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Youth from around the world concerned with biodiversity protection unites in Japan
In an effort to involve the young generation in the decision-making process and present their experience in biodiversity conservation, young adults representing natural World Heritage sites around the world have joined the Go4BioDiv International Youth Forum. The Forum is held from 16-29 October at Mt Fuji and Nagoya, Japan, parallel to the Convention on Biological Diversity's 10th Conference of Parties (CBD-COP10) in Japan. The young adults are united under the theme "Our Treasures at Risk - World Heritage Sites in Times of Climate Change".
34 young advocates, stemming from 25 World Heritage sites from all five continents, have opened the Youth Forum at a nature-based camp at the foot slopes of emblematic Mt. Fuji. Here, they get to know each other, learn and exchange views about biodiversity, World Heritage and climate change and prepare their participation at COP10 in Nagoya. Before the conference, the participants, who represent sites as diverse as the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador), Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Dja Faunal Reserve (Cameroon), Wadden Sea (Germany), Sagarmatha (Nepal), Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnam) or the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), submitted pictures, cartoons and video clips they made about their sites and interviews they conducted with park rangers or village elders. At the conference, they will present their different concerns and common vision in side events, discussions with politicians and other stakeholders as well as through colourful stage performances, an exhibition and a booklet. The Go4BioDiv advocates are calling on the world community to act now in order to save their World Heritage sites and all their treasures.
The young advocates of diversity bring forward different issues - Saningo from Tanzania is worried about the effects of climate change on Kilimanjaro: "We are used to seeing Kili covered with snow but the glacier is constantly retreating. I want to know what I can do to protect my home from the effects of climate change". Andrea from Galapagos Islands worries about tourism and overpopulation: "We have to address these issues urgently - they constantly threaten the islands". They also agree that nature conservation should be put into a wider perspective, as Sudeep from Nepal points out: "We have to address equity and ecology together. Nature protection, culture conservation and development cannot be treated separately anymore."
This event is organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre along with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), Tsukuba University and the German Technical Corporation GTZ. It offers young participants the opportunity to exchange their views on and creatively engage with natural World Heritage sites as the flagships of nature conservation, and the problems those sites face, especially through climate change. It is embedded into the broader framework of the UN-Year of Biodiversity, the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures and the International Year of Youth. This initiative carries on the achievements of the first Youth Forum Go4BioDiv held during COP9 in Bonn, Germany (2008), where the participants provided creative and critical inputs for delegates and the wider public.
For more info, please consult www.go4biodiv.org or contact Nina Treu email@example.com, +81 80 6783 6933.


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There aren't any truly great options at quarterback in the 2013 NFL Draft. Free agency is even more barren. That leaves a quarterback-desperate team like the Kansas City Chiefs more than ready to lock down their quarterback for 2013 right now.
Fox Sports insider and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reported that the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers have agreed upon a trade that will send Alex Smith to the Chiefs. The deal can't be official until the league year starts on March 12, but the Chiefs have made a "clear commitment" to Smith, according to Glazer.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported the compensation is a second-round draft pick in 2013 and a conditional draft pick in 2014. Glazer's wording suggests that a new contract could be coming for Smith, who was due $7.5 million in the final year of his deal. The Chiefs wouldn't give up this much in the draft for a one-year rental.
Glazer said on NFL Network that the Chiefs believe they have their quarterback for the next "several" years. Reid is very high on Smith and the trade terms prove it.
Incumbent quarterback Matt Cassel, once acquired in a similar deal by former GM Scott Pioli, is expected to be released by the Chiefs any day now. New GM John Dorsey and coach Andy Reid are starting over from scratch at the quarterback position, with Smith the first big piece in place. Don't be surprised if they add another quarterback through the draft, but this trade is an admission that no rookie quarterback was ready to start right away.
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With his smarts and his underrated mobility, Smith makes a lot of sense as an Andy Reid-style quarterback. He can help the Chiefs compete right away because the team has talent on defense and some pieces in place offensively like Jamaal Charles, Jon Baldwin and possibly Dwayne Bowe, who sounds likely to get the franchise tag. The downside for Smith: He doesn't have Jim Harbaugh to guide him anymore.
Smith had a ton of ups and downs in San Francisco. Now he gets what he wanted most: A fresh start and an organization that truly wants him.

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It is windy and looks like rain. This whole week seems to have been rainy and stormy. Yesterday we managed to get half of our laundry dried before the rain came. This morning I went to a few local Amish garage sales. I was able to find a few shirts for son Benjamin. He outgrew most of his shirts and needs some new ones very badly. I figure these shirts will help until I get a few more sewn for him. It saved me a few hours of sewing to go to the sales. Also found a few dresses for the girls that the girls should be able to wear. Usually one of the four older girls can wear one of the dresses when I guess on the size. Susan is the tallest of the four girls and Verena is the shortest so they are almost stair-steps in the length but not in the order of their ages.
Susan has finished her job with babysitting. She babysat for a tax accountant and now that tax rush is over she won't need her as often. I am so glad for her help here at home.
Spring work is coming along and also gardening. We still only have the potatoes planted that Joe put out two weeks ago. Joe is off work today and tomorrow. He plans to smoke 100 pounds of summer sausage for Jacob and Emma. We want to go there tonight to help them package the sausage and bring it home. We had our first meal of dandelion greens this week. That was a treat again for me.
Most of our children don't care for dandelions. Joseph seems to like them. I made a sour cream with Miracle Whip salad dressing, vinegar, and milk and pour over the dandelion greens with diced cooked eggs. We like to eat this on top of steamed potatoes. Along with that we usually lie bacon, side pork or fresh ham from our hogs. Joe grilled some of the side pork from our hogs and we really like it. How thankful we are to have such a wide variety of meat in the freezer. God has been good to us in so many ways. Do we thank him enough for our blessings?
Minnie's little foal is doing well and it is as lively as ever. In my last letter I said it was a filly, but it is not, it is a colt. The children called him Prancer. He prances around a lot which is why they decided on that name. Some of the children wanted to call him Bambi or Curious George. Curious George because he is curious and sticks his nose in the chicken fence until one of the chickens pecks at his nose. Our horses Ginger and itty Bit will both have foals this spring, too. It is always exciting to have newborn foals on the farm. The horses foals will be a lot bigger than Prancer. Prancer is very small and the boys can pick him up and carry him. He looks so cute and tries to run away from the children when they try to put him back in the field.
We have a battery-operated fence charger to keep the horses in. If we wouldn't he could get out very easily. We have added another solar-panel to keep our 12 volt batteries charged.
Try this recipe with it almost being rhubarb and strawberry season.
1 1 /2 cups sugar
1 /3 cup cornstarch
2 cups whole strawberries
2 cups cut up rhubarb
1 1 /2 tablespoons butter
Heat oven to 425. Mix sugar and cornstarch. Mix lightly through strawberries and rhubarb. Pour into pie crust and dot with butter. Cover with a top crust and cut slits in crust. Sprinkle with additional sugar. Seal and flute edges and bake at 40 to 50 minutes or until crust is nicely browned and juice begins to bubble through slits and best if served slightly warm.


