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An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see "A Lifelike Prosthetic Arm"), and brain interfaces that allow for complicated thought control (see "Brain Helps Quadriplegics Move Robotic Arms with Their Thoughts"). But for all this progress, prosthetic limbs cannot send back sensory information to the wearer, making it harder for them to do tasks like pick up objects without crushing them or losing their grip.
Now researchers at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University have developed a new kind of interface that can convey a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand. It does this by directly stimulating nerve bundles—known as peripheral nerves—in the arms of patients; two people have so far been fitted with the interface. What's more, the implants continue to work after 18 months, a noteworthy milestone given that electrical interfaces to nerve tissue can gradually degrade in performance.
A video produced several weeks ago shows a 48-year-old Ohio man who lost his right hand in an accident three years ago using his prosthetic hand to pick up and remove stems from cherries without crushing them from excessive squeezing. This was thanks to the new technology, which allowed force detectors on the digits of his prosthetic hand to convey touch information directly to three pea-sized nerve interfaces surgically implanted in his lower right arm. He controls the hand through a standard technology called a myoelectric interface, which uses signals from the muscles in his lower arm to govern prosthetic hand movements.
The work opens up the possibility that prosthetic limbs could one day provide enduring and nuanced feedback to humans, says Dustin Tyler, the Case Western professor behind the project.
Lee Miller, a professor of neuroscience at Northwestern University who was not involved in the research, says the achievement appears remarkable. "This is the greatest number of distinct touch sensations generated by peripheral nerve stimulation that I know of, and the 18-month-long stability is also unsurpassed," Miller says. A paper on the work is being prepared, Tyler says.
At the heart of the technology is a custom version of an interface known as a cuff electrode. Three nerve bundles in the arm—radial, median, and ulnar—are held in the seven-millimeter cuffs, which gently flatten them, putting the normally round bundles in a more rectangular configuration to maximize surface area.
Then a total of 20 electrodes on the three cuffs deliver electrical signals to nerve fibers called axons from outside a protective sheath of living cells that surround those nerve fibers. This approach differs from other experimental technologies, which penetrate the sheath in order to directly touch the axons. These sheath-penetrating interfaces are thought to offer higher resolution, at least initially, but with a potentially higher risk of signal degradation or nerve damage over the long term. And so they have not been tested for longer than a few weeks.
The cherry-grabbing test subject is Igor Spetic of Madison, Ohio. He lost his hand at his job when it was crushed in a drop-forging hammer while he was making an aluminum fitting for a jet engine. Now he's got two small wiring harnesses protruding from a port in his upper right arm. At the lab, Tyler connects those harnesses to a device that generates the electrical signals that are sent to the cuff. This device, in turn, receives triggering information from sensors on his prosthetic hand.
His sensory feedback has only been felt in the lab so far, but Spetic professes amazement at his unique trial. "It's real exciting to see what they are doing, and I hope it can help other people," Spetic says. "I know that science takes a long time. If I don't get something to take home, but the next person does, it's all to the better."
Researchers carefully place the implants to determine where Spetic perceives forces on his missing limb. Once installed, Spetic can detect sensations on several fingers and on the back and side of his missing hand, corresponding to inputs from the prosthetic. Once the implant is in place, the sensations always seem to arise in the same spots, and do not shift around, Spetic says.
Tyler can tune the electrical signals sent to the cuff to produce a variety of sensations. Spetic says sometimes it feels like he's touching a ball bearing, other times like he's brushing against cotton balls, sandpaper, or hair.
Tyler says the sensations Spetic reports are more natural and useful than the vague buzzing feeling that earlier experimental technologies had often produced. This means it may be possible to customize a sensation so that the patient feels like he's touching a point of a pen, for example. Other groups and companies are working on better force detectors to attach to a prosthetic hand and generate such nuanced signals.
"[The] research is truly cutting edge and leading the world in terms of providing direct sensory feedback to amputees," says Jack Judy, director of the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Judy recently served as a program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he ran a program that sought to improve the performance and reliability of neural interfaces used to control prosthetic limbs for soldier amputees. At least 1,715 soldiers suffered amputations in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Other existing technologies provide sensory inputs directly to nerves. Cochlear implants, for example, stimulate the auditory nerve to restore hearing, and technologies for stimulating the vagus nerve—which runs from the brain stem to the chest and abdomen—can be used to treat epilepsy and even depression. However, "when it comes to stimulating nerves to provide an effective sense of touch in humans, there has been far less progress," Judy says.
There are other approaches to sensory feedback, including efforts to do this directly through brain implants (see "Giving Prosthetics a Sense of Touch"). But brain implants are considered farther off because of the heightened safety concerns from opening the skull. The Case Western work is in a pilot feasibility trial, and Tyler says that if all goes well, a device could be on the market in five to 10 years.
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1949: Jake Bird
July 14th, 2012 Meaghan
(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.)
Contrary to what all the slasher films would have you believe, an ax does not make a very good murder weapon. Axes are big. They are heavy. They are difficult to conceal. When used they create a big mess. And if you are caught with one, it's hard to come up with a suitably innocuous explanation for it.
Nevertheless, this was Jake Bird's weapon of choice on October 30, 1947, when he broke into Bertha Kludt's home and killed her and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Beverly June.
Perhaps if he had used a different weapon, things would have turned out differently. As it was, the two women's screams — and that's another problem with the ax: unless you can wield it like Gimli, the victim is going to survive the first blow and start hollering — attracted two police officers, who apprehended Bird after a foot chase.
This excellent History Link article provides a thorough account of Bird's life and crimes. 45 years old at the time of his arrest, he was a drifter and a ne'er-do-well with an extensive criminal record. He'd spent a third of his life in prison for various offenses. Bird openly confessed to the Kludt killings, saying the murders were the result of a botched burglary.
One of the police officers who testified at the trial admitted he beat the daylights out of Bird after his arrest. Naturally, the defense moved to throw out the murder confession on the grounds that it was obtained under force, but the judge ruled that the police brutality and Bird's statements were "unrelated" and so the confession was admitted into evidence.
This was the attorney's only attempt to defend his client; he called no witnesses and presented no evidence at the trial.
In all fairness, it must be said that Bird was spattered with gore when he was arrested, they found his fingerprints in blood at the crime scene and on the ax, and he'd left his shoes at the Kludt house. So the confession didn't figure to be exactly decisive.
This would be a fairly unremarkable murder case, but shortly after his arrival on Death Row, Bird suddenly discovered he had an excellent singing voice. For the next several months he detailed 44 murders from all across the country which he claimed he'd committed during his wanderings. Most of his victims were women.
Bird's claims, if true, would make him one of America's most deadly serial killers, right up there with the much more famous Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer, Gary Leon Ridgway. One inevitably wonders if all of his statements were genuine. Henry Lee Lucas, another violent drifter much like Bird, admitted to hundreds of homicides and captivated police from all over the nation before it was discovered that many of his confessions were lies.
Police in several states did find Bird credible, though. Bird was calm and ready for his hanging, which went off without a hitch. He willed his estate, valued at $6.15, to his appeals attorney.
On this day..
- 2020: Daniel Lewis Lee - 2020
- 1958: King Faisal II of Iraq and his family - 2019
- Daily Double: Iraq's 14 July Revolution - 2019
- 1683: Two lynched during the Ottoman siege of Vienna - 2018
- 1852: Louis Lullier, wife in a cask - 2017
- 1813: John McDonald and James Black, Edinburgh robbers - 2016
- 1909: Garry Richard Barrett - 2015
- 1455: Kunz von Kauffungen, Altenburg Prince-Robber - 2014
- 1584: Balthasar Gerard, assassin of William the Silent - 2013
- 1994: Glenn Ashby, abruptly - 2011
- 1926: Ziya Hursit and others for a plot against Ataturk - 2010
- 1939: Howard Long, New Hampshire's most recent hanging - 2009
- 1989: Horace Franklin Dunkins, Jr., "just hope that he was not conscious" - 2008
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They're talking about Jake Bird on Reddit at present. I hadn't heard of the "Jake Bird Hex." https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5jluff/could_jake_bird_be_the_cleveland_torso_murderer/?st=ix15g5by&sh=dfe4795a
I think it's unlikely that he was the Cleveland Torso killer. Anything's possible though, I guess.

