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Thursday, 25 December, 2014 -( +38˚F / +3˚C & cloudy @ 9:00 pm near Ithaca )- -( +39˚F / +4˚C & cloudy @ 10:00 pm Closer to Halifax —jim w—)- — { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— } { Some things change, some articles remain. Do you know where your survival kit is? —djo— }
{ "Why the worlds's big energy firms are running scared from renewables" >>—> * Link * }
{ New Stuff Every Day: We don't change the images with the twitter stuff every day, but there will almost always be something new there, usually at the top of each section. The red headlines under 'read this:' & 'Not this:' Will be new. The top 4 headlines in blue "Offbeat" will usually be new. The top ten headlines in maroon/brown under "Most Viewed" are almost always all new, with CBC repeating or rewording something every now and then. Some of the green healines under "Other" are new, the ones at the top of the list are the most new. The top 4 purple headlines under "Local / New Brunswick" are New, except when some of those top 4 are repeated over the weekend or a holiday. And several of the top olive green headlines under "First Nations" are new on most days. — thanks, —djo— }
{ +1,963 New tweets since 9 pm yesterday – & It just might be National "Something or Other Day", but nobody tells me these things – —djo— }
{ Headlines missing from below: —> Interesting twist on New Brunswick's moratorium on Fracking : At the top of the list of what would have to change before the new Premier of N.B. would allow fracking and pre-fracking 'explorations' would be "Social License" which, he explained, would mean that the citizens of New Brunswick would have to be in favor of that fracking. = "Hmmmm" – * UBER software raised prices during Australian Hostage Crisis to $140-$200 dollars per ride. Then apologized and offered repayments. — & Loads of people anonymously did nice things for people they never met & Media completely missed that. * —djo— }
{ From Democracy Now! : Mayor of NYC is trying to put part of the blame on protesters for the MK Ultra type killing of two NYPD officers. * Link * }
===Read This:
Lead Articles: Today's Theme?: "Tell me something Positive!"
Avalanches possible in B.C. ;
Is it a good thing that Library and Archives Canada should be digitizing the files of WWI soldiers? ;
I never planned to see 'The Interview' anyway? Do ya think they tricked the North Koreans into protesting about it to boost tickets sales? Dumb and Dumber do politix? ;
Yup, It was pretty warm in Atlantic Canada today- is that because politicians and other ice-holes are trying to manifest hell on earth? ;
Blasts from the recent past:
Politicians paying somebody to wipe out evidence of overspending? They do more than that, GOTO: CAFR1.Com ;
& – Wouldn't it be nice if people started living by "Love they Neighbor as thyself"- 'Could you believe it- no more war—' –
===Not This
Lead Articles: Today's Theme?: "—Nothing up my sleeve—"/ slight of hand?
Avalanche Canada issues warning for backcountry users ;
WWI soldiers' files being digitized by Library and Archives Canada ;
Hundreds of theatres begin screening 'The Interview' ;
Tempterature records shattered in Atlantic Canada on balmy Christmas Day ;
If you really want to see all of today's CBC headlines go to their website, listed as a link below this line:
>>—-> We Are All One Spirit <—-<<
Australia police will destroy a Nickelback CD received as a Secret Santa gift { }
YouTuber Shane Dawson's fans revolt after Sony pulls his Taylor Swift parody video { }
UBC's SPIDER telescope seeks Bing Bang's 'smoking gun' { * What happens when they find a bunch of Archangels sitting there grinning at them? * —djo— }
Stuntman "Mad Mike" Hughes to jump over St. Lawrence River { * If he goes to the source, he might be able to jump like six inches and clear it. * —djo— }
===Recently: >>—>
Husky missing for more than 6 months reunited with owner { 🙂 }
Pen pals from P.E.I. and Tennessee meet after 40 years { }
Deer on ice rescued by B.C. conservation officers { }
How far would you go for a Christmas tree? Nunavut man makes yearly trek to treeline { }
MIT researchers design battery powered cheetah robot { }
Polar bears' stinky feet may help attract mates: study { }
'He's just barking in your face': Would-be police dog fired for poor performance { }
Man's toilet explodes while city crew cleans sewers { }
Underwater robot measuring Antarctic sea ice a 'huge step' { }
Students develop app that rewards you for ignoring your phone in social situations { }
Swedish town seeks to prevent torching of giant Christmas straw goat { * It's a tradition in the town of Gävle, every Christmas they build a 13 meter tall straw goat and about 50% of the time vandals burn it down. * Link to WebCam * At least in my browser, there was a 'click here to translate this page' thing visible for a couple seconds. Jim W has some distant relatives somewhere in Sweden – —djo— }
"Most Viewed"
The Interview gets CAnadian online release { * Is this a plot to decrease the IQ of everyone in Canada? 😉 * —djo— }
Christmas weather breaks records in Atlantic Canada { }
The Interview screenings popular across the U.S. { }
Fire crews battle blaze at w Yorkville restaurants { }
Russian shopping mall lays down U.S. flag doormats { }
Avalanche Canada issues warnings for backcountry users { }
Stephen Harper asks Canadians to pray for military fighting ISIS { * People with hearts, minds and souls intact: pray that Canadians get rid of Harper. * —djo— }
Montreal police officers help woman deliver Christmas baby in car { }
WWI soldiers' files being digitized by Library and Archives Canada { }
Former president George H.W. Bush [the first] to spend another night in hospital { }
-19 photo slide show- 2014: Top images of the year { }
-Blog- Australia police will destroy a Nickelback CD received as a Secret Santa gift { }
Thousands pray at Indonesian mosque that survived 2004 tsunami { }
Wait is over for CBC News app Android users { }
Strong winds five thousands of Quebecers a dark Christmas { }
P.K.Subban gives young fans a holiday surprise { }
Mayor defends fatal police shooting of black teen near Ferguson { }
CDC monitoring lab technician for possible Ebola exposure { }
Huge titanosaur among 2014's dinosaur discoveries { }
'Santa cops' give $100 bills to pulled-over drivers in Montreal area { }
TSX, loonie finish in green as Christmas break begins { }
Quebec iron ore mine owner fined $7.5M for environmental charges { }
NASA ponders airship city above Venus { }
Top 2014 weather story goes to Canada's long, cold winter { }
Gay blood donation lifetime ban could ease in U.S. { }
Testimony in Canadian teacher's sex assault trial starts in Indonesia { }
Keurig coffee makers recalled after more than 100 people burned { }
Russia's 'era of excess' could end with fallen ruble { }
-Special Report- 'Impossible task' to say Ghana will remain Ebola free, WHO country director tells CBC { }
Health Canada backtracks on citronella bug spray ban { }
Want to sleep easy? Don't use a tablet at bedtime { }
NYC mayor will attend funeral of slain police officers despite tension with union { * The police union was upset with the mayor for saying that cops might be guilty of crimes for killing unarmed black men. Now he might be back in their good graces after accusing protesters of creating the environment that might have convinced a whacko that it might be a good thing to kill cops. Guys- it isn't the protesters and it isn't the cops who are the bad guys. The real bad guys are way deep behind the scenes plotting and planning the propaganda they release to create the divide and conquer fear based news and information the big corporate Media pounds into your head every day of your life. Use your heads, chill and talk to people. We can turn this thing around. * —djo— }
Does the Elf on the Shelf teach teach our kids to acept a surveillance state? { }
Breakthrough bedbug bait and trap invented by B.C. university scientists { * 'Invented'? or 'developed'? * —djo— }
Pope Francis blasts 'spiritual Alzheimer's' of Vatican Bureaucracy { }
Muhammad Ali 'vastly improved' since hospitalization { }
Indonesian janitors guilty of rape in case related to Canadian teacher { }
5 great books for holiday reading by indigenous authors { }
=== And: Daily Stuff ===
-Must Watch- Stephen Harper's 2014 Christmas message { * Warning: People with sensitivity to lies: This will make you sick. * —djo— }
-Must Watch- Queen's 2014 Christmas message { }
-Must Watch- 117th Radish Night festival { }
-Editor's Pick- CBC News launches new Android app { }
-Editor's Pick- Christmas traditions: Why do we celebrate on Dec. 25th? { }
-Editor's Pick- The secret history of your favourite Christmas song { }
===== Older Stuff =====
