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It's been so much fun writing about the wedding! I can't believe it's more than a month ago. This post is the topic that everyone is asking me about - the clothes! All pictures are by Fresh Photography unless stated.
I had such an extensive wedding wardrobe! Two dresses, three jackets, two pairs of shoes and two bras! It was lots of fun to have wardrobe changes, and also kept me comfortable.
Having two dresses was extravagant but practical. Plus my first dress was on an incredible sale, and my second dress was kindly gifted.
Dress one was more bride-y than I'd ever imagined I'd wear. I bought it in June 2014 from Fairytales Bridal Boutique - Mum actually picked it out. It had six skirt layers and half a metre of tulle was cut off as I'm so short. It was adjusted with a lace up panel at the back to accommodate my bust. My lovely dressmaker altered it - I think I spent more time standing in it for fittings than wearing it on the wedding day!
I loved it - I felt like a princess!
I wore some soft gold glitter peep toe wedges for the ceremony and some of the photos, but I soon removed them and replaced them with some comfier soft gold ballet flats. My dress length was just right for both pairs of shoes. I can wear my shoes again.
In the lead up to our wedding, I was really worried about how the boning in my very bride-y dress would affect my skin. I asked married girlfriends with Ichthyosis for advice on how they kept comfortable on their big day, and also asked my dressmaker friend to make a simple jersey band to wear underneath the bodice - to avoid the synthetic fabric hurting me. I was also lucky to be given a second wedding dress from St Frock to change into, should I need to.
(Picture by Camille)
I managed to stay comfortable in my traditional dress from 1.30 - 9.00 pm. And then I wanted to be able to sit comfortably, eat dessert and dance. Oh yeah, and go to the toilet on my own! And my forearms were getting a little sore from the lack of moisture. So I layered up (with a Metalicus 3/4 sleeve top that disappointingly ran on first wear), the sequinned maxi dress and a little coatlet plus a brooch in the wedding theme colours.
This dress was made for dancing! So swishy and comfortable.
Thanks St Frock!
It's important for me to cover up and as much as I'd loved to have bare arms, it wasn't possible. I get itchy, dry, cold and sore. Plus I wouldn't have bare arms in every day life. And so I covered up with jackets.
For the ceremony, I went traditional - my big white dress and a simple lace bolero that was handmade and given to by my friend Jackie who runs clothing label M'gapi. It was so soft and comfortable to wear - beautifully made to measure.
(Picture by Sandra)
During the official photos, I put on a coloured jacket which was lots of fun! That was by a UK brand called Darling (I bought it from a shop in Yarraville that's recently closed down), and while it's not on sale in store, I saw a couple on eBay.
I promise to write more about this jacket in a future post - it really was the feature of the wedding.
And I put a winter white coatlet on with my second dress (the coatlet was from a bridal store in the city that has now shut down), and pinned the collar with a brooch from Clay and Chic on Etsy. (There's a photo of the brooch below.)
My headpiece was handmade - I found an amazing artist at the Etsy bridal fair. Ashlee Lauren, from South Australia, created a lavish headpiece for me - it fit like an Aliceband. It was rose gold, silver and crystals.
The jewellery was simple - a pearl and cubic zirconia pendant on a silver chain (from Salera's), a pearl bracelet (from Royal Pearl and Gem in Royal Arcade Melbourne CBD) and my grandmother's engagement ring - which is a blue sapphire surrounded by diamonds. I put my engagement ring on my right hand. Now I have my wedding ring, I have been wearing it on my right hand and my engagement ring on my left (my hands have been too sore and swollen to wear them both on one finger right now).
Adam wore a dark blue suit - a suede-like jacket with brown elbow patches (from Peter Jackson), suit pants (from Connor), a white shirt (also from Connor) and a cornflower blue bow tie (from Peter Jackson). He accessorised with Yoda socks (I got them from an online comic store) and a Mickey Mouse Jedi pin I bought from Paris Disneyland.
Camille made dresses for her and Cassie - they were pink and blue shantung silk. I said they could wear whatever they felt comfortable in, as long as it was in the colour scheme. The dresses were so simple and pretty, and I hope they get lots of wear out of them again. Camille did such a great job! She even made matching bags. Their jewellery was their own.
Jason told me he wore a blue blazer, a shirt with red floral pattern, pink check tie and black stripe suit.
He had Blundstone boots, undies by Bonds, and a buttoniere by Nic's Button Buds.
My mum wore an amazing black and hot pink jacquard dress from Anthea Crawford. It went perfectly with the bridal party. I loved it so much!
Dad had a white shirt, striped tie and black pants on. He was adamant he wasn't going to wear a suit... Too restrictive to dance in I guess!


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Julie A. (LaPoint) Breitzman
Julie A. (LaPoint) Breitzman age 52, died on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at her home. She was born on September 14, 1960 in Eau Claire, WI to Jerry and Jacqueline (Youderian) LaPoint. Julie was married to James Breitzman on October 19, 1985 in Eau Claire. She was employed for 25 years by the Department of Military Affairs in Madison. Julie enjoyed scrapbooking, quilting, tennis, and figure skating. She was a member of Faith Lutheran Church, Columbus.
Survivors include her husband, Jim of Columbus and daughter, Alexandra at home; parents, Jerry and Jackie LaPoint of Eau Claire; a sister, Janis (Joseph) Majerus of Shakopee MN; a brother, James (Kari) LaPoint of River Falls; mother-in-law, Diane Breitzman of Eau Claire; a sister-in-law, Julie Breitzman of Menomonie; brother-in-law, Paul Breitzman of Eau Claire; five nieces, Bailey LaPoint, Lexi LaPoint, Isabel Majerus, Rachel Majerus, Stephanie Breitzman; other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Benjamin and Margaret Youderian and paternal grandparents, Edward and Eleanor LaPoint; her father-in-law, Gerald Breitzman.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Friday, March 15, 2013 at FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH, Columbus. Rev. Robert V. Moberg will officiate. Interment will be in Hillside Cemetery, Columbus. Visitation will be from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Thursday at the funeral home, and from 12:00 P.M. until 1:00 P.M. on Friday at the church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Faith Lutheran Church, Columbus, or Hillside Hospice, Beaver Dam.

