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Wildcat Roar: When Mountain Lions Live Under the House
When we take away wild places for wild animals, those animals find ways of showing up in our backyard. Because it was their backyard first … When that animal is a predator, all hell breaks loose, suburban-wild style.
The anti-predator myth is exemplified by this week's hysterical reaction to a mountain lion under a house that borders Griffith Park. It illustrates a cultural paranoia we must conquer if we are going to coexist with wild animals. We don't have wolves to demonize here in California (other than OR-7, vacationing with his family in Southwest Oregon). We have mountain lions.
In the past 30 years, three people out of more than 30 million have been fatally injured by a mountain lion; less than a dozen fatalities in 125 years (a handful more if you add Canada and Mexico). California Fish & Wildlife estimates a person is 1,000 times more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a mountain lion. So why are we so afraid?
Very few people ever see a mountain lion. Coming "eyeball to eyeball" with the lion known as "P-22" in a crawlspace, a worker installing a security system had the surprise of a lifetime this week. But journalists exploited this drama. With apparent glee, they treated this wildcat nap like a car chase or a hostage crisis. Reporters were licking their lips waiting for the armed cult leader to finally drive off the road or open fire on children. Or crawl out from under the house.
Wildlife officials poked that dang varmint with a stick, they shot beanbags at him, hell they even shot tennis balls at him. But that sucker was resistant. In a safe,dark place, he stayed put, while firefighters, wildlife officials, and reporters went nuts. CA Fish & Wildlife finally realized that (as any owner of a cat can tell you) the best way to get him to come out is to leave him alone.
And when they did, he left. So the news that obsessed media for a day was that a wild animal crawled under a house that borders a 4,300 acre park (5x larger than Central Park) where the animal lives. Why is this news? Because of the myth and the lore that surrounds apex predators.
Suburban sprawl into wild areas guarantees some overlap with wild animals. That's why we must talk about protecting native animals by protecting their land and leaving them alone. Instead, there was only panic about the dangers of wild animals and a demonizing of predators.
Mountain lion attacks are extremely rare. Even seeing one is unusual. Mountain lions — aka cougars, pumas, or panthers — are shy, solitary, and stealthy apex predators. They are the ninjas of the California animal world — and they want to be left alone. Lions are not often seen skipping down the mountainside, being goofy, like dogs and coyotes. Mountain lions are, after all, cats. Only in exceptional cases do they allow humans to see them. Mostly, mountain lions are there only when you have no idea they're there.
As apex predators they are vital to our environment. Destroying mountain lions, by usurping their habitat, destroys entire ecosystems. And that's just what we're doing. There are only 4–5,000 mountain lions in California.
Culturally, we love identifying with predators, becoming them, temporarily as mascots and tattoos: wildcats, lions, tigers, wolverines, bears. Unfortunately, people also like shooting them too — the combination of desire and fear is the attraction we feel when we don their likeness in symbolic ways to harness their mythological power. Dominating a dominant animal proves our power, so some seem to believe. Yet we are terrified of coexisting with these predators. That is the suburban mystique all over again: we long for the wild within, while massacring the wild without.
We need to stop mythologizing animals and instead respect them by leaving them alone, and protecting their legal rights, lands, and lives. Coexisting — as anyone with roommates and teenage family members knows — is usually about leaving each other alone. We must make our decisions as a balance between science, ecology, and the highest common good, which includes the interests of animals and the Earth.
What's the Law?
On June 5, 1990, Californian voters approved Proposition 117 — the Mountain Lion Initiative — (called the "People's Initiative" after Mountain Lion Foundation volunteers gathered more than 680,000 signatures to put it on the ballot). Prop 117 did two important things: it banned trophy hunting and it helped save land for mountain lions to stay wild.
Prop 117 created a Habitat Conservation Fund of $1 million a year until 2020 to "acquire, enhance, restore" wild lands for wildlife. That Proposition also changed mountain lions from "game" hunted for "sport" to "specially protected mammals" who aren't allowed to be killed for fun.
A property owner can kill a mountain lion who threatens humans or animals only with a depredation permit. This permit is required by law and even with this permit a person is prohibited from the use of "poison, leg-hold or metal-jawed traps and snares." Breaking this law can lead to criminal charges.
What is usually shared when discussing predators is what to do when you encounter one; people are given a tip sheet for resolving confrontation at an individual level. What is not discussed is how to prevent and avoid confrontation at a socio-cultural level, because that would involve doing things we don't want to do, like not treating the Earth like a parking lot, not acting on all opportunities for suburban development, and not thinking only of our own immediate interests.
That being said, for the benefit of animals, wild and domestic, here are some precautions to avoid the conflict with native animals like mountain lions in the first place:
Facts for Staying Safe and Protecting Mountain Lions
- Mountain lions try very hard to avoid people, but often coexist around us, unseen and unheard.
- Mountain lions are found where deer are found; deer are their primary food.
- Mountain lions are especially found in the foothills and mountains.
- Mountain lions who reveal themselves to humans may suffer rabies or be desperately starving.
- Mountain lions who threaten humans are immediately killed — about 100 are killed every year: they can't be moved (due to conflicts with other lions and revisiting issues).
Use Nonlethal Control
- Don't feed or attract deer — it attracts mountain lions and it's against the law.
- Don't feed raccoons and other mountain lion prey: don't leave pet food outside.
- Not attracting deer means avoiding plants deer like to eat.
- Not attracting a lion means trimming hedges that offer hiding places.
- Don't leave children and pets outdoors, especially at dawn, twilight, and night.
- Don't leave yourself outdoors alone on a borderland jogging or hiking path, at dawn, twilight, and night.
- Make sure animals are protected with covered shelters.
- Protect your perimeters with motion-sensor lights outside your home.
What if you've done all this and still see a mountain lion?
- Do not, under any circumstances, get closer.
- Do not, under any circumstances, run.
- Do not pop a squat, crouch, or lose eye contact.
- Do pick up small children.
- Do make yourself look bigger and noisier.


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The Nature of the Quranic Teachings
Islam, like the other great religions, more particularly the other two semitic faiths, Judaism and Christianity, with whom it has much in common, bases itself on revelation.
But there is a vital distinction. The Holy Quran is a record solely of the verbal revelations received by the Holy Prophet of Islam during a period of over twenty years. It is thus, according to Muslim belief, the Very Word of God. The Holy Prophet's own interpretation and exposition of the revelations are not set out in the Quran. These are contained in other collections.
The claim of the Quran is that it furnishes guidance on all fundamentals, whether it matters of principle, practice or vital detail, for all time. It opens up vast fields for the pursuit of knowledge and research, but the question I desire to address myself to at the outset is to what extent does it bind and regulate and what does it leave free for the exercise of discretion, experiment, trial and error? I have deliberately avoided the use of the expression "reason" in this context, lest it should give rise to misunderstanding. For, according to the Quran, Reason governs both in the realm of pure faith and in the fields of discretion and experiment. The Quran invites mankind to faith through the exercise of reason. It is full of appeals, invitations, admonitions and exhortations to "consider," "ponder," "reflect," "understand." It repeatedly draws attention to the phenomena of nature and invites the "people of understanding and wisdom" to reflect upon the "signs" contained therein and to draw lessons from them. For instance, the Holy Prophet was commanded and through him, of course, the Muslims:
Call unto the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the way that is best. Surely thy Lord knows the best who has strayed from His path and He knows those who are rightly guided. (XVI.126)
The way to guidance is through wisdom and understanding:
God grants wisdom to whom He pleases, and whoever is granted wisdom has indeed been granted abundant good; and none would be reminded save those endowed with understanding. (II.270)
As an illustrations of these admonitions and exhortations let me draw attention to the following:
And one of His Signs is this, that He has created mates for you from among yourselves that you may find peace of mind in them and He has put love and tenderness between you. In that surely are signs for a people who will reflect. (XXX.22)
And among His Signs is the creation of the Heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors. In that surely are signs for those who possess knowledge. (XXX.23)
And among His Signs is your sleep by night and day, and your seeking of His bounty. In that surely are signs for a people who hear.(XXX.24)
And one of His Signs is this, that He shows you the lightning as a source of fear and hope, and He sends down water from the sky, and quickens therewith the earth after its death. In that surely are signs for a people who understand. (XXX.25)
And again:
God it is who has subjected to you the oceans that ships may sail thereon by His command, and that you may seek his bounty, and that you may be grateful. And He has subjected to you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth: all this is from Him. In that surely are signs for a people who reflect. (XIV.12-13)
This is a Book We have revealed to thee, full of blessings, that they may reflect over it verses and that those gifted with understanding may take heed. (XXVIII.30)
Instances could be multiplied, but these should suffice:
Thus the question I have posed is not what is governed and regulated by Revelation and what is left to Reason. The question is what is governed and regulated by Revelation (the truth of which Reason has affirmed) and what is left to discretion and experiment.