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Barnes & Noble followed in the footsteps of Amazon's Kindle Fire Monday with a new Nook Tablet designed to compete with the iPad by not competing with the iPad. In fact, both the newly announced Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire are trying to be what many thought the iPad would be: A handheld media consumption device with a form factor larger than a smartphone.
This new strategy could help the new Nook and Fire compete with the iPad while other tablet competitors that have tried to match the iPad languish on store shelves. Competitors such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Motorola Xoom, Blackberry PlayBook, and HP TouchPad offer an equally–and sometimes more–expensive device with fewer third-party apps or a comparatively poor user experience.
To date, the TouchPad has been killed off (although it does keep coming back), a string of promotions are trying to improve PlayBook sales, and the Xoom and Galaxy Tab are afterthoughts.
While other companies keep trying to counter Apple, the iPad continues to dominate the new one-panel slate device category. Apple has sold about 40 million iPads since launching the device in 2010, and a recent study by metrics firm comScore said the iPad is responsible for more than 97 percent of all U.S. online web traffic generated from tablets.
The New Non-Tablets
Barnes & Noble's new tablet features a 7-inch display with 1024-by-600 resolution, 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4 dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, a microSD card slot supporting up to 32 GB, and 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity. The Nook Tablet sells for $250, is available for pre-order now, and starts shipping November 18.
Amazon's Kindle Fire features a 7-inch display with 1024-by-600 resolution, TI OMAP 1 GHz dual-core processor, 8GB internal storage, and 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity. The Kindle Fire sells for $200, is available for pre-order now, and starts shipping November 15.
While both devices have good specs, especially for the price, these tablets aren't notable for what they offer but for what they don't. Part of the reason the new Nook and the Fire can offer such lower prices compared to the $500 entry price for the iPad is the lack of full-powered tablet specs such as Bluetooth, GPS, front- and rear-facing cameras, smaller screen sizes, and 3G connectivity.
It's All About Media
Both the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire are also being marketed primarily as tablets for reading e-books, watching movies and TV shows, browsing the Web, and checking email. That is what most people believed the iPad would be used for, but thanks to third-party developers and Apple's App Store, the iPad has also become a content-creation device. You can use the iPad to draw an image, edit video, create a music track, learn to write computer code, and connect to a remote computer via SSH.
Perhaps the Fire and the Nook Tablet will have apps to compete with some of these features but, make no mistake, these iPad competitors aren't trying to match Apple's tablet pound for pound. Instead, they're trying to win over customers by offering a cheaply priced tablet that can match the iPad in terms of content consumption.
At some point, a number of tablets will probably show up that can match the iPad's specs and have the chops to actually compete with it. Perhaps Google's new Android OS flavor, Ice Cream Sandwich, will bring us tablets that can take on the iPad, or perhaps upcoming slates such as the Xoom 2 can do it.
But it's more likely the iPad won't see any serious competition until mid-2012 or even 2013. Until then, media consumption tablets such as the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire are offering something that tablet shoppers can value: A moderate price and a wide selection of content including music, videos, e-books and games.
Connect with Ian Paul (@ianpaul) and Today@PCWorld on Twitter for the latest tech news and analysis.


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August 8, 2009
Google's Special Snippets for Price Comparison Sites
Google will show the same search results, but price comparison sites like PriceGrabber, Shopping.com, Shopzilla will include a message above the snippet: "This site aggregates prices from multiple stores". Snippets have a different formatting: a list of products and the corresponding prices.
The feature would be more useful if Google allowed you to restrict the results to price comparison sites and if the results were better formatted, for example sorted by price. It's also surprising to see that Google doesn't integrate the results from it's own price comparison site, Google Product Search.
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I quite like this feature, it annoys me when I click through to site that only has a list of suppliers without being able to buy directReplyDelete
Great, profits both Google and the really worthwile sites.ReplyDelete
That's exactly what the customers need. This will open new marketing doors for real products.ReplyDelete
Excellent feature, worth to keep it in mind...
Kind regards from Germany and sorry for my worse english :-)
It's an interesting feature, but I am seeing it pull incorrect "prices" from pages. For instance, I'm seeing it mis-represent cash-back/rebate amounts as the price of the product. I'm wondering if using their pricing microformat would help.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 4, 2010 at 1:38 AM
The first example is called rich snippets. You can find out more on how to create them here...ReplyDelete
I'd like to know how the second example is pulled together though. I've seen it on websites that don't support rich snippets.


text: Recent sales numbers for Windows Vista paint a somewhat dreary picture for the OS as consumers and enterprises try to save dollars in an economic downturn. While Microsoft cited strong overall year-over-year growth in revenue in its fiscal Q1 2009 earnings report last week, the numbers for Windows Vista fell short of expectations, with year-over-year growth of just 2 percent. The software giant expressed disappointment in Vista's lethargic sales growth, pointing to growth in inexpensive netbooks that use Windows XP or Linux and flat PC sales in developing countries as the two main culprits. Vista moved only slightly in a quarter that saw 10 to 12 percent growth in overall PC shipments. Meanwhile, Microsoft has been hyping Windows 7 while barely mentioning Vista at its annual PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in Los Angeles. Is Vista being unduly neglected, and is too late for a significant turnaround? The answer is probably yes to both questions, says Roger Kay, president of research and consulting firm Endpoint Technologies. Kay says that although Vista is "getting a bad rap," it never generated enough momentum when it launched. "It didn't make the big splash it should have in early 2007. And that window has pretty much closed," he says. Microsoft's claims that skyrocketing sales of cheap netbooks and flat foreign sales are Vista killers left one Computerworld reader unconvinced. "Microsoft blames the low uptake of Vista on 'netbooks and foreign sales of less expensive versions of Vista'....That is pure 100 percent unadulterated BS .... There are IT enterprise customers who wouldn't deploy Vista if their life depended on it. The real reason that MS is sucking air on Vista sales is that the consumer market is drying up due to the economy and the enterprise customers (even those with upgrade rights) are staying at Windows XP." Kay asserts that Microsoft is not hiding anything and that netbooks and flat foreign sales are absolutely hurting Vista. But, he added, "Vista adoption has been at historically low rates. The learning curve is too great and the transition costs are too high for the perceived benefits," he says. "Meanwhile, Microsoft is greatly affected by the PC lifecycle. If customers delay purchases for financial reasons, as they're doing now, then fewer units go out, affecting license shipments. Add to that a higher proportion of discounted developing world licenses and XP Home and embedded licenses and you have a recipe for slowing revenue growth." Microsoft, for its part, remains confident that Vista is building momentum, and it stresses that those who have deployed Vista are satisfied."We are pleased with Windows Client momentum," says Ben Rudolph of Microsoft's Windows Business Group. "But success isn't measured just by sales\u2014it's also important that our customers are deploying and using the product, and that they're satisfied with the experience. Based on our latest internal research, nearly 90 percent of Vista users are very satisfied or satisfied with the product. Across all of these metrics, we're pleased with the progress we're seeing."Marginal 2 percent growth notwithstanding, it hasn't been all bad news for Vista over the past six months. Kay of Endpoint Technologies emphasized that "Vista has made improvements, notably with security and interface" and is "an overall good experience these days."An IDC report from March 2008 predicts a "much stronger adoption curve for Vista on the business side now that Windows Server 2008 has launched." Similarly, an April 2008 report from Forrester Research entitled "Building the Business Case for Windows Vista" lays out the potential "harsh realities" for businesses that skip Vista. A common Microsoft defense about Vista is that it has been unfairly battered by the press and that Vista adoption among businesses is actually outpacing what Windows XP did in the same timeframe. Indeed, numbers from an April 2008 research report from Gartner show that both Windows XP and Windows Vista started at the same installed base percentage (4.7 percent) in 2002 and 2007, respectively, and the Windows XP business installed base figure was 16.9 percent in 2003 compared with a projected Windows Vista business installed base of 21.3 percent in 2008. However, these Vista growth measurements were held up to scrutiny and Microsoft was accused of spin because Windows XP had to compete with Windows 2000 Professional upgrades during its early years, and Vista did not have to deal with such obstacles. In fact, six years had passed between XP's release and Vista's release. So as we head into the holiday season in an uncertain economy, Vista is getting bounced around between Microsoft's proud claims of widespread customer satisfaction, conflicting research reports of success and failure and screams from industry watchers that Vista is dead.Kay says that regardless of improvements in Vista and reports of continued growth, Microsoft's mind's eye is set squarely on Windows 7. Adds Kay, "Microsoft has a history of being more excited by future products than current ones, and that has taken some of the wind out of Vista's sails."


