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The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We the People is a platform that empowers the American public to take this action like never before – it's a way for anybody, anywhere, to speak directly to the government and become an agent for change.
With We the People, you can easily create a petition online, share it, and collect signatures. If you gather 100,000 signature in 30 days, we'll review your petition, make sure it gets in front of the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.
Petitioning has the potential to enact real change, but it's also your fundamental right as an American citizen, and an opportunity to connect with a community of like-minded people who are invested in making a change. Ideally, running a petition on We the People is just the start of something bigger — a long-term, robust form of civic engagement.
In the meantime, we'll be continuing to make adjustments and improvements to the platform based on your feedback. Talk to us here. We'll also keep you posted on any changes using the White House blog.
Table of Contents
Step-by-Step Guide
Create a Petition
Before you start a petition, think about your goal. What you want the President or the Administration to do? Why others should support your cause? This will help you clearly articulate your position and make your petition more effective. You should also check to be sure there isn't already a recent petition with the same goal on the site.
Here's how to create a new petition:
Choose a Type: Start by choosing one of the five types of actions that are within the purview of this site, completing the sentence "We the People ask the Administration to…" which will be the header of your petition.
Enter a Title: Enter a short (120 characters or less) title for the petition. It should be clear, compelling and describe the goal of your petition.
Provide a Description: Use this space to further define the goal of your petition (in 800 characters or less). Include additional information or research to support your request. Please note that petitions on the We the People site will be moderated. Some petitions may be removed from the site consistent with the Terms of Participation.
Choose Tags: Choose between 1 and 3 tags to help categorize the petitions. This will help others better understand how it relates to the issues the administration works on.
Review and Publish: Once published, you will not be able to edit your petitions, so be sure to double-check for spelling, punctuation, grammar, and meaning.
Promote and Gather Signatures
After you publish your petition, it's time to start promoting! You have 30 days to gather the 100,000 signatures required for a response, so it's good to hit the ground running. An easy first step? Once your petition is published, you'll receive an automatic email from us with a link that people can use to sign — simply forward it to friends and family and you're on your way. Once you get your first 150 signatures, your petition will become publicly searchable on the We the People website. (Very exciting!)
The White House Reviews and Responds
Once the petition reaches the required threshold, it will be put in a queue to be reviewed by the White House. Others can still sign the petition while it is awaiting a response. When the White House responds, everyone who has signed the petition will get email from the White House to let you know that we've reviewed and responded to the petition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: I'm having trouble signing in or creating an account — what should I do?
Click here and enter your account information.
You will receive an email within a few minutes asking you to click on a link to verify your email address. Click on the link in the email (or cut and paste it into your web browser).
Once you have verified your email address, you're logged into the system.
Note: Just signing a petition? No need to create an account. Simply go to the petition you'd like to sign, enter your information, and verify your signature.
Q: How does We the People work?
See the step-by-step overview.
Q: Who can participate in the We the People platform?
Anyone 13 or older can create or sign a petition on WhiteHouse.gov. In order to participate in the We the People platform on WhiteHouse.gov, users must create a WhiteHouse.gov account and verify their email address.
Q: How will the White House decide which petitions to respond to?
The White House plans to respond to each petition that crosses the current signature threshold, which you can view on the Terms of Participation page. In some cases, the White House response might not address the facts of a particular matter to avoid the appearance of improper influence (such as in specific procurement, law enforcement or adjudicatory matters). In addition, the White House will not respond to petitions that violate We the People's Terms of Participation. In some cases, a single update may be used for petitions on similar topics.
Q: Will the White House ever change the threshold for petitions responses?
The threshold may change. The We the People platform is the first time the Administration has attempted a project like this. As more people use this tool to tell the White House about the issues that matter to them, we may find that we need to adjust the signature thresholds for petitions to appear publicly on the site or for petitions to receive an update from the White House. New signature thresholds will only be applied to petitions created after the changes are made.
You can always view the current signature thresholds on the Terms of Participation page.
Q: What happens to a petition if it doesn't reach the petition signature thresholds?
Petitions that do not reach the threshold for official response will be archived and no longer publicly available on the site, unless you have the direct link. They will no longer be signable once they have been archived.
Q: Will the site be moderated?
Yes. For more information, please see our Terms of Participation.
Q: Will petitions ever be removed from the We the People platform?
Consistent with the Moderation Policy, petitions that are determined to violate the Terms of Participation will be removed from the site. Users who have a petition removed are welcome to create a new petition that complies with the Terms of Participation. Petitions will only be removed under the Moderation Policy — no petition will be removed because of the viewpoint it expresses.
Q: How long will it take for the White House to respond?
We will do our best to respond to petitions that cross the signature threshold within 60 days, however, depending on the topic and the overall volume of petitions from We the People, responses may be delayed.
Q: Is We the People the only way to contact the White House?
No. We the People does not displace any other options for people to contact the White House. If you prefer not to use this tool, there are plenty of other ways you can contact the White House. Learn more at www.whitehouse.gov/contact.
Q: If a petition isn't viewable until it reaches 150 signatures, how will people know about it?
When a petition is first created, only the petition creator will have the URL of the petition. It's up to the petition creator to share the petition (and URL) with others who care about the issue to build support and gather more signatures. Once your petition is published, you can use the share icons on the page to easily send the petition via email and your social networks. Once a petition gathers the minimum number of signatures, it will be findable on the We the People platform.
You can always view the current signature thresholds on the Terms of Participation page.
Q: Who will review and respond to petitions?
The White House will ensure that petitions that cross the signature threshold make their way to the right policy folks across the government (whether they're in a White House office like the Domestic Policy Council or at a federal department or agency). The We the People team will post a response – and any updates – are posted as quickly as possible. Petition updates may come from a variety of Administration officials, including staff at the White House.
Q: How will the White House handle duplicate petitions on the same topic?
Creating duplicate petitions in the system decreases the likelihood that a petition will receive a response from the White House. While the White House will not combine similar petitions, one update may be applied to multiple petitions on the same topic.
Terms of Participation
By participating in We the People, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Participation and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
We the People expands the options for contacting the White House and does not displace current official methods of communication, such as mailing or emailing the White House. If you are not willing to agree to We the People's Terms of Participation, but want to send a message, petition, or other form of communication to the White House, you may do so through the White House Office of Correspondence, which maintains a contact form and information about communicating with the White House at www.whitehouse.gov/contact.
In order to create a We the People petition, you must create a WhiteHouse.gov User Account. If you would like to sign an existing petition, you do not need to create or use an account. You are required to use a valid email address when registering an account, or when signing a petition. Only one account per individual is allowed. You may not sign the same petition more than once. You must be 13 or older in order to create an account and/or sign a petition, or otherwise participate in We the People. Creating We the People petitions must be done by individuals interacting directly with WhiteHouse.gov and not through a third-party website or service. You can learn more about WhiteHouse.gov User Accounts on our Privacy Policy page. Users signing existing petitions may do so directly on WhiteHouse.gov, or on certain third-party websites through the We the People application programing interface (API), pursuant to the API Terms of Use agreement. Learn more about the We the People API.
You also agree that your user-generated signature or account information will not contain threats of unlawful violence or harm to any individual or group; obscene, vulgar, or lewd material; defamatory or fraudulent statements; terms commonly understood to constitute profanity or abusive or degrading slurs or epithets; information invading an individual's privacy; and information that if published would violate criminal law or give rise to civil liability.
The White House may disable user accounts, remove associated signatures and remove petitions created or signed by users that it has reasonable belief do not satisfy the above rules. Outside of these circumstances, the White House will not entertain requests to modify the language of a submitted petition or to remove a signature from it. The White House may block access from IP addresses that it has reasonable belief are using automated systems or bulk processes to create multiple user accounts or petition signatures. The White House may also block submission of disposable or time bound signatures.
You agree that the White House can send you email updates related to We the People. This includes, but is not limited to, system-generated emails used to verify your email address, updates on the progress of a petition you created or signed, and official responses to that petition. In addition to emails related to We the People, you can also choose to receive additional email updates about other topics. You can always unsubscribe from future White House email by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any WhiteHouse.gov email. Learn more about email subscriptions and updates.
You agree to only create petitions consistent with the limited purpose of the We the People platform, which is to allow individuals to petition the Administration to take action on a range of issues — to address a problem, support or oppose a proposal, or otherwise change or continue federal government policy or actions. To focus discussion, the platform is limited to a discrete set of topics, which may be adjusted over time.
There are several categories of material that are inconsistent with the limited purpose of We the People and the larger purpose and function of the White House's website. Petitions that the moderator determines to violate these Terms of Participation will be removed, consistent with the Moderation Policy. For example:
- Petitions must fall within the scope of We the People. The following are examples of petitions that would NOT fall within scope:
- Petitions that advertise or call for the endorsement or purchase of commercial goods or services,
- Petitions that expressly urge the support or opposition of candidates for elected office,
- Petitions that do not address the actions or policies of the federal government, or that address a topic not included in We the People at the time the petition was created.
- Threats of unlawful violence or harm to any individual or group
- Obscene, vulgar, or lewd material
- Defamatory or fraudulent statements
- Terms commonly understood to constitute profanity or abusive or degrading slurs or epithets
- Information that invades an individual's privacy
- Information that if published would violate criminal law or give rise to civil liability
The White House will respond to petitions submitted through We the People that comply with these Terms of Participation and reach the second signature threshold listed below. Petitions on We the People must meet the first signature threshold in order to be publicly searchable on WhiteHouse.gov. Petitions that do not meet these signature thresholds will be removed from the site after the time limit has expired. The White House may elect to respond to petitions at any time, including those that have not crossed the first or second threshold.
To avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition. Where possible, we will notify signers of petitions whose content falls into these areas, in instances in which we don't feel we will be able to respond meaningfully.
Participation in the We the People platform does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
The White House reserves the right to change the time limits and signature thresholds and apply them to petitions created after the change has been published to this "Current thresholds" section:
To cross the first threshold and be searchable within WhiteHouse.gov, a petition must reach 150 signatures within 30 days.
To cross the second threshold and require a response, a petition must reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days.
The Terms of Participation were last updated on March 7, 2016.