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The new version of Microsoft Office offers compelling enhancements to its capabilities and interface design, as well as improvements in cloud functionality that should make it a far better product than its predecessor.
However, gaps in support for non-Windows mobile platforms, questions about pricing and a continued reliance on locally installed software weaken the suite's potential for success and could open the door for competitors.
That's the initial assessment from various industry analysts who are following the release of the new Office version's public beta this week.
"There's a lot of value there," said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester Research analyst. "It's the best version of Office ever."
So far, the consensus among many analysts and reviewers seems to be that Microsoft has done an outstanding job simplifying and improving the suite's user interface, which has been criticized in the past as cluttered and confusing, and optimizing it for tablets that use hand gestures and styluses for input.
Also getting high marks are new application features such as a "read mode" in Word that improves the reading experience, and a PDF "reflow" capability for opening and editing PDF files.
A "presenter view" in PowerPoint has also been praised because it privately shows various elements to the presenter that the audience doesn't see, including notes, upcoming slides and a clock for timing presentations. A better user experience and more powerful data analysis tools have been highlighted in Excel.
"There are a lot of new features in the applications themselves," said IDC analyst Melissa Webster. "They add up to increased user productivity."
Microsoft is also getting props for advancements in cloud functionality. While Microsoft will continue selling Office via an upfront, perpetual license — the product branded Office 2013 — it will also let people buy the suite as a cloud-based subscription service, which carries the existing Office 365 brand.
Today, Office 365 is a cloud-based applications suite for business users that typically includes online versions of Exchange, Lync and SharePoint, as well as Office Web Apps, all of which have a subset of the features of their on-premise counterparts.
Now, Office 365 is being offered to consumers as well, as a hosted version of the new Office applications. Although it is a cloud-based service, including online storage and upgrades delivered automatically, most of the software components need to be installed locally. Buyers will be able to install the software on up to five computers.
Other cloud enhancements include tighter integration with the company's SkyDrive cloud-storage service, which will let Office users save files online, making them accessible from multiple devices. Office will also save settings and preferences to the cloud, so they can be synchronized across a user's different computers. A feature called Office on Demand will even let users stream a full version of Office on the fly to PCs they don't own for use during specific, one-time sessions.
"The cloud is a big theme in this release. We see Microsoft's cloud strategy [for Office] evolving and taking another big step," Webster said.
However, the Office software is still installed on the user devices, unlike, for example, Google Apps, whose applications reside on Google servers and are accessed by users via a Web browser.
The conundrum for Microsoft is that there's a limit to the functionality that vendors can provide in applications that are fully hosted in the cloud. That's the case with Office Web Apps, for instance, the hosted version of Office that contains a subset of the full functionality.
"To run the full, high-octane versions of the applications, you need them installed on the user's machine," Webster said.
For example, Office 365 Home Premium — the subscription option for families and individuals — will still require users to install full-featured versions of the Office applications on each machine. Documents can be stored online, however, and the product comes with 20G bytes of SkyDrive storage.
Eventually, browser-based applications will reach a level of functionality that's on par with locally installed applications, said Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research analyst.
That future is closer in certain types of applications, like Web-based email, but further in others, like spreadsheets, he said.
"For the time being, Microsoft is leveraging the cloud in a clever way to bring the best of both worlds together," he said.
Although the beta launch was focused on the consumer market, Microsoft also addressed the SMB and enterprise markets by stressing that the upgrade effort extends to the collaboration and communication server products like Exchange, Lync, Yammer and SharePoint, and by announcing new Office 365 subscription options for workplace use.
By tying together all these different products, Microsoft is making an aggressive move to try to wipe out the many startups that have sprung up in recent years to provide point solutions for enterprise collaboration, cloud file storage, and sharing and productivity applications, Koplowitz said.
"Microsoft is following a strategy of bundling and integrating products, making them work well together really well, and pushing down competitors' products to the level of features, so it can own the knowledge worker experience from end to end," he said.
Microsoft is also stressing the point that Office is available across a variety of Windows 7 and Windows 8 devices, including desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones. It will also be available for Mac OS desktops and laptops.
However, a gaping hole in this strategy is Microsoft's silence and apparent reticence to create versions of Office for non-Windows tablets and smartphones, in particular iOS and Android devices.
Both at home and at work, people are using a variety of devices — Windows and Mac OS desktops and laptops, iPads, iPhones, Android smartphones and so on — and expect applications and data to be available across them.
"The big question is what's Microsoft's mobile strategy beyond Windows," Rotman Epps said. "It leaves Office open to disruption."
For example, particular threats are productivity suites that, despite lacking the comprehensive feature set of Office, work on iOS and Android devices, like Google's Quickoffice, she said.
Another area where Microsoft can improve is in simplifying the bundling and licensing of Office 365, which now encompasses many options, variables and packages for consumers, SMBs, enterprises, government agencies and schools.
In this area, Google Apps has managed to appeal to customers attracted by its simpler and more streamlined offer with fewer packages and straightforward pricing, said Guy Creese, a Gartner analyst.
"Microsoft should be using the cloud as an opportunity to simplify things and it isn't," Creese said. "It's better than it was, but not as clean as it could be."
A big, unanswered question is price. Office has historically not been cheap, and with the increasing pressure from free and inexpensive alternatives, the issue has become a critical element for consumer and workplace buyers.
"The shoe waiting to drop is how much it's going to cost," Creese said. "It's the part everyone wants to know before making a decision to purchase it or not."
The new subscription-based model, in which customers pay a monthly or annual fee instead of one up-front payment, could cut both ways.
The option to pay a smaller amount every month or every year, along with the five-device license and the automatic upgrades, could entice some buyers who have been put off by the perpetual license price.
However, depending on the monthly or annual fee, it could be a disincentive as well, especially for buyers who find the subscription payments adding up over time, Creese said.
Microsoft didn't announce a shipping date for the new Office. Windows 8 will ship in October.
Juan Carlos Perez covers enterprise communication/collaboration suites, operating systems, browsers and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Juan on Twitter at @JuanCPerezIDG.


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For the first time, Amazon is offering free shipping on all holiday orders in an effort to add new Prime members and juice the season's sales numbers.
Last year, Amazon shoppers without Prime memberships had to spend at least $25 to earn free shipping, but Amazon is waiving the purchase minimum starting Monday to give "customers even more convenient and faster delivery options," the company announced.
The National Retail Foundation forecasts holiday retail sales will climb by up to 4.8% compared to a year ago.
Amazon's plan could overshadow holiday strategies from top competitors like Target, which offers free two-day shipping on all orders from November 1 to December 22.
The promotion will make hundreds of millions of items eligible for free shipping, Amazon said. By comparison, Walmart, one of Amazon's fiercest competitors sells around 75 million products online.
Sources: Triangle hasn't been told it's out of running for either Amazon HQ2 or Apple
Amazon needs to pump up sales after the company's revenue projection for the remainder of the year fell below some Wall Street analysts' estimates. The company expects sales for the fourth quarter to be between $66.5 billion and $72.5 billion.
Amazon did not announce a cutoff date for the promotion, but said that free shipping will be available for all orders arriving in time for Christmas. The company usually sets the final date toward the end of the season.
Prime members already get free shipping on all eligible orders with no minimum required, but without the holiday promotion, non-Prime shoppers must spend at least $25 to land free shipping.
Prime members in the United States do get a holiday perk, however. Amazon is making more than three million items eligible for same-day delivery for the holidays.
In recent months, Amazon has extended same-day delivery from Whole Foods through Prime Now to more than 60 cities.


