text: SOS Children's Village Cuzco The proximity of Machu Picchu and other historical Inca sites draws millions to Cuzco every year. The city's Plaza de Armas with its beautiful colonial buildings is the hub of tourist activity, with a host of bars, clubs and restaurants nearby. But there is another side to the city that tourists don't see. Tourist wealth does not trickle down to the poorest sectors of society Children at the SOS Social Centre Cuzco (photo: H. Müller) Cuzco is located in the Peruvian Andes highlands at an altitude of 3,399 m and was once the capital of the Inca Empire. It is the starting point for visits to the famous Inca city of Machu Picchu, and almost two million tourists pass through Cuzco every year. Over the last 20 years its population has almost tripled to a current 390,000 inhabitants approximately. Attracted by the wealth that tourists from all over the world bring to the city, many indigenous families from the surrounding impoverished rural areas give up their traditional lifestyle and come here in search of opportunity. This intensive economic migration has led to the rapid expansion of slums on the city's periphery. These settlements are built in high-risk areas where torrential rains and earthquakes are always a potential threat to their safety, and running water and sanitation are not available. This in turn leads to severe health hazards and environmental problems. Indigenous population excluded from economic processes To this day, over 80 per cent of the Peruvian population speak Spanish – those who speak native languages such as Quechua or Aymara are often excluded from formal education and thus from economic processes. Generally, they hold no qualifications and only have access to informal work, for example as porters or muleteers, or selling artisan crafts and jewellery on the streets. For these families and their children, it is a precarious life: competition is tough and they are exposed to mistreatment and exploitation on the streets. Despite the Peruvian government's efforts to eradicate the worst forms of child labour, in Cuzco it remains a highly visible problem, with even very young children offering their services as tourist guides, or selling goods in the streets late into the night. While tourism is on the rise in the region, paradoxically so are levels of extreme poverty. Over 30 per cent of children under the age of 16 are chronically malnourished or living in extreme poverty. What we do in Cuzco A safe environment where children can be children (photo: A. Gabriel) SOS Children's Villages began its work in Cuzco in 1993. The SOS Social Centres here offer a family strengthening programme, which aims to alleviate hardship and thereby prevent children from being abandoned. The family strengthening programme is organised and run by the community itself, with SOS Children's Villages providing training and support. Services include a day-care centre, where pre-school children can be looked after. This gives the children's mothers the chance to go to work and to make a living while their children are in safe hands. For children who are no longer able to live with their families, there are twelve SOS families where up to 108 children can find a loving home. When young people are ready to leave their SOS family in order to pursue further education or vocational training, a number of shared flats are available to make the transition easier for them. Young people are also provided support in developing perspectives for their future, learning to shoulder responsibility and increasingly making their own decisions.


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JUPITER, Fla. – PGA Tour player Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky have taken to Twitter to say they're getting married.
Johnson tweeted Sunday that "she said yes!!!" and included a picture of a large diamond ring on the daughter of hockey great Wayne Gretzky. She retweeted it, along with several congratulatory messages from friends and family.
They first were linked at the start of the year when she was in the gallery at Kapalua, where Johnson won the Tournament of Champions. Gretzky and his wife, Janet, joined their daughter the following week in Honolulu at the Sony Open.
Johnson and Wayne Gretzky were partners in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
The 29-year-old Johnson already has seven wins in his first six years on the PGA Tour.

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Phone: 475-220-2400
Fax: 203-691-2404
Grade Levels: 9- 12
School Population: approx. 650
Hours: 7:30 AM to 2:05 PM
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The following information is required to be on file for your pet prior to attending dog training classes with K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc. Please complete the below form as part of your class registration process. If you have any questions, please contact us.
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Class Rules / Policies:
Rules & Cancellation Policy: Insurance regulations require closed-toed and healed shoes. No clogs, flip-flops, sandals. Tennis shoes are preferred.
Class Attendance: If you miss a class session please contact us to receive a copy of the homework. All of our classes at K9 Korral are taught in a series/needed basis, for this reason we cannot permit drop-ins or make-up classes. You may pay for a private lesson to get caught up.
If you miss two sessions or more, your dog will not be able to graduate this level.
Policy on Dog Behavior in Class: We reserve the right to decline entry to (or excuse from class) any dog who presents behavior issues that may be dangerous, disruptive, or exacerbated by participation the class. If you have concerns about how your dog will react in a classroom setting please contact us on the phone prior to signing up for the class. If the trainer determines that it is in everyone's best interest that your dog work with a private trainer you will be provided with a full refund and or apply to a private lesson.
Policy on Aggressive Puppies: No people or dog aggressive puppies are allowed in puppy group classes. Puppies found to have aggression issues (either dog or people) will be pulled from the Puppy Class and additional training options will be referred.
Policy of Human Behavior in Class: We reserve the right to decline entry to (or excuse from class) any person whose conduct or behavior may be disruptive to the class. Our classes are reward-based and focus on dog friendly training methods to help people teach their pet dogs basic pet-dog manners. Harsh corrections, jerking & pulling and/or intimidating training methods will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
Class Cancellations: If the minimum enrollment for a class (4 dogs) is not met by at least 2 days prior to the first class session, the class will be canceled or rescheduled. We will notify you at least 2 days before the class was scheduled to begin, to see if you would like to enroll in a different session or receive a refund.
Unaltered Dogs in Class: We welcome all friendly and social dogs into our classes. Dogs that are in heat cannot attend class. Refunds are not available for a dog that cannot attend class due to her heat cycle.
Health and Vaccinations: You are required to show proof that your dog is current on his or her vaccinations on or before the first day of class. By bringing your dog to class you certify that your dog does not have any contagious diseases. If at any point during the course your dogs become ill please call us immediately. Do not bring an ill dog to any class.
Refunds: Refunds will be provided if you notify us by email and phone of your cancellation at least 3 days before the first class session. A partial refund (50%) will be offered if, within the first session of your class, your dog is unable to continue due to injury or illness. No refund will be provided for any reason once the first session of your class has started.
Clean Up: It is the responsibility of the owner or their representative to remove any of their dogs droppings. Please carry a plastic bag, Available free at either door.
Leash: No person shall have their dog off lead without the permission of an instructor.
Collars & Leashes: Chock chains, Prong, shock Collars or chain collars and leashes are not permitted at any time. We also ask you leave your retractable leash at home for your dogs protection and others.
Smoking: Smoking is not permitted in building at anytime.
Footwear: Not wearing the appropriate footwear may result in not attending that particular class for your safety.
Returned Check Charge: There is a $40 fee for all returned checks.
Time: Our classes start on time so please make every effort to be here. After class has been in session for 10 minutes, you will not be able to attend current class. No Exceptions
Warming up: After arriving in class we would like you to start warming up your dog before class start. (get your dogs attention look command , walk, Along with other commands)
Treats: We recommend you use small training treats for the dogs during class. Something he/she will be able to take without much chewing. Soft treats Please as crunchy treats fall on floor.
After the first class we do not allow plastic bags with treats in the training area. This is not only disruptive to other dogs but also takes the attention away from you own dog. You can either keep your treats in your pocket or in a special training pouch, which we also sell in our store.
Waiver of Liability:
K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., will endeavor to create as safe an environment as possible for the class or private training of my dog and will endeavor to offer only sound, safe, and responsible training and training instructions. However, I recognize that K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., is not responsible for any unintentional errors, omissions, or incorrect assertions. I understand that the recommendation of any other product or service is not a guarantee of my satisfaction with that product or service. Further, I am and will remain responsible for the actions of my dog at all times.
I hereby agree to abide by the rules and policies of K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., training private instruction or classes as set forth in this contract. I understand that attendance of dog training classes or private instruction is not without risk to myself, members of my family, guests who may attend, or to my dog. In consideration of, and as inducement to the acceptance of my application for training membership in this training class or private instruction, I hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., its officers, directors, instructors, agents, employees and/or representatives of any and all claims, or claims by any member of my family, or accompanying guests of mine of injury, expense, costs or damages to myself, my dog or any handler sponsored by me both in class and out of class or private instruction. In addition, I agree that I will defend and indemnify K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., for any injury, expense, costs or damages to any dog handlers or dogs, whether sponsored by me or not, or to third parties arising out of my own actions or the actions of my dog. I have read the above-stated provisions, and agree to accept those responsibilities.
Dog Release:
*1.I understand that I am responsible for any harm caused by my dog while my dog is attending K9 Korral Obedience Training Center, Inc. Doggie Day Care & Boarding. I shall indemnify K9 Korral Obedience Center, Inc. against any claims made against the corporation or losses or damages of any kind suffered by K9 Korral Obedience Training Center, Inc. as a result of my failure to inform K9 Korral Obedience Training Center, Inc. of any pre-existing condition the dog may have (such as illness or aggression problems.) I understand and agree that in admitting my dog to K9 Korral Obedience Training Center, Inc. the facility has relied on my representation that my dog is in good health and has not harmed or shown aggressive or threatening behavior towards any person or any other dog.
*2.I understand and agree that K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., will not be liable for problems, damage, or injury caused by my dog provided reasonable care and precautions are followed by day care staff. I understand that K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., is fully insured. I release K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., of any liability arising from my dog's attendance and participation at the daycare. I understand that the day care is a place where animals co-mingle in groups. I understand my animal may be placed in a crate for "time outs" not to exceed twenty minutes, for overnight care or if injured. In extreme cases dogs may be muzzled for their protection or the protection of others. I understand that when dogs play in group's nicks and scratches may occur. Day care staff may or may not notify me immediately. If the injury is not serious staff may feel it is ok to leave the dog till the end of the day and let me know about it when I pick up. If the injury is serious I will be notified immediately.
*3.I understand and agree that any problem or injury that develops with my dog will be treated as deemed best by K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., Either my veterinarian or our mobile veterinarian will be contacted in the event of a medical problem that is serious in nature. The Florida Department of Agriculture requests that a plan be in place in the event your animal was to become deceased while at the day care. I will be notified immediately of the situation and the body will be taken to Animal Hospital or will be held at your request until your arrival.
*4.I understand that if my dog is left at the day care for a period of three days without contact from the owner this dog will be considered abandoned and necessary steps will be taken to turn the animal over to the proper authorities.
*5. I recognize that there are inherent risks of illness or injury when dealing with animals. Such risks include, but are not limited to, problems resulting from rough play, food scraps found outdoors and kennel cough (doggie colds).
*6. I, as the owner, agree to be solely responsible for any and all acts or behavior of my pet while in the care of K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., If my pet should become ill or seem to be in need of medical consideration, K9 Korral Obedience Training Center Inc., reserves the right to administer aid and/or to use any available veterinarian. I, the owner, shall pay any expenses so incurred.
*7. I understand, cancellations made less than 24 hrs, or failure to show up, will result into full payment of the scheduled daycare or boarding.
Please remember there are no make up classes so plan accordingly.


