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n. - Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. 2
n. - The object of watchful attention or anxiety. 2
n. - To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure. 2
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Definitions of nudge
v. t. - To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation. 2
n. - A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow. 2
The word "nudge" uses 5 letters: D E G N U.
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Countless bloom studies now achieve that humans are accepting bigger, and if I may be so blunt, fatter, every year. Over bisected the citizenry are overweight. No best is blubber a rarity, it is commonplace and places an astronomic accountability not alone on those who ache with it, but aswell our bloom system.
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Take a kid outside to play on a sunny day and watch them smile. Take a kid who has cancer outside to Camp Bring It On! and you've just given them one of the happiest days ever!
I asked my friend Dawn, whose nephew died a year ago due to complications from cancer, about the camp.
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Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) is committed to student academic success. Academic Success Center/Tutoring is located in Estrella Hall South, first floor and hosts a wide variety of programs to enhance student success. Drop-in tutoring, appointment-based tutoring, group tutoring, online paper critique through our Online Writing Center, 24/7 online tutoring through BrainFuse, study success strategies tutorials, seminars and workshops are among the programs available to all EMCC students. Our tutors are peer student learning facilitators who are dedicated to working with students in a supportive, collaborative learning environment.
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The first episode of the 39th season of "Saturday Night Live" aired a week after the Emmys and, as such, seemed to take inspiration from the homage to popular television. Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad" made three separate cameos, and the show also featured a parody of Lena Dunham's "Girls."
In the "Girls" sketch, the title characters (including new cast member Noël Wells showing off her Lena Dunham impression, which seemed pretty spot-on when paired with good costuming and a proper Brooklyn backdrop) are joined by a new "girl": an old Albanian woman, Blerta, played by Fey. Blerta, who's had a hard time in life and wears tattered rags, lays down truth bombs as "You are unpaid prostitute? You are lower than dog" to Jessa (Kate McKinnon), who replies with "Thank you! I love your outfit."
Blerta saves her best lines for Hannah, saying things like "You are weak and soft and dressed like baby." One couldn't help but remember last year's Golden Globes, when Fey sarcastically replied "Glad we could get you through middle school," after Dunham thanked her and inadvertently called attention to their age difference in her acceptance speech. When Blerta soothes Hannah, saying "It's okay; you are only 15," when Hannah replies "No I'm not: I'm 24," Blerta blurts, "24? What ... is wrong with you?"
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Aside from the tributes to cable television, the episode embraced its cast changeover since veterans such as Jason Sudeikis, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader departed last season. Fey forced all the new featured players (Wells, Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, Mike O'Brien, and Brooks Wheelan) to dance, wearing shiny gold hot pants, behind her during her monologue, and there was even a game show titled "New Cast Member or Arcade Fire?" poking fun at the fact that the new additions to the cast almost outnumbered the members of the episode's musical guest (which played a bonus mini concert after the regular episode).
Fey was also on hand to help pass the Weekend Update baton to Cecily Strong, who co-hosts with Seth Meyers until he departs from the show. "You be good to her," she advised Meyers, "Because I will be watching! (I will not be watching.) Byeee!"
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Monitoring America
Correction to this article: An earlier version of this article contained several incorrect numbers that have since been updated. The errors occurred because of the accidental duplication of 74 records in a database of over 4,000 counterterrorism organizations that The Post assembled. While not affecting the overall conclusions of the article, the 74 duplications mean that there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working on domestic counterterrorism, not 4,058. Of the total, the number created since the 2001 attacks is 934, not 935.
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.
The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States.
Other democracies - Britain and Israel, to name two - are well acquainted with such domestic security measures. But for the United States, the sum of these new activities represents a new level of governmental scrutiny.
This localized intelligence apparatus is part of a larger Top Secret America created since the attacks. In July, The Washington Post described an alternative geography of the United States, one that has grown so large, unwieldy and secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or how many programs exist within it.
Today's story, along with related material on The Post's Web site, examines how Top Secret America plays out at the local level. It describes a web of 3,984 federal, state and local organizations, each with its own counterterrorism responsibilities and jurisdictions. At least 934 of these organizations have been created since the 2001 attacks or became involved in counterterrorism for the first time after 9/11.
(Search our database for your state to find a detailed profile of counterterrorism efforts in your community.)
The months-long investigation, based on nearly 100 interviews and 1,000 documents, found that:
* Technologies and techniques honed for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have migrated into the hands of law enforcement agencies in America.
* The FBI is building a database with the names and certain personal information, such as employment history, of thousands of U.S. citizens and residents whom a local police officer or a fellow citizen believed to be acting suspiciously. It is accessible to an increasing number of local law enforcement and military criminal investigators, increasing concerns that it could somehow end up in the public domain.
* Seeking to learn more about Islam and terrorism, some law enforcement agencies have hired as trainers self-described experts whose extremist views on Islam and terrorism are considered inaccurate and counterproductive by the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies.
* The Department of Homeland Security sends its state and local partners intelligence reports with little meaningful guidance, and state reports have sometimes inappropriately reported on lawful meetings.
Counterterrorism on Main StreetIn cities across Tennessee and across the nation local agencies are using sophisticated equipment and techniques to keep an eye out for terrorist threats -- and to watch Americans in the process. Launch Gallery »
The need to identify U.S.-born or naturalized citizens who are planning violent attacks is more urgent than ever, U.S. intelligence officials say. This month's FBI sting operation involving a Baltimore construction worker who allegedly planned to bomb a Maryland military recruiting station is the latest example. It followed a similar arrest of a Somali-born naturalized U.S. citizen allegedly seeking to detonate a bomb near a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore. There have been nearly two dozen other cases just this year.
