NoScript security extension for Mozilla Firefox is designed to block plug-in content from executing without user authorization, and also blocks some Web-based attacks such as cross-site scripting or clickjacking. However, it doesn't protect against malicious browser extensions or local malware, Balazs said.
BrowserProtect, another Firefox extension, claims to protect the browser against "homepage, search provider, extension, add-on, BHO and other hijacks." This extension also fails to protect against malicious extensions, the researcher said.
Browser security extensions are not really trying to protect against malicious extensions and they wouldn't be able to because by design they run with the same privileges as those extensions, Balazs said.
Balazs also tested Internet security suites from five top antivirus vendors that he declined to name. The level of protection they offered against malicious browser extensions varied from none to good.
One of the tested products detected and removed the researcher's malicious Firefox extension, but he was able to bypass the detection signature by adding a single space character at a specific location in the extension's code.
A product from a different vendor came with a "safe browser" feature that involved creating a clean Firefox profile with no extensions installed. However, once it had created the profile, it kept using the same one, which meant that a malicious extension installed in the user's regular browser profile could copy itself to the "safe browser" profile, Balazs said.
Balazs said a third vendor, asked in a forum if its product detects or blocks Firefox keylogging extension Xenotix KeylogX, replied there was no need because "browser add-ons are subject to the same sandbox the browser runs through." The vendor recommended that users remove any suspicious extensions themselves, he said.
For Balazs, the answer highlights the poor understanding some vendors have of this type of threat, because Firefox doesn't have a sandbox and malicious browser extensions can be installed silently by malware without users ever knowing.
Some other "safe browser" implementations, such as Avast's SafeZone and Bitdefender's Safepay, did block the installation of malicious extensions. These offerings are designed to give users a way to bank and shop securely online using a custom browser based on Chromium, the open source project behind Google Chrome, within a secure environment similar to a sandbox.
Even though Balazs didn't find a way to install malicious extensions directly into the Avast SafeZone or Bitdefender Safepay browsers, he claims to have found a weakness that could allow an attacker to spy on traffic, even when users access HTTPS websites and their connection is encrypted.
If the victim's primary browser is Firefox, the attacker could first use social engineering to trick the victim into installing a malicious extension. He could then use that extension to download and execute a piece of malware designed to change the system-wide Internet proxy settings and to install a rogue root CA certificate into the Windows certificate store.
Chromium, along with Internet Explorer, uses the system-wide proxy settings and certificate store, so an attacker could exploit this to pass all traffic from the Avast SafeZone or Bitdefender Safepay browsers though a proxy server he controls and perform man-in-the-middle interception using the new root CA certificate added to the system.
This attack would also bypass Chromium's public-key pinning protection, which is supposed to detect whether the public keys used for the certificates of some popular websites such as Gmail or Paypal have been changed by a man-in-the-middle attacker, Balazs said.
The user will not receive any certificate warnings inside the browser because Chromium allows user-installed root CAs to override pins, a design decision explained by Google software engineer Adam Langley in a May 2011 blog post.
Windows does show a security prompt when a new CA certificate is added to the certificate store, but the malware is able to automatically confirm the action, so the user doesn't have to click anything.
A Bitdefender spokesman said Wednesday that "Safepay is designed as an additional layer of security to protect sensitive activities such as online banking or shopping. Although it has strong self protect mechanisms, Safepay is not a replacement for an AV [antivirus] product nor is promoted as such."
The product performs a security assessment to identify active malware on the computer before the secure browsing session is initiated, but if malware previously infiltrated the system and installed a rogue root certificate there is a chance that the session could be compromised, the spokesman said. "Nevertheless, this scenario is plausible when users don't have an antivirus product installed."
"We have an ongoing project that aims to discover Safepay's vulnerabilities in different scenarios (system or third-party related) and develop solutions to minimize the risks of compromised user sessions," he said. "The assessment of installed certificates on the system is at the top of our list."
Avast did not immediately provide a statement regarding this attack method.
Some security products recommended by banks to their customers and designed to prevent malware-related financial fraud were also found to lack protection against malicious browser extensions. Balazs tested six such products from different vendors, but only one blocked browser extensions in his tests.
Since then, a few more have added protection for this type of threat, but they use different approaches, he said. Some block all extensions while others detect only malicious ones, he said.
Balazs also tested Sandboxie, a program designed to isolate applications from the operating system by running them inside a sandboxed environment and preventing them from making permanent changes to other programs or data on the computer.
The product's website says that "running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially."
However, that only stops a rogue browser extension within Sandboxie from writing to local storage outside the sandbox. It can still log keystrokes and store them within the sandbox, capture images with the computer's webcam, or steal passwords and authentication cookies stored in the browser, the researcher said.
In general, malicious Firefox extensions can modify the settings of other extensions or the browser itself, but they can also indirectly modify the source files of installed extensions by downloading and executing a piece of malware designed to do this when the browser is closed, Balazs said. (The source files are locked while the browser is running.)
During a presentation Saturday at the Hacker Halted USA 2013 security conference, Balazs demonstrated how malware can insert backdoors into legitimate extensions and the effects this can have on the user's security. For his demonstration he backdoored the LastPass extension for Firefox.
LastPass is a password management service that uses a browser extension to automate form filling and website authentication. This allows users to have strong, separate passwords for all online services they use, while remembering only one master password that unlocks their encrypted password vault.
For increased security, LastPass supports two-factor authentication using the master password and one-time codes generated by physical YubiKey USB authentication devices or mobile applications such as Google Authenticator, Toopher and Duo Security.
LastPass claims on its website that it protects users against phishing scams, online fraud, and malware -- in particular key loggers. However, according to Balazs, the extension can't protect users against malware like financial Trojan programs that hook into the browser process, against other malicious browser extensions, or against local modifications of its own code.
Balazs' demonstration at Hacker Halted showed how a piece of malware could modify the code of the LastPass extension installed in Firefox so that it sends the user's master password and a YubiKey authentication code to an attacker, who could then use the information to access the user's password vault.