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In her first outing, Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake (2011), the precocious preschooler wants to eat nothing but chocolate cake, and in the subsequent Betty Bunny Wants Everything (2012), she has her heart set on buying everything in the toy store. Michael B. Kaplan's heroine returns this month in Betty Bunny Didn't Do It, which has the crafty rabbit blaming the Tooth Fairy for a broken lamp. This Dial picture book features illustrations by Stéphane Jorisch, as did the series' earlier installments. Kaplan, who is also a playwright and has worked as a television writer and producer on 12 prime-time shows (including Frasier, for which he received an Emmy for best comedy series as a member of the producing staff), talked to Bookshelf about stepping into his new role as children's book author.
Betty Bunny obviously came to be well after you'd established yourself as a writer in other media. How did you first find your calling as a writer?
I started writing plays in high school, and continued writing plays and musical revue material for the Triangle Club when I was at Princeton. When I graduated, I moved to New York to try to become involved in theater. My playwriting there led to my coming to the attention of a TV agent. I was always interested in TV and film, but had no idea how to access them. This was my opportunity, so I moved to L.A. to write for TV, which I've been doing for more than 20 years. And now I've added children's books to my list of writing activities.
What inspired you to move in that direction?
My children. I have a son who is now 16, and twins, a girl and boy, who are now 13, but when they were young I read to them often and became immersed in children's books. I noticed which ones I enjoyed and which I found particularly difficult to get through as a parent – even though some of those my kids clamored to have read again and again, which was sort of torturous! At the same time, I would often tell my kids stories I'd made up about a character named Betty Bunny, based on a doll my daughter had. As the stories grew and evolved, they seemed to take on a life of their own. And it seemed only natural to begin writing them down.
Part of the charm of the Betty Bunny books are their spirited family dynamics. Do your kids' own sibling dynamics feed into these?
Absolutely. Betty Bunny's siblings are very directly based on my own kids. They even have the same names – Kate and Henry are exactly the same, but my oldest son Will wanted his name to be altered slightly to Bill in the books. As I made up stories to tell them about Betty, I'd tie them into my kids' own lives. Coming home from my son's t-ball practice, I'd tell a story about Betty being on this t-ball team and hitting the ball with the wrong end of the bat. Or on the way home from my daughter's dance class, I'd have Betty be in the class, doing everything wrong. As they got older, the storytelling evolved to the point that on family car rides, the kids would improvise and play the roles of themselves. I'd be Betty and the others would talk to me in the voices of her siblings.
Did your children provide specific inspiration for your book plots?
I think on some level they did. I didn't actually sit down to write the books until I was more or less done telling the stories out loud – they'd gotten old enough to stop asking for them – so the two weren't going on concurrently. I think whatever influence my kids had on the stories became less conscious and more subconscious.
Was it a challenge to switch from writing for TV to writing for a picture book audience?
Not at all. It seemed very natural, given that I'd spent so much time reading children's books and was very familiar with the style. There were certain things that took a little figuring out, but I had a lot of guidance from my agent, Holly McGhee at Pippin Properties, who helped me figure out the ins and outs of what I needed to do.
Do you find that picture books are a natural vehicle for comedy?
Absolutely. To some extent my approach to writing picture books and TV comedy is similar, since in both cases the humor stems from character. I know not all children's books are character-driven, but mine certainly are, and my TV writing is as well. They're both basically about character – and of course story. In fact, I think Betty Bunny could be a TV show – and may be one day.
Did Stéphane Jorisch's illustrations capture Betty and her siblings as you envisioned them?
Yes! It was very exciting to first see what he was doing with them. It was interesting to me, since the first book started as a manuscript without an artist attached, and it was a challenge to find the right illustrator. The process reminded me of casting a TV show – finding the right actor to portray the words. I looked at illustrations by a lot of artists who did beautiful work, but whose faces were not particularly expressive. Since characters are the driving force in my books, I really wanted to find an illustrator with a strong sense of expressiveness in faces.
And Jorisch has that?
Yes, I think this is one of Stéphane's strengths. The characters' expressions are the heart of his illustrations. And he populates the pages with a sense of family dynamics above and beyond the words. I was not necessarily expecting that. I think he drew on his own family experiences to hone in on the dynamics in a specific way. That really adds so much to the books.
What's next for Betty Bunny?
Dial will publish the fourth book next year. In it, Betty tries to learn how to play soccer, and it's a story about not giving up when things get difficult, but keeping at it and practicing. There are plans for a fifth and sixth book, too. I'm hoping the series will continue for a while.
Do you envision yourself writing any children's books beyond Betty Bunny?
I hope so. I have a draft of a manuscript for a non-Betty book, but need to take another stab at revising it. I'm hoping something will come of that.
In the meantime, you're still actively involved in TV. Do you find it difficult to switch gears between working in that world and working on books?
The challenge is not so much switching gears as finding the time – and energy. I'm currently executive producer of Dog with a Blog on Disney Channel, which just wrapped up production on its first season and was picked up for a second season. So we'll be starting pre-production on that. TV production is very exhausting. But in terms of putting on different creative hats, the two are fairly similar – again, in both it's all about characters and story. The difference is that TV is strictly dialogue, and for books you include some prose.
Has adding 'children's book author' to your list of credits been gratifying?
Very much so. It's been great to have this new outlet and it's been a lot of fun to create something that can sit on a shelf rather than be stored on a DVR.
Betty Bunny Didn't Do It by Michael B. Kaplan, illus. by Stéphane Jorisch. Dial, $16.99 Feb. ISBN 978-0-8037-3858-4
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Shelley Rice and Kenneth Silver, professors in New York University's Department of Art History, have been awarded the rank of chevalier, or knight, in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for their contributions to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world.
Shelley Rice and Kenneth Silver, professors in New York University's Department of Art History, have been awarded the rank of chevalier, or knight, in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for their contributions to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world.
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by France's minister of state for cultural affairs, was established in 1957 to recognize eminent artists and writers. Laureates include both natives of France and non-natives. Recent American recipients include Paul Auster, Morgan Freeman, and Meryl Streep.
Rice, who is also arts professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU's Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television in the Tisch School of the Arts, is the author of Parisian Views (which was shortlisted for the United Kingdom's Kraszna-Krausz Award); the editor of Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman; and the co-author of numerous books, including: Paris et le Daguerreotype; Jacques-Henri Lartigue; The Book of 101 Books; and the Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie (for which she was the American consultant.)
She has served as guest curator of several important exhibitions, including "Inverted Odysseys" at NYU's Grey Art Gallery (1999-2000; with Lynn Gumpert), which won the International Art Critics' Association's award for Best Photography Exhibition in the United States. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1992-93, Rice also is the recipient of Fulbright Senior Fellowships to France (1989-90) and Turkey (1999), a Bourse d'Etude from the French Minister of Culture (1991) and a Hasselblad Grant from Sweden (1988), the PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay (1989) and grants from the National Endowments of the Arts and Humanities. Her articles, essays, reviews, and columns have appeared in Art in America, Art Journal, Aperture, the New Republic, French Studies, Artforum, and other journals.
Silver's published works include: Espirit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914-1925, awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association of America; Making Paradise: Art, Modernity, and the Myth of the French Riviera; and Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers. He has curated several major museum exhibitions, including "The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris 1905-1945" (1985); "An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine" (1998; with Norman Kleeblatt); and "Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama" (2005; with Carol Ockman), which won the Victorian Society of America award for Best Exhibition and Catalogue in 2007.
Silver is the recipient of the Prix du Livre, Beaux Arts, Paris as well as grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and the ACLS. He is adjunct curator at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. His forthcoming exhibition, "Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936," will open at New York's Guggenheim Museum on October 1.