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There are more than 2 changes to it every congressional day for 20 years. It is so complicated that many IRS employees can't explain it accurately. It is 72,000 pages long. A tax code that has fostered an industry, tax lobbyists, who outnumber DC elected officials 32 to 1. The government picks winners and losers. We've become so smart but we've lost common sense.
A bill in Congress, HR25, remedies the above. The FairTax replaces taxes on income with a tax on consumption. It's fair. You decide how much in taxes you pay. It's simple. No forms to fill out and no records to keep. Politicians can't adjust provisions of it to give advantages to special interest groups or supporters. All citizens are granted a prebate to cover the tax on basic goods and services. Without taxes on income and employment, businesses thrive as their costs go down. Without the burden of our current tax system our manufactured goods become competitive worldwide. Good paying jobs return. The economy is saved without spending $1 on stimulus. Call your Congressmen today and ask for his support for the bill.
The FairTax, once you understand it, you'll demand it.
Anthony Gasbarro,
Fairhope, Alabama
Editor's Note: This article first appeared on www.hometowndebate.com 3/21/13. If you would like to respond to this story go to hometowndebate.com


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Love it or hate it, all eyes are on the Princeton Review's College Rankings right now. The long awaited top party schools list is out, and while some students may be clamoring to submit their applications, others are turned off at the mention of a top party scene. Whatever your stance, there is more than meets the eye – or the party rankings – at each of these schools. So as we count down Princeton Review's Top Party Schools, we'll take an in depth look at what these schools have to offer besides a good time on Friday night. 10. Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY In addition to claiming the #10 spot on the top party schools list, Syracuse University is also named a Best Northeastern College by the Princeton Review. And that's not just because of the partying on campus.Additionally, Syracuse ranks #17 on their Jock Schools list, #13 for Best College Newspaper, and most importantly, #4 for Top Undergraduate Entrepreneurial Programs. The student body at Syracuse University is comprised of close to 20,000 students and has a 91% retention rate. 9. Miami University – Oxford, OH The smallest school on the top 10 list, Miami University is also named a Best Midwestern College by the Princeton Review.Miami claims the #18 spot on the Best Campus Food list as well as #15 on Top Undergraduate Entrepreneurial Programs. Conversely, though, Miami did make it onto a few negative lists, like the "Financial Aid Not So Great" and "Little Race/Class Interaction" lists. The student body at Miami University is comprised of just over 16,000 students and has an 89% retention rate. 8. Florida State University – Tallahassee, FLFlorida State University is no stranger to this list. In fact, it also claimed the #8 spot last year. This year, it was named a Best Southeastern College by the Princeton Review as well. FSU found footing on a few other lists as well. They landed the #20 spot on "Everyone Plays an Intramural Sport," #7 on the Jock Schools and #4 on the "Students Pack the Stadiums" lists. It's safe to say that FSU is a very athletic-friendly campus, but according to the Princeton Review, the same cannot be said for academics as they ranked #7 on the list for "Students Study the Least." Close to 40,000 students attend Florida State University, and the school has a 92% retention rate. 7. University of California - Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara, CA Another repeat on the top 10 party school list is University of California - Santa Barbara. Like many of the schools on the top 10 list, it's also considered a Best College by Princeton Review. If you want a picture of the average UC Santa Barbara student, look to the "Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove Smoking Vegetarian" list, on which they ranked #20. They also appear at #11 on "Their Students Love These Colleges," #9 on Best School Newspaper and #3 on Happiest Students lists. University of California - Santa Barbara is home to close to 23,000 students and has a 91% retention rate. 6. University of Florida – Gainesville, FL The University of Florida jumped a few spots up from its #9 standing last year on the top Party Schools list. It was also named a Best Southeastern College by the Princeton Review again this year. Like a lot of Florida schools, University of Florida takes pride in its athletics, coming in at #16 on the "Everyone Plays Intramural Sports," #3 on the "Students Pack the Stadium" and #2 on the Jock Schools lists. But those aren't the only lists that Florida finds itself on. They also rank #8 on Best College Newspaper and #6 on Best Career Services. The University of Florida boasts over 50,000 in its student body and has a retention rate of 96%. 5. University of Georgia – Athens, GA University of Georgia typically holds one of the top two spots, but this year, it fell to #5. The Princeton Review also named Georgia as one of the Best Southeastern Colleges. Like some of the other bigger schools on the list, Georgia can be spotted elsewhere on Princeton Review's College Rankings. They fall on the Best Campus Food, "Students Pack the Stadiums," Best College Newspaper and Jock Schools lists. Additionally, they claim the #5 spot for Best Health Services. Nearly 35,000 students attend University of Georgia, which has a 94% retention rate. 4. University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, IL New to the list this year is the University of Illinois at Urbana, which is also named a Best Midwestern College by the Princeton Review. In addition to being a top party school, Illinois claims the #9 spot for Best Athletic Facilities, but as far as Princeton Review rankings go, the love stops there. The school made the #17 spot on the "Least Accessible Professors" list as well as the #2 slot on the "Professors Get Low Marks list." Roughly 45,000 students attend the University of Illinois, which has a 94% retention rate. 3. Ohio University – Athens, OH Last year's #1 party school fell a few notches this year, which is almost certainly a relief for the administration and parents of current students. Ohio is also named a Best Midwestern College by the Princeton Review. Additionally, the school made it into the top 20 for Best College Newspaper, Most Beautiful Campus and Best Athletic Facilities. However, it also claimed the #18 spot for "Students Study the Least." Over 22,000 students call Ohio University home, and it has an 81% retention rate. 2. University of Iowa – Iowa City, IA University of Iowa also made the list last year, but it has moved up from #4 this year, just barely missing the #1 spot (so who could it possibly be?). Iowa is also a Best Midwestern College, according to the Princeton Review. In addition to being a top 10 party school, the University of Iowa holds the #6 spot on the "Students Pack the Stadiums" list but also ranks #8 for "Students Study the Least." Nearly 30,000 students attend the University of Iowa, and the school has a 86% retention rate. 1. West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV Drumroll, please! The #1 party school this year is West Virginia University, which actually held the #6 spot on last year's list. In addition to holding the top party school title, WVU is also considered a Best Southeastern College by the Princeton Review. WVU made a number of other lists as well. It stands at #15 for Best College Library, #8 on "Students Pack the Stadiums" and #3 for Best Athletic Facilities. But to go along with its top party school title, the school also claimed the #3 spot on Princeon Review's "Students Study the Least" ranking. Roughly 29,000 students call West Virginia University home, which has an 80% retention rate. NOTE: Princeton Review Rankings should be reviewed with a grain of salt. The Princeton Review surveys students and their answers determine how the school ranks. According to the Princeton Review, "each college is given a score (similar to a GPA) for its students' answers to each multiple-choice question. These scores enable us to compare student opinion from college to college. They are the sole factors that determine which schools make it onto our 62 ranking lists." There is no input from collegiate administrators or professors so these assessments only reflect the student body perspective of each school. With that, they also don't reflect the opinions of the entire student body. Only around 122,000 students at 377 top colleges were surveyed this year. Does the top party schools list make any difference to you? Which schools aren't on here that you think should be?
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As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, we have been working with our leadership to ensure we are doing the right thing for our community.
Announcements & News
NIH Library Director's Message—August 2019
It is my pleasure to share updates from the NIH Library with you. These are only a few of the many projects and initiatives we are working on.
Citation Management Software Expo on March 10th Reviews Time-Saving Tools for Authors
Do you need help organizing or formatting citations in a manuscript you hope to submit for publication? If so, the NIH Library is here to help you.


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South Korea Delegates Aim to Strengthen Ties With North Korea
As Kim Jong-un solidifies his status as North Korea's newest leader, prominent South Korean personalities appear to be making an effort for both countries to begin new relations on the right note.
Despite the controversies surrounding the fallen North Korean dictator, Lee Hee-Ho, widow of late South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung, and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-Eun, each paid their respects to late leader Kim Jong-il and expressed condolences to new leader Kim Jong-un, Al Jazeera reported. Kim Jong-un is the third son Jong-il.
"I hope that our visit to the North will help improve South-North relations," Lee told reporters before crossing the border that divides the two countries.
The two women have close ties to the north. Lee's late husband had constructed engagement policies and a 2000 summit to improve relations with North Korea, The Associated Press reported.
"When my husband passed away in August 2009, chairman Kim Jong-il sent a condolence delegation to Seoul. I think it is a duty to make a condolence call," she said in the statement, according to VOANews.com.
The AP reported that Jung's late husband also had close ties to the North.
Despite the symbolism of the gesture, it is unclear what was actually discussed and who participated in the conversation. According to Al-Jazeera, the two women met with "unidentified officials" for a lunch meeting in Pyongyang.
The funeral for Kim Jong-il is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 28. However, the delegates are expected to leave before the funeral. According to Brian Myers, a professor at South Korea's Dongseo University, that might be to prevent any cultural misunderstandings.
"They don't really want a sizeable South Korean delegation, not just because it would cause logistic problems, but also because they would be unlikely to behave in the way expected of them," he said, according to VOANews.com. "I think the North Koreans would expect any Korean visitors to Pyongyang to be just as distraught, or at least to put on an act and pretend to be as distraught, as the locals. And I don't think the South Koreans would be likely to do that."
New leader Kim Jong-un has been granted more titles daily, with state media showering him with adoration and praise since it was announced he would take over the reins of the country. However, little is known about the new leader.
"There's a lot more talk about people's admiration for the young man than there is actual talk about the young man himself," Myers said. "We're getting repeated avowals of unity and loyalty to the young man, and we're still not seeing an official biography of him. So I think average North Korean is asking himself just what makes this person so uniquely qualified to rule."


