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Multiple health conditions
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Our geriatricians work with seniors to develop personalized plans to encourage healthy living and healthy aging. This assessment focuses on health conditions that primarily affect seniors. When seniors come to us for care, they'll receive an in-depth analysis of their current condition and guidance on what aspects of their health to monitor closely in the future.
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Is there another way?
Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims, says YES. And more than that, he believes he's found a way to make gaming a much more personal experience for everyone it touches. And it won't take hordes of content developers: it'll just take a little savvy and use of what's called "procedural" content development.
Will Wight packed an auditorium and didn't disappoint his audience.
Wright introduced his ideas to a jam-packed auditorium at the 2005 Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco this past week. Ordinarily, Wright's talks at events like these are high-level, esoteric discussions of game design principles -- stuff that's hard to write about, especially since he tends to whip through high-level concepts as fast as he can punch the 'next slide' button in PowerPoint. (One year, having no easy way to distill his thoughts, I wrote a parody instead.)
However, THIS year was different: Wright actually demonstrated his game design principles in action, treating listeners with an absolutely incredible product in development code-named Spore. This isn't so much a game preview as it is a look at new thoughts on game design in full effect. Read on to see what Wright's skunk-works have cooked up!
Another Vision for Content Creation
Wright opened his presentation by explaining how he's seeing firsthand how budgets are going up. For Sims 2, the characters had over 22,000 separate animations. All of those were done by hand by an army of animators. Modern games demand more and more content.
At the same time, what he calls the "value to gamers" levels off after a while. A game with 22,000 animations isn't twice as good as a game with 11,000 animations. But fortunately, Wright learned another lesson from The Sims: People love to make their own content. They love to customize their experience. By way of example, he put up a slide showing his Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas character -- who wore a fedora and red-heart boxer shorts. His character was ridiculous-looking, but it made the experience custom for him. Players get a huge value out of content they make for themselves.
"Owning" the content in this way means that all the stories that the gamer creates are much more meaningful.
Putting two and two together, Wright concluded that there had to be some way where users could create content, instead of armies of developers, and a way to make a game craft itself around the user's contribution.
For inspiration, Wright looked to the "demo scene," a group of (mostly European) coders who specialized in doing a whole lot with a little bit of code. Their procedural programming methods were able to, for example, fit an entire 3D game in 64K, using mathematics to generate textures and music, etc. "I just found this incredibly exciting," Wright confesses, describing the kinds of work that he saw come out of the demo scene.
So here's what he did: he recruited an elite strike team of coders (who, if you were to believe his slideshow, dressed like ninjas) and put them in a "hidden facility" to experiment with new ways of giving the user powerful tools and generating tons of dynamic content without armies of content creators. Best of all, he fired up a demo and showed his audience the results...

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Everyones locked up in their suffering
The only way you can tell is reconsider everything
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text: Loondon 16/1/13: Aftermath of a helicopter crash into the crane constructing the residential skyscraper St George Tower at Vauxhall in south London. At approximately 08.00 the aircraft apparently crashed into the crane in freezing fog, landing in the road next to a mainline railway line. The tower is 181 metres (594 ft) tall with 49 storeys, now the tallest residential building in the United Kingdom. Its crane that operated on the side of the tower was torn away, landing below.Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download


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Dr. Priddy contacted Sarah Roller just after he engineered the 1916 change in Virginia law that authorized him to provide expanded "moral, medical, and surgical treatment" to Colony patients. He noted that of the 185 patients admitted to the Colony during the previous year, fifty-seven had come from the city of Richmond. Priddy gloated at his success in helping Roller "clear up the rubbish" in Virginia's capital. Bragging aside, the main purpose of Priddy's letter was to alert Roller that he was ready to relieve her of the "burden of the Mallory crowd."
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War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength
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|Some of your peers who seem happy, popular, and self-confident are miserable
|Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
|Narcissistic Personality Disorder
|Converting others to the Darkside
|Espionage Act of 1917
|I sing banned Girl Scout songs
|First in war, first in peace, first in the hands of the local police
|State of Emergency
|Too Shy to be Pretty
|Bush's Orwellian Address
|absolute power corrupts absolutely
|Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
|Two Minutes Hate
|A line of reasoning in support of the use of force
|July 8, 2005
|Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped Death and Victory
|Sickness is Health. Madness is Wisdom. Drinking is Strength.
|September 11, 2007 as the start of a wider movement?
|Glorification of War
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Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek, who signed his work Harmsen van Beek, was the father of 'Flipje van Tiel', The Netherlands' most famous advertising comic. He attended art school and often cooperated with his wife Freddie Langeler, whose main occupation was illustrating books. In the early 1930s, Harmsen van Beek was approached by jam factory De Betuwe to design an advertising comic. He came up with 'Tielsch Flipje', a little man who was made of berries. Every issue dealt with a precarious situation, in which Flipje saved the day, which was then celebrated by consuming one of the Betuwe products.
Together with his wife, Harmsen van Beek created the comic with the two rabbits 'Kootje en Pietje' for an electricity company. During the War, Harmsen van Beek and Langeler had difficulties finding work because they refused to register with the Nazi chamber of culture. Langeler passed a way a couple of years after the War, and from then on, Harmsen ten Beek focused completely on his work.
Signing his work with simply 'Beek', he became known in England as the first illustrator of the 'Noddy' books by Enid Blyton. After a dispute with De Betuwe over introducing 'Flipje' in England, Harmsen van Beek broke off his association with the factory, and passed away a few days later. After Beek's death in 1953, his assistant Peter Wienk continued to work on 'Noddy' for several years. His daughter Fritzi finished 'Flipje' series 46 and made series 47.
Since 2003, a street in the Dutch city Almere was named after Flipje, as part of the "Comics Heroes" district.


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Crosseman History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The Anglo-Saxon name Crosseman comes from the family having resided in an area that was close to a wooden or stone cross, or a crossroads. The surname was originally derived from the word kross.
Early Origins of the Crosseman family
The surname Crosseman was first found in Somerset where some of the earliest records of the name include: Nicholas Crousman, Philip Crosman and Thomas Crosman are all listed there in the reign of Edward III. [1] Philip Crosman was listed in the Subsidy Rolls of Somerset in 1327. [2]
Early History of the Crosseman family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Crosseman research. Another 69 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1623, 1683 and 1683 are included under the topic Early Crosseman History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Crosseman Spelling Variations
Crosseman has been spelled many different ways. Before English spelling became standardized over the last few hundred years, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. As the English language changed in the Middle Ages, absorbing pieces of Latin and French, as well as other languages, the spelling of people's names also changed considerably, even over a single lifetime. Spelling variants included: Crossman, Crosseman, Crosman, Croseman, Croixman, Croisman, Croxman, Croceman, Crossmen, Crossemen, Crosmen, Crossmann, Crosmann, Crouceman, Croiceman and many more.
Early Notables of the Crosseman family (pre 1700)
Another 34 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Crosseman Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Crosseman family
In an attempt to escape the chaos experienced in England, many English families boarded overcrowded and diseased ships sailing for the shores of North America and other British colonies. Those families hardy enough, and lucky enough, to make the passage intact were rewarded with land and a social environment less prone to religious and political persecution. Many of these families became important contributors to the young colonies in which they settled. Early immigration and passenger lists have documented some of the first Crossemans to arrive on North American shores: William Crossman who settled in Virginia in 1637. John Crossman settled in Sutton and was one of the original purchasers of land from the Indians in the year 1639. John was originally from Taunton, Somerset, England. He had one known son, Robert.


