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Irene Zola, Crusader for the Elderly
Irene Zola loved to boast to friends about her elderly mother's independence. Not only did her mom, Faye, live by herself into her 90s; she also "drove until she was 91 and played piano at family functions," says Zola, 66. After a stroke at 97, however, Faye was left partially paralyzed and had to move into a nursing home. Her first night there, Zola recalls, "I found my mother moaning in bed with all her clothing and bedding soaked in urine." Faye passed away a few months later, but Zola couldn't sleep, thinking about her mother's plight. Not long afterward she founded Lifeforce in Later Years, a nonprofit whose goal is to improve the quality of life for every community's oldest members. The first project? Morningside Village, which pairs 57 seniors in Manhattan with 70 volunteers, who help with such tasks as grocery shopping, preparing meals, and getting to doctors' appointments. Morningside has been such a success that Zola has put together guidelines to help other communities across the country develop similar groups. "The volunteers get very close to their seniors," Zola says. "They really start to feel as though they're family."


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Designing a Diving Wallpaper
Diving Wallpaper (1024x768px)
First step is to create blurred grass in the background.
Set foreground color to dark green, background color to black. Then switch to
gradient tool (G), make sure that current gradient is green-to-black, select
Radial gradient (on top bar), then draw a big gradient from center to the edge
of image.
good for background. Paste the image into your file…
(Ctrl-Shit-U) and apply Gaussian Blur (found in Filters menu – Blur) with large
setting (50-100 pixels).
is very easy – set foreground color to black, then use Pen tool (P) to create
some simple shape of a leaf.
soft Light and opacity to 30-40%. They are only for background and should be
barely visible.
Set foreground color to vivid green, then in the new layer, use Pen tool to make
the shape of the leaf (I wanted it to twirl a bit).
– Inner glow (white,
opacity = overlay 50%)
– Drop shadow (black, overlay 20-30%)
(behind the original green layer), change its color to darker green (almost
black), and move the shape itself a bit down – it will give leaf some
above it, and Create Clipping Mask (from Layer menu, or Ctrl-Shift-G). Use large
soft Brush tool (B) with white (and then black) colors to add highlights and
shadows to the leaf.
apply a lot of Noise (Filters menu).
so that this layer is also masked by leaf shape. Then, find Smudge tool (hit
Shift-R until you see the finger icon), open Brush settings dropdown, select 4th
brush from the end of default brushes set, set Strengh to about 50%.
direction of leaf growth.
shape that overlays the bottom part of leaf.
Layer menu), set opacity mode to Overlay, then open layer effects and add some
Inner Glow effect (black, opacity mode = soft light, size = 40-60px)
new layer, use small (1-2 px) hard white brush and draw several threads.
effects and add Pattern overlay (blend mode = overlay, opacity around 50%, use
any pattern that looks noisy).
Shape tool (U), make a green circle (hold Shift to make circle, not
– Drop shadow
(blend mode = overlay, black, 1-2px)
– Inner Glow (white, overlay,
– Gradient overlay (white-to-black, blend mode = overlay, opacity
same layer effects: this is a body.
Gradient overlay (white-to-black, blend mode = normal, opacity = 20-30%)
circles in the endings.
with grey color, create a circle (use Ellipse tool, U, and hold Shift while
making a shape). then switch to Direct Selection tool (A or Shift-A), and click
on the bottom point of circle. use keyboard (Up arrow) to move it up a
and add:
– drop shadow (black, multiply, 40-50%, 1px)
– bevel and emboss
(both highlight and shadow are white, overlay, highlight opacity: 10%, shadow
opacity: 60-70%, size = 0px)
Paths palette, right-click on the path and in the menu click Make
then create merged copy of the selected area (Ctrl-Shift-C then Ctrl-V). Apply
some Gaussian Blur to it (Filters menu – Blur), 2-3 pixels.
palette (behind the merged copy), then use soft black brush (B) and make a spot.
Transform it (Ctrl-T) to stretch it horizontally.
create new layer above it, and draw a grey circle like shown here: bigger and
aligned to bottom of water drop.
Overlay, then open layer effects and add Gradient overlay. Set gradient blend
mode to overlay too, opacity to about 70%, style = radial, reverse. But we will
need to modify the gradient itself, and here is how…
black-to-white gradient (3rd in default set), then find the black slider on
bottom-left of gradient, grad it a bit to the right, then click on empty space
where black slider just was: new slider will appear. Change its color to
previous layer (Ctrl-Shift-G). Boom! 🙂
brush (B), add a dot, then transform it (Ctrl-T) as shown here,…
opacity to 30-40%, and again, Ctrl-Shift-G (Create clipping mask)
document (square, about 200×200 px), with transparent background, switch to
Shape tool (U), choose Polygon, set sides=4, then open Options, check Star, and
set Indent sizes to about 85%. With these options, add a star near top-left edge
of image.
then go to Filters – Distort – Spherize – apply about 50-60% effect. Repeat if
down and rotate), then set its blend mode to overlay.
layer with water drop, duplicate it (Ctrl-J), bring copied layer forward in
layers palette (make sure that all clipped layers remain clipped). Then change
its color to white and scale down a bit (Ctrl-T).
it (Ctl-C, Ctrl-V), move new path a bit to top-right, scale up (Ctrl-T) and
click Substract button (2nd fo the 4 buttons on top bar)
to 40-60%. The water drop is ready!
spider in the water drop. Make all layers invisible, except the layers belonging
to falling spider. Select bottom half of it, copy merged (Ctrl-Shift-C).
Vertically (from Edit menu – Transform)
filter. Adjust % to your liking (60-70 may be enough).
bottom part of image.
paste into our artwork document, and set blend mode to Overlay!
You can view original wallpaper here:
Thanks! I hope you found it useful.
Author: Vlad Gerasimov
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The ITIL Heroes Handbook gives you a quick backgrounder on ITIL basics and dives deep into ITIL Service Support with examples drawn from customers. It packs some action; you get to implement a Service Desk to understand how easy it is.
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Sony on Tuesday showed a digital media hub that uses Wi-Fi to connect its PCs, tablets, smartphones and PlayStation game consoles, a product that it hopes will be part of its comeback.
The "nasne," which expands on a previous tuner for the PlayStation, is equipped with a 500GB hard drive and inputs for terrestrial and satellite TV. Sony devices can be used interchangeably to remotely access the device and set recording times or stream stored content.
(See footage of the nasne in action on YouTube.)
The device is the latest in a line of products and services meant to unify Sony's disparate product lines, a major goal of new CEO Kazuo Hirai. Most of its features work only with Sony products, a bold decision given its gadgets' recent poor sales performance versus rivals like Apple and Samsung.
Demo models of the device showed it was very responsive when streaming video over a wireless network, with little lag when changing channels or skipping through stored shows. The user interface, while not yet finalized, is easy to learn and also ran smoothly over the company's wireless network.
Sony Computer Entertainment, the company's game division, is developing the nasne, a successor to an external TV tuner Sony sells for PlayStation game consoles in Japan, branded "torne." At its Tokyo headquarters, Sony showed working demos on Vaio laptops, Sony tablets, and Xperia smartphones, with a version for the new Vita handheld game console due out later this year.
The device will go on sale in Japan from July 19 for ¥16,980 (US$215). The company currently has no set plans to sell the device abroad. It sells a tuner for the PlayStation in Europe, "PlayTV," which is similar to the torne.