He released his proof-of-concept code for backdooring the LastPass extension on GitHub and said that developing it only took two hours.
Most of Balazs' recent research focused on Firefox because it's easier to trick users into installing malicious extensions in this browser by using social engineering. Unlike Firefox, Chrome only allows the installation of extensions from the official Chrome Web Store repository and not from third-party websites, which makes it harder for attackers to distribute malicious extensions.


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EU and FAO help six countries achieve Millennium Development Goal on hunger
Teaming up to provide two million people with better nutrition
25 September 2013, Brussels/Rome - Less than two years before the deadline set to achieve international development goals, the European Union (EU) and FAO step up their efforts to reduce world hunger assisting two million people in six countries with agricultural development activities worth nearly €60 million.
The funding comes from a €1 billion EU initiative that aims to foster speedier progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
"So close to the deadline, when there is still so much to do, this good investment in agriculture will enable FAO to increase its efforts to eradicate hunger and do even more to help countries halve the proportion of hungry people by 2015," said FAO's Director-General José Graziano da Silva at a special event on the Millennium Development Goals during the UN General Assembly.
"I find it unacceptable in the 21st century that some 870 million people are still going hungry and malnutrition is responsible for over 3 million child deaths annually. This funding underlines our commitment to stepping up our work on hunger and to meeting the MDGs", added EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs.
Under the so-called MDG-initiative, the EU and FAO focus on agricultural development involving smallholder farmers and their families, targeting two million people in six countries.
The initiative strongly promotes partnerships with UN agencies, governments and civil society to ensure that key goals, including improved nutrition and the support for agricultural policies, can be attained.
Agricultural development and better nutrition
In Burundi, activities will focus on the production and processing of food stuffs, such as cassava and corn, as well as cash crops, including palm oil and tea. The four year €2.1 million operation will benefit an estimated 25 000 people.
Promoting the production and marketing of staple crops, such as sorghum and millet, as well as vegetables and products from trees like the baobab, is at the heart of a three year €16 million programme in Burkina Faso, aiming to improve the livelihoods of over 500 000 people.
In the Gambia, FAO and the EU will help farmers grow vegetables and develop their skills to sell them on the market. An estimated 70 000 people will benefit from the three year €4 million operation.
Farmers in Haiti are being trained to increase their production of peanuts and fish under a three year €4 million programme involving some 12 000 people. They also learn how to set up small agribusinesses.
A three year €12.5 million operation in Madagascar targeting 750 000 people aims to provide small famers with quality seeds of rice, coconut and sweet potatoes and help them in setting up a small business. It will also rehabilitate irrigation infrastructure and reduce post-harvest losses with better storage facilities.
A five year, €19 million programme in Mozambique aims to increase agricultural production, help farmers get better access to markets and improve nutrition with an array of activities ranging from the provision of quality seeds and fertilizers to training in health, hygiene and nutritional practices.
Bringing back agriculture
The EU is one of FAO's most generous and steadfast donors. Recently, FAO honoured the EU for the "EU Food Facility", a €1 billion initiative in response to the food price crisis of 2008-2011, partly implemented together with FAO. The Facility helped improve the livelihoods of 59 million people in 50 countries.
By promoting agriculture as a solution for the crisis, FAO's Director-General Graziano da Silva noted, the EU played an important role in bringing back agriculture and food security on top of the international development agenda as entry points for growth and development in many countries.
The EU recently committed to spend as much as €3.5 billion between 2014-2020 on building long-term resilience among the most vulnerable, tackling the root causes of hunger and poverty and improving nutrition in some of the world's poorest countries.


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This weekend, Ellen went shopping and bought some of the funniest and most random products she could find. She shared them with everyone today!
Sony's famous robo-pup Aibo is back with new tricks, including sensors that gather data from
It's been a week since the Pixel 2 XL screen issues but we still haven't
This Halloween season, perhaps the most frightening thing is within the walls of your own
Ellen's Halloween fun was taken to the next level, thanks to these dancers and Google
Ellen usually sends Andy to a haunted house, but this time around, she joined in
Contortionist and "Americaâ s Got Talent" finalist Sofie Dossi returned to Ellen for a special


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Title: Holding Aces (The Kingdom #1)
Author: Nikki Groom
Release Date: May 29th 2014
Genre: Adult contemporary romance
Series: Yes, book 1 of 2
Cover designer: Hang Le at By Hang Le
They say that time heals all wounds.
But mine are set in so deeply, they've taken on a life of their own, lurking in the shadows at every turn and haunting my thoughts.
The girl I once was has been replaced by a stranger.
I don't even know who I am anymore.
I run.
And I hide.
Pretending to be someone I'm not…
Until I meet Denham King.
My burst of color in an otherwise grey world.
And for the first time in my life, I find myself running towards someone instead of running away.
But fate can be cruel,
and I can't escape my past.
Can I?
**Holding Aces is part one of a two part Adult Contemporary Romance series that contains mature sexual content and language and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.**
About the Author
Nikki Groom is a hopeless romantic, lover of all things happily ever after and firm believer that love makes the world go around.
In her spare time, you will find Nikki laughing with her very treasured family, walking with her beloved dog in the hundred acre wood or curled up in a cosy corner with words and wine.
She lives in East Sussex with her husband and two children. Having turned her hand to many things over the years, Nikki is now proud to add 'author' to that list.
Having always been a dreamer, Nikki's imagination stretches far and wide, which enables her to get lost in faraway places and imaginary people.
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A new product called CycleBeads purports to help women become the overlords of their ovaries by charting their menstrual cycles using a necklace and a rubber ring. Every which way I turn, someone company somewhere is trying to get their bead-shaped product near my vagina. Please stop this. Please get those beads away from my vagina.