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Judge: DVD-copying software is illegal
A federal court says 321 Studios' software breaks copyright laws and that the company must stop selling the products.
In a ruling released Friday, Judge Susan Illston granted Hollywood studios' request for an injunction against 321 Studios, saying the small software company has seven days to stop distributing its DVD-copying products.
What's new:
A federal judge in San Francisco rules that software company 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying products are illegal.
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321 has seven days to pull its products, but the impact goes beyond that company. The judge wrote that federal law made it illegal to sell products that break through DVDs' antipiracy technology, even if consumers have a legal right to make personal copies of their movies.
The case was widely viewed as a test of how far commercial software could go in helping consumers make backup copies of their own legally purchased digital entertainment products, such as DVDs or video games. Illston wrote that federal law made it illegal to sell products that--like 321 Studios' software--break through DVDs' antipiracy technology, even if consumers do have a legal right to make personal copies of their movies.
"It is the technology itself at issue, not the uses to which the copyrighted material may be put," Illston wrote. "Legal downstream use of the copyrighted material by customers is not a defense to the software manufacturer's violation of the provisions (of copyright law)."
The ruling, which had been pending since arguments last May in Illston's court, goes a long way toward shoring up Hollywood's weakening digital copy protections for its profitable DVD business--even while potentially eliminating one key driver of sales in the DVD burner market.
In previous interviews, 321 Studios has said it has sold about 1 million copies of its DVD-copying software, many of them through mainstream computer stores such as CompUSA. Under the ruling's terms, the company will have to remove from its software the ability to "rip" copies of copy-protected DVDs or take the products off the market altogether.
The company said it would immediately ask for an emergency stay that would let it keep the software on the shelves but would appeal Illston's ruling, regardless of what happened.
"We can't just lay down for this," 321 Studios President Robert Moore said. "It is too important for the consumer; it is far too important to the evolution of our culture...We think the final battle will be fought at the Supreme Court or at the congressional level."
Hollywood executives praised the ruling.
"Companies have a responsibility to develop products that operate within the letter of the law and that do not expose their customers to illegal activities," MPAA Chief Executive Officer Jack Valenti said in a statement. "Today's ruling sends a clear message that it is essential for corporations to protect copyrighted works while facilitating the enjoyment of entertainment offerings through new digital technologies."
Long battle over DVDs
Illston's ruling is the latest in a long string of rulings that have largely gone against critics of Hollywood's protection efforts, even as the technology to copy DVDs has spread more widely online and off.
Most Hollywood DVDs are protected with a technology called Content Scrambling System, or CSS, which encrypts the content on the discs so that they can only be read by devices with authorized "keys" to unlock the data. A studio-affiliated trade group licenses those keys to DVD player manufacturers.
However, in 1999, a Norwegian teenager named Jon Johansen released a software program called DeCSS, which allowed computers to decrypt DVDs, even without a licensed "key." Once the video was decrypted, it could easily be copied, and so DeCSS quickly found its way into DVD-copying tools.
Hollywood studios sued to keep DeCSS offline, and a New York federal judge ultimately agreed that posting the software online violated parts of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bars distribution of tools that break through digital copy protection mechanisms.
Not long afterward, 321 Studios began selling its own software, however. Despite the New York ruling, the company argued that its software was legal and necessary in helping consumers make the personal copies federal law allows.
The company actually initiated the legal battle in early 2002, suing studios in hopes of winning a ruling that'd say its software was legal. The studios later countersued.
In her ruling Friday, Illston was unconvinced by any of 321's arguments.
Hollywood critics have long said CSS simply controls access to DVDs and that it's not a direct copy protection mechanism. And 321 has argued that since consumers who buy a DVD have the right to access their own movie, it would not be illegal to help them access it by using 321's software.
Illston disagreed, saying CSS was plainly a way to protect copyright holders' rights, as envisioned in copyright law.
She said blocking people from making perfect digital copies of their DVDs did not unconstitutionally hamper free speech or fair-use rights. People were free to make copies of movies in other, nondigital ways that would give them access to the same content, even if not in the same, pristine form, she said.
And, she said, the fact that DVD decryption keys were widely available online in programs like DeCSS did not make Hollywood's attempts to block copying useless.
"This is equivalent to a claim that, since it is easy to find skeleton keys on the black market, a dead bolt is not an effective lock to a door," she wrote.
Earlier this month, 321 Studios released new software that makes backup copies of computer games. That product will not be affected by this ruling, the company said.


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"Wow. We live in a horror movie," my husband opined one morning not long ago. He was reading an article about the melting of the Arctic tundra releasing massive bubbles of methane gas into the atmosphere, which in turn causes more melting, which in turn causes global warming, which in turn creates monster storms that threaten to end civilization as we know it.
I love scary movies, the creepier the better. But this Halloween season, they're bleeding off the screen and into real life.
Can we please turn it off now?
Actually, no, we cannot.
A week ago, I was invited to the premiere of a deeply alarming documentary called Chasing Ice. It follows the work and adventures of a National Geographic photographer named James Balog in his endeavor to document, with time-lapse photography, the epic melting of the Arctic glaciers, a melting that is filling the world's seas and atmosphere with
Mr. Balog became an ice aficionado in 2005, when The New Yorker sent him to document the frozen landscape in Iceland. A year later, National Geographic sent him to document melt. He was stunned by the speed of the changes he witnessed and began documenting the retreating ice on three continents.
With the help of National Geographic and other funders, he created the Extreme Ice Survey, which he calls an "art meets science" project that also involved some serious adventure travel. With a small team of graduate students, he rappelled and hiked up ice walls from Greenland to Everest to Alaska, installing 27 time lapse cameras that are still recording images every half hour.
The cameras, currently at 18 locations, yield up to 8,000 images a year.
Arranged as time-lapse video, the shrinking of the mountains of ice in the northern hemisphere and the higher altitudes of our planet is plain to see, and absolutely alarming.
One of the most shocking images in the film was captured by two young members of Mr. Balog's team who were flown in and dropped on the edge of an unstable Greenland glacier. After two weeks freezing their asses off in a lonely tent in the middle of a windy, white landscape, they were rewarded, first with a thunderous noise, and then by witnessing and videotaping the epic collapse of an edge of an Arctic glacier bigger that the island of Manhattan.
That's a lot of
It also is not news. In 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report predicting that by the year 2100, the sea will rise 20 inches both from "thermal expansion" (warming) of the ocean and from melting glaciers and ice sheets. That rise has huge implications for coastal cities.
To view this movie is to witness epic amounts of ice turning into billions of gallons of
The issue of climate change has been utterly ignored by the candidates, both of whom won't challenge the status quo on it.
Because it's happening so slowly, mostly out of sight and with no apparent solution, it's been almost impossible to get emotional about global warming. Until Sandy.
The moment it hit me was a few months back, reading a Times article that (again) predicted that the city of New York will be mostly underwater in 100 years. I was sitting in an airport, and suddenly I burst into tears. Our city will be either gone or utterly transformed by the time my grandchildren are adults. My kids will be among the last generation to remember this great city.
How is it that everyone isn't crying over this?
Chasing Ice humanizes an enormous and incomprehensible geological phenomenon with time-lapse images, putting unusually rapid geological change on breathtaking display. It also personalizes the story by focusing on one man, the photographer whose commitment to the project involved repeated knee surgery so he could keep scrabbling up icy inclines to check his cameras, and the technological difficulties of building and maintaining photo gear in the harshest conditions on the planet.
The film also has an emotional component, insofar as Mr. Balog, who attended the premiere, is shown with tears in his eyes talking about what his findings mean for his—and everyone's—children.
"This is the memory of the landscape," he said of the film. "That landscape is gone; it may never be seen again in the history of civilization."
Mr. Balog and the filmmakers are among the vast majority of world scientists who are convinced that the sudden warming of the world is caused by human burning of fossil fuels. Their graphs are pretty hard to argue with. Average world temperatures have risen in a parallel line with tonnage of burned fossil fuels since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
There are still a small number of scientists–hacks on the Koch brothers' payroll or simply contrarian cranks—who argue that the historic melt underway is unrelated to fossil fuel burning. They've managed to portray climate change "believers" as tree-hugging outliers.
These so called "deniers" give just enough cover to the drill baby drill crowd on the right, but also allow our own progressive president to remain silent and to promote the continued extraction of these fuels from American soil.
The near-total silence from our leaders on this vital issue in the wake of the storm is truly scary. Gov. Cuomo mentioned climate change on WNYC Tuesday, but Chris Christie has so far only given it lip service without acting on his convictions. Last year, he said that "climate change is real" and "impacting our state" while pulling New Jersey out of a regional greenhouse gas initiative.
The fate of the planet is a political football. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 85 percent of Democrats believe there is evidence of global warming, while 48 percent of Republicans say the same. Some of them might be waking up. Monday night, while tidal storm surges were inundating the streets of America's greatest city, Meghan McCain was tweeting, "So are we still going to go with climate change not being real, fellow Republicans?"
I hate to sound like a torture-loving W. administration lawyer, but maybe the "deniers" should be forced to watch Chasing Ice with their eyelids held open, like Alex in Clockwork Orange, until they get it. And then maybe someone can invent some spine juice for our leaders, so that they begin talking about making some hard changes in our habits.
In the meantime, what to tell the kids about the real-life geological bogeyman scientists are crediting with this awful storm?
Our own little darlings watched Sandy blow past with interest but strangely little alarm as lashes of wind,
The dawn after the howling black night, we found ourselves among the fortunate high-ground survivors. But we're still shell-shocked.
Halloween night, we'll be hunkered down with the candy corn and a stiff drink, freaking ourselves out while watching the scariest movie ever, the original Swedish version of Let the Right One In, about a child vampire.
The great thing about it: it's probably not real.