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Editor's Note: Michelle Atagana is the managing editor of memeburn.com, a social media and technology news site. She has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She attended the LeWeb tech conference held in London 18 - 20 June.
Story highlights
Africa is on fire right now when it comes to be at the forefront of innovation in mobile
Africa has a huge potential for mobile app creators and companies that rely in the mobile space
There are 695 million mobile subscriptions in Africa and it is predicted to hit 735 million by the end of 2012
Running a technology news site based in South Africa that focuses on tech news from Africa and Emerging Markets it's to be expected that I am a little attached to the region.
According to a Mckinsey report ICT spend in Sub-Saharan Africa is approximately $70 billion and will nearly double by 2015. There is also no doubt Africa is on fire right now when it comes to being at the forefront of innovation in mobile (which is where the future of the web lies) with hubs in Kenya and Nigeria.
Read more: How mobile broadband can transform Africa
So naturally when the "all star entrepreneur" panel took the LeWeb stage, I asked: "So are any of you investing in Africa?" The panel: "No". No? why not? TechCrunch founder and former editor Michael Arrington says it's because he hasn't been pitched anything from Africa.
The rest of the panel, included: YouTube founder Chad Hurley, Digg founder Kevin Rose, and Skype founder, Niklas Zennström.
LeWeb is an event that champions the next stage in our online evolution and yet there seems to be very little African presence or discussion around the future of the web there.
More: 10 African tech voices to follow on Twitter
More and more are accessing content on their mobile devices, because let's face it, this is where the world is heading. As Africans we arrived late to the internet party and most of the cool innovative party favors were gone.
But we are hungry for access and content. Hence the huge potential in Africa for mobile app creators and companies that rely in the mobile space. Few of the companies presenting at LeWeb seems to have a focus in Africa, they seem intent on conquering the European market.
Yes some want to conquer China and the rest of Asia too. But why are they ignoring Africa? What did we do?
A few questions immediately come to mind. Is it a case of access? Internet penetration?
Is that still a major issue? According to the head of GSMA, there are 695 million mobile subscriptions in Africa and it is predicted to hit 735 million by the end of 2012.
The most common mobile device in southern parts of Africa is the Samsung E250 and it can access the web. More than 5% of Sub-Saharan Africans own the Nokia N73, according to researchers at TNS Global. Mobile penetration in Africa is about 70% or so. Access? Done.
Read more: Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty
Internet Penetration
According to research from Internet World Stats, Africa still has the world's lowest internet penetration rate at 13.5%. Not an attractive figure for potential investors maybe?
No, it says there is huge potential for growth. That figure says that there is an 86.5% growth potential if we want to add numbers to it. Low internet doesn't mean a deadzone.
Africa is moving on quite swiftly then. There are companies such as Google, that recognize this growth potential in Africa and they are beginning to invest in the continent. Google has launched the Umbono project in South Africa and Tahrir2 in Egypt.
Read more: Humans, lose your cyberphobia
I suppose the argument could be that LeWeb isn't focused on Africa because it is designed for Europe and how technology is shaping the continent. Maybe, but most of the speakers are from the USA.
All are innovating in various ways true but there are equally innovative and quite frankly more useful products coming out of Africa. Where are the speakers from Africa? Someone from Ushahidi for instance should be here.
The non-profit software company that develops open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Surely it has more to say about the innovative use of technology than Path.
Then there is innovation in social and communication companies such as Mxit, which is a mobile communication platform across all types of devices, and if you listen to its new CEO Alan Knott-Craig Jnr, it is well on its way to "conquering the African market".
This particular conference is backed by government. That signals something important: European government cares about innovation in tech and perhaps innovating with it. Take note here African governments.
When I bumped into Michael Arrington before his session he seemed to think there isn't much Africa can do for his fund. He also seems to think there is a security issue in Africa. Can this really still be the notion that Africa has nothing to offer when it comes to the web and how we are evolving?
Take a trip to Cape Town, Lagos and Nairobi or attend an Africa Gathering event, which champions African tech growth, and see how wrong you are.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Michelle Atagana.


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My fave impressive resaurant style dish? Pear, goats cheese and rocket salad. Takes two mins to knock up, looks great, is a bit different and seems more expensive than it is. Three ingredients, three minutes, easy.
Don't you love dining out? The combination of delicious food, fun atmosphere, and no dishes to clean is great. The cost, however, can stretch or ruin your food budget. (See also: Make Your Own Twinkies and Other Secret Recipes by the Food Cloner Dude)
I know what sorts of things I want to eat when I go out, but I wondered what answer I would get most often from coworkers and friends. If they wanted to save money by making their restaurant favorites at home, what would they choose? I decided to conduct an informal poll. The response I received most often? (Drum roll…) Steak!
As my friend Nancy put it, "When I go out to dinner, I want a steak, a baked potato with all the goodies, and a tossed green salad."
But, you may wonder — how do you save money, if your tastes run to steak? Fortunately, Linsey Knerl of Wise Bread found a fantastic how-to, using cheaper cuts of steak, over at Steamy Kitchen.
Accompaniments: Baked potatoes with sour cream, bacon bits, and green onion; and tossed green salad.
Keep it cheap: Resist the impulse to buy a bag of salad and cut up your own salad greens.
According to my very scientific poll, another favorite for dining out is Mexican food. Now, as much as I love the food at a particular Mexican chain restaurant, I could go without hearing their overly peppy "Happy Birthday" song for the rest of my life. My husband, though, misses the fajitas. The good news is that fajitas are really easy to make and you don't have to wear a huge sombrero at home.
Accompaniments: Tortillas, beans, and rice.
Keep it cheap: Try it with a homemade margarita!
Tonight for dinner we are having Pad Thai, one of my restaurant favorites. Fish sauce, an important ingredient, sounds strange — but don't leave it out! If you do not have rice noodles, you can substitute vermicelli. I am making ours with shrimp. Pork and tofu work equally well.
Accompaniments: Cucumber salad is a must.
Keep it cheap: Frozen shrimp can be a bargain. If you cook and clean it yourself, you will get further savings.
Another crowd favorite is Chinese food. Although Chinese food will rarely break the bank, you will still save money it you make it at home. I love Beef with Broccoli, which goes together quickly. My friend MZ loves General Tso's Chicken. It is pretty spicy, so be careful with those peppers!
Accompaniments: Rice, orange sections, and of course, fortune cookies!
Keep it cheap: If beef is not on sale, try thinly-sliced pork or chicken breast. Both are delicious in this recipe.
My husband loves Italian food, but that's not exactly a hot commodity here in the tropics. I can handle basic spaghetti and lasagna, but when I learned how to make Chicken Marsala, he was pretty happy.
Accompaniments: Buttered egg noodles and steamed zucchini go well with this.
Keep it cheap: Watch for Marsala wine to go on sale. I over-paid the other day ($13).
Many of my coworkers love sushi, but they thought it would be too much trouble to make at home. It really isn't.
Accompaniments: Edamame (boiled soybeans) go nicely, and they are very easy to make, if you can boil water. Look for them in the freezer section of your grocery store.
Keep it cheap: Try a tuna (canned, with spicy mayo) or vegetarian roll.
A favorite "fusion" (Japanese /Hawaiian) food we like to order when we're out is Chicken Katsu.
Accompaniments: This is a very popular item where I live and usually served with rice, macaroni-potato salad, and a tossed green salad. Talk about a stick-to-your-ribs meal!