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U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) introduced a bill which would require all persons in the United States ("U.S.") seeking to be employed to obtain a government-issued biometric National Identification card.[1] Not so surprisingly, this measure has come in the name of "protecting America" against illegal immigrants working in the U.S. unlawfully. Thus, "[t]o ensure that only people legally in the U.S. can work here, the bill will propose a biometric I.D. for EVERY AMERICAN before anybody can get a job."[2] This is yet another method by which the federal government continually institutes practices and principles contrary to what a Free Confederated Republic should be and contrary to principles of limited government, self-government, natural rights, and true constitutional intent and meaning. Judge Andrew Napolitano rightfully calls this legislation a "monstrosity" and predicts that this bill will not pass.[3] Perhaps Judge Napolitano is correct, but we should consider what the people of the U.S. once rejected but now embrace.
The New Deal
After Abraham Lincoln set the stage for federal government forceful takeover of the people and states' rights, power and jurisdiction, Franklin D. Roosevelt capitalized on the people's economic straits in the 1930s by introducing "The New Deal," which in part socialized the economic, commercial and industrial fabric of the United States. Federal government control, regulation and power: that was the name of the game and still is.
From this era of federal government expansion and encroachment, we see U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), ruling that Congress has the power to regulate the most local of activities, such as an individual, non-commercial farmer's production of crops for private use, and has the power to penalize and punish any violation of the same.
Prior to 1930, it would have been inconceivable that the people of the states and the state governments themselves would have consented to such a violation of the constitution and such an open encroachment into the lives of individuals, families, businesses and states. Yet, as soon as the circumstance presented itself, the New Deal was substantially adopted and accepted into society and government (or at least by the politicians). We are living with its effect today, almost 100 years later.
The Great Society
Continuing its managerial presence over individuals, families, businesses and states, the federal government expanded its power and usurpations into their lives and into their retained powers by creating, among other things, governmental welfare programs in the 1960s for those who "needed" help. This was a "War on Poverty!"
This era federal government expansion not only instituted socialistic and communistic principles and philosophy, taking from the "haves" and giving to the "have-nots," but also created an unlawful entanglement of the federal government into the state and local public education system. Both of these matters were traditionally and largely held to be purely local matters, and would have never been deemed a legitimate federal power.
Have these federal government programs been terminated? Not hardly. Instead, they have been expanded and increased with fervor, intensity and passion. In contrast, there was a time in the U.S. when this political philosophy and these federal programs would have been rejected immediately and without discussion. Yet, we are living with their effect today.
One of the fundamental principles that shaped American and English jurisprudence for hundreds of years was the necessary protection of life, including the unborn life. Most (and I dare say, all) of the states in the union criminally or civilly punished the willful abortion of an unborn baby by the mother, or anyone else for that matter. If a congressman were to introduce a bill making it illegal for the states to make such restrictions against abortion, that congressman would have been told to take a long hike off a short bridge.
Yet, since 1973, over 1 million babies have consistently been aborted every year in the U.S., and when someone attempts to question the constitutionality or even the morality of the act of abortion, most federal politicians shirk their shoulders and say, "Well, it's the supreme law of the land," because the U.S. Supreme Court has determined it to be so. (How ignorant, disgusting and cowardly are these people!) And the ones who say they are opposed to it do very little (if not nothing) to encourage the states to resist this draconian federal usurpation. Supposedly, our only hope is in Washington, D.C., forty years afterwards. The contrast is blaring.
National Health Care
Today, the federal government is continuing to travel down the road of socialism and communism, contrary to every principle of truth held sacred by our founding generations, by their forefathers before them and by generations following them. This time, the federal government takes the matter of healthcare and determines that, first, they actually have the constitutional authority to regulate this matter; and that, second, they are going to do the U.S. a favor by creating yet another federal bureaucracy to regulate the healthcare profession and industry.
While there may be opposition to the healthcare proposals, most of them are not based upon the constitutionality of the bill, but on the pragmatism of it. The opposition is really not based upon principles of constitutional correctness or principles of freedom, but based upon the circumstances and mentality of the people in their district or other political expediencies--a purely democratic standpoint, not a republic standpoint. However, there undoubtedly will come a time in these states where the (vast?) majority of people will find it pragmatic for the federal government to regulate healthcare, just as the people did during the administration of F. D. R. and following.
Would the people in 1776 have agreed to such a federal power? What about 1787? What about 1830? What about 1860? What about 1913? In truth, the people of the U.S. have become so dis-informed, mis-informed and frankly put, ignorant on the proper limitations and constitutional ambits of the federal government. The results are obvious and apparent.
National ID
While Judge Napolitano believes that this National ID bill will not pass, our own history proves that the people of the U.S. will eventually accept this type of federal government expansion and intrusion, especially if the people continue in their ignorance as they have since the early 1900s. This begs the question: what are freedom-loving people going to do when the federal government does in fact (or at the least, attempts to) takeover our rights, powers and jurisdictions over ourselves, our families and our states?
Allow me to answer by making a dogmatic statement, without going into the supporting details and arguments at this time:
The STATES in the union must choose to live in freedom by resisting the federal government's unnatural and unlawful actions or choose to live in submission to slavery by giving up their rightful powers and jurisdictions and by allowing the federal government to run rough-shod over the supposed constitutionally-secured liberties and freedom of the people within their borders.
Please do not misunderstand me. By resisting, I do not mean helping to get a Republic elected into a federal position. I do not mean simply sending out some email to their constituents to inform them of their position on the matter. I do not mean, encouraging people to "go out and vote." I do not mean sending a letter of correspondence form a state house representative to the U.S. President.
By resisting, I mean the state representatives passing laws, the governor entering orders and the courts rendering judgments, preventing the federal government from attempting to tax their people for that federal power and from implementing their procedures upon the people of that state. I mean actually and physically resisting the federal government from occupying the state's territory to execute those unlawful actions. I mean publically calling to its defense the other states in the union who stand firm upon the same fundamental principles of self-government, federalism, constitutional government and freedom to resist these ghastly attempts to reduce the people to despotism. I mean county sheriff's arresting federal agents who are attempting to execute and enforce unlawful and unconstitutional procedures and laws upon the citizens of their counties. I mean actively and meaningfully using the sovereign powers retained under the tenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution and under the Laws of Nations.
If you think that the federal government is going to be stopped by voting into office the next batch of corruptors and encroachers, you are dead wrong. This belief has been proven fruitless at least since the early 1900s. The fact that people in the U.S. still believe that this method is the only effectual and available method of preserving freedom confounds me.
For societal and political freedom to exist in the states of America, the people within their individual bodies-politics (i.e. states) must re-study, re-learn, re-calculate and re-apply the formulas and maxims of truth from the Laws of Nature and Nature's God, just as our forefathers did, to secure these God-given rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
We can no longer look to the decayed system currently propagated to secure freedom or even to reclaim freedom. We can no longer wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to come to our rescue. We can no longer wait for a "conservative" President to be elected to restore freedom and to change over 100 years of federal usurpations. Can we even expect that three-fourths of the states in the union will insist on freedom's principles? We certainly cannot hold onto the enslaving notion that "union equals freedom." We can no longer hope for freedom by simply voting.
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The question is not a matter of how far will the federal government go. They have already crossed the line of good faith, virtue and decency. They have already rejected those principles of truth and worldview expressed by our European and American forefathers, which framed the constitutions in America to begin with. They have shamed the honorable sacrifices made by generations before us--made by the enlightenment of their minds, the purity of their hearts and the blood from their veins. We know where they are going. We see where they are. We know their philosophy and intent--their design to reduce us to despotism! So, the question is, who will resist them?
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Like his father, Chuck Baldwin, Timothy Baldwin is an astute writer of cutting-edge political articles, which he posts on his website, www.libertydefenseleague.com. Baldwin is also the author of the soon-to-be-released book entitled, Freedom For A Change, in which Baldwin expounds the fundamental principles of freedom believed by America's forefathers and gives inspiring and intelligent application of those principles to our current political and cultural standing.
Baldwin is involved in important state sovereignty movement issues, including being co-counsel in the federal litigation in Montana involving the Firearms Freedom Act, the likes of which is undoubtedly a pivotal and essential ingredient to restoring freedom and federalism in the states of America. Baldwin is also a member of freedom organizations, such as The Oath-Keepers, and believes that the times require all freedom-loving Americans to educate, invigorate and activate the principles of freedom within the States of America for ourselves and our posterity.
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My great-grandparents Joseph Calhoun and Mary Susan "Sudie" Eppard Rucker are buried in a Rucker family plot in the Methodist Church Cemetery in Shenandoah, Virginia.
|Joseph Calhoun Rucker
26 July 1874 - 1933
|Mary Susan "Sudie" Eppard Rucker
Oct 1875 - 1958
With them are two sons Willie and Ray who died at a young age, and their oldest son George Everett Rucker with his wife Ollie Coakley Rucker.
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The CEO of retailer Target revealed Saturday in an interview that the company's point-of-sale (PoS) systems were infected with malware, confirming what security experts suspected since the massive data breach was announced in mid-December.
Answering a question about what caused the breach during an interview for CNBC, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel said: "We don't know the full extent of what transpired, but what we do know is that there was malware installed on our point-of-sale registers. That much we've established."
Target originally said that approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been impacted by the breach. The company announced Friday that information like names, email addresses, mailing addresses and phone numbers of an additional 70 million people has also been stolen.
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Malware programs designed for PoS systems are commonly referred to as RAM scrapers, because they search the terminal's random access memory (RAM) for transaction data and steal it.
PoS systems are actually computers with peripherals like card readers and keypads attached to them. Many of these systems run a version of Windows Embedded as the OS as well as special cash register software.
Every time people swipe their card at a PoS terminal to authorize a transaction, the data encoded on the card's magnetic stripe -- like the card's number, the cardholder's name, the card's expiration date -- is passed along with the transaction request to the payment application and then to the company's payment processing provider.
While this information is encrypted as it leaves the PoS system and the company's network, there's a period of time when it's stored in the system's RAM in cleartext and can be read by malware installed on the machine, which is what seems to have happened in the Target case.
Such PoS attacks are not new, but their frequency and the interest of cybercriminals in PoS RAM scraping malware has increased during the past year.
At the beginning of December two security companies independently reported new attack campaigns with PoS malware. Target said that the credit and debit card information was stolen from its systems between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15.
Visa issued two security alerts last year, in April and August, warning merchants of attacks using memory-parsing PoS malware.
"Since January 2013, Visa has seen an increase in network intrusions involving retail merchants," Visa said in its August advisory. "Once inside the merchant's network, the hacker will install memory parser malware on the Windows based cash register system in each lane or on the Back-of-the-House (BOH) servers to extract full magnetic stripe data in random access memory (RAM)."
Hackers can break into PoS systems and merchant networks by exploiting various security holes, but a common method is to steal or brute force remote administration credentials. There are many merchants that rely on third-party companies for technical support and those companies frequently use remote access tools, sometimes with easy-to-guess credentials.
Visa's alert contains recommendations for securing both merchant networks and the PoS systems against malware attacks.
"Use two-factor authentication when accessing the payment processing networks," the credit card company company said. "Even if Virtual Private Networking (VPN) is used, it is important that 2-factor authentication be implemented. This will help to mitigate key logger or credential dumping type of attacks."
Another security measure that could prevent RAM scraping attacks is to implement hardware-based end-to-end, or point-to-point, encryption. This would ensure that card data is not exposed in cleartext at any point on its way to the payment processor. However, implementing this technology could involve acquiring and deploying new PoS terminals and card readers, which can be very expensive for a large retailer.
With the information from a card's magnetic stripe, known as track 1 and track 2 data, cybercriminals can effectively clone the card. However, they also need the PIN in order to withdraw money from an ATM or perform fraudulent transactions with a cloned debit card.
In the Target case the PIN number was reportedly encrypted at the keypads using the Triple Data Encryption Standard algorithm (Triple-DES or 3DES), which is commonly used in the payment industry.
"Due to how the encryption process works, Target does not have access to nor does it store the encryption key within our system," Target said on its website. "The PIN information is encrypted within Target's systems and can only be decrypted when it is received by our external, independent payment processor. What this means is that the 'key' necessary to decrypt that data has never existed within Target's system and could not have been taken during this incident."
Some security researchers believe that if Target implemented 3DES encryption as mandated by the payment industry's security standards, using brute force methods to recover the PINs is unlikely to succeed, but others remain skeptical.
The matter of PIN decryption has been widely discussed in underground forums and at the beginning of January a cybercriminal posted a request for help to decrypt 50GB of stolen PIN blocks, Andrey Komarov, the CEO of cybercrime intelligence firm IntelCrawler said via email.
The IntelCrawler researchers followed the discussion and determined that some of the cards in a sample set provided by the hacker had been issued by U.S. and Canadian banks. "The recent request by the underground to decrypt PIN data may be coincidental to the Target breach or possibly some of the actual perpetrators floating the sample to see what resources and success the power of the underground has had or could have given the magnitude and value of the Target breach," they said in a blog post.