U.S. sends 4 Afghans back home from Guantanamo { }
Apple 'offended' by BBC allegations it broke promise to improve factory conditions { }
-Opinion- PM's comments about missing, murdered aboriginal women show 'lack of respect' { }
Health Canada anti-pot ad cites lower IQ, despite contrary evidence { * Health Canada is "Only Following Orders" from the Prime Minister's Office. * —djo— }
Quebec woman gets jail time after stopping for ducklings led to 2 deaths { * Morton Thiokol executives never even got their wrists slapped for ignoring warnings from engineers. This led to the spectacular explosion that killed everyone aboard a high profile NASA Shuttle launch. I say maybe they could justify locking up someone who tried to save any life after they've locked up everybody who willfully let many more people die in the name of corporate profits. * —djo— }
Harper's new Supreme Court pick sought hefty tax deduction for clothes { ? }
Trudeau's Liberals lead in year-end polls, but by how much? { }
Frozen, other on-screen deaths in animated films may upset young children { * Walt Disney: Wanted for psychological child abuse? * —djo— }
-Photos- 10 unusual homes around the world { * Link * }
Methane spikes on Mars puzzle researchers { * Um let's see, maybe there's a secret underground civilization where cows graze on fields of clover and fart their methane into ducts that divert it into wind tunnels and eventually vent it out into the atmosphere as spikes? Anybody got a better idea? * —djo— }
Jeb Bush to 'actively explore' 2016 presidential run { * All we need is another Bush in the White House, how about we send him to Mars to investigate the methane spikes instead? * —djo— }
Cheaper oil could cost Canadian governments $13B a year, CIBC { * How much are government lies and 'bull chips' costing Canada now? And while we're at it how much is idiotic 'bull chips' from Banks costing everybody every minute of every day? CIBC is a Canadian bank. * —djo— }
Loonie at 85 cents as oil slips below $56 U$ { }
Actor Samuel L. Jackson challenges stars to help stop 'racist police' { }
CIA interrogation chief warns of fall-out from betrayal in torture report { * What about the internation fall-out we have been suffering from since the whole world already knew about the betrayal of everything we used to believe was good and right about our 'American' government and way of life by CIA types and other ice-holes who believe they have a right to torture and abuse anybody they feel like abusing? * —djo— }
'Incredibly weak' deal salvaged at UN climate talks in Peru { }
Federal government allows Microsoft to bring foreign worker trainees [ -to Canada ] { * This is after a big fuss this year about Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada * —djo— }
N.L. premier 'cannot trust' Stephen Harper, says fisheries fund rules changed { }
-Audio- 5 battles fought to bring Tolkien's tales to the big screen { * Link * Interesting – There may be a New Zealand follow up movie entitled "Peter Jackson Goes to Hell" —djo— }
Why Canada can't claim innocence over CIA torture report { }
'Ticking time bomb': Residents fear U.S. Love Canal waste trucked to Sarnia area { }
Russian to return James Watson's Nobel Prize purchases for $4.7M { * 🙂 * }
Oil price drop threatens revenues at Canada's banks { * Well, that's good news. Banks are not your friends. Gut them. * —djo— }
-Video- 5 reasons to cut your own Christmas tree { * My daughter, Rachel, had a better idea: buy a living tree and transplant it in the spring. * —djo— }
Cat and dog flea treatments can be toxic to pets, humans { }
Why it's so rare for people to intervene in hostile situations { }
Our ape ancestors came down from the trees for cocktails { * Now this one belongs in 'offbeat' * —djo— *** Um, the best intelligence I have on 'Creation versus Evolution' is : Archangelic beings created human bodies and inhabited them to jump start the human race. They later made it possible for more than one method of procreation, prefering a highly advanced spiritual form over the physical form we all use these days. "Adam and Eve" were symbolic of the first generation of 'souls' that evolved up through the animal kingdom to the level where they could become human beings. The Earth, and Solar System move through 4 distinct levels inside the material universe. The density or matter and magnetism in these levels dictates what most humans on this planet can understand. At about 500 A.D. we hit rock bottom and most citizens of earth could only understand the purely physical. At about 1000 A.D. we moved up to this level, characterized by our understanding of electricity. = Electricity can move through wires, water can move through earth, stone, wood, etc. 'souls' can inhabit physical bodies. We May be approaching the next level up- in which most citizens of this planet will be able to grasp principals of magnetism. Magnetism can control electricity which can control physical stuff. The highest level will be reached when most inhabitants of this planet understand Spirit. Spiritual energy can control magnetism which can control electricity which can control physical stuff. If and when we achieve that Spiritual "Golden Age" again, most humans are supposed to be able to grasp the meaning of life and why we're here. The bad guys don't want this to happen. That's why we're going through so much nonsense right now. If the bad guys win and we lose the planet will not make it to the highest levels. If the good guys win we will make the jump to another Golden Age in a couple thousand years. If things go on the way they look like they're going, the bad guys with all their illusions and delusions may 'jump' with this planet in a downward spiral spin off into a nuclear winter and incredibly tough conditions that will make life on this planet nearly impossible to sustain. And the good guys will wake up on a virtually identical copy of this world, possibly a higher dimensional copy, parallel world on it's way up with a lot of happier, more loving, sharing, compassionate and ethical from birth type people and happier animals and plants. Like Doug says, we could use your prayers, guys- lots of them. *** —jim w— }
Orion spacecraft takes step on journey to put humans on Mars { * Can we send all the evil ice-holes who think they have a right to tell the rest of us what we should do during every micro-millisecond of our lives? * —djo— }
How to make long distance space travel happen { * There is some evidence that spending more than two weeks outside of the Earth's magnetic field with permanently erase every memory in your brain. Do you want to volunteer to try to prove or disprove that for us? * —djo— }
Milkweed touted as oil-spill super-sucker — with butterfly benefits { }
Video of women fighting off harassers shocks India { }
Cancer cured by medicine man, First Nations man says { }
"Local / New Brunswick"
NB Liquor's growler program chided by 2 craft breweries { }
Rain storm heading for New Brunswick on Christmas Eve { }
2 killed, 2 injured in head-on crash near Little Bartiboque { }
Temperature records shattered in Atlantic Canada on balmy Christmas Day { }
===== Earlier : =====
Fredericton mother unhappy with Revenue Canada Agency { * Millions of people should be unhappy with all income tax agencies. * —djo— }
Liberal pledge of 5,000 jobs comes with caveat { }
New Brunswick hit with more power outages { }
FHS dress code protest penalties too harsh, parents say { * Too many things about public education are too harsh on the students and families, I say. —djo— }
Anti-bullying signs hit hockey arenas across New Brunswick { }
FHS dress code protesters suspended for 3 to 5 days { * And banned from extracurricular activites for 1 year. * —djo— }
New Brunswickers losing faith in electrical grid { }
"First Nations"
Perry Bellegarde was elected National Chief of the Assemly of First Nations { }
-Opinion- Idle No More: Where is the movement 2 years later? { }
>>——> Most Recent Articles Below this line <——<<
Reporter's Notebook: Waubgeshig Rice on the Omushkegowuk Walkers { }
-Opinion- The Inuit spirit of sharing is alive the Christmas { }
Neskantaga chief says 'unmanned' airport harmful during suicide crisis { }
Tsilhqot'in land ruling was a game changer for B.C. { }
Neskantaga First Nation suffers abitger kiss ti suicide { }
Rob Clarke's controversial bill to change the Indian Act passed into law { * – There are a couple of national discussions that few governments want to risk political capital to wade into — one is the Constitution, the other is the Indian Act. – Conservative MP Rob Clarke decided he'd dip his toe into the latter three years ago with a private member's bill, after hearing for years from aboriginal leaders how reviled the Indian Act was.