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Software Developer
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
The Software Developer plays a key part in developing industry-leading software. In this role you will be responsible for all aspects of the development life cycle, including defining, developing, and testing technical and architectural solutions. This position will provide the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, where you can apply your existing knowledge to solve new market problems. You will use the latest technologies in the Microsoft stack to build dynamic, data-driven web applications.This is a position in a highly collaborative environment working with other skilled software professionals to continuously improve code quality and execution.
Now offering a 4.5 day workweek!
•Participate in solution design to satisfy a wide range of business needs.
•Analysis and translation of business requirements into technical requirements for development, and creation of design documents and technical specifications.
•Adhere to best practices and standards in the areas of development, technology, and security.
•Provide post-implementation support, including, but not limited to, monitoring application performance and debugging existing code.
•Keep up with advancements and changes in technology and develop an understanding of how new technologies can be leveraged to provide business solutions.
•Many projects also employ client-side technologies, including JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, and HTML5, to develop robust and highly interactive web-based user interfaces.
•Projects may include development of new products and new features or maintenance of existing software using agile practices as part of a collaborative and open environment.
•Assume other duties as assigned.
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities Preferred
•Web/API development in the .NET Framework (C#, VB, .NET Core).
•Strong relational database knowledge.
•SQL Server (Scripting, Indices, Views, Stored Procedures).
•Ability to perform effectively in a team-oriented environment.
•Ability to quickly learn new technologies and business functions.
•Strong analytical skills to determine effective approaches to business solutions.
•Understanding of best practices and methods to integrate applications within the organization and with external partners.
•Strong knowledge of the full software development life cycle, with exposure to agile or iterative approaches to delivery preferred.
•Microsoft IIS
•Windows/Web Services
•Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)

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Intuit to Announce Second-quarter Fiscal 2012 Results on Feb. 21
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (January 31, 2012) – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) will announce its second-quarter, fiscal year 2012 financial results on Feb. 21 following the close of market. The company's second quarter ends today.
The company will also issue the first of three season-to-date unit updates for its consumer tax products and services. Both press releases will be available at http://investors.intuit.com/releases.cfm.
Intuit executives will discuss the financial results on a conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time on that date. To hear the call, dial 866-731-8333 in the United States or 973-935-8686 from international locations. No reservation or access code is needed. The conference call can also be heard live via webcast at http://investors.intuit.com/events.cfm. Prepared remarks for the call will be available on Intuit's website after the call ends.
Replay information
A replay of the conference call will also be available for one week by calling 888-266-2081, or 703-925-2533 from international locations. The access code for this call is 1566449.
The audio webcast will remain available on Intuit's website for one week after the conference call.
About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax preparation offerings for professional accountants. Intuit Financial Services helps banks and credit unions grow by providing on-demand solutions and services that make it easier for consumers and businesses to manage their money.
Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $3.9 billion in its fiscal year 2011. The company has approximately 8,000 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India and other locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.
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5 Things to Know about World Series boppers
David Ortiz is turning the World Series into his own personal game of slow-pitch softball, at least that's how it looks. The only question is how long the St. Louis Cardinals will keep pitching to the Boston bopper.
Big Papi is 11 for 15 so far as the Red Sox take a 3-2 edge into Game 6 Wednesday night.
''I was born for this,'' he said.
Ortiz has gotten one-third of Boston's hits. The lumbering slugger has even beaten out a few grounders for singles, helped by the St. Louis second baseman stationed in shallow right field.
He's also homered twice and drawn four walks. Added up, he's hitting .733 with a .750 on-base average and a 1.267 slugging percentage. Whopping numbers, among the most impressive ever.
Here are five things to know about prodigious performances in the World Series:
KNOCKS AND BONDS: It took the Angels a while, but they finally figured out how to deal with Barry Bonds in 2002. They refused to pitch to the Giants star, walking him 13 times in seven games. In his only Series appearance, Bonds went 8 for 17 with four homers and a pair of doubles in a seven-game loss. He hit one drive so far the Angels openly admired it.
REG-GIE, REG-GIE! With three home runs in three swings, Reggie Jackson capped off a power show in 1977 that earned him a most fitting nickname: Mr. October. Jackson went 9 for 20 with five homers, including three straight at Yankee Stadium in the clinching Game 6 vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also scored 10 runs and drove in eight to become the Series MVP.
BLAZING BROCK: Lou Brock did most everything to spur St. Louis in 1968. The Hall of Fame leadoff man went 13 for 28 and stole seven bases against Detroit. He also hit two home runs after connecting only six times all season. For all that, some Cardinals fans still wonder why he didn't slide home at a key point in Game 5 - he was thrown out instead, and the Tigers wound winning in seven games.
BABE & LOU: The Sultan of Swat and the Iron Horse took turns doing damage during a 1928 sweep of the Cardinals. Babe Ruth was 10 for 16 overall and hit three home runs to seal Game 4; Lou Gehrig went 6 for 11 with six walks, hitting four homers and driving in nine runs - St. Louis totaled nine RBIs in the series.
SAY IT IS SO: Shoeless Joe Jackson hit the only home run in the 1919 matchup, going 12 for 32 with three doubles and a team-high six RBIs for the Chicago White Sox. He was later banned from baseball for life as part of the Black Sox, accused of throwing the Series in an eight-game loss to Cincinnati.