The Quran itself makes that distinction:
O children of Adam: if Messengers come to you from among yourselves, rehearsing My Signs unto you, then who so shall fear God and do good, on them shall come no fear nor shall they grieve. (VII.36)
On the other hand, there is the admonition:
Ye who believe do not enquire concerning matters on which directions given to you might prove burdensome to you … God has left them out. God is most Forgiving, Forbearing. A people before you asked about such things, but then they became disbelievers therein. (V.102-103)
Thus we have the truth emphasized that Divine guidance is always completely beneficent and must, therefore, be followed, but that we must not seek to restrict the sphere of speculation, discretion and experimentation.
In fundamentals the harm resulting from the adoption of an injurious or wrong course may be irremediable or very far-reaching. Concerning such matters guidance has been furnished in the Revelation. Even that guidance is not more rigid than is absolutely essential for the organization of human society on a beneficent pattern and for the regulation of human conduct in conformity with such a pattern. In most matters the ordinances of the Shariat possess the healthy quality of elasticity. It is the sophists and the jurists who have sought to make them unduly rigid. But outside these limits Muslims are not only left free to exercise their discretion and to apply the lessons of experience and observation, but are constantly and repeatedly exhorted to do so.
Take the important matter of what has come to be known as a Constitution, that is the fundamental law governing and regulating the political, executive, legislative, and judicial functions of the State. The Quran has laid down the fundamental principles with great emphasis, but has left it to the people concerned to make them effective in accordance with their own needs, requirements, limitations, and circumstances.
The fundamental principles are thus expressed:
God commands you that you entrust political authority to those who are best capable of discharging this trust and that when you are called upon to judge between the people you judge with justice and equity. Surely excellent is that with which God admonishes you. God is All- Hearing, All-Seeing. (IV.59)
Several principles are clearly deducible from this emphatic injunction. First, that under God, sovereignty rests with the people. It is for the people to entrust various aspects of political authority into the hands of persons who are deemed most capable of carrying them into effect. Attention is thus drawn to the very important principle that the exercise of the franchise and the performance of the functions of representation and of executive and judicial office are all in the nature of a sacred trust and must be approached and carried out in that spirit. This exhortation at once lifts politics from the arena of controversy, conflict, and sordid manoeuvre into the exalted sphere of a moral and spiritual function. The proper exercise of the franchise is the key to the successful working of democracy. This is emphasized in mandatory language in the Quran.
Next, the independence and integrity of the judicial office is stressed. I have had occasion recently to put together my ideas on "The Concept of Justice in Islam" in an article. I need not enlarge upon the subject here.
The verse then goes on to caution the Muslims that they may be tempted from time to time to depart from these principles, but that they would do well always to adhere to them as "God's admonition furnishes the best guidance."
Finally, there is the warning that God is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. He is always on the watch. He hears the cry of the afflicted and the oppressed and watches the conduct of all His creatures. We must not expect to enjoy the benefits of a system we do not practice, nor can we hope to escape the consequences and penalties flowing from wrongdoing, especially in connection with the discharge of so sacred a trust as the benign and benevolent governance of His creatures and making provision for their true welfare and their constant progress and advancement.
In addition to laying down principles and furnishing guidance the Quran makes provision for the training of Muslims in the exercise of these functions. The Holy Prophet was exhorted to make his decisions after consultation with and seeking advice from representative Muslims.
It is by the great mercy of God that thou (i.e., the Prophet) art kind towards them, and if thou hadst been rough and hard-hearted they would surely have dispersed from around thee. So forbear and ask forgiveness for them and consult them in matters of administration; and when thou hast determined the matter, then put thy trust in God. Surely God loves those who put their trust in Him. (III.160)
Mutual consultation and advice is described in the Quran as a characteristic of the Muslims:
Those who harken to their Lord and observe Prayer, and whose affairs are decided by mutual consultation, and who spend out of whatsoever We have provided for them. (XLII.39)
It was this system and this training which converted so many unlettered and untutored dwellers of the desert into such efficient executives and administrators in so short a time in the early years of Islam. Of much greater importance, however, than these fundamental principles of constitution, etc., is today question: "What is the kind of society that Islam seeks to set up?"
The answer to the question I have just posed can run into great length. I shall confine myself to a brief outline for the benefit of the average Westerner. The scholar already knows a great deal more about these matters than I can lay pretension to. Our purpose in these discussions, I conceive, is not so much to stimulate scholarship and research as to promote better understanding of the values that, in the last resort, and particularly in a period of stresses and crises, are likely to influence the thought and conduct of the average person.
The central fundamental point or doctrine, if you prefer the expression, in Islam is the Unity of God. Everything else, as you say here, stems from that. God is One: He is also Unity. All else proceeds from Him and depends upon Him for support, sustenance, and advancement.
All mankind are His creatures and servants. Islam recognizes no kind of privilege based upon race, family, color, office, wealth, etc. The only badge of nobility, as it were, is the degree of righteousness of a person's life.
O mankind, We have created you from man and woman:
And We have made you peoples and tribes that you may recognize one another more easily. Verily, the most honorable among you in the sight of God, is he who is most righteous among you. Surely, God is All- Knowing, All-Aware. (XLIX.14)
There is a fundamental unity in the Universe, and all this stresses the control and power of God.
Man and the Universe have been created with a purpose. (XLV.23 and XLVI.4)
The Quran stresses that man as such (not any particular man or group) is God's Vicegerent upon earth. (II.30-31; VI.166)
The universe and all that is in it has been made subservient to man. (XLV.13-14)
The opens out a vast field for research and the pursuit of knowledge, for the benefit of all mankind.
As Islam does not recognize any classes, nor any privilege based upon any class distinctions, its economic and social values are all designed to establish in practice the brotherhood of man on a basis of equality and dignity. In fact, mankind are warned that if they will not cultivate true love for each other and practice sincere brotherhood, they may be pushed to the "brink of a pit of fire."
Remember the favour of God which He bestowed upon you when you were enemies and He united your hearts in love, so that by His grace you became as brothers: and you were on the brink of a pit of fire and He saved you from it. Thus does God explain to you His Signs that you may be guided. (II.104)
In the social sphere, Islam has sought to emphasize the spirit of brotherhood and equality by instituting and insisting upon simple standards and dispensing with formality and ceremonial.
Liquor and all intoxicants, all well as gambling, are prohibited and moderation is enjoined in the matter of food and drink. It is pointed out that the use of intoxicants and indulgence in gambling would foster enmity and hatred and neglect of prayer and remembrance of God. (V.91-92)
Eat and drink and be moderate, He loves not the immoderate. (VII.32)
The Muslims in their "golden age," if the use of the expression may be permitted, have not always adhered to the spirit of Islamic injunctions and teachings in this regard. Nevertheless, social intercourse in Islamic society has throughout been perfectly easy and free and a consciousness of brotherhood and equality has always been kept alive. The purely religious ordinances of Islam have largely helped to keep this consciousness alive. The five daily services in the Mosques, where no discrimination of any sort is permitted, for instance, by way of allotment of seats or pews and access is open to all alike, the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca where all pilgrims are uniformly clad in two white sheets, the annual fast extending over a month with its uniform discipline, attend in the same direction.
It is perhaps in the economic sphere that in the present age the values sought to be inculcated by Islam would arouse the keenest interest.
