text:
Upcoming Events
User Login
Global IMC Network
Premeditated Israeli Violence
By Stephen Lendman, submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 17/12/2012 - 10:38
Printer-friendly versionSend by emailPDF version
Premeditated Israeli Violence
by Stephen Lendman
Merriam-Webster calls a police state "a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures."
In other words, it's governance by state terror over a controlled population. Palestinians understand well. They've experienced the worst kind of militarized persecution and repression for decades.
State-sponsored violence affects them multiple times daily. They're isolated on their own without rights. They're terrorized for not being Jews. World leaders able to help spurn them.
In the week ending December 13 alone, Israel forces killed three Palestinians. Three others were wounded. West Bank communities were violently raided 10 times daily on average pre-dawn.
Forty-five innocent Palestinians were arrested. Five boys and one girl were violently detained. Three human rights organizations were attacked. Their belongings were confiscated. Their offices were ransacked and trashed.
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) condemned what happened.
It denounced Israel's "brutal raid(s) as part of the continuous campaign to target and hinder the work of human rights organizations and their supporters, as well as to gather information on the employees of civil society organizations."
On November 21, Pillar of Cloud terror-bombings ended. Daily Israeli violence continues. Palestinians live in a virtual war zone.
Media scoundrels ignore it. Palestinian deaths, injuries, and arrests aren't reported. Israel freely commits murder and unspeakable brutality with immunity. What began decades ago never ended.
On December 12, Mohammed Ziad Awad al-Salayma turned 17. He lived in Hebron's old city. He went to buy birthday cake to celebrate.
At Checkpoint 160 he was stopped. It's about 100 meters from his home. A female Border Guard Force accosted him. She opened fire. She murdered him at point blank range.
He threatened no one. Three bullets caused instant death. Israeli forces kept his body over two hours before releasing it. The Israeli soldier is safe. No criminal charges will follow. She and other security forces are free to kill again. Impunity whitewashes their crimes.
Al Haq said it's investigating the incident. Shortly after the shooting, Mohammad's parents learned what happened. They rushed to the crime scene. They tried to enter an Israeli ambulance holding their son.
Soldiers prevented them. They struck Mohammad's father, Ziad. His injured leg needed short-term hospitalization.
Pre-dawn, Israeli soldiers raided his home. One of his older brothers and a cousin were arrested. Israel acted viciously and vengefully. Neither man deserved harsh treatment. Innocence is no defense.
Palestinians are guilty of praying to the wrong God. They're accosted, brutalized, arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and murdered for not being Jewish. Rogue terror states operate that way.
Mohammad's cold-blooded murder wasn't happenstance. Barbaric incidents happen with police state frequency. Innocent Palestinians are terrorized. Children are traumatized. Emotional scars often don't heal.
On December 14, Israeli soldiers attacked nonviolent Palestinians in East Jerusalem's Al-Esawiyya area. They were protesting in solidarity with detained Palestinian hunger strikers.
Rubber bullets, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades caused 15 injuries. Five youths were arrested. Their whereabouts are unknown.
A protest tent in solidarity with detainee Samer Al-Wsaawy was demolished. He's hunger struck for nearly 90 days. He's willing to die for justice.
Palestinian Prisoner Society spokesperson, Amani Sarahna, called hunger striker Hasan Safady's condition grave and deteriorating.
He's been lawlessly detained over six months in solitary confinement uncharged. He hunger struck earlier. Israel promised release, then reneged.
He's one of four Palestinian detainees on open-ended strikes. They're lawlessly held. They want freedom or death. Israel doesn't care if they live or die.
On December 14, Israeli security forces violently attacked weekly nonviolent Palestinians. They were protesting against Israel's lawless Separation Wall.
Dozens of injuries followed. Rubber bullets, tear gas, concussion grenades, waste-water mixed with toxic chemicals, and live fire were used.
Protesters called December 14 "The Friday on Anger." Local, international, and Israeli activists joined them. They marched peacefully. They carried Palestinian flags.
They chanted slogans for national unity. They urged courage and steadfastness for liberating independence. They demanded Israel release all political prisoners.
They denounced letting soldiers fire live rounds against unarmed nonviolent protesters. They condemned Mohammad Salaymah's murder.
They called security force violence "state-sponsored terrorism." They urged "increasing the nonviolent popular protests in different parts of occupied Palestine to expose Israel's racist policies."
Israeli soldiers attacked other West Bank protesters. Dozens more were injured. Affected areas included Kufur Qaddoum village near Qalqilia, Nabi Saleh village near Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Al-Ma'sare village in Bethlehem's district.
Area National Committee Against the Wall coordinator, Hasan Breijiyya, said protests marked the first Intifada's anniversary. It came in solidarity with hunger striking detainees.
He urged wide-scale protests and international involvement. He said continued global awareness is vital. Exposing and sustaining protests against occupation harshness are the only ways to end it.
Israeli soldiers also shot and injured two Gazans east of Khan Younis and Jabalia. Farmers were shot in their fields. Israel pledged to stop this. It continues unabated. Deaths and other injuries follow.
Israeli naval forces keep attacking Palestinian fishermen. Injuries, arrests, vessel damage, and confiscation follow.
On December 14, Israeli soldiers accosted two Reuters cameramen. The punched and stripped them down to underwear. They made them kneel with their hands behind their heads. They fired tear gas. Hospital treatment followed.
Both men said soldiers stopped them. They were driving nearby. Their car was clearly marked TV. They wore blue flak jackets emblazoned with "Press."
Soldiers punched and rifle-butted them. They accused them of working for B'Tselem. They confiscated their camera and other belongings.
Reuters editor-in-chief, Stephen Adler, said, "We deplore the mistreatment of our journalists, and have registered our extreme dismay with the Israeli military authorities."
Two Palestinian journalists working for other news organizations were treated the same way.
In November, Gaza's Health Ministry reported 191 Palestinians killed. Many were children, infants, women and the elderly. They were deliberately targeted. Killing civilians is official Israeli policy. Nearly 1,500 others were injured.
Since Pillar of Cloud memorandum of understanding terms were finalized, Israel murdered four Gazans. Another 54 were injured.
So far, Hamas and other resistance forces haven't responded. It's just a matter of time before they'll have to against something too grave to ignore.
Numerous small provocations followed by something major generally precede premeditated large-scale Israeli attacks.
Israel deplores peace. It sustains violence to avoid it. Palestinians pay heavily. They're accused of Israeli crimes. Confrontation continues because Israel sustains it.
Conflict resolution won't happen unless or until world leaders hold Israeli officials responsible. Rhetoric alone substitutes for meaningful action.
Gaza's Media Office head confirmed that Israel used illegal white phosphorous in civilian neighborhoods during Pillar of Cloud. International experts found clear evidence.
Shell fragments and casings proved it. Expect follow-up findings to reveal other toxins used against civilians. It's standard Israeli practice.
Extremist settlers attack Palestinians daily. State-sanctioned violence has many forms. Palestinians are hurt. Valued property is damaged or destroyed.
Incidents aren't isolated. They're systematically planned. They're committed to assert territorial intimidation and control. Israeli security forces ignore what happens. They let violence continue with impunity. Sometimes they assist.
On December 15, settlers and Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinians near Nablus. Homes and vehicles were targeted. Dozens of injuries resulted.
Settlers stormed Hamdan Ahmad Hussein's home. He lives in Einabous. His wife, Lialy, was attacked and injured.
She required hospitalization. Family furniture and other property were destroyed. Israeli soldiers were complicit in this and similar attacks.
They fired rubber bullets and tear gas at Palestinian victims. These type incidents happen with police state frequency. Palestinians have no place to hide. Even at home they're unsafe.
On December 14, a You Tube video showed eight people calling themselves a "New Brigade." Scarves covering their faces protected their identities.
From Hebron, they announced a third Intifada, saying:
"We hereby, from the heart of the West Bank, in the revolutionary city of Hebron, declare the establishment of the National Unity Brigades in the Hebron district."
"We announce that our brigades include supporters of al-Yasin (Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yasin), al-Yasser (Fatah leader Yasser Arafat), al-Shiqaqi (Islamic Jihad leader Fathi al-Shiqaqi), and (PFLP leader) Abu Ali Mustafa."
"Our brigades support the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' decision to announce a Palestinian state, and we will not cede a grain of sand of the Palestinian land from the sea to the river."
They listed demands. They called for ending militarized occupation, removing all checkpoints, releasing Palestinian prisoners, returning seized Palestinian revenues, opening Gaza crossings, and providing water and electricity services.
They continued, saying:
"Our message to the whole world and to the Zionist enemy is that our brigades declare the beginning of a third Palestinian Intifada from the heart of Hebron to extend to the rest of Palestine."
"You should know Zionists that if you detain our people, we will kidnap your soldiers, and if you kill our people, we will kill."
"We will use an iron fist against you using all the power we have if you don't bring an end to this arrogance against our Palestinian people."
What follows remains to be seen. Persecuted people eventually react. Long-suffering Palestinians are on their own. Liberation depends on sustained struggle. Perhaps something significant looms.
A Final Comment
Israel's Jerusalem Post (JP) is notoriously right wing. It publishes hateful anti-Palestinian commentaries.
Martin Sherman held various IDF operational positions. He was one of Yitzhak Shamir's ministerial advisors. He lectures at Tel Aviv University. Students are advised to avoid him. His anti-Palestinian hatefulness is visceral.
On December 13, JP gave him op-ed space. He took full advantage. He lashed out viciously against Palestinian rights. He denounced their UN initiative.
He said Israel must respond. It must impose "permanent penalties." They should have "real and lasting" effects. Abrogate Oslo, he suggested. Let the PA "fall apart."
Attack Palestinian "diplomatic aggression" harshly. Cease "every service and merchandise" provided. "In other words, no water, no electricity, no fuel, no postal services, no communications, no port facilities, no tax collections or remittances" should be supplied.
He barely stopped short of urging stepped-up genocide.
Imagine thoughts this harsh, cruel and lawless. Imagine writing them. Imagine an Israeli broadsheet publishing them.
Know well what Palestinians face. Sherman and JP aren't exceptions. They reflect the worst of militarized police state occupation. They support it. They display their racist hate openly. It warrants unrestrained condemnation.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
Sat 13 September 2014
Sat 30 August 2014
Sun 15 December 2013
Fri 13 December 2013
Wed 11 December 2013
Tue 10 December 2013
Mon 9 December 2013
Thu 5 December 2013
Wed 4 December 2013
Tue 3 December 2013
Mon 2 December 2013
Sun 1 December 2013
Sat 30 November 2013
Fri 29 November 2013
Other Press
Mon 4 August 2014
Tue 10 December 2013
Thu 16 May 2013
Sun 5 May 2013
More ...
Fri 3 May 2013