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Dr. Michael Eric Dyson spoke at Olympic College this past Monday, and I came away inspired and energized. The Olympic College Multicultural Program sponsored the event, and Dan Johnson, the Director of Multicultural & Student Programs at Olympic College, introduced Dr. Dyson.
The program title was Politics, Diversity and the Disenfranchised in America, and Dr. Dyson mentioned how fitting it was that the title "sandwiches 'Diversity' in between 'Politics' and 'Disenfranchised.'"
Besides being an author and speaker, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Dyson defined politics as "the fight over just distribution of vital resources to a vulnerable population in a time of crisis." He stressed that critical thinking is essential for all of us, so that we can sort out issues and events, put them into context and understand why people do what they do.
One of the many things Dr. Dyson said that resonated with me was: "The disenfranchisement of some is the undermining of all."
It reminded me of something Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
We are all connected, and probably more alike than not. Social justice is something for all of us to be concerned about because in the long run it affects us all.
A highlight of the evening for me was during the question and answer period when a white man stood up to ask a question of Dr. Dyson and mentioned that he "got down with diversity when he married a black man." The couple has been together for 25 years and they both got a warm response from Dr. Dyson and from the audience.
It was heartening to me to hear Dr. Dyson speak so eloquently and inclusively about diversity. Dr. Dyson has written many books, and choosing one was not easy – I bought Can You Hear Me Now, and am very much looking forward to reading it.
While he infused humor throughout the presentation, Dr. Dyson never failed to instill the audience with the gravity of the issues facing our communities.
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Weekday Glide
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is that an adapted seat or is he just sitting on his top tube?ReplyDelete
For some reason I thought he also had a surf board in the thumbnail. I'm glad he doesn't. :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2010 at 11:13 PM
WOW!!! I love this 'action' photo. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
@Lilia- Oh! I wish he had a surfboard! That would have been perfect!ReplyDelete
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American Idol : Phillip Phillips Wins It All [VIDEO]
Tonight was off the chain I must say my self! Even though Joshua didn't make the top two or win the competition, it was a really great show. From Chaka Khan to Rihanna to Joshua performing with his Idol, former American Idol Fantasia!


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Biddle acquired a number of interesting and informative titles in June 2014, including the following. For a complete list of new acquisitions, see here.
Robert I. Field, Mother of Invention: How the Government Created Free-Market Health Care (Oxford University Press, 2014).
"By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has all the appearances of the free-market in action. And for more than a hundred years, attempts to reform this system (including President Obama's Affordable Care Act) have been met with opposition from parties warning against the stifling effect of government intervention.
Mother of Invention traces the government's role in building four key health care sectors into the financial powerhouses they are today: pharmaceuticals, hospitals, the medical profession, and private insurance. It traces their history, surveys their growth, and highlights some of their greatest success stories, which together reveal the indispensable role of public initiatives in contemporary private health care."
Lackland H. Bloom, Jr., Do Great Cases Make Bad Law? (Oxford University Press, 2014).
"'Great cases like hard cases make bad law,' declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. In Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?, Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. tests Justice Holmes' dictum by analyzing in detail the history of the Supreme Court's great cases, from Marbury v. Madison in 1803, to National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act case, in 2012. He treats each case with its own chapter, and explains why the Court found a case compelling, how the background and historical context affected the decision and its place in constitutional law and history, how academic scholarship has treated the case, and how the case integrates with and reflects off of Justice Holmes' famous statement. In doing so, Professor Bloom draws on the whole of the Supreme Court's decisional history to form an intricate scholarly understanding of the holistic significance of the Court's reasoning in American constitutional law."
Philip K. Howard, The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014).
"The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: "What's the right thing to do?" What's wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.
Yes, there's gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It's a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, and economic hardship. Rules have replaced leadership in America. Bureaucracy, regulation, and outmoded law tie our hands and confine policy choices. Nobody asks, "What's the right thing to do here?" Instead, they wonder, "What does the rule book say? "There's a fatal flaw in America's governing system—trying to decree correctness through rigid laws will never work.
Public paralysis is the inevitable result of the steady accretion of detailed rules. America is now run by dead people—by political leaders from the past who enacted mandatory programs that churn ahead regardless of waste, irrelevance, or new priorities. America needs to radically simplify its operating system and give people—officials and citizens alike—the freedom to be practical. Rules can't accomplish our goals. Only humans can get things done. In The Rule of Nobody Philip K. Howard argues for a return to the framers' vision of public law—setting goals and boundaries, not dictating daily choices. This incendiary book explains how America went wrong and offers a guide for how to liberate human ingenuity to meet the challenges of this century."
Jingchen Zhao, Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China (Edward Elgar, 2014)
"China's recent economic transformation and integration into the world economy has coincided with increasing pressure for corporate law reform to make corporate social responsibility (CSR) integral to business and management strategy in China. This timely book critically analyses contemporary notions of CSR in China, discussing theory and practice alongside legal responses in this emerging field.
Jingchen Zhao uniquely combines the history, traditions and social policies of China with Chinese law, explaining the significance of path dependence in China. He presents an in-depth debate on the difficulties involved in transplanting developed legal principles directly into Chinese society, and takes a detailed look at the CSR provisions in Chinese company law which aimed to put social and environmental concerns onto the corporate agenda. He suggests how these laws could be more effectively and efficiently enforced with reference to UK law, and explores specific issues including: Chinese Company Law 2006; the 'Harmonious Society' in China; the 2008 Financial Crisis and its impact on the Chinese economy; and recent corporate scandals including the Sanlu Baby Milk scandal, the Wenchuan earthquake and CSR donations, the Beijing Olympic Games and CSR, and the Fujia chemical plant."
Felipe Amin Filomeno, Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
"Intellectual property is one of the most valuable forms of property in the modern world. From the perspective of companies producing knowledge-intensive goods, it encourages technological innovations for the benefit of humanity. For consumers of technology, it can be seen as a restriction on access to knowledge that inflates corporate rents. When genetic material crucial for human life is isolated from the commons, engineered and turned into private intellectual property, dissent is likely to emerge.
Felipe Filomeno uses the case of Monsanto in South American soybean agriculture to theorize about the emergence and change of intellectual property regimes. Based on official documents, interviews, journalistic material, and academic literature, the study shows not only the relations of competition, coercion, and alliances that lie behind the post-1980 global upward ratchet of intellectual property protection but also the strategies that have the potential to reverse it."
Freya Baetens and Jose Caiado, eds., Frontiers of International Economic Law: Legal tools to Confront Interdisciplinary Challenges (Brill Nijhoff, 2014).
"Confronted with today's global interdisciplinary challenges, international economic law offers a myriad of legal tools to provide both procedural and substantive solutions. Frontiers of International Economic Law: Legal Tools to Confront Interdisciplinary Challenges will appeal to those interested in the general theory of international economic law, but also readers looking for innovative answers to practical questions will also be pleased to find a broad array of topics structured along four frontier themes: facing economic crises and uncertainties, confronting environmental challenges, considering human rights and development objectives, and finally, regulating energy transit and new technologies. The contributions presented here will help to push forward, through promoting and developing the rule of law, the – at times contentious – frontiers of international economic law."
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou et al., eds., Human Rights Law in Europe: The Influence, Overlaps and Contradictions of the EU and the ECHR (Routledge, 2014).
"This book provides analysis and critique of the dual protection of human rights in Europe by assessing the developing legal relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book offers a comprehensive consideration of the institutional framework, adjudicatory approaches, and the protection of material rights within the law of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It particularly explores the involvement and participation of stakeholders in the functioning of the EU and the ECtHR, and asks how well the new legal model of 'the EU under the ECtHR' compares to current EU law, the ECHR and general international law.
Including contributions from leading scholars in the field, each chapter sets out specific case-studies that illustrate the tensions and synergies emergent from the EU-ECHR relationship. In so doing, the book highlights the overlap and dialectic between Europe's two primary international courts. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers of European Law and Human Rights."