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For me, one of the most awkward aspects of the Windows 8 Start screen (you know, the one with all the tiles) is file management.
Specifically, if I want to browse or search my files (Word documents, PDFs, etc.), it's not immediately clear how to do so. There's no file manager to speak of, at least not amidst the tiles, so anyone accustomed to an earlier version of Windows might be left thinking, "Dude, where's my data?"
As you may have learned, you can search for files the same way you can search for apps and settings: just start typing. Windows 8's dynamic search option immediately displays and filters results as you type.
Just one problem: File searches don't extend beyond what's contained in your Libraries. So if you've migrated over some folders that exist outside Libraries or prefer to organize documents and such in a different way, your searches will be fruitless–and frustrating.
In that case, you're better off using File Explorer, the file manager formerly known as Windows Explorer. With it you can conduct much more comprehensive searches and review a more detailed batch of results.
To access File Explorer from the Start screen, perform any of these three steps:
1. Type file, then click the File Explorer app.
2. Move your mouse to the lower-left corner of the screen, right-click, and then choose File Explorer from the pop-up menu.
3. Press Win-E (i.e. the Windows key and E key). This is without question the fastest way to get there.
By default, File Explorer points to Libraries, but you can make it search more broadly by clicking your desired drive or folder in the navigation pane at left, then typing your search parameters in the Search field.
If Windows 8's standard search option works for you, by all means stick with it. But my preference is definitely a quick tap of Win-E for a more old-school file manager.
While we're on the subject, check out Lincoln Spector's related Answer Line post, "Configure Windows Explorer's (or File Explorer's) Navigation Pane."
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I've started on my Jeans! The fabric has been cut out and sitting in pile for a little while now. It's about time! I'm using Vogue V8774 and a black denim with a bit of a stretch. I've made Jeans before here, and I already have a matching denim jacket here. This will be my third garment in the #makenine 2019 Challenge! I'm doing pretty good … by my standards! 🙂
I have a lot of golden topstitching thread in my stash, but it wouldn't match the topstitching thread I used for my jacket. so a trip to the fabric store was in order and I came home with some "future handbag" fabric and two spools of white topstitching thread. I also bought another package of "Jeans" sewing machine needles.
The golden topstitching thread is on the left/bottom back pocket and the white topstitching thread is on the right/top back pocket. They are both nice, but the white will match my jacket better.
Funny thing about the back pockets … I forgot to cut them out. Then when I realized, I also realized that I had no more black denim. Time to improvise! I cut my back pockets out from the already cut pocket lining pieces, which shouldn't be a heavy denim anyway. So no harm there!
Then I cut the pocket lining pieces out of a 100% black cotton and this black and white print denim – the same print I used for my matching jacket. I think now though that I might have to have the waistband cut out of this print too, to be more consistent. I do have lots left still. We shall see when the time comes!
Here's the pocket lining piece sewn up with the black cotton and the white and black print denim. I had to draw up that little insert piece myself but it wasn't difficult because I followed the curve of the other pattern pieces.
The front pocket lining, the same 100% black cotton, sewn on and pressed.
Back pockets interfaced and pressed – although I think I strayed from the pattern instructions – but it all worked out just fine!
Time for topstitching everything I've made so far! My favourite detail! I love using my 1/4″ seam foot and my edge stitch foot to guide my topstitching.
The back pocket design is also a favourite detail! I first drew it in yellow chalk and it messed up my white topstitching thread so I switched to a newly acquired wax pencil marker. It works really well!
Front pockets all topstitched and assembled!
Now for the Jeans fly front. I am paying proper attention to the pattern instructions now. Front seam sewn together just under where the zipper is to be inserted.
I used my edge stitch foot with my needle to the left, with black thread, to attach one side of the zipper to my Jeans.
Bias tape was sewn onto the zipper facings and they were sewn onto my Jeans. Then I realized that my zipper was way too long at the bottom.
Bah! 🙁 Being too lazy to take it apart, I just pretended it was a handbag zipper and cut it to fit and hand sewed a zipper stop at the bottom.
Not bad. Time to topstitch!
Just something simple.
Next up? The Jeans back!
Did I miss anything? Do you have any tips for making pockets or inserting zippers in Jeans?
Happy Sewing!
STASH BUSTING WITH THIS PROJECT? These Jeans will use up 1.9 meters of my stash. So I will have 129.3 metres left!


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The good news is that Gmail has finally added support for searching inside attachments. I've just tested this feature for .pdf files, .doc documents, .ppt presentations and it works, even though some old attachments may not be indexed yet.
To find messages that have attachments, search for has:attachment and add some keywords to your query. To restrict your search to PDF files, search for has:attachment filename:pdf.
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If there's one thing that iOS accessories prove, it's that the devices themselves—the iPhone, the iPad, and the iPod touch—are endlessly versatile. If you want to listen to music, there's an accessory for that. Make music? Ditto. Go boating? I think you already know the answer.
Brando WorkShop: The accessory maker lets you get closer to the action with the Super Gear Telescope (iPad 2). The device comes in two parts:a back cover that you attach to the iPad and the scope itself that attaches to the cover, right over the iPad's back-camera opening. Once attached, you can take clear photos and video from farther distances and wider angles. The $26 accessory can be adjusted to provide sharper focus.
CableJive: Sometimes the closest power outlet is a farther away than the cable for your iOS device will reach. CableJive solves the problem with the new xlSync, a 6.5-foot USB-to-dock-connector cable for the iPad, iPhone, and dock-connector iPods. The cable is USB 1.1- and 2.0-compatible and is constructed using heavier-gauge wire to allow for speedy charging over the longer distance. The xlSync costs $13 and is available in black or white.
Joby: This San Francisco firm has updated two of its tablet stands to accommodate the iPad 2. The $70 GorillaMobile Ori for iPad 2 is a lightweight aluminum carrying case that folds out into a display stand that can display your tablet at multiple angles for typing or video viewing (see our review of the Ori for the original iPad). The $40 GorillaMobile Yogi for iPad 2 features a pair of bendable, posable legs that let you prop up or even hang the iPad 2 in any location you choose. Joby says the updated models allow for hands-free use of FaceTime and other camera-driven features of the iPad 2.
Griffin Technology: Griffin has partnered with software developer Dijit Media to create Beacon ($80), a device that lets use use your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch as a universal remote to control the rest of the electronic devices in your home. The system requires the free Dijit Universal Remote app from iTunes; your iOS device can then communicate with your entertainment system via a Bluetooth/infared receiver. Beacon is already on sale—Griffin said this week that it sold out its initial stock on the first day of sales, but you should be able to find it at local Apple Stores. Also new from Griffin is the $20 DJ Cable, a headphone and master-output splitter cable to be used in conjunction with the Algoriddim Djay app for the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
IK Multimedia: Of course, the iPad 2 isn't just used to play music—it's also an increasingly vital part of making music. IK Multimedia offers some assistance on that front with its new $40 iKlip (iPad 1 and 2), a display stand for the tablet that attaches to a musician's microphone stand. The device includes snap-in mounts for either iPad model and can be used in both portrait and landscape orientation.
Pioneer: Music lovers can check out Pioneer's new Elite series of A/V receivers, which includes five different models ranging in price from $450 to $1,100. Each model is advertised as being "made for for iPad, iPhone and iPod" and include a USB cable that allows you to connect your iOS device to play video and music through the receiver. The top four models go a step further, featuring AirPlay connectivity and letting you use Pioneer's free iControlAV2 app to wirelessly control volume, bass level, and balance. These four models are also compatible with the Pioneer Air Jam app, which allows you to sync songs from multiple iOS devices onto one playlist for the receiver.
Tallon Systems: This Australia-based maker of boating accessories knows that the iPad isn't just made for use on land. The company has come up with two new products for nautical iOS users: the $70 Elite Socket, a USB port that delivers onboard power to your mobile device, and the $110 Tallon iPad Mount, which lets boaters view their tablets while, well, boating. The latter device also includes a USB port for power purposes. Both accessories will be officially launched at the Sydney Boat Show in late July.


