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The Healthy Aging Practice (Part 4): The Mechanical Side of Slowing Down the Aging Process
Correcting the Leg-Length Discrepancy
By Jeffrey Tucker, DC, DACRB
As we continue to seek the most appropriate plan to help our patients age well, shouldn't we consider including a leg-length analysis in the examination scheme? How can we improve our current pain-elimination, posture-improving, and strength and conditioning practices?
I work with many people in chronic pain; often they have been told their problem is due to "one leg being short." In fact, a "true" leg-length discrepancy is rare and often the real issue is a muscle-length discrepancy. The cause of the apparent leg-length difference can be the contracture of the soft tissues of the abductor muscles. The shrinkage of these muscles can slant the pelvis over to one side, lifting the other leg. The spine must then compensate for the slanted pelvis. This in turn affects all the muscles involved in gait.1
Types / Causes
There are two types of leg-length discrepancies. A structural leg-length discrepancy is the anatomical case, in which one bone may be longer or shorter than the other. Some studies suggest that even a 1/8th-inch difference can be detrimental, especially for the running athlete.3 A functional leg-length discrepancy refers to the result of something occurring in your body, such as a soft-tissue contracture or abnormal joint mobility.4 The treatment for the functional leg-length discrepancy requires our skills as chiropractors to address any soft-tissue limitations.
The most notable functional leg-length discrepancy involves the feet. When a foot is pronated, it is flat (little to no arch integrity), whereas a supinated foot refers to a foot that has an arch. Generally, a pronated foot creates a short leg and a supinated foot creates a long leg. During the normal gait cycle, appropriate amounts of supination and pronation must occur in order to achieve efficient and effective ambulation.
Three areas that leg-length discrepancies affect are balance, overuse injuries and leg strength.2 Maintaining balance and leg strength, and avoiding overuse injuries, are important for healthy aging. Here are a few experimental and observational examples:
Balance: Most patients with a leg-length difference externally rotate the foot on the short side for stability. A person with a leg-length difference compensates for the imbalance of the limbs by extending the short leg or flexing the long leg when standing, rather than standing with weight distributed equally on the limbs. They also elevate the hip on the short side in an attempt to achieve crest balance. This unequal motion will fatigue muscles and produce pain.
Overuse injuries: Externally rotating the foot on the short side for stability causes excessive pronation and weight-bearing on the medial aspect of the foot. Excessive stresses are transmitted up the medial lower extremity. The result is an increase in overuse injuries of medial structures of the lower extremity and medial longitudinal arch. Overuse injuries include greater trochanteric bursitis, iliotibial band (ITB) strain, flexor group "shin splints," anterior tibialis "shin splints," medial ankle synovitis, posterior tibialis tendonitis, and medial plantar fasciitis.
Leg strength: Considering 1/2 cm in leg length a significant difference, eight of 24 subjects met the criteria for participation in a study for determining leg length and strength. The results of this study indicate that it was the shorter leg that was consistently weaker when there was a leg-length difference.
Running continues to be one of the major components of patients' and athletes' individualized cardio, strength and conditioning plans. Here is an example of the effects of leg-length deficiency on runners:
With the above factors in mind and supported by Duvall (2007) and Quinn (1998),3-4 a healthy aging plan designed for these running patients and athletes involves avoiding the following situations or routines:
During the course of an examination, several simple maneuvers may be used to define the biomechanical root of the shortened leg. These are collectively referred to as the Derifield maneuver [see sidebar for details]. Have the patient lie prone on the table and evaluate relative leg length using the internal malleoli, calcaneous, or where the heel of the shoe joins the shoe as reference points. (The base of the heel is not a good reference, as this may not be even due to shoe wear.)
Bottom line: When a patient presents with a short leg, I need to think a little bit. The initial finding of short leg is an indicator of imbalance requiring further evaluation. Derifield is a good starting test and may indicate the root problem, but it will not always tell me what is going on in the spine and pelvis. Scoliosis may cause torsion in the spine and pelvic imbalance. Soft-tissue congestion or adhesions may also contribute to both pelvic torsion and leg-length inequity. Other testing is reasonable and necessary.
It is especially necessary to assess leg length in chronic pain patients and athletes when there is a lack of an acute traumatic mechanism of injury (blunt-force trauma, forced end ranges of motion leading to ligament damage and instability, etc.). The chief complaints are usually pain to the medial side of the shortened leg, or conditions such as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), IT band inflammation, and supple pes planus (flat foot with weight-bearing). I also have seen in athletes the presence of hallux valgus, in addition to medial metarsophalangeal joint irritation with the presence of external rotation with running gait.
Here is one possible sequence of evaluation for "functional" leg-length inequality:
On the other hand, if the patient has bilateral asymmetry at these levels, then an anatomical leg-length measurement is assessed. If anatomical leg length is present (1/4" or more), then I create a lift with a pad in the sole of the shoe on the shortened side, and follow this with a recommendation for orthotics.
As part of the healthy aging strategy, we need to get good at evaluating foot anatomy and gait, and help patients with support in their shoes. Once this is addressed, I follow with movement assessments (overhead squat, single-leg squat, FMS assessments, etc.) to determine functional ability.
Post-Surgical Hip Rehab
After a hip replacement, some people feel that one leg is longer. I find this interesting, as in most instances the surgeon has not lengthened the actual bones. In these cases, both legs are usually equally long; however, the muscles have been compromised or were compromised before the surgery took place.
An example is a patient with osteoarthritis that causes a collapse of the femoral head. The muscles around the femoral head must adapt to the shorter distance and become shorter, too. When the surgeon removes the arthritic hip joint and replaces it with a femoral component of normal length, the short abductor muscles cannot immediately adapt and therefore pull the pelvis toward the operated side.5
In many cases, these patients are prescribed a heel lift. However, I have not found this to be effective and tend to try to treat the muscular system instead. It is important to view the fascial systems rather than individual muscles, as all individual muscles are interconnected in a fascial web. Thomas Myers points out a variety of fascial connections he labels "anatomy trains" in his book by the same name.6
I help patients find positions to relax and un-rotate / de-rotate the body, letting overactive muscles go while working others along the fascial trains. Once the load-bearing joints are in better alignment, and upon palpation of the ASIS and PSIS there is no longer a rotation, elevation or disparity of the ilium, stabilizing and strengthening exercises can be prescribed.
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Flower, My hope is that maybe these places are just waiting to see if apps like us don't bomb in senior yr?? Have you sent your senior fall grades yet (assuming you're still in school)? Do you know how long LSAC will take to process new grades, or should one just send the grades directly to the school??
BTW- does anyone else have 6 or more T1 wait lists? Or have I earned the dubious distinction of champion in this regard? Please, tell me I'm not the BIGGEST WL moron out there, please...though I have the sneaking suspicion that I am (& its well-deserved )..
I got 4 WL's.
Quote from: burghblast on March 28, 2005, 05:03:02 PMI got 4 WL's.You aren't living and dying on your waitlists, though ! And I am jealous of your schools, even the ones that are waitlists.