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August 1, 2012
Finding may lead to new treatments for diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases
Finding may lead to new treatments for diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases
LA JOLLA, CA—Scientists have known for some time that throwing off the body's circadian rhythm can negatively affect body chemistry. In fact, workers whose sleep-wake cycles are disrupted by night shifts are more susceptible to chronic inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cancer.
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have now found a possible molecular link between circadian rhythm disturbances and an increased inflammatory response. In a study published July 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Salk team found that the absence of a key circadian clock component called cryptochrome (CRY) leads to the activation of a signaling system that elevates levels of inflammatory molecules in the body.
"There is compelling evidence that low-grade, constant inflammation could be the underlying cause of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cancer," says senior author Inder Verma, a professor in Salk's Laboratory of Genetics and the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science. "Our results strongly indicate that an arrhythmic clock system, induced by the absence of CRY proteins, alone is sufficient to increase the stress level of cells, leading to the constant expression of inflammatory proteins and causing low-grade, chronic inflammation."
Cryptochrome serves as a break to slow the circadian clock's activity, signaling our biological systems to wind down each evening. In the morning, CRY stops inhibiting the clock's activity, helping our physiology ramp up for the coming day.
To gain insight into the role of circadian clock components on immune function, the Salk scientists measured the expression of inflammatory mediators in the hypothalamus (the area of the brain responsible for sleep-wake cycle regulation) of mice with deleted CRY genes. Through a variety of tests, these knockout mice showed a significant increase in the expression of certain inflammatory proteins known as cytokines, including interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-?, compared to mice with CRY genes.
"Our findings demonstrate that a lack of cryptochrome activates these proinflammatory molecules, indicating a potential role for cryptochrome in the regulation of inflammatory cytokine expression," says Satchidananda Panda, an associate professor in Salk's Regulatory Biology Laboratory and one of the senior authors of the study.
In addition, the researchers found that a lack of CRY activated the NF-kB pathway, a molecular signaling conduit that controls many genes involved in inflammation. NF-kB is a protein complex in a cell's cytoplasm, "just happily doing nothing," says Verma. In response to stimuli, it is transferred to the cell's nucleus, where it binds to inflammation genes and turns them on. The regulation of these genes is tightly controlled, but NF-kB does not completely shut off their expression. This lingering expression causes inflammation.
"Every time this pathway is turned on, there is a residual amount of inflammation left in the body," says Rajesh Narasimamurthy, a research associate in Verma's laboratory and the paper's first author. "That adds up over time, contributing to inflammation-related diseases like obesity and diabetes."
Previous research has shown that suppressing the activity of the NF-kB pathway might be a suitable therapy for some diseases. For example, NF-kB is activated automatically in cancer cells of multiple myeloma, which affects infection-fighting plasma cells in the bone marrow and allows the cells to proliferate. Drugs that inhibit this activity might be able to degrade NF-kB to the point that it may kill off the disease.
The researchers say the goal now is to find out how to suppress NF-kB activation in the short term to treat diseases like diabetes. They caution that any long-term suppression of the pathway could lead to chronic infection. "We would like to find molecules that modify this activity and focus on those small-molecule inhibitors to treat disease," Verma adds.
Other researchers on the study were Fei Liu, of Salk's Laboratory of Genetics, and Megumi Hatori and Surendra K. Nayak, of Salk's Regulatory Biology Laboratory.
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Ipsen/Biomeasure, Sanofi-Aventis, the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Rajesh Narasimamurthy, Megumi Hatori, Surendra K. Nayak, Fei Liu, Satchidananda Panda, and Inder M. Verma