Islam starts from the fundamental fact that the original sources of wealth, the earth and its capacities and treasures, the sun, moon, the stars, the atmosphere, clouds, rain, etc., are the gifts of God to all mankind and have been subordinated to man and subjected to his service. There can, therefore, be no property in them.
Wealth is produced by the application of knowledge and skill to, and the utilization of, these sources. This involves the use of skill, capital, and labor. The wealth produced in consequence is, therefore, divisible not only between skill, capital, and labor, but must also by shared by the community as a whole, as legatees of God's bounties which are the original sources of all wealth. This share of the community is recovered through a capital levy called the ZAKAT. The root of the word is ZAKKA, i.e., "he purified," or "he fostered." This levy has both characters. By separating the share of the community it purifies the rest and makes the rest lawful for division between skill, capital, and labor. The proceeds of this levy are to be devoted towards purposes designed to foster the welfare of the community; e.g., the relief of poverty and distress, the provision of public works for the benefit of the community at large, the maintenance of scholars and research workers and those who devote themselves to the service of man, the provision of capital for those who possess useful skills but lack the necessary capital to put them into practice, etc.
The Quran indicates the purposes of the Zakat in:
Take out of their wealth alms so that thou mayest through it purify them and foster their welfare. (IX.103)
The Prophet himself has indicated the character of the Zakat in the words:
An alms that is levied on the well-to-do and is returned to those in need.
It is a legal levy imposed by the State and is to be distinguished from public and private charity to which the Muslims are repeatedly and emphatically exhorted in the Quran.
With regard to the use and application of wealth, Islam aims at the widest possible distribution and constant circulation. The Zakat just referred to is one of the means of securing such distribution and circulation. The emphasis on public and private charity is another. (IV.37-41; II.262-275)
But there are other ordinances designed with the same object.
Hoarding of wealth, Kanz, and holding back, Bukhl, are mostly severely condemned as heinous sins entailing the defeat of their own purpose and powerful penalties (IX.34-35; CIV; IV.37-38). The freest and widest application of wealth, talent, knowledge, etc. "in the way of God", i.e., in the service of man, are insisted upon as an indispensible means of promoting falah, .i.e., individual and national prosperity.
Behold, you are those who are called upon to spend in the way of God, and of you there are some who hold back, but whoso holds back is being miserly only against his own self. God is Self-Sufficient, it is you who are needy. If you turn away, He will bring in your stead a people other than you. Then they will not be like you. (XLVII.39)
But extravagance is forbidden, for extravagance leads man into evil company and the misuse of God's bounties.(XVII. 28) It is spending "in the way of God," to win God's favor, that is enjoined. Indeed it is pointed out that in the substance of the well to do the needy have a share to which they are entitled.
In their wealth was a share for those who could express their needs and those who could not. (LI.20)
So give to the kinsman his due and to the needy, and to the wayfarer. That is best for those who seek the favour of God. It is they who will prosper. (XXX.39)
Interest is prohibited: it restricts circulation, accumulates wealth in a few hands and fosters wars. (II.276-280)
Trade, commerce, partnership, joint stock companies, and other commercial ventures and activities are not restricted. The principle is that a person may invest his money in any legitimate venture which puts wealth into circulation, promotes employment, and fosters the welfare of the community. What is prohibited is a transaction the essence of which is that one person advances money or makes a loan in kind with a stipulation that he must receive a fixed return for the use of the money or the community lent, irrespective of what may happen to the subject matter of the loan. So long as the transaction is one which is designed to foster the welfare of the community through the circulation of wealth and the promotion of industry or commerce, and the person participating in it by way of investing money (or goods as the case may be) accepts the risk of loss and becomes entitled also to share in the profits, there is no objection.
Another device aimed at breaking up accumulations of property or wealth and securing a wide distribution is the Islamic system of inheritance. While a person is alive and in good health, he may dispose of his property as he may choose, subject to the moral principles of charity and beneficence inculcated by Islam. His power of bequest, however, is strictly limited. He may by Will dispose of no more than a maximum of one-third of his property and may direct its distribution for charity or otherwise through testamentary disposition. The remaining two- thirds or a larger share, after the testamentary dispositions have been satisfied, must be distributed among his heirs in specified shares. Under the Islamic law of inheritance, the number of heirs is apt to be quite numerous. Should a man die leaving him surviving father, mother, widow, sons and daughters, everyone of them would be an heir and would receive a prescribed share in the inheritance. Among the same category of heirs, there is no preference, nor is there any such discrimination as, for instance, the law of primogeniture. Men and women are all heirs, though for the reason to be stated immediately, a woman's share is generally one-half of a man's share in the same degree of heirs. The reason for this is that under the Islamic social and economic systems, the whole responsibility for the maintenance of the family rests upon the father and not upon the mother. Even should it happen, as is sometimes the case, that the mother has a larger income in her own right than the father, the legal responsibility for the maintenance of the family rests upon the father. The mother is under no legal obligation to make any contribution towards the family expenses.
The Islamic system of inheritance thus breaks up wealth in each generation. The object is that a large number should receive a small competence rather than that a single heir, or a small number, should inherit wealth in large quantities. It does not, however, follow that small parcels of land or real estate must be divided between all the heirs. The State is free to make any regulation which would restrict the subdivision of property through inheritance while safeguarding the legal title of each heir to receive his or her share in cash or in some other form.
Islam recognizes individual ownership and private property and gives it full legal protection. It does not `restrict' wealth, but regulates the modes of its acquisition and the purposes to which it must or may be applied.
In other words, it recognizes a certain degree of ownership in the individual. It permits its use and enjoyment within certain limits. It makes ownership a sort of stewardship to be administered and discharged as a trust.
Each one of you is a steward (lit.: a shephard) and is accountable for his charge. (The Prophet SAW)
Islam recognizes and indeed stresses the diversity of talents, skills, initiative, enterprise, etc. And consequently of earnings and rewards and a disparity of wealth and worldly means. (XVI.72) In fact, a certain diversity is part of the purpose of life. Like all other limitations and qualifications Islam seeks to employ this diversity for the purpose of promoting social co-operation on a beneficent basis.
Co-operate with each other in virtue and righteousness and do not co- operate in sin and transgression and fear God. Verily God is severe in chastisement.
It is through such co-operation and not through coveting what others excel in, that healthy progress is to be achieved. (IV.33)
Islam takes note of and encourages the spirit of competition but seeks to divert it into wholly beneficent channels:
Everyone has a goal which dominates him: Vie then, with one another in good deeds. (II.149)

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SAP announced Thursday that its supervisory board has extended the contracts of co-CEOs Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott until June 30, 2017, in a move that could give customers confidence that the company remains committed long-term to its strategies for mobile computing, analytics and SaaS (software as a service).
McDermott and Snabe made their mark on SAP shortly after being appointed co-CEOs in early 2010, following the departure of CEO Leo Apotheker, who since took the top job at Hewlett-Packard.
Last May, SAP purchased Sybase in a US$5.8 billion deal that gave it a mobile middleware platform, databases and other technology. The company has also been pushing on-demand software products such as Business ByDesign, an ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite that also serves as a development platform for other SaaS applications.
The HANA (High Performance Analytic Appliance) in-memory computing engine is another major area of focus for SAP of late, although executive board member Vishal Sikka and SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner are considered the main driving forces behind it.
Snabe and McDermott's contract extensions recognize "their extraordinary achievements in leading SAP's successful growth performance during their tenure," Plattner said in a statement.
Also Thursday, SAP said that it has extended executive board member and chief operating officer Gerhard Oswald's contract through June 30, 2014.
The board's decision means a couple of other things, according to one observer.
"They still believe in the co-CEO role," said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. "The company's big enough and complicated enough that the responsibilities can still be divided between the two." Snabe oversees product development, while McDermott concentrates on sales and channel development.
It also means "there are no other successor candidates in the background," Wang added.
SAP customers should take note of the contract extensions, Wang said. "Stability of leadership is important. SAP is going through a transition, and the important thing to know is the leaders that have been picked are going to be around for a while."