– Last week, his Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act became law. Clarke — a member of Saskatchewan's Muskeg Lake First Nation — says he's proud to be the first aboriginal person to record such a legislative achievement. – "I thought well, let's start a dialogue nobody's actually taken…on, head on," Clarke said in an interview. – "I thought it would be better for a First Nations person to stake this forward and create some substantial change, but also to create some dialogue between government and First Nations." – The legislation repeals long-outdated references to residential schools in the Indian Act, and removes a reference to restricting certain people on reserves from trade. – The bill also give bands the responsibility to manage the publication of their bylaws on the Internet, in the Canada Gazette, or other venues. – The bylaw issue recently came up in Saskatchewan, when home moving companies complained that they were being charged by a band for driving on their roads, but were not able to view the rule in print. – A complicated element that dealt with overhauling how wills and estates are dealt with was amended out when the bill was studied in committee. – But the central feature of Clarke's bill is the requirement that the aboriginal affairs minister appear at a Commons committee every year to report on his or her progress in developing a replacement for the Indian Act. – The Indian Act itself is extremely unpopular, but crafting an alternative has been a political challenge. The prime minister's own attempt to reform funding for First Nations education evaporated this year as talks between the federal government and aboriginal leaders came to a standstill. – Piecemeal solution? – Many First Nations voices criticized Clarke's bill as a piecemeal attempt to address the problem, without the proper consultation required under the Constitution. – "While it may be difficult to speak to every First Nation in the country, there is a need to ensure that First Nations' voices are heard and that every effort is made to speak with those First Nations who hold the rights and will be impacted," Assembly of First Nations B.C. regional chief and now Liberal candidate Jody Wilson-Raybould told a Commons committee. – Clarke says it's unreasonable to think an MP would have the resources to do widespread national consultations. He said he did travel across the country and wrote to all First Nations reserves looking for their input. – "Yeah, I received a lot of criticism, however there was also a lot of people who said, it's about time something was done, and actually somebody taking charge and trying to make effective change," Clarke said. – Saskatchewan Sen. Lillian Dyck used stronger language recently when she said Clarke was "behaving like a white man" by pushing the bill. She later said she recognized the comment could be hurtful. – Others have suggested that the impetus for overhauling the Indian Act should come from First Nations themselves — a position that Clarke bristles at. – "When (NDP MP) Jean Crowder stands up in the House and says this has to be aboriginally led, from aboriginal to aboriginal, I say, hold on there — I'm native, I'm First Nations, why can't I do this?" said Clarke. – "We do have to start looking at a better relationship." – }
Attempted murder, sexual assault charges laid in beathing of girl { }
Saskatchewan govenment creates Advisory Group on Poverty Reduction { }
Austin Bigtobacco charged with murder in Skiskia teen's death { }
Protest reignites calls to fire Mike Wasyslyshen from police force { }
Chrisma Ann Joy Denny found safe, will return to Nova Scotia { }
Kashechewan evacuees receive backpacks of supplies from Marhkan students { }
-Photos- Iqaluit resident turns public obscentities into something positive { }
What went wrong with Nutrition North food subsidy program? { }
Balfour Collegiate changes name from Redmen to Bears { }
Holiday reading list: 5 great books by indigenous authors { }
Donovan McGlaughlin, Yukon man with no birth certificate, fights for citizenship { }
No hunting of Baffin Island caribou until further notice { }
-Opinion- Stephen Harper's comments on missing, murdered aboriginal women show 'lack of respect' { }
Chemical dump forces Songhees First Nation evacuations { }
Balfour Collegiate changes name from Redmen to Bears { }
Grand Chief intervenes in Kenora high school basketball suspension { }
Trailbreaker on the road in Fort Chipewyan, Alta. { }
– 7 photo slide show – Unreserved: December 20 { }
===== Earlier This Week: =====
Manitoba chiefs want teacher Brad Baduik fired for 'hateful' comments { }
-Photos- One Nunavut man's struggle to feed his kids { }
Susan Aglukark arrives in Iqaluit with gifts of food { }
Painted Pony Cafe in Kamloops serves up Aboriginal fare { }
Site C dam approved by B.C. government { * the $9-billion Site C dam would be a massive hydroelectric project that would flood a large area of the Peace River Valley in northeastern B.C. * —djo—}
Manitoba chief says fire inspections would condemn reserve homes { }
The fight for missing and murdered aboriginal women reached a boiling point in 2014 { }
Tears of joy as bison return to a Saskatchewan First Nation { }
Nunatsiavut's Joey Angnatok wins Inuit Recognition Award { }
Manslaughter charges laid in Winnipeg woman's death { }
Site C dam: How we got here and whay you need to know { }
Grade 8 girl dies by suicide in Fort Chipewyan { }
Amnesty International slams Harper government for putting economy ahead of rights { }
Big Black Van roaming Winnipeg's streets a likely hoax, police say { }
Inquest told Manitoba reserve had no chance fighting house fire { }
Woman, 29, stabbed to death in Winnipeg's North End { }
Cree walkers against uranium mining arrive in Montreal after 850 km walk { }
iPods give Yellowknife seniors a blast from the past { }
RCMP takedown of First Nations elder captured in photo { }
Unreserved: truth and reconcilliation and reaching out to the grassroots { }
Manitoba invests $150K in program to help aboriginal sex assault victims { }
Transparency act called 'control tactic' by Manitoba chief { }
Regina man Simon Ash-Moccasin says he's a victim of racial profiling { }
Gull Bay First Nation gets apology from Ontario Power Generation { }
Rinelle Harper to be honoured at AFN opening ceremonies { }
-Opinion- Racial issues revealed in Ferguson alive and well in Canada { }
Ottawa takes First Nations to court over transparency law { }
The realities of poverty { }
>>>———> { —jda— has kindly 'built us' an archives page for "First Nations/Indigenous" headlines we thought were important to keep around, maybe too long. —djo— }<———<<<
>>—-> We Are All One Spirit <—-<<
— "Other Media" : —
* Link * <—<< Link to John Trudell's amazing speech from 'Thanksgiving' 2013 via First Voices Indigenous Radio
{ This is from the 'Tweet-Us-Sphere' : }
{ "Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of the Harper government: Newspaper Article from the Toronto Star: * Link * }
* Walter Burien's Web site explains how governments all over the 'free world' are stealing from their citizens and 'cooking their books' : * link to CAFR1.com *
Links >>—-> The definitive ranking of ridiculous and misleading Conservative names for bills put before Canadian Parliament:
Note: 'Http.com' Hijacked the original links we put here for these two links.
Let Us Know if any other links have been effed with, thank you
>>——> J.Z.N McCauley's NaNo Novel <——<<
{ -jda-'s NaBloPoMo entry disappeared from the list. & Jim's NaNoWriMo Novel has gone over 90,000 words as of November 19th. }
{ Don't know how many new tweets since late last night. We crashed. Medium but poignant Traffic? in the 'Tweet-us-sphere' —djo— }
Recent earthquakes in Alberta linked to fracking: study { }
{ * Attention OathKeepers: When "Serve and Protect" becomes strict "Law Enforcement" with the civilian population seen as the enemy, Police become Terrorists. * Link to article in the Toronto Star * —djo— }
===== Steppenwolf's "Monster" with interesting video clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EVE8leTG8Y God Bless Oathkeepers =====
* Link * <—<< Link to John Trudell's amazing speech from 'Thanksgiving' 2013 via First Voices Indigenous Radio
{ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtzIKCqaZMQ * <——<< * Link * Moody Blues @ Home in 1995? from "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" I like many of the interesting details of Justin Hayward's 'Carriage House' Home. —jim w— }
{ "America- Where are ya now? Don't you care about your sons and daughters? Don't ya know We need you now, We can't fight alone against this monster-" -John Kay of Steppenwolf- & the Monster is the one who convinces the police that they need to arrest a harmless 90 year old man for feeding the homeless in Florida and scares honest police officers to the point where they're killing unarmed/ harmless men and women. These Police Officers are Not the Enemy. Look Behind the Curtain. —djo— }
{ "Anyone who would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both." —Benjamin Franklin }
{ "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies" —Thomas Jefferson }
{ From a tweet: Huffington Post: "A Tribe Called Red's Thanksgiving Track is Tougher to Swallow Than Turkey And Stuffing (Video)" * Link * —djo— }
===== From the "International Business Times" — "Anonymous Hackers Threaten Canadian Police, Alleging 'Swatting' Suspect Was Framed" — * Link * { * Consider the source * —djo— } =====
{ From @democracynow "We can reduce the prison population by 50% in the next 6-7 years if we just demand greater justice" * Link * the link might be more interesting than the above quote. —djo— }
Most recently, Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced "Let's Encrypt," their collaboration with Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan in attempt to take the first big step towards a more universally secure Internet. One of the biggest weaknesses in the underlying architecture of the web as it exists currently is the highly bureaucratic and complex (not to mention costly) system required for websites to obtain and deploy the SSL/TSL certificates needed to protect your web surfing experience (these are the basic pieces of information that allow the little lock icon to work in your browser, signaling your session is private and secure). "Let's Encrypt" will extend these digital certificates to all websites by starting an easy-to-use and free-of-charge certificate authority that issues them; this means that web encryption will not just be available to big players like banking services or email providers, but will set a much higher bar for Internet security across all websites, regardless of their ability to pay for a certificate or properly install it.
We are strong, adamant supporters of this initiative and are excitedly awaiting it's unveiling in 2015 under a new nonprofit called the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
In addition to this, Mozilla announced it's own strategic privacy initiative in collaboration the Tor Project and CDT. We'll be consulting "on privacy technology, open standards, and future product collaborations" with the open-source browser to help it more effectively and appropriately bring privacy features into its products. "We want to accelerate pragmatic and user-focused advances in privacy technology for the Web, giving users more control, awareness and protection in their Web experiences," the company explained via its privacy blog. – We believe in the possibilities that privacy innovations could make possible, and are excited and honored to be a part of the process. – What do these changes mean for the short- and long- term future of the security of the Internet? – There will soon be no excuses for not baking encryption into web services, and in turn, consumer privacy and protection into the tools we use to navigate the digital highway.
- Servers in Canada linked to FinFisher spyware program
- NSA uses smartphone apps to track people, Snowden docs suggest
– "Our ultimate aim is for human rights defenders, journalists and civil society groups to be able to carry out their legitimate work without fear of surveillance, harassment, intimidation, arrest or torture," Amnesty International said in an online posting introducing Detekt. – Whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed the extent of government surveillance on activists and citizens. Amnesty said it is concerned about a chill on human rights activists and journalists, especially those in repressive countries, because of such surveillance.