text:
I wasn't going to do Halloween this year. I didn't last year.
Well, except for giving out candy. It's always fun to see the little ones and not so little ones dressed up carrying their trick or treat bags.
But this year, like last, I didn't feel like decorating the house. It's not as much fun with our son off at college and not home to help put up the decorations and to carve pumpkins with.
When our girls left home to attend university six years ago, it was a huge adjustment for sure. But our daily routine remained much the same since we still had our son in school. Then our son went off to college last fall and there just didn't seem to be much point in decorating for Halloween.
Then this morning when I woke up, I realized I hadn't bought the Halloween candy, so on the way back from dropping our car off for an oil change, we stopped to pick up the candy.
Once back home, I got to thinking that it wouldn't hurt put out the pumpkins that we use to line the driveway.
There are no street lights in our end of the subdivision so I put candles inside the pumpkins to light the way to the front door.
And since we had the box of Halloween decorations down…
It didn't take long for Dave to hang the crashing witch.
Or to stretch the lights over the holly bushes.
Window clings are quick and easy to put up.
The candy is ready in bowls by the door.
Bring on the trick or treaters!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Grand Club 2012
Downloads are free- just hover over the large version of any image and then click "Save Photo". Prints are available to purchase directly through the site with a credit card. If anyone needs prints for HFHS use, they can request the images through us using a cost center number: firstname.lastname@example.com More


text:
Stop me if you've already heard this one: A major Internet radio service is improving its core service and adding an on-demand, Spotify-style product. No, we're not talking about Pandora—this time it's iHeartRadio's turn.
The company behind the services, iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel), announced iHeartRadio Plus and iHeartRadio All Access on Friday. The two new subscription plans will roll out in January.
The story behind the story: With so many music services competing for our attention, iHeartMedia hopes it can lure more people to its offerings by focusing on radio. The company says even the new Spotify-like service, iHeartRadio All Access, will focus on improving your radio experience. The company is short on specifics, but from the sounds of it the music you listen to using All Access will inform the selections you hear on iHeartRadio's Internet radio.
Differentiation is a key strategy in today's streaming scene. There are a wide range of competing music services, and all of them have access to more or less the same catalogs save for a few exclusives. The only way to stand apart, then, is to offer a unique and compelling set of features. iHeartRadio already does to a certain degree by offering broadcast radio streaming.
Another Plus for radio
The improved radio experience, iHeartRadio Plus, sounds like it will offer similar features to Pandora's new service Pandora Plus, but again, specifics are slim. The new iHeartRadio Plus will have replay functionality and users will be able to save songs to playlists. The company also told TechCrunch that Plus would have unlimited song skips, though there's no no word regarding offline listening or whether replays will be limited. Plus is designed as an add-on to a subscription service, be it iHeartRadio All Access or a competitor.
There are no details on pricing but an earlier report by The New York Post said Plus would cost $5 per month and All Access would be $10. The All Access price is in line with what most streaming services offer, and $5 a month is the same price Pandora announced for Pandora Plus.


text:
Civil War medicine: 37 pieces of history
Today's soldiers enjoy sophisticated medical care, from Medevac helicopters that function like flying hospitals to advanced surgical techniques and bionic limbs. Things were different for Civil War solders. There were no antibiotics, pain control was poor, and surgeons focused not on rebuilding or replacing injured limbs but on sawing them off. Want to take a peek back in time 150 years and see what that world was like? Keep clicking to see 37 images from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the National Library of Medicine...
At left is a drawing of Private George W. Lemon, who was shot in the leg at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864. Because he was captured by Confederate soldiers, he did not receive treatment for his injuries until over a week later, and then suffered repeated infections for over a year. Finally, his leg was amputated and he received an artificial leg.
This large single-edged amputation knife was used to cut through skin and muscle in circular amputations.
After skin and muscle had been cut, this amputation saw - made with a steel blade and an ebony wooden handle - cut through bones.
Here is Private George W. Lemon after his successful amputation.
A tenaculum was used in amputations for pulling the arteries out from the stump so that they could be tied off.
In this photo, a group of medical students and professors dissect a cadaver.
About three quarters of all operations performed during the war - roughly 60,000 surgeries - were amputations. Amputations were intended to prevent deadly complications such as gangrene, and were often undertaken without anesthesia. In this July 1863 photo, an amputation is being performed in front of a hospital tent in Gettysburg.
This 1860s photo shows a hospital ward in a convalescent camp in Alexandria, Virginia. In crowded camp conditions, infectious diseases such as yellow fever, smallpox and malaria spread rampantly and took more lives than battlefield injuries, says the National Library of Medicine.
This is page from "A Manual of Military Surgery" from the Surgeon General's Office, 1863.
Surgeons carried around kits such as this one, full of an amputation saw, knives, forceps and other equipment.
Invalid feeder
Porcelain cups such as these were used in the hospitals to feed liquids to the patients.
Tooth key
This instrument is called a tooth key and was used for pulling teeth.
Patients with an amputated leg could use crutch/stump holders such as this one made of wood with an armrest covered with wool padding.
Chloroform was used as an anesthetic during many surgeries. Here it is in a medicine tin found in the U.S. Medical Dept. hospital knapsack.
Prosthetic leg
This prosthetic leg made of wood is a full left leg, articulated at the knee, with a leather shoe covering the foot. It still retains some of the original flesh-colored paint.
This two-tier leather drug case contains medicines housed in paper envelopes as well as glass medicine bottles.
This canteen held not water but quinine, which was essential in treating malaria.
Civil War ambulances were typically equipped with two of these water kegs, issued by the U.S. Medical Dept.
Bloodletting, the withdrawal of large quantities of blood in attempt to cure disease, was practiced during the Civil War. This instrument, a fleam, aided this practice. The U-shaped blade is spring-loaded and activated by the trigger above it. The depth of the cut can be regulated by a screw at the base of the lever.
Spiral tourniquet
Tourniquets were used during amputations to help control bleeding. The cloth strap would be wrapped around the limb, and the metal screw would be tightened until the blood flow was reduced.
This bottle contains Dover's Powder, a mix of opium and ipecac that was used to relieve pain and induce sweating.
Opium was often used as a medication for pain, coughs, and diarrhea.
This carved wood leg splint was used to stabilize the lower leg.
A trephine was used to drill a hole in the skull to reduce pressure, or to elevate pieces of the skull. The round serrated blade was turned by the handle in a drill-like fashion.
This metacarpal saw was used for cutting through smaller bones such as those of the fingers, toes, hand, wrist, and rib.
This is a wooden monaural stethoscope - the flat end was placed on the patient's back or chest and the cupped end is the ear-piece.
How do you transport a dead body without a body bag? In coffins such as this one. The lower portion was designed to hold ice, which kept the body cool and slowed the rate of decomposition. The small door at the head of the coffin could be lifted to identify the body inside.
Ticket for medical school class
Off to school? Don't forget your ticket. This is an admission ticket to a class at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1853, for an anatomy class. These tickets were purchased by the medical students.
Powdered medicine
Some powders were carried in paper packets instead of tins or bottles. Calomel was used as a remedy for diarrhea and dysentary. Its major drawback was that it contained mercury. In 1863, William A. Hammond, who was the Union Surgeon General, tried to have calomel removed from the supply table. This caused a major outcry from the doctors and resulted in him losing his post as Surgeon General.
Medicine tin
What does this medical tin of "Spiritus Frumenti" contain? Medicinal alcohol - whiskey, to be exact. This tin was part of a hospital knapsack made by the U.S. Medical Dept. which was carried onto the battlefield.
A tongue depressor made of ivory - while disposable today, tongue depressors were reused in the Civil War era.
This photo, taken in February 1964, shows the entrance to the field hospital at Brandy Station, Va. The white structures on each side are the hospital tents.
This illustration shows the making of prosthetics in the late 1800s. Almost 150 patents were issued for artificial limb designs between 1861 and 1873.
These illustrations are titled "Hospital Train from Chattanooga to Nashville" and "The Interior of a Hospital Car" from Harper's Weekly, Feb. 27, 1864. Many wounded soldiers were transported by trains.
This April 1862 print shows the "Interior of a Sanitary Steamer."
This print from June 7, 1862 shows the surgical ward at the general hospital in Fort Monroe, Va.
Wounded veteran
This photograph was made from an 1888 glass plate negative, which documents a Civil War veteran's wound. The subject is Sergeant George Ekert, color bearer, 74th Reg. Pa. Volunteers.