Keep it cheap: I buy frozen chicken thighs, which are less expensive. There is no noticeable difference between fresh and frozen here, as far as I can tell.
If you have not tried Vietnamese food, I predict you will love its crispness and use of fresh herbs. I never feel bad after I eat it — it is more like I have done something good for my health.
I will admit it takes practice to roll a summer roll. M mine are never pretty, but they taste great.
Accompaniments: Peanut sauce (recipe included in the link above). Of course, I could eat an old shoe if you put peanut sauce on it.
Keep it cheap: I like shrimp in my summer rolls, but again, I use frozen shrimp, which I clean and cook.
Another favorite Vietnamese recipe of my friends is Pho Ga, which is a Southeast Asian take on chicken soup.
Pho is not only delicious, but it has an added benefit — it makes you feel much better if you have a cold! I thought I was original in this discovery until I went to our local Vietnamese restaurant and ordered a bowl. The person at the counter said, "Are you getting a cold?" As it turns out, people flock there at the first sign of a sore throat. I try to keep the ingredients on hand so that I can whip up a batch.
Accompaniments: Fresh mint, basil, and green onions; Sriracha sauce. Don't be afraid of the Sriracha sauce. You only need a few drops.
Keep it cheap: Learn how to make your own chicken broth at home and freeze it in quart bags.
So there you have it, restaurant meals, at home. Light some candles, set the table, and enjoy your dinner in — and the savings that go with.
What favorite restaurant dishes do you prepare at home?
Disclaimer: The links and mentions on this site may be affiliate links. But they do not affect the actual opinions and recommendations of the authors.
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My fave impressive resaurant style dish? Pear, goats cheese and rocket salad. Takes two mins to knock up, looks great, is a bit different and seems more expensive than it is. Three ingredients, three minutes, easy.
My family doesn't really like steaks, so I only have steaks when I eat out, typically once or twice a month.
Anthony Bourdain has some great ideas in his books. Some of the things that make restaurant food taste like, well, restaurant food
Shallots (find them in produce section, kind of a cross between onions and garlic)
Kosher Salt, and plenty of it. I know you worry about your sodium, but your restaurant does not. Also, lots of cracked pepper.
Finish all your sauces with butter. Again, I know you are concerned about your fat intake, but your restaurant is not.
When grilling or searing a piece of fish, meat or chicken, LEAVE IT until it forms a crust in the pan. No flipping, pressing, moving it. The crust is the secret.
Salt your pasta water, also your vegetable cooking water.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nationwide production of new single-family homes rose 4.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 470,000 units in December, according to newly released figures from the U.S. Commerce Department. This marked a third consecutive increase and the fastest pace of single-family housing starts since April of 2010. Meanwhile, the overall number of housing starts for the month declined 4.1% to a 657,000-unit rate due to a 20.4% dip on the more volatile multifamily side.
"Today's report adds to the growing evidence that demand for new, single-family homes is finally starting to firm up in an increasing number of markets nationwide," said Bob Nielsen, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Reno, NV. "This emerging trend is allowing builders to put more crews back to work, and could be even stronger if not for the overly tight credit conditions that prevail for both builders and buyers, as well as the continuing foreclosure crisis and the challenges of obtaining accurate appraisal values on new homes. Policymakers should be doing everything possible to alleviate these problems and nurture the fledgling housing recovery in order to promote job and economic growth."
"This report is in keeping with our expectations for slow but steady improvement in the single-family market, where production hit its lowest yearly rate in over 50 years in 2011," said NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe. "Meanwhile, it should be noted that the decline in multifamily starts in December was coming off a dramatic increase from the previous month and simply brought that sector back closer to trend. Apartment production generally continues to gain strength heading into 2012 after posting a more-than 50% gain in 2011." Looking forward, NAHB is forecasting gains of approximately 17% in both single- and multifamily housing production in 2012.
Combined single- and multifamily housing starts fell 4.1% to a 657,000-unit rate in December due to the multifamily side retreating 20.4% from a big gain in the previous month, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 187,000 units. However, for the year as a whole, overall housing production was pegged at 606,900 units, which was 3.4% better than the overall number of starts in 2010.
Regionally, December housing starts rose 54.8% in the Midwest following a big decline in the previous month. The Northeast posted a 41.2% decline that offset a big gain in the previous month, while the South and West also posted declines of 3.0% and 17.6%, respectively.
Permit issuance, which can be an indicator of future building activity, held virtually flat at a 679,000-unit rate in December. Single-family permits rose for a third consecutive month, by 1.8% to 444,000 units, while multifamily permits declined 3.7% to 235,000 units.
Regionally, permits rose 5.8% in the Midwest and held unchanged in the West, but declined 6.5% in the Northeast and 0.6% in the South in December.


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The body has an innate ability to heal and correct itself. This same "normalizing" ability is seen in the world of biomechanics. By using an OptoJump 1 meter system, you can measure your body's ability to correct its gait asymmetries. OptoJump systems precisely measure all parameters of the gait cycle with left and right differentials noted. By varying the speeds, you can define which speed produces the most effective biomechanical walk. (Please note that asymmetry can still exist.)
To perform gait rhythm test:
This is the speed with which all interventions should be compared. If a person is 10% asymmetric at 1.5 mph, 6% at 2.5 mph, and 9% at 3.5 mph, we need to decide how effective our training/rehabilitation programs are in improving the 6% differential. If our body can get us to this 6% differential on its own, effective training/treatment should be able to improve upon it.
Don't just walk – therapeutically walk. Now that we have a technique for finding optimal gait speed, how can it be used most effectively? By using a simple heart rate monitor, we can record the heart rate at which optimal speed is found. When the client walks, he/she can control his/her pace by staying close to the given HR number. This is not meant to be a high-end exercise; this is therapeutically walking (good for overall health and recovery following a vigorous workout). As the client goes through effective training/treatment, his/her gait rhythm should increase with reduced asymmetries noted.
We define an intervention as any exercise or treatment that is designed to change the parameters of the gait cycle (orthotics, progressive stretch, etc.). With orthotics, balancing the foot to balance the body is the goal. Test your client walking barefoot at his/her gait rhythm. Note all asymmetries of the gait cycle. Let your client walk at the same speed using his/her orthotic. Note changes in asymmetries to determine the effectiveness of the orthotic intervention. All treatment/trainings can be judged for effectiveness by evaluating asymmetrical gait changes over time.


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Liz Stephen destroyed the women's field this weekend in the annual Climb to the Castle rollerski race. The margin, just over 5 minutes in a race that took the leaders between 40-45 minutes is certainly impressive. But I think that margin doesn't provide much useful information. Time trials that are most useful as gauges of […]Also tagged climb to the castle, ida sargent, jessie diggins, liz stephen, pre season, time trial


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EU scales-up its response to famine and drought affected countries in Horn of Africa with an additional €165 million
On the occasion of an official visit to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica, announced a support package of €165 million to address the multiple crises in the Horn of Africa region
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 17, 2017/APO/ --
Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica announced today additional EU support to respond to the crises in South Sudan, Somalia and its neighbouring countries, during an official visit to the African Union.
On the occasion of an official visit to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica, announced a support package of €165 million to address the multiple crises in the Horn of Africa region.
Commissioner Mimica said: "The sooner we act, the more lives we can save. This package of €165 million will support the urgent needs of South Sudanese people in the country and the region but also the millions of people at risk of famine in the Horn of Africa. With this additional support, the EU shows the way to other members of the international community to also respond urgently."
Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides said: ''The European Union is responding immediately to the needs arising from the severe famine in South Sudan and the dire droughts in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. With this new assistance, we will do our upmost to contain the effects of these extremely challenging circumstances in the Horn of Africa.''
South Sudan crisis
From this package of support, €100 million will be allocated to respond to the humanitarian crisis caused by the violent conflict in South Sudan. Out of this, €30 million will provide lifesaving assistance to vulnerable people in South Sudan. Assistance will offer protection to women and children at risk, or victims, of human rights abuses, as well as support to treat alarming levels of malnutrition, diseases and water and sanitation. The remaining amount of €70 million will support South Sudan's neighbouring countries, notably Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Sudan, to continue providing protection and addressing the needs of South Sudanese fleeing conflict and seeking shelter in their territories.
Droughts in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya
The second part of the package, in the amount of €65 million, is planned to respond to the serious droughts in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Changing climatic conditions and successive failed rains during the past three years are triggering a humanitarian crisis of huge proportions. The negative effects of the droughts are likely to intensify in 2017, as rains are projected to be below average during the next rain season. The situation is particularly dire in Somalia, where the number of people in need has increased drastically to 6.2 million, that is half the population, and where there is a real risk of famine later in 2017. A pre-famine alert has already been issued in February of this year.
This new package will also scale up and strengthen over €400 million that the EU allocated in 2016 to address the humanitarian crises and the effects of El Niño in the region. It will also complement the €200 million which the EU approved in February this year to support the new Government of Somalia to continue transitioning out of fragility and building a resilience society.
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'Big lender' China urges US to avoid bankruptcy
As the Government shutdown in the US enters its second week, the country is just 10-days away from default, and the country's main creditor China has urged Washington to take decisive steps to avoid bankruptcy and ensure safety of Chinese investments.
China, the US government's largest foreign creditor, is "naturally concerned about developments in the US fiscal cliff", as Reuters quoted Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao giving the Chinese government's first public response to the Oct 17 US deadline for raising the debt ceiling.
China currently holds 22.85 percent of the US $16.7trln debt,
which makes it the biggest US creditor.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew calculated the US would run out of money by October 17 and have less than $30 billion cash in hand if Congress fails to agree on its spending plans.
"We ask that the United States earnestly takes steps to resolve in a timely way before October 17 the political (issues) around the debt ceiling and prevent a US debt default to ensure safety of Chinese investment in the United States and the global economic recovery," Zhu said.
In 2011 a similar budget deadlock cost the US its triple-A rating, with Standard & Poors downgrading the country to AA+.
"We hope the United States fully understands the lessons of history," Zhu said.
The debt ceiling debate of 2011 resolved with a last minute decision following tough warnings over the economic catastrophe from the looming default.
This time around alarm bells are ringing again, with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warning that the budget brinkmanship was "playing with fire" and imploring the Congress to pass legislation to re-open the government as well as increase the nation's debt limit.
The lack of accord in the US Congress could cost the US a default – the first in history - which would send the global economy into a financial crisis similar to 2008 or worse. The 2008 financial crisis plunged the country into the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Raising the debt ceiling is vital for the US itself and the global economy, but Republican House Speaker John Boehner insists the increase of the maximum allowed borrowing limit should come with terms. Boehner vowed on Sunday that there was "no way" Republican lawmakers would agree to a measure to raise the debt ceiling unless it included conditions to rein in deficit spending.
"The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit, and the President is risking default by not having a conversation with us," Boehner said.
The shutdown has put hundreds of thousands of workers off the job, closed national parks and museums and stopped an array of government services.
The one bright spot in a Washington deadlock is a significant chunk of the furloughed federal workforce is headed back to work. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered nearly 350,000 back on the job, basing his decision on a Pentagon interpretation of a law called the Pay Our Military Act.
Those who remain at home or are working without paychecks are a step closer to getting back pay once the partial government shutdown ends. The Senate could act this week on the measure that passed the House unanimously on Saturday.


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Patient Dies in Clinical Drug Trial: Menninger Clinic Found Negligent by JuryIn mid-December 2001, a jury found the Menninger Clinic (then of Topeka, KS, now relocated to Houston, TX) negligent in the treatment of an individual who was placed in a clinical trial in which he received an experimental neuroleptic (antipsychotic drug). Psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D. was the only medical expert for the plaintiffs. A man diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia went to the Menninger Clinic for long-term residential treatment in an off-campus non-hospital setting. However, at the urging of the Menninger Clinic, he was later hospitalized as an inpatient at Menninger in order to be placed into a clinical trial for the FDA approval of a new antipsychotic drug. The drug company paid Menninger for each patient that was entered into the trial. The amount was considerably more than the patient was paying for his treatment before being ushered into the clinical trial. The patient received the experimental drug during the clinical trial and was then continued on it for a brief time following the conclusion of the clinical trial. While being treated with the drug, he wandered off or eloped from the hospital grounds and died of exposure. The drug was never approved by the FDA and was withdrawn by the manufacturer. Dr. Breggin testified concerning standards of care in a residential treatment center and a mental hospital ward. He testified on informed consent and the standards for the conduct of controlled clinical trials. He gave the opinion that the patient did not meet the criteria established for the trial and therefore should not have been included. He testified that the patient was not properly monitored, and that more appropriate treatment was withheld from the patient in order to maintain him in the clinical trial. He testified that the hospitalization and the drug treatment further impaired the patient's condition. He described the adverse effects of neuroleptic drugs that contributed to the man's elopement, including worsening depression and akathisia. Akathisia is drug-induced internal agitation and anxiety that drives the person to move about and often to resist treatment. The jury found the Menninger Clinic negligent and gave an award to the deceased patient's family. (Kernke v. The Menninger Clinic, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, Case No. 00-22630GTV). Attorneys for the plaintiff were Murray Abowitz and Kayce Gisinger, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Stephen G. Dickerson, Kansas City, Kansas. See additional information on this website concerning neuroleptic drugs . (1) Peter Breggin, M.D. Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (Springer Publishing Company, 1997, revised and updated 2008) for extensive scientific analyses of neuroleptic drug effects and also standards concerning clinical trials for the FDA approval of drugs. (2) Peter Breggin, M.D. and David Cohen, Ph.D., Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medication (Perseus Books, 1999) for a more popular, abbreviated discussion of neuroleptic drug effects. Also see Dr. Breggin's peer-reviewed articles related to neuroleptic drug effects and to clinical trials for the FDA approval of drugs.


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DURHAM, N.C. -- Senior Beth Glaros erupted for six goals to lift No. 2 Maryland to a 19-10 victory at No. 6 Duke on Saturday at Koskinen Stadium.
Glaros nearly doubled her goal output for the season with six against Duke (3-2, 0-1 ACC). The senior also added three draw controls, two ground balls and two caused turnovers to give Maryland (6-0, 1-0 ACC) its first conference win in 2014. Sophomore Taylor Cummings tallied a season-high five goals and posted seven draw controls, three caused turnovers and a pair of ground balls to lead the Terps.
Maryland got the exact start they were searching for when it shot out the gate with a 5-0 lead a mere 7:15 into the game. Glaros and Cummings accounted for all the scoring in the opening drive.
Maddy Acton put Duke on the board at 21:17 with an unassisted score but Glaros quickly answered with a transition tally off an interception 20 seconds later for a 6-1 Terrapin advantage.