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Lapid calls for interim peace deal with Palestinians
Senior coalition partner says US should push three-year plan to realize final border agreement for Palestinian state
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should instead pursue an interim arrangement.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid's assessment, delivered in a published interview Sunday just days before the arrival of US Secretary of State John Kerry, throws a contentious idea into the mix as the US searches for ways to restart peace talks.
It remains unclear whether the idea of a temporary arrangement will be raised during Kerry's visit later this week. In March, American officials confirmed that an interim arrangement, while not their preference, was one of the ideas being explored.
With the gaps between Israel and the Palestinians on many key issues seemingly unbridgeable, pursuing a Palestinian state with temporary borders has emerged as an option in recent months, particularly among Israelis searching for a way out of the status quo. The Palestinians have repeatedly rejected this option, fearing an interim deal that falls short of their hopes will become permanent.
In order to allay Palestinian concerns, Lapid told the Yedioth Ahronoth daily that US President Barack Obama should set a three-year timeline for determining the final borders of a Palestinian state. As a gesture to the Israelis, he also called on Obama to endorse the position laid out by President George W. Bush in 2004, allowing Israel to keep some of the Jewish settlements it has built on occupied lands.
The issue of Jewish settlements has been at the heart of the current 4 ½-year impasse in peace talks. The Palestinians have refused to negotiate, saying that continued Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem is a sign of bad faith. The Palestinians claim both areas and the Gaza Strip, all captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, for their future state.
Most Israelis, including Netanyahu, think that the continued control over millions of Palestinians would spell demographic suicide for Israel, and that creation of an independent Palestinian state is essential to preserving Israel's identity as a democracy with a Jewish majority.
"I believe in the two-state solution," Lapid told Yedioth. "In my opinion, there is nothing more dangerous than the idea of a bi-national state."
At the same time, though, Lapid, like Netanyahu, rejects a full withdrawal to Israel's 1967 lines.
Lapid favors a broad pullout from the West Bank, including the dismantling of many settlements, but believes Israel should hold on to major "blocs" along the Israeli frontier where the majority of settlers live.
Lapid also believes that Israel should keep control of east Jerusalem, home to sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious sites. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as their capital.
Nimr Hamad, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, gave Lapid's proposal a cool reception.
"We have heard this idea before and rejected it simply because we know the intention of Israel is to continue building on Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank," he said. "The most important thing for us" is to agree on the final borders between Israel and a future Palestine, he added.
The issues of Jerusalem and final borders are just some of the explosive core issues that must be resolved. The Palestinians demand the "right of return" of millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, whose families lost property in what is now Israel. Israel rejects this out of hand, saying a mass influx would spell the end of the country.
Lapid said the disputes over Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees would "torpedo any Israeli-Palestinian dialogue" and it is preferable to set them aside and pursue an interim arrangement.
Further clouding the picture is the status of Gaza. Israel withdrew from the area in 2005, but two years later, the Islamic militant group Hamas, which opposes peace with Israel, seized control from Abbas' forces. The internal Palestinian division, with Hamas in Gaza and Abbas governing in the West Bank, is a major obstacle to implementing any peace deal.
Lapid burst onto the Israeli political scene in January's parliamentary election, turning his new Yesh Atid party into the second-largest faction in parliament. While focused largely on domestic and economic matters, he criticized Netanyahu's hard line toward the Palestinians and said he would not sit in a government that is not serious about pursuing peace.
In the Israeli coalition system, Lapid is both a key ally and potent rival of Netanyahu, capable of robbing the prime minister of his parliamentary majority at any time.
Netanyahu has never clearly spelled out his vision for Israel's final borders, but appears to be far more reluctant than Lapid to pull out from large parts of the West Bank.
Lapid told Yediot that he believes that Netanyahu, concerned about his political legacy, is serious about pursuing a peace agreement. He also believes there is enough support in the government, despite the presence of many pro-settler hard-liners, to approve a withdrawal from much of the West Bank.
Netanyahu's office declined comment.
Lapid also tossed criticism at the Palestinians, saying Abbas "is still not psychologically ready for an agreement with Israel, either partial or full." He accused the Palestinian leader of focusing too heavily on Palestinian victimhood, which he called "the main obstacle to reconciliation."
Kerry has been shuttling between the Israelis and Palestinians in recent months in search of a formula for restarting negotiations.
For now, he is focused on setting up a framework for a final peace deal. Recently, he won support from Arab leaders for a comprehensive peace with Israel in exchange for the establishment of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines. To entice Israel, the Arab leaders said the final borders could be modified as part of an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
At Kerry's urging, both sides have said very little in public about his discussions with them.
Netanyahu's chief negotiator, Tzipi Livni, indicated in March that she does not oppose an interim agreement, saying Israel should think about "other possibilities" if a permanent deal couldn't be reached. Livni's office did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Lapid also did not return messages.
Dov Lipman, a lawmaker in Yesh Atid, said the party has not yet formally accepted the goal of an interim agreement, but that it was "in line" with its platform of seeking peace while retaining settlement blocs and protecting Israeli security.
"We are very pragmatic and know that this will be a process which requires trust building. Because we are sincere in our desire to make peace, we believe we will demonstrate that sincerity and trust can be developed as we move through the various stages," he said.
Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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:-D Spring Break?! Hehe, aw the pleasures of either being a teacher or having little humans! Enjoy the last couple of days though! Very cool that Shiner has her own Twitter account, totally following her now! Ok that bed is the coolest thing, but I'd never use it...I prefer giant human comfortable beds! Plus my brothers would probably take it over! Hehehe! Congrats on all the awards!ReplyDelete
You should get EXTRA treats for that one! OMC, the indignity!ReplyDelete
LOL that is a mean trick with the shower. Ha ha! What a pawsome dog bed? Have a super Saturday.ReplyDelete
Best wishes Molly
That is one extra special dog bed. WOW! Mom says if we had that bed, I wouldn't have to sleep with her. She'd sleep with ME!! We will definitely follow you on Twitter. Yay!ReplyDelete
Love and licks,
That dog bed is super super cool but the only one that would use that in our household would be the CAT!ReplyDelete
That dog bed,stairs, house etc. is really something. Bet the cats would love that one too. Sounds like a busy time around your house. Sorry you had to have a bath Shiner. Hope all of you have a great day.ReplyDelete
It doesn't feel like spring break here . . . it is too cold. Lee and PhodReplyDelete
That trick probably won't work on you again so you better watch out for your mom's next sneaky trick. We do like our doggies clean! Purrs and hugs from the kitties at www.thecatonmyhead.com, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista JosetteReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM
Oh Shiner what a trick - this mom's ts ts ts... but this dog bed rocks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Love that bed!! Congrats on the awards too.ReplyDelete
That is a cool bed I bet Speedy would love it too!ReplyDelete
PMSL at the first tweet!!! Love the weekly roundup :) Congrats on the awards xReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2013 at 4:16 AM
I love the bed, do you think they do one big enough for me?ReplyDelete
I'm not great at twitter, but will look Shiner up:-)ReplyDelete
Congrats on the awards! So glad you let Shiner have her own twitter account! Very cool dog bed but I still prefer the king sized Serta perfect sleeper!ReplyDelete
your pal,
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2013 at 11:57 PM
That dog bed is PAWSOME! Almost as pawsome as Shiner being on Twitter :)ReplyDelete
And congratulations on your new awards!