text:
When the world's biggest music event returned to Denmark in May, creating the right lighting would not be easy. As one of the country's most celebrated lighting designers, Copenhagen-born Kasper Lange was the perfect person to take up the challenge.
Philips On Stage caught up with Mr. Lange shortly after this year's event to talk about his spectacular design and the challenges associated with lighting up Eurovision.
How did you feel when you were offered the job?
Kasper Lange: I was delighted. Eurovision is one of the biggest TV shows in the world. It's an opportunity you can't say no to – especially in a small country like Denmark.


text:
This obituary is protected by copyright by Bachman Hebble Funeral Service. Proudly Serving the Communities of Battle Creek, Richland, Athens, Springfield, Bedford, Hickory Corners, Nashville, Galesburg, Delton, Lakeview, Pennfield Twp., Emmett Twp., Marshall, and Hastings Bachman Hebble Funeral Service is located in the state of Michigan, United States.
All rights reserved. This obituary is also archived at obittree.com
Bachman Hebble Funeral Service


text:
Sunice outerwear has always been on the cutting edge for serious golfers. Here's what to look forward to for Spring 2014.
October 14, 2013
Sunice Announces Its Spring 2014 Outerwear Offerings
The men's we took a different approach. More classic menswear tones of charcoals and blacks combined with an edgy twist of neon yellows and incorporating sophisticated modern plaids - not your usual golfwear anymore. We also played with the primary colours of blues and mixed them with bright green - forcing them into new palette - to not be afraid of colour - to think of these bold shades as updated neutrals. Safe with an edge. The 2014 men's palette is masculine in its entirety but taken to a new level with a neon infusion - Brooks brothers with flare.


text:
New airline seating plan looks at time wasted stowing carry-on bags
Looking to save money and time, the airline industry has for years tried to come up with the fastest way to seat passengers.
Some airlines board from the back of the plane to the front. Others seat passengers in the window seats first, then the middle seats and finally the aisle seats.
Now an academic study suggests airlines could cut boarding time by seating passengers based on how many carry-on bags they are hauling.
The study from Clarkson University School of Business in New York recognizes that a lot of boarding time is wasted as passengers shuffle around the cabin looking for space to stow their carry-on bags in the overhead compartment.
Under a boarding method suggested by R. John Milne, an assistant professor of engineering management, passengers are seated from the back of the plane to the front and from the windows to the aisles.
Milne adds another wrinkle: He also suggest airlines seat passengers in a way that spreads the carry-on luggage throughout the plane. In each row, the airline would seat at least one passenger with two bags, one passenger with one bag and one passenger with no bags.
"So now you don't have delays where people are trying to cram all their luggage in the overhead compartment," Milne said in an interview.
Milne's study found that this boarding method can cut seating time by an average of 3% compared with a back-to-front boarding scheme. For a large carrier like Delta Air Lines, the process could save up to $10 million per year, according to his study, published this month in the Journal of Air Transport Management.
So far, Milne's boarding process has only been tested on a computer simulator and Milne said he hasn't offered the idea to any airline.
The hotel minibar may soon be extinct
Survey finds 59% support arming of TSA agents
Most annoying etiquette violation on a plane? Survey says ...
It's a date
Get our L.A. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.


text:
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has confirmed the identity of the shooter who opened fire on YouTube's campus in San Bruno Tuesday. Nasim Aghdam, 38, lived in Southern California and appears to have had a robust presence on YouTube.
In a video posted in January 2017, she says YouTube "discriminated and filtered" her content. In the video, Aghdam, who police initially said was 39, says her channel used to get lots of views but that after being "filtered" by the company, it received far fewer views.
In one online rant, she complained that YouTube censored her content by imposing an age restriction on one of her workout videos because they were too racy. She says the company failed to do the same thing for stars like Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj, whose videos, she says, are inappropriate for children.
In a Facebook post from February 2017, Aghdam blasted YouTube saying, "There is no equal growth opportunity on YouTube."
On her personal webpage, she posted another rant about YouTube saying, "Be aware…there is no free speech in real world and you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system. Videos of targeted users are filtered and merely relegated, so that people can hardly see their videos." Aghdam also quotes Adolf Hitler, saying, "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
On her Instagram account she posted a video along with a caption reading, "What do you think of freedom of speech and does it really exist in western countries?"
It appears Aghdam controlled multiple YouTube channels, including one with videos of her speaking Farsi. Aghdam posted videos about an array of topics including hand art and animal rights.
In 2009, she protested the military's use of pigs in training exercises. A news report by The San Diego Union Tribune shows a photo of Aghdam holding a plastic sword and spattered in blood as part of the demonstration by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
[NATL] In Photos: YouTube Shooting Unfolds in Chaotic Scene
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has also learned the license plate on a car towed from YouTube's campus Tuesday is registered to Aghdam. In 2014, she posted a video on YouTube of what appears to be the same car, stating that it was vandalized by "anti-vegans" because a bumper sticker said, "meat is murder."
Aghdam shot three victims in the courtyard of the YouTube campus in San Bruno on Tuesday. Police say she then killed herself.
Law enforcement officials initially stated that they believed that the motive behind the shooting was a domestic-related dispute. San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said at a news conference Wednesday that he believes the suspect was upset with the policies and practices of YouTube.


text:
Quantum Complexity Theory student project showcase!
This fall, for the second time, I taught my 6.845 Quantum Complexity Theory graduate course (see here for the lecture notes from the first iteration). Thanks so much to the students for making the course a success—I hope they enjoyed it at least half as much as I did!
A central part of 6.845 is the course project, which can be either a literature survey or original research in quantum complexity, and which can be done either individually or in pairs. The majority of the students chose to do original research—which surprised me, given how little time was available and how inherently unpredictable theorizing is. Yet all the projects ended up being good, and some ended up being spectacular—initiating new topics, making progress on open problems that I'd worked on without success, etc. So with the students' kind permission, I decided to pick six outstanding projects for a "blog showcase." (Obviously, inclusion in this showcase doesn't preclude the projects being published "for real," as I hope and expect they will be!)
Without further ado:
Alessandro Chiesa and Michael Forbes, A Note on QMA With Multiple Provers. Here Ale and Michael improve previous QMA(k) protocols for NP-complete problems due to Aaronson-Beigi-Drucker-Fefferman-Shor and Beigi—boosting the success probability by polynomial factors and showing how to verify a much wider range of problems than just 3SAT and 3-Coloring.
Paul Christiano, Toward Quantum Money Relative to a Classical Oracle. In a Complexity'09 paper (whose full version, alas, isn't yet finished), I showed that there exists a "quantum oracle" relative to which quantum money, which anyone can verify but no one can efficiently counterfeit, is possible. Here Paul takes the next step, giving a candidate quantum money scheme that only requires a classical oracle. Unfortunately, there's still a gap in the security proof for this scheme, but I'm optimistic that with new ideas the gap can be filled.
Alan Deckelbaum, Quantum Correlated Equilibria in Classical Complete Information Games. In this innovative paper, Alan defines a new concept of quantum correlated equilibria in quantum game theory (see here for the definition of classical correlated equilibria, due to Aumann), and studies its basic properties. In particular, he proves the nontrivial result that there exist equilibria that can be realized using classical correlation, but that can't be realized using pure-state entanglement without one or more players having incentive to deviate. See here for some independent related work by Shengyu Zhang.
Shelby Kimmel, Quantum Adversary (Upper) Bound. (Also on the arXiv; two closely-related arXiv preprints are Speed from Repetition by Shelby, and Super-Polynomial Quantum Speed-ups for Boolean Evaluation Trees with Hidden Structure by Shelby along with Bohua Zhan and Avinatan Hassidim.) This work has to be read and understood to be believed—I too was skeptical at first! Basically, Shelby gives an example of a promise problem with a constant-query quantum algorithm—except she has no idea what the algorithm is! She can only prove its existence nonconstructively, by first giving a quantum algorithm for a composed version of the problem, and then appealing to Ben Reichardt's breakthrough characterization of quantum query complexity in terms of span programs. For a special case of the problem, she's able to give an explicit O(1)-query quantum algorithm by using the Haar wavelet transform.
Andy Lutomirski, On the Query Complexity of Counterfeiting Quantum Money. Independently of Paul Christiano, here Andy proposes a different quantum money scheme using a classical oracle, which again ought to work but is missing only a security proof. Along the way, Andy also proposes a beautiful new query complexity problem—the "Separate Components Problem"—which cries out for a quantum lower bound, and might also lead to a classical oracle separation between QMA and QCMA.
Raluca Ada Popa, Witness-Indistinguishability Against Quantum Adversaries. Building on John Watrous's work on quantum zero-knowledge, here Raluca defines the new notion of quantum witness-indistinguishability, and proves many of its basic properties. For example, she shows that if quantum computationally-concealing commitment schemes exist, then all of NP has witness-indistinguishable proofs that are computationally secure against quantum adversaries. As with so much else in cryptography, even just getting the definitions right is a nontrivial affair!


