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| body = The "Jetty" launch configuration prepares the execution of jetty-osgi and deploys web-applications on it. The web-applications are either defined as pure java projects or as OSGi bundles.
The SDK also provides two project templates suitable to create web-applications embedded inside an OSGi bundle.
The SDK also provides two project templates suitable to create web-applications embedded inside an OSGi bundle.
=== Installation ===
=== Installation ===
Revision as of 18:47, 3 December 2009
Jetty-OSGi SDK extends the Plugin Development Environment (PDE) to support the debugging of web-applications.
The "Jetty" launch configuration prepares the execution of jetty-osgi and deploys web-applications on it. The web-applications are either defined as pure java projects or as OSGi bundles. The SDK also provides two project templates suitable to create web-applications embedded inside an OSGi bundle.
Why use Jetty-OSGi-SDK if OSGi is not the concern?
- In-place Debugging: jetty-osgi will pick-up the classes and files where eclipse puts them; faster, simpler hot swapping of bytecode compliment of eclipse.
- Multiple web-applications at once can be debugged. A UI let you select what projects you want to debug.
- Unconstrained configuration of the application-server: Jetty-OSGi is started and configured just like a standard jetty-hightide server. The fact that this happens inside an OSGi container is an implementation detail.
- Debug your web-applications at the same time than other web-applications that are not setup in the IDE: say you need to debug the integration of your web-application with a Single-Sign-On webapp like cas. Place cas.war inside ${jetty.home}/webapps and voila.
The build of the SDK is not yet done in eclipse.
Download eclipse-3.6M3 or more recent. Download the latest jetty-SDK-runtime and jetty-SDK-sources
Unzip those inside the dropins folder of your eclipse-3.6M3 installation. Make sure that inside the dropins folder it looks like this: ${eclipse.pde.home}/dropins/eclipse/features Otherwise the features and plugins inside dropins will be ignored.
First web-application defined in an OSGi bundle (RFC66)
Create a new Plug-in Project
Choose 'OSGi bundle'
Choose 'Next' instead of 'Finish' to show the project templates.
Choose the 'Jetty RFC66' template.
The web-bundle generated.
Right-click on the project and choose "Run as... Jetty-on-OSGi"
Open a web-browser and check that the webapp is running.
Everything is configured by default at this point: jetty is running on localhost at port 8080.
Launch configuration
To customize the configuration of jetty used to run this web-application, choose the menu "Run configuration..." and select the "Launch Jetty in OSGi" node. The first tab "Jetty Configuration" points to the default jetty.home folder. Jetty-on-OSGi uses a folder hierarchy inside which it locates the configuration file(s) (${jetty.home}/etc/jetty.xml), the configuration for the central logging (${jetty.home}/resources/logback.xml). By default the SDK will generate the jetty.home folder in the PDE runtime workspace and will place the default configuration files identical to the ones distributed with jetty.
The wizard gives direct access to jetty.xml but other settings should be done by accessing the file system. (TODO: improve; for example provide a wizard to import as a project a jetty configuration so that everything can be done from eclipse.)
Debugging web-applications defined in standard java projects
A very common situation is to have a set of existing java projects that define a web-application.
The SDK is able to deploy them and execute them just like an RFC66 web-bundle.
Let's take a java project that defines a web-application: it contains a folder 'webapp' inside which jsp pages and WEB-INF/web.xml are located.
Jetty-OSGi won't run this as an OSGi bundle: it depends on a set of jars that are outside of the platform and eventually on other java projects.
Jetty-OSGi only needs to recognize the webapp folder and to know what is the servlet context to use. The current approach consists of adding a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file to the project and to use the headers that jetty-osgi would use for an OSGi web-application:
Web-ContextPath: /caswill set the context path to "/cas"
Jetty-WarFolderPath: /src/main/webapp
In fact by default Jetty-WarFolderPath is assumed to be '/src/main/webapp' and the context path is the name of the eclipse project.
It would be nice to support more sophisticated ways of identifying a java project that contains a web-application: WTP and maven's pom.xml file come to mind.
When there are java projects that are not OSGi projects, the Jetty Configuration tab shows them in a list.
TODO: a better UI that actually tells the user if a java-project is correctly identified as a webapp or not.
TODO: more doc. Although the java project is not an OSGi project, it is possible to inject OSGi dependencies: Use the Require-Bundle or the Import-Package in the manifest and add to the .classpath the line:
<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.pde.core.requiredPlugins"/>
This is very useful to gradually migrate java projects to OSGi bundles: not all libraries need to be OSGi ready. Partially migrated libs are fine during development.
Developing Jetty-OSGi in PDE
Use the jetty-sdk setup; identical to the one used for the development of web-applications. Import as project the bundles to work on: [1]
Start hacking using the PDE just like any other OSGi bundle or eclipse plugin. Launch using the jetty configuration. The PDE will use the bundles as defined in the workspace as a replacement for the jetty bundles.
Additional Resources
Jetty-OSGi, RFC66, PDE We are working on migrating all building an update site and executing the build on eclipse with the rest of the jetty@eclipse project. In the mean time, the latest code is here: [http://github.com/intalio/hightide-on-osgi