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 4:23 PM
Lovely bed! Congrats on your awards :)ReplyDelete


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In 1964 the White House Fellows program was created to offer exceptional young men and women a one-year placement in offices at the highest levels of the federal government — after which, this new generation of leaders were expected to return "to work as private citizens on their public agendas." This fall President Barack Obama congratulated the 15 members of the class of 2011-2012. Six of the cohort are African Americans, whom you will surely hear about in the future.
They join stellar company: U.S. Army officer Ron Lee (1965-1966), who was placed in the U.S. Postal Service, was the first black White House fellow. Oceanographer W. Antoinette Ford, placed as special assistant to the secretary of the treasury (1971-1972), was the first black female fellow.
Perhaps the most famous black WHF alumnus is former Secretary of State, and four-star general, Colin Powell, who was in the class of 1972-1973. Other prominent alumni include Iraq War veteran and Rhodes scholar (and 2010 The Root 100 honoree) Wes Moore, class of 2006-2007; social entrepreneur Cheryl Dorsey, class of 1997-1998; U.S. Air Force General Edward A. Rice Jr., class of 1990-1991; and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook, class of 1993-1994.
Among the Current Crop: Warriors, Healers and Innovators
The placement of Harlem resident Reggie Chambers in the White House National Economic Council, which advises the president on policy, seems like a no-brainer. He earned an A.B. from Duke University in political science, Spanish, and markets and management and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He then worked as a corporate lawyer, a banker on energy transactions and an executive at a $20 billion international investment firm. In an interview with Duke magazine, Chambers said that all citizens are obliged "to make certain our nation will be a better place for future generations."
Until recently, Kisha Davis practiced as a family physician — with an interest in HIV/AIDS, women's health and diabetes — at a health center in the Maryland community where she grew up. Davis earned an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. from the University of Connecticut. She has studied how Medicaid patients in Maryland are affected by health care costs and use. She has also traveled to New Orleans, Honduras and Zimbabwe on medical missions. Her WHF placement is with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Prior to his Department of Energy placement, Hampton University graduate Theodore Johnson, a U.S. Navy commander and information warfare officer, taught cyberspace and information operations at the U.S. Naval War College. The Raleigh, N.C., native's 13 years of service included time as an aide-de-camp to two directors of the National Security Agency. He is admired for his insight and command capabilities, and Johnson's research on theater security cooperation has been included in Navy publications. He has also received Defense Meritorious Service and Humanitarian Service medals.
In Air Force Lt. Col. Rodney Lewis' previous role commanding the 4th Airlift Squadron, the C-17A pilot had responsibility for two key tasks. He ensured that tactically ready crews could air-drop combat troops and supplies globally at any time, and led the Defense Department's Prime Nuclear Airlift Force, which transports very sensitive material. Lewis earned a B.S. in human factors engineering from the Air Force Academy and an M.S. in systems management from the University of Southern California. His placement is in the Office of the First Lady.
Who knows what — or who — clinical psychologist Wizdom Powell will analyze during her year in the Department of Defense? Powell was an assistant professor of health behavior and health education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, researching the effect that neighborhood, health care and socioeconomic resources have on racial health disparities. In one report, America's Demographic and Cultural Transformation (pdf), Powell said that minority communities "want us to hear their voices, to include them as equal partners, and to do nothing about them without them." She received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, as well as an M.P.H., from the University of Michigan.
Tony Woods serves others in a number of ways. After graduating from West Point with a B.S. in economics and American politics, he was deployed twice as a platoon leader in Iraq. His most recent tour, however, was as director of ServiceNation's "Service as a Strategy" initiative, where he managed a program to develop volunteer-driven solutions for U.S. cities. Before that, Woods, who also earned an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, ran for Congress.
Are you interested in joining these illustrious achievers? Visit the White House Fellows YouTube Channel, Flickr stream, informational video and FAQ; then click here to apply.
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An online fundraising campaign is underway for an Abbotsford couple whose baby had to be delivered early when the mom became critically ill with COVID-19.
The GoFundMe campaign was started Thursday (Nov. 12) in support of Dave and Gillian (Gill) McIntosh, who were expecting their second child on Nov. 25.
Gill, who works in sales at a Surrey screening equipment company, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Nov. 6 – it's not known how she contracted it – and was admitted to hospital a few days later when her breathing became more difficult.
By Tuesday (Nov. 10), her condition deteriorated to the point where she required a ventilator to breathe. The decision was made to deliver the couple's baby boy by C-section that evening.
Now, the baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, while Gill remains on life support. Dave and the couple's daughter are quarantining at home.
Corina Rochon, a longtime friend of the couple, started the GoFundMe campaign to support the family. Dave will be unable to work at his job as a machine operator for a Langley company while he cares for the baby and their three-year-old daughter until Gill is well enough to come home.
Rochon said funds raised from the campaign will go towards diapers, formula, the couple's mortgage and other bills.
"We are all starting to realize the huge financial impact this situation has and will have on the family as Dave must stay home from his full-time job to take care of their kids," she wrote on the GoFundMe page.
Rochon, who works casually in the Abbotsford intensive care unit where Gill is a patient, told The Abbotsford News that it has been extremely difficult to see her good friend on a ventilator.
"I hope people start realizing that COVID is real, it is serious, and it may not affect everyone the same way, but it isn't worth it to risk the lives and well-being of others. Gill did not deserve this," she said.
The fundraiser can be found by searching "Please help this family" at gofund.com.
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Story highlights
Search efforts are now over with a confirmed death toll of 301, government officials say
"If you boo the country's prime minister, you get slapped," Turkey's PM says in video
Mine owner says the Soma site met the standards required by Turkish law
Ruling party spokesman says PM's aide kicked a protester after he was attacked by him
The search for victims of this week's coal mine fire in Turkey is now over, with a final death toll of 301, Turkish government officials said Saturday.
Authorities believe they have now recovered the bodies of all the workers who perished in the Soma mine when the fire erupted Tuesday.
The investigation into what caused the deadliest disaster in Turkish mining history continues, the Natural Disaster and Emergency Coordination Directorate said.
The final bodies were pulled out Saturday afternoon, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said.
However, as the recovery effort comes to an end, controversy over Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's response to the tragedy refuses to blow over.
On Friday, police in the western city used tear gas, plastic pellets and a water cannon on protesters angered by the government's response.
The protesters, dressed mostly in black, chanted "Don't sleep, Soma, remember your dead!" as they passed through city streets a few miles from the disaster site, trying to reach a statue honoring miners.
Amid a rising tide of discontent, local authorities have banned protests in Soma and apparently clamped down on those taking part.
Lawyers' representatives told Turkish broadcaster DHA that eight lawyers and 25 other citizens were detained Saturday. The lawyers were in town to try to help represent families of the dead miners.
Abdurrahman Savas, the governer of Manisa province, where Soma is located, declined to say how many people had been detained over the protests.
But he told reporters that the authorities took the decision Friday to ban rallies and demonstrations in Soma in order to maintain peace and security.
He said that "this is not to prevent freedom of expression."
Distrust of the government is running high in certain sectors of society, with some voicing doubts about the official count of those missing, while others question the fact no one has yet taken responsibility for the tragedy.
Some are also critical of the authorities' use of tear gas and water cannon against demonstrators.
Erdogan's missteps
Public anger has been fueled in part by Erdogan's own missteps while visiting the scene of the disaster Wednesday.
First, Erdogan's comments to relatives of dead and injured miners, in which he described the disaster as par for the course in a dangerous business, were seen as highly insensitive and drew scathing criticism.
Then video taken on the same day in Soma showed Erdogan telling a man "don't be nasty," according to the footage aired Friday by DHA. The remarks initially reported and translated by DHA were confirmed by a CNN native Turkish speaker.
"What happened, happened. It is from God… If you boo the country's prime minister, you get slapped," Erdogan is heard saying.