The premise of CycleBeads sounds promising. Users simply slide a black ring down the beads during each day of their cycle. Brown bead days happen when there's very little chance you could get pregnant. Red beads mean it's the first day of Daniel Day Lewis Week (because There Will Be Blood). White beads signify fertility. According to the Georgetown University researchers who developed them, they're 96% effective. One researcher said that they'll even enhance communication. TIME reports,
It's a good tool so they can decide together if they do want to get pregnant, these are the days. Or if they don't want to get pregnant, they can use the beads to decide when to use condoms.
That's all well and good, but why must we do it this way, with beads? Why can't we do something cool like have a fertility dartboard, or a big decorative Fertility Flower with 28 to 32 removable petals? Why not a Fertility Advent Calendar where adorable doors are opened each day to reveal a tiny, delicious piece of candy that is relevant to where you are in your cycle? "It's coconut today, honey, I'm ovulating! This is delicious!" No, the presence of beads in a product has become code for "VAGINA TIME," and I'm confused as to why.
Yes, I know that beads are nice and spherical and don't have any sharp edges and they promise they won't poke me, but my vagina is just fine without putting beads in, near, or around it, and making something bead shaped or calling it something of or relating it to beads is not going to encourage me to use it in cooperation with my ladyparts, even if that something promises to give me control over my fertility. I am experiencing Bead Fatigue.
From Tampax Pearl brand tampons to the pearl thong made famous by Samantha in Sex & The City to the small anti-yeast infection suppositories you're supposed to insert during times of vaginal strife, our vaginas could open up their own Etsy store. There are strings of rubber beads designed to strengthen your sex muscles. New York City's Toys in Babeland has advertised with the phrase "Polish your pearl." Earlier this year, the sort of people who probably use the phrase "make love" started using beads to tell each other when it was time to get disgusting to the strains of some Sade or Kenny G. Even the Catholic Church is all about the bead-vagina connection; they've got a whole prayer to a woman with a pristine vagina that's said using a string of beads.
While it's great for women to find new ways to chart their fertility, the last thing I need is another bead product that's supposed to hang out in my babycave. It's getting so crowded up there that I doubt I even have room to ovulate anymore.


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Studio file reference
This is a quick reference for the files used to implement a game. For more information, edit the file and read the introductory comment.
'img' directory
This directory contains the images for your game (the game art). See Game art: img directory
In this file you describe the meta-information for your game: game name, publisher name, number of player, game categories, etc...
See Main game logic: yourgamename.game.php.
File for creating specific database tables that you will need to persist data during the game (for example a table for cards).
File for describing your game options (= game variants)
File used to describe methods that can be called from the client interface through javascript, get parameters and call the appropriate game functions.
CSS styles specific to your game.
This is the main file for your game logic. Here you initialize the game, persist data, implement the rules and notify changes to the client interface. Also see game.php.
This is the main file for your game interface. Here you will define:
- which actions on the page will generate calls to the server
- what happens when you get a notification for change from the server and how it will show in the browser.
<gamename>.view.php and <gamename>_<gamename>.tpl
Files used to set up the page layout ('view') for the game.
File used to describe all the game material (cards with their description, dices, tokens...). You can also use it to define game constants.
This file describes the game states machine of your game (all the game states properties, and the transitions to get from one state to another).
File used to list statistics that you want to update during the game to be presented to players at the end of the game.
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In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
What is a numeral? Gematrical Value of the Arabic Alphabets
When the Quran was revealed, 14 centuries ago, the numbers known today did not exist. A universal system was used where the letters of the Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek alphabets were used as numerals. The number assigned to each letter is its "Gematrical Value." The numerical "Gematrical" values of the Arabic alphabet are shown in table below.
ا 1
10 ي
9 ط
8 ح
7 ز
6 و
5 ه
4 د
3 ج
2 ب
100 ق
90 ص
80 ف
70 ع
60 س
50 ن
40 م
30 ل
20 ك
1000 غ
900 ظ
800 ض
700 ذ
600 خ
500 ث
400 ت
300 ش
200 ر
by: Ibrahim Ahmed
Many of my friends and non-friends asked me to explain what is a numeral. I found these information in the Electronic Encyclopedia very valuable.
A numeral is the figure or character used to represent a NUMBER. Throughout history there have been many different representations for numbers and for the basic process of counting. At first there were spoken numbers and finger numbers (indicated by positions of the hands and fingers). For permanent recording and intermediate calculations, however, it was necessary to have written numerals.
The Romans used the system of Roman numerals, which is still familiar today in certain applications. Here, I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, and M = 1,000. A smaller number is added when it follows a larger number, but subtracted when it precedes the larger number. For example, VIII = 8, XXVII = 27, IX = 9 (10 -1), and CM = 900 (1,000 - 100). Both situations may occur in the same number, as in CLXIV = 164 and MCMLXXXVI = 1986.
The modern system of numeration (designation by the use of numbers) is derived from the Hindu-Arabic system. It uses a place-value system with 10 as the BASE. This system began in India around the 6th century, developed in the Arabian countries, and progressed into Europe and the rest of the world. Today all science and international trade use this system. The exact shape of the numerals has changed substantially over the years, but the introduction of printing has led to a standardization of shape.
The Prophet Muhammed who was a successful Merchant in his early life , has to know the Arabic Alphabets to work in trade, since all the numbers that he had to use were Alphabets. The discovery of the Mathematical Miracle of the Quran showed us a sophisticated system where every letter, word, verse and Sura in the Quran is mathematically composed in addition to its most beautiful literal structure. The system is so sophisticated, no human being can, even with the assistance of the computers we have today, write such a beautiful literature that is mathematically composed as well.
Summarized from an essay by:
Frank Lewis
Emory University
The word abjad is an acronym derived from the first four consonantal shapes in the Arabic alphabet -- Alif, Bá, Jim, Dál. As such abjad designates the letters of the Arabic alphabet (also known as alifbá') in the phrase hurúf al-abjad. An adjective formed from this, abjadí, means a novice at something. Nowadays the Arabic alphabet does not follow the sequence a-b-j-d, but rather the order: A-B-T-Th-J-H.-Kh-D (the basic shapes of the letters A-B-J-D without their diacritical dots do, however, occur in that order, insofar as T and Th are distinguished from B only by dots, and the H. and Kh from the J only by dots). However, the order A-B-J-D is quite ancient, insofar as the word abjad is not of Arabic origin, but comes from earlier written alphabets, perhaps from Phoenician though the sequence may be as old as Ugaritic. In any case, it certainly predates the writing down of Arabic, as can be seen by comparison of Hebrew (Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth) and Greek (Alpha Beta Gamma Delta).