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Israel Scraps Prisoner Release — Talks in Danger
Israel has called off a planned release of Palestinian prisoners meant to advance peacemaking and called for the U.S.-sponsored negotiations to be reviewed, an official briefed on the talks said on Thursday.
The official, who declined to be identified, said Israeli negotiators had informed their Palestinian counterparts of the decision in an overnight meeting held at Washington's behest in an effort to avert a collapse of the troubled talks.
The crisis surfaced at the weekend when Israel refused to release a group of Palestinian prisoners under the terms of a previous accord unless it received assurances the Palestinian leadership would continue with negotiations beyond an initial end-April deadline set by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Kerry flew to Jerusalem on Monday and was trying to put the talks back on track. But his mission was jeopardised when Palestinians signed 15 international conventions that could give them greater leverage against Israel.
"As the agreements on the release of prisoners were subject to upholding the Palestinian commitment not to go to the U.N., new conditions have been created and Israel will not be able to free the prisoners," Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni told the Palestinians, according to the official briefed on the talks.
The official further quoted Livni as saying: "The sides should now review how it is possible to make progress in the negotiations." She urged the Palestinians to withdraw from the new conventions they had signed.
The Palestinian news agency Maan said the meeting was stormy and lasted nine hours, but failed to reach a conclusion.
The United States criticised "unhelpful, unilateral actions" by both sides and Kerry sought on Thursday to cast the crisis in a more hopeful light, telling reporters while visiting Algeria that the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue "remains open".
During the negotiators' meeting "there was progress made in narrowing some of questions that have arisen as a result of the last few days but there is still a gap and that gap will have to be closed and closed fairly soon," Kerry said.
Aimed at creating a Palestinian state and ending a decades-long conflict, the talks have also stalled over Palestinian opposition to Israel's demand that it be recognised as a Jewish state, and the issue of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Kerry, who has repeatedly visited the region since reviving the talks in July in a bid to avoid deadlocks that have plagued past diplomacy, put the onus of success on the feuding sides.
"It is really their decision, and it has to be made. They understand what the choices are, they understand what the stakes are, and they understand each of them their own limits and dynamics," he said.
Israeli officials in Jerusalem said there was still a small chance that an agreement might be reached to extend the talks. They said the next 72 hours would be critical.
Palestinians want an independent state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem – lands captured by Israel in the 1967 war. While all parties say negotiations are the best path to peace, Palestinians say they may eventually resort to international bodies to force Israel to make concessions.
The U.N. General Assembly voted to recognize Palestine as a non-member state in 2012, entitling them to join the conventions that Abbas signed on Tuesday, including conventions against discrimination against women and for the rights of disabled people as well as the Geneva Conventions.
U.S. support is key to Abbas's administration in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Around $500 million in annual aid to the Palestinian Authority helps keep its public sector and security forces afloat. Gaza is governed by Abbas's Islamist Hamas rivals, who spurn Palestinian coexistence with Israel.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki played down the prospect of U.S. sanctions in response to Abbas's signing of the 15 international conventions as they dealt with social and human rights rather than the quest for full membership in U.N. bodies.
"Frankly speaking, I don't expect any consequences coming from the U.S. Congress regarding this step at all," he told reporters in Ramallah on Thursday.


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refractory titanium alloy and as corrosive complex potassium metal fluoride salts. Use of these materials resulted in inconsistent performance and detrimental
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eliminated when master alloy companies together with aluminum producing companies developed a master alloy, which included aluminum, titanium and boron in precise
One of the most important goals of aluminum alloy production by casting is the refinement of grain size, because coarse grain size immediately reflects in lower
property levels. In the case of fixed melting and casting conditions, this goal is usually achieved by different modification methods. These methods are
conventionally based on the introduction of a small amount of special master alloys into a slightly overheated melt.
During crystallization, the nature and appearance of the master alloys play the main role in the grain size refinement:
The first issue remains the main one for the development and selection of master alloys for particular grain refinement or modifying effects. It is based on the
stable phase diagrams, assessed theoretically and experimentally, as well as on the chemical thermodynamics of the alloy systems.
The basic idea of "master alloys" has its grounds in the fact that many alloying elements are very active (Sr, Ti, Mg) or are just unsuitable
(Na, B) to be entered in a pure form into aluminum alloys. Also, the production of purified metals like strontium or sodium with the purpose of
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Town in Moravia, about 21 miles to the north of Brünn. It has one of the oldest and most important communities in the province, though in numbers it had dwindled to 1,967 Jewish inhabitants in 1880. Even in early times there was at Boskowitz a systematically organized model school, many pupils of which became famous.
The most eminent person of Boskowitz was Samuel Levi Kolin, who wrote a commentary to the ritual codex "Magen Abraham," and is generally known by the name of his work, "Maḥẓit ha-Sheḳel." The cabalist R. Nathan Adler must also be mentioned: he was elected rabbi of Boskowitz in 1783. He was followed, later, by his pupil, Moses Sofer of Frankfort, who subsequently became rabbi at Presburg. Adler introduced the Sephardic ritual, abolished the piyyuṭim, and as a "Cohen" himself pronounced the "priestly benediction" ("birkat kohanim") daily during the service. He was arraigned before the government by a farmer of the excise on account of his undue severity in insisting upon the minutest details of ritual observance in slaughtering animals for food, and had to leave Boskowitz, where his ideals were not acceptable. The scholars trained along the lines of the "Maḥẓit ha-Sheḳel" were too practical to follow his religious extravagances, and they embarrassed him by their acumen. J. B. Bloch of Hamburg, the author of the "Binat Yissakar," was also rabbi in Boskowitz; he likewise came in conflict with them. During a halakic discourse he was once pressed so hard by the turbulent arguments of the laymen that he angrily resigned his office in the midst of his discourse.
Bloch was succeeded by Moses Präger-Karpeles, the great-grandfather of A. Schmiedl and of Gustav Karpeles. He resigned the rabbinate in Kremsier on account of a dispute with Raphael Kohn regarding the pronunciation of the priestly blessing on the Day of Atonement. L. R. Beneth criticizes in a responsum the novella of Moses Karpeles, "Torat Mosheh Emet" (The Law of Moses Is Truth). Karpeles was succeeded by Abraham Placzek, who was appointed provisional district rabbi by the government. Placzek enjoyed universal esteem on account of his kindness and peaceful disposition. He died Dec. 10, 1884. The present incumbent is Dr. S. Funk.
Boskowitz possesses several richly endowed foundations instituted by the family Löw-Beer.