text:
In total there are 47 users online :: 2 registered, 0 hidden and 45 guests
Most users ever online was 1091 on Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:27 pm
Registered users: Bing [Bot], Google [Bot] based on users active over the past 60 minutes
This file was automatically generated by Admin FAQ Editor
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
// To add an entry to your FAQ simply add a line to this file in this format:
// $faq[] = array("question", "answer");
// If you want to separate a section enter $faq[] = array("--","Block heading goes here if wanted");
// Links will be created automatically
// DO NOT forget the ; at the end of the line.
// Do NOT put double quotes (") in your FAQ entries, if you absolutely must then escape them ie. \"something\"
// The FAQ items will appear on the FAQ page in the same order they are listed in this file
$faq[] = array("--", "Login and Registration Issues");
$faq[] = array("Why can't I log in?", "Have you registered? Seriously, you must register in order to log in. Have you been banned from the board? (A message will be displayed if you have.) If so, you should contact the webmaster or board administrator to find out why. If you have registered and are not banned and you still cannot log in then check and double-check your username and password. Usually this is the problem; if not, contact the board administrator -- they may have incorrect configuration settings for the board.");
$faq[] = array("Why do I need to register at all?", "You may not have to -- it is up to the administrator of the board as to whether you need to register in order to post messages. However, registration will give you access to additional features not available to guest users such as definable avatar images, private messaging, emailing to fellow users, usergroup sub.scription, etc. It only takes a few minutes to register so it is recommended you do so.");
$faq[] = array("Why do I get logged off automatically?", "If you do not check the Log me in automatically box when you log in, the board will only keep you logged in for a preset time. This prevents misuse of your account by anyone else. To stay logged in, check the box during login. This is not recommended if you access the board from a shared computer, e.g. library, internet cafe, university cluster, etc.");
$faq[] = array("How do I prevent my username from appearing in the online user listings?", "In your profile you will find an option Hide your online status; if you switch this on you'll only appear to board administrators or to yourself. You will be counted as a hidden user.");
$faq[] = array("I've lost my password!", "Don't panic! While your password cannot be retrieved it can be reset. To do this go to the login page and click I've forgotten my password. Follow the instructions and you should be back online in no time.");
$faq[] = array("I registered but cannot log in!", "First check that you are entering the correct username and password. If they are okay then one of two things may have happened: if COPPA support is enabled and you clicked the I am under 13 years old link while registering then you will have to follow the instructions you received. If this is not the case then maybe your account need activating. Some boards will require all new registrations be activated, either by yourself or by the administrator before you can log on. When you registered it would have told you whether activation was required. If you were sent an email then follow the instructions; if you did not receive the email then check that your email address is valid. One reason activation is used is to reduce the possibility of rogue users abusing the board anonymously. If you are sure the email address you used is valid then try contacting the board administrator.");
$faq[] = array("I registered in the past but cannot log in anymore!", "The most likely reasons for this are: you entered an incorrect username or password (check the email you were sent when you first registered) or the administrator has deleted your account for some reason. If it is the latter case then perhaps you did not post anything? It is usual for boards to periodically remove users who have not posted anything so as to reduce the size of the database. Try registering again and get involved in discussions.");
$faq[] = array("--", "User Preferences and settings");
$faq[] = array("How do I change my settings?", "All your settings (if you are registered) are stored in the database. To alter them click the Profile link (generally shown at the top of pages but this may not be the case). This will allow you to change all your settings.");
$faq[] = array("The times are not correct!", "The times are almost certainly correct; however, what you may be seeing are times displayed in a timezone different from the one you are in. If this is the case, you should change your profile setting for the timezone to match your particular area, e.g. London, Paris, New York, Sydney, etc. Please note that changing the timezone, like most settings, can only be done by registered users. So if you are not registered, this is a good time to do so, if you pardon the pun!");
$faq[] = array("I changed the timezone and the time is still wrong!", "If you are sure you have set the timezone correctly and the time is still different, the most likely answer is daylight savings time (or summer time as it is known in the UK and other places). The board is not designed to handle the changeovers between standard and daylight time so during summer months the time may be an hour different from the real local time.");
$faq[] = array("My language is not in the list!", "The most likely reasons for this are either the administrator did not install your language or someone has not translated this board into your language. Try asking the board administrator if they can install the language pack you need or if it does not exist, please feel free to create a new translation. More information can be found at the phpBB Group website (see link at bottom of pages)");
$faq[] = array("How do I show an image below my username?", "There may be two images below a username when viewing posts. The first is an image associated with your rank; generally these take the form of stars or blocks indicating how many posts you have made or your status on the forums. Below this may be a larger image known as an avatar; this is generally unique or personal to each user. It is up to the board administrator to enable avatars and they have a choice over the way in which avatars can be made available. If you are unable to use avatars then this is the decision of the board admin and you should ask them their reasons (we're sure they'll be good!)");
$faq[] = array("How do I change my rank?", "In general you cannot directly change the wording of any rank (ranks appear below your username in topics and on your profile depending on the style used). Most boards use ranks to indicate the number of posts you have made and to identify certain users. For example, moderators and administrators may have a special rank. Please do not abuse the board by posting unnecessarily just to increase your rank -- you will probably find the moderator or administrator will simply lower your post count.");
$faq[] = array("When I click the email link for a user it asks me to log in.", "Sorry, but only registered users can send email to people via the built-in email form (if the admin has enabled this feature). This is to prevent malicious use of the email system by anonymous users.");
$faq[] = array("--", "Posting Issues");
$faq[] = array("How do I post a topic in a forum?", "Easy -- click the relevant button on either the forum or topic screens. You may need to register before you can post a message. The facilities available to you are listed at the bottom of the forum and topic screens (the You can post new topics, You can vote in polls, etc. list)");
$faq[] = array("How do I edit or delete a post?", "Unless you are the board admin or forum moderator you can only edit or delete your own posts. You can edit a post (sometimes for only a limited time after it was made) by clicking the edit button for the relevant post. If someone has already replied to the post, you will find a small piece of text output below the post when you return to the topic that lists the number of times you edited it. This will only appear if no one has replied; it also will not appear if moderators or administrators edit the post (they should leave a message saying what they altered and why). Please note that normal users cannot delete a post once someone has replied.");
$faq[] = array("How do I add a signature to my post?", "To add a signature to a post you must first create one; this is done via your profile. Once created you can check the Add Signature box on the posting form to add your signature. You can also add a signature by default to all your posts by checking the appropriate radio box in your profile. You can still prevent a signature being added to individual posts by un-checking the add signature box on the posting form.");
$faq[] = array("How do I create a poll?", "Creating a poll is easy -- when you post a new topic (or edit the first post of a topic, if you have permission) you should see a Add Poll form below the main posting box. If you cannot see this then you probably do not have rights to create polls. You should enter a title for the poll and then at least two options -- to set an option type in the poll question and click the Add option button. You can also set a time limit for the poll, 0 being an infinite amount. There will be a limit to the number of options you can list, which is set by the board administrator");
$faq[] = array("How do I edit or delete a poll?", "As with posts, polls can only be edited by the original poster, a moderator, or board administrator. To edit a poll, click the first post in the topic, which always has the poll associated with it. If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option. However, if people have already placed votes only moderators or administrators can edit or delete it; this is to prevent people rigging polls by changing options mid-way through a poll");
$faq[] = array("Why can't I access a forum?", "Some forums may be limited to certain users or groups. To view, read, post, etc. you may need special authorization which only the forum moderator and board administrator can grant, so you should contact them.");
$faq[] = array("Why can't I vote in polls?", "Only registered users can vote in polls so as to prevent spoofing of results. If you have registered and still cannot vote then you probably do not have appropriate access rights.");
$faq[] = array("--", "Formatting and Topic Types");
$faq[] = array("What is BBCode?", "BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. Whether you can use BBCode is determined by the administrator. You can also disable it on a per post basis from the posting form. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML: tags are enclosed in square braces [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. For more information on BBCode see the guide which can be accessed from the posting page.");
$faq[] = array("Can I use HTML?", "That depends on whether the administrator allows you to; they have complete control over it. If you are allowed to use it, you will probably find only certain tags work. This is a safety feature to prevent people from abusing the board by using tags which may destroy the layout or cause other problems. If HTML is enabled you can disable it on a per post basis from the posting form.");
$faq[] = array("What are Smileys?", "Smileys, or Emoticons, are small graphical images which can be used to express some feeling using a short code, e.g. :) means happy, :( means sad. The full list of emoticons can be seen via the posting form. Try not to overuse smileys, though, as they can quickly render a post unreadable and a moderator may decide to edit them out or remove the post altogether.");
$faq[] = array("Can I post Images?", "Images can indeed be shown in your posts. However, there is no facility at present for uploading images directly to this board. Therefore you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.some-unknown-place.net/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc. To display the image use either the BBCode [img] tag or appropriate HTML (if allowed).");
$faq[] = array("What are Announcements?", "Announcements often contain important information and you should read them as soon as possible. Announcements appear at the top of every page in the forum to which they are posted. Whether or not you can post an announcement depends on the permissions required, which are set by the administrator.");
$faq[] = array("What are Sticky topics?", "Sticky topics appear below any announcements in viewforum and only on the first page. They are often quite important so you should read them where possible. As with announcements the board administrator determines what permissions are required to post sticky topics in each forum.");
$faq[] = array("What are Locked topics?", "Locked topics are set this way by either the forum moderator or board administrator. You cannot reply to locked topics and any poll contained inside is automatically ended. Topics may be locked for many reasons.");
$faq[] = array("--", "User Levels and Groups");
$faq[] = array("What are Administrators?", "Administrators are people assigned the highest level of control over the entire board. These people can control all facets of board operation which include setting permissions, banning users, creating usergroups or moderators, etc. They also have full moderator capabilities in all the forums.");
$faq[] = array("What are Moderators?", "Moderators are individuals (or groups of individuals) whose job it is to look after the running of the forums from day to day. They have the power to edit or delete posts and lock, unlock, move, delete and split topics in the forum they moderate. Generally moderators are there to prevent people going off-topic or posting abusive or offensive material.");
$faq[] = array("What are Usergroups?", "Usergroups are a way in which board administrators can group users. Each user can belong to several groups (this differs from most other boards) and each group can be assigned individual access rights. This makes it easy for administrators to set up several users as moderators of a forum, or to give them access to a private forum, etc.");
$faq[] = array("How do I join a Usergroup?", "To join a usergroup click the usergroup link on the page header (dependent on template design) and you can then view all usergroups. Not all groups are open access -- some are closed and some may even have hidden memberships. If the board is open then you can request to join it by clicking the appropriate button. The user group moderator will need to approve your request; they may ask why you want to join the group. Please do not pester a group moderator if they turn your request down -- they will have their reasons.");
$faq[] = array("How do I become a Usergroup Moderator?", "Usergroups are initially created by the board administrator who also assigns a board moderator. If you are interested in creating a usergroup then your first point of contact should be the administrator, so try dropping them a private message.");
$faq[] = array("--", "Printer-Friendly Topic View");
$faq[] = array("What is the :| |: button for? - Cancelling the board's pagination", "By clicking on this button you can locally remove the board's fixed pagination for the current topic to help your web browser do the proper pagination for printing based on actual line spacing, rather than the forum-wide limit for number of messages per page.");
$faq[] = array("What are the boxes on top of the printable output? - Range selection", "There are two boxes on top of the page and a tape-recorder-like button Show. They allow to select a range of messages. Note that every message in the printable view has a number. Use those numbers to fill out the boxes on top to set up the first and the last message you want to be printed, and press the Show button to rearrange the messages. Another way to set a range is to put a negative number in the second box, which will mean that you want -n of messages to be printed. For example, 4 7 will output messages 4, 5, 6, 7. However if you enter values 4 -7 in first and second box respectively, messages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 will be shown after you press the rewind button.");
$faq[] = array("How to print only one message? - Advanced range selection", "First, go to the printable view of the topic by pressing the Printer button in the topic view. Find your message and note the number in the left of it. Type that number into the first box in the top left of the printable view. In the second box put value -1 and press the Show button. This will tell the database to output only one message starting from the given one. Another way of getting this result is by putting the same number in both boxes. Let's say you want to print only the message number 16. Fill out the boxes in the top as such: 16 -1 and press the go button Show. Instead of 16 and -1 you could as well enter 16 and 16. The result will be the same. This example will work only if there are at least sixteen messages in the current topic, of course.");
$faq[] = array("More questions?", "Detailed documentation and support forums are here");
$faq[] = array("--", "Private Messaging");
$faq[] = array("I cannot send private messages!", "There are three reasons for this; you are not registered and/or not logged on, the board administrator has disabled private messaging for the entire board, or the board administrator has prevented you individually from sending messages. If it is the latter case you should try asking the administrator why.");
$faq[] = array("I keep getting unwanted private messages!", "In the future we will be adding an ignore list to the private messaging system. For now, though, if you keep receiving unwanted private messages from someone, inform the board administrator -- they have the power to prevent a user from sending private messages at all.");
$faq[] = array("I have received a spamming or abusive email from someone on this board!", "We are sorry to hear that. The email form feature of this board includes safeguards to try to track users who send such posts. You should email the board administrator with a full copy of the email you received and it is very important this include the headers (these list details of the user that sent the email). They can then take action.");
$faq[] = array("--", "phpBB 2 Issues");
$faq[] = array("Who wrote this bulletin board?", "This software (in its unmodified form) is produced, released and is copyrighted phpBB Group. It is made available under the GNU General Public License and may be freely distributed; see link for more details");
$faq[] = array("Why isn't X feature available?", "This software was written by and licensed through phpBB Group. If you believe a feature needs to be added then please visit the phpbb.com website and see what the phpBB Group has to say. Please do not post feature requests to the board at phpbb.com, as the Group uses sourceforge to handle tasking of new features. Please read through the forums and see what, if any, our position may already be for features and then follow the procedure given there.");
$faq[] = array("Whom do I contact about abusive and/or legal matters related to this board?", "You should contact the administrator of this board. If you cannot find who that is, you should first contact one of the forum moderators and ask them who you should in turn contact. If still get no response you should contact the owner of the domain (do a whois lookup) or, if this is running on a free service (e.g. yahoo, free.fr, f2s.com, etc.), the management or abuse department of that service. Please note that phpBB Group has absolutely no control and cannot in any way be held liable over how, where or by whom this board is used. It is absolutely pointless contacting phpBB Group in relation to any legal (cease and desist, liable, defamatory comment, etc.) matter not directly related to the phpbb.com website or the discrete software of phpBB itself. If you do email phpBB Group about any third party use of this software then you should expect a terse response or no response at all.");
$faq[] = array("--", "Digests");
$faq[] = array("What are Digests?", "Digests are email messages sent to you periodically with summary of postings made here.");
$faq[] = array("Why would I want a digest?", "It makes your life easier. You don't have to explicitly visit this site to see what conversations are going on around here. Just read your digest and if there is some topic that seems of interest, click on it in your email program and start participating! Unsubscribe at any time.");
$faq[] = array("How often are digests sent?", "You pick how often they are sent. You can enter an number of hours between digests when you set it up. So if its a busy forum, and you always want to be on top setup the digest to be sent every hour. If its a slow forum, and you just want to keep a lazy eye, use something like 24 (daily) or 168 (weekly).");
$faq[] = array("Suppose I don't want summaries of every message here. Can I be selective?", "Yes. You can pick the forum or forums that interest you. By default you will get messages for all forums that you are allowed to access.");
$faq[] = array("What email message formats are available?", "We can send you HTML or text. Unless your email program can't handle HTML (very unusual these days) we suggest HTML. Frankly, text digests look pretty plain and are harder to use. That's the nature of plain text.");
$faq[] = array("Do I get the whole message text in the digest?", "By default you get the first 150 characters of the text, or you can elect not to see any of the message text and just see the topic subject instead. You can select message excerpts including the first 50, 100, 150, 300 or 600 characters, or the full text of the message (up to 32,000 characters). Anything beyond the limit you set will be truncated. We recommend keeping the default message length because otherwise your digests may get so big as to be unusable. We have also heard that very large digests may be rejected by your ISP or put you over your server storage quota. An excerpt reduces bandwidth and is usually all that is needed. Why? Because each message has a convenient link that will take you to the topic or message of interest.");
$faq[] = array("How do I get started?", "Just click on the Digests link near the top right part of any page. Or if you prefer click here.");
$faq[] = array("Can I unsubscribe?", "Of course! Just go to the same page and select 0 for digest frequency. Then submit the form. Your sub.scription will end immediately.");
$faq[] = array("Are digests commercial free?", "Of course. There are no annoying ads nor will there ever be any on our site.");
Registered users: Bing [Bot], Google [Bot]