The Arabic alphabet and the corresponding numerical values known as abjad are therefore derived from earlier prototypes, as the following comparison shows:
Hebrew: Aleph = 1 Beth = 2 gimel = 3 daleth = 4
Greek : alpha = 1 beta = 2 gamma = 3 delta = 4
Arabic: alif = 1 bá' = 2 jím = 3 dál = 4
The so-called Arabic numerals that we use as ciphers to represent our numbers (1,2,3,4, etc.) were invented in India c. 600 A.D. They were first used in the Middle East by the mathematician al-Khwarazmi (c. 875), along with the zero. Though some Europeans were aware of these "Arabic" computational symbols as early as the 10th century, they did not come into general use until the 13th century in Europe. The point being that up until this time, written texts in Greek, Latin, Hebrew/Aramaic, Arabic/Persian, etc. used letters of the alphabet to represent numbers (the Latin equivalent is Roman numerals).
The Arabic numerals proved far superior for computational purposes to the previous systems (it is not possible to do positional computation with roman numerals, nor did they come with the zero, another gift of India). The older letter/numbers gradually fell out of use, except in certain contexts (specifically the use of Roman numerals and Abjad numerals to mark the page numbers of the introduction of a book and the use of Roman numerals to record the publication date of books until the 19th century and the production date of motion pictures until the 1960s). However, just because the letters were no longer generally used as numbers, this does not mean that the numerical associations died out. Among poets the numbers were used to write chronograms (a word that contains a numerical value; poets frequently tried to find words with a numerical equivalent to the year of someone's death to write an elegy, for example). Theologians and mystics invested the letters and their associated numberical values with mystical significance.
There are two principle variations in the Abjad system as to the value of certain letters; the Arabs of North Africa and Spain gave a different alpha-numeric order to some of the letters in the 100s than was common in the Levant and the Islamic east. However, this variation does not affect the values of letters under 100, which have always and everywhere been the same, so far as I know.
The Abjad values and their mnemonic groupings are as follows. Short vowels have no value (except in the beginning of a word, where they are necessarily accompanied by alif/hamza). Note that hamza (') and `ayn (`) are different letters with different values, as are the letters followed by dots (which would be underdots in printed versions of texts rendered in accord with the romanization system used by Shoghi Effendi for Baha'i texts). For the details of why hamza and alif have the same value (i.e., á = ' = 1), see below.
In the maghrib (Spain and North Africa), the following variant values obtained, to wit: s.= 60, d.= 90, s= 300, z.= 800, gh= 900, sh=1000.
N.B.: Certain phonemes which require two letters to represent in the roman alphabet (e.g., Th, Kh, Dh, Gh, Sh) are each rendered by a unique letter in the Arabic alphabet.
Likewise, doubled consonants (hurúf mushaddada) are counted only once. For example, though in transliteration we write Muhammad, in the Arabic script, the doubled consonant "mm" is represented by a diacritical mark (tashdid) over a single "m", which is therefore only written once and only counted once. Hence the numerical values of Muhammad and Nabíl are identical (remember not to count the short vowels, which are any vowels in transliteration which lack the accent mark):
M + h. + mma + d
40 8 40 4 = 92
N + b + i/y + l
50 2 10 30 = 92
The word Rid.wán totals to 1057: R= 200, d.= 800, w= 6, á= 1, n= 50. Mustagháth equals M=40, s=60, t=400, gh=1000, á= 1, th= 500 for a total of 2001.
The value of kull shay' should be 361 (k= 20, l = 30, doubled or mashdudd consonants are not counted twice, sh = 300, y = 10, hamza = 1). Persians sometimes elide the final hamza when writing this word in Persian (sometimes an extra "y" is also incorrectly added), which could lead to the wrong value of 360.
As Iskandar Hai pointed out, alif and hamza have the same numerical value. If we stop to consider how the word "abjad" is written and pronounced in Arabic or Persian, this fact should not come as a great surprise. The initial sound in abjad is a short "a." In any language a word beginning with a vowel is proceeded by a glottal stop (quickly pronounce the words "a apple" and you will hear and feel the glottal stop in between them). The letter which marks the glottal stop in Arabic is the hamza.
It is true that the word abjad begins with an alif, but the alif in this case is merely a place-holder for the initial hamza. This is because according to the rules of Arabic orthography, word-initial hamza, the phonetic value of which is a glottal stop followed by a vowel, must be written with an alif. This is true for any word beginning in a short vowel -- a, u, i. In word-initial position a short vowel rests upon a hamza, which in turn rests upon an alif.
But alif is used not only as a place-holder for initial short vowels. It also has other purposes, and this is where the confusion comes about. In the middle of a word, and sometimes at the end, alif represents the long vowel "á" (in Arabic, fatha and long alif have the same vowel quality in most phonetic environments, the difference being one of quantity--the alif is pronounced twice as long; in Persian, however, the long alif [á] sound is not only held longer, but is also qualitatively different from the fatha [a], having the value of the "a" in "law" as opposed to the "a" in "hat").
Technically speaking, the alif that represents the long "á" is a doubled or elongated fatha (a), and consists of a fatha combined with a hamza. Neither the fatha nor the hamza are written in this case, however, but instead the combination is marked by an alif. So the long vowel "á," represented in writing by the letter alif, does contain a hamza, even though that hamza isn't written out. Though modern Arabic orthography does not call for the hamza to be written with the alif of the long vowel, it can be found written out in some ancient manuscripts and inscriptions.