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Memories of the KBR 4-H Calf Show and Sale in Bassett, Nebraska
When I was growing up, the KBR 4-H Feeder Calf Show and Sale was always held in Bassett, Nebraska, on the second Friday of October. "KBR" was an abbreviation for "Keya Paha - Brown - Rock", three counties in northern Nebraska served by a single County Extension office.
The "stocker-feeders" we exhibited were spring calves. By October, the calves typically weighed 300 to 450 lbs. After the show, they were sold at auction. Most of the buyers were farmers from the Corn Belt whose kids were in 4-H or FHA. As "Baby Beef" projects, the calves gained another 400 to 600 pounds and were exhibited at county and state fairs, Ak-Sar-Ben, the Chicago Livestock Exposition, and other cattle shows, before becoming beefsteak.
I would love to go back in time and enjoy the spectacle of the KBR 4-H calf show again. On show day, every parking place around the salebarn was occupied, and even the road ditches were full of pickups and stock trailers.
Inside the showbarn, each 4-H club had its own area with a sign overhead to identify it. (Our club was the "Rose Scouts".) Most of the 4-Her's were dressed in their western best -- white shirts, blue jeans, and cowboy boots.
A hundred or more calves were tied and made comfortable in beds of straw along both sides of several long dividers . Most of the calves were Black Angus and Herefords, but there were also a few Shorthorns, Red Angus, and Galloways. Very few cross-breeds were shown, until the late 1960's when some ranchers began to use Charolais bulls.
Many of the families had a "show box"--a wooden chest to store all the brushes, hair products, clippers, etc., for grooming their calves. Often, the ranch name and cattle brand was painted on the box. The boxes were placed along the walkway behind the calves to keep the straw in place and to serve as handy seats.
A few kids might shampoo their calves when they arrived at the barn on show day, but the calves who came from our ranch had been brushed daily for a couple months and washed several times in the previous week. My dad had made our calves look even better by smoothing out any rough spots and shaggy hairs with the hair clippers.
As show time approached, everyone brushed their calves so they would look their best. A bit of hair conditioner might be applied, or some hair spray. The hooves were painted with shoe polish, and the long tail hairs were combed smooth and gently fluffed.
When our class was announced on the loudspeaker, we led our calves to the arena and paraded them in front of the judge. I remember this as a very nervous time. I hoped my 4-H cap wouldn't slide off. I hoped my calf wouldn't get spooked and try to run away, and if he did, I hoped I'd be able to control him. I hoped the calf would stand squarely when I prodded his feet with my show stick. I hoped when the judge put his hands on my calf, it wouldn't shy away.
The kids in the Rose Scouts 4-H Club were fortunate. Some of the best Hereford and Angus cattle in the area were raised in southern Rock County, and we had the pick of our parents' herds for show calves. My brother, sister, and I had more than our fair share of champion calves, I suppose. My dad's "Diamond Lazy H" brand is visible on the side of the show-winner I'm exhibiting in the photo at left.
Usually, we showed our calves in an outdoor arena, but in two of my ten 4-H years, the second Friday of October brought a snowstorm. The judging had to be held inside the barn with the doors tightly shut. We coped willingly with the cramped quarters, because a Rocky Mountain wind was whistling outside and the snowflakes were flying like a million arrows.
When it snowed on October's second Friday, the calves didn't sell as well. The farmers from Iowa and Eastern Nebraska listened to the weather forecast and stayed home! But when the weather was nice, the top calves at the show usually brought over a dollar a pound -- enough to show a nice profit in the record book that the 4-Her kept for each calf.
As each 4-H member left the sale-ring with his calf, he was handed a silver dollar by one of the sale-barn employees. I don't know who supplied the silver dollars. The last few years that I exhibited, the bank couldn't get bags of silver dollars anymore, so we were given a dollar bill instead -- not exactly a substitute!
I don't think the KBR calf show is held anymore, due to the gradual depopulation of the Sandhills . The 4-H kids probably take their calves to the county fairs instead.
This morning, I looked at the forecast for my old hometown in Nebraska, and a hard freeze is predicted for the next two nights. "Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the mid 20s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph." Brrrr. But at least, it's not supposed to snow up there tomorrow!


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You have the motor Honda GL Pro? Touch modification Abdul Aziz, modifikator from A1 of Modified Magetan, this may be so inspiring. Aziz claim to imitate Ducati Monster 696 to change the GL 1995 Pro it. The thick Ducati still prominent with 'bones' that extends from the tank to take the orange old seat.
Ducati 696 Monster Tongkrongan envisaged from the tank and Tubular framework. Although the use tralis berdiameter pipe 1 inch longer and also not working in the original Ducati, he may make semirip. Pipes except from the middle of the back is not simply sweetener, but as a task pengnuat body. Are still the front of the default standard.
Inspiration Monster menjelar continue to cover the tip of the stern seat, so make the display a single seater. Unfortunately, finishingnya a little less neat because there is still a rift between the stern seat is made from the fiber material.
So also with the engine cover had to be closed because the kitchen is very small pacunya. Design a rigid, weight-relief under the impression. Despite that, there is a breakthrough from Abdul Aziz to dispose of the channel system.
Note the design knalpotnya. Leg rider can tersengat summer, it has been eliminated with the aluminum component derived from the copy machine. "Inside the machine there is a roll of aluminum tubes and found that it was made because exhaust heat resistant," he said.
Terrible, although it is through travel, knlapot can still be held. although diakuinya sedikir rada warm. Trus, be on the front of the radiator-radiatoran. Mdel for the future, Abdul terinspirirasi same Yamaha MT. The lamp itself is being taken from the Honda REVO.


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Thank Joe Lieberman For YouTube Accidentally Censoring Key Syrian Watchdog's YouTube Channel
from the bet-that'll-stop-terror dept
YouTube sent the Observatory an email on Sunday that said its channels "syrianhro" and "almrsd" had "violated the policy of the site by publishing shocking and offensive videos," the Britain-based watchdog said.Of course, if we're to take Lieberman's theory to its logical conclusion, so long as no one can see the atrocities in Syria, we can all pretend they haven't happened, right?
The Observatory, which disseminates graphic videos on YouTube of atrocities from the bloody civil war the UN says has killed more than 60,000 people, condemned the closure.
"This is the second time in two months that the site administration has closed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights channel," it said in a statement, in reference specifically to almrsd.