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Cleidocranial dysostosis
Cleidocranial dysostosis is a disorder involving the abnormal development of bones in the skull and collar (clavicle) area. The condition is passed down through families (inherited).
Alternative Names
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Cleidocranial dysostosis is caused by an abnormal gene. It is passed down through families as an
Cleidocranial dysostosis is a congenital condition, which means it is present from before birth. The condition affects girls and boys equally.
Patients with cleidocranial dysostosis have a jaw and brow area that sticks out. The middle of their nose (nasal bridge) is wide.
The collar bones may be missing or abnormally developed. This pushes the shoulders together in front of the body.
Primary teeth do not fall out at the expected time. Adult teeth may develop later than normal, and an extra set of adult teeth grow in. This causes the normal teeth to become crooked.
The condition does not affect one's intelligence.
Other symptoms can include
- Ability to touch shoulders together in front of body
- Delayed closure of fontanelles ("soft spots")
Loose joints
- Prominent forehead (
frontal bossing)
- Short forearms
- Short fingers
Signs and tests
There is often a family history of cleidocranial dysostosis. X-rays are usually taken and may show:
- Undergrowth of the collarbone
- Undergrowth of the shoulder blade
- Failure of the area in the front of the pelvis bone to close
There is no specific treatment for the bone problems. An oral surgeon should monitor teeth regularly. An otologist should check for hearing problems.
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Expectations (prognosis)
The bone symptoms usually cause few problems. Appropriate dental care is important.
Complications include dental problems and shoulder dislocations.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you have a family history of cleidocranial dysostosis and are planning to have a child. Also call if you have a child with similar symptoms.
Genetic counseling is appropriate if a person with a family or personal history of cleidocranial dysostosis is planning to have children.
Horton WA, Hecht JT. Disorders involving transcription factors. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 696.
Horton WA, Hecht JT. Disorders involving transcription factors.In: Kliegman RM,Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds.Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics.19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 689.


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News and views of Constance Cumbey concerning "Radical Middle", New Age Movement, Communitarianism, "planetary humanism," "global governance," European Union, Javier Solana, Jeremy Rifkin, "New Age Politics," law in the USA, combined with life in general -- sometimes humorous, sometimes not!
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As an active Michigan lawyer, I practice my profession primarily in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties of Michigan, USA (248-253-0333). Sometimes I do work in my old "stomping grounds" of our State Capitol, Lansing, Michigan on administrative, state law related matters, as well. I've enjoyed active and stimulating careers in government, politics, law and as a published and translated author. In the past, I have worked for the Michigan House of Representatives, the Michigan State Senate, and the City of Highland Park, Michigan. I'm the author of the first major critical book about the New Age Movement, THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW: The New Age Movement and our Coming Age of Barbarism (1983); A PLANNED DECEPTION: The Staging of a New Age Messiah (1986). Currently, I'm completing a volume about Javier Solana, the Barcelona Process, Israel and the European Union. Email me email@example.com.