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text: Do you own the Safe Haven movie yet?! If you do, you can enter to win a poster signed by Nicholas Sparks, the director and the cast! Just snap a photo of yourself with your copy of the movie or a photo of the receipt for your DVD, Blu-ray, or digital purchase. Photos can be submitted using the form here or via Twitter and Instagram by simply using the hashtag #SafeHavenFan. Five posters will be awarded on Monday so enter now!


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When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis.Well, once the hostages were released, it wasn't even a crisis anymore, but what does it mean that she looks held-together when she strolls out for a photo-op?
The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for - namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner.Oh, good lord, she was not facing disorder. The hostage-taking was over, and even when it was going on, she was not facing it. She was waiting for law enforcement authorities to deal with a troubled man, which they did, without anyone suffering a physical injury.
Did she do anything? Other than canceling her appearances — which she had to do to show decent sensitivity — she made a lot of ineffectual phone calls. For 5 hours, we're told, she "continued to call up and down the law enforcement food chain, from local to county to state to federal officials." She says, "I knew I was bugging a lot of these people."
Afterwards, she used the occasion to make a show of her emotions (or did you think she was cold and mechanical?). She said:
"It affected me not only because they were my staff members and volunteers, but as a mother, it was just a horrible sense of bewilderment, confusion, outrage, frustration, anger, everything at the same time."Is that what you want in a President? Someone who feels extra confusion because she's a mother?
But I don't believe that for one minute. I think that was just what was considered a good script. I don't happen to think it is a good script, because I don't want a President to roil into a mommyesque ball of emotion when a few people are in danger. Yet that's not Hillary. The only question is why she thought a statement like that was a good one. She probably wanted to make sure not to confirm the widely held belief that she's unemotional, and, while she was at it, delight all the ladies out there who lap up emotional drivel.
It was a vintage example of a candidate taking a negative and turning it into a positive. And coming just six weeks before the presidential voting begins, the timing could hardly have been more beneficial to someone hoping to stave off a loss in the Iowa caucuses and secure a win in the New Hampshire primary.Oh, great. Let's just hope there aren't copycats out there ready to turn their despondent drinking binges into a day of fame that helps their favorite political candidate.


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Bright future for disc brakes fades briefly under a coating of Verona mud
Races reliant on disc brakes found them lasting only a lap or two in the watery Verona mud
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VERONA, Wisconsin (VN) — The bright future of disc brakes in cyclocross faded briefly under a patina of watery mud at the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, as early competitors found themselves brakeless after a lap or two of sloppy racing going into the weekend.
The rapidly changing conditions in Verona reportedly meant fewer braking issues as the mud thickened on Saturday.
And temperatures in the teens may sound the all clear for Sunday's elite racing, as the course is expected to be frozen solid.
But for many an earlier rider who banked on discs for his or her championship events, the unexpected problems proved a very cold shower indeed.
Two laps, no brakes
John Bliss of Team Kappius got a wake-up call before his championship race when his Avid BB7 brakes quit working after the first two laps of the 40-plus non-championship race on Wednesday.
Bliss said he had been using organic pads — "the same ones that I'd used all season" — but found himself forced to scour area bike shops in search of sintered metallic pads, which offer greater durability at the expense of initial braking bite in dry conditions, shorter break-in, and louder braking noise.
He came up empty-handed until one shop was willing to pull the sintered pads off of a tandem on floor display. Problem solved?
At the end of the second lap in the 55-59 race on Thursday, Bliss said, he could pull his brake levers all the way back to the handlebar without slowing the bike. The course had become even muddier and slicker, on top of solid ice, since the previous day's race.
A brief disc-brake primer
Cable-actuated brakes constitute the vast majority of disc brakes used in cyclocross, due primarily to the absence of hydraulic master cylinders built into road dual-control levers until recently.
The models most commonly used in cyclocross are the Avid BB7, followed by the Hayes CX-5.
Disc-brake pads are very thin, on the order of the thickness of a nickel when new, and their spacing from the rotor is very close. And cable-actuated disc brakes generally fade sooner with pad wear than do hydraulic ones.
There are two reasons for this. The most important is that they are not "self-adjusting" like hydraulic brakes. As the pads wear, there is no system to automatically either take up additional cable slack or reposition the pads closer to the rotor.
The other reason is that most cable-actuated disc brakes have only one moving pad.
The brake cable pulls a rotating arm that drives the outboard pad inward by means of ball bearings rolling in curved, tapering tracks. The moving pad pushes the rotor over until it contacts the stationary inboard pad.
When the lever is released, the outboard pad returns by means of a spring, and the rotor springs back to running straight up and down between the pads. This means that the outboard pad hits the rotor sooner and thus wears faster than the inboard one, and it also means that the loss of pad material results in a faster loss of braking than if the cable were pulling both pads equally toward the rotor.
As the pads wear, the user can simply turn the adjustment knobs on each side of the caliper clockwise to move the pads closer to the rotor. This can be done until the pad thickness has reached critical limits, but it can only be done while the bike is stopped; the rider can't adjust braking on the fly.
Hydraulics self-adjust
A hydraulic disc brake, on the other hand, will continue to offer braking as the pads wear until the pad material is gone.
Hydraulic brakes generally have moving pads on both sides of the rotor and are self-adjusting. The pads wear evenly and have double the movement because the same amount of lever movement results in both pads moving as far as the single outboard pad moves in a cable-actuated setup.
As the pads wear, the brake automatically compensates by taking more fluid from the reservoir at the master cylinder to fill the extra internal volume created by the pistons moving further out in their cylinders to get the rapidly thinning pads to contact the rotor. This continues as the pads wear down, and fade generally does not happen in cold, wet conditions until the pad material is completely worn off of the pad backing plates.
Pad materials
Of course, the pad material is still thin, meaning that riders could still lose their brakes over the course of a race in these conditions. There have been plenty of muddy and slushy mountain-bike downhills in which racers have gone through their pads in the course of a two-minute run, even with top-of-the-line hydraulic brakes with four pistons, huge rotors, and bigger pads with far more surface area than road disc pads.
The three general types of disc-brake pads are:
• Organic (a.k.a., "resin") pads made of tough, heat-resistant synthetic fibers like Kevlar or Twaron (both para-aramid fibers) bonded together with a petrochemical resin.
• Sintered metal (a.k.a., "sintered," "metallic," or "sintered metallic") pads, which are metallic particles (generally copper alloy) fused together under heat and pressure; they may or may not have some other ingredients as well.
• Semi-metallic pads made of steel fibers mixed with other fibers in a ratio of up to 50-50. These are less common in bicycle applications than in motorcycling.
Change of pads, same result
David Weber of Team Kappius installed Jagwire Extreme sintered metallic pads specifically for his 45-49 race on Friday.
"They didn't help," he said, noting that he had to take a pit bike on every lap, since the pads on his Avid BB7s had worn enough that he could pull his levers all of the way back to the handlebar with no effect.
His crew screwed in his adjuster knobs during each bike's sojourn in the pit, so he had good braking initially on the subsequent lap, but braking effectiveness would be gone again by the end of the lap.
The braking issues probably cost him a top-10 result, since he finished in 11th at the same time as the 10th-place finisher and lost at least 20 seconds over the course of the race by pitting four times in a five-lap race.
Weber said he loved the performance of his BB7s during the Colorado cyclocross season, which was a dry one.
"They work better than my road bike brakes," he said. "I used to be amazed at how much better my road bike brakes worked than my cantilevers when cyclocross season ended, but now when I switch between my road and cyclocross bikes, I'm surprised at how bad my road brakes feel!"
No adjustment on the fly
Weber is not ready by any means to give up on discs, because he has felt they've been an advantage all season — until this race. Still, he bemoans the absence of an adjuster at the handlebar with which the rider could take up cable slack by turning an adjuster knob a click or two.
There is an argument for why both Avid and Hayes recommend that pad wear be taken up with the adjuster knobs rather than by tightening the cable, since it changes where the ball bearings are in their tracks when braking commences.
But when the alternative is no brakes at all, there is reason to wish for the fix Weber seeks.
Weber does note that a long Torx T25 driver "is worth its weight in gold here." That's because the BB7's wheel-side pad-position-adjustment knob is very hard to turn when reaching through the spokes by hand, but there is a Torx T25 hole in its center to facilitate adjustment by means of that tool.
Fan turned foe
"I've suddenly become a disc-brake hater!" says Michael Robson of Moots, who has reviewed cyclocross disc brakes all season for VeloNews.com.
After taking a number of practice laps on Friday in anticipation of his 40-44 race Saturday and having no brakes left at the end of each lap, he planned to ride his cantilever-equipped bike and relegate his BB7-equipped machine to the pit.
"I totally see now why the Euros don't use them," he says. "Cranking brakes down every lap – hell, no!"
As conditions changed on Saturday, however, Robson had walked that back, saying his discs were not getting as wet and worked better during his 40-44 race.
Mechanic Chandler Snyder of Snyder Cycling Service, who has been working on many a distraught rider's disc-equipped bike on Thursday and Friday, says hydraulic brakes would have helped, but added that "the pads are wearing so fast here that they would not last through the race either."
In anticipation of the weekend
The course has been muddy and snowy since the start of racing on Wednesday, with the firm snow cover steadily disappearing amid rising temperatures and a quarter-inch of rain between the end of racing Thursday and the beginning of racing Friday.
From Wednesday through Friday, the course developed an ever-deeper layer of mud atop solid permafrost. The mud Thursday and Friday was thin enough that it created a thin coat all over everything, including disc-brake rotors, and dyed riders a uniform brown from head to toe.
The changing weather conditions seem likely to freeze the course in time for Sunday's elite and collegiate racing, negating the disc-brake problems experienced by competitors during the week.
Meanwhile, Saturday's racers — junior and under-23 men's races, collegiate women, and masters men for three categories from 30 to 44 years of age — were greeted with the kind of thick mud like overcooked split pea soup that hangs all over the bike, rather than the thin, wet mud the consistency of minestrone that was the order of Thursday and Friday.
Saturday's mud added pounds to the bike within a lap but was mostly thrown away from the center of the wheels. So riders with rim brakes carried a lot more mud dangling from their stoppers, those with mini V-brakes had wheels that barely turned due to the tight mud clearance, and those with disc brakes had mostly clean brakes that worked well.