- ANALYSIS: Edward Snowden did us all a favour, it's time to curb the snooping
- 15 tips for protecting your privacy online
Microsoft fixes 19-year old Windows bug { * – Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years. – The bug, which is present in every version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onward, allows an attacker to remotely take over and control a computer.
– IBM Corp's cybersecurity research team discovered the bug in May, describing it as a "significant vulnerability" in the operating system. – "The buggy code is at least 19 years old and has been remotely exploitable for the past 18 years," IBM X-Force research team said in its blog on Tuesday. – *
*** The bugs were not "undiscovered", Government Hackers spoke about this on Coast to Coast A.M. before the summer of 2002. Art Bell was the host. This program is not listed in the current Coast to Coast A.M. archives, at least I could not find it by searching 'hackers'. 3 men who were quite 'enthusiastic' and talkative about their experience working for hackers for US Government agencies that 'officially do not exist' -one of them told us he has an ashtray with one of those officially non-existent agency's official logo on it- told us that microsoft was fully aware of holes in their operating system but were not going to do anything about it because the government of the US liked it the way it was. They said it was simple for any hacker to get into your computer if you were 'running windows' -"Especially if you have printer sharing turned on." && They also said they liked Apple Computers back then because it was possible to tell a Mac to do only one thing at a time, not like windows computers which could have all sorts of nonsense going on undetected in the background. – AND Another Coast to Coast A.M. guest, much more recently, related talking to a computer pioneer a long time ago, when dial ups were the latest thing, and when the computer guy finished showing him something, he would not leave the room without shutting off his computer, and disconnecting the phone line from his computer. When the C2C guest asked the computer guy what that was all about, the computer guy said that he, as in insider, knew that the US Government could already get into anyone's computer that was connected to Delphi or GEnie or AOL, even if the computer had been turned off. — And, now that almost every computer in the world has WiFi capabilities- you can never fully disconnect yourself from the possibility that they can turn your computer on and gather any information you have, or were ever connected to- any time they want to do that- With the possible exception that you might be 'safe' if you live inside a Faraday cage, a hundred feet or more beneath the surface of this planet. Welcome to the future, it sucks. —jim w— }
Quebec woman gets jail time after stopping for ducklings led to 2 deaths { * Morton Thiokol executives never even got their wrists slapped for ignoring warnings from engineers. This led to the spectacular explosion that killed everyone aboard a high profile NASA Shuttle launch. I say maybe they could justify locking up someone who tried to save any life after they've locked up everybody who willfully let many more people die in the name of corporate profits. * —djo— } Emma Czrnobaj gets 90 days in jail for [trying to save ducks on a highway and causing a fatal accident in the process] { }
Obesity's global cost hits $2 trillion a year, report suggests { * Monsanto's GMO food is probably the leading cause of the 'obesity epidemic' Don't make me repeat the idea that public evisceration would probably not be a cruel or unusual punishment for all Monsanto's executives, considering what they have unleashed on the population of this planet. Lineup for execution? = Monsanto execs & engineers on one side of a very long street and Oil company execs on the other, and Fracking advocates down the middle? * —djo— }
Tory anti-pot ad mocked and condemned by YouTube viewers { * Link * }
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Veterans face too many barriers to mental-health help, auditor general says { }
'Consumers deserve the truth': Water-heater firm fined $7M for unfair sales tactics { }
Conservative trap to ensnare Liberal candidate ends up embarassing Tories { }
– 'What else are they doing wrong?' artists wonder of Revenue Canada { * The short answer? believing the propagandist liars who tell them that the government needs tax money to offer any kind of services to the people it wants to keep down under their thumbs – They have income streams they reallllly don't want you to know about. Demand the truth now! * Link to CAFR1 dot com * —djo— }
-Analysis- Question authority? Not if you are black in America: Neil Macdonald { }
Coke plans to start making fancy milk — for twice the price { * If it's genetically modified, it's poison. * —djo— }
Law can protect social media users who blindly consent to terms of service { * It CAN – but will it? * —djo— }
Adults, kids cross police line at Kinder Morgan protests { * One tweet today: "The RCMP just arrested two eleven year olds at Burnaby Mountain, I feel safer already." * —djo— }
-Special Report- Would you know what to do if someone told you they were raped? { * Link * } }
-Analysis- Gobal corruption a bigger scourge than than terrorism: Brian Stewart { * Link to the CBC article. * *** And The whole idea behind our 'modern' system of 'banking' is probably the most corrupt 'system' in this world. *** —djo— }
{ My friends in the U.S. tell me I'm lucky to be in Canada. They are usually correct. —jim w— }
– Old Stuff- -Editor's Pick- Riot-torn Ferguson's distrust of police flows from a city run on fines { }
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OCEAN CITY — The historic George B. Cropper Concrete Company property along the bay at North 1st Street, at the foot of the Route 50 bridge, was sold at auction last week for $4.1 million to a prominent West Ocean City development family.
Around 11 a.m. last Friday, a large crowd, including a virtual who's who among area developers, builders, bankers and investors, gathered at the historic Cropper Concrete Company property for an advertised auction hosted by Atlantic Auctions and authorized by the estate of George B. Cropper. Atlantic Auctions Vice President and General Manager Bill Hudson told the potential bidders the property was zoned for a variety of uses and had approved plans from the town of Ocean City for a mixed use development including 54 townhouses and 40 condominiums. Hudson also extolled the physical virtues of the 3.8-acre bayfront parcel.
"Today, I see a great opportunity for redevelopment with this property, including townhouses, hotels, motels and condos," he said. "I challenge anyone here today to find a more prime piece of real estate in Ocean City."
Auctioneer Ray Nichols started the bidding at $20 million and quickly started working his way back as no bids were immediately offered. After a pause, Nichols started the bidding on the lower end of the spectrum and the first bid came in at $2 million from the Gudelsky family, who several years ago developed much of the waterfront in West Ocean City from the Ocean City Fishing Center to the Martha's Landing community to Sunset Marina.
After the initial bid, the auction was halted for a brief time as several in attendance, including the auctioneers and the prospective bidders, made phone calls. After a short break and a private conference, the Gudelskys countered with a bid of $4.1 million, which turned out to be the only bid on the property as the auction closed with little fanfare.
Rolfe Gudelsky said this week he and his uncle John Gudelsky went to the auction largely out of curiosity, but when the bidding started low and no potential buyers stepped up, they decided to make an offer on the historic bayfront parcel.
"We didn't really go over there with the intention of aggressively bidding on the property," he said. "We just assumed it would go for much more than what we ended up getting it for, but when the opportunity presented itself, we decided to make an offer. It just worked out for us. It's a beautiful piece of property."
The iconic Cropper Concrete plant, which generated much of the concrete that aided building in the resort over the last century, is clearly visible to residents and visitors entering the resort for decades. It has been approved by the town for a mixed-use residential and commercial development, although the new buyers are obviously not beholden to the approved plans.
The property is unique in that its zoning allows for a variety of uses, including its existing industrial use, although its potential is clearly in a residential or commercial use. Gudelsky said this week the family has no immediate plans for its redevelopment.
"At this time, we don't have any plans for its immediate future," he said. "We're just going to take our time and explore some options. In the meantime, we're going to do some work to clean up the site. We have every intention of making the property part of an attractive entry into Ocean City in the short term, although it's been like it is for such a long, long time."

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Protein crystal growth on Mir (DCAM)
Right: A nucleosome core particle grown on an earlier DCAM mission aboard Mir (links to 1008x687-pixel,
To date, with stays lasting as long as 6-months aboard Mir, DCAM has yielded dramatic results. Highlights include numerous large, spectacular crystals of the nucleosome core particle (shown at right), which regulates genetic activities in the nucleus of a cell. Another striking result was the growth of the largest T7 RNA crystal ever produced (0.7x0.8x2.0 mm in size). DCAM cells carrying triglycine sulfate (TGS) also yielded large crystals. TGS has been grown in space by other experiments, so these results will help in gauging the comparative effectiveness of various microgravity processes.
DCAM's first flight, the second U.S. Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) in 1995, verified the scientific validity of this approach to growing protein crystals. A full complement of six trays comprising 162 DCAM cells was carried to Mir in March 1996 and was returned to Earth on STS-79 which also installed a second set of DCAM trays. The STS-81 mission in January 1997 retrieved the second set of trays and installed a third set, retrieved by STS-85 in May 1997, as scientists continued to refine the mixtures and details used in this promising method. STS-91 will retrieve this DCAM set in May 1998.
Proteins are important, complex biological molecules which serve a variety of functions in all living organisms. Determining their three-dimensional structure will lead to a greater understanding of how they function in living organisms. Many proteins can be crystallized and their molecular structures determined through analysis of those crystals by X-ray diffraction. Unfortunately, some crystals grown in the 1-g environment of Earth have internal defects that limit or impair such analyses. As demonstrated on Space Shuttle missions since 1985, some protein crystals grown in space are larger, and more highly ordered, than the Earth-grown counterparts.