Following another Acton goal at 20:29, Maryland again stepped on the gas, generating a 3-0 run with goals from Kelly McPartland, Glaros and Cummings, for a 9-2 score with 12:33 remaining in the first half.
Duke mustered its best scoring sequence of the game when it posted five unanswered goals -- including three to cap the first half and another two to open the second -- to shrink Maryland's lead to 9-7 with 28:39 remaining in the contest.
A determined Maryland attack countered with a 6-0 run to push the Terps' cushion to eight with a 15-7 score with 20:30 remaining. The frantic offensive pace in the first 10 minutes of the second stanza resulted in eight total goals. The Terps picked up scoring from McPartland, Cummings (2), Brooke Griffin, Erin Collins and Taylor Salandra in the period's high-paced opening timeframe.
Duke would later find its way back on the scoreboard with a pair of free position goals from Kerrin Maurer and Brigid Smith in-and-around the eight-minute mark for a 15-9 score but Maryland once again pulled away with four consecutive goals from Collins, Glaros, Griffin and McPartland for its largest lead of the game at 19-9.
The Blue Devils managed one final goal with three seconds remaining to cap the scoring at 19-10.
In addition to Glaros and Cummings, McPartland was also dynamic in Maryland's attack Saturday, posting seven points on three goals and four assists. Collins recorded a season-high seven draw controls. Abbey Clipp picked up the win in the cage with six saves on the day.
"We did a really good job today on the draw," head coach Cathy Reese said. "I thought our midfield played well on the draw, in transition and in generating our offense. It's great to kick off the ACC portion of our schedule with a win."


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This month, a lot of media stories have compared President Johnson's war in Vietnam and President Obama's war in Afghanistan. The comparisons are often valid, but a key parallel rarely gets mentioned — the media's insistent support for the war even after most of the public has turned against it.
This omission relies on the mythology that the U.S. news media functioned as tough critics of the Vietnam War in real time, a fairy tale so widespread that it routinely masquerades as truth. In fact, overall, the default position of the corporate media is to bond with war policymakers in Washington — insisting for the longest time that the war must go on.
In early 1968, after several years of massive escalation of the Vietnam War, the Boston Globe conducted a survey of 39 major U.S. daily newspapers and found that not a single one had editorialized in favor of U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. While millions of Americans were actively demanding an immediate pullout, such a concept was still viewed as extremely unrealistic by the editorial boards of big daily papers — including the liberal New York Times and Washington Post.
A similar pattern took shape during Washington's protracted war in Iraq. Year after year, the editorial positions of major dailies have been much more supportive of the U.S. war effort than the American public.
In mid-spring 2004, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll was showing that "one in four Americans say troops should leave Iraq as soon as possible and another 30 percent say they should come home within 18 months." But as usual, when it came to rejection of staying the war course, the media establishment lagged way behind the populace.
Despite sometimes-withering media criticism of the Bush administration's foreign policy, all of the sizable newspapers steered clear of calling for withdrawal. Many favored sending in even more troops. On May 7, 2004, Editor & Publisher headlined a column by the magazine's editor, Greg Mitchell, this way: "When Will the First Major Newspaper Call for a Pullout in Iraq?"
Today, the gap between mainline big media and the grassroots is just as wide. Top policymakers for what has become Obama's Afghanistan war can find their assumptions mirrored in the editorials of the nation's mighty newspapers — at the same time that opinion polls are showing a dramatic trend against the war.
While a recent ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 51 percent of the public says the war in Afghanistan isn't worth fighting, the savants who determine big media's editorial positions insist on staying the course.
Recycled from the repetition-compulsion department, a spate of new hand-wringing editorials has bemoaned the shortcomings of Washington's allied leader in the occupied country. Of course the edifying pitch includes the assertion that the Afghan government and its armed forces must get their act together. (Good help is hard to find.)
"President Obama has rightfully defined success in Afghanistan as essential to America's struggle against Al Qaeda," the New York Times editorialized on Aug. 21. Yet Al Qaeda, according to expert assessments, is scarcely present in Afghanistan any more. There are dozens of countries where that terrorist group or other ones could be said to have a much larger presence. Does that mean the U.S. government should be prepared to wage war in all of those countries?
Paragraph after paragraph of the editorial proclaimed what must be done to win the war. It was all boilerplate stuff of the sort that has littered the editorial pages of countless newspapers for many years during one protracted war after another — in Vietnam, in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
When congressional leaders and top administration officials read such editorials, they can take comfort in finding reaffirmed support for their insistence on funding more and more war. If only public opinion would cooperate, there'd be no political problem.
But, increasingly, public opinion is not cooperating. While the media establishment and the political establishment appear to belong to the same pro-war affinity group, the public is shifting to the other side of a widening credibility gap.
In a word, the problem — and the threat for the press and the state — can be summed up as democracy.
Now, one of the pivotal questions is what "liberal" and "progressive" online organizations will do in the coming months. Many are led by people who privately understand that Obama's war escalation is on track for cascading catastrophes. But they do not want to antagonize the leading Democrats in Washington, who contend that more war in Afghanistan is the only viable political course. Will that undue deference to the Obama administration continue, despite the growing evidence of disaster and the sinking poll numbers for the war?
A cautionary note for those who assume that the impacts of public opinion will put a brake on the accelerating U.S. war in Afghanistan: That assumption is based on a misunderstanding of how the USA's warfare state really functions.
Under the headline "Someone Tell the President the War Is Over," the New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote: "A president can't stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won't stay with him." That was way back in August 2005.
(The next day, I wrote a piece headlined "Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Is Not Over.")
The war on Vietnam persisted for several horrific years after the polls were showing that most Americans disapproved. The momentum of a large-scale and protracted U.S. war of military occupation is massive and cataclysmic after the engine has really been gunned.
That's one of the most chilling parallels between the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan. The news media are part of the deadly process. So are the politicians who remain hitched to some expedient calculus. And so are we, to the extent that we go along with the conventional wisdom of the warfare state.


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The End of Cloud Computing, is a prophetic presentation by Peter Levine, of Andreesen Horowitz, and required viewing by anyone interested in making the distributed future happen.
His key point: "We are returning to an edge-intelligence distributed computing model that's absolutely thematic with the trends in computing moving from centralized out to distributed," which he illustrates this way:
Later he adds, "We are absolutely going to return to a peer-to-peer computing model where the edge devices connect together creating a network of end point devices not unlike what we sort of saw in the original distributed computing model." Here's a graphic for that one:
I added the face in the middle, because the edge is individuals and not just the technology and data occupying their lives.
Joe Andrieu wrote about this a decade ago in his landmark post VRM: The user as point of integration. An excerpt:
User Centrism as System Architecture
Doc Searls shared a story about his experience getting medical care while at Harvard recently. As a fellow at the Berkman center, he just gave them his Harvard ID card and was immediately ushered into a doctor's office–minimal paperwork, maximal service. They even called him a cab to go to Mass General and gave him a voucher for the ride. At the hospital, they needed a bit more paperwork, but as everything was in order, they immediately fixed him up. It was excellent service.
But what Doc noticed was that at every point where some sort of paperwork was done, there were errors. His name was spelled wrong. They got the wrong birthdate. Wrong employer. Something. As he shuffled from Berkman to the clinic to the cabbie to the hospital to the pharmacy, a paper (and digital trail) followed him through archaic legacy systems with errors accumulating as he went. What became immediately clear to Doc was that for the files at the clinic, the voucher, the systems at the hospital, for all of these systems, he was the natural point of data integration… he was the only component gauranteed to contact each of these service providers. And yet, his physical person was essentially incidental to the entire data trail being created on his behalf.