"The old view that 'if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won't have to fight them here' is just that - the old view," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told police and firefighters recently.
The Obama administration heralds this local approach as a much-needed evolution in the way the country confronts terrorism.
However, just as at the federal level, the effectiveness of these programs, as well as their cost, is difficult to determine. The Department of Homeland Security, for example, does not know how much money it spends each year on what are known as state fusion centers, which bring together and analyze information from various agencies within a state.
The total cost of the localized system is also hard to gauge. The DHS has given $31 billion in grants since 2003 to state and local governments for homeland security and to improve their ability to find and protect against terrorists, including $3.8 billion in 2010. At least four other federal departments also contribute to local efforts. But the bulk of the spending every year comes from state and local budgets that are too disparately recorded to aggregate into an overall total.
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Since 2000, homeownership rates in the U.S. have hovered around 66% to 67% of the population. In 1900, less than half of Americans owned their own home. The biggest surge in home buying came after World War II, when many young families were encouraged to buy a "starter home". (To learn more, see Top Tips For First-Time Home Buyers.)
IN PICTURES: Financing For First-Time Homebuyers
Attitudes about how to buy a home have fluctuated as much as interest rates during the decades since World War II, and eventually many first-time homebuyers were encouraged to "buy big", in order to stretch their budgets as much as possible, and buy the home they wanted to live in forever. Given the high level of foreclosures and the loss of value in many homes, today's buyers are more wary of taking on a home they cannot afford, but many are still tempted to make their first home purchase their dream home rather than their starter home.
A recent Coldwell Banker Real Estate Brokerage survey of their brokers revealed that while affordability was the number one concern of first-time homebuyers, 81% of those buyers consider move-in conditions very important when moving into a home. Only 7% were considering buying a fixer-upper.
Jim Gillespie, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker was quoted as part of the survey, saying, "In the past, first-time homebuyers were willing to purchase older, more basic houses in an effort to save money and break into homeownership. It is important for first-time homebuyers to remember that by considering a fixer-upper for their first home purchase, they can build equity over time and later move up and into their second-stage home that better reflects their expectations." (Read more, in 4 Types Of Home Renovation: Which Ones Boost Value?)
The Economy and Your Home
Personal finance writer Liz Pulliam Weston describes four economic changes that should discourage buyers from overspending on their house payment:
- Inflation
Rising prices, while hard on the household budget, usually came along with substantial annual raises. These days, homebuyers cannot count on a significant raise to make their housing payments easier to handle.
- Two-Income Couples
Weston says that when more families had a single wage earner, the other spouse could go to work to pay for the house if they were in financial trouble. Today, most households have two workers and that double-income is needed to make the mortgage payment. Consider trying to base your budget on one income or perhaps one and one-half an income to make sure your housing payment will still be affordable if one spouse stops working.
- Lenders
Thirty years ago, it was very difficult to qualify for a loan for more than was easily affordable, but as lending practices changed, mortgages qualifications became looser. Standards have tightened today, but lenders will always give borrowers the maximum amount they qualify for - not necessarily what they should spend.
- Retirement
Thirty years ago and more, most people had their retirement covered by a pension and could count on Social Security. Today, retirement savings are more typically individually funded in 401(k)s and IRAs that come directly from your budget. Each of these changes suggests that today's homebuyers should be shrinking their housing budget rather than expanding it, making sure that they can comfortably keep up with their payments, pay down their principal and build equity in their property.
IN PICTURES: 7 Smart Steps Every New Homeowner Should Take
Calculating Your Housing Budget
Lenders will qualify you for a loan based on your credit score, your debt-to-income ratio, income and assets and your employment history. But each potential buyer should do their own calculation to determine their comfort level with a budget. While lenders these days generally prefer to limit housing expenses (principal, interest, taxes and homeowners insurance) to 28% of the borrowers' monthly gross income, each individual should think about their own spending habits.
A lot depends on your other debts and anticipated income and expenses. Most lenders prefer to keep total debt to income (including all the minimum payments on revolving debt or other loans such as auto or student loans) to less than 36% of your gross income; although under some circumstances this can rise to 40% or even 45%. (To learn more, see Too Much Debt For A Mortgage?)
Make sure to budget about 1% to 3% of the home value for future repairs and maintenance, since those costs can quickly derail your budget.
Most homeowners should plan to stay in their home for five to seven years, so consider what may change in those years. If you plan to have children and may want to have one parent work less, your income could drop. If you enjoy golf or travel or skiing, you need to factor that into your budget or decide if you are willing to reduce your spending in that area. If you work on commission or overtime or as a freelancer, make sure you base your budget on a low-end year rather than a high-earning year in case your income drops. On the other hand, you can consider increasing your housing spending if your retirement is fully funded, you are debt-free and you anticipate a guaranteed increase in income.
The Bottom Line
While no one can predict with accuracy whether or by how much home values will increase in future years, purchasing a home you can afford and building equity by paying down the principal are the surest ways to get started climbing the property ladder. (For pitfalls to avoid, check out the 10 Worst First-Time Homebuyer Mistakes.)
Find out what happened in financial news this week, with Water Cooler Finance: The New iPod And The Roller Coaster Market.