text: Back COPD: Managing Sodium and Potassium Intake When you have COPD, healthy eating habits are critical for feeling your best. Two nutrients you should be aware of are sodium and potassium. Below are the whys and hows of watching these nutrients. Sodium Sodium helps regulate the normal flow of fluids in and out of body cells. Too much sodium and salt (sodium chloride) can cause the body to retain too much fluid. This makes breathing more difficult. The excess fluid in the blood makes the heart work harder, which can damage it over time. Here are some tips for cutting down on sodium and salt: Check for food labels that say sodium-free, low-sodium, reduced-sodium, or unsalted. Talk with your health care provider about goals for sodium intake. According to the 2010 dietary recommendations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, you should limit your sodium intake to less than 2,300 mg per day. The daily sodium intake should be further reduced to 1,500 mg for African-Americans and for people diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease, as well as individuals 51 and older. The American Heart Association recommends that everyone--not just certain populations--limit daily sodium intake to 1,500 mg. Skip salty snacks, such as chips, pretzels, and salted nuts or seeds. Season foods with spices and herbs instead of salt when cooking. Take the saltshaker off the dinner table. Have your meal prepared without salt when dining out. Check with your health care provider before using a salt substitute. Some are just as harmful as salt. Potassium Potassium also helps maintain the body's fluid balance. It helps contract muscles, send nerve impulses, and maintain healthy heart function. If you take diuretics (water pills), you might need extra potassium to make up for the amount that is lost in urine. Good food sources include oranges, bananas, potatoes, spinach, asparagus, strawberries, raisins, and tomatoes. Beets, lima beans, and baked potatoes with the skins on also contain a lot of potassium. Check with your health care provider about medications that may also help to maintain potassium levels.


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VPI HR-X turntable & JMW12.6 tonearm
VPI Industries' TNT turntable and JMW Memorial tonearm have evolved through several iterations over the last two decades. Some changes have been large, such as the deletion of the three-pulley subchassis and the introduction of the SDS motor controller. Others have been invisible—a change in bearing or spindle material, for example, or the way the bearing attaches to the plinth. And, as longtime Stereophile readers know, I've been upgrading and evolving along with VPI, most recently reporting on the TNT V-HR turntable (Stereophile, December 2001).
Nuts & bolts
But about the time I was expecting the next iteration, designer Harry Weisfeld threw me a curve by unveiling a completely new turntable design, the HR-X. First shown in prototype form at Stereophile's Home Entertainment 2002 show in New York City, the HR-X is a stunning, milled-from-aluminum showcase of everything Weisfeld has learned from designing turntables for the past 25 years.
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Although the HR-X is a clean-slate design, it was obviously informed by the TNT. There are four corner towers with internal pneumatic bladders, a huge platter belt-driven by an outboard motor and flywheel, and a JMW tonearm mounted directly to a massive plinth. Beyond that basic configuration, however, everything is different—rethought, improved, optimized, and executed to the highest standard possible. It's immediately obvious that even VPI's workmanship and cosmetics have been raised to new levels: the TNT was well-built and solid; the HR-X is striking and sumptuous.
Weisfeld began by changing the plinth material, first to the prototype's aluminum, and finally to the HR-X's three-layer laminate of acrylic-aluminum-acrylic. The laminate was found to damp vibrations better than solid slabs of either material alone, and Weisfeld was trying to eliminate the TNT's upper-bass/lower-midrange emphasis and slight softening of dynamic transients. "A lot of people thought the warmth was due to the acrylic chassis," he told me, "but not so. When we did the Scout, we discovered that the biggest contributor wasn't the chassis but the bearing."
Weisfeld explained that the biggest challenge in developing the Aries Scout (reviewed by Art Dudley in February 2003) was coming up with a suitable bearing assembly that could be produced within the available cost constraints ($1600 retail, including a JMW 9 tonearm). "We tried to work through it with our machinist, but he got frustrated and said, 'Get out of here and let me figure it out.' What he came up with was the inverted bearing assembly. When we got the package together, it sounded great! And what's more, we noticed that it didn't seem to have the warmth of our other 'tables." The discovery led to the new bearing design, first for the Scout, then the HR-X.
The inverted bearing is quite simple, though executed to exacting specifications. The bottom element consists of a ball of hardened steel (Rc 60) press-fitted into the top of a similarly hardened steel shaft, which is then solidly attached to the plinth with a single, large nut that tightens from beneath. The mating assembly, press-fitted into the underside of the platter, consists of a stainless-steel boss that houses a graphite-impregnated brass sleeve and a 50/50 Teflon-Delrin pad that mates with the lower assembly's steel ball. Weisfeld has found that simplicity—ie, fewer material interfaces—almost always results in better sound.
The next major change was the replacement of the outboard motor and flywheel with a single, integrated unit housing the flywheel and two smaller motors. The reason for a flywheel is straightforward: add rotational inertia for speed stability, but not in the platter, where the mass would place even more stringent demands on the bearing assembly. "The TNT, like every turntable I've heard, sounds a lot better with a flywheel. The problem was generating enough torque to get it started. We tried a lot of things, but the two-motor assembly worked the best."
The last component was the perimeter clamping ring, something that Weisfeld had been thinking of for decades. "This was the hardest machining job of all. I always wanted to do it, but no one could make it for me. Finally, I found a guy who builds doors for biological level-four rooms, and he can do it." The clamping ring also enabled Weisfeld to lighten the JMW arm a bit and remove the armwand's internal damping.
This isn't the end of the story—the HR-X will continue to evolve. There's already a new tower assembly that replaces the pneumatic bladder ("Firestone couldn't make them consistently enough") with a racquetball, and a tonearm/terminal-block combo wired with Nordost Valhalla cable. When I asked Weisfeld what was next, he said that he's working on ways to reduce the number of parts in the JMW's mounting and VTA adjustment assembly by 60% to increase its rigidity and eliminate a few more interfaces.
Some of the HR-X's elements have already trickled down to other models. The TNT-6 turntable uses the new bearing and motor assembly, a platter/clamping-ring combination is available for the other models, and the new Aries will have a three-layer plinth similar to the HR-X's.
The HR-X was simple to set up and use, and, other than a leaky pneumatic bladder (since replaced), it performed flawlessly. The new motor/flywheel assembly worked beautifully, bringing the platter up to speed quickly and precisely. Ditto the circumferential clamp, which was simple to operate, and by far the best record-holding and -flattening system I've ever used. And for nervous types, it eliminates any concern about a vacuum hold-down system leaching out the vinyl's plasticizers.
Like the TNT, the HR-X really likes to be level, and any time spent optimizing cartridge setup is well spent. After I'd gotten the setup as close as possible with my Wally Tools, I took about two days to fine-tune my latest Lyra Titan-I cartridge. Like all VPI turntables, the HR-X has no antiskating compensation. Harry Weisfeld believes that there are too many variables to allow true fine-tuning of antiskating, so it's best to just twist the leads to apply a bit of force and leave it at that. I'll duck the debate and just say that twisting the HR-X's leads seemed to work just fine—and after a decade of using TNTs, my records don't seem any the worse for wear. I did try Wally's antiskating system during my auditioning, and although it was more precisely "tuneable" than VPI's twist-the-leads method, I didn't find it sounded any better or any more consistent.
TNTs have always had wonderfully quiet, black backgrounds, but the HR-X bettered my TNT V-HR by a substantial margin in this regard. With acoustic recordings, my listening room was replaced by a deep, almost endless background silence. It wasn't an unnatural, "turned-off" digital silence, but a coherent, silent texture that let me sense the performance or recording space around me. And when instruments or voices entered, they didn't just appear but developed naturally, energizing the space around them.
The Mady Mesplé–Charles Burles performance of Delibes' Lakmé (LP, Seraphim SIC-6082), one of my "Records To Die For," was a tour de force on the HR-X. No recording, no system, anywhere or anytime, has re-created a performance as naturally as the combo of HR-X and Lyra Titan did with this set. The performers had a solidity and dimensionality that put them "in" the room—or, rather, in the soundstage that had replaced my room. Everything about the HR-X's playback of this recording was uncanny and just right, from the tiniest detail or ambience cue to the sizes and spacing of the images and orchestra, and how they matched the listener's perspective.