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Change You Can Believe In (Cont'd)
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 12 years ago, in 2011, on the World Wide Web.
From Mark Landler and Steven Erlanger (2011-02-05), Obama Backs Suleiman-Led Transition, at truthout:
Munich — The Obama administration on Saturday formally threw its weight behind a gradual transition in Egypt, backing attempts by the country's vice president, Gen. Omar Suleiman, to broker a compromise with opposition groups and prepare for new elections in September.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to a conference here, said it was important to support Mr. Suleiman as he seeks to defuse street protests and promises to reach out to opposition groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Administration officials said earlier that Mr. Suleiman and other military-backed leaders in Egypt are also considering ways to provide President Hosni Mubarak with a graceful exit from power.
That takes some time,Mrs. Clinton said.There are certain things that have to be done in order to prepare.
— Mark Landler and Steven Erlanger (2011-02-05), Obama Backs Suleiman-Led Transition, at truthout
Indeed! For example:
Nor has Mr. Suleiman, a former general, former intelligence chief and Mr. Mubarak's longtime confidant, yet reached out to the leaders designated by the protesters to negotiate with the government, opposition groups said.
Instead of loosening its grip, the existing government appeared to be consolidating its power: The prime minister said police forces were returning to the streets, and an army general urged protesters to scale back their occupation of Tahrir Square.
In Tahrir Square, meanwhile, the military tightened its cordon around the protesters by reinforcing security checks at all the entrances.
— Kareem Fahim, Mark Landler and Anthony Shadid (2011-02-05), West [sic] Backs Gradual Egyptian Transition, New York Times
At home and abroad, the more things Change….
Elsewhere in the Times story, there's this:
Protesters interpreted the simultaneous moves by the Western leaders and Mr. Suleiman as a rebuff to their demands for an end to the dictatorship led for almost three decades by Mr. Mubarak, a pivotal American ally[1] and pillar of the existing order in the Middle East.
Just days after President Obama demanded publicly that change in Egypt must begin right away, many in the streets accused the Obama administration of sacrificing concrete steps toward genuine change in favor of a familiar stability.
America doesn't understand,said Ibrahim Mustafa, 42, who was waiting to enter Tahrir Square.The people know it is supporting an illegitimate regime.
— Kareem Fahim, Mark Landler and Anthony Shadid (2011-02-05), West [sic] Backs Gradual Egyptian Transition, New York Times
Of course Mr. Mustafa is right that that is what
America — meaning the United States government — is doing. But I'm afraid I can't agree with him if he blames it on the cluelessness or naïveté of Mr. Obama and his government. It's not that they don't understand what the people in Tahrir Square want and expect; it's that they don't care. The primary allies of governments are always other governments — because the first and most important commitment of any government is to government, just as such, and maintained at any cost.
See also:
- GT 2011-01-27: Change You Can Believe In
- GT 2011-01-21: Revolving Door
- GT 2010-06-30: Left flank (Cont'd), featuring
Chucklesthe Sensible Woodchuck!
- GT 2010-06-12: Left flank (Cont'd): Obama, the far left radical
- GT 2009-10-14: Left flank
- [1]Sic. Is Hosni Mubarak one of your pivotal allies?↩


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Howto Fix RSSOwl Internal Browser
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RSSOwl is lack of HTML support. So here is the fix this problem
Install mozilla-browser Using the following command
sudo apt-get install mozilla-browser
Change run.sh in your rssowl directory to:
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
java -Xmx134217728 -Djava.library.path=. -jar rssowl.jar
In RSSOwl, go to Tools-->Preferences-->View
In the "Misc" section, check "View newstext in browser"
Go to Tools-->Preferences-->Browser
In the "Please enter path to executable" box, enter the path to your exectuable (lol). This is the app that you want to use to open in an external browser, so I wanted to use firefox. My path was "/usr/bin/firefox" but that's not default. With a new system, it could be "/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox"
At the bottom, check "use external browser"
Now you should be able to view everything properly.