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opening cutscene: entrance to charlestown
On a first playthrough, the mission marker is located in the Frontier near Great Piece Hills. Approach the lone Patriot and speak to him to trigger the mission. On a Replay, the mission begins at the Charlestown entrance.
100% Sync Tactic
- Air assassinate a Grenadier
- Remain undetected while on ships
- Cross Charlestown without taking damage
Follow the Patriot as he gallops up the hill towards Bunker Hill. Once at the top, approach General Putnam to begin the mission.
CROSS CHARLESTOWN WITHOUT TAKING DAMAGE: Immediately start running through the town as the cannonballs fly. Stay mobile to avoid getting hit! When you reach the fiery dead end, make a right into the alley and emerge out towards the harbor. Jump into the water to complete the objective.
REMAIN UNDETECTED WHILE ON SHIPS: This one is going to be a doozy! But with patience and the right supplies, you can complete these objectives with little problems. First, swim to the ship on the LEFT side! Climb the ship to the top from the back to see the Redcoats onboard. There are a total of SIX Redcoats on the ship (five soldiers and one Grenadier).
Now, let's discuss how to eliminate them all one by one, shall we?
SOLDIER #1 (back of the ship): This soldier patrols the back of the ship. Climb up to the top and watch for him to walk by (keep a watch of the Grenadier!). When he's away, jump onboard and hide near the crates. Use a corner kill to clear out this area. Now jump back out and shimmy further down the port side of the ship.
SOLDIER #2 (middle of the ship): This soldier patrols the middle of the ship along with the Grenadier. Luckily for you, he stops just near an open ledge, so make sure the Grenadier is out of sight and then use a ledge kill on him.
SOLDIER #3 (front of the ship on port side): This soldier is the one that will usually blow your cover. While it might be easy to just shimmy on the ledges and then use a Ledge Kill on him, it will also ruin the objective because the other two Redcoats will always detect you, so avoid the Ledge Kill! Instead, equip a Poison Dart. When the coast is clear, climb onto the ship, target the port side Redcoat and toss the Poison Dart at him and then IMMEDIATELY jump into the water when the two Redcoats turn around! If done correctly, the other two Redcoats will investigate but not detect you.
SOLDIERS #4 & 5 (front of the ship on starboard): These two will investigate the poisoned soldier, so steer clear of them until they resume patrol. One of them will investigate you, so wait patiently for them to turn around and then use a Ledge Kill on them when the Grenadier is not nearby.
The last soldier will resume his post and stand in front of the ship. Get back on the ledge and wait as the Grenadier patrols by again. When he leaves, get onboard, target the Redcoat in front and toss a Poison Dart to clear him out. The Grenadier will investigate the poisoned man, so steer clear and wait for him to resume his patrol.
AIR ASSASSINATE A GRENADIER: The final man on the ship is the Grenadier! With the ship cleared of threats, climb to the top of the ship when the coast is clear. Wait on top of the mast for the Grenadier to walk by and then assassinate him when he gets near. Objective complete!
Now light the fuse on the ship and dive out out into the water. Whew! Now it's time for the second ship! Fortunately, the second ship isn't as complicated as the first one. The second ship has two roaming captains and several Redcoats soldiers. All the soldiers are facing forward, so swim and climb on the ledge from the port side.
Get near the ledge where the roaming captain is patrolling. Use a Ledge Kill on him to to clear him out. Do NOT assassinate the other captain! Instead, wait for him to move away and then quietly climb onboard and approach the middle of the ship and ignite it.
From there, immediately dive into the water from port side and watch the show blow up. Objective complete!
With the second ship cleared of enemies, climb onboard and climb to the top mast using the large ropes and place the American flag on it. From there, dive back down to the water and swim away to complete the mission.


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Biomarkers /
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Associated Genetic Biomarkers
Associated Diseases
Associated Pathways
CDKN2A M53I is present in 0.03% of AACR GENIE cases, with lung adenocarcinoma, melanoma, bladder urothelial carcinoma, cutaneous melanoma, and adenocarcinoma of unknown primary having the greatest prevalence [4].
Clinical Trials
CDKN2A M53I serves as an inclusion eligibility criterion in 3 clinical trials, of which 2 are open and 1 is closed. Of the trials that contain CDKN2A M53I as an inclusion criterion, 3 are phase 2 (2 open).
Trials with CDKN2A M53I in the inclusion eligibility criteria most commonly target glioblastoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and malignant solid tumor [5].
Abemaciclib, pembrolizumab, ribociclib, and siremadlin are the most frequent therapies in trials with CDKN2A M53I as an inclusion criteria [5].
Significance of CDKN2A M53I in Diseases
Malignant Solid Tumor +
CDKN2A is altered in 11.23% of malignant solid tumor patients with CDKN2A M53I present in 0.03% of all malignant solid tumor patients [4].
CDKN2A M53I is an inclusion criterion in 1 clinical trial for malignant solid tumor, of which 1 is open and 0 are closed. Of the trial that contains CDKN2A M53I and malignant solid tumor as inclusion criteria, 1 is phase 2 (1 open) [5].
Glioblastoma +
Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma +
CDKN2A is altered in 23.69% of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients [4].
CDKN2A M53I is an inclusion criterion in 1 clinical trial for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, of which 1 is open and 0 are closed. Of the trial that contains CDKN2A M53I and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma as inclusion criteria, 1 is phase 2 (1 open) [5].
1. Hart R and Prlic A. Universal Transcript Archive Repository. Version uta_20180821. San Francisco CA: Github;2015. https://github.com/biocommons/uta
2. The UniProt Consortium. UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019;47:D506-D515.
3. Liu X, Wu C, Li C, and Boerwinkle E. dbNSFP v3.0: A one-stop database of functional predictions and annotations for human nonsynonymous and splice site SNVs. Human Mutation. 2015;37:235-241.
Liu X, Jian X, and Boerwinkle E. dbNSFP: A lightweight database of human nonsynonymous SNPs and their functional predictions. Human Mutation. 2011;32:894-899.
4. The AACR Project GENIE Consortium. AACR Project GENIE: powering precision medicine through an international consortium. Cancer Discovery. 2017;7(8):818-831. Dataset Version 8. This dataset does not represent the totality of the genetic landscape; see paper for more information.
5. All assertions and clinical trial landscape data are curated from primary sources. You can read more about the curation process here.


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User:DarioAndres/Basic Guide about Crash Reporting
This document briefly describes how to create useful bug reports for crashes of KDE applications.
(You can get a detailed document at How to create useful crash reports)
What is a "crash" ?
A crash or (system crash) in computing is a condition where a program (either an application or part of the operating system) stops performing its expected function and also stops responding to other parts of the system. More information at Wikipedia
Creating useful crash reports
A good crash report consists of two parts: a description of how to reproduce the crash and a backtrace of the crash. With any of those elements missing, it is very hard (if not impossible) for developers to tackle the problem.
A useful description should contain everything that you were doing prior to the crash. It should not just say "it crashed".
Examples: Did you click on a button, did you open a particular website or file which caused problems? These little details, which may look useless to you, may be useful for the developers, so just write them down.
A more insightful article on how to write good bug descriptions is available at this link, please read that before reporting bugs.
KDE Platform and Application's version
The KDE Platform version is an important detail that is often missing in bug reports.
If you do not know what KDE Platform version are you using, you can get it:
- Selecting the "About KDE" option in the Help menu of every KDE application
- Running the command kde4-config --version in Konsole. You will get an output like this:
Qt: 4.6.0 KDE Development Platform: 4.4.0 kde4-config: 1.0
Application specific details
For several applications it can be useful to have specific details inside the bug reports:
- Plasma Desktop: Plasmoids you have in your desktop (both official and unofficial), desktop settings (wallpaper plugin, themes), activities and dashboard configuration.
- KWin (the windows manager): state of compositing(desktop effects): enabled / suspended / disabled, kind of effects enabled, window decoration.
- Konqueror: Sites you were visiting, number of opened tabs, plugins you have installed, non-default settings.
- Dolphin: file view mode, grouping and sorting settings, preview settings, directory you were browsing.
- Kopete: IM protocols you use, plugins you use.
- KMail: Mail protocols and account-types you use.
- KWrite/Kate/KOffice: Type of the document you were editing.
- Juk/Dragon/Amarok (multimedia players): Type of media (extension and format) you were watching and/or listening to.
A backtrace basically describes what was happening inside the application when it crashed, in a way that developers may track down where the mess started. They may look meaningless to you, but they might actually contain a wealth of useful information.
- Don't attach the backtrace to the bug report. Instead, simply paste it. This way it is much easier for developers to search for duplicate reports, because attachments can not be searched.
Generating a new backtrace
To generate a new backtrace you need the application to crash again. This can be achieved repeating the same steps and situation that leaded to the original crash.
- If you were told to install a specific debug information package, please do it before repeating the crash. (More information ...)
- Repeat the original steps or situation to "reproduce" the crash
The application crashes and the KDE Crash Handler dialog appears
- Click the "Developer Information" tab in the KDE Crash Handler dialog to fetch a new backtrace
- When finished, copy the backtrace and paste it inside the bug report
Screenshot of the KDE Crash Handler dialog


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Relationships between indicators of acid-base chemistry and fish assemblages in streams of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Ecological Indicators 88 (2018): 465-484."
Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of PnET-BGC to inform the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) of acidity in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Environmental Modelling & Software 95 (2017): 156-167."
Critical loads and exceedances for nitrogen and sulfur atmospheric deposition in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States." Ecosphere 7, no. 10 (2016)."