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Taylor Swift Up for Role in New 'Les Miserables' Film
According to reports, Taylor Swift is on a list of females potentially suited to fill the role of Eponine in the new big screen adaptation of 'Les Miserables,' as directed by Oscar winner Tom Hooper. A source close to the film claims that Swift has even auditioned already.
Just because the 'Mean' singer's big name is in the hat doesn't mean she's a shoe-in, though — Swift is up against seasoned actresses Scarlett Johansson and Evan Rachel Wood, as well as 'Glee' famer Lea Michele, for the part. Michele already has a leg up on the competition, being that she portrayed Young Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, and an unnamed source says she "knocked it out of the park" during her audition for the flick.
Added the source, "Scarlett brings acting ability, and she can really sing," while "Evan Rachel Wood brings her indie cred." Should Swift be asked to sign on to the script, she may feel right at home on a movie set, given the heavy theatrics involved in her recent live concerts.
Many other parts in the 'Les Miserables' film have already been filled; the roster includes Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne and Geoffrey Rush, among others.


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Edinburgh have bolstered their second-row resources with the signing of Cheetahs second-row Izak van der Westhuizen on a two-year deal.
The lock has played in all 12 of the Cheetahs' Super Rugby games this season and will play alongside the likes of Sean Cox, Grant Gilchrist and Steven Turnbull next term. Van der Westhuizen will arrive at Murrayfield in October due to the Currie Cup and has highlighted Edinburgh's style of rugby as one reason behind him opting to swap Super Rugby for the RaboDirect PRO12.
"I want to test myself against the top players in Europe so when I found out Edinburgh Rugby were looking for a player with my skill-set, I was desperate to sign," van der Westhuizen said. "I like the pace the boys play with, it's very similar to a Super Rugby style which gives me a lot of confidence that I'll fit in well.
"I run the set-piece for the Cheetahs but, when the ball's in play, I like to be in the centre of the park getting stuck into the physical side of the game and hitting rucks."
Van der Westhuizen's signing follows in the footsteps of WP Nel, Ben Atiga, John Yapp and Richie Rees in signing for the Heineken Cup semi-finalists and coach Michael Bradley is looking forward to the squad pushing on next term.
"Over the course of this season we have been putting the right building blocks in place to tackle what is arguably the most eagerly anticipated season in the club's history," Bradley said. "Reaching the Heineken Cup semi-final set the benchmark for our players' performance so we have recruited and retained a number of key players to bring consistency to our season and set a new standard for Edinburgh Rugby.
"The increased investment in our squad from Scottish Rugby will not only intensify the competition for places but means we will be on a much stronger footing to compete on all fronts, all season."
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Topper wrote:My sister had a couple of Korean students for a while. My sister inlaw has a Japanese girl at her place (I think its the second one she's had there). I haven't heard of any problems.CFP! wrote:Anyone have experience in having intl students as home-stays? We live super close to a university in Colwood and have applied with our only exp being visiting other families with students. We were told to avoid E. European and students from the middle east.....
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They try to entertain them a bit with sightseeing and the odd excursion, but they also have their work/family schedules and the exchange students have their schedules. Meals and a bedroom and your set. In both cases it helped that my sister and my sister inlaw have teen age kids that help out with socializing.
Yah, we aren't too worried about it. We will be housing either Japanese/Chinese or Korean. Not sure where my preference lies at this point but it looks as though we will get a sack of balls. Thats ok, wifey no likey, haha
We have two other students on our street so we are hoping he/she will be over there most of the time so he/she doesn't take up my man room kitchen. haha In all seriousness we aren't doing it bcs we need moola etc, but having the moola and saving the rec room and kitchen plus the moola means we dont have to rent to some creepy fellow or lady with cats.


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A "Star Wars" fan has made a video game that lets players throw virtual objects with their minds, but he's having trouble selling it because people don't believe it works.
"One blogger that I reached out to accused me of fabricating the entire thing," said Lat Ware, a 28-year-old game developer in Sunnyvale, Calif.
But Ware assures us that "Throw Trucks With Your Mind!," the game he is trying to fund on Kickstarter, is no hoax.
Ware let VentureBeat test the game, and after the demo, the tech website's reporter proclaimed he was a Jedi Master. There is also video of a very early version of the game in action with clips of people playing and their reactions.
"The game really speaks for itself once you play it," he said.
The game is much like a first-person shooter with users controlling movements with their computer keyboard and mouse, Ware said. But when it comes time to throw objects, players use a NeuroSky headset that measures users' brainwaves. The more focused players get, the better control they'll have over the objects they're trying to move.
"It's a learnable skill, people get better at it," he said, adding that after two hours of playing, most players are able to throw as many as three objects at the same time.
Ware said he was introduced to neuro feedback therapy technology as a child when he took the therapy for his attention-deficit disorder. He followed the technology, and when NeuroSky announced consumer versions of their headsets, Ware decided to combine the technology with his background in game development and love for "Star Wars."
[For the record, 2:12 p.m. March 5: An earlier version of this post incorrectly said Ware was introduced to NeuroSky as a child.]
"I wanted to make the ultimate Jedi game," he said.
The game is entertaining, but Ware said it also has therapeutic benefits for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression.
"This is actual neuro feedback therapy, it's just wrapped up into awesome competitive multiplayer," he said. "The therapy only works if people want to do it, and people want to crush people with their minds."