User as Point of Integration
But what if those systems were replaced with a VRM approach? What if instead of individual, isolated IT departments and infrastructure, Doc, the user was the integrating agent in the system? That would not only assure that Doc had control over the propagation of his medical history, it would assure all of the service providers in the loop that, in fact, they had access to all of Doc's medical history. All of his medications. All of his allergies. All of his past surgeries or treatments. His (potentially apocryphal) visits to new age homeopathic healers. His chiropractic treatments. His crazy new diet. All of these things could affect the judgment of the medical professionals charged with his care. And yet, trying to integrate all of those systems from the top down is not only a nightmare, it is a nightmare that apparently continues to fail despite massive federal efforts to re-invent medical care.
(See The Emergence of National Electronic Health Record Architectures in the United States and Australia: Models, Costs, and Questions and Difficulties Implementing an Electronic Medical Record for Diverse Healthcare Service Providers for excellent reviews of what is going on this area, both pro and con.)
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Doc's insight–and that of user-centric systems–isn't new. What's new is the possibility to utilize the user-centric Identity meta-system to securely and efficiently provide seamless access to user-managed data stores. With that critical piece coming into place, we have the opportunity to completely re-think what it means to build out our IT infrastructure.
Which brings us to Peter Levine's final point, and slide:
That world will be comprised of individuals operating with full agency, rather than as peripheral entities, and concerns, of centralized systems. Which is exactly what we've been fostering here at ProjectVRM from the start, ten years ago.
To obtain full agency, with control over the data and machine power suffusing our connected lives, we will need what's been called first person or self-sovereign technologies. Not "personal power as a service" from some centralized system.
One immediate example is Adrian Gropper's Free Independent Health Records, which he'll talk about on Thursday, January 26, at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. At that link: "Gropper's research centers on self-sovereign technology for management of personal information both in control of the individual and as hosted or curated by others."
For other efforts in the same direction, see our VRM Development Work page.


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L'augmentation de la capacité du pipeline Trans Mountain n'est plus nécessaire selon un nouveau rapport d'expert
VANCOUVER - Les prévisions qui sous-tendent l'engagement de 12,6 milliards de dollars du gouvernement fédéral à l'égard du projet de doubler la capacité de l'oléoduc Trans Mountain (TMX) ne tiennent...October 29, 2020 | BC Office
Halifax,NS/St.John's, NL—A new report released today, Many Dangers of Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) in Newfoundland and Labrador provides evidence about these deals that should make...October 6, 2020 | Nova Scotia Office
October 1, 2020 Halifax, NS—Last night, Halifax Regional Council passed a motion that will make a real difference in the lives of some low-wage workers in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The CCPA-...October 1, 2020 | Nova Scotia Office
(VANCOUVER) While millions of Canadians lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's top 20 billionaires have amassed an average of nearly $2 billion each in wealth during six of...September 17, 2020 | National Office, BC Office
OTTAWA — Three-quarters of Canadians—2.7 million people—who are receiving the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) will be worse off when the benefit ends on September 27, according to the...September 15, 2020 |
HALIFAX and SAINT JOHN—In order to earn a living wage, a person working a full-time, full-year job must earn $21.80 in Halifax, $19.55 in Antigonish, $17.65 in Cape Breton, $16.80 in Bridgewater and...September 2, 2020 | Nova Scotia Office
Thousands of earthquakes near Site C dam and mounting "geotechnical problems" at project warrant public inquiry, CCPA says
(VANCOUVER) The BC government should immediately appoint an independent panel of geologists and engineers to assess the ongoing geotechnical problems at Site C and whether the unstable ground at the...August 11, 2020 | BC Office
British Columbians support continuing COVID emergency housing supports and bold housing policies post-pandemic, survey finds
(VANCOUVER) The provincial government's decision to end BC's COVID-19 rental supplement and to lift the eviction ban for non-payment of rent as of September 1 is counter to British Columbians'...July 28, 2020 | BC Office
OTTAWA—The federal government's role as backstop during the COVID-19 pandemic doesn't end with the first wave of reopening—Canada needs to step up with more investments to ensure a just, equitable...July 21, 2020 | National Office
Survey: Strong majority of British Columbians—regardless of party affiliation—support province's handling of COVID-19
(VANCOUVER) A strong majority of British Columbians across the political spectrum—and throughout the province—support the provincial government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and believe further...July 20, 2020 | BC Office
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OTTAWA––Today's federal economic and fiscal snapshot revealed a $343 billion deficit funded at record low interest rates. According to analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA...July 8, 2020 |
Labour, environment and manufacturing interests unite to oppose proposal by BC's biggest private landowner to scrap log export rules
VANCOUVER — Ottawa must reject demands by British Columbia's biggest raw log exporters that would make it even easier for them to ship raw logs out of the country, say a number of organizations that...June 25, 2020 | BC Office
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 REGINA – Public debates over public-private-partnerships (P3) rarely focus on the maintenance component of these agreements, even though it is this component that is the...June 24, 2020 | Saskatchewan Office
"What does it cost to care?" Long-term care needs $1.8 billion to reach safe staffing levels: report
TORONTO—Ontario's beleaguered long-term care system needs a funding injection of $1.8 billion a year to bring wages and staffing up to recommended levels of quality of care and safety, according to a...June 23, 2020 | Ontario Office


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Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors
(Phys.org) —Have you ever wondered why your laptop or smartphone feels warm when you're using it? That heat is a byproduct of the microprocessors in your device using electric current to power computer processing functions—and it is actually wasted energy.
Now, a team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has made major improvements in computer processing using an emerging class of magnetic materials called "multiferroics," and these advances could make future devices far more energy-efficient than current technologies.
With today's device microprocessors, electric current passes through transistors, which are essentially very small electronic switches. Because current involves the movement of electrons, this process produces heat—which makes devices warm to the touch. These switches can also "leak" electrons, making it difficult to completely turn them off. And as chips continue to get smaller, with more circuits packed into smaller spaces, the amount of wasted heat grows.
The UCLA Engineering team used multiferroic magnetic materials to reduce the amount of power consumed by "logic devices," a type of circuit on a computer chip dedicated to performing functions such as calculations. A multiferroic can be switched on or off by applying alternating voltage—the difference in electrical potential. It then carries power through the material in a cascading wave through the spins of electrons, a process referred to as a spin wave bus.
A spin wave can be thought of as similar to an ocean wave, which keeps water molecules in essentially the same place while the energy is carried through the water, as opposed to an electric current, which can be envisioned as water flowing through a pipe, said principal investigator Kang L. Wang, UCLA's Raytheon Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN).
"Spin waves open an opportunity to realize fundamentally new ways of computing while solving some of the key challenges faced by scaling of conventional semiconductor technology, potentially creating a new paradigm of spin-based electronics," Wang said.
The UCLA researchers were able to demonstrate that using this multiferroic material to generate spin waves could reduce wasted heat and therefore increase power efficiency for processing by up to 1,000 times. Their research is published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
"Electrical control of magnetism without involving charge currents is a fast-growing area of interest in magnetics research," said co-author Pedram Khalili, a UCLA assistant adjunct professor of electrical engineering. "It can have major implications for future information processing and data-storage devices, and our recent results are exciting in that context."