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When we write Naked Security articles about Mac malware, we often end up creating a bit of a stir. Usually that's not on account of the malware itself, but on account of us writing about it in the first place.
Here's how it goes down.
We write the article. The politically-sensitive Apple fanbuoys come out swinging, saying we only write about Apple malware because we're down on Cupertino.
The artistic fanbuoys (Apple users who are in a band, for example) chime in even more fiercely, saying Mac malware is a figment of everyone else's unimaginative delusion.
The geeky fanbuoys (the ones who know where bash is, and what it's for) come out firmly to remind us – utterly without any accuracy – that if it doesn't ask for the Admin password, it can't be malware.
And then the long-suffering but battle-hardened Windows users pop up and say, "Back in 1991, we felt the same way. It didn't end well." Those of a philosophical bent repeat, with sincerity and concern, the words of George Santayana. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
So, with a deep breath, here's some Mac malware news.
There's been a touch of fuss in the media about it, which is the first reason we thought that we ought to tell you about it; the second reason is that it has an engagingly curious name: NetWeird. (No, I don't know why, either.)
NetWeird is interesting primarily because it is uninteresting. It's not very well written; it's not very well tested; it's probably not going to catch you unawares (but watch out if you're in a band!); and so far as we can tell, it's not in the wild.
But someone has gone to the trouble of creating it and, according to our chums at French Mac anti-virus outfit Intego, is actually trying to sell it on the underground market for the ambitious price of $60.
And that makes it interesting: it seems that the crooks really are getting into the habit of churning out new Mac malware, not to show how clever they are, but merely to see if they can repeat the trick that's worked on Windows for years: making money out of next to nothing. Those who remember the past often choose to repeat it, especially if there's money to be made.
And now about the malware.
NetWeird installs itself into your home directory as an application bundle called WIFIADAPT.app.app. That makes it rather obvious.
It adds itself to your login items, presumably with the intention of loading up every time you reboot your Mac. But a bug means that it adds itself as a folder, not an application. All that happens when you log back in is that Finder pops up and displays your home directory.
NetWeird also calls home to a hosted server located in The Netherlands. This makes it a bot, or zombie.
Bots use an outbound connection to listen for command-and-control signals from a cybercrook known as a botmaster. This works because a TCP connection, once established, is fully bidirectional, so the client side can behave as a server, and vice versa.
The commands that the bot can process allow it to run arbitrary programs via the shell, monitor running processes, take screenshots, exfiltrate files, and to rummage through the password files of well-known third-party browsers and email clients Opera, Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.
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For large swathes of the globe, reliably accessing remotely-stored files is a problem.
The "cloud" is great for places that enjoy uninterrupted power and Internet connections. But for large swathes of the world, where blackouts are common and connections unreliable, accessing files stored remotely on the Internet is a massive hassle. Forget about downloading Adobe Creative Suite. Simply working on a Google doc can be aggravating.
That's why the people behind Ushahidi, open disaster-mapping software, built BRCK (pronounced "brick.") BRCK is a wi-fi router and mobile modem in one, with eight hours of battery life to keep it going when the power runs out. It can sit in an office connected by ethernet and switch seamlessly to a 3G or 4G connection if the line goes down. It can also support up to 20 wireless connections and has 16 gigabytes of storage so it can work as a back-up network drive. Connect it to some processing power, such as a Raspberry Pi cheap computer, and you have yourself a mini-server.
Erik Herzman, an Ushahidi co-founder, dreamed up BRCK more than a year ago as a solution to connectivity problems at the iHub, Nairobi's best-known space for hackers to congregate. The result is a working prototype and a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that's raised more than a third of the $125,000 target in less than five days. What makes BRCK stand out from Kickstarter's clutter is that it solves a very real need: the iHub, for instance, currently has four Internet providers to ensure connectivity, and a BRCK could lessen the need for so much redundancy.
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Release Date: June 17, 2008
Researchers have long known that type-2 diabetes and depression often go hand in hand. However, it's been unclear which condition develops first in patients who end up with both. Now, a new study led by Johns Hopkins doctors suggests that this chicken-and-egg problem has a dual answer: Patients with depression have an increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes, and patients with type-2 diabetes have an increased risk of developing depression.
For the study, published in the June 18 Journal of the American Medical Association, diabetes expert Sherita Hill Golden, M.D., M.H.S., and her colleagues took advantage of data generated by the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), which examined risk factors for atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, in an ethnically diverse group of 6,814 men and women between ages 45 to 84. Participants in the MESA study identified themselves when they enrolled as white, black, Hispanic or Chinese.
During MESA, participants made three visits to clinics over the course of three years to be examined for various atherosclerosis risk factors, including type-2 diabetes and symptoms of depression, which could serve as a precursor for full-blown clinical depression.
The study also collected information on other atherosclerosis risk factors, such as participants' body-mass indices, blood pressure, diet and exercise patterns, and smoking habits, as well as information correlated with health in general, such as income and socioeconomic factors.
Mining the data for their own purposes, Golden and her colleagues excluded from their analysis all participants who had high fasting glucose, an indication of diabetes, at the initial clinic visit. They then looked to see whether participants who initially had elevated symptoms of depression, as indicated through a questionnaire, were more likely than those who didn't to develop high fasting glucose at the end of the three-year study period.
Results showed that those with elevated depressive symptoms were 42 percent more likely overall to develop diabetes by the end of the study than those without these symptoms. Moreover, the stronger the symptoms, the higher the risk of diabetes, a "dose response" that lends strength to the findings.
Even when the researchers accounted for such factors as overweight, lack of exercise, and smoking, the risk of developing diabetes was still 34 percent higher for patients with depressive symptoms.
To investigate whether diabetes could lead to depression, Golden and her colleagues used the same pool of MESA information and excluded those who had elevated depressive symptoms at the initial clinic visit. Then, they looked to see whether those who had high fasting glucose-with or without a formal diagnosis of diabetes-were more likely to develop depressive symptoms by the end of the study.