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Jython is distributed as a self-extracting .class file created by LiftOff. To install Jython, open the command line to the directory in which you have placed the jython-21.class file and then type:
You will probably type one of the following three lines, depending on your system. Be sure not to put ".class" at the end of the file name.
It can be necessay to set the CLASSPATH to include the current directory
Which command to use depends on your operating system and java version. If you have more than one java installed, you may have to supply an explicit path the java command. When installing the JDK 1.2 from javasoft, the default is it install both the JDK and a plugin JRE. The plugin JRE is added to your PATH, so running the java jython-21 command will make jython use the JRE. Specify the full path if you want to use JDK instead, ie: c:\Programs\JDK1.2\bin\java -cp . jython-21.
If you do not have a GUI, then add -o dir_to_install_to to the command above. Jython will install to the specified directory without bringing up the graphical installer. E.g. to install all modules to a Jython-2.1 subdirectory in the current directory do:
After completing installation, you should be able to run Jython by typing:
What Can Go Wrong
You should check out this section if your Jython installation doesn't quite work right. It will contain tips for solving the most common problems.
Can't Access Standard Python Modules
Not all the modules form CPython is available in Jython. Some modules require a C language dynamic link library that doesn't exists in java. Other modules are missing from Jython just because nobody have had a need for it before and no-one have tested the CPython module with Jython. If you discover that you are missing a module, try to copy the .py file from a CPython distribution to a directory on your Jython sys.path. If that works you are set. If it doesn't work, try asking on jython-users mailing list.
Other Problems
Any other problems with the installation should be reported to jython-dev.
As a workaround you can extract the jython-21.class manually. The class file is basicly a .zip file and most unzip programs can manage to extract the contents of the class into a directory. After doing that, you must
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If all else fails, you might find that your problem is unique to your platform, and has a solution mentioned on the Platform Specific Information page.


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Sarah Palin writing book about Christmas
NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Palin has a new book coming, this time about Christmas.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor has a deal with HarperCollins for "A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas," scheduled for November. HarperCollins announced Monday that the book will criticize the "over-commercialism" and "homogenization" of Christmas and call for a renewed emphasis on the religious importance.
"Amidst the fragility of this politically correct era, it is imperative that we stand up for our beliefs before the element of faith in a glorious and traditional holiday like Christmas is marginalized and ignored," Palin said in a statement released through her publisher. "This will be a fun, festive, thought provoking book, which will encourage all to see what is possible when we unite in defense of our faith and ignore the politically correct Scrooges who would rather take Christ out of Christmas."
Financial terms were not disclosed. Palin was again represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, who negotiated deals for Palin's "Going Rogue" and "America by Heart." Both books were released by HarperCollins.
According to the publisher, the book will advocate "reserving Jesus Christ in Christmas — whether in public displays, school concerts (or) pageants. Palin also "will share personal memories and traditions from her own Christmases and illustrate the reasons why the celebration of Jesus Christ's nativity is the centerpiece of her faith."


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We set up the first version of our website way back when we were still in a garage. An updated version of the website was long overdue but it never seemed to be at the top of the priority list. As tech guys, having our garage website up for so long was always a bit tough. As we've started offering more things, like classes, tours, and trips, eventually our website just wasn't able to keep up. Fortunately, we managed to find some time over the last few months and we couldn't be happier to finally have it live!
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At the recent Brazilian Virology Society meeting George Rohrmann gave me a copy of his book, Baculovirus Molecular Biology. Baculoviruses are double-stranded DNA containing viruses that infect insects and other arthropods. Early in the first chapter of George's book I learned that baculoviruses may be present on uncooked cabbage leaves:
…in one study it was found that cabbage purchased from 5 different supermarkets in the Washington D.C. area were all contaminated with baculoviruses to such an extent that each serving (about 100 cm2 of leaf material) would contain up to 108 polyhedra of an NPV pathogenic for the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni!
We ingest many other non-animal viruses regularly with foods. In TWiV #79, Red hot chili viruses, we discussed the finding of pepper mild mottle virus, one of the major pathogens of chili peppers, in human feces as well as in pepper or spice-containing food products. Metagenomic analysis of the RNA viruses present in human feces revealed that most viral sequences are similar to plant viruses. Of 36,769 sequences obtained, 25,040 (91%) resembled plant viruses. In this study, the most abundant human fecal virus was pepper mild mottle virus, present in concentrations of up to 109 virions per gram of dry fecal matter.
The plant (and perhaps insect) viruses that we ingest on a regular basis do not appear to replicate or cause disease in humans. Might they play important roles in development of the immune system, as do the commensal bacteria in our gut?
Zhang, T., Breitbart, M., Lee, W., Run, J., Wei, C., Soh, S., Hibberd, M., Liu, E., Rohwer, F., & Ruan, Y. (2006). RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses PLoS Biology, 4 (1) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040003