The researchers previously applied this technology in a similar way to computer memory.
More information: Paper: scitation.aip.org/content/aip/ … /8/10.1063/1.4865916
Journal information: Applied Physics Letters
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The online store is now a key part of the smartphone platform value proposition. Microsoft's Marketplace, offering a range of software for Windows Mobile 6.x, has been up and running for eight months. Today, the company announced a new set of policies that will be used for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.
As with Apple's App Store, Marketplace membership will cost developers $99 per year. For this, they will be able to submit an unlimited number of paid applications (with the same 70/30 split as the Apple store and existing Marketplace) and five free applications. Subsequent free applications will cost $19.99 to submit.
Unlike Apple's store, the Marketplace will also include a mechanism to allow time-limited trial modes. Marketplace applications will be able to use a range of business models: free, paid, ad-funded, and freemium (where basic functionality is free, and premium features are unlocked for a fee).
Also published are the application certification requirements that applications must meet to be allowed in the Marketplace. Just as with the Windows Mobile Marketplace, no porn or sexually suggestive content is allowed. Microsoft is clearly seeking to avoid the controversy that Apple faced when it yanked porn from the store.
Microsoft still hasn't committed to offering any alternative way of loading applications. Businesses wanting their own privately developed, privately deployed software will still have to go via Marketplace. Their programs will still be private, but as things stand, there won't be any mechanism for cutting out the middleman.
Though not as liberal as we would like, the rules don't contain too many surprises. A few requirements are irksome—for example, applications are allowed to offer premium (paid) music services, but if they do, they must also offer sales via the music Marketplace—but it's no real shock that Redmond is playing it safe when it comes to porn and violence.
What is interesting is the application submission policy. The current Marketplace charges $99 for any application submission, which is a stark contrast with competing application stores. The new rules are a lot more competitive, but developers will still end up paying if they wish to submit more than five free applications.
Though there are understandable reasons for this—it will discourage mass submissions of junk applications—it's still surprising that Microsoft would choose to erect this barrier, given the company's relatively weak position within the market. Free applications may also have less of a role on Marketplace. Many of the free programs on Apple's store are just cut-down versions of other, paid applications; with Marketplace's built-in support of trials and freemium software, these free programs might not be necessary anyway.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Find out more about Daytripper here.
Posted by Bá at 1:33 PM 2 comments
Labels: comics, Daytripper, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Vertigo
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Daytripper 6 solicitation
Daytripper 6 (of 10)
Written by GABRIEL BÁ & FÁBIO MOON
Art by GABRIEL BÁ & FÁBIO MOON
Cover by GABRIEL BÁ
When life takes us by surprise and makes everyone want to close their eyes, Brás finally gains something he's been waiting his entire life to find. But he would trade it all to know what happened in Rio.
Vertigo, 32 pg, color, US $2.99 - mature readers
On sale MAY 12
Posted by Fábio Moon at 11:05 AM 3 comments
Labels: comics, covers, Daytripper
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Our podcast on the day Daytripper #3 hits
Today, Daytripper #3 hits the stands. We love this issue and now it's on the readers hands. It's on your hands.
That podcast on the previous post, on Alter Ego Comic Cast? Here the updated link with the actual talk. Fun stuff
Finally, also this week I contributed to a 4 page story inside DMZ #50. I liked the story and the idea behind it, and I'm very happy about the way it came out on paper. Also, I now have my name on a comic along with Jim Lee, Dave Gibbons and Eduardo Risso. Wow.
Strange fact: the artwork from Daytripper #3 was finished about one year earlier than the artwork for DMZ.
Posted by Fábio Moon at 9:16 PM 3 comments
Labels: comics, Daytripper, DMZ, interview, podcast
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Alter Ego on the 10th
This wednesday, we'll be on the Alter Ego Comic Cast talking about our past and present work, focusing maybe on Daytripper since it's the same day issue 3 hits the stands. We talked to the Alter Ego folks last thursday, it was a night of heavy raining here in São Paulo, and just until half hour prior to recording the podcast, we had no internet at the studio and we kept wondering if we should go home and do it there. Little did we know that at home, because of the rain, the entire neighborhood was powerless, enjoying a blackout. The internet came back as we were packing to leave the studio, so everything worked out fine.
Posted by Fábio Moon at 3:38 PM 3 comments
Labels: Alter Ego, comics, Daytripper, interview


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The Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project: Providing access to classic scientific papers and other scholarly materials, since 1993. More About: ESP | OUR CONTENT | THIS WEBSITE | WHAT'S NEW | WHAT'S HOT
Comparative Timelines
The ESP Timeline (one of the site's most popular features) has been completely updated to allow the user to select (using the timeline controls above each column) different topics for the left and right sides of the display.
New Left Column
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Thomas Wedgwood conceives of making permanent pictures of camera images by using a durable surface coated with a light-sensitive chemical. He succeeds only in producing silhouettes and other shadow images, and is unable to make them permanent.
First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C.
Painting by Francisco de Goya: The Nude Maja (Spanish: La Maja Desnuda) portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows, and was probably commissioned by Manuel de Godoy, to hang in his private collection in a separate cabinet reserved for nude paintings. Goya created a pendant of the same woman identically posed, but clothed, known today as La maja vestida (The Clothed Maja); also in the Prado, it is usually hung next to La maja desnuda. The subject is identified as a maja based on her costume in La maja vestida. The painting is renowned for the straightforward and unashamed gaze of the model towards the viewer. With this work Goya not only upset the ecclesiastical authorities, but also titillated the public and extended the artistic horizon of the day. It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1901.
Between 1800 and 1803, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt visits Mexico and writes influential accounts of his observations.
Karl Friedrich Burdach coins the term BIOLOGY to denote the study of human morphology, physiology and psychology.
Erasmus Darwin publishes Phytologia declaring that leaves breathe air through tiny pores, sugar and starch are the products of plant "digestion," and nitrates and phosphorus promote vegetation.
Alessandro Volta announces his invention, made in 1799, of the electric battery, also known as the Voltaic pile. It consists of a stack of alternating zinc and silver discs separated by felt soaked in brine. It is the first source of a steady electric current.
William Herschel's "An investigation of the powers of prismatic colors to heat and illuminate objects" tells of his discovery of infrared radiation. While investigating the power of different parts of the spectrum to heat a thermometer, he finds that invisible light beyond the red produces the most heat.
Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president of the United States.
Ireland and Great Britain, England and Scotland, form United Kingdom.
Giuseppe Piazzi discovers first asteroid, which is later named Ceres.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Système de Animaux sans Vertèbres (System for Animals without Vertebrae) includes a classification system for invertebrates and a preliminary view of his ideas of evolution.
The English scientist Thomas Young demonstrates, in his famous double-slit experiment, the interference of light and concludes that light is a wave, not a particle as Sir Isaac Newton had ruled.
The Ohio Constitution outlaws slavery. It also prohibits free blacks from voting.
In Natural Theology, William Paley uses the analogy of a watch requiring a watchmaker to argue that the universe implies an intelligent designer.
Gottfried Treviranus and Jean Baptiste de Lamarck independently broaden the meaning of BIOLOGY to include the study of all living things.
Considered the father of modern scientific education in America, Benjamin Silliman, Sr., teaches the first modern science course (chemistry at Yale) in the United States. Silliman later becomes a founder in 1818 of the American Journal of Science, one of the oldest scientific journals in the world.