DCAM was developed at Marshall Space Flight Center to grow protein crystals by a special diffusion process. The principal investigator is Dr. Daniel Carter of New Century Pharmaceuticals.
DCAM grows crystals by the dialysis and liquid/liquid diffusion methods. In both methods, protein crystal growth is induced by changing conditions in the solution containing the protein. In dialysis, a semipermeable membrane retains the protein solution in one compartment, while allowing molecules of precipitant to pass freely through the membrane from an adjacent compartment. As the precipitant concentration increases within the protein compartment, crystallization begins.
In liquid-liquid diffusion, a protein solution and a precipitant solution are layered in a container and allowed to diffuse into each other. This leads to conditions which may induce crystallization of the protein. Liquid-liquid diffusion is difficult on Earth because density and temperature differences cause the solutions to mix rapidly.
In the DCAM, a "button" covered by a semi-permeable membrane holds a small protein sample but allows the precipitant solution to pass into the protein solution. Exposure to the precipitant causes the protein to crystallize.
Each DCAM unit is a polycarbonate plastic container a little larger than a plastic can for 35 mm film. The inside is molded into two cylindrical chambers joined by a tunnel. The first chamber, which is smaller, contains a buffer/precipitant solution. The end cap for this chamber holds the protein sample in a "button" covered by a semi-permeable membrane. The larger chamber holds a precipitant solution which is usually more concentrated that that in the smaller chamber. The two chambers are joined by a plug filled with a porous material to control the rate of diffusion. The plug material is selected to be compatible with the protein solution, and its properties are set to match the rate at which the crystals are to grow.
The DCAM has no mechanical system. Diffusion starts on Earth as soon as the chambers are filled. However, the rate is so slow that no appreciable change occurs before the samples reach orbit one or two or even several days later. This also allows protein samples to stay aboard the shuttle in case of a launch delay. In other hardware, many samples must be replaced in the event of a postponement. Such an apparatus is ideally suited for long duration mission such as the International Space Station and Mir.
STS-89 will carry 162 DCAM units mounted in 3 x 9 arrays on six trays stored in a locker in the Shuttle middeck (the same as the array now aboard Mir). Upon arrival at Mir, the DCAMs will be transferred to one of Mir's modules and mounted in a quiet area where crystallization will take place. Three of the six trays will be mounted so they can be photographed as crystals form. After the retrieval and return to Earth by STS-92 in May 1998, the samples will be analyzed.
Protein samples for the crystallization in space are selected by a committee chaired by the PCG project scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Samples are then evaluated and approved by NASA toxicology and safety offices. As a point of comparison, the molecular masses of proteins range from about 890 to 2,200 times that of ordinary sugar, a relatively simple organic compound which is easily crystallized. Candidate DCAM proteins (and guest investigators) for the fifth DCAM-Mir mission include:
- Human Antithrombin III controls blood coagulation in human plasma. Its importance is underscored by the occurrence of severe thrombotic disorders including deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and cerebral infarction in subjects with antithrombin mutations. Antithrombin is commonly given to patients suffering thrombotic crises of the shock syndromes. Investigator: Dr. Mark R. Wardell, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.
- Lysozyme is used a protein model to document the effects of microgravity on crystal growth. Investigators: Dr. Daniel C. Carter, New Century Pharmaceuticals, Huntsville, Ala., Dr. Franz Rosenberger and Dr. Bill Thomas, University of Alabama in Huntsville.
- Nucleosome core particles have important roles in the regulation of gene expression, particularly in the expression of genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III. The nucleosome is the basis for organization within the genome by compacting DNA within the nucleus of the cell and by making selected regions of chromosomes available for transcription and replication. Investigator: Dr. Gerard J. Bunick, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
- Outer surface glycoprotein of the hyperthermophile Methanothermus fervidus lets M. fervidus live under environmental extremes, like high temperature, low-pH value, or high salt concentration. Elucidation of the crystal structure of this glycoprotein, which is directly exposed to the environment, may provide important information on the survival of these unusual microorganisms. Investigator: Dr. Jean-Paul Declercq, UniversitĂŠ Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
- Serum Albumin, a key ingredient in blood plasma, is crucial to the transport of drugs and other chemicals throughout the body. Investigator: Dr. Daniel Carter, New Century Pharmaceuticals, Huntsville, Ala.
- HK-Gro EL Complex is used in fundamental virus structure and function studies. Investigator: Dr. John Rosenberg University of Pittsburgh.
- Ferritin and Apoferritin are used in fundamental biochemistry and crystal growth model systems. Investigators: Dr. Franz Rosenberger, Dr. Bill Thomas, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Dr. Daniel C. Carter, New Century Pharmaceuticals, Huntsville, Ala.
- Bacteriorhodopsin has potential for storing data in optical computer crystals. Investigator: Dr. Gottfried Wagner Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
- Ferrochelatase is important to biomedical and biochemical applications. Investigators: Dr. B.C. Wang and Dr. Harry Dailey University of Georgia.
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Don't know what a BBS is? "BBS" stands for Bulletin Board System, and BBSes were to computer users in the 80s and early 90s what web message boards and file-download web sites are to Internet users here in the 21st century. BBSes were run out of people's houses, using their own computers and modems and phone lines. People called in to post messages, share information, and make chit-chat with each other.
As callers were usually geographically close to each other (i.e., in the same area code), they occasionally met up in real life to make fools of themselves in public, too. Such meetings were great fun, as you had a chance to put faces to nicknames, to try to figure out if a person's online persona matched their real-life behavior, and to make friends that you might even hang on to for much longer than the life of the BBS itself.
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It is available with Natural Oak frame.
Born in Austria, he is a French citizen and currently lives in Milan. A graduate of the first course of " esthétique industrielle " at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, dedicated to the experimentation with plastic materials, at the beginning of the '70s he developed the first ski boot in thermoplastic material.
After many years of collaboration with the Italian Caber (later Lotto), he specialized in "sport design" working with all the most important multinationals in the United States, Asia, Japan and Europe.
The origin from that sector, where research and experimentation of new materials and production processes is more driven, has allowed him to export knowledge in sectors where design in the classical sense has been rooted for more time.
Today, it continuously collaborates with major furniture companies, furniture, lighting and accessories, small and large appliances, more technical products.
Some awards received over the years:
"Design Plus" (Frankfurt) - 1995;
"Compasso d'Oro" ADI (Milan) - 1995;
"Auszeichnung für Gutes Design" (Hannover) - 1996;
"Créateur de l'Année" (Paris) - 1997;
"Compasso d'Oro" ADI (Milan) - 2001;
"Design Plus" (Frankfurt) - 2001;
"Auszeichnung für Gutes Design" (Hannover) - 2007;
"Compasso d'Oro" ADI (Milan) - 2008.
His Motorcyclist's Back Protector (back protector designed for Dainese) is in the permanent design collection of the MOMA in New York.
Despite the well-deserved reputation as a technical designer, Marc Sadler is an artist with a recognized talent in drawing, painting and sculpture, emotionally involved to the point of considering painting his most true passion.


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'Fruitvale': an interview with screenwriter Ryan Coogler
"Fruitvale," the award-winning movie about the last 24 hours in the life of Oscar Grant, is set to debut in mid-June in Los Angeles. I caught up with the Bay Area's own Ryan Coogler to talk about the film. I had some questions about why this film did not include the life and death of Lovelle Mixon and would it be able to be used as a weapon against police terrorism. Read Ryan Coogler's answers in his own words.


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ILA Session on The Teacher Librarian
NOTICE: Librarians, here is the purple handout from the ILA session: How are We Working Together to Prepare K-12 Students for college and beyond. Take a look at my position statement; I would love to hear what you think. http://sepwork.pbwiki.com/f/Preparing%20K-12%20Students.doc
Use this multimedia presentation for your literacy skills teaching. If you need more information, contact C.VanHook: [email protected]. Remember to emphasize the steps to successful research and project development as you travel through the road trip. http://sepwork.pbwiki.com/f/Information%20Literacy%20Skills.pps
The Essential K-12 Teacher Librarian Handouts for the ILA Conference:
ILA Panel Discussion Presentation
--- Vanhook 18:19, 12 October 2006 (EDT)Carol VanHook
The teacher librarian promotes:Letter to staff for collaborative training[1]
The teacher librarian publicizes: (1)Library Brochure--[2] and (2)the sample big bookmark of passwords for accessing 24/7 online databases [3]
The teacher librarian protects the learning environment: Bookmark to parents for online safety [4]
The teacher librarian prepares the students with life skills for the 21st century: (1) Validating websites [5], (2)Using online research databases [6], and using Noodle Tools as a citation maker/ note taker / Works Cited List creator [7]
Please join my "booktalking with you" wiki and share a good book with the young adults in America! The password is booktalk. The wiki is at booktalk.pbwiki.com [8]


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Barb Wire1996 Action/Adventure | Drama | SciFi/Fantasy
Set in the year 2017, Barb Wire takes place after democracy has fallen and a fascist military junta has taken over the U.S. government, plotting to wipe out the country with Red Ribbon, a laboratory-manufactured disease derived from the AIDS virus. The entire test city of Topeka has been annihilated, and only the small bastion of Steel Harbor remains the last free zone in the country, conveniently the home of the title heroine Pamela Lee. Barb, a leather-clad, silicon-stretched motorcycle mama, happens to carry antibodies for Red Ribbon in her DNA, thus making her an enemy of the state. She sets out to defend freedom and take down the evil government by posing as a stripper and seducing foolish male adversaries with her well-displayed assets. The plot thickens as she happens upon her freedom-fighter ex-lover and his wife (much in the vein of Casablanca).~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide


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The Future of Retail Is Now
What's better than a one-word summary? Nothing. See? This week, the Bank of America Consumer and Retail Conference has had some of the biggest names in retail present their plans for growth over the next few years. If you had to boil it down to one word, I'd pick "ominchannel." It's kind of a cheat, because it's a compound word and it's kind of made-up, but that's the word nonetheless. From Macy's to Under Armour , everyone seemed to be talking about omnichannel and how it was going to drive sales over the next five years.