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Martin Shkreli kept hedge-fund investor in dark about botched short trade, misled him on auditors: testimony
- Biotech investor testifies Shkreli never told him about a botched short trade that devastated Shkreli's hedge fund.
- Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald said Shkreli's fund wouldn't redeem his investment in cash as promised, but instead gave him 80,000 shares in Retrophin.
- Rosenwald also details lags of several months in receiving performance statements from Shkreli's hedge fund.
A well-known biotech investor testified Thursday that "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli never told him about a disastrous short trade in February 2011 that allegedly left Shkreli's hedge fund tapped out of its assets.
The investor, Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald, said Shkreli sent him an email saying that his original $100,000 investment in MSMB Capital fund had grown to $131,000 by February 2011.
However, an earlier witness testified in Brooklyn, New York, federal court, that same month Shkreli's fund was unable to cover an 11 million share short position in Orexigen Therapeutics.
Shkreli ended up owing Merrill Lynch $7 million because that firm had processed the short sale for MSMB Capital, that witness had said at Shkreli's securities fraud trial.
Merrill Lynch later settled that claim in arbitration for about $1 million.
A prosecutor asked Rosenwald on Thursday if he ever heard about the "trade in OREX."
"No," replied Rosenwald, 62, the chairman of Fortress Biotech.
Rosenwald also said that he was told by Shkreli that MSMB Capital had the accounting firm Fulvio & Associates as an auditor when Rosenwald first invested $100,000 in the fund.
"You're giving people money, and you're expecting audited returns," Rosenwald said. "That's standard in the industry."
In fact, both prosecutors and Shkreli's defense team stipulated in a statement read aloud to jurors Thursday that Fulvio & Associates never served as an auditor to Shkreli or any of his hedge funds.
Rosenwald said that when he first invested with MSMB Capital in 2009, Shkreli sent him an email that said, "Thanks again for this great opportunity, and I will not let you down."
At that time, Rosenwald said, Shkreli also promised there would be "no lockups" of investors' money in MSMB Capital.
That meant, Rosenwald testified, "that if I want to redeem my investment, get my money back, I can get it back ... On 30 days notice, whenever I wanted to."
But that turned out not to be the case.
Rosenwald testified that in 2012, Shkreli told him he was winding down MSMB Capital. And Shkreli offered Rosenwald the opportunity to roll over what Shkreli purported was by then Rosenwald's $200,000 stake in MSMB Capital into Retrophin, a new drug company he was creating.
'I was given the option of taking the cash or taking the stock," Rosenwald said.
"I wanted the cash," he testified.
But, "I didn't get the cash."
Rosenwald said that months later, in 2013, he eventually ended up being given 80,000 shares in Retrophin.
Prosecutors charge that Shkreli looted Retrophin of stock to pay off investors in his hedge fund that he is also accused of defrauding. Shkreli denies the charges.
Rosenwald testified that he later, over time, sold off his shares of Retrophin.
He said that, taking into account his original stake of $100,000 in MSMB Capital, he did make a profit on those stock sales.
Asked how much, Rosenwald said, "Somewhere between $400,000 and $600,000, I think."
Rosenwald also agreed under questioning that it was unusual that there was sometimes a lag of several months in Shkreli sending him statements about the monthly performance of his hedge fund.
Rosenwald identified one statement for August 2011 that he received two months later, another for December 2011 that he received in May 2012, and a performance statement for May 2012 that he received in September 2012.
"You usually get them as soon as practical, at the end of the month," Rosenwald said.


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Time for another "before they were famous" here on Total Recall. Last time we looked at Bungie, creators of the Halo franchise. This time? We're looking at id Software, the team behind Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake.
I'm going to preface this entire thing by saying that if you're at all interested in the history of video games, and in particular the PC and id Software, you owe it to yourself to read the amazing Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, which goes into a lot more detail than I'm about to.
That's for later, though. For now, we're going to run through the early years of one of the most important studios in the industry, and look at the games they made before they made the ones which got them famous.
id was founded in 1991, after a number of its earliest members (John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack and Tom Hall) met while employed at Softdisk, a weird hybrid of a magazine, games developer and demo disk distributor. Yet perhaps the most interesting thing about the studio's early years predates the formation of the actual studio.
A year earlier, John Carmack and John Romero had built, from the ground-up, a PC port of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. 3, at the time a remarkable feat given PCs weren't supposed to be able to handle side-scrolling like a console could. Initially a crude demo using characters from a Romero game built for Softdisk called Dangerous Dave, (and which they christened Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement) the guys eventually had Mario looking so good, and so faithful to the original, they contacted Nintendo about licensing the game from the Japanese company for release on the PC.
While Nintendo of course turned the offer down instantly, another party had become secretly interested in the team's work. With games like Dangerous Dave attracting a cult following, a representative from publisher Apogee began writing to Romero under the guise of a fan, so as not to alert Softdisk, as he had every intention of luring the guys away to make their own games for a living using the concept of shareware, which would see part of a game given away for free to tempt people to pay for the whole thing.
Tempted by this offer, and capitalising upon the platforming technology they'd built for the Mario demo, the team whipped up a side-scroller called Commander Keen, released in December 1990, which quickly became a hit. Keen was a small boy transported into a science-fiction saga, armed with a trusty laser pistol and defended by an oversized...Green Bay Packers helmet.
This only brought about the attention of the team's employers at Softdisk, however, who rather than crack down on them (the guys had been using Softdisk computers after office hours to compile the code for their games) offered to go into business together. That deal fell through when the existing Softdisk management baulked at the idea, though, so in February 1991 id Software stopped being "a bunch of Softdisk guys working in their spare time" and began operations as an independent video game developer.
While it continued developing Commander Keen games for a number of years, id's first new titles were both games that would be critical to the studio's future success. In April 1991, id released Hovertank 3D, one of the first games to ever be played from a first-person, 3D perspective on the PC. It followed this up in November 1991 with Catacomb 3D, an adaptation of an old John Carmack fantasy title dropped into the same revolutionary 3D engine.
These games, while important in their own right for their technological prowess for the time (3D and first-person being normally reserved for poorly-detailed flight simulators), are best remembered now for being essentially testbeds for the engine used in Wolfenstein 3D, released in 1992.
From Wolfenstein, one of the earliest blockbusters in PC gaming, things went from strength to strength for the team, who despite some high profile personnel changes (like Romero's departure to make the disastrous Daikatana in 1996) would go on to release classics like 1993's Doom, 1996's Quake and a number of well-received sequels for both, not to mention also being responsible for engine technology that has powered many other developer's games like Half-Life.
Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.