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That was after another video clip emerged showing a crowd outside a grocery store angrily booing Erdogan. As the Prime Minister entered the crowded store, he appeared to put his arm around the neck of a man who was later identified as a miner.
After the confrontation, the video captured what appeared to be Erdogan's security guards beating the same man to the floor. The miner said later that Erdogan slapped him, possibly by mistake. He wants an apology for the way he was treated by the Prime Minister's staff.
In addition, a photograph surfaced Wednesday of an aide to Erdogan kicking a protester, an image that quickly became a symbol of the anger felt by many against the government, and amid mounting questions over safety practices at the mine.
Huseyin Celik, a spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, dismissed the grocery store incident and said the image of the aide, Yusuf Yerkel, kicking the protester was misleading.
Yerkel was quoted by Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu news agency Thursday as saying that he had been deeply saddened by the previous day's events. "I am sad that I could not keep my calm in the face of all the provocation, insults and attacks that I was subjected to that day," he reportedly said.
Questions over safety chambers
The mine complex exploded in flames for unknown reasons Tuesday – trapping many miners deep underground.
Among other issues, mine officials indicated Friday that workers may not have had access to an emergency refuge where they could have sheltered from the flames and choking fumes.
Site manager Akin Celik told reporters that the mine had closed one emergency refuge when excavation work moved to a lower area. Miners were building, but had not finished, a new safety chamber at the lower level, he said.
The owner of the company, Alp Gurman, said the mine met the highest standards laid out by the law in Turkey. The company, he said, had no legal obligation to build safety chambers.
Asked about that issue, Minister of Labor and Social Security Faruk Celik defended Turkey's workplace safety act and said it was set up within the framework of EU regulations, according to CNN Turk.
"This is a dynamic area," he said, adding that it is the duty of each company to ensure workers' safety needs are met. "Could people be sent to death because a certain sentence is not in the regulations?" he said.
Istanbul Technical University said it had dropped Gurman and a fellow Soma Holding manager, Ismet Kasapoglu, from an advisory panel in its mining faculty, following protests and an occupation by students at the university, CNN Turk reported.
Yildiz, speaking to journalists earlier Saturday, when the death toll stood at 299, said 15 bodies had been recovered overnight. Most have been returned to their families but DNA testing is being carried out on the remains of 13 people, the Energy Minister said.
Fumes from a new fire, a few hundred yards from the one that broke out Tuesday, hindered search and recovery efforts Saturday, Yildiz said.
Initial reports said the main fire was sparked by a transformer explosion, but Celik told reporters Friday that the cause of the fire was still unknown.
Asked what had happened, he said, "We don't know either. Never seen anything like this before. We are trying to find out."
Political bonfire
Hundreds have also taken to the streets this week in anti-government protests in Istanbul and Ankara, with police answering, in some cases, with water cannons and tear gas.
As he took a stroll through the city, onlookers showered him with deafening jeers as well as chants of "Resign, Prime Minister!"
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu defended the government's response and Erdogan during an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
About Erdogan, Davutoglu said: "He was feeling all these pains in his heart. Everybody knows that our Prime Minister is always with the people, and always feels the pain of the people. Otherwise, he wouldn't get such a high support in eight elections in (the) last 10 years."
The chamber's accusations land on top of those already heaped on Erdogan's government by his political opponents.
Opposition politician Ozgur Ozel from the Manisa region, which includes Soma, filed a proposal in late April to investigate Turkish mines after repeated deadly accidents.
Several dozen members of opposition parties signed on to his proposal, but Erdogan's conservative government overturned it. Some of its members publicly lampooned it, an opposition spokesman said.
A Turkish engineers' association criticized mine ventilation and safety equipment this week as being "insufficient and old."
A lack of safety inspections has caused 100 coal mines to be closed in the last three years, according to Turkey's Energy Ministry.
President Abdullah Gul, speaking as he visited Soma on Thursday, said he was sure the investigation already begun would "shed light" on what regulations are needed. "Whatever is necessary will be done," he said.
Despair, anger, dwindling hope after Turkey coal mine fire
Gul Tuysuz and Ivan Watson reported from western Turkey, and Laura Smith-Spark wrote and reported from London. CNN's Diana Magnay, Talia Kayali and Ben Brumfield contributed to this report.


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Friday, April 27, 2012
Jessi Reviews The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Publisher/Year: Riverhead Trade, 2009
Where I Got It: I picked up a copy from my library's used book sale
Why I Read It: Any book blurbed by Stephen King is a must-read for me!
Synopsis (from Goodreads):
With The Little Stranger, Waters revisits the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940s - and gives us a sinister tale of a haunted house, brimming with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of Waters's work.
The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline - its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.
Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waters's most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
This book came as a surprise to me in many ways.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
I was surprised by how quickly the pages flew by.
I was surprised by how good it was.
I mean, Sarah Waters can really write. When I first picked this up and saw that it was 500 pages long, I was wary. I thought it would take me forever to get through. After the first 40-ish pages, though, I was hooked. I felt like I was hypnotized. I'd sit down for what felt like ten minutes, and here it'd be hours later and I'd be hundreds of pages down the road. Even when I wanted to be doing other things, like blogging or whatever, I couldn't bring myself to put the book down. And like I said, Sarah Waters writes really well. Her prose is beautiful, but at the same time, I wasn't even really aware that I was reading. I was able to picture everything perfectly clear, and her story is one of the most atmospheric I've ever read. Hundreds Hall was so sinister, it was like I could feel it oozing off the pages. I was genuinely creeped out at parts, particularly that nursery scene.
I did have a few frustrations, though. By the end, Doctor Faraday made me want to scream, which I'm guessing was Sarah Water's intention. I get it. You have to play the rational card. But seriously--how much has to happen for you to start thinking that maybe something weird is happening that can't be explained rationally? Also, without wanting to give anything away, I found him to be too forward and definitely too persistent without having any reason to be so. Crazy obsessive stalker, much?
And finally, the ending just didn't really do it for me. I thought it was terribly anti-climactic. It was like, "Oh man, all this stuff is happening!" and then all of a sudden: "Oh...well...okay, I suppose that's it." Part of my frustration with the ending, too, is that Sarah Waters leaves it with one of those open-ended endings for the reader to decide what happened. Personally, I'm not a big fan of those, so it didn't work for me.
All things considered, though, it was an awesome read. Gothic, subtle, creepy, atmospheric, hypnotizing. I would definitely recommend it.
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I loved this book. Listened to the audio. Very well done. I also thought the ending was not the best part! Her writing is so mesmerizing -- doesn't matter how long the book is, it just goes by effortlessly. I recently listened to Fingersmith. Oh... if you haven't read that one it's not to be missed.ReplyDelete
Thanks for reminding me how much I loved this book.
This sounds really interesting! Just added it to my Goodread TBR list!ReplyDelete
Great review! = )
I LOVE Sarah Waters! This isn't my favorite of her books though and i agree with you on most all of it- it was really absorbing and (like all her books) well written, but the ending wasn't great and the doctor bothered me. I loved that last line though. Even though the ending felt anticlimactic, that last line made me smile.ReplyDelete
If you haven't read "Fingersmith," go read it right now! It's my favorite of her books.
I've had this one on my shelf for a while now. After reading this review, I think it might be time to finally read it!ReplyDelete
I don't know why I haven't read more of Sarah Water's books, especially since Fingersmith was so jaw-dropping good (it's been almost a year and my book friends and I constantly keep referencing it).ReplyDelete
the ending left me very disappointed. It kind of ruined the book for me.ReplyDelete
Oh man, I was SO SCARED while I read this. Everything about the locked up third floor and not knowing if people were crazy or actually haunted got to me (the bite marks in the garden! GAH!). This was a lights ON night! Since I was scared, I could have used a more concrete ending, as well. But Waters sure can paint a picture.ReplyDelete
All of her books are amazingly good-my favorite happens to be Tipping the Velvet, though I've enjoyed them all.ReplyDelete
This sounds like something I would love. Going to put it on my TBR pile right now.ReplyDelete


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Think about migrating to Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 from earlier versions.