Here are a few of the highlights from the conference, as well as a look at what companies are doing right now to make omnichannel an income driver.
Hold up -- what is omnichannel?
If you ask five different CEOs what omnichannel is, I imagine you'd get eight different answers. The common theme, though, is letting customers interact with a brand in any channel and having the experience be roughly the same. Nordstrom offers customers a 360-degree view of some items online. Saks is shipping items to online customers from its stores. PetSmart is looking at potentially having online ordering available for pickup in-store, cutting shipping costs and times. The only common thread that runs through those ideas is the term "omnichannel."
For some people, that's going to be a problem. This is going to be the buzzword for 2013 in retail, and everyone and his lemonade-stand-running-sister are going to be touting the advances that they're making in omnichannel. A lot of the time, that's just going to mean they're finally sinking $10 into the company website so that it's no longer embarrassing. Investors need to be on alert for omnichannel charlatans, who say one thing but clearly mean another.
Setting those deceivers aside, the reasons for investors to be excited about omnichannel capabilities are many and meaningful. First of all, omnichannel allows retailers to interact with more customers. Under Armour can't just up and build 500 stores overnight to get its branding into new regions. But at the same time, it has a very different opinion of how sportswear should be sold than most third-party retailers do -- for instance, it wants to dedicate more space to women's apparel. To re-create the store feeling without building a store, it can put an omnichannel plan in place. That gives customers the right branding, but it keeps costs low.
Omnichannel also generates higher margins. While it's not cheap to set up -- Nordstrom is going to drop $240 million on digital improvements -- the resulting sales can have much lower per-unit costs. That combines with the sort of inventory management that Saks is talking about and results in lower overall operational costs. That's a winner for everyone.
Who's doing it right?
Omnichannel is still in its early days, and like the early days of online sales, things are looking like a mix of good, bad, and weird. On the good side of things, Macy's is leading the way in making every channel a winner. The company was referenced by Saks CEO Steven Sadove as being the leader in omnichannel. As an example of how Macy's is managing the whole process, take a look at its inventory management in dresses.
The company saw that online shoppers were ordering five dresses in different sizes and returning the non-fitting ones to the store. Normally, that would trigger a fall in the sell-through rate and mean that the dresses got marked for discount. But Macy's has figured out how to track the dresses better and work with a central location to redistribute the returns to regional locations. As a result, the returns end up better spread out, and that results in fewer markdowns.
The bottom line
Omnichannel could be the savior of the bricks-and-mortar store. Some early adopters have already seen success, and some companies have made it such a part of the business that no one even thinks to call it omnichannel. Barnes & Noble makes it easy to come into the store and use your tablet to buy books. Taking things one step further than most, it allows Nook owners to read through books for an hour a day if they're in-store. That's not going to save the company from obscurity, but it's a really neat idea.
As the technology gets better, and as consumers become increasingly mobile-shopping savvy, there's no telling where omnichannel is going to end up. For now, it's enough to say that early adopters are going to learn some hard lessons along with the profitable ones. Investors should be on the lookout for both.
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At its heart, the iPad is supposed to be fun. Hell, life is supposed to be fun! Wreck This is an app that gives you silly tasks to accomplish on the iPad screen with nary a reason why. Sure I'll scribble all over this
What's it do?
Wreck This is a wonderful time killer. Imagine it as a children's doodle book where you're presented with basic instructions on each page (draw lines, tap the screen, color the page, doodle on the margins of the page) which you can follow or well, not. It's really up to you. And that's the appeal of it, hand this to any kid under 7 and watch their eyes light up. Hand this to someone who's stuck on a train and they might surprise you with the art they come up with. It's a guided but open-ended notebook, where what you create is up to you.
Why do we like it?
There are times when I'm in a drawing app and I have no idea what to do anymore. Inevitably, I close it and do something decidedly less fun. I'm not an artist, I need some inspiration, some push to get me going. Wreck This gives me that sliiight push (which is all that's necessary, really) and I'm off scribbling away. If I don't like the current task, I just flip to the next page and start anew. The app isn't meant for serious artists but it's perfect for people who need brainless activities to unwind or need to find some bit of inspiration.
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Three Scientists Share Nobel Prize In Medicine
The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three scientists whose discoveries about the human immune system "opened up new avenues for the development of prevention and therapy against infections, cancer, and inflammatory diseases," the Nobel committee announced earlier today.
The honorees are American Bruce Beutler, Luxembourg-born Jules Hoffman and Canadian-born Ralph Steinman.
According to the Nobel committee:
"This year's Nobel Laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation.
"Scientists have long been searching for the gatekeepers of the immune response by which man and other animals defend themselves against attack by bacteria and other microorganisms. Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann discovered receptor proteins that can recognize such microorganisms and activate innate immunity, the first step in the body's immune response. Ralph Steinman discovered the dendritic cells of the immune system and their unique capacity to activate and regulate adaptive immunity, the later stage of the immune response during which microorganisms are cleared from the body.
"The discoveries of the three Nobel Laureates have revealed how the innate and adaptive phases of the immune response are activated and thereby provided novel insights into disease mechanisms. Their work has opened up new avenues for the development of prevention and therapy against infections, cancer, and inflammatory diseases."
Reuters says Beutler and Hoffmann will share one half of the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.46 million) and Steinman will be receiving the other half.
Here's the schedule for the other Nobel prize announcements:
Tuesday: Physics
Wednesday: Chemistry
Thursday: Literature
Friday: Peace
Monday: Economics.
Update at 8:58 a.m. ET: Steinman Died On Friday:
There's now word from Rockefeller University, where he was a professor, that Steinman died on Friday. The university adds that "he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer four years ago, and his life was extended using a dendritic-cell based immunotherapy of his own design."
The Montreal Gazette adds that:
"Steinman died this past weekend of pancreatic cancer, The Gazette has learned from Steinman's family. The Nobel Prize is not normally given posthumously unless "a prizewinner dies before he has received the prize, then the prize may be presented," the Noble Prize website states."
Update at 8:55 a.m. ET: Our colleague Richard Knox has a post on the Shots blog — "Nobelists Showed How Immune Defenses Work And Go Awry."


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University of North Dakota
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M.Ed.,Stanford University
From over 16 years of teaching experience, he has philosophy that it takes humor, patience and understanding when teaching tough subjects.
Now that it?s time to discuss velocity and acceleration, we?ve better speed things up a little bit. Speed things up, accelerate. Yeah that was a joke, you probably didn?t get that. Anyhow, velocity, distance, acceleration are some of the most important things involving Calculus. At least I think so, because I?m a physics guy. Remember that a lot of Calculus at least for the start was developed by Isaac Newton in order to make his Physics work. Besides the great Isaac Newton, you also need to know this stuff, because there?s a lot of it on the AP test.
Velocity; it?s a rate of change. It?s the rate at which distance is changing with time. Let?s have a look. Here is your old friend; distance equals rate times time. You got that one around about fourth grade maybe. If you take this and solve it algebraically so that rate is by itself, you?ve got rate that equals distance over time. By distance what you mean is how far the location changes. It?s often called change in distance. Then the time is really the change in time, how much time went by. Well, these are differences. If you make differences smaller and smaller and smaller just like you do all the time in Calculus, instead of having delta d, you have dd, as in dd over dt.
Yeah it?s a derivative. All you have to do is take a distance equation; take its derivative with respect to time and you?ve got a velocity equation. Take that one step further and acceleration is the rate of change of velocity over time. So acceleration is the derivative of velocity. Velocity is the derivative of distance, and it reverses as well.