To get the game and a NeuroSky headset, users must pledge at least $125. If funded, Ware is promising the game, which will work with Windows and Mac OS X, will come out one year from now at the latest or as early as six months from now if everything goes perfectly.
But with less than two weeks to go before the funding period expires, Ware's project has only raised about $21,000, far short of the funding goal of $40,000.
Ware admits he's feeling the pressure, but he plans to add more Kickstarter rewards besides giving away the game and the headset and keep campaigning to get more funds.
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text: At 00:29 4-2-2005 -0800, Bill Broadley wrote: >On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:53:27AM +0100, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> Good morning! >> >> With the intention to run my chessprogram on a beowulf to be constructed >> here (starting with 2 dual-k7 machines here) i better get some good advice >> on which network to buy. Only interesting thing is how fast each node can >> read out 64 bytes randomly from RAM of some remote cpu. All nodes do that >> simultaneously. > >Is there any way to do this less often with a larger transfer? >If you >wrote a small benchmark that did only that (send 64 bytes randomly >from a large array in memory) and make it easy to download, build, run, >and report results, I suspect some people would. One way pingpong with 64 bytes will do great. Shared memory examples i have plenty, but one way pingpong approaches it excellent. Just multiply the time with 2 and one knows the bound :) >> The faster this can be done the better the algorithmic speedup for parallel >> search in a chess program (property of YBW, see publications in journal of >> icga: www.icga.org). This speedup is exponential (or better you get >> punished exponential compared to single cpu performance). >> >> Which network cards considering my small budget are having lowest latencies >> can be used? > >Define small budget. For more than 2 nodes myrinet needs a switch. >Do you expect to be totally network latency bound? How low is enough >to keep the processors busy? CPU's are 100% busy and after i know how many times a second the network can handle in theory requests i will do more probes per second to the hashtable. The more probes i can do the better for the game tree search. >> quadrics/dolphin seems bit out of pricerange. Myrinet is like 684 euro per >> card when i altavista'ed online and i wonder how to get more than 2 nodes >> to work without switch. Perhaps there is low cost switches with reasonable >> low latency? >Do you know that gigabit is too high latency? The few one way pingpong times i can find online from gigabit cards are not exactly promising, to say it very polite. Something in the order or 50 us one way pingpong time i don't even consider worth taking a look at at the picture. Each years cpu's get faster. For small networks 10 us really is the upper limit. >Can't you send enough >work, like say search 3 moves ahead on the head node, then for each legal >move send that search tree to a different node? Each node would reply with >the highest ranked moves when done. Let's not discuss parallel chess algorithm too much in depth. 100 different algorithms/enhancements get combined with each other. They are not the biggest latency problem. The latency problem is caused by the hashtable. Hashtable is a big cache. The bigger the better. It avoids researching the same tree again. In games like chess and every search terrain (even simulated flight) you can get back to the same spot by different means causing a transposition. Like suppose you start the game with 1.e4,e5 2.d4 that leads to the same position like 1.d4,e5 2.e4. So if we have searched already 1.e4,e5 2.d4 that position P we store into a large cache. Other cpu's first want to know whether we already searched that position. Those hashtable positions get created quite quickly. Deep Blue created them at a 100 million positions a second and simply didn't store vaste majority in hashtable (would be hard as it was in hardware). That's one of the reasons why it searched only 10-12 ply, already in 1999 that was no longer spectacular when 4 processor pc's showed up at world champs. At a PC with a shared hashtable nowadays i get 10-12 ply (ply = half move, full move is when both sides make a move) in a few seconds, searching a 100000 positions per second a cpu. So before we start searching every node (=position) we quickly want to find out whether other cpu's already searched it. At the origin3800 at 512 processors i used a 115 GB hashtable (i started search at 460 processors). Simply because the machine has 512GB ram. So in short you take everything you can get. The search works with internal iterative deepending which means we first search 1 ply, then 2 ply, then 3 ply and so on. The time it takes to get to the next iteration i hereby define as the branching factor (Knuth has a different definition as he just took into account 1 algorithm, the 'todays' definition looks more appropriate). In order to search 1 ply deeper obvious it's important to maintain a good branching factor. I'm very bad in writing out mathematical proofs, but it's obvious that the more memory we use, the more we can reduce the number of legal moves in this position P as next few ply it might be in hashtable, which trivially makes the time needed to search 1 ply deeper shorter. Storing closer to the root (position where we started searching) is of course more important than near the leafs of the search tree. When for example not storing in hashtable last 10 ply near the leafs in an overnight experiment the search depth dropped at 460 processors from 20 ply to 13 ply. Of course each processor of supercomputers is deadslow for game tree search (it's branchy 100% integer work completely knocking down the caches), so compared to pc's you already start at a disadvantage of a factor 16 or so very quickly, before you start searching (in case of TERAS i had to fight with outdated 500Mhz MIPS processors against opterons and high clocked quad Xeons), so upgrading my own networkcards is more clever. Yet getting yourself a network even between a few nodes as quick as those supercomputers is not so easy... Additional your own beowulf network you can first decently test at before playing at a tournament, and without good testing at the machine you play at in tournaments you have a hard 0% chance that it plays well. The only thing in software that matters is testing. >-- >Bill Broadley >Computational Science and Engineering >UC Davis


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VERGENNES/LEICESTER — Vergennes police on Tuesday — with a major assist from Vermont State Police — arrested three people in Leicester and charged them with selling heroin after finding more than 350 bags of the drug, $3,670 of cash, marijuana, and a stolen firearm at a Fern Lake Road home.