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Dangerous chemicals found in south China river
(AP)—Residents and water plants along a river in southern China that is used as a drinking source have been warned not to use the river's water after authorities detected excessive amounts of two dangerous chemicals.
Tests by authorities detected the chemicals thallium and cadmium in a section of the Hejiang River in Guangdong province after dead fish turned up in the water, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.
The Fengkai county government warned downstream water plants and residents against using the water or eating anything from the river, Xinhua said. Cadmium is considered an environmental hazard, and thallium is extremely toxic. No illnesses have been reported.
Xinhua said the pollutants were believed to have come from upstream, and later reports said excessive amounts of the chemicals were detected in the upstream Guangxi region. The reports didn't say how the pollutants got into the stream.
Hejiang is a major tributary of the Xijiang River, which serves as the primary water source for Macau and the city of Zhuhai.
Water pollution is a serious problem in China due to unscrupulous industrial waste disposal.
© 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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Pennsylvania's Three Rivers Heritage Trail
Trail of the Month: April 2017
"Once it was the place parents told you not to go, now it's the place to be."
Spiraling outward from downtown Pittsburgh, the 24-mile Three Rivers Heritage Trail traces the banks of three waterways—the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio—that lifted the city to prominence as America's industrial powerhouse. The development of this paved pathway, which began more than 25 years ago, sparked a biking revolution that is continuing to turn the famed "Steel City" into "Wheel City." Dotted with parks, museums, sports stadiums, public art and other attractions, the riverfront trail is bursting with cultural and recreational opportunities. As a safe, clean and green way to get around Pennsylvania's second-largest city, it serves as a national model for urban trails.
"People remember what the riverfront was before: an industrial area, a wasteland," says Thomas Baxter, executive director of Friends of the Riverfront. "People will say, 'this used to be a mill' or 'this was a glass factory.' Now their grandchildren are saying 'this was where I had my first bike ride.' Once it was the place parents told you not to go, now it's the place to be."
More than half a million people are using the trail each year, generating an estimated $8.3 million in total annual economic impact, according to a report published in 2014. The burgeoning bike-and pedestrian-friendly city achieved a Bronze level ranking from the League of American Bicyclists in 2010 and is continuing to make improvements, such as the adoption of a Complete Streets policy just last year and the launch of a new bike-share program, Healthy Ride, in 2015.
Even while helping to spur such forward-thinking change, the trail also embraces its roots. "Heritage" is a key part of its name and, along the trail, travelers will find more than 40 interpretative signs covering a range of topics, everything from Ice Age geography to Native American settlements, the changing river ecosystem and visits by prominent historical figures like George Washington and Lewis and Clark. The rise of the city's industries and railroads, like the B&O, on which portions of the rail-trail are built are also detailed.
For railroad history buffs, passage over the Hot Metal Bridge (circa 1887) on the trail's eastern leg, is also a special experience. It's worth noting that this portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail shares its corridor with the renowned Great Allegheny Passage, which spans 150 miles from Pittsburgh to just over the Maryland border, where it connects to the C&O Canal Towpath running all the way to Washington, D.C.
Today, the trail is in good hands with the Friends of the Riverfront, which has been instrumental in building and maintaining the trail. The group's eight trail stewards inspect every section of the trail on a continuous basis and more than 2,000 other volunteers spend a few hours each year assisting with a range of projects, including tree plantings, trash pick-up and the removal of invasive species.
In the 1980s, a small core of trail advocates—which later became the Friends of the Riverfront—was galvanized by State Representative Tom Murphy, an avid runner and cyclist who later became a three-term mayor of Pittsburgh. The concept for the Three Rivers Heritage Trail was unveiled in 1990 and its first groundbreaking took place in 1991. Built in phases over two decades, the trail was key to opening up the riverfront to residents who had been cut off from the water by industry for more than a century.
"Back then, there was less than a mile of public access to the river and no trees," says Tom Murphy, who grew up in Pittsburgh. "When we first began, there were lots of doubting Thomases. People saw the trail as individual pieces and it was hard to get them to see that it was going to run for miles. It wasn't obvious back then, but, at some point, people got it. They realized that this was going to create real value."
Beyond the city's borders, the trail adds value as part of a growing web of interconnected trails spanning more than 1,400 miles across western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, eastern Ohio and the southwestern corner of New York. Lead by a coalition of trail groups, governmental jurisdictions and other stakeholders working together, the Industrial Heartlands Trail Network is revitalizing Rust Belt communities like Pittsburgh and revolutionizing the concept of transportation in America.


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Cantor plans ACA security bill vote
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Thursday that he plans to schedule a vote next week on a measure placing more security requirements on the new Obamacare insurance exchanges. He said he'll draw from legislation that's been introduced by Reps. Diane Black of Tennessee, Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan and Gus Bilirakis of Florida.
"If a breach occurs, it shouldn't be up to some bureaucrat to decide when or even whether to inform an individual that their personal information has been accessed," Cantor wrote in a memo to House Republicans.
( Also on POLITICO: For Obamacare, it's showtime)
Republicans spent much of last year warning that Americans' personal information could be compromised on the insurance exchanges, although the Obama administration has said no such breaches have occurred. Cantor also promised other security-themed votes later this year.
"And in the coming weeks, we will continue to address other areas where greater transparency is demanded, including the disclosure of reliable and complete enrollment data," he wrote. "These steps will be part of the overall effort to protect the American people from the harmful effects of Obamacare by ultimately repealing and replacing the law with patient-focused reforms that expand access, ensure quality care and help control costs."
The Obama administration has insisted that no security breaches have occurred — and reiterated that on Thursday, saying there's ongoing security testing to make sure private information is kept safe.
"To date, there have been no successful security attacks on HealthCare.gov and no person or group has maliciously accessed personally identifiable information from the site," said Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. "Security testing is conducted on an ongoing basis using industry best practices to appropriately safeguard consumers' personal information."


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Doesn't this sound rather idyllic? Rambling around the great open spaces of the beautiful USA in an RV with one of your kids and a couple of Sea Eagle Sport Kayaks…then meeting up with the rest of the family halfway across the country for a family boating adventure?
That's just one RV-and-Sea Eagle adventure Iowans, Mike and Ellen Mattes, enjoyed this summer. And there's more family RV'ing and boating fun to come!
"We spend all of our summer vacation time RV'ing around the United States. We live in Iowa, which usually means a long, cold winter, so when summer rolls around we are ready to get outside and be as active as possible. That's where our Sea Eagle inflatable boats come in handy.
For the price, why not?
We don't have room for hard hull kayaks or canoes in our RV, so when we came across the Sea Eagle online, we thought, 'For the price, why not give them a try?' And we love them! My wife, Ellen, and I have the SE370 Sport Kayak. And our Daughter, Mary, has her own SE330 Sport Kayak. The boats, paddles, and seats all fit into one storage compartment in our RV.
RV'ing and Sea Eagles are a perfect match. When you're traveling long distances you need to pack light. Having the convenience of boats that roll up and fit into one compartment is awesome because you never know when you might want to go boating in your travels, and they're always there ready to go.
So far this year we have had the boats out at Estes Lake in Colorado, Neshonoc Lake in Wisconsin, down the Root River in Minnesota, and in several lakes at various Iowa state parks.
Easy RV camping with lake access
Estes Lake has great scenery, surrounded by the Rocky Mountains, and has a marina where we could easily park our RV close to the lake. Neshonoc Lake in West Salem, Wisconsin has its own campground with lake access. We went out on the lake both nights after dinner and watched the sun set from our kayaks.
The Root River in southeast Minnesota was a hoot! We met up with our two grown sons at a campground in Lanesboro, and spent the day navigating the river. Mary really enjoyed going down the Root River, and now she wants to find a river with bigger rapids!
Black Hills next?
Summer is winding down and we'll be kayaking locally in our Iowa state parks as the season wanes. We don't yet have our vacation plans set for next year yet, but we've been talking about the Black Hills in South Dakota and I'm sure we will put the kayaks to good use! We couldn't be happier with the ease of use and performance of our Sea Eagles."
Thanks again, Mike, Ellen and Mary Mattes
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Various health updates
Two and a half weeks ago I got a COVID-19 test, and it finally came back, negative for both PCR and antibodies. So, it's pretty unlikely that I have or ever have had COVID-19, which means that's probably not at the root of my recent health issues.
One and a half weeks ago I finally got a followup, proper sleep study, which found that while I do have occasional apnea events, it's not to the extent that CPAP treatment is warranted or even beneficial. Which is unsurprising; even when I was using CPAP I never found it to be very helpful, and this diagnosis means that I do not have access to my current provider's DME1 so I can't, like, get my equipment refreshed.