Thomas Young's On the theory of light and colors is the first of three pivotal papers describing his wave theory of light.
U.S. President Thomas Jefferson appoints Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the uncharted West. Among the marvels Lewis and Clark are expected to find are erupting volcanoes, mountains of salt, unicorns, living mastodons and seven-foot-tall beavers. They will find none of these, but will find fossils.
US buys large tract of land from France — The Louisiana Purchase.
Painting by Francisco de Goya: The Clothed Maja (Spanish: La maja vestida) is a clothed version of the earlier La maja desnuda (1797–1800) and is exhibited next to it in the same room at the Prado Museum in Madrid. It was twice in the collection of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, also in Madrid, being "sequestered" by the Spanish Inquisition between 1814 and 1836, and has been in the Museo del Prado since 1901.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana territory.
Georges Cuvier suggests that fossils found in the area around Paris are "thousands of centuries" old. This casual observation pushes the age of the Earth well beyond its commonly accepted limits. Cuvier also publishes a paper explaining that the fossil animals he has studied bear no resemblance to anything still living, an unambiguous endorsement of the theory of extinction.
James Parkinson publishes the first of a three-volume work entitled Organic Remains of a Former World. In this volume, he describes fossils as the remains of Noah's Flood. In the next several years, he will recognize fossils as the remains of a world before people, and acknowledge as much in the third volume, published in 1811.
Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure's Recherches chimiques sur la végétation "Chemical researches on vegetation" shows that plants require carbon dioxide from the air and nitrogen from the soil. Earlier researchers had assumed the plants got carbon from the soil instead of from the air.
John Leslie's An experimental inquiry into the nature and propagation of heat establishes that the transmission of heat through radiation has the same properties as the propagation of light.
Britain's Lord Nelson defeats the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. Lord Nelson is killed, but his victory ends Napoleons power at sea and makes a French invasion of Britain impossible.
The field of comparative anatomy begins, with the publications of Baron Georges Cuvier's Lesson in Comparative Anatomy
Pierre-Simon Laplace measures molecular forces in liquids and announces his theory of capillary forces.
The English chemist John Dalton develops his atomic theory, proposing that each chemical element is composed of atoms of a single unique type, and that, though they are both immutable and indestructible, they can combine to form more complex structures.
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The Slave Trade Act 1807 or the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the title of "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". The original act is in the Parliamentary Archives. The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, in particular the Atlantic slave trade, and also encouraged British action to press other European states to abolish their slave trades, but it did not abolish slavery itself.
Robert Fulton develops the first practical steamboat, the Clermont, which sails from New York City to Albany and back.
Thomas Young introduces the concept of, and is the first to use the word, ENERGY.
United States Bans Slave Trade Importing African slaves is outlawed, but smuggling continues.
The US prohibits the importation of new slaves from Africa (but the holding of existing slaves and their descendents remains legal).
Étienne-Louis Malus discovers that reflected light is polarized and introduces the term POLARIZATION.
12 Feb 1809
Abraham Lincoln is born
James Madison becomes the fourth president of the United States.
12 Feb 1809
Charles Darwin is born
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck's theory of evolution presented with the publication of his Philosophie Zoologique, which emphasized the fundamental unity of life and the capacity of species to vary.
ESP Quick Facts
ESP Origins
In the early 1990's, Robert Robbins was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, where he directed the informatics core of GDB — the human gene-mapping database of the international human genome project. To share papers with colleagues around the world, he set up a small paper-sharing section on his personal web page. This small project evolved into The Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project.
ESP Support
In 1995, Robbins became the VP/IT of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. Soon after arriving in Seattle, Robbins secured funding, through the ELSI component of the US Human Genome Project, to create the original ESP.ORG web site, with the formal goal of providing free, world-wide access to the literature of classical genetics.
ESP Rationale
Although the methods of molecular biology can seem almost magical to the uninitiated, the original techniques of classical genetics are readily appreciated by one and all: cross individuals that differ in some inherited trait, collect all of the progeny, score their attributes, and propose mechanisms to explain the patterns of inheritance observed.
ESP Goal
In reading the early works of classical genetics, one is drawn, almost inexorably, into ever more complex models, until molecular explanations begin to seem both necessary and natural. At that point, the tools for understanding genome research are at hand. Assisting readers reach this point was the original goal of The Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project.
ESP Usage
Usage of the site grew rapidly and has remained high. Faculty began to use the site for their assigned readings. Other on-line publishers, ranging from The New York Times to Nature referenced ESP materials in their own publications. Nobel laureates (e.g., Joshua Lederberg) regularly used the site and even wrote to suggest changes and improvements.
ESP Content
When the site began, no journals were making their early content available in digital format. As a result, ESP was obliged to digitize classic literature before it could be made available. For many important papers — such as Mendel's original paper or the first genetic map — ESP had to produce entirely new typeset versions of the works, if they were to be available in a high-quality format.
ESP Help
Early support from the DOE component of the Human Genome Project was critically important for getting the ESP project on a firm foundation. Since that funding ended (nearly 20 years ago), the project has been operated as a purely volunteer effort. Anyone wishing to assist in these efforts should send an email to Robbins.
ESP Plans
With the development of methods for adding typeset side notes to PDF files, the ESP project now plans to add annotated versions of some classical papers to its holdings. We also plan to add new reference and pedagogical material. We have already started providing regularly updated, comprehensive bibliographies to the ESP.ORG site.
ESP Picks from Around the Web (updated 06 MAR 2017 )
New Science
CRISPR-Cas: Bringing precise editing to DNA manipulation.
Old Science
Weird Science
Treating Disease with Fecal Transplantation
Fossils of miniature humans (hobbits) discovered in Indonesia
Science Policy & Funding
Overbuilding Research Capacity: an important editorial in which Bruce Alberts argues that the current funding trajectory is unsustainable.
Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws: Bruce Alberts and others argue that "it is time to rethink some fundamental features of the US biomedical research ecosystem."
Gates Foundation research can't be published in top journals
DNA barcoding shows that restaurant seafood is often not what it seems
Dinosaur tail, complete with feathers, found preserved in amber.
Dinosaurs and Feathers: A Bibliography
Mysterious fast radio burst (FRB) detected in the distant universe.
Colliding stars will light up the night sky in 2022
Big Data & Informatics
Big Data: Buzzword or Big Deal?
Hacking the genome: Identifying anonymized human subjects using publicly available data.
Using DNA as a mass-storage device for digital data.


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Answer questions correctly to get 5 moves on the Chakalaka board. Line up 3 or more vegetables in a row on the board and gain points!
Crossword Puzzle
TLE (Technology and Livelihood Education
Technology and Livelihood Education
V-Pro Components and Fundamentals
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System 1E Review: Steris Low Temp Scope Washer
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Service Types: Lingo
Service Type Crossword puzzle allows for understanding of the different service types and what, "lingo" they commonly use.
Oppo 0320 Training
Oppo training
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sfc training
Jacob Inman Design Cycle
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text: Jorn and I went down to New Jersey on Saturday for a family gathering. It was a wonderful whirlwind and we even managed to squeeze in a trip to the shore before we headed back on Sunday morning. It was two hours very well spent. I just love the sea. Everyone was gone, it was like we had the whole place to ourselves. We wandered the shoreline, under the docks, around the amusement park and gathered treasures, of course. When we arrived back in Vermont we still had sand between our toes. What a delight for mountain dwellers. And, what a delight for a mother of three to have that time with my first born. The best treasure of all.