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Indie Record Stores Protest Jay-Z & Kayne West iTunes, Best Buy Exclusives
The Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative project, will be released digitally on iTunes August 8th with a physical release on August 12. Best Buy has also been given the exclusive on a deluxe edition of the CD for first 10 days, and indie record stores are crying foul. "We believe this is a short-sighted strategy, and that your decisions will be doing great damage to over 1,700 independent record stores - stores that have supported you and your music for years," read the open letter signed by dozens of top independent music stores. The full letter:
Dear Jay-Z and Kanye West,
Independent record stores serve our communities. Our passion is music, and
we convey this to the millions of customers who come to our stores. That's
what we do.
Four years ago independent music stores across the country banded together
to create Record Store Day. Our goal was to counter the negative media
coverage about the supposed demise of record stores brought on by the
closing of the Tower stores and to respond to the music business practices
that fans deemed to be manipulative and onerous.
We reached out to the artist community to see if they would join us, and the
response was overwhelming with words of support coming in from Paul
McCartney, Erykah Badu, Tom Waits, Chuck D, the Foo Fighters and countless
others. Working with their label partners, many of these musicians created
limited edition works of art, including vinyl and CDs made especially for
music specialty retail. Hundreds of these artists took the opportunity to
perform, DJ, and interact with their fans in our record stores. Here in the
US, Record Store Day lifted the entire music business by 8% and contributed
to the growth in music sales. Record Store Day is now one of the biggest
music events in history with millions of people participating worldwide. We
also continue to work throughout the year with labels, artists and managers
and run regular promotions via physical independent retail and
We are responding to the bad news that your new album will not be available
to independent record stores until after iTunes gets a window of
exclusivity. We also learned that the deluxe version (which is what the true
music fans who shop our stores will want by an overwhelming majority) will
only be available at Best Buy exclusively for a period of time. We believe
this is a short-sighted strategy, and that your decisions will be doing
great damage to over 1,700 independent record stores -- stores that have
supported you and your music for years.
We know that you are busy, and that you put most of your energies into
creating great music, but we are writing to you in the hope that you will
hear us and take the time to rectify this matter. As representatives of the
independent record store music community, we are asking you to allow record
stores and music fans equal access to your new album.
With the utmost respect,
Dedry Jones, The Music Experience
Mike Dreese, Newbury Comics
Judy Negley, Independent Records
Mike Batt, Silver Platters
Tobago Benito, DBS Sounds
Brian Faber, Zia Records
Karen Pearson, Amoeba Music
Bryan Burkert, The Sound Garden
Mike Wise, Monster
Rob Roth, Vintage Vinyl
Joe Nardone, Jr., Gallery of Sound
Jonathan Fernandez, Rasputin Music
Dilyn Radakovitz, Dimple Records
Dustin Hansen, Graywhale Entertainment
Bill Kennedy, BK Music
Jim Bland, Plan Nine
Steve Wilson, Kiefs
Tom King, Central Square Records
Alayna Hill Alderman, Richard Storms, Record Archive
Karl Groeger, Looney Tunes
Paul Epstein, Twist and Shout
Nancy Salzer, Salzer's Records
Rick Ziegler, Indy CD
Laura, Finders Records
Deon Borchard, Nic Fritze, The Long Ear
Chuck Oken, Rhino /Mad Platter
Allan Miller, John Bevis, Disc Exchange
Charlotte Kubat, Magnolia Thunderpussy
John Kunz, Waterloo Records
Chris Avino, Rainbow Records
Mike Fratt, Homers
Rich Koch, Off the Record
Skip Hermans, Skip's Record and CD World
Jason Patton, Oz Music
Quinn Bishop, Cactus Records
John Timmons, ear X tacy
Lou Russell, Lou's Records
Roger Weiss, Streetlight Records
Terry Currier, Music Millenium
Andrew Chinnici, Lakeshore Record Exchange
Michael Bunnell, The Record Exchange
Mike White, Boo Boo Records
Steve Baron, CD Central
Eric Levin, Criminal Records
Pat O'connor, Culture Clash
Dan Plunkett, End Of An Ear
Paula Kret, Exile On Main St
Chris Penn, Good Records
Doyle Davis, Grimey's
Travis Searle, Guestroom Records
Jim Mcguinn, Hot Poop
Isaac Slusarenko, Jackpot Records
Jason Nickey & Heath Byers, Landlocked Music
Todd Robinson, Luna Music
Darren & Jim Blase, Shake It
Anna & Chris Brozek, Slowtrain
Kimber Lanning, Stinkweeds
Tom "Papa" Ray, Vintage Vinyl


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Please let me know how the Insteon Ruby code is working for you.If you have any bugs, please copy/paste the log..I haven't head hide nor hair for 2 days...Is anyone using it?Dan
No, that is a PLC.You want 2412S PLM (PowerLinc MODEM)It's $10.00 cheaper.
Wiki page is up. It's under Tutorials.
Thanks Andrew!I'll try to add a bit more to the page.. regarding testing, troubleshooting, etc.I'm not the best at wiki entries, and I'm not sure what you mean by 'promoting' it...Would it be possible to help me with that?
Ahh, Gotcha!I just updated the tutorial.. added another page of info..Geeze, I really added a lot of functionality to this driver, I;m trying to remember some of it! lolTake a look at the new page at http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Running_the_Insteon_PLM_Driver_for_the_First_Time


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The same legislation that created these stamps also created the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP).
Until 1862, specific Revenue stamps were required for many taxable items – leading to a wealth of interesting stamps for modern collectors. Imperforate and "part-perf" error stamps present another challenging – yet affordable – collecting opportunity.


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Travis Pastrana earned his first career NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) pole for Roush Fenway Racing (RFR) Friday at Talladega Superspeedway, with a lap of 176.5 mph. This is the first NNS pole for car owner Jack Roush at Talladega.
"Bringing the guys to the line at the green flag at Talladega is awesome, so I'm definitely excited," Pastrana said. "This Roush Fenway team has worked so hard. It's just awesome to be able to show the work these guys are putting together and I'm definitely really happy to be here."
The pole comes in just his 17th NNS start. Pastrana's previous best qualifying effort was a fourth-place start at Daytona International Speedway in the season opener. The No. 60 team brings the same chassis that Pastrana raced to a 10th-place finish in Daytona.
"Winning the pole at a restrictor plate race also means that you're going to have a lot of people that are willing to work with you come race day, so I'm excited about that," Pastrana said.
RFR teammate Trevor Bayne also laid down a fast lap, qualifying his No. 6 Ford Mustang in third with a lap of 176.071 mph.
Pastrana and the No. 60 Ford Mustang will lead the field to the green flag Saturday at 3:00 p.m. ET for 117 laps from the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway.


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Demonstrators commemorate slain Russian LGBT activist
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Dozens of demonstrators have held solo pickets in St. Petersburg to commemorate a political and LGBT rights activist who was killed over the weekend.
Yelena Grigorieva's body was found Saturday near her home with eight stab wounds and signs of strangling.
Some participants in Tuesday's rally said the 41-year-old had received many threats connected with her activism, particularly for gay rights. Homosexuality is not criminalized in Russia, but animosity toward non-traditional sexuality is strong.
Marina Ken, one of the demonstrators, said "Yelena was killed because she was not afraid to tell the truth about the subjects that are traditionally silent in Russia and on the country's state TV channels."
Under Russian law, single demonstrators do not need official permission, so holding consecutive solo pickets is a common strategy.