Here is the basic kinematic equation. You almost certainly had this in your Physics class. You might not have had the form in it that has d0 in it. D0 is just the starting location of an object. This is pretty cool. I love showing this. Remember what we just said; velocity is the rate of change of distance. So I?m going do d over dt to both sides to find the derivative. So I have d over dt on both sides of d of t. Don?t let it confuse you that you get d here and d here. This is the differential. This is d for distance. I know it?s confusing. Sometimes to avoid this confusion, you will see the distance listed as r. It?s pretty common.
We have to do the derivative of both sides. We?ve got ½ 80²+ v0t+d0. Derivative of this one is the velocity with respect to 10. Let?s see, we have to do the derivative. The variable here is t. That?s one thing that can confuse you. A for this equation is a constant. It?s just a number; v sub 0 that?s the starting velocity. That?s just a number. D sub 0, that?s the starting location. That?s just a number. It makes a difference when you do the derivatives. So the only working variable here is actually the t. Derivative of t² is 2t times the ½ just gives you 80. The derivative of this it?s really just one power of t, one power less is 0 powers. All that?s left of that is v0. The derivative of that constant is just 0, look at that. It?s another one of the Physics equations.
Velocity equals acceleration times time, plus the starting velocity if you had one. Taking it a step further, if I do this derivative, I?ll have the acceleration. The derivative of acceleration times time, time being the only variable here is just acceleration. That?s an unchanging velocity. It?s a constant, so its derivative is 0.
Time for a little practice. What we?re going to do now is use derivatives, velocity, and acceleration together. Let?s start and see what we?re given. We are given distance. A particle moves such that its distance from its starting point is given by the equation d of t equals t² times e to the 3t. Find its velocity. It?s really important to look and see which one you?re given, what you?re supposed to find so you know what order to go.
Now we just did something involving derivatives. This one is also going to involve a derivative, but you need to be prepared that it can go the other way. The derivative of distance is velocity, but you may have a question coming up where you?re given a velocity equation and you?re asked to find a distance. Reversing it involves an integral.
Let?s go to work. We?re supposed to do the derivative of this. So the velocity at any given time is the derivative of the distance d prime of t. So t² times e to the 3t, a variable factor. This one is going to take the Product Rule. Remember the Product Rule is the derivative of the first part times the non-derivative of the second plus the non derivative of the first factor times the derivative of the second factor.
Derivative of the first factor is 2t, times the non-derivative of the second factor, plus the non-derivative of the first factor, times derivative of the second factor. That?s not just e to the t. It?s e to the 3t. This is a Chain-Product combination. Well, if I do the Chain part of this, the derivative of 3t is just 3. The derivative of e to the 3t, the remaining part is e to the 3t.
We?ve got an equation, we can simplify this. Let?s group things up a little bit. Notice they both have an e to the 3t factor. Let?s take that up. In the long run that actually simplifies things a little bit for you. So we have 2 times t plus t² and we factored out e to the 3t power. There we go. This little bit is done. We?ve got that velocity. Are we done? We?re not.
You may have some problems where finding the equation is equation. This is not one of those. This is one where you?re supposed to find the equation and actually use it to do something. Put time equals 3 in there. So we have v of 3 equals 2 times 3 plus 3² times e to the 3 times 3 for time again.
If you work this one out, you will get an approximate velocity. This one is big. It?s 267,000. One last thing to take look at is check the units. This problem didn?t give us meters or miles or anything for distance. It didn?t give us seconds, or hours or any time unit for time. So we don?t have to have any units in the answer. This is just wanting to prove, but that?s the way it is. For this one you don?t need any units.
The next problem we?re going to do is going to take it a step further; finding the acceleration. To save a little bit of time, I set this up so it?s a continuation of the last problem. When you see this on a test, they may not have continuations. You might just be told to start with this. In fact you might even be told to start with distance and then take both steps to find the acceleration before you can even substitute.
This time though, we?ve already worked out what the velocity equation is by taking the first derivative in that last equation. This is the equation; this is the factored form that we did. Well, acceleration is how fast velocity is changing. How fast something is changing, is effect of their rate. We?ll find in the rate that the velocity changes with respect to time. Rates with respect to time are derivatives with respect to time.
Like I showed here, you?re going to find the acceleration. It?s the derivative of the velocity. This is the velocity equation. We have to do a d over dt at the derivative of that part. One of the reasons that I factored this out was also because, believe it or not, it makes this derivative easier to do. So we have Product Rule here. The first factor is 2t plus 3t². I?ll take its derivative. Its derivative would be 2 plus 6t, times the non derivative of the second part, e to the 3t, plus the non-derivative of the first part. That is 2t plus 3t², times the derivative of the second part. That second part derivative takes the Chain Rule again. It?s going to be 3e to the 3t.
3e to the 3t; it is a little harder to see there. Well, we?re almost done. We were asked to find the acceleration at a particular time. We were told to find the acceleration at a time of 3. So I?m going to leave this for you to try out if you want some practice, but basically you just put 3s in for all the ts. In this case the acceleration works out to be 462.
One thing that might be confusing you especially if you?ve had a lot of stuff in Physics, you might be thinking wait a minute, isn?t acceleration always 9.8? No, that?s only the acceleration caused by gravity and only on earth surface actually. It is possible to have accelerations that are not constants like that. You can have different accelerations. This is a non-constant acceleration that varies with time. It can happen. The reason it?s not familiar to you is because High School Physics rarely goes that far.
So where do integrals fit in? Well, if velocity is the derivative of distance, then the integral of velocity has to be the accumulated distance. They have to be able to reverse each other. Here is a common kind of problem. The problem says that a particle moves along the x axis so that anytime where time is greater than 0, the velocity is given buy this equation. Another bit of information you?re given is that the particle is positioned at x equals -100 at time equals 3. That?s asked me to find the object?s position at time equals 9. Something that can confuse you on this is that there?s three numbers floating around 3 times. You have to decide which ones are going to be your limits of integration. There?s the 0, there?s the 3, and there is the 9.
The one we?re going to ignore is the 0. The reason we?re ignoring the 0 is because we have a starting position at time equals 3. We just have to find out how much distance got accumulated between 3 and 9 seconds. If you look at this graph, this graph shows time versus velocity. Velocity starts at high, but it?s positive. So the object is moving forward. It keeps on moving forwards yeah, I know it looks like its moving forward doesn?t it? But really this is just velocity. This is a positive velocity, so at this time it?s moving forward. Positive velocity moving forwards, positive velocity moving forwards.
Down here though, it?s got a negative velocity. It?s moving backwards, but we don?t need to worry about that. The integral will take care of the moving backwards. If you started at distance of -100, maybe you?re chugging along and get to +500 before the velocity is backwards and knocks you backwards to maybe +450. We don?t have to worry about it. We are going to do an integral though. The integral is going to be between 3 seconds and 9 seconds. So looking at the graph, it seems like we accumulate some positive distance forwards, and then lose some of it going backwards.
Let?s set up our integral. We need to find the accumulated distance. That is accumulated between times 3 and 9. So the integral is between 3 and 9. You integrate velocity to get distance. The velocity equation is 200 minus 7t ln of 10t, dt of course, because that?s the working variable of time.
Well, at this point you look at this thing and say oh men how am I going to integrate that? You don?t have to worry; you wouldn?t likely see kind of an equation on the part of the test where you?re not allowed a calculator. Yeah it?s possible to integrate it, but by the time you substitute the 3s and 9s in, you need decimal approximations anyhow. So they wouldn?t give you this on the non-calculator portion.
All you have to do is set it up in your calculator. Let?s write it out on more time. Set it up in your calculator so that your accumulated distance is the integral from 3 to 9 of 200 minus 7t ln 10t. Type this portion in to have your calculator graph it, and then use the integrate function to find the area between 3 and 9. In this case, your calculator is going to tell you that the accumulated distance is 157.441. That?s the accumulated distance. Look over the problem for a second. I?m going to pause for a moment while you try to figure out the last thing we have to do. It?s a bit of information we haven?t used yet. The hint is this is accumulated distance.
We started at -100. So we started 100 back. Put this on a nice little number line. There is 0. We started 100 back and the particle moved forward away and then it moved backwards away and wound up at a finishing location. That?s what we?re supposed to find. It?s the finishing location. Basically all you have to do is take the starting location of -100 and add the accumulated distance to that. So +100 gives us a final position of 57.441. I?ll leave off the 441, because I?m out of screen.
The most difficult kind of problem you?ll be asked to do are ones that involve distance, not position, but distance. Let me explain the difference. Let?s say I start off here at a location of 0 and move forward 2 meters and move backwards 2 meters. If I made a velocity equation for that, and integrated it across the time I was moving, it would have told me that the result was 0. I didn?t go anywhere; I wound up at the same place that I started. Sure my position at the end is where I started, but the distance I travelled was 2 forwards and 2 backwards. Distance doesn?t care about direction. I travelled 4 meters. Let?s try it.