The researchers found that patients treated for diabetes, about 9 percent of the group, were about 54 percent more likely to develop elevated depressive symptoms than those without diabetes.
Surprisingly, those with prediabetes or untreated diabetes were about 25 percent less likely to develop elevated depressive symptoms than people with normal fasting glucose, a finding Golden's team cannot explain at this time.
Golden, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, speculates that depression may lead patients to develop behaviors that trigger diabetes or make it worse, such as overeating, not exercising or smoking. Similarly, keeping up with the often extensive treatment regimens to care for their diabetes may make patients' depression worse. Understanding how one condition might lead to another could improve treatments for both problems, she says.
"Having both diabetes and depression can make it difficult for patients to get the good clinical outcomes that we like to see for each of these conditions," says Golden. "To make sure that patients with diabetes and depression receive the best care, we wanted to get to the bottom of the connection between these two conditions.
"It's important that doctors be attuned to look for both conditions in patients at risk for either diabetes or depression," Golden adds. "We may want to develop interventions for both treatments, instead of just one or the other."
Other Johns Hopkins researchers who participated in this study include Mariana Lazo, M.D.. M.Sc.; Hochang Benjamin Lee, M.D.; and Constantine Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S.
The MESA study was supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Golden and her colleagues' research was supported by a Patient-Oriented Mentored Scientist Award through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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Indy Ducati Island and MotoGP 2010
Most people think Indy racing is all about cars going fast but they would be wrong. It started with bikes. When MotoGP returned to the brickyard 3 years ago it was a return to a tradition that went back to 1909 when motorcycles were the first machines to race on the bricks. Now, 102 years later, it's an International scene, dominated by sponsers and riders that call other countries home. But Indy is "home" to Nicky Hayden, the Owensboro Kentucky ex-world champion Ducati racer and so this weekend was very much about him. Join us for the Project Mugello weekend, Ducati Island and "Nicky's GP", 2010........Read More
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Consistency is a thing that first of all makes me think of ketchup and then makes me think of catsup. But more about me…
As a figure who 1) has been labeled "most laidback and sarcastic" by her cosmetology school cohorts, 2) has annihilated human relationships with unbridled anxiety, 3) had like 7 adult careers by the age of 28 and 4) identifies unmistakably clear correlations between the aforementioned achievements, I don't claim to be the most constant of characters.
However, I do have a few consistent characteristics:
- I sometimes permit series that lack parallelism, as demonstrated in the above numbered list, due to error allowance for the greater good.
- My skin is that of a pink baby piglet and only gets more pink and piglet-y with age/spice/drink.
- I spontaneously purchase plane tickets when I'm un- or in-tentionally unemployed—and come to think of it, I've purchased plane tickets in order to become unemployed.
Due to light workload and, perhaps, my forthrightness about a desire for more work, my position was recently gently eliminated. The gentleness of the elimination was further soothed by a generous severance.
So there I was with an inbox full of Airbnb requests and airline promos and a schedule fraught with possibility. I ended up with a ticket to Baltimore/Washington, D.C. and from there to Reykjavik—on top of a pre-existing ticket to San Francisco to visit my very tall little sister.
Coming your way are a few posts on how I managed to save a few bucks here and there visiting what is considered a more costly European destination, a few tips on driving in Iceland and an overview of what I did that you might also like to do.
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From a technical point of view, the AppleTV is as slick and neatly designed as you'd expect from Apple. However, its reliance upon iTunes and Netflix is frustrating for users outside the US, and the AppleTV won't live up to its considerable potential until Apple bites the bullet and opens it up to a wider range of online video services.
The rumours that Apple might launch an actual TV continue to fly – as they have done for more than a year now – but at the moment all we've got is this relatively modest software update for the existing AppleTV box. UPDATE: read our latest Apple TV review.
The Apple TV Software Update 5.2 does introduce a handful of useful new features, but it still leaves us wondering when – or if – Apple is ever going to pull out all the stops and produce an AppleTV product worthy of the name.
Perhaps the most interesting new feature is the ability to pair the AppleTV with Apple's own Wireless Keyboard – making use of Bluetooth hardware that has previously lain dormant within the AppleTV's glossy little black box (Apple says that other Bluetooth keyboards "may also be compatible" as long as they match the layout of a standard Mac keyboard).
This simplifies the task of entering network passwords or using the search function when browsing the iTunes Store or the YouTube app. It's not exactly revolutionary, but it does suggest that Apple is still trying to refine the AppleTV's interface and make it easier to use in your front room – and that should keep the rumour mill about a full TV product going strong for at least another six months.
Improved iTunes support allows you to play your purchased music using iTunes In The Cloud, rather than having to pay for the additional iTunes Match service. However, I'm more intrigued by the fact that the AppleTV now has the ability to transmit audio via AirPlay to a set of AirPlay speakers. The AppleTV could already receive audio and video from Macs and iOS devices using AirPlay, but this software update means that it can now also transmit the audio from films and other streaming video content to a set of external AirPlay speakers. That will be great for watching films and TV programmes, as it will give the soundtrack a real boost compared to the relatively modest speakers that are built into most TV sets.
It's annoying, though, that this new feature only works with expensive AirPlay speakers. If you can pair the AppleTV with a Bluetooth keyboard then you should also be able to pair it with Bluetooth speakers too – which are generally a lot less expensive than AirPlay speakers.
It's this blinkered Apple-only approach that remains the AppleTV's greatest weakness. It still has the best graphical interface of any streaming media device currently available, but in its current form the AppleTV really just exists for the primary purpose of selling video downloads from the iTunes Store. There are a few US-based services available in addition to the iTunes Store, including Netflix, YouTube and Flickr, but the AppleTV simply ignores the vast majority of on-demand services that are widely available on the Internet – including key services such as the BBC iPlayer or LoveFilm here in the UK.
You can run apps for those services on an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and then stream them to the AppleTV using AirPlay – but the AppleTV really needs to works as a standalone device that can provide direct access to those services without requiring any expensive additional hardware.