Along with the deeper, blacker background—due, I presume, to better speed stability and a lower noise floor—came a noticeable improvement in the resolution of low-level and inner detail. TNTs are no slouches in this regard, so while the HR-X's improved performance was always noticeable, it wasn't particularly overt. During Lakmé, for example, I didn't register a wealth of new details, or previously unheard whispers and noises. Instead, everything about the performers and the space seemed sharper, clearer, and more three-dimensionally solid. Edges, whether they defined a person or a feature of the hall, were better defined than I recall being the case with my TNT V-HR.


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Watchdog Urges US Not to Forget About Persecuted Christians in Iraq
As violence against Christian minorities continues in Mosul, Iraq, Carl Moeller of Open Doors USA worries that the U.S. has turned its focus away from these persecuted Christians, as the U.S. no longer has a military presence in the Middle Eastern country.
Moeller, president/CEO of human rights watchdog Open Doors USA, calls the continued violence against Christians in Mosul a "religicide," saying in a recent statement: "Christians in cities like Baghdad and Mosul are gripped by terrorism. They are fleeing in droves. [On August 16] it was reported that at least 20 people died in blasts and shootings across the country."
The violence began in 2003, when U.S. military forces overthrew Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The subsequent U.S. occupation of Iraq resulted in immense violence between Christians, the minority in the country, and Muslims.
As a result, 50,000 Christians have emigrated from Mosul since 2003, moving to nearby Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Turkey, and Jordan.
Moeller told The Christian Post that the violence in Mosul has been a "huge human rights crisis for several years now."
"With the spotlight currently on Syria, Nigeria and Afghanistan and the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq last December, Iraq has been placed on the back-burner. But we as Christians in the West must continue to pray for our brothers and sisters in Iraq, who face extinction if we don't pray and advocate for them," Moeller said.
Currently, Christians in Syria are suffering persecution as the country endures one of the most gruesome civil wars in history.
The irony in this, according to Moeller, is that several of the Christians living in Syria initially fled Iraq to escape violence, but have found themselves in even more dire straits as they struggle to stay alive during Syria's civil war.
"Many people don't realize that the Christians from Iraq who fled to Syria are caught in that violence too," Moeller told CP.
Recent reports indicate that violence against Christians in Mosul is escalating.
In 2008, terrorists killed 40 Christians and forced 10,000 Christians to flee their homes in the Mosul area, according to the watchdog.
In May 2012, news agencies reported that 20 Christian families living in Mosul had received threatening letters urging them to move out of the area.
As Open Doors reports, the current number of Christians remaining in Iraq is an estimated 345,000, but the organization says that number is decreasing every month.
Iraq sits at the No. 9 ranking on the Open Doors' 2012 World Watch List, which ranks countries based on their level of persecution of Christians.
"We just need to remember from time to time that somebody's got to do something. We have state department officials who are reluctant to address issues because the U.S. Army isn't there," Moeller told CP regarding the continued violence in Mosul.
Moeller concluded by saying that "Open Doors is committed to providing the basic needs of the community that are necessary, including food, clothing, shelter, spiritual help, Bibles, and materials," but what people need most is trauma counseling for the "unspeakable violence against their families and their homes."


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Tiniest Drone Takes Off, Sort Of
A robotic fly flies freely at Harvard (as long as it's plugged in).
Researchers at a Harvard robotics laboratory have created a drone the size of a large fly or bee that can fly freely in the lab—though it still trails a power cord.
The slender carbon-fiber body of the robo-insect is just half an inch long, the team reports today in Science. Its wingspan is a bit more than an inch. The transparent wings flap 120 times per second.
"The way the wing moves on our robot is very similar to how real houseflies move their wings," said Harvard graduate student Kevin Y. Ma.
The Harvard fly is not the first tiny flying robot, but it may be the tiniest. A team at KMel Robotics has built drones that are about six inches across, have rotors instead of wings, and can fly autonomously in swarms. Aerovironment's Nano Hummingbird has flapping wings, as its name suggests, that span just 6.5 inches.
But until now, flapping-wing robots as small as the Harvard one have achieved stable flight only by being attached to guide rails. The latest Harvard drone dispenses with those. "It's flying without any training wheels," Ma said.
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Houseflies are annoying pests and carriers of disease, but they are also wonders of aeronautic engineering. "It's a very interesting research question to ask how flies move their wings and how they generate the lift forces they need to fly," said Ma.
A housefly maintains its course and altitude by flapping its wings independently—and mimicking that was the major challenge for Ma and his colleagues. "In order to stabilize a flapping-wing robot in the air, you have to have control of each wing separately," Ma said.
Larger robots can run on electromagnetic motors, but on this scale a different technology is needed. The "flight muscles" of the robo-fly's wings are piezoelectric actuators—strips of ceramic that expand and contract in an electric field. Thin hinges of plastic attached to the body frame serve as joints. A delicately balanced control system separately commands the flapping of both wings.
The control system is a computer in the lab, not on the fly. The drone has no onboard power supply either: There is no battery tiny and powerful enough. At the moment, the robo-fly gets both power and control signals through a hair-thin umbilical cord that trails behind it—so though it flies freely, it doesn't fly far. Within three to five years, Ma said, the team hopes to have a wireless version that can buzz around a room.
The potential applications are legion. "Because they're so small and manueverable," Ma said, "they could be used to search for human survivors under collapsed buildings or in other hazardous environments. They could be used for environmental monitoring—dispersed into the atmosphere to sense trace chemicals. And they could be used to assist with pollination of crops"—an application that sounds particularly intriguing at a time when a mysterious disease, colony collapse disorder, is decimating honeybee populations.
Before robo-bees can replace real bees, however, the Harvard researchers have a lot of work to do to improve the drone's flying capabilities. "It was very difficult to get it to be stable," Ma said. "It is not yet ready for a blast of wind."


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Emily was born in Oak Bluffs Jan. 28, 1936 to Elon Gale Huntington and Mildred Tilton Huntington of Chilmark. Emily was a college graduate of the University of Rochester majoring in voice and liberal arts. After college life, Emily was married Oct. 2, 1967 to Ronald J. Rose of Oak Bluffs.
She was elected Register of Probate for the County of Dukes County in 1973 and served her community faithfully for 24 years until she retired in 1997, at which time she enjoyed traveling, quilting, homemaking and spending time with her family.
Emily will live on in our memory, a devoted wife and mother and grandmother.
She was survived by her husband, Ronald J. Rose; her daughter, Stephanie Rose Jette and her son, Jonathan J. Rose; as well as her three grandchildren, Richard, Shaylah and Natasha.
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Wyoming Prosecutors Dispute Critical Report
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal and state prosecutors in Wyoming say the laws already on the books are sufficient to deal with offenders who might engage in sex trafficking of children despite a recent national report giving the state a failing grade on the issue.
Nonetheless, some Wyoming officials say the state should consider adopting a new law specifically outlawing child sex trafficking if only to send the public message that the state is serious about the issue.
Shared Hope International, an advocacy group, issued a stinging report in early December handing out failing grades to Wyoming and 25 other states it says lack adequate laws against human trafficking. It singled out Wyoming as one of four states with no specific law against sex trafficking.
"Each state's laws show omissions in protective provisions for child victims, and lack strong laws to prosecute the men who rent the bodies of other men's children," Linda Smith, founder of Share Hope International, said in announcing the report.
But Wyoming Attorney General Greg Phillips said Friday he believes the group's report may leave the wrong impression.
"Of all states in our union, I sincerely believe that if you were going to exploit a child sexually, or traffic a child, this is the very worst state to do that in," Phillips said.
Phillips noted that Wyoming has abundant law enforcement resources, including a nationally recognized Internet Crimes Against Children unit and state and federal prosecutors eager to prosecute such crimes.
Jim Anderson, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Cheyenne, concentrates on federal sex crimes prosecutions and has worked as a state prosecutor.
"Simply because we don't have a statute on the state books that says, 'Gee, the sex trafficking of children, or the exploitation of children for commercial sex purposes is against the law,' doesn't mean that state investigators, and state prosecutors and state judges can't address those type of cases just the same as we in the federal system can," Anderson said.