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Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge
1. Discuss with your counselor what citizenship in the community means and what it takes to be a good citizen in your community. Discuss the rights, duties, and obligations of citizenship, and explain how you can demonstrate good citizenship in your community, Scouting unit, place of worship or school.
2. Do the following:
a. On a map of your community, locate and point out the following:
1. Chief government buildings such as your city hall, county courthouse, and public works/services facility
2. Fire station, police station, and hospital nearest your home
3. Historical or other interesting points
b. Chart the organization of your local or state government. Show the top offices and tell whether they are elected or appointed.
3. Do the following:
a. Attend a city or town council or school board meeting, or a municipal; county, or state court session.
b. Choose one of the issues discussed at the meeting where a difference of opinions was expressed, and explain to your counselor why you agree with one opinion more than you do another one.
4. Choose an issue that is important to the citizens of your community; then do the following:
a. Find out which branch of local government is responsible for this issue.
b. With your counselor's and a parent's approval, interview one person from the branch of government you identified in requirement 4a. Ask what is being done about this issue and how young people can help.
c. Share what you have learned with your counselor.
5. With the approval of your counselor and a parent, watch a movie that shows how the actions of one individual or group of individuals can have a positive effect on a community. Discuss with your counselor what you learned from the movie about what it means to be a valuable and concerned member of the community.
- Follow Me Boys The story of how one guy starts a boyscout troop to help the town
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- America's Godly Heritage
- One Night with the King The story of Esther
- The Ten Commandments The story of Moses
- The Prince of Egypt Animated
- Spartacus
- I, Claudius
- The Passion of the Christ
- Braveheart
- Luther
- Rob Roy
- Schindler's List
- Zulu
- The Patriot
- Gods and Generals
- Guns of Navarone
- Pay It Forward Based on a novel, tells the story of how Pay it Forward started.
- The Great Escape
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- The Three Musketeers
- Hoot Saving a population of endangered owls
- Fly Away Home An adventure to save orphaned geese
- ROCK and a HEART PLACE Volunteering never sounded so good.
6. List some of the services (such as the library, recreation center, public transportation, and public safety) your community provides that are funded by taxpayers. Tell your counselor why these services are important to your community.
7. Do the following:
a. Choose a charitable organization outside of Scouting that interests you and brings people in your community together to work for the good of your community.
b. Using a variety of resources (including newspapers, fliers and other literature, the Internet, volunteers, and employees of the organization), find out more about this organization.
c. With your counselor's and your parent's approval, contact the organization and find out what young people can do to help. While working on this merit badge, volunteer at least eight hours of your time for the organization. After your volunteer experience is over, discuss what you have learned with your counselor.
8. Develop a public presentation (such as a video, slide show, speech, digital presentation, or photo exhibit) about important and unique aspects of your community. Include information about the history, cultures, and ethnic groups of your community; its best features and popular places where people gather; and the challenges it faces. Stage your presentation in front of your merit badge counselor or a group, such as your patrol or a class at school.
- Sample Presentation (Courtesy of Mr. Jon Norcross)
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From a weight pull list I'm on....
Contact Katherine at Furry Friends Foundation
(312) 397-1001
I've been contacted about a pit needing a new home immediately.
I'm not a rescue person, I'm not at all set up for that, but I don't
mind helping out from time to time. He has until Monday at the
latest, he was abandoned by his owner and the people who have him
are facing eviction if they can't get him out of there by Monday.
The humane society by them euths pits immediately and the only no
kill shelter won't take them. He's an absolute darling, well
behaved, 2 1/2 yrs, neutered, ears done, etc. He has a good weight
pull temperment, trainable and eager to please, and in really good
shape, especially for being solely a pet. He's currently in
Rockford, IL, but I'll be happy to bring him up to the Milwaukee WI
area or any other reasonable location if someone has a good home for
him. I can't keep him myself permanently (my mals would never
accept him) but could hold him for a short time. Feel free to email
with questions.
Pit Bull in need - Rockford, IL
Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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No, I'd hate to call her and find out where the people lived and find out it's one of my uncles properties. My father's entire side of the family minus himself and one of his brothers (my favorite uncle) is a closed-mided group of rejects. Trying to tell any one of them to check out the dogs, they'd tell me to get bent. Hopefully someone gives that doggie a home...
I think it might be this guy . . . sounds like the same story!!
I think it might be this guy . . . sounds like the same story!!
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Law School Admissions / Re: 2010-2011 Application Cycle« on: October 14, 2010, 03:50:05 AM »
I got a few fee waivers in the e-mails prior to the forum, and I got a lot saying if you just stop by our booth then we will give you a fee waiver. University of Oregon said if you come to our table and say GO DUCKS. You will get one and I did and I got one.Thanks for clearing that up. In fact, I did once wonder whether they give you a refund for an application fee that has been paid before they issued a fee waiver. Too bad they don't. Still a little surprised that NONE of the emails I received had fee waivers, but I guess I shouldn't complain about that.
I think a big reason I got a lot of the waivers is I went up to the table of every school I would even slightly consider and wrote my LSAC number down. Then a week or so later I got a fee waiver from a lot of schools saying thank you for stopping by our table etc. Some came months later I was really PISSED ABOUT CHAPMAN. I was waiting to get a waiver from them I waited a month then I spent the 80 bucks to apply and the next day of course I get an e-mail saying thanks for stopping by your booth here is a fee waiver. >:. I asked if I could get the money back answer No. BASTARDS! If you go to the forum you will get some and if you just talk to them they will give it you. I got nothing from Franklin Pierce in the e-mails or anything, but I talked to the lady for a five minutes and then bam fee waiver. A lot of schools were like that you can never get to many fee waivers so just go up to them.


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Here's the latest article from the 12 Step Recovery site at BellaOnline.com.
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South Dakota's Joe Glenn on Kansas Loss, Bye Week
After splitting the first two games of the 2013 season, the South Dakota football team has a weekend off to get ready for the their final non-conference tune-up game, a match-up at Northern Arizona, September 21st.
The Coyotes are coming off a 31-14 loss at Kansas last Saturday, a game that saw USD grab and early 7-0 lead, and move the ball fairly effectively on the ground, with 219 yards rushing.
Head coach Joe Glenn liked the effort of his team overall in Lawrence:
The most glaring weakness for the Coyotes came in the punting game, where freshman Miles Bergner kicked seven times, and a combination of long snapping issues from backup Trevor Bouma and hurried kicks made it an adventure, and helped give the Jayhawks good field position, inside USD territory on three different occasions:
While the Coyotes were effective running the ball, the passing game was inconsistent, with quarterback Josh Vander Maten going 8-of-18 for just 67 yards. USD's offense sputtered after the second quarter, converting just 1-of-9 on third down:
Defensively, the Coyotes held a Big 12 team to just 14 first half points, but between the heat, a lack of depth, a struggling second half offense, and great field position for Kansas, it was too much to ask:
USD is back on the practice field this week, with no opponent for another nine days. But that isn't stopping the Coyotes from looking ahead, rather that looking back:


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Opinion: Colin Powell v. GOP
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on Colin Powell's remarks on Meet the Press tagging Republicans with a "dark vein of intolerance." Photo: Associated Press
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There is nothing like some new toys to cheer you up when things get a bit boring! The G4ILO shack received two new arrivals this morning. Actually there was a third, non-radio addition that came yesterday as well, but that will have to wait for another posting.
I haven't had time to get to know the new radios. The Wouxun in particular is not intuitive and will require some intensive study of the manual. The Baofeng is functionally identical to the UV-3R Mark II but the build quality is much superior - on a par with the Wouxun and favourably comparable to the ham radio brands like Yaesu.
A major plus of the UV-3R+ is that you now get a professional grade drop-in charger. Besides a more rugged-feeling case it also has a metal belt clip - a big improvement over the flimsy plastic one that came with the earlier model. I believe that both radios use Kenwood specification accessories. This will be useful, if true, as I have two Kenwood radios as well. One of the first things I will have to do is find a wiring diagram for the programming cable because the one I made for the UV-3R Mk I has a 3.5mm 4-pole plug and is no longer useful.