One might argue that it is not actually because of the alif, but rather because of the unwritten hamza that usually accompanies the alif, that the letter has the numerical value of one. Due to the conventions of writing Arabic, the hamza occurs everywhere an alif has a phonetic value (the alif is written in some cases without a phonetic value, such as in the alif wasl or as a soundless marker at the end of the 3rd person masc. pl. verb ending). So, for most purposes, where there is an alif with a phonetic value, it actually contains within it a hamza. However, the hamza can also occur without the alif. Hamza is written as a separate symbol (without the alif) when two vowels fall next to each other (e.g., su'ál, masá'il), when an unvowelled consonant is followed by a short vowel (e.g., mas'ala; in words like qur'án, mir'át, where a syllabic break occurs with a consonant, followed by a long vowel "á", the hamza is written as a madda stroke above the alif, and not usually in the form of hamza); or when a short vowel occurs at the end of a word immediately after a long vowel (bahá', shay').
The long and short of it is that both alif and hamza are counted as one in Abjad. Where there is both an alif and a separate hamza in a word, as in shay', you count them separately. á = 1 , ' = 1.
There are many reference works, such as the Encyclopedia of Islam and Encyclopeadia Iranica, the Arabic Lexicon of Lane, the Dictionaries of Mo'in and Dehkhoda, that contain information on the Abjad system. Most of the dictionaries explain that alif and hamza have the same numerical value.
What Is Numerology?
Is it a miracle or a Numerology ?
Webster's dictionary defines numerology as the study of the occult (hidden) significance of numbers and letters. It is interesting to see that the ignorant Muslims and the misguided ones who do not want to accept the mathematical miracle of the Quran call the miracle of the Quran numerology and call Dr. Khalifa a numerologist. Not only did they fail to understand the difference between numerology and mathematics but they also failed to appreciate what God called "One of the great miracles " 74:35. The gematrical values of the alphabets are not occult or hidden values but well known since the introduction of the languages and were born out of need not out of the desire to predict a future event or an occult meaning. The miracle of the Quran is based on pure mathematical factors not on the occult significance of the numbers or letters in the Quran. There is no claim of any occult significance of any number or letters by Dr. Khalifa or by the Author of the Quran (God Almighty). The significance of number 19 is explained by God Almighty in 74:31 in details not hidden or occult. The miracle of the Quran is a phenomenal mathematical relationship of the placement of the chapters, the verses, the words of the Quran, and / or the numbers used in the Quran. NOTHING OCCULT in it and no claim of any special significance more than what God Almighty detailed in 74:31. For example the Quran has 114 chapters (19X6), The first verse 1:1 known as "Basmalla" consists of 19 letters. The total number of verses in the Quran is 6346, or 19X334. The Basmalla occurs in the Quran 114 times (19X6), despite its conspicuous absence from Sura 9. The word God (ALLAH) occurs throughout the Quran in its 114 Suras 2698 times and 2698= 19X142. The number of verses where the word God occurs add up to 118123 also a multiple of 19, = 19X6217 and so on for hundreds of similar mathematical findings, all consistent with God's swearing in 74:30, "Over it is 19". As any sincere person can see , there is NO OCCULT significance or HIDDEN values but straight forward mathematics from the Quran. Those who call it numerology are showing their ignorance and their deliberate attempt to cover up their inability to appreciate, see or understand the miracle. It takes divine intervention to block someone from seeing God's miracle. God promised to show His miracles ONLY to the sincere believers, those who attained certainty, 2:118 and 83:18-22.


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Investigations into abuse allegations at care homes involving people with intellectual disabilities say residents have been physically assaulted and neglected, causing experts to call for better training and greater supervision in the homes.
Experts say the reports provided by Ontario and Alberta to The Canadian Press under access to information laws suggest standards of care have fallen short for some of Canada's most vulnerable people, despite government regulations.
Reports on alleged abuse were released by the two provinces on cases that date back to 2010.
The records are the latest that have been obtained by The Canadian Press using freedom of information laws from provinces that require the reporting of incidents involving people in care.
The reports done on those incidents by government investigators reveal the level and types of abuse people with developmental disabilities face in the institutions where they live.
Nova Scotia is among those provinces that adopted legislation to protect people in care. Similar government records released in 2009 by Nova Scotia describe the mistreatment of people with developmental disabilities, which led the province to take greater control over the boards of directors at facilities for people with intellectual disabilities.
The provincial governments in Ontario and Alberta say the reports and investigations of abuse are a step forward, and that the vast majority of people with disabilities are living in safe conditions.
But David White, 58, who has an intellectual disability and advocates for the rights of fellow residents at Vita Community Living in Toronto, says the accounts are a disturbing sign that more work remains to be done.
"Some caregivers have to grow up," he said in a telephone interview from Toronto.
"We can do a lot more to show people what is the cause of abuse, and we have to train the caregivers to understand the problem first. … Some don't understand the problem. Some of them don't and some do."
The nature of the reported abuse is wide ranging. It includes yelling that frightened residents, neglect that left people lying in their own excrement and unwanted sexual advances.
In Ontario, serious incident occurrence reports for a one year-period from Oct. 1, 2010, until Sept. 30, 2011, say 36 staff were fired following alleged abuse or mistreatment and six staff were charged with criminal offences. Four employees also resigned during the period covered by the reports, while 36 people were disciplined, with punishment ranging from suspensions to letters on their personnel files.
There were also 14 reports describing residents mistreating other residents — ranging from unwanted sexual advances to biting — resulting in residents being moved or policies being changed to protect them.
The province says in a letter that the vast majority of the 60,000 people it cares for are healthy and thriving. It says it brought in tighter regulations last year to ensure training on reporting and preventing abuse.
In Alberta, investigators found there were 39 incidents of abuse for the period between July 1, 2010, and May 1, 2012, according to decision reports. There were 21 cases of staff mistreating people in their care, the reports say.
Frank Oberle, Alberta's associate minister responsible for persons with disabilities, says care homes in the province are safe and the number of abuse cases is small.