Police said the street value of each bag ranged from $20 to $30 per bag, meaning the street value of the drug seized by police on Wednesday ranged from $7,000 to $10,500.
BRISTOL — At Monday's Bristol selectboard meeting, the board voted to submit a letter protecting the town's interests to the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) concerning Vermont Gas Systems' proposed pipeline project.
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Board chairwoman Tara Brooks said on Tuesday the board would hold a special meeting during the second week of January to make final a plan that would increase spending by about $190,000.
She said the board will probably adopt what they looked at on Monday.
"We're pretty confident of where we are now in terms or our numbers," Brooks said.
ADDISON COUNTY — Between October's bow season and December's combined bow and muzzleloader season, Addison County weigh stations handled 346 deer — 183 killed by arrows and 163 shot with muzzleloader rifles.
The muzzleloader total is an estimate because game wardens conducting an investigation took a book with several names of successful hunters from Starksboro's Jerusalem Country Store; the overall county number is therefore also an estimate, but is certainly accurate within a few deer.
ADDISON COUNTY — If you ask Reed Prescott, surviving the recession has been simple — you just have to be an artist.
"We're the only ones that could handle it, because we were used to not having money," Prescott said.
MIDDLEBURY — It's not unusual for bakers to engage in a little hyperbole when promoting their products.
But when Rachel Wollum claims her cookies are "simply divine," one can hardly accuse her of stretching the truth.
Not only do Rachel's cookies taste heavenly, they are baked with love in the basement kitchen of Middlebury's St. Mary's Catholic Elementary School.
BRISTOL — Balancing acts, tumbles across the floor, jumping, hopping and juggling tricks galore — a performance of Cirque du Soleil?
No, the first performance of "Cirque du Bristol," the Bristol Elementary School's school-wide holiday performance, which was performed by 300 Bristol students Monday at Mount Abraham Union High School.
BRANDON — Like the rest of the nation, Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent John Castle is still reeling from news of the unthinkable school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last Friday that killed 26, including 20 first-graders.
"This is one of those things that shakes you to the core," Castle said of the massacre, where six adults including the school's principal were also killed. "It's your worst nightmare as an educator."
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By IBREA Member Drew Hinkes
July 29th, 2014
Imagine a world where specific performance of contracts is no longer a cause of action because the contracts themselves automatically execute the agreement of the parties. Or where escrow agents are replaced by rule- and software-driven technology. Imagine instantaneous recording of property records, easements and deeds. Imagine a world where an auto owner who is late on his payment will be locked out of his car. While these scenarios may seem to come from a futuristic fantasy world, innovations offered by the Bitcoin 2.0 generation of technology may create a world where these seeming marvels are an every-day occurrence, and technology renders some contract causes of action obsolete.
Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are powered by blockchain technology, which maintains and verifies all transactions in that virtual currency through a massive, publically available ledger. The transparency created by the blockchain eliminates the need for trusted third parties, like credit card processors or banks, to take part in these transactions. Because anyone can see the transactions, virtual currency cannot be transferred to more than one party, or "double spent," which is a key feature that preserves the integrity of the blockchain system. This same blockchain technology can be purposed to facilitate, verify and enforce the terms of agreements automatically without the need for human interaction using what are termed "smart contracts."
The blockchain, of course, cannot physically enforce a contract, or actually compel a person or entity to do anything. Instead, the blockchain can be used to enforce certain pre-determined rules that can move an asset from person to person by agreement. Ownership of goods could be associated with a specialized coin, which can be transferred between parties along with payment in a virtual currency system, or in a specialized implementation of blockchain technology.
Examining a simple real estate transaction can demonstrate how smart contracts could drastically alter the way business is conducted. Presently, Party A and Party B would enter into a contract that requires Party A to pay $200,000.00 to Party B in exchange for Party B agreeing to convey title to Party B's condominium unit to Party A upon receipt of payment. If Party A pays the money, but Party B later refuses to convey title, Party A is required to hire an attorney to seek specific performance of that contract, or to obtain damages. The determination of the outcome will be made by a third party- a judge, jury, or arbitrator.
Using a smart contract, however, avoids the potential for one party to perform while the other refuses or fails to perform. Using a smart contract, Party A and Party B can agree to the same transaction, but structure it differently. In this scenario, Party A will agree to pay $200,000.00 worth of virtual currency to Party B, and Party B will agree to transmit the title to the condominium in a specialized type of coin on the blockchain. When Party A transfers the virtual currency to Party B, this action serves as the triggering event for Party B, which then automatically sends the specialized coin which signifies the title to the condominium at issue to Party A. The transfer is then complete, and Party A's ownership of the condominium is verifiable through a publically available record on the blockchain.
Structuring this transaction as a smart contract ensures that the transfer occurs as soon as funds are received, and results in a publically available, verifiable record of the transfer. Because the contract automatically performs based upon the predetermined rules agreed to by the parties to the contract, there is little risk of fraud, and virtually no need for external measures to enforce performance of the agreement. Thus, no specific performance action would ever be necessary to compel the transfer after payment is made because the coin, which represents title to the condominium, is automatically transferred, and the transfer is automatically published, to third parties on the blockchain.
Similar structures to the example above have already been proposed for other forms of transactions, including voting, distributed peer-to-peer transfer of financial instruments, decentralized arbitration of legal disputes, smart property, and smart leasing, among others. While smart contracts like the one described above may yet be on the horizon, technology developers leveraging the power of blockchain technology may find themselves drastically altering contract law, and reducing the need for lawyers to bring certain claims in the future.