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This blog is built on the Google Blogger platform. My new blog however will switch to WordPress, and most likely be hosted by a third-party web hosting company. For now, I want to install WordPress on my home computer to be the staging server. This is where I experiment with new ideas before I upload the final contents to the production WordPress server.
My home computer runs Debian 7 (aka Wheezy) which includes a WordPress package, albeit a little outdated (3.6.1). This post is an overview of how to install the most recent WordPress release on Debian Wheezy.
The instructions below assume you have root privilege and command line access to the server. If you are using a web hosting company, the instructions will not apply because the web hosting company most likely will provide its own tools (e.g., cPanel).
Software Dependencies
To install and run the latest WordPress release, you need to have the following packages already installed.
- Apache2
- MySQL5 (version 5.0 or greater)
- PHP5 (version 5.2.4 or greater)
- SMTP server (e.g., exim4)
Although a SMTP server is not required for installation, WordPress cannot send email without one.
It turns out that Debian Wheezy already includes the above software packages with the proper versions in the distribution. You just need to ensure that they are installed on your system.
To verify if a package is installed, use the dpkg command with -l parameter.
The following example indicates that PHP5 is NOT currently installed:
$ dpkg -l php5* dpkg-query: no packages found matching php5*
If a package is already installed, the dpkg output will look something like this (edited to fit the screen):
$ dpkg -l mysql* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Arch Description +++-=====================-===================-=======-==================================== ii mysql-client 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheez all MySQL database client (metapackage) ii mysql-client-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheez amd64 MySQL database client binaries ii mysql-common 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheez all MySQL database common files ii mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheez all MySQL database server (metapackage) ii mysql-server-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheez amd64 MySQL database server binaries ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheez amd64 MySQL database server binaries
To install Apache2:
$ sudo apt-get install apache2
The Apache module mod_rewrite needs to be enabled. Otherwise, WordPress cannot be configured to have more user-friendly URLs. The exact procedure for enabling the module is covered in a later post.
To install MySQL 5:
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
To install PHP5 and related modules:
$ sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl
- php5-gd is only required if you want to enable CAPTCHA checking in your WordPress deployment.
- Although php5-curl is not a prerequisite of the WordPress core, it is required by some very popular WordPress plugins such as Google Analyticator.
SMTP Serverexim4 is the default SMTP server on Debian wheezy. However, exim4 is configured out of the box for local email delivery only. A later post outlines the steps to configure exim4 to send email to external email servers through Google Gmail.
Install WordPress
- Download the latest WordPress tar-ball or zip file from the WordPress web site.
- Decompress the downloaded file to a temporary location on your hard drive.
The examples below decompress the file to ~/tmp (the tmp sub-directory under your home directory).
For tar-ball:
$ tar -C ~/tmp/ -zxvf latest.tar.gz
For zip file:
$ unzip -d ~/tmp/ latest.zip
- Create database and database user.
The following mysql commands create a database named wordpress, and a corresponding database user named wp, who has all privileges for the database. Customize with your own database name, user name, and user password.
$ mysql -u root -p Enter password: mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress CHARACTER SET utf8; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wp'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_USER_PASSWORD'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wp'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_USER_PASSWORD'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
- Create configuration file.
Rename the sample configuration file.
$ cd ~/tmp/wordpress $ cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
Edit ~/tmp/wordpress/wp-config.php.
Locate the following lines, and replace the values with your own values.
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); define('DB_USER', 'wp'); define('DB_PASSWORD', 'REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_USER_PASSWORD'); define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
For the security keys and SALTs, replace the values with long, random strings of gibberish. For instance, something like t`DK%X:>xy|e-Z(BXb/f(Ur`8#~UzUQG-^_Cs_GHs5U-&Wb?pgn^p8(2@}IcnCa| is a good choice.
- Copy WordPress to the web server's document root directory.
For Debian Wheezy, the Apache document root directory is located at /var/www. In the example below, I put wordpress under a subdirectory named myblog. The URL of the blog will look like http://localhost/myblog.
$ sudo mkdir /var/www/myblog $ sudo cp -pr ~/tmp/wordpress/* /var/www/myblog/
- Change owner/group of WordPress files to the web server user.
To use the one-click upgrade feature of WordPress after the initial install, the web server must be granted the proper file permissions to update the WordPress-related files.
First, identify the user under which the Apache web server executes.
$ ps aux |grep -i apache ... www-data 7012 0.0 0.1 169576 27472 ? S 08:59 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start ...
Then, modify owner and group of WordPress files to that user, www-data.
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/wwww/myblog [sudo] password for peter:
- Run the install script.
Open a browser, and enter this URL:
- Fill in the information, and click Install.
- Login using the credentials you just created.
The WordPress web site claims that if you know what you are doing, the install will take only 5 minutes. For Debian Wheezy, given that all the pre-requisite software dependencies are already satisfied by the base distribution, this claim may not be that far from the truth.
Let me know your experience.
Below are my other posts on WordPress:


text: Some people (including me) may find that when logging in to proftpd, there is a short pause at the start of the connection. I use flashfxp and dreamweaver for transferring files via ftp and this small pause can be quite annoying when making small fast changes to files whilst developing sites. The pause occurs when proftpd is trying to identify the remote username. In the conf file, IdentLookups may be set to off but this is not for all users. Edit: /etc/proftpd.conf In the <Global></Global> section add the line: Code: IdentLookups off Don't forget to restart proftpd with: Code: service proftpd restart Be aware that the only thing that will change is that the "AuthenticatedUserID" column in the xferlog will be empty.


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RealVNC Viewer – Remote Desktop connects your device to a computer, displays its desktop, and lets you take control. You can run applications, change settings, and access data exactly as you would be permitted to do were you sitting in front of it, and using the keyboard and mouse.
VNC® Viewer is the only remote access app you'll need. Why? Because…
* It's from RealVNC®, the inventors of VNC remote access and control technology.
* We've 20 years' experience making the remote control experience as good as it gets.
* There's no limit to the number of computers you can access, nor how long you can connect in for.
* We support the widest range of platforms in the business: http://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/tech-specs/#platforms
* It's free to use whether you're connecting locally or over the Internet (and you won't see an advert, either).
Don't believe us? Check out our reviews! Then check out the hidden costs of other remote access solutions…
===Getting connected===
We recommend you try this out at home or in the office first:
1) Make sure your computer and Android device are connected to the same Wi-Fi-enabled local network.
2) Install this app.
3) Download VNC 5 to your computer and apply a Free license, or take a 30 day trial of our premium security and performance features.
4) Connect!
When you're ready to go out and about:
5) Make sure both computer and Android device are connected to the Internet (for example over 3G, or from a Wi-Fi hotspot).
6) Configure the computer's firewall to enable VNC.
7) Configure the computer's router to forward port 5900.
For more information on steps 6 and 7, see http://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/documentation/latest/getting-connected/
===Security and privacy===
When you connect, you're asked for credentials (this is to protect your computers if you share or lose your Android device). We're often asked what these are:
* If you applied a Free license to VNC 5, enter the password you created when you installed it on your computer.
* If you applied a paid-for license (or took a trial), enter the username and password you normally use to *log on* to your computer
We don't want to hide anything from you, so please note that connections will only be secure (encrypted) if you applied a paid-for license to VNC 5 (or took a trial). Connections to a Free license are fast and responsive, but we hope you'll understand that end-to-end encryption is a premium feature.
===How to control===
Your finger moves the mouse cursor rather than clicking where you touch, as you might expect with a touchscreen. While this may seem counter-intuitive at first, you'll soon appreciate the fine-grained control it gives you of a high-resolution computer desktop (especially from the small screen of a phone!)
Mouse operations are performed by gestures. So to double-click, position the mouse cursor appropriately and then tap the screen twice. To see which gestures we've mapped to other click, drag, and scroll operations, tap [?] on the toolbar to open the help.
To type, open the keyboard from the toolbar. Function and other special keys (such as Ctrl, Alt, Delete, and the Cmd key on a Mac) are available from a sliding bar above the keyboard.
As for the rest: it's as though you're sitting in front of your computer! There's simply no limit to the applications you can run, data you can access, nor operations you can perform…
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Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy. By taking advantage of the unique position of NASA's Spitzer's Space Telescope millions of miles from Earth, and a depth-perceiving trick called parallax, they were able to pin down the most probable location of one such object. The findings will ultimately help astronomers better understand the different components of our galaxy.
"Forty years ago a visionary astronomer named Dr. Sjur Refsdal theorized that dark bodies could be located using parallax and a space telescope," said Andrew Gould of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, who led the project. "It is truly remarkable that we have been able to prove him right with this Spitzer observation."
Spitzer is the only telescope that orbits the sun behind Earth, and is the farthest telescope from us with the ability to study distant stars. Currently, Spitzer is about 40 million miles (70 million kilometers) away from Earth. It will continue to drift farther and farther away at a rate of about 10 million miles (15 million kilometers) per year.
This great distance gives astronomers a great advantage. They can use Spitzer in the same way that a human brain uses two eyes to tell how far away objects are, a principle called parallax. With two eyes, we have two perspectives, which our brains combine to give us depth perception. In space, Spitzer acts as one eye, while a ground-based telescope acts as the other. With two very wide cosmic eyes, astronomers can determine the location of bodies within and just outside our galaxy.
Gould and his team are the first to use Spitzer to perform this astronomical feat. Their goal was to determine whether a previously identified dark matter candidate, called a massive compact halo object, or "Macho," is within our galaxy and contributing to its overall weight.
Our galaxy is heavier than it looks, with at least 80 percent of its mass consisting of mysterious, invisible dark matter. A large fraction of this dark matter is the exotic kind, different from the ordinary matter that makes up the familiar world around us. The rest might be so-called machos, which are ordinary-matter dark bodies that lurk in our galaxy's halo, the region that sits above and below its spiral disk. They are thought to be a combination of black holes, very faint stars and isolated planets.
Several suspected machos have been discovered in the past through a technique called microlensing, in which the dark bodies' gravity causes light from a passing background star to bend and brighten. But astronomers do not know whether these candidates are indeed machos in the galaxy halo, or other, non-macho objects just outside the Milky Way in small satellite galaxies. By pinpointing the location of the candidates, astronomers will learn whether they are in the halo and thus machos. This information, in turn, will help them figure out how much machos contribute to the total mass of our galaxy.
OGLE-2005-SMC-001 is one such macho candidate. It was first discovered by Andrzej Udalski, of the Optical Gravitational Lens Experiment (OGLE), and Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, Poland. Udalski and colleagues noticed that the dark object was causing a passing, background star to brighten. Gould and his team quickly sprang to action, following up with Spitzer observations of the short-lived event.
The data from both telescopes, or "eyes," were then combined and modeled through a series of complicated equations. The results indicate with 95 percent probability that OGLE-2005-SMC-001 is dark matter in our galaxy's halo and therefore a part of its overall mass.
In addition, the data show that OGLE-2005-SMC-001 consists of two bodies circling around each other. Gould and colleagues think the objects could be a pair of black holes, a very rare sighting in our universe. However, there is a small chance this feature is actually just a regular pair of orbiting stars in a neighboring, satellite galaxy.
"It will be very exciting to locate and measure the masses of more dark objects in the future by applying this technique. And we might finally be able to unravel the mystery of machos," said Subo Dong of Ohio State University, whose paper on OGLE-2005-SMC-001 has been accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal. Dong presented the results today at a press conference, at the 210th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. For more information about Spitzer, please visit www.nasa.gov/spitzer or http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer .