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"In today's global economy the internet has become the glue of international commerce - connecting consumers with a wide-array of products and services worldwide," said Senator Orin Hatch (R-Utah) in a statement announcing the bill, "But it's also become a tool for online thieves to sell counterfeit and pirated goods, making hundreds of millions of dollars off of stolen American intellectual property."
Apart from this Utah senator - obviously not a very intelligent man since he doesn't even know the difference between theft and IP infringement - is joined by "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), and committee members Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), Arlen Specter (D-Pennsylvania), Chuck Schumer (D-New York), Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) [and] Senators Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio)". Just so you know what anti-freedom and anti-consumer rights people you shouldn't vote for next time around.
Anywho, Big Content is obviously pleased with this proposed bill. "These sites, whose content is hosted and whose operators are located throughout the world, take many forms. But they have in common the simple fact that they all materially contribute to, facilitate and/or induce the illegal distribution of copyrighted works, such as movies and television programs," said the MPAA's CEO, Bob Pisano.
"The trafficking of pirated American movies and music from rogue websites outside our borders is a big business," said Mitch Bainwol, RIAA chairman, "This bill is a welcome first step toward cutting off the financial lifeline that sustains these illegal operations and threatens the livelihoods of countless members of the American music community."
Of course, bill or no, people could still access sites via IP addresses, and it would be trivial to set up rings of alias domain names - US courts would never be able to keep this up. Also, not all domain registrars and registries are located in the US.
I was going to write something about unicorns, colons, and the act of shoving, but then I came across a very good comment over at Ars Technica by DNick which words my feelings about this proposed bill pretty darn well.
I'm sure our government, which as we've all seen handles civil rights and personal freedoms in the most honest and open of ways, will appoint a purely objective and honest arbiter to decide what is legal and what is not. We can surely trust our government to keep this process free from polical or other inappropriate influence, and there's no reason to worry about a lack of due process when our beloved justice department decides what sites to shut down.
People, a war is brewing. No bloodshed will come of it, but no less dirty it will be, Who's side are you on?
British Lord Camden said it best when he warned for perpetual copyright back in the 18th century: "All our learning will be locked up in the hands of the Tonsons and the Lintots of the age. [...] Knowledge and science are not things to be bound in such cobweb chains."