Both Phillips and Anderson emphasized that Wyoming, the nation's least-populated state with just over 560,000 people, is still small enough that local, state and federal law enforcement officials know each other and work together on cases.
While there is a federal child sex trafficking law on the books, Anderson said it's not used in the state only because such cases don't often come up.
Anderson said he only recalls only one such case in Wyoming: a 2007 case in which a girl from Mexico was forced into prostitution in Teton County. Three men who forced the girl to work as a prostitute were convicted in federal court and sentenced to prison terms and another man who had sex with the girl repeatedly was convicted in state court and sentenced to serve up to 15 years.
"It was treated very seriously," Anderson said. He said the girl received services including a specialized foster home where people spoke Spanish and other treatment.
Alicia Wilson, policy counsel with Shared Hope International in Washington, said the report didn't look at how existing state or federal laws are implemented in prosecuting any particular cases of child sex trafficking in Wyoming.
"We're not at all saying that the kids are not being protected," Wilson said. "We're saying that the laws are not strong enough on the books themselves and we do not look at implementation. We hope to in the future."
Wilson said it's possible that a sex-trafficking case could come up in Wyoming that didn't have any elements that would allow it to be tried in federal court. "And even if it's only one minor, don't you want a law to protect that victim?" she said.
Phillips said the Shared Hope International report will prompt him to write to Wyoming legislative leaders telling them they may want to consider drafting a state law specifically addressing the sex trafficking issue to send the public message that the state cares about the issue.
Rep. Keith Gingery, R-Jackson, is both a state lawmaker and a local prosecutor.
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Google's new social network, Google+, premiered Tuesday, promising a new spin on socializing online with a slick interface and a unique way of sharing content. The service launched to a limited number of users Tuesday in what Google is calling a "field trial." A few PCWorld staffers were lucky enough to be invited (it'll roll out to everybody in the coming months), so naturally we jumped right into testing the new service.
In general we thought the service borrowed some good ideas from the reigning king of social networks, Facebook, but also offers some cool new approaches to sharing content and managing privacy. In short, Google+ is a solid start to an incipient rival social networking platform that is sure to be enhanced rapidly over the coming months, and it could soon offer a solid alternative to Facebook. Now, let's dig in.
Getting Started
Google+ has an easy set-up with almost no learning curve, especially if you're familiar with Facebook. If you've used any Google products before, you might be surprised at how much of that information gets automatically imported to your new Google+ account, to use in a social context. For example, I've uploaded pictures to Picasa without allowing others to view them. Google+ first asked me to select a profile picture from my Picasa Albums, and then gave me a choice: Either link my Google+ account with Picasa, or don't join Google+ at all.
I decided to link. It didn't actually change the privacy settings of my Picasa albums (it didn't make them public to my friends or anything). But having the choice made me wonder what the implications of having my Picasa albums linked to Google+ really were.
The next place you go after you've set up a Google+ account is to the "About Me" section. You can tell that Google is trying to be a little saucier than Facebook, or at least have an edgier personality.
While Facebook profiles ask you the basic questions: gender, relationship status, religion, favorite movies, TV shows, music and so forth, Google+ asks you to make an introduction, like you're back in the first day of your high school speech class, and then asks you to list "bragging rights" like "survived high school", "have three kids", etc.
Forming Your 'Circles'
Google+ imports all of your information from Gmail automatically–and that means all. When you're updating your friend circles there's a tab towards the top of the page that says "Find and Invite"; click on it and you'll see a list of just about everyone you've ever sent an email to through Gmail alphabetically–even if the last time you sent them an email was four years ago. It's not surprising that Gmail remembers everyone you've every sent an email to–but it's a little jarring when all those names come rushing back at you at once.
Now, how to organize all those people. Google claims to have done a radical rethink of the way social networks ought to work, so that they more closely mimic the way we organize our friends in real life. After using Google+ for just a few minutes I began to appreciate the simplicity of the "circles" approach. And I really like the way Google has represented it in graphical form in Google+: that is, you actually pick up people with your mouse and drag them into this circle or that.
Nice job Google–it makes me think you're finally getting a grip on this social thing after all.
However, because this drag-and-drop function is behind the Circles tab, I began trying to add friends by searching for them from the Google+ homepage. When I would visit a potential friend's page and add them to one of my circles, it wasn't immediately apparent to them that we were now linked. I hope Google moves the Circles function to the front, making the process of forming connections a bit more user friendly.
Sharing Content
Google+ answers the call of many privacy activists to provide the functionality needed to set the privacy level on each piece of content shared. For instance, when I share an article or upload a camera image, Google+ gives me choices of which friend circles I'd like to share that content with. A picture from my phone might be perfectly fine for my Close Friends circle but very wrong for my Colleagues circle, for instance.
Still, I'm not sure that Google has given us the deep privacy controls that we might need. I'm not seeing the tool that lets me carefully fine-tune my sharing rules with a particular circle. I created a new circle for a new set of friends, but did not see where I could set the privacy settings for that group. Am I supposed to rely on the stock privacy settings Google has applied to the Friends, Family and Acquaintances circles it gave me to start with?
Stream = Facebook News Feed
The "Stream" section of Google+ is analogous to Facebook's News Feed, and it does almost nothing different except for the fact that before you post anything, you have to decide which circles see it. You can make it available to "all circles" or even to "extended circles" where you basically email what you post to people who aren't on Google+.
Choosing who sees what in your stream might do one of two things when everyone starts using this: either your news feed will finally have information that pertains only to what you're interested in, without the blast of "everyone from knitting club message me!" updates; or your stream will become immensely boring, without any of the emotional impulse-statuses that make Facebook a salient place for social information. Would you post a dramatic break-up status to the world if you could just send it to your "Circle of Close Friends"? Probably not.
Of course, people who see your stream updates can comment on them, and Google's version of Facebook's "Like" is to "+1" it (Google premiered the "+1" feature earlier this year, which basically allows you to say "hey I think this website is cool" by clicking a "+1" button that appears next to items on your search page). Just as Facebook created new words for using its site ("I'll facebook you when I get back to the city"), maybe later this year we'll be telling each other "I plus-one'd your video last night."
One interesting feature that could really put Google+ ahead of Facebook is its "Hangouts" feature. Google+ Hangouts are a kind of mashup of video chatting through Gmail, and the old "chat rooms" of the days when AIM was our only chat option.
First, you click on the "Start a hangout" button, and it takes you to a separate webpage and enables your webcam and mic (while it's loading it even gives you a "fix your hair and make sure your mic works!" message, so you're not taken by surprise). Then, you invite circles of friends, or individual friends to the Hangout room for the video chat session. You can create Hangouts of up to 10 people.
Google puts the image of the person who is talking at the center of the screen. If multiple people are talking at once it moves the one who is talking loudest to the center (that's a good lesson for you kids out there).
One of the first ways Google will try to win users from Facebook is by leveraging the assets it already has. Search is, of course, Google's crown jewel. Where at Facebook you have to go wander around the web finding sharable content, Google+ brings the content to you.
The feature asks you to choose from a list of possible interests (biking, sailing, sewing, etc.), or to enter your own specific interest. Google then goes out and gathers relevant content from all over the Web. I found the content suggested by Sparks to be almost completely on-topic, and I even found some content that I could actually see myself sharing with friends. Importantly, you can choose which friend circles or single friends you want to share the content with. The posts show up in those friends' news feeds, or as Google calls them Streams.
Mobile Apps
Google also debuted a couple of new mobile apps today, both of which work directly with your Google+ account online. While some other users I talked to had some trouble forming the handshake between the apps and the Google+ service, I had no problem.
Firstly, the main Google+ Android app (available for free from the Android Market) does a nice job of bringing the core parts of Google+ to a mobile device. The app sports a simple home screen with icons for the Stream, Huddle, Photos, Profile and Circles sections of Google+ (see image). You can easily post notes and content, and comment on others' shared materials, from the app's Stream screen. It also asks you if you want to attach your location to the posts you make.