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Antivirus firm Bitdefender unveiled a hardware security appliance for home networks Tuesday that aims to protect devices by scanning network traffic to detect and block potential security threats.
The new Bitdefender BOX is a mix between a router, network firewall and intrusion prevention system. It can sit behind an existing router, connected to one of its ethernet ports, it can be placed in front of a router, so that it also protects the router from Internet-based attacks, or can act itself as a router.
The device has a single-core 400 MHz MIPS microprocessor, 16 MB Flash memory, 64 MB DDR2 RAM, two 10/100 ethernet ports and a wireless chipset that supports the 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi standards and is capable of speeds up to 150Mbps.
Despite these unimpressive technical specifications, Bitdefender BOX does not affect the network performance when positioned alongside a router to scan network traffic because it doesn't perform deep packet inspection, according to Bogdan Botezatu, a senior e-threat analyst at Bitdefender.
The device intercepts and scans only essential parts of the data packets that flow in and out of a network to identify known malicious patterns, Botezatu said. This is done with help from Bitdefender's cloud-based threat intelligence network, he said.
When used as a router itself, the device certainly cannot match the network performance and some of the functionality provided by high-end home routers. It does, however, provide a security layer that the vast majority of such devices lack and also has a smaller attack surface than most of them.
BOX costs $199, which includes the price of the hardware and a one-year subscription. Users will then have to pay $99 for every year after that, regardless of the number of devices protected by the appliance. Orders will open in mid-December and shipping will start in January, according to the company.
Network security appliances like intrusion detection and prevention systems are common on corporate networks. Preventing malware infections on end-point systems is increasingly difficult, so blocking malicious traffic at the network level, including attackers' attempts to control infected systems or to extract data from them, has become essential to limiting the impact of such security breaches.
Through BOX, Bitdefender seeks to bring similar protection to home networks, where the ever increasing number of Internet-connected devices has raised new security challenges.
Securing the smart home
Users have gotten used to installing antivirus products on their laptops and desktop computers, and maybe even on their mobile devices. However, home networks can also include smart TVs, game consoles, media centers, IP cameras, network-attached storage devices, smart thermostats and a variety of other devices that fall into the large Internet-of-Things category. Many of these systems handle data that users would prefer to remain private and some of them even contain Web browsers and various Web-based apps, making them a potential target for attackers.
Bitdefender BOX can identify and block connections to malicious URLs and known bad IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, malware downloads, malformed packets that could indicate incoming attacks and other potential threats. However, the device does more than scan network traffic.
Bitdefender will also provide light software agents for Windows, Mac and Android that will communicate with BOX and can act as replacements for antivirus programs. These agents can detect if the software or the OS installed on computers are missing important security patches and can automatically install the updates. They also monitor all applications executed on the devices and use the Bitdefender cloud to determine if they're clean.
When a computer is taken outside of the user's home network, the agent can establish a VPN (virtual private network) connection back to BOX, routing all traffic through it and analyzing it for threats. This also protects the device from man-in-the-middle and other attacks when connected to insecure networks, like to public Wi-Fi hotspots.
In the future, Bitdefender plans to implement parental control functionality in BOX, which will also be enforced by the software agents, even if the user takes the device outside of the home network, Botezatu said.
Keeping it simple
Since BOX is aimed at parents and nontechnical users, a lot of effort was put into making its set-up process as simple as possible, Botezatu said. Users can configure and control BOX through a user-friendly application installed on their Android or iOS devices, he said.
If users choose to install the device alongside an existing router, they need to provide the username and password for the router's administration interface and BOX will automatically make the necessary configurations so it can start inspecting network traffic. When configured as a router, users will be asked about their ISP connection settings.
BOX's price might seem quite high, putting it in the same range as high-end home routers. However, according to Botezatu, since BOX and its software agents can replace traditional antivirus products, users will no longer have to buy individual antivirus licenses for each of their devices. Instead, the $99 annual subscription for BOX will offer protection for an unlimited number of devices, some not even covered by traditional antivirus products.


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'Unflattering' Beyoncé Photos Have Been Removed From Getty's Website
Getting images removed from photo agencies' websites: so hot right now. On Monday, we discovered that photos of Kanye West in his much-maligned kilt at the 12-12-12 concert were removed from Getty's site and various others. Now, controversial shots of Beyoncé have gotten the same treatment.
Earlier this week, Beyoncé's publicist asked Buzzfeed to remove seven pictures from its The 33 Fiercest Moments From Beyoncé's Halftime Show post that went up Monday. Instead, Buzzfeed published the email as well as the seven offensive split-second captures of Beyoncé's frenetic, frantic performance, giving that PR contraband way more attention than it originally received. Nice.
Today, we discovered that five out of those seven photos have been scrubbed from the website of the photo agency from which they were purchased, Getty Images. The two that are still available for download are these:
The five that have been removed are these:
Incidentally, there are still several ridiculous shots of King B doing her halftime cyclone available on Getty's site. Here are five to compensate for their fallen sisters, which are still, obviously, very much available for free on the Internet because that is how the Internet works:
[All images via Getty, fool]


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One of the things I love about writing for Jalopnik is that readers tell me stories - which are true and yet unbelievable. Like this auto repair contract, sent to me by Jeff in New Jersey. It is the worst. Contract. Ever.
The bulk of my practice is Lemon Law, but I get phone calls regarding all manner of automobile laws. Often I hear from consumers whose cars were damaged by shops attempting the opposite: that is, they tried to fix the car, but instead made it worse.
One auto repair shop in New Jersey has found a way around the problems which might arise from such a situation. They ask their customers to sign The Worst Contract Ever. And seriously, short of something you might sign with a hoofed emissary of the Underworld, this is the worse contract you will ever see.
Note that the contract only applies to cars over 10 years old or with 100K on the clock. From that point, they are off and running. Let's examine the evil.
They probably intended this to address the condition of your car after they are done but that's not how it is drafted. As a result, they are not guaranteeing the condition of your car when you drop it off.
Here is where the fun begins. They don't guarantee their work either! They promise you nothing. What are you paying them for? Who knows! And it goes downhill from here.
Seriously. They may in fact make your car worse.
At this point, when I read the contract the first time, I stopped and sent an email to the sender asking him where he got this and if it was from a website with the word "snopes" in the URL. He gave me the name of the dealer and explained how he got it. So, it appears real.
Crazy, but real.
They may just rip into your car and demand more money. Don't feel like paying more? Come by and get your motorized basket case off the property. But pay them first!
I love it when kids use grown-up words. And when people throw legal jargon into a document in the hopes that it means something. At the risk of offending some goofy attorney in Ohio on a burner account who argues with everything I say, I assure you this sentence is gobbledygook.
They can disclaim one of those two (I won't say which one so as to not ruin the suspense) but the two are almost never involved in the same transaction. That's what you get for not having a lawyer draft your bad contract for you in the first place.
Yes, this could become an endless loop. They can damage your vehicle and charge you to repair it. And then they can damage it some more. And so on. If your head doesn't hurt at this point, sink a meat thermometer into your skull and check for a number above ambient room temperature: You might be brain dead.
See my comments to #5. "This document is a part." That's sheer legal gold there, my friends. Did they mean "part OF and . . ." Doesn't matter. They drafted it; they have to live with their mistakes.
Don't get me wrong: This is the only wisdom on this piece of paper. Any attorney would tell you "RUN!" Because if you sign this piece of paper you are perhaps one of the least intelligent things crawling on the face of this big blue sphere we call home.
Then again, they are optimistic. They fantasize that a real person may have read all the way through the document and agreed to its terms. Why else would they bother with a signature line?
I do wonder if anyone has ever signed this document. It would be totally unenforceable in Michigan for dozens of reasons I don't think you need to hear about. But since this document came from New Jersey, who knows? Maybe it would be enforceable. If someone was unintelligent enough to sign it. But do people like that REALLY exist? I hope not.
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Michael E. Smith at the Vienna Secession
Walter Pichler, TV-helmet (portable living room), 1967; Courtesy: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Walter Pichler, TV-helmet (portable living room), 1967; Courtesy: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
When the Vienna Actionists urinated, masturbated, and vomited at an event titled "Art and Revolution" in Vienna University's Lecture Hall 1 in 1968, the proceedings were accompanied by a lecture on the relationship between speech and thought by the then thirty-two-year-old Oswald Wiener. One year later his literary montage die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman (the improvement of central europe, a novel) was published. With its excurses on linguistics and cybernetics, it now reads as an astonishing foreshadowing of the Internet and virtual reality. Later, Wiener turned to the figure of the dandy, who maintains his difference from machines by cultivating a practice of self-observation. Hans-Christian Dany visited him at his home in southeast Austria to talk about the peculiar standstill of art and science in the digital age.