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Another gunman, another mass shooting. It�s a simple statement. Far too simple and begs one rather troubling question.
Another gunman, another mass shooting. It�s a simple statement. Far too simple and begs one rather troubling question.
Can we really be this jaded, so . . . anesthetized to the horror that we aren�t horrified anymore? The thought itself is grim as we watch such events unfold on cable TV news over and over again.
Yet here we are as a society � another gunman, another mass shooting. This time 13 people were killed. This time it was in our nation�s capital at the Navy Yard. More than a dozen people were wounded. It was the seventh mass shooting in the United States since 2008.
Authorities still have no idea what touched off the massacre, the deadliest on a U.S. military installation since the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, for which the gunman there was found guilty and sentenced just last month. In that incident, 13 were killed and 30 injured.
Among the dead in Washington on Monday was the triggerman, a former Navy reservist with a history of insubordination that led to his discharge. While investigators say the cause of the rampage is a mystery, what did become known on Tuesday is that Aaron Alexis, 34, was hearing voices and being treated for mental problems in the weeks leading up to Monday�s tragedy.
He was not stripped of his security clearance and the IT employee with a defense contractor used a valid pass to enter a military facility. Then he began firing before being killed in a gunfight with police.
It�s not possible to explain such madness in a rational way because it�s never rational. Whatever the motive, these murders were acts of madness.
Madness is the most common denominator in what has become a predictable string of mass shootings across the nation. The incidents defy geography. They have occurred in Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Texas, California . . . the list goes on. No site is immune, including elementary schools, movie theaters and college campuses.
But mental problems among mass shooters are a constant. Investigators say Alexis suffered from paranoia and a sleep disorder. He was undergoing treatment by Veterans Affairs but the Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance Alexis had from his time in the Navy reserves.
It�s still not clear what weapons were used in Monday�s shootings. According to witnesses, Alexis used a shotgun that he had purchased and two handguns that he took away from law enforcement at the scene.
The issues aren�t simple; but a few things are clear. We must remember the victims and mourn them. We must keep their families in our hearts.
And we must not become hardened by this onslaught of violence and lose sight of its horror. It�s the best path toward preventing such things from happening again.


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Hot on the heels of Grand Theft Auto III for smartphones and tablets, Rockstar Games has teased the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto 5.
At the moment Rockstar's website is just displaying a holding page – with a new GTA logo that echoes the design of the great American dollar bill – and the launch date for a trailer, set to hit our screens November 2, 2011. So will we be stalking the mean streets of Liberty City, Vice City or San Andreas this time around? One thing's for certain. We. Can't. Wait.
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My ride took me along a popular training and commuting route for many Melbourne cyclists, and no it wasn't Beach Road. As I rode along cross eyed, wanting to throw up and with the taste of blood in my mouth between efforts, I began to notice how few cyclists were out this morning, the usual small bunches of threes or fours were notably absent and apart from the commuters on hybrids and MTB's, the only cyclist I saw out training (I know he was training because he didn't have a backpack) was the guy in full HTC Columbia regalia riding without legwarmers. Obviously he must be one of those people who don't feel the cold, in contrast to me, fully rugged up complete with booties, thick gloves, jacket and head band. I think it must have been around six degrees and I may have over done it slightly but I would much rather be hot and sweaty than cold and shivering. I'm guessing the absent cyclists were due to everyone staying up late to watch the coverage of that big bicycle rally in France.
Cyclingmuse in depth TDF analysis: Apparently some guy from Australia is leading and this American who won it like fifteen times crashed when he rolled his front tyre and lost over ten minutes. I wouldn't want to be the mechanic responsible for that, but the real action everyone is talking about was the fight between Carlos Barredo and Rui Costa at the end of stage six.
Now back to my self indulgent musings. As you may already know I am currently exploring the possibility of acquiring new wheels and since returning from a short vacation I have now resumed my search for some race winning "hoops". Of course I am hoping that riding new race wheels will improve my "lifestyle" in as much as it may elevate me from my mediocre, also ran lifestyle, to a well respected fast guy always in the winning move kind of lifestyle. Try as I might I cant seem to find any brand being marketed as a lifestyle wheel, in fact when I typed "lifestyle wheel" into a popular search engine I found this:
From what I can gather you fill in the various sections in accordance to your level of satisfaction. From this you or your life coach can see where your lifestyle is out of kilter. You can then concentrate on realigning your inner balance, so if you are run of the mill in all areas but rate highly in the family department you can do something detrimental in that area like alienating one of your children to throw the wheel back into balance.It's not surprising that bicycle manufacturers have not embraced the lifestyle marketing craze as most bicycle manufacturers, regardless of how innovative or cutting edge they may elude to be, never really push the boundaries too far and for good reason. Cyclists can be a very traditional bunch and will only accept innovation in "micro doses". You only have to look at how little the bicycle has changed over the past 100 years to see this.
Triathletes on the other hand seem to embrace as many innovative contraptions as they can fit on one bike.
Well the search for wheels is beginning to depress me, I keep seeing plenty of worthy products out there but none of them seem to fall into my price range. Put it down to me getting older and grumpier but these days I find it difficult to pay more for a product than I think it is worth. Cycling was once a blue collar sport and yes I suppose you can still get an affordable entry level race bike to start out on but the nice stuff sure is getting expensive these days. The manufacturers will justify the price because of the expensive/extensive research that goes into product development but when a bidon cage costs more than a night out for two at a respectable restaurant with a nightcap on the way home, or about 45 cups of coffee, you really have to question how much we should be paying for this stuff. Are you willing to forego all those coffees at your Sunday morning cafe stop just so you can show off your latest lashing of carbon fibre?
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Toyota donates $1 million to support Hurricane Sandy relief effortsNov 01 (Thu ), 2012
Toyota today announced a $1 million contribution to the American Red Cross and other nonprofit organizations to support relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Sandy in the regions worst-hit by the storm. In addition, Toyota will match employee contributions to the American Red Cross and other non-profits doing relief and recovery work in affected communities.
Commenting on the donation, Shigeki Terashi, president and chief operating officer of Toyota Motor North America, Inc., said, "On behalf of Toyota, we express our sincere condolences to the families affected by Hurricane Sandy. Since we have operations and many dealerships in the affected regions, we felt a special responsibility to lend a hand. In addition to this contribution, many Toyota employees are already involved in volunteer activities to support those in need. We very much appreciate their support."