"My feeling is that it's not widespread," he said. "We have excellent staff out there and excellent caregivers and, where there are abuses, we've put mechanisms to catch them."
Dick Sobsey, who teaches educational psychology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, says the decades-long shift of people away from institutions into community settings is a positive trend that promotes dignity and independence.
But he said there must be careful placements, good supervision and careful oversight in all cases.
Too often, he said, social workers are occupied with clerical work, rather than spending time visiting homes and observing living conditions.
"It's more of a challenge when you have a lot of group homes to properly supervise them, and I don't think we've given enough attention to actual supervision," said Sobsey, who has worked with people with disabilities for 40 years.
"With community-based settings you have some things that are wonderful but because you don't have things to unify the quality, you can have things that are terrible at the same time."
David Hingsburger, a consultant and the director of clinical services at Vita Community Living Services in Toronto, says a key to reducing abuse is the self-advocacy movement among people with intellectual disabilities.
That means training people with intellectual disabilities to recognize when abuse happens, he said.
"Anything we do for people with disabilities to increase their skills, their voice and their options, it makes them much more difficult to offend against," said Hingsburger, adding that new regulations in Ontario require facilities to provide such training to residents.
The courses range from teaching people with disabilities the names of their body parts to role playing that helps them identify inappropriate behaviour by staff or fellow residents.
However, Starr Olsen, the executive director of Community Living Thunder Bay, says she is concerned about the ability of agencies to make progress during a time of funding restraint in Ontario.
"How do we get our residents to good conferences where they can learn about what their rights are if I haven't got the money?" she asks. "What else do I cut in this agency so I can do that? It becomes bizarre."
Sarah Declerck of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents about 8,000 care workers in Ontario, says abuse can't be seen in isolation from the issue of tightening funds and housing shortages.
"No new funding inevitably means there have been … cuts to staff," she said. "It's not a good thing for safety for staffing to be insufficient."
For White, the records in the two provinces are a reminder of the importance of continued vigilance, discussion and training.
"We have to teach people how to respect our bodies," he said.
"I wish it didn't happen ever in this world, ever."


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Poppaea Sabina, Wife of Nero, Augusta 63 - 65 A.D.
Poppaea was renowned for her beauty and voluptuous extravagance. In 62 A.D., Nero divorced his wife Octavia to marry Poppaea. According to Tacitus, Poppaea married Otho only to get close to Nero and then, in turn, became Nero's favorite mistress, and then wife. She bore Nero one daughter, Claudia Augusta, born 21 January 63, who died at only four months of age. At the birth of Claudia, Nero honored mother and child with the title of Augusta. According to Suetonius, one day in the summer of 65, Poppaea quarreled fiercely with Nero over his spending too much time at the races. She was pregnant with her second child. In a fit of rage, Nero kicked her in the abdomen, killing her.


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Radiation levels within and around the United States' only deep-underground nuclear waste facility continue to drop, nearly two weeks after a mysterious leak triggered alarms and shut down the facility, according to data released this week by the US Department of Energy and an independent air-monitoring group.
The sharp spike and subsequent decline in radiation are suggestive of a single release of contamination on 14 February at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico. It is the first reported leak at the WIPP, which is a permanent repository for nuclear waste that has been carved out of ancient salt beds 655 metres underground. Contamination escaped the facility, but officials say that the levels are low and pose no health threat. Because no one was underground when the radiation alarms went off, it remains unclear what caused the release.
One possibility is that a large chunk of salt fell from the ceiling of the repository and damaged one of the metal storage drums, says Russell Hardy, director of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center at New Mexico State University, which independently monitors radiation at the site. "But until they get underground and find out what happened, it's really all just speculation at this point," he says.
The WIPP opened in 1999 and has since taken in more than 80,000 cubic metres of material – including work gloves, tools and machinery – that is contaminated with radioactive elements such as plutonium as well as hazardous chemicals. On 16 February, two days after the initial release, Hardy's centre detected plutonium and americium contamination at an air-monitoring station 1 kilometre away from an exhaust shaft leading from the facility. The centre's latest results, released on 25 February based on samples collected four days after the leak, identified no plutonium and sharply lower levels of americium. Hardy says that the centre's data align with reports from the US Department of Energy. The agency estimated that a person at one of its above-ground monitoring stations would have sustained a cumulative radiation exposure of 1 millirem – ten times less radiation than that delivered during a typical chest X-ray.
Although no data were released from real-time radiation detectors within the facility this week, the Department of Energy says that radiation levels are dropping and seem to be limited to one section of the facility. Energy Department spokeswoman Deb Gill says that the agency and its contractors – an industry consortium led by the San Francisco-based URS Corporation – are still working on a plan to re-enter the facility.
The leak came nine days after an apparently unrelated incident in which a vehicle caught fire underground. The Department of Energy had already appointed a panel to investigate the fire, and that panel will now investigate the radiation leak as well, Gill says.
Hardy says his group is still analysing samples taken directly from the exhaust shaft – both before and after the air is filtered – and plans to release the results as early as today. The findings will determine whether the air filtration system, which is designed to capture 99.97% of the radiation, functioned properly. "We've never had to test it under live conditions," Hardy says.
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on February 26, 2014.


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Real Estate Law in Michigan
In Benton Harbor, real estate law can affect just about anything involving the use, purchase, or sale of land and fixtures to land, such as buildings.
The many laws affecting real estate in Benton Harbor can sometimes feel overwhelming in their volume and complexity. This might apply doubly when your case involves a foreclosure, or a construction dispute.
Accordingly, it's a good idea to learn some of the basics of Benton Harbor's real estate laws.
If you have even a little bit of basic understanding of applicable real estate law, your life will probably be a great deal easier. If you have some understanding of the law, your knowledge will likely put you in a better bargaining position.
Common Real Estate Law Issues in Benton Harbor
Financing: Most individuals, families, and small businesses in Benton Harbor cannot afford to buy a large piece of real estate with the money they have on hand. However, they often can afford to pay for it over a long period of time, in installments, with interest. Thus, most real estate is purchased using a mortgage - a loan for a specific purchase, using the item purchased as collateral.