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Guidelines for the Preparation, Evaluation, and Selection of History Textbooks
The centrality of the textbooks in history teaching has long been established. Texts address different specific topics and educational levels and they also appropriately reflect authors' particular tastes. At the same time, good texts must share certain general qualities, which broadly speaking apply to materials from grade school to college. It is vital to utilize these general criteria, along with other selection preferences, in evaluating the range of texts available at any level.
Textbooks play a vital role in history education, from elementary school through the college survey courses. As in other fields, good textbooks offer a distillation of available knowledge on major subjects in the discipline, with arrangements specifically designed for student use and with writing and exercises geared to the appropriate student level. For any given level, and for any survey subject, good textbooks can and should vary considerably.
Indeed, it is important that teachers have some choice in the particular approaches presented and that they be involved in the process of textbook selection. Teachers bring relevant knowledge and experience to textbook decisions, and should have some chance to pick among several options according to personal interest and commitment.
Accompanying the need for variety in textbook approaches, certain criteria define a satisfactory history text at any level. The most important guideline, from which more specific criteria flow, is the need to make sure that the text contributes to good history instruction.
Factual Coverage
Most textbooks primarily convey factual materials. No matter what the subject, or how large the book, these materials are necessarily selective, involving choices about what relevant historical data to include and exclude. A satisfactory history text establishes what the key selection principles have been, so that users can assess the validity of the choices and also have some awareness of potential gaps. For example, a world history text may downplay certain early periods or geographical regions and still measure up to coverage needs, but the choices should be briefly indicated and explained. In U.S. history, some sequences of presidents are often summed up without great detail; again, this kind of selectivity should be briefly noted and explained. In addition to explanations, adequate textbooks do not select coverage without attention to problems of bias and distortion not only in the accuracy of the materials presented, but in the choice of major topics.
Factual coverage in an adequate history textbook must reflect explicit attention to chronology. That is, it must help establish differences as well as similarities between past and present and it must deal with events and patterns in a sequence of time. For more advanced student levels, chronology must also be presented through discussion of periodization--that is, through discussion of key points of change--so that users can understand the choices involved in deciding on major breaks in chronological sequences.
Factual coverage must be up-to-date in terms of ongoing historical research. Significant improvements in the teaching and learning of history result from the systematic utilization of research-based knowledge. Regular adjustments in light of new research are essential for textbook accuracy and for achievement of necessary balance in group and topical coverage. At least brief indications of possible further reading, appropriate to the user level but reflective of recent historical research, should be included in any adequate history text.
Factual coverage should be balanced, in several senses. It should deal with several groupings (class, race, gender) in order to convey both shared and diverse reactions to key developments. The group experiences should be integrated in the larger analytical framework and narrative structure, not treated as isolated sidebars. It should also deal with several aspects of the human experience (political, social, cultural, and so on) and with interrelationships among these facets.
Appropriate global perspectives are increasingly important in defining textbook adequacy. Obviously, a world history text will have much different geographical coverage from a United States or an individual state survey. In all cases, however, an adequate text will place developments in some wider perspective, so that international trends and forces are given appropriate attention and so that principal distinctive features, for example in a particular national experience, gain some comparative treatment.
Factual coverage, finally, must not be defined by sheer avoidance of controversy. Indeed, an adequate history textbook must treat some topics about which debate continues to occur and must assist readers in balancing an understanding of diverse viewpoints with attention to the historical factor involved. Religion, for example, is a vital aspect of the history of virtually every society and time period. Its treatment must often acknowledge diversity of viewpoints, but the subject must be given appropriate weight for its role in the human experience.
Historical Habits of Mind
Even with a primary emphasis on factual materials, adequate history textbooks must actively encourage the development of appropriate historical habits of mind beyond memorization. Adequate history texts do not so overwhelm with the sheer volume of material as to discourage a variety of exercises and learning experiences. Presentation of data itself must promote an ability to see how historical facts can be used and recombined in coherent written or oral argument.
Textbooks should encourage critical thinking, with sections that help students understand how different kinds of arguments and interpretations can be assessed.
Textbooks should directly include or be readily compatible with primary documents and other materials, so that students gain skill in assessing different kinds of data, judging potential bias, and building arguments from various pieces of evidence. Sections that periodically discuss how historians developed data of the sort embedded in the text itself, and how different evaluations of data figure into historical controversies, will usefully further the ability to understand uses of evidence.
As appropriate to the grade level involved, textbooks should promote the capacity to assess change over time, the causes and impacts of change, and continuities that coexist with change. Textbooks that merely accumulate data, even across time, with no discussion of issues of change and causation are not adequate, even at beginner student levels. In many texts and for many grade levels, comparisons between time periods and/or between societies will also encourage analytical capacity.
In fostering appropriate habits of mind, from ability to develop arguments from data to the assessment of historical change, adequate history textbooks should insofar as possible promote active learning by raising issues and varying the types of information provided. Reliance on passive reception and memorization alone should be discouraged. Textbooks at many levels should provide guidance through exercises, essays, research projects, and other experiences that promote historical habits of mind and the use of historical facts to answer larger questions. No adequate textbook will encourage fact-based testing alone.
Other Criteria
Adequate history textbooks should include review procedures that involve active teachers and research historians. Critical evaluations of textbooks in professional journals should be utilized in textbook adoption procedures. Once adopted, textbooks should be evaluated for their effectiveness in promoting good history learning. Adequate history textbooks should also take advantage of research findings about history learning itself, including information about key student learning patterns and sequential development in history learning capacities.
While it is sometimes appropriate to develop history texts for specialized audiences, many history texts must also be evaluated in terms of their adaptability in various existing school settings, with different resource levels and capacities for supplementary materials. This is one reason that texts themselves must often include different kinds of materials and exercises.
Effective history learning has a variety of purposes. Its most essential goal, which any textbook must promote to satisfy criteria of adequacy, is to prepare users to encounter new data and new kinds of historical developments (including developments in contemporary history) with enhanced capacities for understanding and analysis.
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Loyola University New Orleans political science professor Peter Burns, Ph.D., is considered one of the nation's best professors and is featured in the book "The Best 300 Professors," a recently released collaborative effort between The Princeton Review and RateMyProfessors.com. Burns was one of only three professors from Louisiana schools to receive such a distinction.
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|Justin E of Colfax, Louisiana
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September/October 2013
On 12 August 2013, the FDA approved dolutegravir in the U.S. i-Base reported the news with an article linked to previous clinical trial results that noted not only the potential advantages but also some of the cautions.1
One of the concerns was how the price, which didn't accompany the original company press statement, would be critical for whether dolutegravir finds a significant market.
While pricing is complex, the first indications of where ViiV have set their new drug are not encouraging. Unfortunately, dolutegravir has been priced as a second- rather than first-line option, with a U.S. Wholesale Acquisition Cost (WAC) price of $1175 per month for 30 tablets ($39 per day, $14,105 per year). When used by someone with integrase inhibitor resistance the dose increases to 50 mg twice a day, presumably doubling the cost.2
The WAC is useful for comparison to other HIV drugs. It reflects the price wholesalers are asked to pay for a drug, but discounts are usually negotiated, and the WAC is set by the manufacturer with no input from the FDA. It is the catalogue price before rebates and discounts are given for volume purchasing (and before retail markups and discounts are calculated). This is different to the average wholesale price (AWP) referred to in the U.S. DHHS guidelines.4 AWPs are largely benchmarks used by public and private payers and are calculated by third-party institutions. The AWP can be 20-30% higher than the WAC.
The price is in contrast to the public statements of GSK CEO Andrew Witty who had stressed that pharmaceutical companies are benefitting from modern technology to reduce the costs of drug development and that these savings should be passed on to "customers." He has also stated that bringing a drug to market costs closer to $300 million rather than the more frequently asserted $1 billion and that this is as "one of the great myths of the industry."5 GSK are the major shareholder of ViiV Healthcare (85% vs 15% with Pfizer).
It is difficult to see how this is good news for anyone. The only way dolutegravir is likely to become widely used in the UK -- and many other European countries with national healthcare systems -- is if the discounted price matches current first-line therapy such as Atripla. Setting a price in the U.S. that is higher than both currently approved integrase inhibitors (raltegravir and elvitegravir) is the best way of ensuring that they do not reach patients who need them. Shareholders, in whose name the rational for high pricing is often deferred to, should be furious. By focusing on a high drug price, they are following the approach taken by Gilead when the FDC Stribild was approved last year.6 ViiV risk slashing their potential market even before the medicine reaches the pharmacy.
The potential to use dolutegravir in resource-limited settings, where it is likely to offer advantages over standard-of-care for first-line and second-line treatment, is even more connected to its price. The dramatically reduced cost of ARVs in resource-limited settings is already considerably lower. For example, annual costs are US$130 for an FDC with tenofovir/3TC/efavirenz and US$306 for a combination of atazanavir/ritonavir plus separate tenofovir/FTC.7
The target price for dolutegravir to become a first-line option in resource-limited settings is approximately US$60-70 per year. This is the challenge that ViiV, working with other major organisations that are driving global access to HIV treatment, needs to meet. This low milligram dose, together with a generic formulation and sufficiently large orders, could make this achievable.
|Table 1: WAC Prices for Commonly Used ARVs and Combinations
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|August 2013
|March 2012
|August 2012
|January 2013
|January 2013
|January 2013
|Dual nucleosides
|January 2013
|February 2012
|dolutegravir + tenofovir/FTC
|dolutegravir + abacavir/3TC
|raltegravir + tenofovir/FTC
|raltegravir + abacavir/3TC
|elvitegravir/cobicistat + tenofovir/FTC
|efavirenz/tenofovir/FTC (Atripla)
|rilpivirine/tenofovir/FTC (Eviplera/Complera)
|atazanavir/ritonavir + tenofovir/FTC
* WAC for Stribild minus WAC of tenofovir/FTC, for price comparison only as not currently available as separate formulation.
By not pricing dolutegravir as a first-line option, ViiV have missed the opportunity to radically change the way HIV drugs are prescribed.
Unless subsequent negotiations and discounts change this, dolutegravir is unlikely to be widely used in the UK.
Drug development is futile if better drugs do not reach their potential to improve the lives of people who they were designed to benefit. Premium pricing is no longer a model for drug pricing.
As a guide for comparison, dolutegravir costs more than ten times the cost of gold; at $0.78 compared to $0.043 per milligram. It is hardly compensation to realise that by weight, dolutegravir pricing might be considered modest compared to Janssen's rilpivirine, which at more than $47 for a 25 mg daily dose is just short of $2 per mg. These are uncomfortable comparisons given the demand for life-saving medicines.8
The company says that it is not able to discuss pricing in the UK until after dolutegravir receives approval by the European Medicines Agency, and a decision is expected later this year. However, Marc Meachem, Head of External Affairs at ViiV Healthcare in the U.S., said that prices are set individually in each country and that European prices are not connected to charges made in the U.S. He explained that the U.S. price included two assistance programmes for people who either have no health insurance when dolutegravir will be provided free or who are on low income when insurance contribution (out-of-pocket) charges are subsidised.
However, he also confirmed that integrase inhibitor-experienced patients who required the twice-daily dose will be charged double prices. This seems particularly unfair given how few people are currently in this situation and how this will disproportionally affect those people who are most in need of life-saving options.
ViiV is already in negotiations with a generic manufacturer, in which the company will provide dolutegravir under a royalty-free agreement. Until further details are available it is difficult to comment on the impact this will have in resource-limited settings, as ViiV is unlikely to have any control over the price that the generic company charges.
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However, a post at Eurogamer tells a different tale. A U.S. retailer called eStarland has posted listings for two Fallout 3 DLC bundles. The first bundle is comprised of Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt while the second apparently contains Broken Steel and something called Point Look.
Bethesda has not commented on Point Look other than to say "there are no announced plans for additional DLC beyond Broken Steel." eStarland's official description of Point Look is "Information Not Available Yet for This Expansion."
Who do you believe? One thing's for sure. The phenomenal success of Fallout 3 across the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC can only have Bethesda wondering how it can extract more mileage and money from the rabid player base.
Point Look, not Point Break -- damn. That's a great movie.
Bryn says: I think this is legit. I could only speculate as to what kind of content Point Look would add to the game, as Broken Steel essentially lifts the level cap at the end. Perhaps it'll be something completely mind-blowing like a rudimentary online play mode.
Better still, how about trading items with other real-life players in a busted-up shopping mall? Now I'm getting carried away. Still, if Point Look is anything like "Point Break" then we're all winners.