text:
Featured partner agencies
Here at Wotif, we're bargain hunters just like you. We know a great deal when we see one, and the Rent A Wreck deals for Skåne County listed on this page are just too good to pass up. If you're looking for a cool ride from Rent A Wreck to take you to all of Skåne County's top destinations at a fraction of the price. then you're going to want to take a look at these epic deals.
So get ready to explore all that Skåne County has to offer in your new Rent A Wreck car hire. cruise from amazing sites to unreal activities on your own time, and choose the car class that's right for you to make travelling a breeze. Want some great deals on a luxury car hire? Consider it done. Or, maybe you're looking for amazing minivan bargains. Whatever vehicle type you are in search of, Wotif is here to help you find the lowest fares on the top Rent A Wreck car hire in Skåne County.
All you have to do is search to find the vehicle that's right for you, book, and save. Book your flight, hotel, and car rental together and make your wallet extra happy!
Explore Skåne County's Top Sights
Skåne County has countless attractions and sights to see. One of our epic deals on Rent A Wreck car hire is the best way to get the most out of your trip to Skåne County. Visit amazing historical and cultural sights or experience some of the amazing activities and excursions Skåne County offers. Travel on your own time with one of our Skåne County Rent A Wreck car hire deals.


text:
Limited Lifetime Warranty
Revtek Suspension products are warranted to be free from material and workmanship defects for as long as the original retail purchaser owns the vehicle upon which such products were originally installed (proof of purchase required). The consumer will be responsible for removing from the vehicle and returning any defective item, freight prepaid, and for reinstallation. This warranty is non-transferable. Revtek Suspension's limit of liability under this warranty is to repair or replace the product at Revtek Suspension's option. Consequential costs such as, but not limited to labor fees, loss of use, loss of time or freight charges are not covered. Any product that has been abused, altered incorrectly installed, or used in competition is not covered. Product finish is excluded from this warranty. Items that are subject to wear are not considered defective when worn and are not covered. The warranty is void if the "Warning to Driver" decal is not properly displayed on the vehicle. No other warranties are expressed or implied. We reserve the right to make changes in design, materials, and specifications without prior notice.
This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other rights which may vary from state to state. Some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts or allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. Other than stated above, there are no warranties.
This warranty to be free from material and workmanship defects shall not apply to any product which has been improperly installed modified or customized and does not apply to any components used for racing purposes or racing type activities.
To make a claim under this warranty to be free from material and workmanship defects, contact Revtek Suspension about the problem prior to removing any parts from the vehicle. If it appears that the part is warrantable, you will be given a Return Authorization (RA) number and asked to return the part freight prepaid. If the part is found to be warrantable, it will be repaired or replaced and returned to you. All freight charges are the customer's responsibility. If a replacement part is needed before the part in question can be returned, you must first purchase the replacement part. Then if the part in question is deemed warrantable, you will be credited / refunded by the authorized Revtek dealer the part was purchased from.
Shocks and bushings are considered to be wear items. As such, they will be covered for a period of 12 months from the original installation. Any failure outside of 12 months will be considered typical wear.