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comScore Introduces Validated Campaign Essentials In Canada
comScore, Inc. has announced the Canadian launch of its validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE) product, a new measurement solution for validating digital ad delivery. vCE enables a holistic view of campaign delivery and a verified assessment of ad-exposed audiences via a single, third-party source. Unlike existing single-point solutions, it provides an unduplicated accounting of impressions delivered across a variety of dimensions, such as ads delivered in-view, in the right geography, in a brand safe environment, absent of fraudulent delivery and to a particular target audience.
"The introduction of validated Campaign Essentials in Canada benefits both buyers and sellers of digital advertising by increasing transparency and accountability for campaigns and improving cross-media comparability with TV," said Brent Bernie, President of comScore Media Metrix Canada. "Current digital ad economics feature an overabundance of supply that has often translated into poor quality placements for advertisers and weaker monetization for publishers. Validation presents a new paradigm that introduces the element of scarcity into the supply-and-demand equation and promises to improve the underlying economics of the ecosystem. Publishers will be able to better monetize their content by unearthing the 'gold below the fold,' while giving advertisers greater confidence that their ads will not only be seen but be delivered to the right audience in the right environment."
vCE provides a holistic view of validated impressions, which can be expressed as 'validated gross rating points', or vGRPs. This new metric excludes the measurement of ads that were not in-view (i.e. did not deliver an opportunity to see), delivered in the wrong geography, delivered on brand unsafe sites, or subject to fraudulent delivery. In addition, campaign reporting also includes the vTRP, which accounts for validated impressions that were delivered to the intended demographic or behavioral target audience.
"We are very pleased that comScore has launched vCE in Canada," stated Jennifer Holgate, SVP, Digital, Starcom MediaVest Group. "This type of third-party, holistic validation of ad delivery will allow us to assess where our online investments are successful and reveal the areas with the greatest potential for growth and optimization. We are glad to have been a partner of the Charter Study and look forward to these critical standards being set for the industry."
To better understand the quality of ad delivery in Canada today and to facilitate an informed discussion across markets, comScore conducted a Canadian-based vCE Charter Study. The study sought to measure the incidence of impressions that do not meet the various validation criteria.
"Understanding how our clients' campaigns performed, and creating an accountable marketplace, are critical to Volkswagen's success and continued growth in digital," said Jeff Thibodeau, Vice-President Digital Media, MediaCom Canada. "These valid insights are helping us improve our relationships with clients and better leverage our relationship with publishers."
The Study included campaigns from leading Canadian advertisers, such as Kraft Canada, Kellogg Canada, Rogers, and Volkswagen, and analyzed 125 million impressions across 475,000 publisher sites without requiring publisher site pixels. Impressions across all delivery methods, including iframes, were measured. The following results are highlights from the study.
- Across all Canadian campaigns measured, 65 percent of ad impressions were classified as being 'in-view.'* These results were similar to the U.S. and U.K. Charter Study results. In-view percentages varied by site and ranged from as low as 27 percent to as high as 94 percent.
- An average of 2 percent of ad impressions were delivered outside the desired geography, but individual campaigns ran as high as 4.6 percent.
- On average, the validated proportion of the campaigns' reach (vReach ratio) of the primary target audience was 71 percent, with individual campaigns running as high as 74 percent. In comparison to the U.S. Charter Study, Canada has a 15-percent higher proportion of validated reach of the primary target (U.S. vReach Ratio being 56 percent).
The above is part of a global initiative to support industry discussions on validated impressions. The full results from the U.S.-based vCE Charter Study involving online advertising campaigns for 12 premium advertisers are available for download.
*In Canada, a standard for 'in-view' hasn't been defined yet. For this charter study the parameters recommended by the U.S. initiative, 'Making Measurement Make Sense', consisting of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the American Association of National Advertisers (4A's) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB.) have been used as a guideline. These parameters say that at least 50 percent of the advertisement must be viewable for at least 1 second in order to be considered in-view.