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Treatment for Stage IV uterine sarcoma
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am recently diagnosed with stage IV uterine sarcoma. I did not respond to my first chemotherapy with Adrimyacin and Cisplatin. Are there other drugs to treat me?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
This is a difficult question. Generally, recommendations for a patient in this situation depends on the type of sarcoma --either leiomyosarcoma, Malignant Mixed Mullerian Tumor (also called carcinosarcoma), rhabdomyosarcoma, etc, as well as the locations of tumor spread. Depending on the type of tumor and the patients' general health, ifosfamide and mesna may be one option, but I would recommend discussion of this in depth with your oncologist and seek a second opinion if necessary. Radiation is sometimes an option for localized areas or for symptom control, but these decisions are all very individualized. At this point, it is reasonable to consider treatment on a Gynecologic Oncology Group clinical trial for persistent uterine sarcoma, which may be available at a local hospital.


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Written for The Collective Review, 1 March 2010
The national newspapers' habit of replacing their retired head theatre critics with columnists and political sketchwriters is pretty worrying for those of us on the bottom rungs of the theatre criticism career ladder, as I pointed out in January, when The Times announced Libby Purves would be replacing Benedict Nightingale in their top spot.
Well, it turns out up-and-comers like me aren't the only ones concerned by the trend: some of the country's most influential theatre critics also expressed reservations about the appointments last Friday, at Theatre Critics In The Spotlight, a panel discussion hosted by The Student Workshop of Royal Holloway, University of London (pictured).
Even before the panel hosts – Royal Holloway lecturer and Variety theatre critic Karen Fricker, and Student Workshop Creative Learning Officer Sheryl Hill – formally posed the question, panellist Mark Shenton – critic for the Sunday Express and daily blogger for The Stage – repeatedly brought up the topic.
In Shenton's view, the trend is a cost-saving measure, symptomatic of the problems facing the newspaper and media industry as a whole. His fellow panellist Kate Bassett, lead critic for the Independent on Sunday, pithily summarised those problems, saying, "Newspapers don't know how to make money any more".
Shenton explained that papers could avoid paying an extra salary by simply adding theatre criticism to the duties of an existing member of staff, adding that editors no longer consider theatre criticism to be a full-time occupation.
Ian Shuttleworth of the Financial Times recalled – enlighteningly, for those of us relatively new to the business – the appointment of former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Michael Portillo as theatre critic for the New Statesman, which he considers to be the beginning of the trend. Worryingly, he also pointed out that his own promotion to lead critic at the FT is the only instance in living memory of a retiring lead critic being replaced by their number two at the same paper – most second-stringers have to defect to a different publication in order to secure a top slot.
Lyn Gardner, critic and blogger for The Guardian, concluded the discussion with this bleak yet matter-of-fact premonition of the industry's future: "I fully expect my job will one day be done by Katie Price".


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hi all
i have just managed to setup my linux box as a gateway for my windoz network
however, i had to manualy type in the iptable commands and these are lost on a reboot
i have tried, very unsuccesfully to have a go at a script, the only one i can get to work is
'hello world'!!
could some one show me how to set a script up which does this, and then tell me where to shove it!! should it go in /etc/5rc.d??
iptables --flush
iptables --table nat --flush
iptables --delete-chain
iptables --table nat --delete-chain
iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface eth1 -j ACCEPT
at the moment i have to be root at a prompt in /sbin to get this going
cheers in advance m


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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla., May 19 (UPI) —
Maybe water really is for elephants.
Beach-goers in Pinellas County, Fla., were surprised to see an elephant cooling down in the ocean over the weekend and a video of the animal standing in the surf has been making waves.
The elephant was apparently at North Redington Beach as part of a birthday party for a 60-year-old woman.
She had received permission in February to have the partying pachyderm attend the event, Bay News 9 reported.
"We could not believe our eyes," witness Todd Unbehagen told HLN TV. "There was a professional elephant trainer there and a couple police officers for the event. It looked like somebody was having a party (private) at the beach house, and the elephant was giving rides as well to the guests."