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WASHINGTON - NBA star Dennis Rodman wants to belly up to the bar with some friends and order a shot of peace talks, and he believes his latest proposal is just the tonic needed to ease tension between the United States and North Korea.
"Everyone knows (President Barack) Obama drinks beer," Rodman said. "But you know what? I'm pretty sure he does have a cocktail here or there. I'd love to see him with a 'Bad Ass Vodka' shot in his hand, toasting to Kim Jong (Un) and me.
"That would be awesome."
A Rodman-branded vodka is set to debut this week, just the latest business venture he's had a fling with, stretching from wrestling to authoring a children's book to even, yes, unofficial basketball ambassador to North Korea.
He can count Mr Kim as a fan of the vodka - the duo drank from two cases Rodman brought over for his recent visit in September, where they talked hoops and planned an exhibition game in January.
"Just think, it's up to Dennis Rodman to break ground with North Korea," he said. "I'm the only one in the world who will go talk to this guy and try and find some common ground with these people. I'm hoping that gap between America and North Korea can close. Those guys love a lot about America. They love it. That's why I go over there.
"People don't believe that."
Rodman has been criticised for not talking about North Korea's human rights record, described as one of the world's worst by activists, the US State Department and North Korean defectors.
The defectors have repeatedly testified about the government's alleged use of indiscriminate killings, rapes, beatings and prison camps holding as many as 120,000 people deemed opponents of authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un, the third generation of his family to rule.
Pyongyang and Washington are also locked in a standoff over the North's pursuit of nuclear bombs and long-range missiles. North Korea denies the existence of the camps and the abuse described in painstaking detail by many defectors.
While skirting all these issues, Rodman, who once wore a wedding dress to a book signing, said all his work should have earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.
"People put that label on me like it's my responsibility to save the world," he said. "If it happens to come to that, then yes, I guess I'm all for it. Let's just all get together and keep everything cool, man."
Rodman, known as much for his piercings, tattoos and bad behaviour as he was for basketball, was the highest-profile American to meet Mr Kim since the latter inherited power from father Kim Jong Il in 2011. He traveled to the secretive state for the first time in February with the Harlem Globetrotters for an HBO series produced by New York-based VICE television.
Rodman called Mr Kim a "friend for life," and planned to visit Pyongyang again in December and January. He announced plans to stage two exhibition games in North Korea in January. The first will be Jan. 8 - Mr Kim's birthday - with another to follow two days later.
Rodman said former professional basketball players have committed to the games, though he declined to reveal names.
The former Chicago Bulls star poked fun at his controversial relationship with the North Korean leader in a pistachios commercial that saw a Mr Kim lookalike press a red button and "blow up" Rodman. He also appears in a Foot Locker ad that imagines Mike Tyson returning Evander Holyfield's ear, Craig Sager setting his garish suits ablaze, and Rodman ordering a one-way ticket to North Korea.
It's all just part life of The Worm.
"It's funny, with all the things I've been doing, people always ask me, 'What do you do?"' he said. "I don't do anything. I keep myself relevant and alive. I just want to go out there and make people happy. What makes people happy? Drinking."
Rodman stamped his name on "Dennis Rodman - The original Bad Ass Premium Vodka," that is set for a Thursday launch. It was in the works before his relations with North Korea, but has taken off since.
So maybe it's time to shake and stir the political world with a shot of vodka. Or a vodka-soda with lemon. Whatever. Rodman just wanted to lobby the president to reach out and talk with Mr Kim.
"I opened doors in North Korea and made people go, 'Wow,"' he said. "It don't hurt to pick up the phone and just see what's going on.
"It's a new era. Just give it a shot."


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News trading is an excellent way of profiting in the Forex market. Economic news usually has the ability to increase volatility and thus potential trade opportunities in the market. However, it is important to only trade the news that has the highest ability to cause movements in the market. As much as the markets often react to the majority of economic news from different countries, those from big economies such as the U.S. and Europe play a significant role on currency market moves.
Here are some news reports that are trade-worthy:
Interest rates
Interest rates have the ability to cause significant movements in the Forex market. By increasing, maintaining, or lowering interest rates, central banks exert influence over the value of currencies. If raised, the exchange rate of a particular currency would appreciate in value, and if decreased, the exchange rate would depreciate in value. When an interest rate rises, it would offer lenders in an economy a higher return as compared to other countries; therefore, there would be an increased inflow of foreign capital that ultimately would cause the value of a currency to appreciate. Generally, it is seen as a good thing when interest rates increase and a bad thing when interest rates decrease.
Economic indicators
Economic indicators give a picture of the general performance of the economy of a country. They enable analysis of current performance and future forecasts of the economy of a country. Economic indicators comprise of various indices, earnings reports, and economic summaries, and some of which include Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Gross National Product (GNP), Consumer spending, capital expenditure, and government expenditure.
Inflation rates
As a general rule, a country having a high inflation rate usually has a weak currency, since its purchasing power decreases as compared to other currencies of its trading partners. To strengthen the value of a currency, the central bank of a country may make a decision to increase the interest rates.
Employment indicators
In order to comprehend the economic health of a country, it is essential to know the employment statistics of that particular country. Therefore, various employment indicators released on a regular basis are very important in affecting the value of currencies in the Forex market. An example of this is the U.S. Non-Farm Payroll released on a monthly basis.
Balance of trade announcements
As a general rule, a country with a positive Balance of Trade (BOT) usually has a rising currency.


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Cosmic Dance || New Zealand
Millions of beautiful stars streak across the clear sky in Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Golden Dawn || New Zealand
A single lonely tree sits in the middle of beautiful Lake Wanaka, New Zealand
The Road to Mt Cook || New Zealand
A stunning twilight view along the road to Mt Cook, South Island, New Zealand
Love From The Universe || Tekapo New Zealand
The Milky Way Galaxy dances above the Churh of the Good Shepherd in New Zealand
Rising Tide || New Zealand
The sky explodes with color as ocean waves wash over the St. Clair Beach pylons in New Zealand.
Tip Of The World || New Zealand
Warm light illuminates the beautiful Nugget Point Lighthouse in Southern New Zealand
Soft Surrender || St Clair Beach New Zealand
Colors and shapes blend beautifully with the morning sunrise on St Clair Beach in New Zealand.
The Approaching Storm - (Wellington, New Zealand)
Wellington Sleeps - (New Zealand)
As The Dawn Breaks - (Queenstown, New Zealand)
Castle Point At Sunrise || New Zealand
Island Bay - (Wellington, New Zealand)
The Queenstown Lookout || New Zealand
The Gathering Storm - (Wellington, New Zealand)
The Jagged Coast - (Wellington, New Zealand)
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CRS: Oversight of Dual-Use Biological Research: The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, April 27, 2007
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Title: Oversight of Dual-Use Biological Research: The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
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Date: April 27, 2007
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- Some scientific and technological advances that provide great benefits to society can also be used maliciously. For example, biological research on the origins of virulence, the development of vaccines, and the genetic manipulation of biological agents are simultaneously relevant to public health and to biological weapons. Some policymakers are concerned that publishing such dual-use research results in the open literature could aid or further the goals of adversaries of the United States. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) was established to facilitate understanding and oversight of such potentially contentious research. Issues of potential congressional interest include the mechanism and appropriateness of NSABB review of scientific research; the scope of NSABB recommendations with respect to publication of scientific research; the domestic and international adoption of practices or codes developed by the NSABB; the implementation of NSABB guidelines at the local level; and applicability of NSABB recommendations to federal agencies other than HHS.
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Behold The Nastiest, Foulest Hotel In America
Is this the dirtiest, foulest hotel in America? The voters on TripAdvisor.com think so, and the rating doesn't seem to have come as a shock to the management of the hotel — the manager told NY1, "because they are a one star hotel, they have one star standards of cleanliness." Well, ew.
What sort of crimes against hygeine are we talking about here? Well, according to the comments on TripAdviser, prepare yourself for "mice, roaches, Bed Bugs and crack heads all living at this Hell Hole! The hotel itself smells and is filthy from the disgusting bedspread to the filthy bathroom." And there are also "outlets that hang out of walls" and "Built up hair clogged shower drains." All this for only $122 a night.
Before you decide that you can tolerate all of that — we should warn you about the dead body under the bed.
Hey, at least you can still get that authentic New York City experience in Times Square.
Times Square Hotel is Dirtiest in the Nation! [Gothamist]
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Journal Article
"An integrated agent-based software architecture for mobile and manipulator systems", Robotica, vol. 25, pp. 213-220, 2007.,
Book Chapter
"Visual-Aided Guidance for the Maintenance of Multirobot Formations", in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, vol. 83, 2013, pp. 217-228.,
"Creation of geometric formations of multiple robots with limited sensory power based on visual information", in 2010 Ieee/Asme International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2010.,
SELF-LOCALIZATION OF A TEAM OF MOBILE ROBOTS BY MEANS OF COMMON COLORED TARGETS. 2009, pp. 274-279.,
Optical flow navigation over Acromovi architecture. 2006, pp. 500-503.,
Experiences in HRI: Design of an Interface for a Team of Multiple Heterogeneous Robots. 2009, pp. 281-284.,
Cooperative Navigation using the Optical Flow and Time-to-Contact Techniques. 2008, pp. 1736-1741.,