The Photos section shows you images shared by your friends, uploaded from your phone, stored in your albums, and photos of you shot by others and shared on Google+. A little camera icon in the top right corner brings you your camera app and lets you quickly post a picture to your "From Your Phone" album at Google+. I was a bit disappointed here, because Google made it sound as if photos taken from within the app were automatically sent to your Google+ album; but in truth you have push a "Done" button then go to another screen where you're asked if you want to attach a note or your geographic location to the photo. You have to go back into your album to designate which friend circles can see your photos.
When you are reviewing your photos you can "tag" the people in them similar to the way you do in Facebook. You draw a little square around a person's face, then type in their name in the box below (or choose one of the names Google+ guesses) You can tag people who are Google+ users or just email contacts.
Google attaches this note: "Adding this tag will notify the person you have tagged. They will be able to view the photo and the related album." This is an important difference from Facebook, which does not make an effort to warn people the they've been tagged (possibly in an unflattering or compromising photo) and give them an immediate chance to remove the tag.
The other app, Huddle, is already included in the main Google+ app. So I'm not sure why you'd download Huddles unless you wanted only the group chatting function on your mobile device, and no access to any other parts of Google+. The Huddle function works great, however. I was easily able to initiate a group chat with come Google+ friends. And while there was a little bit of cross talk and out-of-order posting, overall the app worked well.
Related Slideshow: 10 Google+ Tips for Beginners
Privacy Approach
Google makes it very clear that the information you contribute to the social graph underneath Google+ will be used to help refine search results and to help target web ads more accurately. While Google+ seems to put a lot of emphasis on giving users control over the way they share information with different circles of friends, it's yet to be seen if Google will be more sensitive to the privacy of users when it determines which personal data is public–that is, available for use (in aggregate or otherwise) by Google and its advertisers–and which remains private.
Battle Royal Starts Now
Google wants Google+ to rival its number-one arch-nemesis, Facebook–and by the looks of things the search giant may have a fighting chance. How will Google get people to move their online social lives away from Facebook and over to Google+? Google has already amassed a large body of user data search, Gmail, Picasa, Google Videos and YouTube, etc., but it needs the highly personal data that Facebook has been so successful at collecting. Google is said to have identified its social networking initiative as the company's central goal, and has the deep pockets to quickly build Google+ into a the kind of full-blown social networking platform that can challenge Facebook.
Perhaps most importantly, expect Google to build Google+ features into the majority of its products from search to mail to video to documents. With all those great (free) services and now a tightly-integrated social networking platform under one roof, who needs Facebook? Had Google launched this strategy three years ago that may have been a good question. But the burning question now is whether or not Google is too late to the "social Web" to ever catch up.


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Can I travel to Germany from UK? Restrictions and quarantine rules explained as Covid travel ban for UK lifted
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Germany is lifting its travel ban on travellers from the UK, along with four other countries hit by variants of Covid-19.
The restrictions for the UK, along with Portugal, Russia, India and Nepal, will be relaxed from Wednesday (7 July).
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The five countries have been classed as "virus variant areas" due to the spread of the Delta and Delta Plus coronavirus variants, which were first identified in India.
These counties will now be reclassified as "high incidence areas", Germany's Robert Koch Institute said on Monday (5 July).
What are the travel rules for Germany?
From Wednesday 7 July, travellers from the UK will be permitted to enter Germany, providing they meet coronavirus testing and quarantine requirements.
Quarantine rules will be relaxed for inbound travellers who are fully vaccinated against coronavirus from Wednesday, meaning people will no longer be required to self-isolate on arrival.
However, those who have not been vaccinated will still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, with the option to end the self-isolation period early with a negative Covid-19 test on the fifth day.
These relaxed rules will also apply to Portugal, Russia, India and Nepal.
The changes come just three days after German chancellor Angela Merkel met Boris Johnson at Chequers as part of her farewell tour before she steps down from her role in September.
She said on Friday (2 July): "As you know we are reviewing continuously our travel restrictions and we think that, in the foreseeable future, those who have received double jabs will then… be able travel again without having to go into quarantine."
Is Germany on the green list?
Germany is currently on the amber list for travel, meaning that people returning from the country to the UK must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival.
Travellers must also take a pre-departure Covid test, as well as a PCR test on or before day two and on or after day eight.
However, the travel traffic light system is due to be reviewed later this week, with expectations that people who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus will have the freedom to travel quarantine-free.
A date has not yet been confirmed for the announcement, but Downing Street said on Monday (5 July) that more information on travel rules will be released by the Transport Secretary in the coming days.
The decision on which countries are added to each list is based on a range of criteria, taking into account public health advice and the Joint Biosecurity Centre's assessment of the latest Covid data.
The criteria for the lists includes:
- The percentage of a country's population that have been vaccinated
- The rate of infection
- The prevalence of variants of concern
- The country's access to reliable scientific data and genomic sequencing
Government scientists and ministers are currently reviewing countries based on this criteria.
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May 19, 1997
American Medical Association
United States Senate
120 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Santorum:
The American Medical Association (AMA) is writing to support HR 1122, "The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997," as amended. Although our general policy is to oppose legislation criminalizing medical practice or procedure, the AMA has supported such legislation where the procedure was narrowly defined and not medically indicated. HR 1122 now meets both those tests.
Our support of this legislation is based on three specific principles. First, the bill would allow a legitimate exception where the life of the mother was endangered, thereby preserving the physician's judgment to take any medically necessary steps to save the life of the mother. Second, the bill would clearly define the prohibited procedure so that it is clear on the face of the legislation what act is to be banned. Finally, the bill would give any accused physician the right to have his or her conduct reviewed by the State Medical Board before a criminal trial commenced. In this manner, the bill would provide a formal role for valuable medical peer determination in any enforcement proceeding.
The AMA believes that with these changes, physicians will be on notice as to the exact nature of the prohibited conduct.
Thank you for the opportunity to work with you towards restricting a procedure we all agree is not good medicine.
P. John Seward, MD
Executive Vice President
American Medical Association
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Dell executives on Tuesday said the company was looking to stimulate growth through acquisition as it moves its focus from client hardware to enterprise products.
The company is looking to shift its product portfolio to include offerings that could help improve the profitability in the near and long term, said Michael Dell, Dell's CEO, during an analyst conference in Austin, Texas. Dell pointed to its enterprise business as a high-margin area where the company could seek acquisitions. Dell's offerings in the enterprise space include servers, storage and services.
The acquisition of storage company EqualLogic in 2007 was a key test for Dell to offer products that deliver high margins, and the purchase worked out well, he said. The acquisition had an instant impact on Dell's revenue, and EqualLogic offerings fit into the company's server products as storage requirements increased. EqualLogic also offered the intellectual properties that helped Dell optimize its offerings as data centers shifted to virtualized environments, Dell said.
Driving more storage into data centers continues to be a growing opportunity, Dell said. Server virtualization will continue to grow as data infrastructures move to virtualized environments. The opportunity may drive down server purchases, but it offers the opportunity to be more of a consultant, which could generate more storage revenue. That helps Dell get a larger chunk of revenue from overall data center spending by companies.
Dell is also looking to expand in the managed services area as customers build out server and storage infrastructures. These offerings provide reasonable margins, but also help generate sales of hardware attached to services while keeping the company close to customers, said Steve Schuckenbrock, president of large enterprise at Dell, during the analyst conference.
The company has already made acquisitions in the managed services area over the last two years, including companies like Everdream, which offers on-demand software and managed services SilverBack and MessageOne.
The cloud-computing market is also a fast growing opportunity where Dell may seek acquisitions, company executives said. Dell could provide cloud services to push more hardware and storage products into server infrastructures, while building up its consulting services.
Dell is more focused on acquiring healthy companies with products that can offer quick returns, so it may not seek acquisitions in the low-margin areas like client hardware, said Brian Gladden, Dell's chief financial officer, during the conference. Client hardware makes up a majority of Dell's business, but the company wants to focus its growth and products and services that deliver profitability, he said.
The company has built up its financial reserves as it prepares to acquire companies. Dell had US$9.7 billion in cash and equivalents at the end of its fiscal first quarter of 2010 that ended on May 1. Dell saw overall revenue fall but EqualLogic storage products revenue increased 71 percent year-over-year during the first fiscal quarter.