Zoning: Zoning regulations govern what types of structures are allowed on various parcels, based on their location in a municipality. For example, some areas in a city might be zoned only for residential use. Another area might authorize industrial use. These rules are meant to keep property values up, and promote harmony among neighbors by preventing conflicts.
Duty to Disclose: If you're buying a house in Benton Harbor, you have particular legal protections. The seller has a duty to tell the buyer about any defects that the property has. All defects which the seller knows about, and which the buyer can't be expected to discover through an ordinary inspection, must be disclosed. If the seller fails to disclose a defect, and the buyer later discovers it, the seller can be sued for any diminution in the property's value caused by the defect, the cost of repairing it, and any injuries the buyers suffers as a result.
Implied Warranty: All residential lease agreements in Benton Harbor carry with them an implicit promise by the landlord that the property is fit for human habitation. This warranty does not need to be explicitly stated in order to have effect, and neither the tenant nor landlord can waive it. Any contract claiming to waive this warranty is void. To be considered habitable, a building must not be so dirty as to pose a health hazard, it must have running water, it must have electricity, and it must provide adequate protection from the weather. There are many other requirements, but if a building or unit lacks any one of those, it will be considered uninhabitable.
Can a Benton Harbor Real Estate Lawyer Help?
These issues, along with many others, can sometimes be fairly convoluted. Therefore, you should never hesitate to consult with a Benton Harbor real estate attorney if you have any questions.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama has had some pretty lousy luck with his energy plans.
Last March he proposed opening up new areas of the country for offshore oil drilling. A month later BP's rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico.
This year he asked for $36 billion to help build new nuclear plants. Within weeks at least three reactors at a Japanese nuclear plant were on the verge of a meltdown.
His capstone plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions failed in the Senate. Governors are giving back his high speed rail money. His energy czar is gone.
"He picked the three losers right from the start," said Kevin Book, a managing director at the research firm ClearView Energy Partners, referring to the greenhouse gas law, oil drilling and nuclear power. "His timing couldn't be worse."
To be fair, a lot of this isn't Obama's fault. But just what has the president accomplished on the energy front, and where can he go from here?
On Wednesday Obama will outline a plan to reduce the nation's imports of foreign oil by a third in a little over 10 years, mainly through increased domestic production, conservation, and a shift to biofuels and natural gas.
In 2010 the nation imported about 9.5 million barrels of oil, gasoline and other related products a day and used just over 19 million barrels a day, according to the Energy Information Agency.
Despite calls for more drilling, Book said the Obama administration has actually made fewer areas available for oil and gas exploration, and not just because of the BP spill.
Onshore, leases in Utah granted under the Bush administration have been rescinded over environmental concerns.
Just prior to the BP spill, the Obama administration had called for opening up more areas for offshore drilling. But Book says that was a bit of a ruse.
Those areas were supposed to be open anyway under polices put forth by the Bush administration. Obama held them up, and said he might open them if Congress was willing to bargain on other energy issues, primarily passing a cap on greenhouse gasses. Thanks to the BP spill, that bargaining never happened and most of those areas remain off limits.
On the coal front, Obama has been reining in the energy companies, primarily though aggressive restrictions via the Environmental Protection Agency surrounding mountain top mining.
"Almost everything that has been done is to ratchet back the decisions of the Bush administration,' said Book. "It's largely been a restrictive policy."
The Obama administration did not respond to an email seeking comment on its overall energy policies.
The administration does get credit for advancing a few of its energy goals.
The administration has approved expanded coal sales out of Wyoming's Powder River Basin, something Book cited as an example of it promoting domestic energy production.
It was successful in raising fuel efficiency standards at an even faster pace than dictated under the 2007 energy act -- boosting them to 36 miles per gallon by 2016.
A White House official said Tuesday that Obama will work to raise them even higher for models in 2017 and beyond.
And despite the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, in his speech Wednesday Obama will reaffirm his support for a clean energy standard that would require utilities to buy 80% of their power from "cleaner" sources like wind and solar, as well as nuclear, natural gas and clean coal by 2035.
There is bipartisan support for this idea, although Congress has yet to pass such a measure.
Also, the administration pushed to get the subsidies for renewable energy converted to out right grants, which has greatly helped that industry.
On Wednesday the President is also expected to push for increased use of natural gas in trucks and buses and the construction of four commercial-scale biofuel plants in the next two years that don't rely on food crops.
"While the President's budget places significant emphasis on new technology investment, our near term economic security demands continued efforts to develop and improve upon existing energy resources," said Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank. "The Administration's support for increased oil and gas production and new nuclear facilities recognizes this reality."
Yet despite Wednesday's expected announcement, many energy insiders will likely continue to bemoan the nations' lack of a coherent energy policy.
That sentiment was most recently summed up at a Houston energy conference by John Rowe head of utility giant Exelon, who paraphrased an old industry saying on the country's energy policy: If it produces, tax it. If it produces too fast, regulate it. And if it doesn't produce at all, subsidize it.
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Noor Dubai, the UAE-born charity initiative focused on preventing and treating low vision and curable forms of blindness around the world, treated around 30,000 people of all ages last week in Sudan and Bangladesh at its free cataract treatment camps.
These camps witnessed remarkable treatment records by undertaking more than 3,000 surgery in one week.
Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid, CEO of Noor Dubai and Director General of Dubai Health Authority, said Noor Dubai camps are witnessing overwhelming response from patients of all ages at many remote areas across the world.
He said the camps have helped restore the vision of 30,000 people in Al Obiadh in Sudan and the Tanguila region in Bangladesh.
Of those, more than 26,000 men, women and children were treated with medication and prescription eyeglasses funded by the initiative; an additional 3,200 were identified for surgery, with priority given to those with cataracts in both eyes and those in advanced stages.