While older versions of the AMI and its packages will continue to be available for launch in Amazon EC2 even as new Amazon Linux AMI versions are released, we encourage users to migrate to the newer versions of the AMI, and to keep their systems updated. In some cases, customers seeking support for an older version of the Amazon Linux AMI through Amazon Premium Support may be asked to move to newer versions as part of the support process.
To upgrade to Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 from 2011.09 or 2011.02, run yum update. When the transaction is complete, reboot your instance.
We have included updated versions of all the AWS command line tools that are part of the Amazon Linux AMI. See the 2012.03 package list for more details.
Support is included for both Tomcat 6 and Tomcat 7. Both are included in the package repository, and can be installed via yum install tomcat6 or yum install tomcat7.
New Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 users who yum install mysql (or yum install mysql55) will get MySQL 5.5 by default, unless they explicitly choose to install the older MySQL 5.1. Users upgrading via yum from Amazon Linux AMI 2011.09 instances with the older MySQL 5.1 installed will stay with MySQL 5.1, which is still available as mysql51 in the package repository.
Similar to MySQL, new Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 users who yum install postgresql (or yum install postgresql9) will get PostgreSQL 9 by default, unless they explicitly choose to install the older PostgreSQL 8. Users upgrading via yum from Amazon Linux AMI 2011.09 instances with the older PostgreSQL 8.4.x installed will stay with PostgreSQL 8, which is still available as postgresql8 in the package repository.
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(feat. D.D. Artis)
[female singer - repeat in background]
I'm just happy to be here!
[E-40 over singer]
Hard times, the struggle
The ups and downs, the highs and the lows
You know just goin through it man, ghetto politics
Tryin to make a way out of no way
I was the oldest, so I had to be, the daddy of the family
Momma had to work three jobs, oooh
Feet stickin through my shoes, skid marks in my drawers
Garage sales and flea markets, we never shopped at malls
No dental plan, no medikit - we poor like rain
Colored folks think that castor oil cures everythang
Pork chops and chicken, we like our food fried
Hypertension, Prenavil pills and hydro-chlorizide
Some of my family still living, some of my family died
Health complications, natural causes and homicide
Just tryin to survive, nothin to lose but plenty to gain
Started hustlin, flea flickin and servin that candy cane
Put all my cars in my lady name, as a true hustler should
She had a 9 to 5, worked at Planned Parenthood
While I was in the hood, up to no good
With a hoodie over my head, tryin to outslick the feds
Or should I say cops, at this point in time I only had rocks
Went from a little a jelly jar up to a soup pot
The fast quarter my negro, don't want the slow nickel
I done seen yola the same color as peanut brittle
I done seen hella people relapse
I done seen my homey grandparents go back to crack
How sick is dat? Beggin my loved ones to send some pictures
Pray for me over the phone and read me some scriptures
Oooh; it's gloomy out here, dark days ahead
God got my back but the devil he want my head
[Chorus: D.D. Artis]
I'm just happy to be here right now
Lot of my folks been locked up or laid down
See I'm sayin I ain't she'd no tears, no
But I'm just happy to be here
Listen to this, oooooh
The devil-me side know that some of y'all done seen it
Somebody's momma washin her son or her daughter's bloodstain off the cement
Wrong place at the wrong time, infiltrators drop a dime
Mistaken identity, bullets start flyin
In every direction, hit a pregnant teen, she passed
But her baby live through a C-section
I know it sound foul and sound hecka rude, it ain't cool
But it go down like that sometime when you're funkin, and you're puttin down a move
We heartless and shrewd in this day and age, it ain't the same
Our parents need to beat us with a belt, like Poody Tang
I be high like an airplane
I be smokin and perkin, takin out anger and stress on the wrong person
Re-uppin and coppin turf an' just servin the soil block
Grittin tryin to put some gifts in my kid's Christmas stock'
Ooooh - pour out some liquor and she'd a tear
For the homies that never made it and family that ain't here
[D.D. Artis]
So happy
You know I'm happy to be
Said I'm happy, so happy just to be here
To beeeeeee, to beeeeeeeeeeee
To beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (I'm so happy)
(Oh I'm so happy)
I'm so happy to be, to beeeeeeee-heeeeeeeeee
To beeeeeeeee (to be here)


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A couple of things became clear during SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner's keynote at the Sapphire conference Wednesday: SAP remains fully committed to the Hana in-memory computing platform, as well as its push into SaaS (software as a service).
Neither of those conclusions came as a great surprise, but the event gave Plattner an occasion to reassert SAP's direction at its biggest annual conference, shortly after a management shakeup and the anointment of sole CEO Bill McDermott.
Plattner also laid out what sort of experience SAP customers can expect from their software in the future. In short, SAP will deliver applications based on a simplified architecture, but which give customers much more flexibility than before, according to Plattner.
Plattner described how SAP had radically slimmed down the data model for its Simple Finance application, announced this week at Sapphire. Over time, the same treatment will be given to other modules in the Business Suite on Hana, a version of SAP's flagship ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite that uses Hana as an underlying data store.
Older application architectures don't deal well with matters such as structural changes in a company, Plattner said. The future will provide applications with dynamic, on-the-fly reporting as well as analysis and simulation of such changes, he added.
The human brain already does just that, Plattner said. He gave the example of a person firing an arrow at a moving bird, with their brain automatically generating a model that helps them predict where to point the bow based on the bird's speed in order to hit it.
Simple Finance runs on the Hana Enterprise Cloud hosting service. It and the upcoming Simple modules represent the "natural evolution" of the Business Suite on Hana, Plattner said.
While SAP will continue supporting the use of other databases for the Suite and will not recode any applications so they are solely dependent on Hana, "the breakthrough in terms of technology and the value will only be possible on Hana," Plattner said. Some 1,000 SAP customers have adopted Suite on Hana so far. It became generally available about a year ago.
Plattner's keynote also provided an opportunity to showcase Bernd Leukert, who is now heading up all product development following the recent departure of Vishal Sikka, an executive who oversaw the launch of Hana.
SAP customers are dealing with tangled IT landscapes with multiple application instances and scattered data, Leukert said.
I promise you we will change this," Leukert said. "Hana is the enabler for that simplification.
Expect compressed, but much improved SAP environments, according to Leukert. Its like when carbon becomes a diamond.
The large bearing and steel manufacturer Timken is one company making significant investments in SAP cloud software. It's moved a series of human resources functions to SAP SuccessFactors.
Timken had used the same HR system for 30 years, running it on a mainframe inside the corporate firewall, said Rob Arbogast, director of OA program deployment, in an interview.
Every time you wanted to do something to it you had to put a request together to get it changed, have IT then work on it, test it and put in place, and some where along the way, find the money to pay for it," he said.
HR is a complex area of software, given the frequent changes to legislation and regulations around the world.
But with SuccessFactors, Timken simply pays its subscription fees and awaits the regular updates to the software, Arbogast said. "I dont need as heavy of an IT structure around this thing. Its being taken care of by somebody else.
However, it's key for Timken to work closely with SuccessFactors, sitting on advisory boards and pushing for new features it wants, he said.
Meanwhile, during the keynote Leukert emphasized that SAP's user interface strategy going forward will lean heavily on design principles of Fiori, a collection of lightweight, mobile-friendly applications that tap hundreds of the most-used processes in its Business Suite ERP system.
SAP launched Fiori last year as a paid product, but following pressure from user groups this week at Sapphire the company said it would now be included with SAP software licenses.
The negotiations that went on in recent months with SAP over Fiori pricing was only a first step, said Geoff Scott, CEO of the Americas' SAP Users' Group.
"We now have to do our part as a user community," he said in an interview. "Lets start by downloading the software and putting it to work."
ASUG has formed a new UI community in order to help spur adoption of Fiori.
Although the Fiori applications will be available at no charge, SAP is planning to sell integration services for them. Fiori also has dependencies on Hana, which has only been purchased by a small percentage of SAP customers so far.
One analyst had a mixed reaction to SAP's simplification theme.
"It has got to be more than simplifying the product," said analyst Frank Scavo, managing partner of IT consulting firm Strativa. "SAP has to simplify its customers experience across every way they deal with SAP.