text: Toon Knapen wrote: > Hi all, > > Because the performance of our (parallel) applications is dependent on > the disk IO bandwidth, we would like to advise our customers to run a > 'well known' benchmark to evaluate their disk performance (before > questioning the peformance of our soft;-). > > Now my question is: what is the 'de facto' standard of disk benchmarks > that can be run on a variety of platforms? Would running some sort of benchmark really help you (or the customer) only because it is well known? I/O performance depends very much on the access style and pattern, and the numbers that a benchmark delivers do not necessarily reflect what your applications really do. However, if you let us know what kind of I/O your applications perform, we might be able to recommend a benchmark with a similar access pattern. Or take a look at 'filebench' (http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/tools/filebench/index.php) which allows you to create custom "I/O profiles". Joachim -- Joachim Worringen - NEC C&C research lab St.Augustin fon +49-2241-9252.20 - fax .99 - http://www.ccrl-nece.de


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SOURCE: Atossa Genetics
February 04, 2013 10:58 ET
Atossa Genetics' New 'Pap Smear for the Breast' Test Can Spot Signs of Precancerous Changes Long Before Cancer Occurs, Helping to Protect These Women From Cancer
Atossa Genetics' New 'Pap Smear for the Breast' Test Can Spot Signs of Precancerous Changes Long Before Cancer Occurs, Helping to Protect These Women From Cancer
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Feb 4, 2013) - Atossa Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS) announced that its new ForeCYTE Breast Health System addresses the problem of detecting not only cancer, but also the early cellular changes that lead to cancer, in women with dense breasts.
Numerous studies have shown that women with denser breast tissue, and thus more gland tissue and less fatty tissue, are at higher risk for breast cancer. Moreover, as the American Cancer Society (ACS) explains, "Dense breast tissue can also make it harder for doctors to spot problems on mammograms." (ACS Guidelines.)
This is why five states -- California, Texas, New York, Connecticut and Virginia -- have passed legislation requiring that women whose mammograms show dense breasts must be notified of this fact, and several other states and the U.S. Congress are considering such legislation. For instance, the New York law, which took effect January 19, 2013, states that mammography patients with dense breasts must be told: "Your mammogram shows that your breast tissue is dense. Dense breast tissue is very common and is not abnormal. However, dense breast tissue can make it harder to find cancer on a mammogram and may also be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer."
One key study highlights those risks. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco examined aspirated fluid from the breasts of 2,700 women between the ages of 25 to 65. This fluid contains duct cells, which are responsible for more than 90 percent of breast cancers. The study found that women with dense breasts were more than four times more likely than women without dense breasts to have a condition called atypical hyperplasia -- in which the cells seem to grow too quickly and pile up on each other. These atypical cells represent the first steps on the path to cancer. As a result, spotting these cells is not only key to detecting the risk of cancer in these women; it also opens the door to treating the condition and halting the progression to cancer.
"It is vital that we understand the limits of mammography and give women a better test -- one that is capable of detecting the earliest signs of precancer," said Steven C. Quay, M.D., Ph.D., FCAP, Atossa Genetics' Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.
In January, Atossa Genetics launched such a diagnostic: the ForeCYTE Breast Health Test. The test, cleared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, uses a breast pump called the Mammary Aspirate Specimen Cytology Test (MASCT) to painlessly collect miniscule amounts of fluid from the milk ducts in women's breasts, analyzes the duct cells for hyperplasia and other abnormalities, and analyzes for genetic mutations.
In essence, this test is like a Pap smear for cancer, spotting the earliest cellular warnings up to eight years before cancer can be detected by any other method. Women with dense breasts, therefore, could be monitored every year or so for signs of atypical hyperplasia. As long as the results come back negative, these women could lead normal lives without fear of cancer. But if hyperplasia is detected, women could be treated to reverse the condition.
"Just as Pap smears have reduced cervical cancer rates by over 75 percent, becoming the most successful screening test in medicine, this test can detect the precursor changes that lead to breast cancer -- and make prevention possible," says Quay. "We believe this test should be mandatory for women with dense breasts."
To use Atossa's ForeCYTE Breast Health System, see your doctor. The Atossa test is being distributed to health care providers nationwide by Clarity Women's Health (a division of Diagnostic Test Group, LLC) of Boca Raton, Florida. (See press release.)
For background and additional information on breast density legislation, see WSJ online.
About Atossa Genetics, Inc.
Atossa Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS), The Breast Health Company™, is based in Seattle, Washington, and is focused on preventing breast cancer through the commercialization of patented, FDA-cleared diagnostic medical devices and patented, laboratory developed tests (LDT) that can detect precursors to breast cancer up to eight years before mammography, and through research and development that will permit it to commercialize treatments for pre-cancerous lesions.
The National Reference Laboratory for Breast Health (NRLBH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Atossa Genetics, Inc., is a CLIA-certified high-complexity molecular diagnostic laboratory located in Seattle, WA, that provides the patented ForeCYTE Breast Health Test, a risk assessment test for women 18 to 73 years of age akin to the Pap smear, and the ArgusCYTE Breast Health Test, a blood test for recurrence in breast cancer survivors that provides a "liquid biopsy" for circulating cancer cells and a tailored treatment plan for patients and their caregivers.
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Longoria filed her papers, to divorce Tony Parker, in L.A. County Superior Court. Longoria cites "irreconcilable differences."