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Nintendo warned Friday against the use of a smartphone app that can be used to create custom, all-powerful Pokemon characters for use in its handheld games.
The Japanese game firm said that those who use the PokeCreator apps risk unstable gameplay or even rendering their software unusable.
"If illicit Pokemon are used for games with a partner, there are cases where this will cause trouble for the partner, such as unstable game play and other negative effects," Nintendo said in a Japanese statement.
PokeCreator offers apps for iOS and Android that allow gamers to create their own Pokemon, freely assigning attributes such as hit points, special abilities and attack strength. The site instructs users to temporarily change the DNS on their consoles to connect to its own server and download their mutant Pokemon for gameplay.
"Tired of endless Leveling up, EVs (Effort Values) training and Breeding? Want to be the best Trainer out there?" asks PokeCreator in its iTunes description of the short-cuts it provides around the steps usually needed to create a strong Pokemon character.
The app, which currently costs 99 cents, says it works with any of Nintendo's DS or 3DS portable consoles. It says it is compatible with a number of Pokemon titles and currently has a four-star rating in iTunes.
Nintendo said it will not restore systems that were damaged through use of the app. It said that gamers who use illicit Pokemon in its public tournaments will be automatically disqualified and banned from participation in the future.
Pokemon, short for "Pocket Monster," is one of Nintendo's top global franchises, with two games from the series topping its all-time sales list for the Nintendo DS handheld. Gamers capture and train their Pokemon characters, then do battle with other trainers to progress. The games have a devoted fan base with their own quirky culture and have spawned TV series and movies.


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This was Peter's prayerful hope for the church, expressed in 2 Peter 3:18. In our community of saints here in Paris, we strive to show Christ's grace.
ACP offers various Bible studies, adult and youth ministries. Our children's worship includes more than 140 children, and Thurber Lectures is a dynamic component of our adult education program. More information about these and other programs can be found on this site or by contacting secretary.
As well, anyone requesting prayer in Jesus' name is welcome to contact prayer requests. We on the ACP prayer chain are honored to lift you up, and all requests will be kept confidential.
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High and Low, 1963, directed by Akira Kurosawa, written by Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, and Hideo Oguni, loosely based on Hayakawa Shobo's translation of Evan Hunter's novel King's Ransom, which Hunter wrote under the pen name Ed McBain. Now those are some complicated writing credits.
A space alien who knew nothing about film history and decided to learn it by watching the Criterion Collection would come to the conclusion that Toshirô Mifune was one of the best known actors in the world. He's been in five of the twenty-one movies I've watched so far: Seven Samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island, and now High and Low. Don't get me wrong: I love Toshirô Mifune. But Criterion loves him even more.
The other four movies I've seen Mifune in are all period pieces where he plays a samurai. So it's kind of a shock to see him in a three-piece suit. He plays Kingo Gondo (Douglas King in the original novel), a wealthy shoe executive (no, really!). The premise is great; Gondo has a chauffeur whose young son is friends with his son. At the beginning of the movie, Gondo has borrowed against all his assets for a complicated business scheme whereby he will gain majority control of the company he works for. So he has a great deal of cash, all of it earmarked for saving his job and crushing his business rivals. Unfortunately for Mr. K., just as he's dispatching a junior executive with the money to make the stock purchase, he receives a phone call from a man who says he has kidnapped his son. He wants 30 million yen, of the 50 million Kingo has just pulled out. Kingo and his wife decide to pay it, and Kingo says that no amount of money is too much to pay for his son's life (he doesn't say this to the kidnapper, but he does say it in his chauffeur's hearing). Just then, Kingo's son walks into the room. Guess which chauffeur's son the kidnapper has grabbed by mistake? Guess who is suddenly much less willing to put up the ransom?
The first forty minutes or so of this movie are very tightly constructed. Kurosawa keeps everything in the same few rooms of Kingo's house (you could do this part as a play). I'd love to read an English translation of the screenplay because this part of it is a model of narrative compression. Some of the phone conversations between Kingo and the kidnapper are played out on screen (with police officers running everywhere trying to get a trace on the call, &c.). Some of the conversations you only hear as tape recordings when the police are playing them back, discussing them later. There's not a wasted second. And the sequence where Kingo pays the ransom (it takes place on the bullet train) is a wonderful set piece.
Unfortunately, after the Kingo pays the ransom (under protest) and the kid is returned, the movie kind of falls apart for me. The rest of the movie is about the police trying to get Kingo's money back as his world falls apart. It's all right, but without the ticking-clock of the kidnapped kid, it doesn't work as well. And some sequences didn't work for me at all: there's a long police procedural scene that falls flat. Structurally (and here I mean the internal structure of the sequence, not how it fits into the movie), it's a good idea; they have an intelligence briefing covering different investigative routes the police are taking. As each cop describes the lead he's been following, Kurosawa cuts from the briefing room to the cops investigating. It's not quite Law and Order, but it's the same focus on police grunt work that's made Dick Wolf a very rich man. But the sequence is fifteen minutes long and feels like it's an hour. What's more, none of the leads they're following pan out. So you get a good feeling for unrewarding police work, I suppose, but it totally kills the momentum Kurosawa has built up to that point.
The end sequence is interesting; the camera follows the kidnapper through the slums of Yokohama as the police close in (it's actually a little more complicated than that). The killer doesn't get any dialogue here, and he wears mirrored shades. Which kind of reminds me of this other movie I saw the same weekend. Let's compare:
Akira Kurosawa's High and Low
Akira Kurosawa's High and Low
NOT Akira Kurosawa's High and Low.
Of course, Kevin looks that way in the books, so I guess Frank Miller is more the person who did the ripping-off. But it's even the same haircut. The stills don't do the similarity justice, because you can see an actual reflection in the glasses. A lot of the time in High and Low, the kidnapper is lit so the lenses are just as white as Kevin's in Sin City.
Some of the stuff in the "Low" section of the movie is really bizarre; there's a scene where the kidnapper pulls off a big heroin deal while frantically go-go dancing with his dealer (again, no dialogue). And there's a surprisingly scuzzy scene in a house full of heroin users. But there's nothing as tight as the first forty-five minutes in the movie's later scenes.
One more thing. Towards the end, I was expecting one more twist (Kingo set himself up! The police are in on it! It was all a dream!) and it never came. I don't think the movie really needed it, but it occurred to me how much I've been conditioned to want one last, overwhelming twist. I think a lot of scripts sell these days because they've got that, whether it fits the movie or not. Exhibit A is The Upside of Anger, where the twist betrays everything the movie has spent so long getting the audience emotionally involved with. But you can bet that people reading the script didn't ask whether the twist made sense for the movie so much as they said to each other "Twist! Buy! Buy! Buy!"
- Only one random fact. As you can see from the stills above, High and Low is in 2.35:1. This aspect ratio first appeared in 1953 and was called, in its original incarnation, Cinemascope. In Japan, it was called"Tohoscope." Tohoscope! For other names for widescreen film formats, see here. My favorites: Super Technirama 70, SuperTotalscope, and best of all, Warwickscope. Because nothing says "widescreen grandeur" like "Warwickscope!"


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"Is there a right to do genealogy?When I eventually toddled off to bed I was still pondering the question and I was not sure that I had an absolute answer, and as I type this, now late on Friday evening I still am not sure, but I will put my thoughts out there, into the ether.
Perhaps rather than a right to do genealogy, it is a privilege to do it. I do not mean that I have an never ending bank account and therefore it is simply a way of filling an abundance of hours. I mean that it is a real privilege to utilize the numerous tools at our 21st Century disposal to unravel the past, whether that is my own family or researching someone else's.
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To look at events with an open mind, pass no judgement or shame. Simply follow the trail of evidence that is available and accept, what has happened in the past, has happened and that sometimes you simply have to do the best you can do, when you are caught between the rock and the hard place. It is easy to pass judgement on events that happened in the past with a modern view; and that can simply not be accurate. Who allows us to be judgmental?
Through the course of our research we will undoubtedly come across events that will make us cringe; the abortions, adoptions, murders, suicides and illegitimacy and goodness knows what else. We should behave with dignity and record those facts as exactly that, fact. Whilst not damaging the reputation or legacy those individuals left behind. You can not alter history, but should seek to understand the events as they happened and whilst we might be troubled by some facts that unearth themselves, we should behave accordingly.
Genealogy is not about apportioning blame. It is a journey that we undertake in order to establish our roots and to flesh out the details of our ancestors lives. It is our privilege to do that and we owe it to the memory of our ancestors to document the evidence and yet pass no judgement or spread malicious details no matter how long ago those events happened.
Through the course of this blog I share details of my ancestor's lives and in some cases my relatives. I never disclose information of a sensitive nature or perhaps I word it in a way that tactful, almost a little vague. I never refer to living people by name, maybe initials, or perhaps I make a generalized statement. That is about respect and to me it does not matter if the individual concerned was born in 1910 or 1710, our ancestors deserve respect.
My final thoughts are summed up with this.
"Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his boots. Don't criticize another person's work until you've tried to do it yourself; don't judge another person's life until you've been forced to live it.
Source - Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996)