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Illegal attempt to re-initialise SSL for server (theoretically shouldn't happen!) //at 02:52 //by abe
After dist-upgrading my main Hetzner server from Lenny to Squeeze, Apache failed to come up, barfing the following error message in the alphabetically last defined and enabled virtual host's error log:
[error] Illegal attempt to re-initialise SSL for server (theoretically shouldn't happen!)
Well this is not theory but the real world and it did happen — and it took me a while to find out what was wrong with the configuration despite it worked with Lenny's Apache version.
To avoid that others have to search as long as I had to, here's the solution:
Look at all enabled sites, pick out those which have a VirtualHost on port 443 defined and verify that all these VirtualHost containers do have their own "SSLEngine On" statement. If at least one is missing, you'll run into the above mentioned error message.
And it won't necessarily show up in the error log of those VirtualHosts which are missing the statement but only in the last VirtualHost (or the last VirtualHost on port 443).
To find the relevant site files, I used the following one-liner:
grep -lE 'VirtualHost.*443' sites-enabled/*[^~] | \ xargs grep -ci "SSLEngine On" | \ grep :0
Should work for all sites which have defined just one VirtualHost on port 443 per file.
I suspect that the raise of SNI made Apache's SSL implementation more picky with regards to VirtualHosts.
Oh, and kudos to this comment to an article on Debian-Administration.org because
it finally pointed me in the right direction. :-)
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Neil Young Wants You To Truly Hear Music
Neil Young wants you to truly hear the music you listen to. Over the years, the trend in audio has prioritized convenience over quality. Last week at SXSW, I had a conversation with Neil Young about an idea he has to change that trend. In this interview, he talks about , the new audio player he's been helping develop. Just before the interview, I spent time listening to Pono. It's impressive. Pono translates from Hawaiian to mean righteous, and the intent is to honor recorded music and get it into the hands of fans without compromising the sound.
The player is about the size of your hand and triangular in shape, with a few buttons to adjust the volume and start and stop a song. There's a small screen that will let you see what's playing and swipe to see other screens. Along with the player, there will be a Pono store that allows you to buy the highest quality version of the music available, in whatever form the "master" recordings of a song or album are stored. The player and the store are scheduled to launch in the fall.
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Based upon part one of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial.
Game designers are tremendously imaginative people, and as such we often make a serious error in dealing with other players: the great majority of people have vastly more ordinary imaginations. This observation – which should be a truism given the popularity of predictable soap operas, 'reality' television, true stories and other down-to-earth entertainments – goes unnoticed so frequently that a great many imaginative people (both game designers and otherwise) find themselves expressing dismay that such-and-such a game is a commercial failure while yet another war-based first person shooter racks up mighty sales.
I first began to appreciate the idea that imagination was a talent in varying supply when I was a teenager, playing tabletop role-playing games every week. My older brother, whose physical skills outstrip mine in virtually every context, mentioned to me that he'd be interested in joining our games but he felt unable to do so when the entire game was verbal. If we would play with lead miniatures, say, to represent what was going on in the game, he would be up for it, but in the absence of this it would be too hard for him to keep up with what was going on. I didn't realise it at the time, but I was discovering an important facet of human imagination: the easier something is to imagine, the more people can participate.
This is the secret behind the success of World War II shooters (and indeed Modern Warfare), the reason for the popularity of games based around real cars, and a key aspect of the appeal of Wii Sports. Any game hoping for astronomical commercial success has an easier task if it minimises the amount of imagination required, and the more that such demands are reduced the larger an audience can be reached. Even the obvious exceptions often have mitigating circumstances: Pokémon is a rare case of a wildly successful imaginative franchise, but its popularity was greatly aided by the accompanying cartoon series which assisted players in visualisation. In general terms, you can count on the formula of 'greater imagination required, smaller numbers of players attracted'. (Note, however, that there is a psychological trade-off involved in the talent of imagining, and people who are highly imaginative generally suffer from other issues, frequently including problems with social integration).
If this claim concerning the limitations of imagination is valid, why are there so many science fiction and fantasy boardgames and videogames – not to mention so few successful "real world" tabletop role-playing games? There are several factors behind the success of genre fiction in the various games industries, but they all amount to a crossover in audience. As a crude approximation, one might say that the most imaginative people are able to play the most imaginative games (such as tabletop role-playing games), the middle tier is comfortable with the imagination entailed in science fiction, fantasy and horror and the control of a graphical avatar but struggle with the demands of a purely verbal game, while the least imaginative people require "real" content in their fiction and their games. Wii Sports succeeds not only because of its accessible interface, but because it reduces the degree of imagination required to play a videogame to the point that essentially anyone can play.
This sequence of posts, which is based upon a philosophy serial detailing the work of Professor Kendall Walton running in parallel on another of my blogs, takes the make-believe theory of representations and applies it to the field of game design. In brief, Walton's system can be summarised as stating that representations – including toys, novels, plays, movies, boardgames and videogames – can be understood as props which prescribe specific imaginings. A toy gun prescribes that we imagine it is a real gun. Hamlet prescribes that we imagine the Prince of Denmark grappling with a vexing dilemma. A game of Monopoly prescribes that we imagine a property investment battle. A game of Wii Sports prescribes that we imagine that we are playing tennis, bowling, golf etc. We play a game of make-believe with every kind of representation in which we enter into a fictional world implied by the prop in question.
By looking at game design from the perspective of the make-believe theory of representation, the objective is not to dictate how game design must be performed – there is no unified method for game design, and to seek one is a fool's errand. Rather, the goal is to offer a different way of thinking about the play of games (one inspired by Professor Walton's theory), and an approach to game design that recognises the role of imagination and the limitations this implies. Furthermore, since in Walton's system novels, movies and other stories are seen as props with which people play a game of make-believe, this perspective brings all forms of art under one roof, considering them all as games. This makes questions about the artistic status of videogames (for instance) entirely irrelevant, for all art is a form of game in Walton's theory.
Despite the observations made above, game design as make-believe is not intended as a system for designing mass market games requiring less imagination to play. The reality of the market for games of all kinds is that more imaginative games do achieve a measure of commercial success precisely because the more imaginative players spend more time and money playing games than less imaginative players, and this situation is unlikely to change. It is my hope that by presenting this unique perspective, game designers working at all corners of the market will find new ways to think about game design problems – whether they are aiming for a wide audience of limited imagination, or a smaller audience whose capacity for make-believe is practically unbounded.
Next week: Props
Reprinted with permission of Chris Bateman.
Chris Bateman is a philosopher, game designer and writer, best known for the games Discworld Noir and Ghost Master, and the books Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames and Beyond Game Design. Chris runs International Hobo, a consultancy specialising in market-oriented game design and narrative, and has worked on more than two dozen videogame projects.
Graduating with a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, he has since pursued highly-acclaimed independent research into how and why people play games. His most recent player model, BrainHex, is based upon neurobiological principles and the test has been taken by more than 30,000 people.
As well as his many books, Chris writes at two blogs: ihobo.com, which carries pieces on game design and the videogames industry, and Only a Game, which contains an eclectic selection of articles on philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and other nonsense.