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LONDON (AP) - The British police say a homeless man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Prince Harry.
The Metropolitan Police said on Sunday that 30-year-old Ashraf Islam, of no fixed address, was charged on May 25 with threatening kill the Prince "contrary to Section 16 of the Offences against the Person Act".
He pleaded guilty at London's Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, and is in custody awaiting sentence.
The police said Islam was arrested after walking into a police station and making threats, a day after a British soldier was killed in a London street on May 22.
He was investigated by counter-terrorism police, but was not charged with any terrorist offenses.
The 28-year-old Prince is a captain in the Army Air Corps and has served twice in Afghanistan.


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Royal LePage says early evidence suggests that the recent correction in Vancouver's housing market may be short-lived.
The realtor released a report Tuesday saying Canada's two largest real estate markets continued their divergence in the first quarter of the year.
The aggregate price of a home in the Greater Toronto Area rose by an "unprecedented" 20 per cent across all housing types to $759,241 in the first three months of 2017.
In the Greater Vancouver area, the price of a home rose 12.3 per cent year-over-year to $1,179,482.
Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper says the housing correction in Vancouver began seven months ago, around the time that the B.C. government introduced a 15 per cent tax on foreign nationals buying real estate in the city.
Sales volumes then plunged and prices slowed their torrid upwards trajectory.
But just in the past month, sales in the Vancouver area have leapt forward by close to 50 per cent on a month-over-month basis, says Soper — better than the seasonal average.
"An unfortunate side effect of heavy-handed regulatory intervention is that we risk market whiplash," Soper said in a statement.
"In the coming weeks, it is possible that six months of pent-up demand will be unleashed on the market, sending prices sharply upward again; this when the pre-intervention 2016 trend was a natural market slowdown based on eroding affordability."
Across Canada, the aggregate price of a home grew 12.6 per cent year-over-year to $574,575 during the first quarter, Royal LePage said.
The price of a two-storey home climbed 13.9 per cent year-over-year to $681,728, while the price of a bungalow rose 10.9 per cent to $490,018. Condo prices increased by 8.9 per cent to $373,768.
In Calgary, home prices were up 0.6 per cent to $461,635, while in Edmonton they rose 0.3 per cent to $381,733.


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Andrea Brescani (Dušan Brešan) was born in Tolmin (Slovenia) in the province of Littoral, which after World War I pertained to Italy. The family name Bresan was then Italianized in Bresciani. Around the beginning of World War II, the family moved to northern Italy. After the War, Bresciani went to work in Milan.
Frontiers of Science, Canadian edition ('Des Drogues et des Songes', 9 May 1966).
He became a comic artist, and drew series with characters like 'Poldo', 'Saetta', 'Tony Falco' and 'Geky Dor', published in among others Intrepido. He emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, where he worked for several local publishers, before illustrating the acclaimed newspaper strip, 'Frontiers of Science'. The strip, that explained scientific concepts and recent research, was written by professor Stuart Butler of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney in collaboration with documentary maker Robert Raymond. It was syndicated around the world between 1962 and 1987. Bresciani also created the singing cowboy 'Smocky Dawson' and worked for weeklies llike Adam, Man and Pocket Man, published by K.G. Murray in Melbourne. During the 1970s, he lived in Spain for a while, and worked for the publishing house Bruguera.
Upon his return in Australia, he continued to work on 'Frontiers of Science', together with a Frenchman called Tish. He eventually went to work in the film industry. He was hired by Hanna-Barbera to set up a studio in Manila, The Philippines. There, he also worked for Marvel. Among the most important series of films, which he produced in Manila with his group, were 'Defenders of the Earth', 'Flash Gordon', 'Mandrake and Lothar', 'Phantom' and 'Ming from the planet Mongo', as well as the series 'Robin Hood' and the 'Swiss Family Robinson'.