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The Vince Young saga rolls on as we head into week two of the NFL season. It went from Vince Young apparently refusing to go out on the field in the final moments of a game last weekend, to police frantically searching for him Monday night, to talk of Vince having uttered the word "suicide" while having a gun in his glove compartment. For all the play this story has seen and the concern the Titans have shown, Vince says he's just dandy.
"I'm fine. I'm good,'' Young said. "I just needed (time) … to get through some things. But now I am OK. I was never depressed; I just hurt a little bit. … When it happens again, I'll know how to handle it.''
All of the buzz is around statements made to the Tennessee police by the therapist that talked to Vince on Monday.
"I asked him, 'What made her worry about him?' Lt. Andrea Swisher wrote. "He stated, 'His mood, his emotions, he wants to quit, and he mentioned suicide several times.' He went on to state that he left the house with a gun
Vince is claiming otherwise. He says everything is fine. Just your typical ups and downs of the NFL. The spin is reminiscent of the $25 million dollar job that Terrell Owens PR flak tried to run past us after Terrell's infamous pill popping episode down in Dallas. Terrell depressed? Please. According to Philadelphia Eagles stud lineman Shawn Andrews, who missed much of this year's training camp due to personal issues related to depression, mental health is much more prevalent than you'd think in the National Football League. The Big Kid, as Andrews is known in Philadelphia, has managed to avoid the national media's wrath, something Vince Young can't seem to do. Shawn says that many players he's faced this year have offered their thoughts and support and Andrews told reporters on Friday that if Vince Young needs someone to talk to, he's there to listen.
"When we faced the Patriots, those guys were really concerned, and when we played the Jets, a couple of guys were inquiring - told me if I wanted to talk or needed to talk [to contact them]," Andrews said. "A lot of guys, you'd be surprised, are going through what I'm going through and don't admit it. I think guys are sensitive to it. If they haven't been through it, they know somebody who has." Andrews doesn't know Young and doesn't know what might have happened to the QB, but he does know, he said, how "you can put that mask on," denying that anything is wrong. He said he would never presume to try to contact Young himself, but that if Young knew of Andrews' situation and ever wanted to talk, Andrews would welcome that.
Who knew the NFL was so full of 275 pound teddy bears? Friday eye opener: Not everyone is buying Vince Young's story [USA Today] Andrews reaches out to Titans QB Young [Philly Inquirer]


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New Day
- Artist: Satoshi Tomiie
- Genre: Electronic
- Release Date: 7/10/2015
Decades after his 1989 debut single and dancefloor anthem "Tears," Satoshi Tomiie presents his second album. "Tears," the legendary collaboration with Frankie Knuckles, is widely acknowledged as one of house music's most important moments, but it was only the beginning of an exciting career. Satoshi Tomiie has been at the forefront of the global house music movement ever since. He has released on a variety of labels ranging from Strictly Rhythm to Sony, toured with the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra fame, worked with artists like Robert Owens, remixed many popinclined tracks, and been praised for his 2007 contribution to Renaissance's Masters Series. All of this while creating artistic challenges for himself, to avoid falling into a pattern and repeating himself, and keeping up a constant global DJ schedule. Satoshi Tomiie, a lifelong student of jazz and classical piano, has always succeeded in adding an extra dimension into his music, and his sophomore album is no exception. While listening to New Day, it is immediately clear that the accomplished musician has reinvented himself once again. The overall sound of the album is crisp, fresh, and ingenious without losing it's allure. While some tracks are reminiscent of his early work, others surprise in their richness and complexity. The CD starts off with "Last Night," a generous intro; on "Landscape," the producer makes use of a more undulating timbre. The title-track features John Schmersal, a touring member of Caribou, and is the prelude to the deeper part of this narrative-oriented album. On "Cucina Rossa," he once again shows his rich background as a trained musician. With New Day, Satoshi Tomiie has redefined the creative process that surrounds the production of a fulllength album. He wanted to stray away from the norm of albums made up entirely of singles, and delivers a full-length culmination of the styles that have influenced him throughout his illustrious career; a seamless story. CD presented in six-panel digipak; includes four exclusive tracks. Double LP presented in gatefold sleeve; includes download code.
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This post is dedicated to the thing that holds up a hero's pants. For Batman it is his Utility Belt with it's numerous gadgets. Batman's Utility Belt has always had special place in my Dork heart.
Fun Fact (clipped from Wikipedia): Batman historian Les Daniels credits Gardner Fox, (the first writer other than Bill Finger to write the adventures of Batman in Detective Comics), with introducing the utility belt concept in Detective Comics #29 (July 1939). In its first appearance, Batman's utility belt "contained choking gas capsules." Two issues after the utility belt debuted, Fox also wrote the first appearance of a bat-themed weapon, when the batarang debuted in the story "Batman vs. the Vampire" in Detective Comics #31 (Sep 1939).
A signed Batman Utility Belt prop from the 1960's Batman TV show.
The first Batman Utility Belt Toy from Ideal released in1966 Fun Fact: Recently this sold for $8,000 on Ebay. At another auction a mint condition one sold for $16,000.
Two different Batman's Utility Belt Toys from Remco released in 1978. This is the one I wanted as a kid.
Batman Utility Belt Toy from the Batman Begins toy line.
Two Batman Utility Belt Toys from The Batman animated series. A fun one with gadgets and an impotent one without any. Come on people Batman needs his props!
Random Batman Utility Belt Toy sold at Target. The coolest aspect of this belt is the fact that it had a Batsignal and that's something a kid can drool over.
A "realistic" Batman Utility Belt prop used for those adults who like to dress up like Batman.
A super expensive sit in a glass case Batman Utility Belt replica. I understand the appeal of Dorks for stuff like this, but "THE BELT!" shouldn't be high art! It's a working man's tool.
Robin's Utility Belt (from the comic book). This belt never made any sense. Why keep all the pouches on the inside. Stupid Robin belt! No wonder you never got a toy made .
Joker's Infamous Utility Belt (from the comic book). Now this was a cool idea a little evil tit for tat accessories.
Other Super Heroes Utility Belt Toy made by Remco released in 1978. Of course none of these made any friggin' sense. Wasn't the Hulk's belt just a tied rope and what does a man who can move planets need with gadgets. BUT whatever, I would have still loved to have had these as a kid.
Fun Fact (clipped from Wikipedia): Gadgets in the Belt from time to time.
Batarangs: A customized throwing weapon used by Batman. Interpretations of the weapon have varied from the boomerang to the shuriken. Recent interpretations have shown a large array of different types and sizes for different effects (i.e. blunt impact, edged, slashing).
Bat-cuffs:Bat shaped handcuffs, resembling the kind used by Special Forces units. These restraints are made of a lightweight diamond-impregnated nylon overlaying a banded steel core. Using a one-piece design, they slide closed and have to be cut off. Batman has given a special tool with a diamond-edged cutting implement to the Gotham PD for removal.
Bat-monitor with Tracer: Used to track enemies Batman can't follow closely.Bat-Micro camera: A miniature camera
Bat-Communications device:Often an earbug, but sometimes handheld.
Bat First aid kit.Bat-Grappling hook and Grapnel Gun: Used to fire a bat-shaped hook attached to a high-tensile wire line in order to scale sheer surfaces and/or swing across gaps. Grapnel Gun is similar to a grappling hook, the line gun uses a strong clamp attached to a high-tensile wire for scaling surfaces and/or traversing gaps. It can be recovered by releasing the clamp and rewinding the cable. It was based from one that is designed as compact climbing gear for commando units.
Bat-Night vision goggles: Using Starlite infrared lenses to see thermal output in low light or non-lit situations. Currently built-in to Batman's cowl.
Bat-Flashlight: A simple flashlight. Batman uses it in numerous episodes of the animated series, usually when looking for clues, or through private files in the dark.Bat-Kryptonite ring: Stored in a lead box, it is reserved for emergency use against a rogue Superman and/or other Kryptonians.Bat-Lock pick: Sometimes kept in the gloves instead.
Bat-Master Key: Sometimes mistakenly called a skeleton key is perhaps the simplest tool in Batman's utility belt.
Bat-Miniaturized toolkit.
Bat-Rebreather: Allows Batman to breathe underwater or in a vacuum. Depending on the writer and/or artist, it may also be incorporated with the gas mask.Bat-Marble: Rolled down stairs to imitate footsteps. Depicted as a magnetic metal ball in the "Hush" storyline arc.Bat-bolas:Thrown around the feet of Batman's enemies to tie them with a composite-nylon cord. Often causes an escaping opponent to trip. With the push of a button in Batman's glove it can deliver an electric shock.
Bat-Cryo Capsules: Small capsules that release a cryogenic acid upon the breaking of the shell.Bat-Darts:Tipped with tranquillizers.
Bat-Miniature smoke grenades.
Bat-Smoke pellets: Often used to quickly provide cover for Batman's stealthly exits and entries. Knock-out gas pellets are used as well for non-lethally incapacitating opponents. Lachrymatory and regurgitant agents are deployed by throwing or breaking open the small hardened-gelatin spheroid capsules.
Bat-Stungun/taser: used by Batman to stun his enemies with an electrical shock to temporarily paralize them.Bat-Goo gun:A hand held foam projector that fires an adhesive-like substance to incapacitate opponents.
Bat-Stun (Flash-Bang) grenades: Emits bright light and loud sound to blind and stun enemies.
Bat-Thermite grenades: An incendiary used to burn through obstacles. In Batman: Year One, the thermite charge ignited accidentally and destroyed the utility belt. Although they are identified as Thermite, it is safe to assume that Thermate is used instead. (The former is a World War II technology which has largely been replaced by the latter.) In Judgement on Gotham (1991), Batman is equipped with a phosphor-based incendiary device.
Bat-Collapsible sword: seen in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, sharp enough to cut through steel objects such as Clock King's robots. Resembles a Lightsaber.
Bat-Saw: used in Batman & Robin to cut through Poison Ivy's vines, slightly resembles Gabriel Van Helsing's tojo blades.Bat-Flamethower: a miniature flamethower that was used on BatBane in the "Ghosts of Batman arc".Bat-Acetylene torch:A strong miniaturized laser used as a cutting tool.Bat-Heater: mini bat shaped tool used to melt ice.Bat-Cache of cash.
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Horace Warfield
Some theorize that this exposure to the bureaucracy of life and death may have influenced the direction of his career. Records have never been found to corroborate the rumors collected among scattered Tarsonian refugees that Warfield was abused as a child, but there are enough disconnected pieces of information to warrant the possibility. His older brother and sister both moved into careers in the medical field, and there have never been solid explanations regarding exactly why young Horace Warfield decided to enlist in the Confederate Marine Corps or how his family reacted to the decision. Tragically, all other members of the Warfield family were on Tarsonis during the first zerg invasion; there is no evidence of their having escaped the planet, and they are assumed dead.
Warfield rose through the ranks of the Confederate military with surprising speed, earning commendations from his superiors for valor, tactical brilliance, and decisive leadership in his squad. He served two tours in the Guild Wars and was promoted to lieutenant colonel as the engagement neared its end. It was at the start of his career, on the embattled planet Sonyan, that Warfield met Arcturus Mengsk. Mengsk was a captain in the 33rd Ground Assault Division, where Warfield first saw combat, and the captain recognized the quiet, cool-headedness of the recruit as a reflection of Mengsk's own strategic abilities. During a closely fought battle in the South Kreen Mines, Warfield led a charge into an enemy bunker, taking three bullets in the shoulder as he cleared a vital position. Warfield was quickly made first lieutenant under Mengsk, and veterans from the 33rd still speak of the easy camaraderie the two men formed over the course of that first year. Near the conclusion of the Guild Wars, Mengsk chose a separate course from the military path that Warfield was loyal to, but both men stayed in contact.
In the following years, Warfield was assigned tasks that dealt less with warfare and more with Confederate "peacekeeping." His distaste for the Confederacy grew until the bombardment of Korhal: he was in the Sara system when he heard of the genocidal attack, and witnesses say that he called in his resignation at that very minute. His command ship, the battlecruiser Iron Justice, cut off all contact with the surrounding military network and went silent. The crewmembers had been handpicked by Warfield from his most loyal officers; they followed their leader into the darkness.
Records of Horace Warfield are hazy after that. Labeled a deserter by Confederate forces, Warfield was hunted throughout the Sara system and beyond. Nobody is quite sure when or how he renewed contact with Arcturus Mengsk, but within the first few months of the formation of the Sons of Korhal, Horace Warfield was quietly directing the rebels' brazen attacks against the Confederacy. His intimate knowledge of the government's military strength, position, and movements was invaluable to the success of the rebellion. Some say that it was his intel that led to the securing of the psi emitter on Mar Sara - as well as its use on Tarsonis.
As the Dominion took hold over the sector, the now-general Warfield was seen as one of the more trusted advisors to the new emperor. Mengsk trusted Warfield with his most crucial tasks, stratagems, and missions. Before his death on Korhal, General Edmund Duke is said to have referred to Warfield as "the emperor's other brat," insinuating that Warfield wasn't in Augustgrad helping fight against the Zerg threat due to his privileged status in their leader's eyes.
Warfield retired in 2501, having served in some of the most historic battles in the Terran occupation of the Koprulu sector. But his military days were not over. Recent movements by the Zerg in Dominion territory have alarmed Emperor Mengsk enough to reactivate his old comrade. General Horace Warfield is now in command of the entire Dominion armed forces, and the history books stand to bear his name once again.[1]