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Future world energy demand driven by trends in developing countries
EIA's International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013) projects that growth in world energy use largely comes from countries outside of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Energy use patterns for countries inside the OECD are relatively stable between 2010 and 2040 as primary energy use is projected to grow by 0.5% per year, roughly the same rate as population growth in those countries. In non-OECD countries, faster growing economies and changing habits in highly concentrated populations drive significant increases in energy use. Energy use in non-OECD countries is projected to grow by 2.2% per year, and the share of non-OECD energy use is expected to rise from 54% of total world energy use in 2010 to 65% in 2040.
Between 2010 and 2040, IEO2013 shows that primary energy use per capita is expected to change little from its 2010 level of 196 million British thermal units (MMBtu) in the OECD but grows from 50 MMBtu to 73 MMBtu per capita in non-OECD countries. In addition to already being home to most of the world's population in 2010, the non-OECD countries are also expected to experience most of the world's population growth through 2040. Population growth is most pronounced in African countries, but energy use per capita is low across the continent and is projected to stay almost constant through 2040. India also accounts for a large portion of world population growth—adding more than twice as many people as expected to be added in the entire group of OECD countries between 2010 and 2040. Unlike African countries, India's energy use per capita is expected to grow during the period.
In 2040, the total gross domestic product (GDP), measured in purchasing power parity (PPP), of non-OECD countries is projected to be much higher than the GDP of OECD countries, but the amount of energy used per unit of GDP is virtually the same. At the same time, the ratio of GDP relative to population remains much higher in OECD countries. This higher GDP-to-population ratio allows citizens in OECD countries to spend more resources on energy-consuming services that provide productivity, leisure, and comfort, and keeps energy consumption on a per capita basis much higher in the OECD. As the economies in the non-OECD countries continue to experience relatively fast growth, those countries will also be able to spend more for energy-consuming services.
For more results and further discussion of international energy trends, see the IEO2013.
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text: Although Google Apps has made progress over the past few years as a cloud-based collaboration and productivity suite for businesses, the first big wave of adopters have been government agencies, schools and nonprofit organizations.Google certainly has enterprise Google Apps customers such as Virgin America Airlines and Genentech, but it only owns a tiny percentage of the enterprise e-mail market. The bulk of Google Apps migrations have come from the public sector \u2014 setting off a fight for cash-strapped state government agencies between Google and Microsoft, with its BPOS (business productivity online suite) cloud service.With tighter budgets than most corporations, government agencies have been more apt to move to cloud-based services that allow e-mail and documents to be stored in remote data centers.But with all these documents being saved and shared in Google's cloud service, two Google Apps users who spoke to CIO.com \u2014 the City of Panama City, Florida and the nonprofit American Lung Association of New England \u2014 were both surprised that Google did not provide better tools for actually monitoring the documents.Both organizations have moved from old and discordant technologies to a cheaper, more modern cloud alternative in Google Apps for e-mail, collaboration and productivity apps.Slideshow: Gmail Tips: 10 Features to Try NowIT directors for both organizations say they took a risk in deploying Google Apps in 2008, and learning curves aside, they have no regrets about the move. Neither organization misses paying for upgrades or managing servers. And even older employees who were tied to Outlook or Lotus Notes for decades have adjusted to using Gmail and working on documents within a browser and saving them to the cloud.But managing the docs after they had been saved in Google Docs proved to be a cumbersome process, says Panama City Network Administrator Richard Ferrick."I needed to view all the documents stored in Google Docs and get data on who they belong to, who else that person has shared the docs with and whether they were shared internally or outside our domain," says Ferrick. "I couldn't do that with Google Docs. I would have to log in as each person and see what was there." Panama City's Public Records ProblemPanama City, which has been using GAPE ($50 per user per year) since 2009, came to the cloud service after using Lotus Notes and an ancient Domino server for too long, says Ferrick. He pushed for Google Apps because he was a happy gmail user himself and wanted better mobility for city workers, who had been slowed down by having to log in through the firewall using a Cisco VPN client to check Lotus Notes e-mail.But Google Apps was still a brave new world for users not accustomed to collaborating online and using SaaS (software as a service) applications. "We had to do some training on storing documents in the cloud and sharing them instead of e-mailing them," Ferrick says. But he was still stymied by the inability to take an inventory of the city's documents within Google Apps. "In Florida, we put a lot of documents out there as public record, but we want to have control over them." With four of the city's departments archiving into the cloud, Ferrick needed Google Docs to act more like a file server. And that's when Ferrick came across CloudLock for Google Apps, cloud-based data protection software that can track how users have accessed, edited and shared documents in Google Docs. CloudLock works to protect the documents by monitoring which ones are shared and by who and even lets the admin revoke sharing rights if necessary. The tool also allows IT admins to transfer ownership of Google Docs to a different account on a company domain. Both Panama City and The American Lung Association of New England have used this feature to assign docs to a new employee and delete the account of an employee who has left. Keeping Private Documents from the PublicWith its medley of interns, volunteers and regular employees, the American Lung Association of New England, based in Waltham, Mass., has also benefited from the document ownership transfer feature in CloudLock, says Eric McDuffee, Director of Data and Technology. "With Google Docs I would have to go through one by one and download a person's documents," says McDuffee. Using CloudLock's bird's-eye view of all documents, McDuffee can select docs of a former employee and give ownership to someone else, then shut down the account. McDuffee, who moved the American Lung Association to Google Apps Education Edition (which is free for nonprofits) in 2008 when six offices merged into one, noticed from the beginning that document management tools were missing from Google Apps. "You have the ability to share documents internally and with the public, but no real way to monitor those documents," says McDuffee. What CloudLock enables is governance of documents, says McDuffee, allowing him to make documents available to important people like donors, but still control what docs can be shared and viewed by the public. "We want to be transparent, but only to a certain extent," he says. "Obviously we don't want a spreadsheet with everyone's salary to be viewable by the public." Google Apps: A True Enterprise App?Both the American Lung Association and Panama City grant administrative rights to department directors so they can use CloudLock to monitor the documents of everyone in their department. "A department head knows more than me about who in their group should have rights to certain documents. It takes the burden off the IT guy a bit," says McDuffee. Ferrick adds that without the addition of document management tools like CloudLock, Google Apps isn't a true enterprise app. "For IT admins, CloudLock allows us to get a true inventory of what's going inside Google Docs." CloudLock costs between $2 and $4 per Google Apps user per year. Click here for more pricing information.Shane O'Neill covers Microsoft, Windows, Operating Systems, Productivity Apps and Online Services for CIO.com. Follow Shane on Twitter @smoneill. 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PRINCE2® 7 launches here in September! PRINCE2® is the popular project management methodology, used for the planning and managing of projects in the public and private sector, while being flexible and scalable for any type and size of project.
This is one of the Best Practice Methodologies and this training course by SPOCE offers an excellent management foundation for any member of staff.
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It was quite a tame Valentine's Day, celebrity-wise. Jessica took Jackpot Johnson out for a spin, Goop showed us the joy of cooking for one and apparently Brad gifted Angie with breath mints.
So when in doubt, turn to the mothers. Vanessa Minnillo shared a page from her private family diary with PEOPLE. Sorry did I say private? I meant totally f-cking public. Because why wouldn't a mother share her Valentine's Day letter to her son? You can read it in full here, but – spoiler alert! – she loves her son.
I'm sorry moms, no no no. We don't get to co-opt Valentine's Day. We get Mother's Day, our birthday, a bit of Father's Day (because that's how we roll), but Valentine's Day is not about parents/kids. And not only that, this isn't even good gossip! If it was Beyonce writing a letter to Blue, yes of course we would devour that any day of the year. But the Lachey-Minnillos are hardly the Carter-Knowles. We can't just lap up any story that involves a mom mothering her baby.
And again, Valentine's Day is not about moms.
It's for little ones to give the entire class a Valentine card, or new couples to disappoint each other, or old couples to ignore, or the day to eat cinnamon hearts until you get a stomach ache.
But celebrity relationships are held up as the ideal (which is ironic considering the rate at which they fall apart), and celebrity motherhood is supposed to be aspirational, hence anything to do with babies and moms has become the go-to story. But it's incredibly boring and not fun gossip, which is the most disappointing part of it all.
What's next, an Arbor Day feature on Jessica Alba?
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Channel 9 has just posted a recording of my opening talk to kick off C++ and Beyond 2011 last month in Banff. Here's the link: C++ and Beyond 2011: Why C++.
It's a keynote-y talk, not a technical talk, but we felt it was important to address an important trend involving the language. The goal is to share a perspective and rationale for why of late there's such a resurgence of interest in C++ — both across the industry, and within Microsoft.
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I have four raised beds I'm working on this year, one bed I have added four wheel barrels of composted chicken straw and leaves. I want to start adding some tomatoes,peppers and onions. I will dig a small hole and add some dirt then put the plant in, this bed has direct sunlight for more then six hours a day. I'm hoping this will work because our soil is hard clay that is the reason for the raised beds.
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text: The most complete and thrilling guided walking tour starts from the peculiar Central market zone, characterized by workshops and multicolored stalls, where the Medice Chapels, and Basilica di S. Lorenzo, the church of Medici's Family are located. In a short time you can reach Piazza del Duomo, where you can admire the Cathedral (inside visit) and its dome by Brunelleschi, the bell-tower by Giotto, Saint John Baptistery with its Paradise Door. The tour continues by visiting the medieval quarters where Dante Alighieri and Beatrice lived. Further on you can find Palazzo del Argello. Not too far you will find Piazza della Signoria, a great "open-air sculpture museum" overlooked by the imposing Palazzo Vecchio. Net to it the Uffizi Gallery, one of the most important museum all over the world. Then you proceed to the picturesque Mercato della Paglia (Straw market), where the famous Piglet Fountain is located. You walk along the street that leads to Ponte Vecchio, the "jewels bridge". By crossing the bridge, you will reach the wonderful Pitti Palace where the tour ends.


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This past weekend I attended a workshop taught by Leslie Marsh entitled "Binding Memories in Black and White." It was held at Lemoncholy's Studio, Kecia Deveney's wonder of a place on the Jersey shore. As you can see from the following images, Kecia's studio is an inspiration in and of itself.
Leslie Marsh is my bookmaking hero and she was kind enough to bring a sampling of her incredible handmade books to the class. While she is a stellar photographer and her books look quite amazing on her blog, they are even more spectacular in person.
The workshop focused on a bleaching technique to alter black paper using materials from nature - leaves, flowers, and the like.
But that was just the beginning. After we made our pages, Leslie taught the long stitch technique so we were all able to bind our pages into our own books.
Pleasures of Hope, the book I created...
A sampling of my pages...
Thank you Leslie and Kecia and the whole gang. It was a great day!