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Video is one of the most engaging mediums you can use to market your business. We'll give you tips on how to get the most out of video marketing.
You don't have to be a professional filmmaker to win big with video marketing
Marketing might be the toughest part of your business. It can cost you a mountain of investment (money, time and energy). With all your other marketing efforts, video production might seem too difficult. But, I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be.
First, let's look at the stats that show video marketing is worth your time.
According to Hubspot
, 72% of customers would rather learn about a product or service through a video than other mediums. Invisa
tells us that customers retain 95% of what they see in a video, compared to 10% of what they read in text.
When I decided to start writing this topic, a number of video promotion channels started echoing in my mind. I remember some videos which compelled me to purchase a product or service.
Now, the question is, what did those videos have in common?
What kinds of videos perform well?
Personalized (Know your customer personas)
What if I told you videos can account for almost 80% of your client traffic?
It's true!
Now, when you know that your customers love to watch videos, then the next step is to create videos that appeal directly to your customer personas.
Remember one rule!
"If you try to sell your product to everyone then you will get no one."
Think like a client. Think about what motivates them: their needs, hopes, fears and goals, and channel those feelings in the video. You should be clear (crystal clear) about the needs and demands of your potential audience.
Also, ask yourself these questions:Where is the audience? (Which video platforms grab the most of your target market)What type of messaging do they prefer? (Emotional, informative or both)What are the problems they're facing?Could you be their problem solver? If yes, then how?
Add these ingredients in your video and never ignore any of the factors above. Don't just sell your services. Tell customers how you can solve their problem.Takeaway?Personalized videos perform well!
Creating a vlog is cheap, and it's a powerful marketing tool. That's a win-win.
The creation of a vlog doesn't take a lot of time, and you don't need a lot of preparation. Just get a good quality camera, pick your subject and start filming.
Remember, vlogs perform well when you speak to the audience like their friend, not like a brand ambassador. People don't like a person wearing a branded shirt and talking about a product in a scripted fashion.
Instead, talk about issues relevant to your industry. Give viewers a behind the scenes look at day-to-day life in your company. Address common problems your target market has and offer solutions (without pushing your product). In short, keep your videos as natural as you can and enjoy the client influx.TakeawayVlogs that don't hard-sell perform well to win more clients!
Interviews with other industry experts can be a great way to leverage their audience to your advantage. Just find an expert in an industry related to yours, sit down and have a casual chat. Then you can promote the video to their audience.
When you interview a person, he/she gets connected to your brand and becomes the face of your product/service. It gives you more credibility as you start associating your brand with the experts of the specific niche.
Pro-Tip: Keep the interview conversational. An overly scripted interview can be offputting.TakeawayUnscripted video interviews perform well to have an instant reach to the clients!
This is another targeted and low-cost video type that performs well to win more clients. Like vlogs, webinars don't need a script or advanced technical skills. What they do need is value. Webinars are all about the value you deliver to the client.
A weekly or monthly webinar can attract a number of clients. It can be any Q and A session, or you can target some specific feature of your product which provides solutions to the problems of your potential clients.
Promote your webinar on social media (with paid promotion) and then drive the audience through the rest of the funnel.
Pro-Tip: Q and A Webinars perform better than the other types of Webinars, as they get your clients actively engaged.
Bonus Pro-Tip: Don't use every answer to promote your product. This is about delivering value. Doing this and you'll show your sincerity to potential customers.TakeawayWebinars give you a chance to personally engage with leads.
Now you've got a plan for the types of videos you want to create. What's next?
Go out and tell the world that you have something unique!
What are the best channels for distributing video content?
Let's dive deeper!
I've divided the best types of channels into two segments:Organic video marketing channelsPaid video marketing channels
Organic video marketing channels
Your in-house channels
You must have an email list, right? Send them your freshly created piece of video. I believe marketing begins at home!
But what if you're a new business and you haven't built up an email list?
Fortunately, there are a number of other channels you can use to promote your video content.
Social media
Leverage different platforms. Facebook
, YouTube and many others are there to give you a helping hand to boost your QUALITY video content.
YouTube is a must in this regard!
Create your channels, upload videos and focus on tagging your videos with the keyword terms relevant to your target demographic.
Your own blog
You have a business blog, right? You definitely need one
. Google Trends backs me up on this.
I looked for the search term "blogging for business" and here are the results. The volume for this search has been remarkably consistent over the past five years.
What does this imply?
Businesses are still focusing on this area, and they start blogging to get more organic traffic and bring in leads.
Video is a great way to make your blog more engaging. In fact, according to Wordstream
, 59% of executives say they'd rather watch a video than read text.
If you do post a video on your blog, a good way to still bring in search traffic is to include a transcript. That means Google can still crawl the page and understand the content of the video, and you can rank for keyword terms relevant to the video.
Paid video marketing channels
Now, it's time to get your wallet out. But don't worry. Paid marketing doesn't have to break the bank.
Start your video campaign from just $10, for example. If you see results, then invest more. If you don't see the required results then increase the dose (meaning investment with the right technique).Google AdWords
and Facebook ads
are the main type of videos ads you can use. However, don't forget the relevancy of the platform with your business while selecting the best video ads paid promotion platform.
Pro-Tip: If you're wondering which is the best-paid platform for you to promote video ads, have a look at what your competitors are doing.
Influencer marketing
It's self-explanatory!
Reach out to some affordable influencers in your business domain and pay them for promotion. These influencers are everywhere on social media. And they don't have to be A-list celebrities or expensive Instagrammers. You can even identify influencers
among your own loyal customers.
How to measure impact
If you're investing a lot of effort and doing everything mentioned above, but not measuring the impact, you have no idea if your efforts are effective.
Here are some quick metrics to look at after launching a video campaign
Monitor views
See which platform gave you the most views for the least investment of time and/or money. Also, focus on the time people engaged with the video. It will enable you to make informed decisions about the launch time of your future video campaigns.
Watch time
No matter how engaging you think your video is, if the viewer isn't watching the entire thing then there's something wrong. So, monitor the watch time of every video and monitor where viewers are leaving. Make improvements and try again.
You have to see which type of audience is attracted to your videos. Monitor the impact of your video promotion both on male and female populations. See which countries it's resonating most in. Drill down into what devices are being used to watch it.
Final words
Video promotion is one of the most effective and engaging tools you can use to market your business. And don't worry: it might take some trial and error to get it right. But the dividends it'll pay make it well worth the effort.