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Monday November 30, 2009
It was a troubled Thanksgiving weekend for David Hasselhoff and his former wife.
The Baywatch star has returned home after spending two days in hospital, his attorney has confirmed.
Although the reason for his medical stay has not been disclosed, David is "home now and he's fine".
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department said paramedics arrived at the actor's home on Friday morning to administer medical aid and transported a patient by ambulance to Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Meanwhile, David's ex-wife Pamela Bach (pictured in 2005) was arrested for driving under the influence in LA on Saturday night.
"There was no bail. She is fine. She was picked up and driven home by a friend," her publicist has revealed.
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For the past six or seven years, the Chargers have been the best March-through-August team in the NFL. They've been uber-hyped by even the harshest critics, by the Vegas oddsboys, even the East Coasters, who see soft fish tacos under every Southern California palm.
The Chargers have been one of the truly great preseason football teams in history.
But now, while the bar remains high within the organization, outside of it the hype has been lowered to limbo level — even by the Vegas kids (it's hard to find San Diego anywhere under 20-1 to win the Super Bowl). And that's all right. That's how it should be when you miss the playoffs back-to-back seasons.
Under the radar? Only sonar can pick them up. General Manager A.J. Smith, by all accounts, has had a good time of it in free agency, and it appears as though his draft went well. But there are a lot of moving parts to this team — including new defensive coordinator John Pagano, who hasn't called a play in his life — which makes it pretty difficult to praise the unknown.
"The hype's gone; we've done nothing," Smith says. "There shouldn't be any hype when you don't make the playoffs for two years. Praise is for teams that make it all the time. We dropped out in '10 and '11. You don't earn anything in rhetoric.
"We flattened out. So what did we do? We made moves all over the place, even at coordinator. But it's all words now, man. We'll see if we're better. To get to the playoffs, we'll have to get through our division (AFC West). This is a good division, and now one of the greatest quarterbacks has plopped himself down in the middle of it. I just hope Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos don't leave us in their dust."
There are times A.J. is so full of it, it's surprising he can live with himself without pinching his nostrils. That bulge in his cheek is formed by his tongue. He's happy to be back for another year after so many of his adoring fans had him gone following last season's 8-8. And he's pleased to still be working with coach Norv Turner.
"It's not Norv Turner; it has never been Norv Turner," Smith says. "It's me. I believe in my head coach. It's not the head coach. Who gets the players? Me. And this is all about players. We all look at the same players that are out there. Some of us make the right choices, some of us don't. I take all responsibility. Unacceptable."
Smith is right about that. He gets the players. Now he prays for good health and hopes Pagano is the right guy to run the defense. Greg Manusky, fired following the 2011 season, was a 16-game mistake.
Smith said he wouldn't have been shocked if club President Dean Spanos walked into his office last season and canned him. There certainly was speculation both Smith and Turner were gone. But Spanos made the right decision, quite possibly because he might have done worse.
"Dean's let me come back for my 10th year and I haven't won for him," Smith says. "I think Dean made a tremendous statement staying the course, but I don't know how that went over. He's the owner and I have no complaints. None. And a lot of GMs can't say that.
"But I got hired to win a world championship and I haven't done it. In my view, it's not going at all well. When I sit back and assess myself, I'm disappointed. Nine years and no world championship. Five trips to the postseason and five failures, and I don't like it. It's what drives me."
A.J. has not lost his confidence; maybe some Midas has worn off his touch. But there's no question he's become his own toughest critic. He didn't like Marty Schottenheimer one bit. He never thought he could win a Super Bowl with Marty as head coach. But Schottenheimer's history. Smith hired Norv and trusts him. In that the GM's been working since he was 16 and considers Spanos the best boss he's had, the only person left to blame sits in A.J.'s chair.
"I've failed in every single attempt, and that kills me. I hate to lose. Hate it," he says. "Do that and you're a LOSER. Hopefully you get a chance to try again?"
A loser?
"When you don't win a world championship, are you not a loser?" he says. "The New York Giants won the Super Bowl. Call me crazy, but everyone else lost. That's all that matters to me."
Now he looks out from his office window to his players going through involuntary drills.
"One hundred percent participation today," he says. "Wonderful. What does it mean? Nothing. But I'd rather have 100 percent and no issues, which is what we have. I'm proud of these guys. If we can avoid catastrophic injuries, we're going to be OK, because we've got good second-line players now."
And A.J. Smith?
"I'm secure in my own skin."
Hide softened a bit, perhaps, by previously unpalatable humble pie. But you still can use it for the soles of your shoes.


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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 24 Aug 2012
Until this week I had never heard of Aetomylaeus vespertilio. It's such an impressive fish I'm not likely to forget it. As always, thank you to everyone who contributed their images and movies.
Banded Sweep, Scorpis georgiana
Longfin Perch caught off Coffs Harbour
Male Horseshoe Leatherjacket
Orangespotted Glidergobies at Gabet Point
Ornate Eagle Ray, Aetomylaeus vespertilio
Tasmanian Numbfish, Narcine tasmaniensis
Thornback Skate, Dentiraja lemprieri
Western Buffalo Bream, Kyphosus cornelii
Yellow Boxfish, Ostracion cubicus
False Catshark, Pseudotriakis microdon
Greynurse Shark, Carcharias taurus
Tags fishes, ichthyology, Ornate Eagle Ray, Aetomylaeus vespertilio,


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Crime in Rio Rancho spikes by 15 percent
Officials worry over small police force
Crime in Rio Rancho spikes by 15 percent
Officials worry over small police force
Authorities said crime numbers are up in Rio Rancho.
Rio Rancho police said general crime cases spiked 15 percent, while robberies are up 26 percent and burglaries are up by 17 percent. There's also a 70-percent increase in rape cases with nine more cases reported in 2012 than 2011.
"We may be developing a challenge here based on our numbers. Our community is no different than any other in New Mexico. We have been plagued with challenges financially and our ability to hire more officers," said Sgt. Nicholas Onken, with the Rio Rancho Police Department.
Onken said Rio Rancho's police force is 120 officers deep, a far cry from the ideal number of 180.
The city said it is doing the best it can with the manpower it has.


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Housed in the Department of Student Life, The University of Vermont's Leadership & Civic Engagement Programs (LCE) mission is to foster a culture of student involvement, leadership, and learning through hands-on civic engagement.
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Great opportunity to help the Chittenden County Humane Society by making blankets for a variety of critters. Did we mention there will be popcorn and candy?
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Craigslist, the online-classifieds site, is famous for two things: being incredibly popular, and hardly changing at all. So it's not stunning that it doesn't have a mobile app. But it's also not surprising that a bunch of third parties, seeing a market opportunity, have taken stabs at bringing Craigslist to phones.
The attempts I've seen have been unofficial, and while they don't look that much like classic Craigslist, they're also less than elegant. But now a design company called Mokriya, which normally works on other companies' products, has released a Craigslist app, Mokriya Craigslist, for iPhone and Android. Though it's not the official Craigslist app, it is officially licensed by Craigslist, so it shouldn't be subject to any legal controversy.
More important, it's a thoughly slick, modern piece of software — one which looks like what Craiglist might be if it had been invented in 2013 by someone who cared about design. You can easily filter results to any category and any regional version of Craigslist and do searches, and results are presented in a beautifully fluid scrolling feed which looks a bit like Pinterest.
You can also post listings to Craigslist from the app, including photos you take with your phone. That feature, along with the ability to favorite listings and create alerts, are reserved for a 99-cent version of the app; everything else is available in a free edition.
I sort of admire Craiglist founder Craig Newmark's stubborn refusal to acknowledge that the web has changed since the mid-1990s; if his quirky brainchild ever starts chasing after fads, I'll be sad. But what Craigslist has done here — allow someone else to reimagine its interface in a manner which complements classic Craigslist rather than replacing it — is cool.


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UN chief urges Israel to rescind West Bank settlement plans
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is reiterating his call for Israel to rescind its settlement plans in the strategic E1 area of the West Bank.
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey says the U.N. chief is following "with concern" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge Sunday to move ahead with construction of a new Jewish settlement in the E1 area.
The new settlement would deepen East Jerusalem's separation from the West Bank, areas won by Israel in war that the Palestinians want for their state.
Ban noted that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law, del Buey said Monday.
Ban said Palestinian demonstrations, which Israel broke up on Sunday, were largely nonviolent, and he stressed the right to peaceful protest should be fully respected, del Buey said.