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FRIDAY, July 11, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Delaying surgery to repair damage to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) -- the main ligament in the middle of the knee -- could increase a young athlete's risk for further injuries, researchers report.
They analyzed the medical records of 130 patients, aged 8 to 16, who had ACL reconstruction surgery. Of those patients, 62 had surgery less than six weeks after their injury, 37 had surgery six to 12 weeks after, and the others had surgery more than three months after their injury.
The youngsters who had surgery later had higher rates of secondary knee injuries and more severe injuries, according to the study. Researchers presented the findings Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine in Seattle.
One common type of secondary knee injury is a meniscal tear. The meniscus is a rubbery disc that cushions the knee. The tear can occur on the outer side of the knee (lateral tear) or on the inner side of the knee (medial tear) when the knee is forcefully twisted or rotated.
"Patients who had surgery 6 to 12 weeks after ACL injury had 1.45 greater odds of lateral meniscus injury, and those waiting 3-plus months increased their risk 2.82 times," lead author Dr. Allen Anderson, of the Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance in Nashville, said in a society news release. "The risk for medial meniscal tears was 4.3 times greater when delaying surgery at least 6 weeks."
About two-thirds of the study patients were male. Other risk factors for secondary knee injuries included younger age, returning to sports before ACL surgery and previous knee instability, the study authors noted.
"While parents and other caregivers have obvious reasons for concern over ACL surgery in young patients, it's important to recognize when it may be beneficial," Anderson said. "If surgery now helps eliminate long-term knee problems, it's certainly a good choice."
Data and conclusions presented at meetings are typically considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about anterior cruciate ligament injury.
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The classes of medications prescribed to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are promotility agents, H2 blockers, and proton pump inhibitors.
Promotility drugs
Promotility drugs can be helpful in some people (after careful screening for known risk factors) with non-erosive GERD or mild esophagitis. Significantly, there are reported adverse effects of the drug cisapride (Propulsid) in people with certain preexisting conditions and some known drug interactions that can be associated with dangerous cardiac arrhythmias.
The FDA announced on March 23, 2000 that Janssen Pharmaceutica has decided to stop marketing Propulsid in the U.S. as of July 14, 2000. The drug will continue to be available to patients who meet specific clinical eligibility criteria for a limited-access protocol. The action by Janssen is voluntary and the effective date is intended to provide time for patients and physicians to make treatment decisions. Individuals who are currently prescribed cisapride are urged to promptly contact their health care providers to discuss use or alternatives. Be sure to discuss this with your physician.
H2 blockers
H2 blockers reduce the amount of acid produced in the stomach. In prescription doses, they eliminate symptoms and allow esophageal healing in about 50% of patients. However, remission is maintained in only about 25% of people using H2 blockers.
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) limit acid secretion in the stomach. They allow rapid resolution of symptoms and healing of the esophagus in 80-90% of patients. The drug is also useful in managing stricture, one of the more serious complications of GERD.
Even after symptoms are brought under control, the underlying disease remains present. It is possible that a person may need to take a medication for the rest of their life to manage GERD. Long-term use of medication – whether prescription or nonprescription – should be under the direction and supervision of a physician. Side effects are rare; nonetheless, any drug can potentially have adverse effects.
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Sivilotti, Paolo A. G. (1998) A method for the specification, composition, and testing of distributed object systems. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/z89g-gm27. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-01252008-095244
The formation of a distributed system from a collection of individual components requires the ability for components to exchange syntactically well-formed messages. Several technologies exist that provide this fundamental functionality, as well as the ability to locate components dynamically based on syntactic requirements. The formation of a correct distributed system requires, in addition, that these interactions between components be semantically well-formed. The method presented in this thesis is intended to assist in the development of correct distributed systems.
We present a specification methodology based on three fundamental operators from temporal logic: initially, next, and transient. From these operators we derive a collection of higher-level operators that are used for component specification. The novel aspect of our specification methodology is that we require that these operators be used in the following restricted manner:
•A specification statement can refer only to properties that are local to a single component. •A single component must be able to guarantee unilaterally the validity of the specification statement for any distributed system of which it is a part. Specification statements that conform to these two restrictions we call certificates.
The first restriction is motivated by our desire for these component specifications to be testable in a relatively efficient manner. In fact, we describe a set of simplified certificates that can be translated into a testing harness by a simple parser with very little programmer intervention. The second restriction is motivated by our desire for a simple theory of composition: If a certificate is a property of a component, that certificate is also a property of any system containing that component.
Another novel aspect of our methodology is the introduction of a new temporal operator that combines both safety and progress properties. The concept underlying this operator has been used implicitly before; but by extracting this concept into a first-class operator, we are able to prove several new theorems about such properties. We demonstrate the utility of this operator and of our theorems by using them to simplify several proofs.
The restrictions imposed on certificates are severe. Although they have pleasing consequences as described above, they can also lead to lengthy proofs of system properties that are not simple conjunctions. To compensate for this difficulty, we introduce collections of certificates that we call services. Services facilitate proof reuse by encapsulating common component interactions used to establish various system properties.
We experiment with our methodology by applying it to several extended examples. These experiments illustrate the utility of our approach and convince us of the practicality of component-based distributed system development. This thesis addresses three parts of the development cycle for distributed object systems: (i) the specification of systems and components, (ii) the compositional reasoning used to verify that a collection of components satisfy a system specification, and (iii) the validation of component implementations.
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- In one of the quickest turnarounds of the year, ABC has yanked its new reality series "The Great American Dream Vote" literally two days into its run.
"The George Lopez Show" will return to the Wednesday, 8:00/7:00c slot with back-to-back episodes starting next week. "Lopez" had originally been slated to return on April 25 following the conclusion of "Dream's" five-episode run.
The news doesn't come as much of a surprise as last night's installment finished dead last among adults 18-49 in the Wednesday, 8:00/7:00c hour among all the broadcast networks (a 1.5 rating according to preliminary Nielsen data), behind fourth place "Friday Night Lights" (2.0) on NBC.
It's not clear when or if the three remaining installments will air. A note on the show's official web site simply reads, "The next episode has not yet been scheduled."


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NYTimes Reporter (and Obama Biographer)Jodi Kantor Profiles Unfairly 'Caricatured' Michelle Obama, 'Motherly' Hugger-in-Chief
New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, author of a biography of the Obamas, on Tuesday filed a flattering profile of "hugging" Michelle Obama, "First Lady Strives for Caring Image Above Partisan Fray." Kantor excused the first lady's verbal "missteps" ("For the first time in my adult lifetime...I am really proud of my country") but avoided describing them.
The profile appeared the day after a surprisingly critical article from Kantor on the Labor Day front page on President Obama (beyond the complimentary headline): "The Competitor in Chief – In Politics, and About Everything Else, Obama Plays to Win."
Four years ago, Barack Obama seemed as if he might be a deliberate professor of a leader, maybe with a touch of Hawaiian mellowness. He has also turned out to be a voraciously competitive perfectionist....But even those loyal to Mr. Obama say that his quest for excellence can bleed into cockiness and that he tends to overestimate his capabilities....Mr. Obama spends surprising energy perfecting even less consequential pursuits. He has played golf 104 times since becoming president, according to Mark Knoller of CBS News, who monitors his outings, and he asks superior players for tips that have helped lower his scores....For another, he may not always be as good at everything as he thinks, including politics.
But Kantor made up for it with her gushing profile of the hugging first lady, a trait Kantor detailed in ridiculously overblown fashion.
This is how Michelle Obama delivers a hug: The nearly six-foot-tall first lady envelops her target, her long arms often wapping all the way around the recipient's back. She leans in close, unafraid to press her body against a stranger's. Working crowds with her husband, she sometimes falls behind him, because he is more of a hand-shaker or high-fiver, and in the second-to-second choreography of a rope line, the Michelle Obama hug takes time.
That hug, half motherly embrace and half papal benediction, has become a minor phenomenon. Many of the first lady's events end with marathon hugging sessions, because people now hope to get one. At the Olympics, the United States men's basketball team lined up for hugs, the sweaty giants waiting their turns like meek children. When Mrs. Obama gave the queen of England a mere half-hug, Britain went wild. The first lady delivers solemn, private hugs to wounded service members. And all summer she has hugged her way across the country on behalf of her husband's campaign, drawing volunteers, donors, staff and potential converts near.
It is hard to remember another first lady who appeared as comfortable in her own body as does Mrs. Obama, who studied dance as a girl and later served on the board of an African dance company. She has shimmied, skipped, hopscotched, hula-hooped, jumping-jacked, and potato-sack-raced her way through her tenure as first lady, using not just her position but her body to push for more exercise and better nutrition for children. (She is fighting an obesity crisis and trying to convince corporations to change products and advertising, yet she sticks to a Mom in Chief tone.)
Kantor briefly referenced the first lady's controversial comments without quoting them.
But she has also done real political work for her husband -- stumping in 2008 and learning message discipline the hard way (though she was hugely popular, she made verbal missteps that allowed critics to cast her as aggrieved). She promoted President Obama's health care plan in 2009, though to keep her popularity high, advisers limited her association with the initiative. And for the past year, Mrs. Obama has been a central figure in her husband's campaign -- exhorting supporters to donate and volunteer, stating her husband's argument for re-election in simple, jargon-free terms.
Kantor concluded that the first lady was unfairly "caricatured during the 2008 campaign":
Mrs. Obama has reason not to take risks, even beyond the fact that she was caricatured during the 2008 campaign. Throughout her time in the White House, she and her advisers have carefully protected her image; she knew her husband would need her for re-election from early on, aides say. So she has mostly avoided controversy, highly aware that any mistake on her part could cost her husband: in a sharply polarized country with close presidential contests, no other calculation makes sense.
"Who can be opposed to a hug from a tall, beautiful woman?" said Kati Marton, author of "Hidden Power," about presidential marriages. "In this divisive climate, to be the hugger in chief is all that our first lady can do."
In an October 2009 Times Magazine cover story on the Obamas, Kantor dismissed Michelle Obama's infamous campaign lines like "For the first time in my adult lifetime...I am really proud of my country" merely a "rhetorical stumble" and suggesting the media was overplaying it.