Longoria checked the box which says "Spousal support payable to [Longoria]. If Eva gets her way, she pays her lawyers and Tony pays for his."
TMZ has learned, Longoria and Parker signed a prenup on June 21, 2007 and it was amended in June, 2009. The legal docs also mention the prenup.
The papers were filed this morning, according to People.com.
UPDATE: "Extra" host Mario Lopez claims Eva has confirmed to him that she found hundreds of text messages from another woman on Parker's phone.
Lopez says Eva also confirmed that the mystery woman is MARRIED to one of Parker's teammates.
UPDATE #2: Eva just tweeted, "It is with great sadness that after 7 years together, Tony and I have decided to divorce. We love each other deeply and pray for each other's happiness."
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Microsoft announced the prices of its Surface tablet this morning.
The pricing is right in line with the iPad, with the cheapest Surface costing $499, and the most expensive Surface costing $699 with the touch keyboard included.
Really, the Surface is a better deal than the iPad because the $499 iPad is only 16 GB. The $499 Microsoft Surface is 32 GB. (From a consumer's perspective, we're not sure the storage differentiation matters. It's about price.)
There's a catch, though. The Touch Cover keyboard is $120. That's the fancy keyboard that Microsoft is heavily promoting in connection with the Surface. If you buy the keyboard and the cover as one, then the full price of the cheapest Surface comes to $600. An iPad with a cover costs $538, and really, Apple doesn't make the cover seem like a must-have accessory the way Microsoft does with its cover.
There's two ways to look at this. On the one hand it's good because the basic pricing is right in line with the iPad. On the other hand, it's not a significant discount and so it's going to be hard to entice people to pick the Surface over the iPad. Especially since the iPad owns the market. Further, the keyboard makes it so expensive that people might end up skipping it.
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- The name is most likely a reference to Emilio Barzini, a character from The Godfather.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — LeBron James is 18 points shy of 20,000 points. The Miami Heat still have a slight, half-game lead over the New York Knicks for the top spot in the Eastern Conference standings. Generally speaking, plenty is going right for the defending NBA champions at this stage of the season.
But a closer look reveals cracks in the Heat facade. In fact, there could be trouble in Heat paradise, if you believe what you see (1-3 on their current road trip) and read. Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com provides the details:
The Heat are out of focus and they're sniping. At their coach, Erik Spoelstra. At each other. Probably at their friends and loved ones, too.
Wade's been in the middle of it a few times on the trip. Last week in Indianapolis, he scored 23 points in the first half of a game and then didn't get a shot in the third quarter. Monday, he didn't play in the fourth quarter — calling it a benching isn't accurate — when Spoelstra decided to play James with four bench players as the Heat attempted a rally that fell short.
"I don't know, I just always stay ready," [Dwyane] Wade said curtly but not disrespectfully, much like he treated his disappearance from the offense in the loss in Indiana. "Coach makes the calls. I'm just a player."
Wade's body language said enough. Before the Heat left on this trip, Wade was asked if he missed the days of taking 20 to 25 shots a game. The days before James and [Chris] Bosh and being relegated to the third option some nights. Wade's response: "Every day."
A few days ago, Bosh said the Heat weren't doing enough to ride players with "hot hands" after he was forgotten in the offense during a night when he shot 13-for-18 in a loss at Portland. He was referring to himself and Wade, the direction of the comment not being clear.
Bosh might want to pipe down after his one-rebound showing against the Jazz last night. Wade, on the other hand, makes a solid point. The Heat are definitely more formidable when he and James have it going as opposed to the Cleveland model, where James does all of the heavy lifting and his supporting casts simply observes.
All that said, a little friction for a team still operating in the afterglow of winning their first championship run together should be expected. There are enough new faces involved that the Heat will have to continue making adjustments as the season goes along.
Spoelstra probably enjoys this part of the process more than anyone, knowing that a united struggle (even one forged from the misguided perception of outsiders who assume that it's something unusual, when, in fact, it's not) makes it easier to get his team's attention as the meat of the regular season plays out.
If nothing else, the Heat's struggles (both real and imagined) will play out in vain, so long as they continue to do whatever they can to humble themselves the way they have after losses:
After the tough loss in Portland when the Heat blew a 12-point fourth-quarter lead last week, James gave this lament: "We're not the most talented bunch. We're not the greatest team. So we can't afford to just pick and choose when we want to turn it on and off."
Most basketball minds would say this team is the best team, talent-wise, James has ever played on. He is likely playing alongside three Hall of Famers in Wade, Bosh and Ray Allen. But James, who is in the middle of perhaps the greatest all-around season of his career, has been right with his teammates in passively complaining about the state of the union.
When he got out of the cold tub, James weighed in.
"It was low energy. Against a team like this, on their floor, with their crowd — you can't have low energy," James said of the first half, in which he had his best scoring first half of the season with 20 points.
Of the late-game comeback that happened with Wade and Bosh on the bench, James said: "We played well, we had a lot of energy. Offensively, we didn't care who was shooting the ball."
Forgive me for not believing the hype about all of this supposed drama that plagues the Heat. They've had a couple of tough nights over the past few weeks.
It happens to the best of 'em, even the defending champs.
But it won't last … not in paradise!