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Recover a non working "bricked" Linkstation
Any information how to recover a non working, bricked Linkstation should get here.
Try to Reflash
First see if your Linkstation is on a different IP than you are used to. Use a port scanner. Also your LS may now be on a different subnet than your router you will have to change the subnet on your router/computer to 192.168.11.XXX You could also use a crossover cable to attach your computer directly to the linkstation. Before you try to reflash see if you can open a telnet or ssh session to your LinkStation with PuTTY first, or if your Samba shares are acessable at \\<<IPADDRESS>>
Several port scanners are listed below:
- Angry IP Scanner - http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/
- SoftPerfect Network Scanner - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/
- Nmap - http://insecure.org/nmap/
Reset Button
If you double press the reset button on the rear of your LS (press quickly with a one second pause between successive presses) this will
- Launch Telnet process (on port 1234)
- Start apservd which opens port (udp 22936) on your linkstation. All 3 Windows applications which came with your Linkstation (HD-HLAN FWUpdate.exe, IPSetup.exe and LsBackup.exe) are using this open UDP port to communicate with your Linkstation
- Start your linkstation on a static IP: 192.168.11.150
EM Mode
- In EM Mode your Linkstation will default to a static IP: 192.168.11.150 and open the same UDP port:
If you can get to this point you can try The LinkStation firmware flasher
Firmware Reinstallation
|Upgrade hard drive
|This is generally accepted as the easier way to upgrade your Linkstation's hard drive. Just put your new hard drive in and start at the Connect disk to LS and flash firmware section. The other more involved way is to recreate the filesystem yourself on a workstation, this method is described in this article:Upgrade (or replace) the existing LinkStation hard drive
The following steps can be used to "reanimate" a Linkstation, this is also generally accepted as the easier method to upgrade your Linkstation's hard drive.
Open LinkStation
(see Disassemble the LinkStation)
- disconnect disk from internal mainboard and power.
Remove all partitions
- connect disk to a PC with knoppix via a USB-IDE adapter or directly to the IDE controller. If you change the IDE setting on your hard drive to match it to a "Slave" setting, remember to put the jumper back to "Master" before connecting back the hard drive to the Linkstation
- start knoppix in terminal mode "knoppix 2"
For a USB-IDE connection:
parted /dev/sda
For IDE direct connection:
hda = Primary Master hdb = Primary Slave hdc = Secondary Master hdd = Secondary Slave
So if you used Primary Master you would type:
parted /dev/hda
After this, the commands are the same for USB & IDE direct:
rm 1 rm 2 rm 3 rm 4 quit
- (optional) For Windows users who do not wish to become familiar with Knoppix, Google and get "Explore2fs". When the LS drive is connected to the IDE controller on your pc, this application may allow you to retrieve data from the LS disk and copy (export) it to your Windows drive. You can then use Windows Computer Management --> Disk Management to delete the partitions on the LS drive and continue with the directions as posted here.
Connect disk to LS and flash firmware
- power on LS (Reset button not pressed)
- Using The LinkStation firmware flasher, you could flash OpenLink, FreeLink or the Stock Firmware.
- Open the archive and carefully read the included README file for any specific instructions.
- Disable any firewall(s), including any built-in Windows firewall
- If you are running some virus checker or worm detection software, disable this also
- Make sure the LinkStation and your PC are on the same sub-network. This likely requires that you change the IP address (and probably the subnet-mask) of your PC and router to a different IP address in EM Mode it will have a static IP address of 192.168.11.150 or to connect your PC and LinkStation directly with a crossover cable.
- unpack HD-H*.zip (use the proper firmware for your LS)
- start HD-H*FWUpdate.exe (use the proper updater for your LS)
- press "search", should find Linkstation "EM" (Emergency Mode)
- After finding your LinkStation, press the "Renew Firmware" button, and wait. Have patience, and keep your calm. If you think the Firmware updater is acting strange, do not try to disconnect the LinkStation or abort the update in another way.
- start update, following messages appear:
Settings are being saved Firmware is being transmitted LinkStation Firmware has been renewed Settings are being restored
- if You get the following message You are done.
The firmware has been renewed
- But because the reformatting and partitioning takes too long, the Diskfull LED may blink or you can hear the disk being active (withoug LED indication).
Then you will get:
Attempt to renew firmware has failed
- if so, wait until Diskfull LED goes off or the disk activity stops after some minutes.
- press "search" again.
- start update again.
- after all the other messages You should get this time:
The firmware has been renewed
- After flashing connect your LinkStation up to the network with subnet 192.168.1.XXX the LS is now reachable via telnet and the "old" IP. so switch back IP settings and reenable the windows firewall.
Login to the LinkStation
- Find your LinkStation on the network and Telnet to it with PuTTYtel You will be at the root shell prompt:
telnet linkstation
- set root password:
- change bash to login:
vi /etc/init.d/telnet
- add a new guest user
useradd -m -d /home/guest guest
Be patient as the first boot may take longer than normal.


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Pandan Recipes
Agar agar panna cotta is my way of making a light dessert suitable for a strict vegetarian diet. Agar agar powder is a good gelatin substitute for vegetarians. It's derived from seaweed and is cooked the same way you would gelatin. It's widely used in Asia, especially for making rau câu (Vietnamese jello cake).
This time around I decided to flavor the panna cotta with cherries. I incorporated fresh fruit, cherry extract and a little red food coloring to make the dessert more appealing. We have some very pretty verrines which I used as the molds. It's a tasty summer dessert with definite visual appeal!
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Matcha Green Tea Agar Agar with Sweet Black Sesame Sauce
When I think of Asian sweets, the flavor that comes to mind after mango, litchi and durian is matcha green tea. I love pairing matcha with black sesame; I think the flavors go perfectly together.
Lulu and the girls made a beautiful rau câu birthday cake for my birthday several weeks ago, based on a recipe I posted. Rau câu means agar agar in Vietnamese.
I made a matcha agar agar jello cake paired with black sesame sauce and garnished it with fresh diced mangoes for color. The dessert tastes like a sweeten matcha green tea with a soft jelly texture.
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Meyer Lemon Panna Cotta with Mint Jelly
I think I'm getting addicted to panna cottas. This dish is so easy to make. I still have a bunch of Meyer lemons from my garden and my herb box is already full of mint. As I was pulling the weeds out while gardening, it occurred to me that I could make a Meyer lemon panna cotta with a mint jelly.
My husband loved it. The lemon and mint go suprisingly well together, and the contrast in textures between the jelly and panna cotta brings another dimension to the dessert.
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Israeli Couscous and Lentil Salad with Roasted Red Bell Pepper Gelee
I think Israeli couscous and lentils are a great combination. Lentils are often eaten with rice, and couscous is really just a grain shaped semolina pasta, so it's a perfect replacement.
I added a roasted red bell pepper gelée for texture and flavor. It is basically a red bell pepper and walnut caviar, un caviar de poivrons aux noix in French, that I mixed with a little agar so it would hold its shape when I stack the layer of lentils, bell pepper and israeli couscous in a circle cutter for a nice appealing presentation.
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Rose Panna Cotta with Grenadine Syrup and Crunchy French Pralines
Panna cotta is a very easy recipe. It is as versatile as crème brulée or pot de crème. The base is just a dairy with a gelling agent like agar or gelatin. You can create your own signature version by adding your own twist to it. You can use different flavors like rose, strawberry, pandan, peppermint, mocha or any other savory flavor that you can imagine. It is a true culinary chameleon.
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My daughter and I kidnapped my son-in-law for the day and did a photo shoot of him at various locations. We had a blast! (Thanks for being such a good sport JF! ;-)
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