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Hope junior John Pelton lost his first round match in the singles tournament of the NCAA Division III championships in Lewiston, Me.
He was defeated in three sets by Spencer Feldman of Trinity, Conn., 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
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OSLO, NORWAY - DECEMBER 10: First lady Michelle Obama smiles from behind bullet proof glass on the balcony of the Grand Hotel after waving to the crowds who had gathered outside for the traditional torchlight procession on December 10, 2009 in Oslo, Norway. Obama today accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he is humbled by the award and receives it with an 'acute sense' of the cost of war. Photographer: (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)


text: Welcome! You've arrived at award-winning author Marcel Gagné's personal Website. I am the author of the "Moving to Linux" series of books, a regular columnist for several tech magazines, a public speaker, radio and television personality, and a well known voice in the Linux and open source universe. I created the famous (perhaps infamous) Cooking With Linux which ran for ten years in the Linux Journal. I'm also a published science fiction author and editor, a onetime Editor in Chief, a pilot, a former Top 40 disc jockey, and I fold a mean origami T-Rex. This site is home to my insights, opinions, gripes, brags, tech stuff, and whatever else comes to mind when I have the time or the inclination to publish it.


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Exciting news! The seminal cocktail guide, Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, enters into a new edition on July 1. Or, just because it's fun, let me provide the full title:
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie and Beyond. 100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them
That alone gives you some idea what to expect. Drinks you've never heard of. Drinks you have, without knowing what's in them, or what the classic recipe is.
Preorder your copy today!
Author is Ted Haigh. By day, he's a graphic designer for the talking picture show. He's worked for Superman and John Adams; for samarais and snickets; for gangsters, vampires, and spies. By night, he's Dr. Cocktail, historian, raconteur, and bon vivant.
Vintage Spirits is a legendary book among cocktail geeks. It has been out of print for a couple of years now, and I'm among the fools who don't own the first edition, so it's legendary in part for being so elusive. More than that, though, it's legendary for introducing readers to defunct spirits. Or, should I say, no longer defunct spirits. To name only one example, the book discusses a liqueur called crème de violette, a delicate liqueur made from violet petals and a staple ingredient in such drinks as the Aviation and the Blue Moon. Crème de violette, however, has reentered the market since Doc's book premiered, in no small part because of Doc's attention and the laments of serious bartenders everywhere.
But, if I may, there's another reason I'm excited about the book.
I'm a small part of it.
Ted contacted a few folks who've helped spread cocktail love across the Internet and asked whether we'd consent to an interview. I, no fool, said yes. I'm flummoxed and flattered that Ted asked for my participation, and was very happy to help. I can't wait to see my copy of the book, and I'm sad that I won't get to see Ted next month to thank him personally and get his autograph.