A lot of companies have been also been attached to Dell's acquisition efforts. It has been rumored that Dell would acquire Palm to expand its presence in the mobile market. Palm would provide smartphones to Dell's portfolio of products, something Dell doesn't offer yet. Dell's mobility currently efforts revolve around netbooks and laptops, and has been rumored to be developing a smartphone for a long time, though no product has materialized yet. Palm's acquisition would also help Dell compete with Apple, which offers the popular iPhone.
Some observers also speculated that Dell would acquire Acer in order to expand its PC market share. However the acquisition wasn't considered a match as there would be product overlap, with both companies offering PCs for similar audiences.


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Is there a connection?
I was diagnosed with Dupuytren's contracture ten years ago. I have it in both my hands and my feet. I also have Celiac disease and have always wondered if the two were related. There's no sound research indicating comorbidity, but since both are immune mediated, I'm thinking they might be kindred spirits. Comorbidity is the simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases in the same person.
Would you, my bright and nerdy readers, help me do an (un)scientific and peer reviewed (that would be you) study? Having a blog allows for some creative crowd-sourcing, so if you'll play along, we might be able to pull off an interesting randomized (literally) study on the possible connection between the two autoimmune diseases. But, let's do this right. Humor me while I switch from gluten-free nutrition blogger to medical researcher.
Celiac disease and Dupuytren's contracture: are they related?
Jory MM, et al. (et al. refers to all of you)
Research study in progress
Objective: To determine if Celiac disease and Dupuytren's contracture share common pathophysiological origins and/or genetic associations.
Method: To elicit a response in the comment section from blog readers who have both Celiac disease and Dupuytren's contracture. People who have Celiac disease and/or Type 1 diabetes should also respond in the comment section. Any combination of the three diseases mentioned, or the suspicion of a combination should be noted.
Conclusion: Pending
Key words: Celiac disease, Dupruytren's contracture, Type 1 diabetes, autoimmunity, gluten, genetics.
Celiac disease is a genetically predisposed digestive disease in which gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye, causes an immune reaction that damages to the lining of the small intestine. The resulting inability to properly digest (breakdown) and absorb food leads to nutrient deficiencies and a multitude of health issues. The comorbidity between Celiac disease and other autoimmune disorders has been studied extensively and clearly established. According to several research studies, Celiac disease and Type 1 diabetes share common genetic origins and immune mediated tissue damage. Dietary intolerances are found in both diseases. The prevalence of Celiac disease in people who have Type 1 diabetes is about seven times greater than in the general population.
Dupruytren's contracture is a disease that typically affects the connective tissue in the palm of the hand, although it can also impact the feet. Scarring develops in the fascia covering the tendons that facilitate movement. The fascia becomes thick and shortened, causing the fingers to contract and pull inward. In advances cases, the muscles and tendons involved in gripping become "frozen" and unable to extend. The disease progresses until the fourth (ring) and fifth fingers remain in a permanent flexed position and a loss of mobility occurs. In more extreme cases, all fingers can be implicated. The frequency of Dupuytren's contracture is ten times greater in people with type 1 diabetes than in the general population.
The main objective of this (un)scientific, blog-sourced study is to determine a relationship between Celiac disease and Dupuytren's contracture. If there is a genetic and food-related link between Celiac disease and Type 1 diabetes and a genetic link between Type 1 diabetes and Dupuytren's, could gluten and specific gene markers play a role in all three conditions? Is there a comorbidity between Celiac disease and Dupuytren's contracture? Should people diagnosed with Dupuytren's contracture be screened for Celiac disease? Should people with Dupuytren's contracture go on an anti-inflammatory, gluten-free diet?
Do you have Celiac disease? Do you have Dupuytren's contracture? Do you have Type 1 diabetes? Do you have any combination of the above? Please leave your answer in the comment section of this blog post. If you don't want your name associated with your answer, please comment anonymously. Thank you!
Let's see what we can come up with. Scientifically speaking, although loosely so.
Peace, love and science blogging.
P.S. I chose the above photo because it implied a warm connection between people (all of us) and the image of contracted ring and pinky fingers is exactly what Dupuytren's contracture looks like.


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Film and video production
During 1999-2000, businesses in the television services industry, film and video production industry, and film and video distribution industry incurred total film and video production costs of $1,791.7m. Of these costs, $1,315.4m was spent on productions specifically for television, $243.0m on commercials and advertisements and $233.4m on productions other than for television. These businesses completed, or were working on, 5,410 productions other than for television, of which 4,727 were corporate, marketing or training videos and 51 were feature films. For additional information about the film and video production industry, see Service industries.
Film and video distribution
The film and video distribution industry comprises businesses mainly engaged in leasing or wholesaling motion pictures on film or video tape to organisations for exhibition or sale. Agents mainly engaged in leasing and wholesaling films and videos to organisations are also included.
At 30 June 2000, there were 58 businesses in the industry, which employed 1,426 people. In 1999-2000 these businesses generated $1,141.8m in total income and had an operating profit before tax of $103.6m. The main sources of income were the sale, rental or lease of prerecorded video tapes, disks, films and interactive software ($841.1m), and the provision of channels to pay television broadcasters ($169.2m). For additional information about the film and video distribution industry, see Service industries.
Motion picture exhibition
The motion picture exhibition industry comprises businesses mainly engaged in screening motion pictures on film or video tape. It also includes businesses mainly engaged in drive-in theatre operation, cinema operation and film or video festival operation.
The ABS conducted a survey on the motion picture exhibition industry in respect of 1999-2000. At the end of June 2000, there were 173 businesses in the industry, employing 9,282 people. The motion picture exhibition industry had an operating profit before tax of $113.3m for 1999-2000, which represented a profit margin of 11.4%.
At the end of June 2000, there were 326 cinema sites and 17 drive-in sites in Australia. For 1999-2000, there were 79 million paid admissions to cinemas.
For additional information about motion picture exhibition, see Service industries.
Cinema attendance
The 1999 Survey of Attendance at Selected Cultural and Sporting Events and Venues found that 67.0% of the Australian population aged 15 and over (almost 10 million persons) attended a cinema, drive-in or other public screening of a film at least once in the 12 months prior to interview in April 1999 (table 12.17). Attendance at cinemas was significantly higher than in 1995, when the attendance rate was 62.1% (8.7 million persons).


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What Was Old Is New Again
We've seen comics transformed into films and, of course, we've witnessed classic literature interpreted on the silver screen, but what about works of classic literature republished as comics or graphic novels? What happens when you take a classic work of literature and transform it into a vividly illustrated graphic text? A surge in popularity! Many argue that some of the classic works that some consider to be cumbersome, now have a revived interest in graphic novel form. What was once old is new again.
According to the article "Adapting classic books into graphic novels," Hope Larson, a cartoonist and author of a graphic-novel version of A Wrinkle in Time says she thinks the graphic-novel adaptation trend will continue. "Now that teachers and librarians have witnessed the power of comics to lure in reluctant readers, we'll see more and more adaptations of literary classics and popular fiction," she says. "Educators and parents are beginning to see comics as more substantial works, or at least useful tools for increasing literacy.
"Comics can be literary, or they can be pure entertainment," Larson says, "or they can fall somewhere in between. The form is capable of incredible diversity." Others agree that comics can be used to get reluctant kids into reading.
Due to the surge in popularity and the success with the reluctant reader audience, a seemingly limitless number of classics are now available in vivid comic versions, from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The Diary of Anne Frank, Fahrenheit 451, and even The Book of Genesis have all been transformed into comics. Marvel Comics, the publisher of superhero favorites Spider-Man and X-Men, has its own series of Jane Austen adaptations, with comic versions of Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice.
Librarians, teachers and students alike are hopeful that more-ambitious comic adaptations of classic literature are yet to come. An eager audience waits to see if the publishing industry will continue to take what was once old and make it new again.
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The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of the Original Greek; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised
D. Fanshaw, 1842 - 371 páginas
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Página 170 - He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me ? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me ? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Página 104 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Página 368 - And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations ; and He shall rule them with a rod of iron : and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Página 39 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Página 280 - Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Página 368 - And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Página 353 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Página 323 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house ; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Página 96 - And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Página 356 - And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.