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Joren C. Madsen, MD, DPhil received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1982. After completing his first three years of general surgery training at Mass General, he was awarded the Claude E. Welch Surgical Research fellowship to study at Oxford University. His work there culminated in a doctorate degree from Balliol College in Immunology. Dr. Madsen completed his surgical residency in 1990 and went on to train in cardiothoracic surgery at Mass General and Boston Children's Hospital. He joined the Division of Cardiac Surgery in 1993. Currently, Dr. Madsen is Professor of Surgery at Mass General and the Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He directs the Transplant Center, which encompasses kidney, liver, lung, heart, pancreas and small bowel transplantation in adults and children. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Transplantation Science (CTS), a large, basic and translational research laboratory studying transplantation immunology. Dr. Madsen divides his time between cardiac transplant surgery, transplant immunology research, teaching and administration. His academic interests have focused on transplantation tolerance, chronic rejection, innate immunity, and xenotransplantation. He has a strong commitment to both clinical and scientific education, having mentored over 30 pre- and post-doctoral fellows in his laboratory.
Dr. Madsen curently serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Transplantation. He is a past president of the American Society of Transplantation, the first surgeon to be elected to that position.
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Dr. Madsen leads three interrelated research groups that study the molecular and cellular mechanisms of transplant rejection and immune tolerance in mice, swine and nonhuman primates, respectively. By understanding the biological of these processes Madsen hopes to find ways to prolong organ allograft survival (inducing tolerance), extend transplant recipients lives (preventing chronic rejection) and increase the organ donor pool (pig-to-human xenotransplantation). Dr. Madsen's laboratory has been the first to induce long term tolerance of cardiac allografts in large animals and to demonstrate the natural killer cells contribute to cardiac allograft vasculopathy. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1995.
In 2002, he received the Fujisawa Basic Science Award from the American Society of Transplantation. In 2005, he was made the W. Gerald and Patricia R. Austen Distinguished Scholar in Cardiac Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2009, he was elected president of the American Society of Transplantation.
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The MGH Transplantation Biology Research Center and the Thier 8 Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory combined on Jan. 1 to form the Center for Transplantation Sciences.
2013 was a record-breaking year for the MGH Transplant Center with 207 transplants performed.
Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD, was honored with the Willard Daggett Cardiothoracic Scholar award for her research focusing on ways to conduct heart and lung transplants with methods that do not require immunosuppressive drugs.
After more than two decades of leading the MGH Transplantation Biology Research Center (TBRC), David H. Sachs, MD, is stepping down from his role as director.
This week marks 50 years of transplantation at the MGH. Since the first kidney transplant performed on Feb. 27, 1963, the MGH Transplant Center has revolutionized transplant medicine as an innovator in complex, life-saving techniques
This marks the second time in the past 20 years that the MGH has performed a heart and liver transplant, also the second operation of its kind ever done in New England.
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The back-and-forth between Ben Mulroney and Norman Spector, his father's one-time chief of staff, started with a tweet.
Spector mused about whether Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives and Jean Chretien's Liberals cut a quiet deal over a generous retirement allowance for prime ministers.
The musing followed interim Liberal leader Bob Rae's comment that Mulroney's government changed the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act just as he was leaving office so that prime ministers would get the equivalent of two-thirds of his or her salary at age 65.
In fact, the retirement allowance for prime ministers was actually brought in under the Liberal government of Lester Pearson and later revised under Pierre Trudeau. The Grits have since apologized for the mistake.
In response to Spector's musing, Mulroney tweeted: "@nspector4 Another 'secret deal' that didn't exist. Thank, Norm."
To which Spector replied: "Facts are facts @BenMulroney1976."
Mulroney posted a link to an iPolitics.ca story that clarified that the retirement allowance was Pearson's policy, not his father's.
"For your reading pleasure, @nspector4," Mulroney tweeted.
Spector replied he may have been the first person to post a link to the iPolitics.ca story.
"@nspector4 I just saw that you tweeted it," Mulroney replied. "Too bad it didn't include a retraction of your insinuation of a "secret deal". #researchisdead."
Spector wrote that he was only raising a quiet deal as a possible explanation for the "peculiar absence" of media coverage of the retirement allowance in 1992 and that he "tweeted real explanation 2 hours ago."
"@nspector4 Well, wild unsubstantiated accusations is certainly one way to go," Mulroney responded. "How that jives with your 'facts are facts' mantra is beyond me."
Mulroney, a television personality, fired off one last tweet: "@nspector4 .... but what do I know, I'm just a game show host."
"No accusation just a question," Spector wrote back. "As soon as facts established by iPolitics (which broke story few days ago) tweeted it @BenMulroney1976."
This is the second time in less than a month that Mulroney has publicly stood up for his dad.
The Toronto Star published a letter last month in which he disputed a columnist's claim that his father stepped down in 1993 rather than face an election because his poll numbers were low. Mulroney pointed to a Globe and Mail story showing the Tories and Liberals were in a dead heat in August 1993.
"If (columnist Bob) Hepburn's claim is to be swallowed, the numbers stated above must be ignored," Mulroney wrote.
"But when it comes to the Star, denigrating a particular Progressive Conservative prime minister often trumps the truth."
Maclean's magazine political editor Paul Wells spotted the letter and tweeted that Mulroney was using a poll from the early days of Tory prime minister Kim Campbell's leadership to prove his father was well-loved.
"Not once did I suggest be was popular when he resigned Paul. It would be foolish to do so," Mulroney tweeted back.
"I suggested that Bob's contention that the people were so fed up that they booted the PCs from office doesn't hold water. Undo unsurprising given source."


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