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A top-secret plant at Aldermaston that makes enriched uranium components for Britain's nuclear warheads and fuel for the Royal Navy's submarines has been shut down because corrosion has been discovered in its "structural steelwork", the Guardian can reveal.
The closure has been endorsed by safety regulators who feared the building did not conform to the appropriate standards. The nuclear safety watchdog demands that such critical buildings are capable of withstanding "extreme weather and seismic events", and the plant at Aldermaston failed this test.
It has set a deadline of the end of the year for the problems to be fixed.
Although the closed plant has not been officially named for national security reasons, the Guardian understands it is known as A45. It makes enriched uranium components for Trident nuclear warheads and has recently been helping to make the uranium fuel for the Astute generation of nuclear-powered submarines.
The Ministry of Defence insisted it had contingency plans to cover the loss of the plant, but prolonged closure could force the government to buy materials from the US to ensure there is no disruption to Britain's nuclear weapons programme.
The government's safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation has taken legal enforcement action against AWE, the private consortium that runs the nuclear weapons complex at Aldermaston, Berkshire, ordering that the corroded steel be repaired.
Though the corrosion was first found last May and the enforcement notice served in November, the information only emerged via an ONR newsletter published online in the past few days. This has prompted critics to accuse AWE of not being forthcoming about a problem it detected eight months ago.
The ONR confirmed that inspections by AWE "discovered an unexpected area of corrosion on structural steelwork in one of their manufacturing facilities at Aldermaston".
The ONR launched an investigation that concluded AWE had breached a condition of its operating licence meant to ensure safe operation. "AWE had not fully complied with licence condition 28 in so far as its arrangements to examine, maintain and inspect the structure were not adequate to prevent the degradation of the structure, and the resulting challenge to its nuclear safety functions," said an ONR spokesman.
The ONR served a formal improvement notice on the company on 8 November requiring action before the end of 2013 "to ensure that the structure is repaired such that its safety function is fully restored". The ONR plans to publish the notice and a report about it in February. It is believed the notice will criticise AWE for failing to carry out adequate maintenance on the building which led to it falling into disrepair.
Though the report will say the plant remained safe to enter, AWE could not give necessary assurances that it could withstand foreseeable "exceptional challenges", and decided to suspend operations as a precaution.
AWE is checking the condition of similar facilities at Aldermaston and its nearby Burghfield site.
AWE is run for the Ministry of Defence by a group of three private companies: Lockheed Martin and Jacobs Engineering Group from the US and the British company Serco. It provides and maintains the nuclear warheads for Trident missiles carried by four Vanguard-class submarines based on the Clyde near Glasgow.
AWE confirmed it had found steel corrosion in May, and "degradation" in other structural components during inspections in July and August. "At that time, AWE immediately suspended routine operations as a precaution," said an AWE spokeswoman.
The ONR improvement notice "formalises a lot of the inspection and review work that has already been carried out since August", she said. "AWE is working closely with the ONR to ensure that its inspections, safety measures and planning for remedial work are carried out with their full knowledge and consent."
Until the problem has been fully assessed "no firm date can be given for final completion of necessary works", she added. "Throughout this process we have kept our regulators, the MoD and our local liaison committee fully informed."
According to the MoD, the enforcement action had had no immediate impact on its submarine programmes. It is understood, however, that the long-term implications are still being assessed.
"A regular inspection showed signs of corrosion in a steel column and AWE is now working to inspect the whole building, assess the extent of the problem and consider how best to rectify it," said an MoD spokesman.
The MoD said buildings at Aldermaston had to be maintained to the highest standards, and though this plant currently does not meet the safety criteria, it did not believe there was any risk associated with the corroding pipes.
The Green MP, Caroline Lucas, is tabling a series of parliamentary questions about the corrosion. She welcomed the ONR's enforcement action, but argued that "serious questions" remained over the adequacy of the inspections conducted by AWE.
"The MoD's ancient and rickety nuclear infrastructure is clearly not up to the job of replacing the current Trident nuclear weapons system," she said. "Rebuilding it to modern safety standards will add even more to the vast costs of the programme."
Peter Burt, from the Nuclear Information Service which monitors Aldermaston, said: "We should be concerned that … the matter only became known when ONR insisted on reporting details in one of its regular reports."


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Implement scatter-gather lists support in UBI and UBIFS
- Summary
- Implement scatter-gather lists support in UBI and UBIFS
- Proposer
- Ezequiel García <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Status
- Not selected in 2013 to be sponsored by the CE Workgroup
Currently UBI and UBIFS seem to allocate a lot vmalloced LEB-sized buffers on mount time. The reason for this is to "reserve" such memory and prevent the big allocations from failing at a later point.
This heavily affects the memory footprint in systems using UBIFS.
A possible solution is to implement scatter-gather lists support in UBI and UBIFS and replace the big (LEB-sized) vmallocations by smaller allocations.
While this is a big effort and will only benefit UBIFS, it is expected that it will help reduce the memory usage in such systems.
In addition, it has the added benefit of addressing another problem. Some ARM platforms don't support DMA on vmalloc'ed buffers; using scatter-gather lists the allocated will be quite smaller -O(page)-, and it will be possible to allocate them on physically contiguous memory (DMA capable).
These are recurrent issues [1, 2, 3] in the UBI mailing list, and it's UBI maintainer's suggested proposal [4].
Related work
As Linus Walleij pointed out [5] the MMC subsystem already implements something along this lines, and so this work might start by looking at that.
Contractor Candidates
None yet.
- [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026817.html
- [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-November/044982.html
- [3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-October/044586.html
- [4] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-November/045140.html
- [5] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-October/044608.html
Reasons for CEWG not selecting this project
Most CE companies are moving away from raw NAND towards eMMC for CE products. So UBIFS-related projects were not favored.
Also, we had no bids for these projects. In the case of the scatter-gather list proposal, the main feature seemed to be to reduce memory utilization of UBIFS. No member companies seemed to have that problem. There was no indication whether scatter-gather lists might affect performance (it should improve with less data copies, but there was no data indicating any change).


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Gérard Cousseau is a French comic author from Cintré, near Rennes. He is best known under his pseudonyms Gégé and Ferru, and for the many scripts he wrote in cooperation with Bélom. He began his career in 1978 at the atelier of Jean-Claude Fournier, whom he assisted on 'Bizu' for Spirou. For that same magazine, he created the gag series 'Gontran et les Autres' between 1979 and 1982. He is one of the main writers for Le Journal de Mickey and the other French Disney publications since the 1980s.
Mostly in cooperation with Bélom, he has provided scripts for such features as 'Les Bébés Disney' (with Claude Marin) and 'Les Petits Boulots de Donald' (with Santiago Barreira), as well as stories starring 'Mickey Mouse and the 'Donald Duck' family. The duo has also created some non-Disney series for Le Journal de Mickey, such as 'Pôle Émile le petit eskimo' (art by Jean-Luc Hiettre) and 'Robert Le Robot' (art by Tony Fernandez).
Since 2003, Gégé and Bélom are also regular writers for Éditions Bamboo, creating series like 'Les Ripoupons', that Gégé drew himself, and 'Les Toubibs', with art by Alain Sirvent. They have also set up the collection 'L'encyclopédie des prénoms en BD' for Vents d'Ouest.
Cousseau has also used the pen names Gécé or Ferru, the latter for 'Les Zélus', a comic he wrote for Nicoby at Vents d'Ouest in 2001. He is also active in other artistic fields, such as cinema, video, expositions and multimedia projects. He is co-creator of the printing firm Gala Création and of the publishing label Trognon Création. He is one of the driving forces behind the festival of Saint-Malo with the organization of expositions.


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