For example, SAP pricing is complex, as is negotiating through SAPs organization, Scavo added.
SAP has already taken one step to change this, by rolling out a revamped, easier-to-use price list in April.
Plattner and Leukert spoke Wednesday as SAP announced updates related to Hana.
Before customers can take advantage of Hana's data-crunching prowess, they need to get information into the system. To that end, new versions of SAP Data Services and Information Steward were announced Wednesday. Other updates include support for Hadoop 2.0 and running SAP's Lumira data-visualization software on Hana.
Over time, a broader integration framework for Hana will enable partners such as SAS Institute to embed their own advanced analytics capabilities within Hana, according to a statement.
Native high availability and disaster recovery for Hana is also on the road map, SAP said.
"We can safely say that SAP has reached a genuine level of maturity on the database side with Hana," said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. "The Suite on Hana is getting there. For both products, customers and prospects should look into the specific business case and benefits for the potential upgrade. On the product side, it is now time for SAP to look into more technology stack capabilities beyond the database."
Sapphire continues through Thursday in Orlando.


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Back in the infancy of the Internet Age, our hippest policy wonks orated endlessly about the emerging "information superhighway."
But that mouthful of a moniker would soon fall out of fashion. Anyone today who talks about the "information superhighway" comes across as a hopelessly uncool 1990s throwback. The irony here? If we truly treated the Internet as a "superhighway," maybe we wouldn't find ourselves in the online mess that now envelops us.
Americans currently pay much more for Internet access than just about everybody else in the developed world. Many other countries have established fast, cheap Internet access as a given of modern life. In the United States, we surf the Net at Model T speeds — and tens of millions of Americans still have no broadband at all.
This pitiful situation may soon get even worse. Two corporate giants, Comcast and Time Warner, are now seeking regulatory approval for a $45 billion merger that would leave Comcast controlling the bulk of the nation's broadband access.
In 19 of the nation's 20 largest metro areas, the "only choice for a high-capacity wired connection will be Comcast," points out telecom industry watchdog Susan Crawford.
So how would thinking "superhighway" help us out of this mess? America's only actual "superhighway" — our Interstate road network — demonstrates quite neatly the wonders we can realize once we start thinking about basic infrastructure as a public good, not a source of grand private fortune.
Our Interstate's greatest champion, President Dwight Eisenhower, believed that every citizen had a "vital interest" in a "safe and adequate highway system." In 1956, Ike signed legislation that authorized America's largest public works project ever, the construction of a new superhighway that would operate totally under public control.
This public control simply seemed the only way to go for Americans in the middle of the 20th century — and not just for highways. These years would see a vast expansion of public infrastructure, for everything from recreation to education.
What explains this golden age of infrastructure? Relative economic equality certainly played a prime role. By the 1950s, the nation's original plutocracy had faded away. A mass middle class, the world's first ever, had jumped onto political center stage.
Most Americans in this new, more equal America faced similar problems. Public solutions just seemed common sense. Build the Interstate with public tax dollars? Operate the Interstate under public control? Of course. Americans of the mid-20th century could see no alternative.
An alternative — we know today in our much more unequal America — does exist: Private interests could control our public goods. We could have decided 60 years ago to lease out the Interstate to private companies.
If we had organized the Interstate along these lines, anyone wanting to ride the system would have been paying tribute all these years to private corporations. And the execs in those corporations would have become rich enough to corrupt our political system — and keep their monopoly power secure.
This scenario should all sound a bit familiar. In contemporary America, we've let private corporations determine who can access our data superhighway. That control has generated grand fortunes — and formidable political power.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has become a billionaire. His top lobbyist used to sit on the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that has to decide whether to approve the Comcast merger with Time Warner. The other federal body with a say in the merger has a chief who helped grease the skids, as a corporate attorney, for Comcast's 2011 takeover of NBC Universal.
Brian Roberts and his corporate counterparts have essentially created a giant wealth extraction machine, sucking on average over $150 a month per household for TV, phone, and Internet, a bundle that costs a French household in Paris much less than one-third that price.
What's the first step toward turning this situation around? Stop the Comcast and Time Warner merger.


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For Children and Adults
Orthodontics for Children
While there is no exact age for children to begin orthodontic treatment the American Association of Orthodontists recommends visiting the orthodontist around age seven. Many Orthodontic problems are easier to correct if detected early.
By this age most children have a mix of baby teeth and adult teeth making it easier for the orthodontist to diagnose and correct tooth and jaw problems sooner and without surgery.
Early treatment allows your orthodontist to:
- Correct and guide the growth of your child's jaw to help the permanent teeth come in straight
- Regulate the width of the upper and lower arches
- Create more space for crowded teeth
- Avoid the need for permanent tooth extractions later in life
- Correct thumb-sucking and help improve minor speech problems
For parents it's not always easy to know if your child may need orthodontic treatment.
Here are a few things to look for that may mean your child needs to see an orthodontist:
- Early/Late loss of baby teeth
- If your child has a hard time chewing or biting food
- Mouth breathing
- Finger or thumb sucking
- Crowded, misplaced, or blocked teeth
- Jaws that pop or make sounds when opening and closing
- Teeth that come together abnormally or do not come together at all
- Jaws and teeth that are not proportionate to the rest of the face
- Crowded front teeth around age 7 or 8
Please contact our practice to schedule an appointment for an orthodontic evaluation. Early treatment now will give your child a healthy beautiful smile for the future.
Orthodontic Treatment for Adults
Orthodontic treatment is no longer just for teens; in fact the American Association of Orthodontists sites that one in five orthodontic patients is over the age of 21! Many adults are choosing to receive treatment because they understand the importance of maintaining their health and they want to feel better about their appearance. Adults everywhere are taking advantage of the opportunity to receive orthodontic care and now you can too!
Common reasons why adults are considering orthodontic treatment:
- A bad bite, or malocclusion causing teeth to fit together incorrectly
- If the teeth are crowded or spaced apart possibly causing tooth decay or gum disease
- Abnormal pain, or pressure in the jaw that is caused by crooked teeth
- To have a healthier mouth and a more confident smile
Treatment options for adults
For many adults the thought of having metal braces is enough to discourage them from receiving treatment. Today's orthodontic treatment options however offer a variety of braces and appliances that are comfortable, aesthetic and customized to meet your needs. Types of braces include:
- Clear braces
- Ceramic braces
- Self-ligating braces
- Lingual (behind the tooth) braces
- Invisible braces
- Traditional metal braces
The difference between adult orthodontics and orthodontics for children and teens:
There are actually not many differences between adult and child orthodontics; however in children and teens the jawbones are still developing. For adults these bones have stopped growing which may mean the possibility of orthognathic surgery, in which the jawbones are surgically aligned. Other differences include:
- Gum or bone loss (periodontal disease) — Adults are more likely than children to experience gum recession or even bone loss due to gingivitis or advanced periodontal disease. Patients with straighter teeth are less likely to get gum disease.
- Worn or missing teeth — Over time teeth can become worn down and shift into different positions that can only be corrected with orthodontic care. Missing teeth can cause other teeth to shift and tilt creating a bad bite and the possibility of getting gum disease.
- Incomplete orthodontic treatment as a teen — Many adults received some orthodontic treatment as a child or teen but never completed their treatment. As an adult they choose to complete their orthodontic treatment to achieve the healthy beautiful smile they always wanted.
Our practice also recognizes that adults and children have different needs and require a different level of attention and care. We will work with you to ensure that you receive the most appropriate treatments and that your needs are met with understanding, respect, and full commitment from us.
We understand that you have a busy schedule and we will work with you to make sure each office visit is as convenient as possible.


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Bjorn this way. There is a little bit of American hope left at the French Open. While Scott Lipsky teamed up with Australian Casey Dellacqua to win the mixed doubles crown, 17-year-old American Bjorn Fratangelo has made a stunning run to the boys' singles final. Fratangelo, who holds an ATP ranking of no. 1,404 (he's no. 21 in the ITF juniors rankings) has come through the boys' draw by beating two seeds en route. In the semifinals, he took out local hope Tristan Lamasine 6-4 4-6 6-3.