"Noor Dubai has succeeded in dealing with critical humanitarian concerns of people of all ages who were unable to get the right treatment. The Noor Dubai surgical team worked two six-hour shifts every day, completing an average of 400 successful surgeries daily," Al Murooshid said.
"Every one of these surgeries represents an improved life, and we are privileged to be able to offer this treatment."
Noor Dubai's camp in Al Obiadh screened and treated more than 16,000 patients and achieved around 2,000 surgeries.
Those treated include people as young as three-year-old to a 110-year-old woman. The oldest patient treated at the Tanguila camp was a 85-year-old man with mature cataracts, whose vision had been reduced to light perception only; the youngest was a 20-years-old girl with congenital cataracts and severe vision deterioration.
Both patients were treated successfully.
Noor Dubai's camps are the latest cataract camps to be held in developing countries.
Recently, successful camps were also held in Sudan, drawing 14,000 individuals; Pakistan, with 12,000 patients; and Sri Lanka, drawing 14,000 patients and Yemen 11,000 patients. Eye camps will also be held in Chad, Niger and Nigeria in coming weeks. Another Sudan camp will be organised by Noor Dubai in the coming days.
Noor Dubai, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in September 2008, has set a target of treating more than one million patients in its first year, via free treatment camps in Dubai, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Yemen.
Closer to home, Noor Dubai has also given the gift of full vision to more than 800 patients from Palestine, Iraq, Sudan, Jordan, Mali, Egypt and Syria and across the GCC, flying individuals from their home countries into Dubai for treatment at Dubai Hospital and other city facilities. The initiative is also working towards establishing an eye camp in Gaza to treat children and adults with preventable blindness and visual impairment, and those whose vision was affected during the recent conflict.
In coming weeks, the initiative will also move more into its second and third phases, focusing on prevention, education and awareness.
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Oh wait. That's the entire point. With so many different spoken languages over seas, it makes perfect sense to go with the simple, language-agnostic approach. But of course you knew that all along, right?
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Matthews and Jonathan Alter Freak Out: 'Vulnerable' Obama Hurt By Staffers With 'Unhealthy Love' for Him
Liberal journalists Chris Matthews and Jonathan Alter conducted a freak out session on Tuesday. Citing the growing IRS, Libya and Associated Press scandals, Matthews ranted that Barack Obama is a "ship with the engine off." Sending up the warnings, the Hardball anchor lamented, "[Obama is] vulnerable. And that is obvious to everyone this side of the White House gates."
In an unintentionally hilarious moment, former Newsweek journalist Jonathan Alter dismissed the support team the President has in the White House: "A lot of them are young. Some of them are very smart and talented. But they're all in awe of the president. They have an unhealthy love for him." [MP3 audio here.] Obama staffers have an unhealthy love for the President? Keep in mind, Alter was talking to Chris "thrill going up my leg" Matthews.
The Hardball host lectured, "President Obama has got to stop taking advice from sycophants who keep telling him he's right and only they can be trusted."
Obama has to stop taking advice from sycophants? Perhaps the President is watching too much MSNBC.
A partial transcript of the May 14 segment is below:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: . Let me start tonight with this: There's a reason the President's an easy target tonight. He's a ship with the engine off. He can go play golf, take Marine One up to Manhattan. But, none of that matters. None of it. What matters is he commands no big cause. There's no thrust to his presidency right now. As I said, the engine's off. Oh, you can say he's concerned about gun violence, but the bill's dead. Dead as a door nail. Oh, you can talk about immigration, but it's out there on the horizon somewhere where Rubio and Schumer and McCain live in legislation land. No, the engine's dead. That's why this president is under fire. His people are unexcited because they've not been called to be excited.
The middle is simply watching the fireworks right now and the right, well, the right is throwing torches into the fire, of course. So there's now a challenge to be met. And I can tell you from experience this is the time for professionals. Yes, professionals. I saw Ronald Reagan in big historic trouble over Iran/Contra. He'd been caught sending missiles to the enemy in Iran. Nancy Reagan called in Bob Strauss from the Democratic Party he said to clean house and bring in the pros. Reagan did and saved himself. Those pros were Howard Baker and Ken Duberstein. And they saved an important presidency. President Obama has got to stop taking advice from sycophants who keep telling him he's right and only they can be trusted. He needs to act. He needs to fire people. He needs to grab control of his presidency. He needs to surround himself with people who are ready to fight on every front, because the three problems he faces now, Benghazi, the IRS and the FBI are less likely to be two problems by this time next week than there are to be four and counting. Why? Because, as I said, it's not just that he's under attack. It's that he's vulnerable. And that is obvious to everyone this side of the White House gates.
JONATHAN ALTER [On Obama's staffers in the White House]: A lot of them are young. Some of them are very smart and talented. But they're all in awe of the president. They have an unhealthy love for him. Yes, they do sometimes tell him the bad news, which he says he wants. They're not all sycophants.
-- Scott Whitlock is the senior news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.


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(HealthDay News) – For dermatopathologists, there is a trend toward reclassification of prior nonmalignant diagnoses of severely atypical dysplastic nevi as malignant, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Jason E. Frangos, MD, from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues had a group of 9 dermatopathologists review retrieved pathology files and reevaluate 29 cases of dysplastic nevi with severe atypia and 11 cases of thin radial growth-phase melanoma, originally diagnosed in 1988 through 1990.
The researchers found the mean number of melanoma diagnoses in the revaluation to be 18, an increase from the 11 original diagnoses of melanoma. In all 11 cases, a majority agreed with the original melanoma diagnosis. In 4 of the 29 cases originally reported as dysplastic nevus with severe atypia, a majority of current raters diagnosed melanoma. Interrater agreement over time was excellent for cases originally diagnosed as melanoma (kappa, 0.88), and fair for cases originally diagnosed as severely atypical dysplastic nevus (kappa, 0.47).
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"The results of this study provide support for the hypothesis that dermatopathologists are more likely to diagnose thin superficial spreading melanoma in biopsy specimens that were reported as dysplastic nevi with severe atypia in the past, e.g., some 20 years ago," the authors write.