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January 24, 2013
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Governor Christie Outlines Regulations to Allow Residents and Businesses to Rebuild Faster, Stronger and Safer from Hurricane Sandy
Standards Will Ensure Lower Premiums In The Long Term, Protecting Residents From Out Of Control Costs
(13/P6) TRENTON – Taking action to give New Jersey families, businesses and local governments the best available guidance to quickly and more durably rebuild from Hurricane Sandy, Governor Chris Christie today signed emergency regulations to adopt the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) updated Advisory Base Flood Elevation (ABFEs) maps as the rebuilding standard for the entire state. These regulations establish requirements and more efficient procedures for residents and businesses to construct, reconstruct, relocate and elevate buildings and other structures in flood hazard areas.
Using the best available science and data as reflected in these advisory maps will give families, businesses, and communities the best assessment of their risk – allowing them to better mitigate damage from future flood events, avoid higher flood insurance costs, and begin the rebuilding process immediately. Because of federal reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program to move towards increased flood insurance rates that reflect actual risk, families who rebuild their properties in a manner that does not conform to updated base flood elevations will see significant premium increases.
By acting today to use the latest available information and data from FEMA to set rebuilding standards for New Jersey, Governor Christie is helping homeowners and small businesses rebuild properties that are less at-risk, while also helping them avoid potentially massive, out-of-control flood insurance costs over the long-run.
While each property and rebuilding situation is unique, an example provided by FEMA illustrates the dramatic impact new standards can have on flood insurance rates, in addition to the issues of increasing the risk to the safety of the property and its inhabitants. If a property owner is currently in an "A zone" at 4 feet below the BFE elevation and are reclassified as a higher threat "V zone" and take no action, that property will be rated at a higher risk and be subject to an approximate annual premium (phased in) of up to $31,000. In addition to the threat posed by being 4 feet below the BFE in elevation, the property owner will be non-compliant with V zone construction standards.
In contrast, if the owner were to rebuild to the suggested BFE and appropriate construction standards, the annual premium (phased in) would be approximately $7,000. If the resident rebuilds 2 feet above the BFE with the construction standards for their new zone, the annual premium would be approximately $3,500. A savings of up to $27,500 annually.
"It is absolutely critical that we take this opportunity to rebuild New Jersey smarter and stronger in the aftermath of Sandy. That's why today I am approving emergency regulations being proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to help fast-track the rebuilding process," said Governor Christie. "By doing so, we're helping residents and businesses who have endured so much, to get back on their feet while at the same time ensuring that rebuilding occurs as quickly as possible, without costly red tape slowing this process down for our families and small businesses. As New Jersey recovers from Sandy, utilizing the best available data provided in these FEMA maps will give our communities the ability to rebuild with the least possible risk from future storms moving forward."
With over 8.4 million residents in its 8,721 square mile area and approximately 3.8 million residents in flood hazard areas, without swift and immediate action, the state is presented with a risk of continued severe impacts during the next flood event.
The DEP is adopting an emergency rule with common-sense provisions for rebuilding stronger structures, more quickly:
By adopting the ABFEs as the state standard immediately, the state will ensure that coastal communities are reconstructed using the best elevation guidance that is available, preventing the level of damage experienced in Sandy. The emergency rules also bolster DEP construction requirements to make structures more storm-resilient, to prevent the level of destruction caused by Sandy.
"Unfortunately many of the structures that were hardest hit by Sandy were built decades ago, prior to the establishment of much more protective state and federal building elevation requirements," said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. "If homes had been built to these standards prior to Sandy, it is fair to say that property damage would have been significantly less. It is critical that we have the statewide elevation standard and a permit by rule process in place before large numbers of permit applications for rebuilding start coming in and reconstruction of our state begins in full force."
In many cases, FEMA flood maps for coastal areas of New Jersey were more than two decades old and did not reflect real hazards. FEMA was in the process of updating the flood insurance maps, upon which the ABFEs are based, when Sandy struck. The agency released the ABFEs December 15, 2012 for some 200 communities affected by tidal waters.
The maps use modern technology, modeling and updated topographical maps to better define storm risks. They are designed to help state and local governments employ mitigation actions that ensure structures are rebuilt stronger, safer, and less vulnerable to future flooding events.
Adoption of the emergency Flood Hazard Area Act rule using the ABFEs as the base elevation standard
will ensure that every development in every municipality will apply the appropriate elevation standards across the board.
Otherwise municipalities might adopt a patchwork of local standards that might be implemented while FEMA works to finalize the flood maps based on the new ABFEs. This process could take many months and cause significant delays as New Jersey recovers from its worst-ever natural disaster.
The rule will become effective immediately upon filing with the Office of Administrative Law.
Copies of the emergency rules and the DEP statement of imminent peril are attached to the release.
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For many professionals, their online portfolio is the first point of contact for a prospective client, so it is important that it gets their message across in the correct tone for their business. There are many ways to approach designing an effective portfolio, depending on many factors, the profession being just one of them, for instance, a top flight accountant probably shouldn't be using grunge or hand-drawn elements in any part of his/her design, on paper or online!
However, the use of clean lines and typography and/or simple grid layout designs lend themselves to almost any profession such as online graphic designers, so today we have rounded-up 60 such clean and simple portfolio designs for your inspiration.
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2013 Partner Programs Guide: Storage Vendors
CRN Staff
Storage Vendors
The IT industry is undergoing some major shifts. Businesses are adopting cloud models and trends like "big data" are offering opportunities and challenges for vendors and solution providers alike. Solution providers in the storage space are racing to keep up, transforming themselves by becoming savvier in business processes and developing expertise in new areas like cloud storage.
Amidst all this upheaval, what has your IT vendor done for you lately?
The 2013 Partner Program Guide offers solution providers the information they need to evaluate IT vendors they already work with or are considering working with. The guide is based on detailed applications vendors submitted outlining all aspects of their partner programs.
As part of the Partner Program Guide, UBM Tech Channel Research designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs. Here we present the 5-Star designees in the storage space.