text:
Pam of Magdalene Jewels has give my a Sweet Blog Award!! So I feel quite honored to be given an award which gives Thanks to "Sweet Friends: with kind words, sweet thoughts and good times" from someone I think is just as deserving of such an award. (borrowing from Pam) In accepting this award, I first must list 10 things that make me happy, then pass the "Sweet Blog Award" onto 10 bloggers whose blogs always make me smile! Here is the post with the details. Thank you so very much, Pam!!
Sweet Blog Award
The rules associated with this award are that I am to write 10 things that make me happy and then pass this award to 10 of my fellow bloggers:
Ok, first 10 things that make me HAPPY!!:
1. My daughter Jennifer who is mostly grown up (I don't feel all grown up so I wouldn't want to impose that on her). We have a fantastic relationship and I love her dearly!
2. Susan, my best friend. Our lives are filled with much work, art, networking, movies and more. I am happy as we flow through life together!
3. Art! I love making art (except when I don't <grin>) and truly enjoy feeling traditional materials all squishy on my paper and hands. Digital art is so wonderful the way it is so mutable and responsive. All this art make my heart and soul sing!
4. Mediating and communing with the Spirits. This is one of my deepest joys and I feel so happy and alive when I am so deeply connected to the Universe in a conscious way.
5. Working with a student or client who really, truly wants to learn. I love seeing the growing awareness of how things work – just so much satisfaction!
6. The sun on my face, a gentle breeze in the trees … feeling at peace and one with nature.
7. Color!! Anyone who knows my art knows I love color – I thrive on it and just feel so nourished by certain kinds of vibrant, colorful paintings and sites. Whether in the sky or in my or someone's paintings, color makes me happy!
8. Watching movies with Susan and talking about them as we go – the colors, the dialogue, character development, what works, what doesn't, what we think should be expanded on or changed. Very happy!
9. Dancing to music, feeling in the flow, letting the music carry me along.
10. Traveling to different places, cultures and people. Most of this has been in my own home, through books, movies, computer, imagination and listening to others. Hearing about different perspectives and viewpoints and learning how others see the world. Allowing that to wash over me … sometimes shifting my ideas and other times feeling more certain in my own ways. Very uplifting.
Here are my nominees … all very fine and hard to choose with so many great blogs!! Know that I considered YOU!! Thank you! Here are my 10 I have chosen for the moment.
1. Jean Hood of Jean Levert Hood – Texas Hill Country Painter and my co-moderator of VAST and a delightful person
2. Sue O'Kieffe of Sacred Circle Mandalas – a very gifted mandala artist & good friend
3. Irene of The Green Stone Woman – courageous, strong, insightful and enjoyable woman and my most faithful commenter
4. Karen Faulkner of Karen Faulkner Art – creates colorful, delicate watercolors and you might remember I won her lovely painting
5. Lynda of Peripheral Vision – Inner Sights by Lynda Lehmann
6. Lisa of Lucky Dip – art and photography by Lisa Sarsfield
7. Kara of 1000 Faces 0f Mother Henna – creates vibrant, fun art and speaks deeply from her heart and soul
8. Lynne of An Artists' Ramblings by Lynne Reichart – creates lovely art and has great giveaways regularly
9. Linda of Paintings in Watercolor – fantastic fine art by Linda Hammelman
10. Robin of Pocketful of Colors – Robin Maria Pedrero is a visual artist who must create!
This was fun to honor all these lovely artistic, creative people! Thanks for coming by!
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: Sweet Blog Award, Â Diane Clancy, vibrant color painting, Jean Hood, The Green Stone Woman, Sacred Circle Mandalas, Sue O'Kieffe, Texas Hill Country Painter, Kara, 1000 Faces 0f Mother Henna, Karen Faulkner, Karen Faulkner Art, Robin Maria Pedrero, Pocketful of Colors, Linda Hammelman, Magdalene Jewels, An Artists' Ramblings by Lynne Reichart, Lynne Reichart, Peripheral Vision – Inner Sights by Lynda Lehmann, Lynda Lehmann, Lisa Sarsfield


text:
An evening commuter beats the traffic in the Ninth Avenue cycletrack.
A major reconstruction project on Ninth Avenue in New York City, New York used $2 million in Transportation Enhancement funding to build separated bicycle lanes and to enhance the surrounding streetscape. The TE funding was matched by $14,700,000 in other funds and was used for the project which stretched from West 15th Street to West 23rd street.
The project funded the reconstruction of 9th avenue and included the installation of new sidewalks, narrowing of the roadbed, landscaping, and pedestrian refuges. The main change was the addition of a physically-separated bicycle path which is one of the first urban on-street parking and signal-protected bicycle facilities in the US. The project has increased the safety of bicycling on the 70 foot wide avenue because the physically separated lane has an 8 ft. buffer of raised concrete islands or a parking lane. Additionally, pavement markings, signs, and discrete signal phases were added. The project won the 2008 Best Program Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers Transportation Planning Council.
9thAvenueCityCycleNewNew YorkNinthPathSeperatedTrackYorkIMG443
The National Transportation Alternatives Clearinghouse provides information on the Transportation Alternatives Program funded by FHWA. To be eligible for TA funds, a project must relate to surface transportation and be one of the 10 TA Activities. For more information about the TA program see trade.railstotrails.org. For our licensing policy see our guidelines.
Transportation Alternatives Data Exchange
@ the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
2121 Ward Court, NW, 5th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20037-1213


text:
Tuning Hive on Spark
Minimum Required Role: Configurator (also provided by Cluster Administrator, Full Administrator)
Hive on Spark provides better performance than Hive on MapReduce while offering the same features. Running Hive on Spark requires no changes to user queries. Specifically, user-defined functions (UDFs) are fully supported, and most performance-related configurations work with the same semantics.
This topic describes how to configure and tune Hive on Spark for optimal performance. This topic assumes that your cluster is managed by Cloudera Manager and that you use YARN as the Spark cluster manager.
The example described in the following sections assumes a 40-host YARN cluster, and each host has 32 cores and 120 GB memory.
YARN Configuration
The YARN properties yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores and yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb determine how cluster resources can be used by Hive on Spark (and other YARN applications). The values for the two properties are determined by the capacity of your host and the number of other non-YARN applications that coexist on the same host. Most commonly, only YARN NodeManager and HDFS DataNode services are running on worker hosts.
Configuring Cores
Allocate 1 core for each of the services and 2 additional cores for OS usage, leaving 28 cores available for YARN.
Configuring Memory
Allocate 20 GB memory for these services and processes. To do so, set yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb=100 GB and yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores=28.
For more information on tuning YARN, see Tuning YARN.
Spark Configuration
After allocating resources to YARN, you define how Spark uses the resources: executor and driver memory, executor allocation, and parallelism.
Configuring Executor Memory
Spark executor configurations are described in Configuring Spark on YARN Applications.
- More executor memory enables map join optimization for more queries, but can result in increased overhead due to garbage collection.
- In some cases the HDFS client does not handle concurrent writers well, so a race condition can occur if an executor has too many cores.
To minimize the number of unused cores, Cloudera recommends setting spark.executor.cores to 4, 5, or 6, depending on the number of cores allocated for YARN.
Because 28 cores is divisible by 4, set spark.executor.cores to 4. Setting it to 6 would leave 4 cores unused ; setting it to 5 leaves 3 cores unused. With spark.executor.cores set to 4, the maximum number of executors that can run concurrently on a host is seven (28 / 4). Divide the total memory among these executors, with each getting approximately 14 GB (100 / 7).
The total memory allocated to an executor includes spark.executor.memory and spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead. Cloudera recommends setting spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead to 15-20% of the total memory size that is, set spark.executor.memoryOverhead=2 G and spark.executor.memory=12 G.
With these configurations, each host can run up to 7 executors at a time. Each executor can run up to 4 tasks (one per core). So, each task has on average 3.5 GB (14 / 4) memory. All tasks running in an executor share the same heap space.
Make sure the sum of spark.executor.memoryOverhead and spark.executor.memory is less than yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb.
Configuring Driver Memory
- spark.driver.memory—Maximum size of each Spark driver's Java heap memory when Hive is running on Spark.
- spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead—Amount of extra off-heap memory that can be requested from YARN, per driver. This, together with spark.driver.memory, is the total memory that YARN can use to create a JVM for a driver process.
- 12 GB when X is greater than 50 GB
- 4 GB when X is between 12 GB and 50 GB
- 1 GB when X is between 1GB and 12 GB
- 256 MB when X is less than 1 GB
These numbers are for the sum of spark.driver.memory and spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead. Overhead should be 10-15% of the total. In this example, yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb=100 GB, so the total memory for the Spark driver can be set to 12 GB. As a result, memory settings are spark.driver.memory=10.5gb and spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead=1.5gb.
Choosing the Number of Executors
The number of executors for a cluster is determined by the number of executors on each host and the number of worker hosts in the cluster. If you have 40 worker hosts in your cluster, the maximum number of executors that Hive can use to run Hive on Spark jobs is 160 (40 x 4). The maximum is slightly smaller than this because the driver uses one core and 12 GB total driver memory. This assumes that no other YARN applications are running.
Hive performance is directly related to the number of executors used to run a query. However, the characteristics vary from query to query. In general, performance is proportional to the number of executors. For example, using four executors for a query takes approximately half of the time of using two executors. However, performance peaks at a certain number of executors, above which increasing the number does not improve performance and can have an adverse impact.
In most cases, using half of the cluster capacity (half the number of executors) provides good performance. To achieve maximum performance, it is a good idea to use all available executors. For example, set spark.executor.instances=160. For benchmarking and performance measurement, this is strongly recommended.
Dynamic Executor Allocation
Although setting spark.executor.instances to the maximum value usually maximizes performance, doing so is not recommended for a production environment in which multiple users are running Hive queries. Avoid allocating a fixed number of executors for a user session, because the executors cannot be used by other user queries if they are idle. In a production environment, plan for executor allocation that allows greater resource sharing.
Spark allows you to dynamically scale the set of cluster resources allocated to a Spark application based on the workload. To enable dynamic allocation, follow the procedure in Dynamic Allocation. Except in certain circumstances, Cloudera strongly recommends enabling dynamic allocation.
For available executors to be fully utilized you must run enough tasks concurrently (in parallel). In most cases, Hive determines parallelism automatically for you, but you may have some control in tuning concurrency. On the input side, the number of map tasks is equal to the number of splits generated by the input format. For Hive on Spark, the input format is CombineHiveInputFormat, which can group the splits generated by the underlying input formats as required. You have more control over parallelism at the stage boundary. Adjust hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer to control how much data each reducer processes, and Hive determines an optimal number of partitions, based on the available executors, executor memory settings, the value you set for the property, and other factors. Experiments show that Spark is less sensitive than MapReduce to the value you specify for hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer, as long as enough tasks are generated to keep all available executors busy. For optimal performance, pick a value for the property so that Hive generates enough tasks to fully use all available executors.
Hive Configuration
Hive on Spark shares most if not all Hive performance-related configurations. You can tune those parameters much as you would for MapReduce. However, hive.auto.convert.join.noconditionaltask.size, which is the threshold for converting common join to map join based on statistics, can have a significant performance impact. Although this configuration is used for both Hive on MapReduce and Hive on Spark, it is interpreted differently by each.
- totalSize—Approximate size of data on disk
- rawDataSize—Approximate size of data in memory
Hive on MapReduce uses totalSize. When both are available, Hive on Spark uses rawDataSize. Because of compression and serialization, a large difference between totalSize and rawDataSize can occur for the same dataset. For Hive on Spark, you might need to specify a larger value for hive.auto.convert.join.noconditionaltask.size to convert the same join to a map join. You can increase the value for this parameter to make map join conversion more aggressive. Converting common joins to map joins can improve performance. Alternatively, if this value is set too high, too much memory is used by data from small tables, and tasks may fail because they run out of memory. Adjust this value according to your cluster environment.
You can control whether rawDataSize statistics should be collected, using the property hive.stats.collect.rawdatasize. Cloudera recommends setting this to true in Hive (the default).
Cloudera also recommends setting two additional configuration properties, using a Cloudera Manager advanced configuration snippet for HiveServer2:
- hive.stats.fetch.column.stats=true
- hive.optimize.index.filter=true
hive.optimize.reducededuplication.min.reducer=4 hive.optimize.reducededuplication=true hive.merge.mapfiles=true hive.merge.mapredfiles=false hive.merge.smallfiles.avgsize=16000000 hive.merge.size.per.task=256000000 hive.merge.sparkfiles=true hive.auto.convert.join=true hive.auto.convert.join.noconditionaltask=true hive.auto.convert.join.noconditionaltask.size=20M(might need to increase for Spark, 200M) hive.optimize.bucketmapjoin.sortedmerge=false hive.map.aggr.hash.percentmemory=0.5 hive.map.aggr=true hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition=false hive.stats.autogather=true hive.stats.fetch.column.stats=true hive.compute.query.using.stats=true hive.limit.pushdown.memory.usage=0.4 (MR and Spark) hive.optimize.index.filter=true hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer=67108864 hive.smbjoin.cache.rows=10000 hive.fetch.task.conversion=more hive.fetch.task.conversion.threshold=1073741824 hive.optimize.ppd=true
Pre-warming YARN Containers
When you submit your first query after starting a new session, you may experience a slightly longer delay before you see the query start. You may also notice that if you run the same query again, it finishes much faster than the first one.
Spark executors need extra time to start and initialize for the Spark on YARN cluster, which causes longer latency. In addition, Spark does not wait for all executors to be ready before starting the job so some executors may be still starting up after the job is submitted to the cluster. However, for jobs running on Spark, the number of available executors at the time of job submission partly determines the number of reducers. When the number of ready executors has not reached the maximum, the job may not have maximal parallelism. This can further impact performance for the first job.
In long-lived user sessions, this extra time causes no problems because it only happens on the first query execution. However short-lived sessions, such as Hive jobs launched by Oozie, may not achieve optimal performance.
To reduce startup time, you can enable container pre-warming before a job starts. The job starts running only when the requested executors are ready. This way, a short-lived session parallelism is not decreased on the reduce side.
To enable pre-warming, set hive.prewarm.enabled to true before the query is issued. You can also set the umber of containers by setting hive.prewarm.numcontainers. The default is 10.
The actual number of executors to pre-warm is capped by the value of either spark.executor.instances (static allocation) or spark.dynamicAllocation.maxExecutors (dynamic allocation). The value for hive.prewarm.numcontainers should not exceed that allocated to a user session.