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A Kentucky man has sparked a public outcry after he put up a statue of President Barack Obama eating watermelon. His critics say the display is blatantly racist.
When asked why he chose to depict Obama, the nation's first black president, eating watermelon, Danny Hafley said he "might get hungry standing out here."
Hafley told LEX18 in Lexington said he is merely exercising his right to free speech and the statue is protected under the First Amendment.
"The way I look at it, it's freedom of speech," he said. "I don't know how other people will take it."
Hafley reportedly bought the Obama mask on the statue after Halloween and erected the display around the time of the November election.
"The mannequin, dressed in a grey suit, clip-on tie and blue-collared shirt, was originally standing in Hafley's yard but the homeowner decided it would look better near the road," LEX18 reports.
"That's my buddy…He don't talk. Don't make no smart comments. If I had a dollar for everyone who stopped and took a picture of it I'd be a millionaire," Hafley added.
One neighbor said the Obama figure initially had a sign asking people to pray Obama won't destroy the United States.
Several other neighbors reportedly felt there was nothing wrong with the display and said Hafley had the right to leave it up.


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Seoul: A lawyer known as her "bullet-proof vest" is on former South Korean president Park Geun-hye's legal team. So are two failed candidates for parliament from her ruling party.
Park has turned to a group of loyalists for her legal defence as she faces questioning on Tuesday from prosecutors as a criminal suspect in a widening corruption probe that has already cost her the presidency.
Her legal lineup is a stark contrast to the star-studded team assembled by Samsung Group head, Jay Y. Lee, who is on trial on charges of bribing Park. They include high-powered former prosecutors now with one of the country's top law firms, Bae, Kim & Lee, known for its litigation expertise.
Park has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged in the case. She could face more than 10 years in jail if convicted of receiving bribes from Lee and other "chaebol" bosses in return for favours in the scandal.
Park, 65, became the first democratically elected leader to be removed from office when the Constitutional Court on March 10 upheld her December impeachment by parliament. Park's lawyers said she would cooperate with the prosecutors.
"I know and believe that Park is innocent, even if the press and the world have made her look like a criminal," Sohn Bum-kyu, one of the seven lawyers appointed by the former leader, told Reuters.
Sohn is a one-term member of parliament who Park personally campaigned for in his losing bid for a second term in 2012. He has not worked as a prosecutor or as a judge, normally part of the resume when establishing an influential private practice.
Among her officially appointed team of seven lawyers, three have previously been prosecutors, but none of them in senior posts - a departure from the usual pedigree of lawyers defending high-profile persons in South Korea criminal trials.
Sohn said the legal team is bigger than that.
"There are more lawyers behind president Park Geun-hye and seven appointed lawyers, but they did not want to be known because they don't want to go through hard times in media," Sohn said.
Yoo Yeong-ha, known as her "Bulletproof Vest" and who has been Park's legal voice since the beginning of the scandal in October, is also on the legal team.
Yoo was a legal adviser to Park's Saenuri Party, standing for parliament three times under its banner, and losing each time.
He was seen visiting Park's residence several times last week carrying a briefcase, but did not respond to reporters upon arrival and departure and declined to comment for this story.
Yoo, who has called Park his political mentor, said in an interview with Reuters in December he did not hesitate for a moment when offered the job as her lawyer. "I have complete faith in the president."
A senior attorney at one of South Korea's largest law firms said many high-profile lawyers were reluctant to take a strongly politically tinged case like Park's. The attorney declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the subject.
Moreover, many of the country's top lawyers or their firm's partners have already been retained by South Korea's embattled conglomerates, he said.
Most of Park's lawyers were involved in her unsuccessful defence at the Constitutional Court trial, which turned on trying to discredit the process and the integrity of the bench rather than building a rigorous legal case of her innocence.
One of them, Hwang Seong-wook, said it was his personal conviction about a client, not political considerations, that determines whether he will take a case.
"My own criteria to accept cases or not is this: if a person is a bad person no matter how positive public opinions are about that man, I would say no. It works the other way too," Hwang told Reuters.
Hwang said key to the defence of any charges Park might face is that she did not gain personally from the chaebol's contribution to the foundations backing her policies and did not pressure businesses leaders.
"We will carry on what we've been saying at the constitutional court and add some new facts as time goes on," Hwang said.
Her lawyers declined to provide an estimate of Park's legal costs, which are generally not the same as Western countries. One source close to Park's case said the fees were not extravagant and Park was personally paying the cost.
"They should be committed and working hard on this long journey, rather than making a lot of money out of this," he told Reuters.


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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration says it's wrong to try to change the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to babies born in the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she's surprised that Republican congressional leaders are joining a push to reconsider the 14th Amendment instead of working with Democrats on comprehensive immigration reform. Napolitano says that's "just wrong."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama agrees with Napolitano.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has said he supports holding hearings to reconsider the citizenship rights of illegal immigrants' babies born in the U.S. But he emphasized that Washington should remain focused on border security.