This problem says a particle moves along the x axis so that anytime its velocity is given by 1/3t³ minus 4.The particle is in position 5 at time t equals 0. Don?t look for the 5 on here, because this is not a graph of position. This is a graph of velocity versus time. So we know at time is 0, position is 5. We?re asked to find the total distance travelled between the time of 0 and the time of 3. If I put 0 on the graph, or substitute into the formula, you?ll find out that the velocity at that instant in time was -4. Moving backwards, we?re going to have to account for that. At time equals 3, the velocity is going to be positive. If I just did a single integral all the way across here, the integral would take this area and make it negative. And then add that negative to this positive area to get a result that would be too small.
What I?d be finding is the location. I want the distance. The major steps we?re going to take on this are to look at the graph, determine which regions were moving positive and negative in. This is a region with negative velocity. This is a region with positive velocity, and then set up two separate integrals. We don?t use the 5 at all. It?s just a spoiler number. If I start here and move a meter forwards, I?ve gone a meter. If I start here and move a meter forwards, I?ve still gone a meter. How far I went doesn?t depend on where I started. So let?s do the set up. We?ve got to find out where that is so we have our limits of integration.
Now depending on where you are on the test, you might be able to just type this into your calculator as a graph. And tell the calculator to use the 0 function which finds the 0s of the equation. I set this one up so it could be done manually, because you might have to do these on the non-calculator portion of the test. You find 0s of course by finding when the up and down coordinate in this case v of t equals 0. So let?s substitute 0 in there. If you are given one of these to do by hand, it?s not well likely that they?re going to be on your really complicated Algebra; maybe a little harder than this, but not too much.
We?ll solve this little guy. I?ll add 4 to both sides, so we get 4 equals 1/2t² and we will multiply by 2 so we?ll get 8 equals t². That looks like that?s going to gives us t². I lost a variable. This is t³. I?m sorry about that. t³. So what I get is a value of t equals 2; nice and neat.
But if you?re asked to do this by hand, it?s going to be a fairly nice and neat number which doesn?t include fractions by the way. Fractions are nice and neat. That?s 2. So I need to do an integral between 0 and 2. I need to do an integral between 2 and 3. When I set it up, I?m going to make this integral negative, because the integral itself will give me a negative result. I have to do the negative of that in order to get the distance that?s travelled.
Here again are the steps. We?re about half way through the problem now. We found the 0s. Now we?ve got to test to find the positive and negative regions, because again you might not have the graph. If you?re on the non-calculator portion, you won?t have that pretty picture that we just looked at. You need to do manual tests. Then you set up your integrals, and integrate.
Here is what we know. On the last part of the problem, we found out that we have a situation like this. Time equals 0 is one of the end points of our interval. The place where it changed from negative to positive, we don?t know yet is at 2. The reason I say we don?t know that yet is because I?m pretending now that I haven?t seen that graph. I don?t know the velocity was negative. I?m doing the old fashioned manual test like I did in Pre-Calculus to find out where the function is positive or negative in a particular region.
In points of the region, I'm going to call this region 1, and I?ll call this region 2. I just need to do a simple sign test to see if the times between 0 and 2 give me a positive or a negative result. I don?t even care what the result is. I just care if it?s positive or negative. Pick anything you want between 0 and 2. And since I can?t pick anything, I?m going to make my life simpler and pick one. Why not? If you pick anything in the region, you?re going to get a positive or negative result. If I pick this one, I get negative or if I pick in this, I?d still get negative. If I picked that, I?d still get negative.
Anywhere in the region you?ll get the same sign on the result. So our first test I?m testing t equals 1 and I?m going to find v of 1. That?s easy enough to do. Let?s make that one a 1 not a t. There we go; v of 1 equals ½ times 1 to third power minus 4. That?s a half of 1 minus 4. It?s negative. That?s all we cared about. That is negative.
So I know when I set up my integral, I?m going to have to do the negative of that result. Next region might be positive or might not be. You can probably predict it, but don?t assume that because this was negative, the next will be positive. You never know. Between 2 and 3 is 2.5 if that is anything and now we?ll find the velocity at 2.5. That?s ½ of 2.5³ minus 4. Now you might panic and think ½ times 2.5³ minus 4, how am I going to do that without Mr. Calculator? Well, you could write it out by hand, but if you recognize a little fact about this, you can save yourself a bunch of time.
Remember that 2³ is 8. ½ of 8 is 4. 4 minus 4 is 0, so that?s on the border line. Anything more than 2 if you cube more than 2, you?re going to get more than 8. Half of more than 8 is more than 4. More than 4 minus 4, it?s positive. So we know this is a positive region. Let?s go set up our integrals we?re close to done.
We just found out that we have a negative velocity between 0 and 2. Well, I?m accumulating my distance now. I have to do an integral from 0 to 2 of that equation. So that?s ½t³ minus 4dt. Because anything between 0 and 2 produces a negative velocity, this integral is going to give us a negative distance. We don?t care about the direction when we?re talking about the distance travelled. So put a minus in front of that. That?s the first section.
The next section has a positive velocity, so I?ll just add in its integral. I?ve got the integral from 2 to 3same thing again; ½ of t³ minus 4dt. Now let?s do the integral. Don?t lose this negative. It?s really easy to do. If you do, the problem will fall apart.
It?s very important to learn these kinds of things to lock those positives and negatives really closely. Integral of t³ is ¼ t to the fourth, remember it?s a correction factor, times this ½ that was already there. So I?m going to have 1/8 t to the fourth. Integral of -4 is -4t. You?re going to integrate from 0 to 2 plus, the nice thing here is that it?s the same integral. So you don?t need to do those steps again. Just copy this down with new limits of integration. New limits of integration on the same thing gives us this; from 2 to 3.
Now be very careful when you substitute. Don?t forget this negative, and really take your time to get the positives and negatives correct. Or again you?ll get the wrong answer. I?m going to save a little bit of time though. That?s a whole lot of fractions to write out. The result of this one is the distance that you accumulate is 81 over 8. Well, again what about that starting position? The 5 doesn?t matter. We just worry about how far we went, not where we started. So you don?t use the 5.
Well, I?ve just given you a background on one of the really big topics in Calculus; distance, velocity, acceleration and how they?re related. You can do derivatives, or you can do integrals depending on what information you?re given. If you are given distance, you can do the derivatives to get velocity, and then another derivative to get acceleration.
If you?re given an acceleration equation, you can do the integral of that to find a velocity equation. You can do the integral of that velocity equation to find the distance equation. Great stuff, it?s lots of fun. It?s incredible useful for Calculus. It?s incredibly useful for Physics. If you go on eventually to take some college Physics, you?ll probably take Calculus based Physics where you?ll see this stuff in more detail. Well, be sure to check out the bonus materials. They?re some good practice problems there involving all of the steps all written out so you can check your work.


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IU Tried Buying Tickets To Her Concert But She Never Even Got Off The Waitlist
When IU announced her 2019 "LOVE, POEM" tour dates and locations, K-Pop fans were beyond excited for the chance to see IU live. Unfortunately, when tickets for the Seoul leg of the concert went on sale on October 24, 2019, the competition for seats was fierce. So fierce that even IU was unable to get tickets to her own concert!
IU just shared a video with fans through her YouTube channel which showed the moment she tried to snag tickets to her concert. Although she prepped herself well, as the countdown began, she was feeling a little nervous about her first ticket buying experience.
It makes me nervous. I've never booked a ticket online.
And with good reason! The competition for seats was tight! When the clock struck 8 o'clock and the ticketing was open, no window popped up and IU scrambled to select a desired date for the concert.
No window is popping up! Refresh! Refresh! You told me I could buy a ticket when it's 8 o'clock!
Even with her fingers flying on the keyboard, IU ended up on the waitlist with over 30,000 other people! That number quickly skyrocketed to almost 50,000 people! Although things weren't looking good for tickets, IU decided to stick around and see if there was still a chance at scoring some tickets.
I'm waiting… I'm supposed to wait an hour? I should wait an hour from now?
As IU waited, she hilariously scolded herself for "being a slowpoke" and joked about how slow the people who were waiting behind her must have been. Despite the jokes, IU was in absolute shock over the 47,531 people waiting with her!
I can't believe… I'm such a slowpoke. How come I'm so bad at this? How come no one told me to refresh? I should really wait this long? I can't even see the seat arrangement! It makes no sense. It says I'm on a waitlist of 47,531 people. There are 16,000 people behind me?
With the wait for tickets stretching out before her, IU ultimately decided to give up and head home for the night. She knew that the competition over her tickets was just too tough!
If I had just clicked a bit faster a little while ago! I want to go home. I'm going home now. I can't go to IU's concert this year.
Official media reports have actually shared that a total of 28,000 tickets were sold within the first minute of sales and that an estimated 100,000 fans, including IU herself, tried to buy tickets for each night of the concert!
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