text:
The Madness of Keynesian Economics
President Barack Obama demands more stimulus spending to avoid the "fiscal cliff." Obama increased the national debt $6 trillion to $16 trillion. Yet the Democrats' 'cure for what ails ya' is even more spending. Obama demands around $75 billion in new spending to stimulate the economy in 2013.
"Keynesian Economics" is the insane belief that the economy can be stimulated by government spending. It provides the excuse to depart from common sense that allows politicians to ignore the alarm bells. It is ludicrous mainly because our government doesn't have any money to spend.
If the government had a surplus saved up, spending actual money might give our economy a short-term sugar high (with dubious long-term results). But our Federal and state governments must first suck money out of the economy by borrowing it.
History has repeatedly proven that this is nonsense. Yet Democrats will not let go of the Keynesian Myth. The government is the center of society, America's modern Democrats want to believe. So they cannot shake the dogma that our entire economy depends upon government spending.
The New Deal was the largest real-world test of the Keynesian Myth in recent history. Franklin Roosevelt's Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau confessed that the "New Deal" was a failure in sworn testimony before Congress on May 9, 1939.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work."
And FDR's Treasury Secretary also told Congress:
"I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. ... And an enormous debt to boot!" (See: Human Events http://www.humanevents.com/2009/01/20/get-over-it-new-deal-didnt-do-the-job/ and The Heritage Foundation http://blog.heritage.org/2009/01/14/were-spending-more-than-ever-and-it-doesnt-work/.)
What's more, Morgenthau was a friend and ally of FDR's, not just the Treasury Secretary responsible for the finances of the New Deal.
Morgenthau made this "startling confession," says historian Burton W. Folsom Jr., in the New Deal's seventh year. "In these words, Morgenthau summarized a decade of disaster, especially during the years Roosevelt was in power. Indeed average unemployment for the whole year in 1939 would be higher than that in 1931, the year before Roosevelt captured the presidency from Herbert Hoover," Folsom's book is "New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America."
It's like this: You scoop water from the deep end of a swimming pool with a bucket, run around to the shallow end, and then pour the water into the shallow end of the pool. Can you make the shallow end deeper? The entire swimming pool is one inter-connected whole. You are accomplishing nothing... except spilling some water (waste) and using up energy (administrative overhead).
So our government vacuums money out of the economy by borrowing it. The money is largely wasted because it is directed according to political goals and to benefit political cronies, not by sound economic criteria. No one is accountable for good or bad results. Some of the money is wasted on administrative overhead. Some of the money is wasted on fraud or abuse or to line people's pockets.
But nothing real has changed. So the economy will end up right back where it was before -- after a sugar rush hangover. Salaries might be bigger only due to inflation lowering the value of the dollar.
For one thing, businesses and consumers do not change their behavior when they know that government actions are only temporary. Only permanent changes in conditions affect economic dynamics, empirical evidence shows.
Advocates for the Keynesian Myth argue that unemployment dipped during the Great Depression from 20% to "only" 14% in 1938, before it jumped back up to 17% by 1939. They insist that "austerity" budgets drove unemployment back up again to 17%.
So liberals admit that Keynesian Economics is a failure. As soon as the government spending stops, the economy slumps back where it was before. Nothing has actually changed. The Keynesian Myth promises that the economy can be fundamentally improved.
Moreover, liberals ignore the massive debt they burden the country with. Considering the whole picture, including the debt, the nation is left worse off than it was to start with.
Liberals argue that Roosevelt's stimulus was not big enough and it took World War II to finally end the Great Depression. However, Obama's most out-spoken economist lets the truth slip: The Great Depression ended partly because Adolf Hitler drove wealth out of Europe and into the United States. As European war loomed in 1938 and 1939, genuine increases in real investments flowing from Europe fundamentally grew the economy. This was real money invested in the country, not government manipulation.
Christina D. Romer is Obama's most eager cheerleader for the Keynesian madness. But she cannot avoid giving away the store in the process. Romer was Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, and an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Romer reluctantly lets the cat out of the bag. It was not World War II deficit spending but the military draft removing nearly 10 million men from the work force. Nearly 10 million jobs needed to be back-filled. Romer also reluctantly concedes that economic participation was driven by national survival. In a recession, consumers pull back on spending out of fear and limited funds, while businesses wait for the economy to improve. But when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and Germany declared war under their defense pact, national output soared out of patriotism. After the war, many of America's global competitors had been laid waste while the USA was untouched.
Economic historian Robert Higgs offers a detailed analysis in his book Depression, War and Cold War of how Roosevelt's New Deal made the Great Depression longer and worse and how government deficit spending during World War II did not cure the Great Depression. Higgs notes that Roosevelt stimulated manufacturing with some policies that are today Republican proposals: Tax deferrals, contractual incentives, and capital and guarantees to convert their factors to defense manufacturing.
Top economists show us that the government cannot expand the economy through deficit spending because borrowing disrupts and displaces other economic activities, including Milton Freedman, E. Cary, John Taylor of Stanford, Gary Becker and Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago and Greg Mankiw and Robert Barro of Harvard. In the end, the government simply moves economic activity around (benefitting campaign donors) without any real improvement. As economist Hal Varian of the University of California at Berkeley points out, private investment in the economy builds a foundation for long-term, sustainable growth and prosperity, whereas government spending does not.
When political cronies benefit, honest business building is demoralized and discouraged. Economic growth is harmed by liberal meddling and government disruption of the private sector.
This author was reminded (scolded, really) that even John Maynard Keynes himself would never approve of the claptrap thrown around in his name. Keynes argued that governments should run deficits in bad times but should also pay off those debts promptly in good times and run up surpluses to save for the future. But since Keynes is not here anymore to defend his reputation, Keynes' theories have become grossly perverted in the halls of Congress, the White House, and academia.]
Now, the tea party cannot save the country without slaying the Keynesian dragon once and for all. The tea party is fighting against out-of-control government spending as its most important priority. Ordinary Americans were driven out of their living rooms and into the streets to form the tea party by the fiscal madness in Washington. But the tea party cannot bring a stop to deficit spending without confronting the demon at its core.