Fratangelo, a Pittsburgh native, now faces the no. 14 seed in the final, Dominic Thiem of Austria. Fratangelo is 23-5 on the year and has had runs at the Coffee Bowl (finals), USTA Spring Championships (finals) and the Easter Bowl (SF). Fratangelo and Thiem have never met.
More: Read up on Fratangelo on the Zoo Tennis blog
Ladies in red. Meanwhile, in the girl's final, Puerto Rican Monica Puig, the no. 5 seed, outlasted no. 2 Irina Khromacheva of Russia in the semifinal 7-5 in the third. She'll face no. 9 seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the final.
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Firefighters responded to the scene of a tragic house fire on Northland Drive, just south of Sand Lake, Thursday morning, January 20, that killed a man and sent his sister to the hospital.
According to Sgt. Steve Dabkowski, of the Kent County Sheriff Department, the homeowner, Sandra DeVault, 57, came out of her bedroom a little before 7 a.m. to find the living room, where her brother slept, engulfed in flames. She was unable to get him out.
Both Sand Lake and Cedar Springs Fire Departments fought the blaze. Dabkowski said they had initially knocked the fire down, and firefighters were inside, and ambulance workers almost inside, when it caught fire again. The man, William Samalot, 58, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Dabkowski said according to DeVault, her brother was on oxygen and often smoked. "That looks to be the probable cause of the fire," said Dabkowski.
DeVault was taken to Spectrum Butterworth, where she was being treated for smoke inhalation.
The fire is still under investigation.


text: RH2T- Series, EcoNet Enabled, Constant Torque Motor (ECM), Electronic Expansion Valve (EEV), Efficiencies up to 17 SEER.RH2T Features:Equipped standard with an EcoNet Air Handler control board that allows it to directly communicate with the EcoNet Control Center. The EcoNet Control Center serves as the hub of communication for a home's Heating, Cooling, and Water Heating systems, and is required to operate an EcoNet Enabled Heating and Cooling system in fully communicating mode. An EcoNet WiFi kit can be added to the EcoNet network and will use the homeowner's wireless network and broadband Internet connection to enable remote operation of EcoNet Enabled equipment from the mobile-friendly web portal or mobile apps.Equipped with an electronic expansion valve (EEV), which can intelligently change the EEV position based on system demands. By the measurement of the suction pressure via the vapor line pressure transducer (factory installed) and the vapor line thermistor (field connected to the vapor line, but factory provided within the air handler) the EcoNet enabled air handler control calculates the suction superheat at the indoor coil. This calculation permits the air handler control to make decisions for when to open and close the EEV for the purpose of maintaining a predetermined suction superheat. The EEV is equipped with a 4-pole removable external stator, and inlet and outlet chatleff fittings for optimal serviceability. These valves also have an internal check valve to provide heat pump compatibility. When operating in heating mode, the air handler control will open the EEV completely to permit the check valve to operate and maximize reverse refrigerant flow.The RH2T features a Constant Torque Two-stage motor (ECM) which provides enhanced SEER performance with most Rheem outdoor units.Evaporator is constructed of aluminum fins bonded to internally grooved aluminum tubing.Versatile 4-way convertible design for upflow, downflow, horizontal left and horizontal right applications.Factory-installed indoor coil.Sturdy cabinet construction with 1.0 inch [25.4 mm] of foil faced insulation for excellent sound and insulating characteristics.Field-installed auxiliary electric heater kits provide exact heat for indoor comfort. Kits include circuit breakers which meet U.L. and cUL requirements for service disconnect.11/2 ton [5.3 kW] through 5 ton [17.6 kW] models are between 421/2 to 57 inches [1080 to 1448 mm] tall and 22 inches [559 mm] deep.All models meet or exceed 330 to 400 CFM [156 to 189 L/s] per ton at .3 inches [.7 kPa] of external static pressure.Enhanced airflow up to .7" external static pressure.Suitable for application in mobile homes.General Terms Of Limited WarrantyConditional Parts (Registration Required): Ten (10) YearsRheem will furnish a replacement for any part of this product which fails in normal use and service within the applicable period stated, in accordance with the terms of the limited warranty.See warranty certificate for complete details.


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Scooterlabs Dynojet - technical details
Disclaimer: Vespa Labs contains information that is VERY likely to wreck your scooter and possibly yourself, both intentionally (i.e. gaining more performance while sacrificing reliability + safety) and unintentionally (i.e. misleading or incorrect information). Vespa Labs originated as a public wiki and is only a collection of random notes and intended as a dumping ground for information and not as a properly reviewed source. The same disclaimers that wikipedia.org use apply to Vespa Labs. Also be aware that Vespa Labs is an international site and therefore may contain information that is not road legal in some countries/states and may also invalidate insurance policies. Treat all information as experimental and for "race use only" (i.e. not for road use - even if it is implied or explicitly stated). Refer to and adhere to your local road and legal rules, as well as the manufacturers recommendations
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With this application you can mount any directory on your phone, including memory card, as a drive on Windows or Linux. You can also use a WebDAV client to browse a phone directory.
This application has been tested using Windows8 Explorer (should also work with Windows7 but it will not work on WindowsXP) and WebDAV client bitkinex. You can download it from http://www.bitkinex.com/
Special thanks to: Beatriz Vera, Peter Ulrich, Gabor Fodor, Manuela Merino García and Anna Rainieri.
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You can find a lock setting to specify how the device should be kept awake while server is running. There are three modes available:
New locks used
*SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK : Existing mode. Screen is on so energy consumption is higher. Use this mode if connections is dropped.
*WIFI_MODE_FULL : New mode. Screen is off so device will use less energy while server is running but data connection can be dropped. It is not recommended to use this mode.
*WIFI_MODE_FULL_HIGH_PERF: New mode only available on Android >= 3.1. Screen is off so energy consumption should be less than in the first mode. This mode is recommended to save energy but you might find problems so you might to select default lock mode.
How to connect with WebDAV server using USB cable:
This can useful when you have USB cable and no network available.
1) On your phone go to Settings->Applications->Development and set option "USB debugging".
2) Connect your phone to your PC using USB cable.
3) Start adb server. On your PC run command "adb start-server".
adb is a program that you can find on android sdk. Usually you will find it on android-sdkplatform-toolsadb.
4) Forward needed ports from your PC to your phone. On your PC run command "adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080"
With this, any connection in your pc to 127.0.0.1:8080 will be forwarded to your phone in port 8080.
5) Run WebDAV server in your phone, open settings and in "Network interfaces" select "Loopback (127.0.0.1)"
6) Start WebDAV server.
7) In your PC connect your WebDAV client to http://127.0.0.1:8080 (port might be different, it depends on your WebDAV Server configuration).
Permissions needed:
Network permission to enable server to open network communication with WebDAV clients.
Enables WebDAV server write received files from WebDAV clients on sdcard.
Keeps phone wake only while server is running. If phone is not wake WebDAV server can not be accessed.
Problems with big files:
If you have problems handling big files it might be due to a limitation in Windows webdav client. You can try the following to increase the size of files that Windows webdav client is able to manage:
1) You have to turn on BasicAuth via regedit to allow accessing the App's server by username and password.
2) You have to change Window's limit to file size when using the integrated WebDAV client.
3) Restart windows.
This allows file sizes up to 4 Gigabytes handled by the client.


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Black and White Portfolio
Black and white photography was my first love, and today some of my very favorite images are the ones whose lighting and shadows, textures and tonal ranges call out to be monochrome. There was a day, before digital cameras, when I carried two cameras--one loaded with color and the other with B&W film. Today, I just carry one camera, and sometimes I shoot them on a black-and-white setting; other times, when I'm post-processing, I just decide that the image is much more compelling when I pull the colors out of it and leave it with its marvelous monochrome tones. You will find more B&W throughout the galleries, but these are some of my favorites gathered for this portfolio. Also be sure to visit my gallery "Impressions of China in Black and White."Read More