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HBOT Grassroots Movement in County of Austin TXby Harch HBOT
State of Texas County of Austin in the Commissioners Court
Resolution Advocating Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Other Medical Treatments and Therapy for TBI and PTSD – HBOT Grassroots Movement in County of Austin TX
National Grassroots Movement for HBOT Begins in Texas
WHEREAS, the 'signature wounds' of Iraq and Afghanistan are Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and are significant health issues for Texas Veterans returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and Operation New Dawn (OND)), and
WHEREAS, the effects of these conditions are usually long lasting and often life threatening (frequently suicide), and currently there are no definitive medical treatments for TBI and the treatments being provided today are only palliative drugs and/or counseling, and
WHEREAS, several, well documented, more curative therapies are available, including Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), that offer additional, alternative, curative ways to restore affected Veterans lives and minds, and
WHEREAS, numerous studies have demonstrated that the untreated, lingering effects of these injuries adversely impact the returned Veterans' lives, resulting frequently in destroyed families, drug and alcohol use, unemployment, mental illness, incarceration, and homelessness, and
WHEREAS, these results show up in society and communities as increased unemployment rates, public health care treatment costs, mental illness costs, alcohol and drug treatment costs, family breakups, and disrupted lives, and
WHEREAS, neither the VA, Military Medicine, nor Medicare will reimburse Medical Practitioners for their efforts to help these Veterans.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Commissioners Court of Austin County, Texas, does hereby urge the Texas State Government to provide appropriate funding and focus to provide results orientated, evidence based, proven treatment, including Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, for returning Texas Veterans that suffer the residual, after-effects of TBI and PTSD.
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È stato scelto un vincitore tra 97 design presentati da 34 designer.
The logo is for a website JavaVideos.net.
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There is a sample sales letter here: http://www.javavideos.net/training/logoexample/
Please take no notice of the design of this page, but the page text will give you some background to the site
I expect the users of the site to be mainly young 'techie' males either in college or early in employment
I am expecting people to pay for the training so the logo should project a sort of reliable business like image somehow. Not too cartoonish. It can be techie, but not too techie. Think of someone learning or aspiring to be a techie.
You may wish, but it is not a prerequisite, to include some sort of depiction of video in the logo. However please can we stay clear of using anything to do with the official java logo. I want to avoid any copyright issues.
The logo will be used on the website, in downloadable pdf training material and on the videos.
On the videos it will be used on the title page, and as a watermark through out the video.
I have no idea about the process of creating a watermark but I guess it would be best as some sort of one color version of the logo. A video containing the title page can be found here: http://javavideos.s3.amazonaws.com/…Intro2.avi
I would like the web address, JavaVideos.net, included in the logo.
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Short story - daughter and son-in-law got me North Jaime 136 x 41 (2013) for xmas. But did not ask for it - nor really need it.
But trying to decide on a TT board for open ocean, side-on wind, always shorebreak, 2-5 foot waves, sometimes off-shore waves (3-8 foot), usually 9/10 knots to 15/16 knots.
I weight 165 lbs plus gear, intermediate rider, some jumping, like various transitions, turning/riding toeside - and waves when available.
Mostly ride mutant (149 x 43), some TT (134 x 39), some kite surfstyle (Litewave DV8).
So, anyone suggest between North Jaime - maybe up to the 139 x 42 - and possibly the Shinn Dundee - up to the 135 x 44?? Because usually wind relatively low!