text:
Spitzer sees dusty aftermath from massive smash-up
Posted: January 16, 2005
Astronomers say a dusty disc swirling around the nearby star Vega is bigger than earlier thought. It was probably caused by collisions of objects, perhaps as big as the planet Pluto, up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) in diameter.
Vega, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, is the fifth brightest star in the night sky. It is 60 times brighter than our sun. Observations of Vega in 1984, with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, provided the first evidence for dust particles around a typical star. Because of Vega's proximity and because its pole faces Earth, it provides a great opportunity for detailed study of the dust cloud around it.
"Vega's debris disc is another piece of evidence demonstrating the evolution of planetary systems is a pretty chaotic process," said lead author of the study, Dr. Kate Su of the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. The findings were presented at the 205th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego.
Like a drop of ink spreading out in a glass of water, the particles in Vega's dust cloud don't stay close to the star long. "The dust we are seeing in the Spitzer images is being blown out by intense light from the star," Su said. "We are witnessing the aftermath of a relatively recent collision, probably within the last million years," she explained.
Scientists say this disc event is short-lived. The majority of the detected material is only a few microns in size, 100 times smaller than a grain of Earth sand. These tiny dust grains leave the system and dissipate into interstellar space on a time scale less than 1,000 years. "But there are so many tiny grains," Su said. "They add up to a total mass equal to one third of the weight of our moon," she said.
Su and her colleagues were struck by other characteristics of Vega's debris disc, including its physical size. It has a radius of at least 815 astronomical units, roughly 20 times larger than our solar system. One astronomical unit is the distance from Earth to the sun, which is 150 million kilometers (93 million miles). A study of the disc's surface brightness indicates the presence of an inner hole at a radius of 86 astronomical units (twice the distance between Pluto and the sun). Large embryonic planets at the edge of this inner hole may have collided to make the rest of the debris around Vega.
"Spitzer has obtained the first high spatial-resolution infrared images of Vega's disc," said Dr. Michael Werner, co-author and project scientist for Spitzer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. "Its sensitive infrared detectors have allowed us to see that Vega is surrounded by an enormous disc of debris," he said.
JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. JPL is a division of Caltech. The multi-band imaging photometer for Spitzer, which made the new disc observations, was built by Ball Aerospace Corporation, Boulder, Colo.; the University of Arizona; and Boeing North American, Canoga Park, Calif.


text:
Chair's Welcome
The Department of Laboratory Medicine has a long and proud tradition of providing leading edge clinical care, outstanding biomedical research, and comprehensive education in our field. We hope that our website reflects both where we are today and what we hope to achieve.
Representing one of the two major subdisciplines of Pathology (specifically "Clinical Pathology"), the roots of the Department go back to John Peters in the 20's and 30's, who worked tirelessly to bring quantitative chemical analysis to the elucidation of disease processes. That work, which began in what was then the Metabolic Division of the Yale Department of Medicine, helped to create the basis for the modern clinical laboratory, which, of course, has now become far more inclusive, embracing hematology, microbiology, virology, immunology, transfusion medicine, cellular therapy, and genetics, as well as clinical chemistry. The Laboratory Medicine program became a full-fledged Department in 1971 and since that time has worked seamlessly together with the Department of Pathology in advancing laboratory-based diagnostics, with the Department of Internal Medicine in advancing cellular-based therapies, and with all of our colleague basic science and clinical Departments at Yale in advancing the state of biomedical research.
The Department is located in the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, which includes the Medical School, Yale New Haven Hospital (a 944 bed tertiary care facility treating over 40,000 inpatients per year and with half a million outpatient visits), the Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven, the Smilow Cancer Center, and the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. In addition, the Department has a major presence at the VA Connecticut Medical Center campus, located in nearby West Haven, CT (serving 300,000 veterans in southern New England), and faculty are involved in teaching and collaborative research at the main Yale University campus, located just a few blocks from the medical campus in New Haven. We are fortunate to be located in a truly livable metropolitan area, with a central 'college town' harboring a remarkable array of restaurants, theatre, music venues, museums, and nightlife and surrounded by small New England towns, many of which border either on Long Island Sound or on the foothills of the Blue Mountains. We are located approximately an hour and a quarter from New York City and two hours from Boston by high speed rail.
The Department is responsible for the clinical laboratories at all the major facilities, as well as several satellite facilities, and has patient service centers located throughout the greater New Haven area. Collectively performing over 8 million tests per year at its various sites, the Department provides high technology reference testing (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, cellular assays) to other institutions throughout New England and as far away as Puerto Rico. New physical facilities at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center in the brand-new Park Street building were constructed and completed in 2010 and include 60,000 square feet of clinical laboratory space. The Transfusion and Cellular Therapy services are responsible for apheresis procedures, stem cell collection and engineering, and other cellular and protein infusion services. Residencies in CP and AP/CP (under a single aegis with the Department of Pathology) are offered along with fellowships in Transfusion Medicine and Microbiology, and, also under the common aegis with Pathology, Hematopathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology.
With approximately $10 million in research funding, the faculty are engaged in basic, translational and clinical research. The major emphasis is on immunohematology, virology, structural biology, genetics, host-pathogen interactions, stem cell biology, and bioengineering. New research labs are being constructed for the Department and are expected to be ready in 2011.
The Department has NIH-funded research training programs in Immunohematology at the post-doctoral level and Virology at the pre-doctoral level. The Department also has an NIH-funded Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology as well as Clinical Translational Research Core Facilities in Immune Monitoring and Cellular Therapy.
In addition, core facilities in Flow Cytometry, Gnotobiotic Biology and High Throughput Patient Sample Acquisition are operated for the benefit of the entire medical school. The Department is responsible for the required Medical Microbiology Course and Laboratory Medicine course during the pre-clinical years, Laboratory Medicine teaching within the required core Medicine clerkship in the clinical years, and also has elective courses in advanced Laboratory Medicine and in combined Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.
Again we welcome you to our website. Please contact us if we can provide additional information about the Department.


text:
That Sinking Feeling
By the mag
The Problem: Already hounded by U-Boat submarines during World War I, the British military became extremely concerned when intelligence reports suggested that the Germans were developing an even faster version of their deadly subs.
The Solution: Outfit the British Navy with a better ship. In 1915, engineers
designed the K-Boat, a well-armed hybrid between a submarine and a warship.
The Problem with the Solution: The British Navy made the mistake of using engineers actually from Britain.
Look, we love "Doctor Who," and everybody knows shepherd's pie is the world's most undervalued casserole, but there's a reason we buy German cars—and the K-Boat is a perfect example why. Weighing nearly 2,000 tons, the beast was clumsy on the surface and took five minutes to dive (not great when you're trying to escape enemy bombers). Once below water, the K-Boat often had trouble resurfacing (again, not something you want to hear as a sailor).
After testing began in 1916, the boats started displaying even more worrisome tendencies. Model K13 sank during initial trials, killing all on board. Later, K4 collided with K1. Then, in 1918, a flotilla of K-Boats and other ships were on a practice run when K14 collided with K22, setting off a chain reaction of crashes during which a cruiser rammed and sank K17, and K6 slammed into K4, cutting it in half. In fact, K-Boats managed to claim the lives of 250 British soldiers (and not a single German) before they were finally sent to the scrap heap.


text:
VCS-1114-O White Oval Porcelain Undermount Sink
Are you a Pro?
We offer exclusive pricing and a dedicated pro sales team.Pro Price 571-291-3484Contact UsTechnical Data
Previous Model: VCS-1114
The VCS-1114-O white oval porcelain undermount sink is made from true vitreous china which is triple glazed and triple fired to ensure your sink is durable and strong. Undermounting a bathroom sink creates a sleek look and allows for more space on your countertop. The overall dimensions for the VCS-1114-O are 16-1/4″ x 13-1/2″ x 7-1/4″ with a rear drain hole. It requires a 18″ minimum cabinet size.
- 18″ Minimum cabinet size
- Rear drain hole
- Front overflow hole
- Under mount installation
- True Vitreous China
- Installation Hardware Included
- Limited Lifetime Warranty
- Total Dimensions of Sink: 16-1/4″ x 13-1/2″ x 7-1/4″
- Certified and Listed by UPC & cUPC – Ceramic Plumbing Fixtures: ASME A112.19.2/CSA B45.1
- What size base cabinet is needed to fit this sink?This sink fits a 18" cabinet.
- What is vitreous China?Vitreous China is fired longer and at a high temperature than regular Ceramic sinks. This makes them more durable and less likely to crack or chip over time. Our porcelain sinks are all made from Vitreous China.
- What is the drain size for this sink?This sink has a standard 1.5" drain opening.
- Does this sink have an overflow?Yes, this sink has an overflow drain.