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Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
Blue Margin used data from the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) to help users gain better insight into the state's oil and gas production levels.
The COGCC is sitting on a goldmine of historical data about oil and gas production in nearly every county in Colorado. Yet, to gain meaningful insights, users have to pour over years of granular data, and wrangle multiple spreadsheets (55 to be exact) to answer even simple (but critical) questions, such as:
• What county has produced the most oil over the past 3 years, consistently?
• What region had the least natural gas production in the past 4 years?
• How much CO2 has been produced in Montezuma County since 2010?
• Which region shows the greatest growth trend in water production?
What's the value of these insights? The state is making serious investments in natural-resource infrastructure and needs solid insight to determine how to most effectively spend their budget. Key decision makers need accurate, rather than speculative, answers to make sound investments.
Using Power BI, Blue Margin took stale, tabular data, and transformed it into dynamic visualizations that allow users to discover insights, leading to better decisions regarding Colorado's investment in natural resources.
Now, users can easily:
• Determine total production and sales quantities, by county and resource type.
• See production levels and resources sold in an interactive map, by county and by year.
• Make meaningful comparisons of natural gas versus oil production levels by county.
• See total CO2 produced over the last 5 years by county.
. . . as well as many other insights.
Using Power BI, Blue Margin transformed Colorado's historical data into a strategic asset, empowering users in both the public and private sectors to make informed decisions about the state's rich natural resources.
Gaining actionable, new insights from historical data is just one of the high-impact values of Power BI.
Power BI brings data to life so users have the ability to answer questions more easily, make better forecasting decisions, see historical patterns and trends, and visualize activity by geographic location through interactive maps.


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GREENPOINT — The city unveiled its detailed proposal Wednesday for Greenpoint's section of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway — a path slated to link 14 miles of the borough's coastal areas for cyclists and pedestrians.
The proposal was viewed as a victory for cyclists and other residents craving green space, while local businesses and people who rely on driving challenged the logistics of the project.
The planned Greenpoint greenway would convert West Street from Eagle Street to Quay Street into a one-way northbound road and would add a raised two-way bikeway, representatives from the city's Department of Transportation and the consulting firm RBA group said, to cheers from bikers and other residents.
The project would also include a 4-foot buffer between the bike lanes and the road, would widen sidewalks from 11 feet to 15 feet, and would add plantings along the route, they said.
"This project will significantly improve infrastructure and connect people...it will connect the proposed roadway with bike routes and lanes in the area," said RBA's representative Linda Reardon at the Williamsburg Community Board 1 meeting Wednesday night. "The roadway on West Street is in a very deteriorated condition with water mains dating back to the 1800s and sewers in need of repair."
But the change would also eliminate 80 parking spots, Reardon admitted, and local business advocate Karen Nieves noted that the influx of bikers might cause problems for business owners to maneuver their trucks.
"Some businesses say this is great, the street would be wider," Nieves, business service manager with the North Brooklyn group EWVIDCO. "Others say 'This is going to kill me,'" she said, explaining that bikes could get in the way of trucks' loading bays.
But Ted Wright, the DOT's senior project manager for the Brooklyn Greenway, said the agency would continue to talk with local businesses to work out their concerns.
"The DOT is trying to accommodate the businesses," he said of the project's plans, which have been under discussions the past 10 years.
Reardon also assured residents that the capital project (whose construction documents are slated for completion by the end of 2013, and whose implementation has no set date) would not harm traffic flow on the currently two-way street.
"The traffic volume on West Street is pretty low...and we also looked on Franklin Street, the parallel street," Reardon said of the firm's traffic analyses. "The change is possible, it won't result in any additional delays...it will result in better safety on West Street."
Local resident Will Elkins said the project would benefit both bikers and neighbors, since it would eliminate risks of heavy car traffic.
"There are going to be more people moving into the neighborhood ... and the loss of parking is worth the increase of safety in the neighborhood," he said.
The project will be discussed at Williamsburg Community Board 1's next transportation committee meeting.


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This post was originally published on Feb. 3rd, 2009 under the title Away with the Myths.
In most parts of the world, being bilingual is seen as an advantage. Back in Peru, my maternal grandfather sent my mother and her sisters to a bilingual (English/Spanish) school from kindergarten on. My parents sent both my sister and I to that same bilingual school. I hope to do the same for my daughter – send her to a bilingual school, that is. And, it seems like we're not alone. According to some estimates, 75% of the world's population speaks more than one language.
The most natural way to grow up
But for "many people, especially in countries like the U.S. with a monolingual mainstream culture…being monolingual is the most natural way to grow up," according to Barbara Zurer Pearson, author of Raising a Bilingual Child. This might be the reason why, in this country, there are so many misconceptions about growing up multilingual.
So, in an effort to promote bilingualism, I thought I'd try to dispel some of these myths for you. Let's see how many you've heard…
Five common myths about raising bilingual children:
- Growing up with two or more languages will only confuse your child.
According to everything I've read, this misconception has been around for a long time and apparently it goes back to issues of immigration in the United States. Educators used to tell immigrant parents that it was better for their children to speak English at home – erroneously stating that early exposure to two languages put children at a disadvantage. This is why there are so many third-generation Chavez(es) or Rodriguez(es) in the West that do not speak a word of Spanish. Newer research actually shows there are many advantages to being bilingual, including flexible thinking.
- It takes longer for bilingual children to learn how to speak.
The author of Raising a Bilingual Child, Barbara Zurer Pearson, says this myth is not supported by any scientific evidence. In fact, "with respect to most developmental language milestones, bilinguals are either at the same level as or ahead of monolinguals."
- They will only end up mixing both languages.
This is inevitable and it's harmless. But to monolinguals, it's proof that the child isn't really able to tell his languages apart. The actual term for this behavior is "code-switching" and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I do it and it's not because I'm not completely fluent in both English and Spanish, but because sometimes a word sounds better in the language I'm not using.
- It's too late.
It is never too late. It is only easier when they are younger. According to the Multilingual Children's Association, the critical period is from 0-3 years of age. "Brain imaging studies show that languages in bilingual infants are stored closer together in the brain than in later bilinguals." This only means that after 3, children have to put more effort into learning a new language.
- There is only one right way to do it.
In fact there are several ways of raising a child bilingual. The right way is what works for you and your family. Consistency is key. So, whatever method you choose, just make sure you stick to it!
And, if you still have your doubts about all these myths, just ask somebody from Belgium, Canada or Switzerland – among others – where bilingualism is the norm, not the exception!
What myths have you encountered during your bilingual journey?


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For Google+ to unseat Facebook as social networking leader, Google would have to deliver a steady stream of innovations and Facebook would need to let its site deteriorate, Internet icon and Facebook shareholder Sean Parker said on Monday.
Unless those two things happen, it will be very hard for Google+ to become a viable threat to Facebook, Parker said at the Web 2.0 Summit, where he answered questions on stage from conference co-chairman John Battelle and attendees.
"Facebook would have to screw up royally and Google would have to do something really smart," said Parker, co-founder of Napster and Plaxo, and a Spotify investor.
As it is right now, there isn't enough of a motivation for a critical mass of Facebook users to switch their social graph over to Google+, as happened when Facebook knocked MySpace from the leadership position in social networking, he said.
"It's tough to compete with network effects," Parker said.
In his view, Facebook's biggest problem isn't privacy concerns, as many feel, but rather a lack of tools and features to help users manage the "glut" of content their friends broadcast to them.
Parker said Facebook is on the right track with the introduction of recent capabilities for segmenting friends into smaller groups and for managing the content flow, but it needs to do more.
Asked about his involvement as a backer, adviser and board member at Spotify, Parker said the music streaming service represents for him a chance to finish what he started with Napster, the pioneering music-sharing service that record labels clobbered with litigation.
Spotify has started securing licensing deals from the major labels and from hundreds of independent labels, and may in the future introduce a peer-to-peer sharing model in which users can upload their own music to the service, he said.
For example, people could upload live concert recordings they've made, but if and when that happens there will be a legal model with the labels that allows for this to happen, he said.
Parker declined to comment about his new venture, although he confirmed it will be called Airtime, and he also shot down reports that he and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently got into a heated argument over Spotify.