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I'm one of those people who security companies prey upon, thinking my house is first on every burgular's list and fully convinced that everything I own needs to be locked, armed and ready to call 911 should it be handled by the wrong hands. But, even I never thought that my most public asset, my blog, would be preyed upon instead.
What started as a lovely day checking out some new blogs last month turned into shock when I realized that the post I was reading - on a site I had never been to before - was, in fact, partially written by myself. To be more specific, almost the entire first 1/3 of the May 13th "review" I was reading was literally cut-n-pasted from a review I published back in November 2009. Sure, there was a word here or there that was changed, but whole sentences were still left intact in the plagarized review and it was very apparent from first read that the first few paragraphs did not match the writing of the rest of the review.
Naturally, I called in my husband, and asked him to read the other site's review. Having been my most faithful editor for the past two years, he's read most of my reviews once if not twice through before they are published and would be bound to recognize a review I had written. Or, possibly better yet, he would easily be able to tell me I had gone crazy if, in fact, the review was 100% original and I was merely imagining a similarity. I let him have a read of the site's review without comment and wasn't surprised that after only getting three lines in, he turned to me and said "this is your review." And so it was confirmed. A quick email to some blogging friends further confirmed it - my review had been stolen.
I never, ever want to be known as "that" mommy blogger - the one who creates controversy and discord throught the web without good reason, so I thought long and hard about my next move before I acted. I politely emailed the owner of the site and let her know that I had recently happened upon a review of hers that had remarkable similarities to a review I had written and published 6 months earlier. My husband said my email was much too nice, and wanted a revision of the letter from the start, but I insisted on a nice email to the woman, hoping to elicit her side of the story and not wanting to ignite some sort of war of the blogs or a she said/she said argument.
But, even I was infuriated when her response came back a few hours later, claiming that the review was 100% hers and that any similaries were pure coincidence. In her brief email she claimed she had never been to my site, never read my review, and that she writes all of her reviews herself, which she then backed up with "read the rest of my reviews and you will see that the review was written by me". She did, however, offer to change "one or two words" here or there for my peace of mind. She then had the audacity to end the email with "thanks for stopping by my site!"
I went to her review again, hoping that she had completely removed the stolen material and instead found that she literally had only changed a word here or there. I couldn't even hide my disappointment over the whole exchange and my husband was absolutely livid about the whole thing. He is still 100% convinced that her even changing the review by "one or two words" for my "peace of mind" was admitting she was in the wrong. His argument was that if I had written a book, I wouldn't let someone copy my work without credit, and I shouldn't let this go without a fight.
But, in the end, I just couldn't do it - even though I know I'm in the right and have the screen prints to prove it, I just don't want to cause drama. I do, however, want her to take down the stolen portions from her site, because I refuse to be associated with her or her site. I gave myself (and my husband) a few weeks to calm down now, but now I'm seriously contemplating getting someone to help me get my review completely removed from her site once and for all, but would like to do it without igniting a war.
Does anyone out there have any advice? And, as a side note, does anyone know of a ADT for blogs? Some sort of security system I could arm at night and would alert the police in the event of a theft?
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I've got an update for all of you! A little over a week ago I was contacted my the website owner and in her email was essentially a full confession that she had, in fact, stolen my review. She prefaced the email with some information regarding her state of mind at the time of the theft and everything that was going on in her life, but did say she had completely rewritten the review without anything taken from my original review.
The removal of my words, thoughts, and paragrahs was exactly the resolution I was hoping for, and I am pleased that no "drama" was ever played out. She did something wrong, lied about it at first, and then kept my review up for weeks after I contacted her, but in the end, I did get exactly what I was hoping for with the removal of the plagiarized lines. Whether or not you agree with what she did or how she handled the situation, there is something really satisfying about knowing that you took the higher road and it eventually paid off. Sure, I could have hoped for a rosier outcome, but at this point, this was honestly the best resolution possible in my opinion.
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Publication Acceptance Date: 7/12/2013
Publication Date: 7/22/2013
Citation: Brunelle, B.W., Bearson, S.M., Bearson, B.L. 2013. Transcriptomic analysis of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates that exhibit a tetracycline-induced invasion phenotype [abstract]. Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting. p. 221.
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Technical Abstract: Salmonella is a highly prevalent bacterial food-borne disease in the U.S. and is estimated to cause over 1 million cases, 19,000 hospitalizations, and 350 deaths every year. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella has emerged as an important food safety concern as it is associated with increased morbidity in humans relative to sensitive strains. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is one of the most common salmonellae in humans and livestock, and many of these cases are found to be resistant to several antibiotics; resistance to tetracycline in particular is prominent among S. Typhimurium isolates from humans (34 per cent), chickens (39 per cent), cattle (59 per cent), and swine (88 per cent) according to a ten-year average from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS). Our goal was to identify and characterize the effect of tetracycline on the invasiveness of MDR S. Typhimurium. Under typical in vitro growth conditions, genes associated with motility are expressed during early-log growth, while genes correlated with invasion, attachment, and intracellular survival are expressed during late-log or stationary growth phase. Using tissue culture assays, a subset of MDR S. Typhimurium isolates were identified that induced invasion during the early-log growth phase after exposure to sub-inhibitory levels of tetracycline. Global gene expression changes due to tetracycline in early-invasive MDR S. Typhimurium were assessed by RNA-seq. The transcriptomic data revealed that genes associated with motility were down-regulated, but genes involved in attachment, invasion, and intracellular survival were up-regulated due to tetracycline exposure. Thus, pathways that are characteristically up-regulated in late-log growth phase were stimulated by tetracycline to occur during early-log growth. Our data indicate that exposure to sub-inhibitory concentrations of tetracycline induces the invasiveness of certain Salmonella isolates by accelerating the temporally regulated pathways that enable cellular entry, which may confer a selective advantage in the host. Because tetracycline is often administered to humans and livestock, characterizing its effects on Salmonella invasiveness and virulence will enhance our understanding of its impact on both animal and human health.