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So I bring you Blizz from Star Wars The Old Republic requested by my husband. Please remember that my patterns are untested!
(The above picture is the best representation of the true colors. Sorry, I work mostly at night so taking in progress pictures really isn't ideal)
Ch 45
sc 5 = rows
dec every 8th stitch for 2 rows
4 = rows
dec every 10th stitch for 1 row
2 = rows
dec every 5th stitch for 1 row
make approximately 1 inch of = rows (I lost the exact count, sorry hahah)
Tie off
ch 9
sc 5 = rows
inc every 4th stitch for 3 rows
2 = rows
tie off
attach to body
repeat, attach to other side of body.
ch 20 and attach to body (see pictures) leave several stitches between the attachment points.
sc all the way around the hood, body, shoulders, etc.
3 = rows EXCEPT dec twice at the shoulder and hood connection for the 3 rows
dec every 6th stitch until approximately a quarter size hole is left
dec every 3rd stitch until the point comes together.
Tie off
Sc almost a full row around his hood in grey for the frosted detail.
Face: Cut out a rounded piece of black felt and just sort of stuff it in his hood (I didn't bother to even sew it in!) Glue or sew on little yellow eyes.
Patches: grey felt sewn on with embroidery floss to make the stitches stand out.
Sash: one long strip of brown felt with embroidered details on the edges.
Hands: felt folded in half with rounded edges (there's a little foil gun inserted into his grip).
Shoulder pads: cut out pointed bits of felt and line with the same grey as the hood. Sew around so the yarn is incorporated around the felt.
Hope you like him!
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Akirachix is an association of women in tech. Through mentorship, training programs, and networking, they're working to "inspire and develop a successful force of women in Technology that will change Africa's future."
According to the Akirachix website, women make up half of Africa's workforce, but only 15% of the tech industry. Last December, American news service National Public Radio sat down with Akirachix president Judith Owigar, who talked about what it's like to be a woman in the Kenyan tech scene:
"You know you're the oddball just because of your gender," Owigar says.
It turns out that in Kenya, exactly as in Silicon Valley, the problem with getting more women in tech is that there aren't more women in tech.
"There are probably other women in tech who are alone, and they think they're the weird ones, but if enough of us meet together, you know, it won't be so weird anymore."
So what are they doing about it? They've built a support network of two hundred women in technology. They're hacking the pipeline with mentorship programs for high school girls and training programs for talented women, many of whom can't afford the tuition costs of a formal degree. They run a mobile app competition to encourage local entrepreneurs to build tools for their own communities:
Africa has 644 million subscribers (approximately 11% of the global total) and this has powered a social and economic revolution. As more people get access to mobile phones and Internet penetration increases they will need applications and services to serve their need. African developers are well positioned to come up with applications for this new mobile user and serve the existing ones in new ways.
With grant funding from international development interests, they're working to build a mobile social network, and partnered with Computer Aid International to build an open-source screen magnifier to improve visual accessibility.
Learn more about Akirachix on their website and blog, or follow them on twitter.


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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Five-time champion Serena Williams advanced Tuesday to the Sony Open semifinals and tied the women's record for career victories in the tournament by beating No. 5-seeded Li Na 6-3, 7-6 (5).
The top-ranked Williams overcame six double-faults and rallied in the second set from a 5-2 deficit. She hit six winners in the tiebreaker, including a forehand passing shot cross-court on the final point.
Williams, who won her most recent Key Biscayne title in 2008, improved to 59-7 in the tournament. Steffi Graf, another five-time champion, went 59-6.
No. 3 David Ferrer advanced to the men's quarterfinals by beating No. 13 Kei Nishikori 6-4, 6-2. Ferrer's next opponent will be unseeded Jurgen Melzer, who rallied past Albert Ramos 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.
On a breezy, sun-splashed afternoon, Williams and Li both struggled with their second serve. Li had seven double-faults, with three giving Williams her only break points.
In the tiebreaker, Williams didn't need a second serve. She hit consecutive service winners for a 4-3 lead, then two more to go up 6-5.
When Williams smacked a winner on match point she jumped for joy, with fist raised.
Williams, who is assured of remaining No. 1 next week, will play Thursday against the winner of the quarterfinal Tuesday night between defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska and No. 30-seeded Kirsten Flipkens.


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After a Mendocino County jury found Billy Norbury guilty on October 22 of the first degree murder of Jamal Andrews, they then had to determine whether he was sane at the time. Wednesday afternoon, after nearly two hours of deliberation, the jury determined Norbury was legally sane when he committed the murder. Norbury now faces a possible sentence of 50 years to life at his November 30 scheduled sentencing hearing.
While many in the community believed this murder was a hate crime, trial testimony portrayed Norbury as a jealous man who believed Andrews was having an affair with Norbury"s estranged wife. Other testimony indicated Norbury may also have believed Andrews had tipped off police to Norbury"s marijuana cultivation.
Both men were Redwood Valley marijuana growers, according to court testimony, but neither was being investigated by police.
Testimony by various mental health professionals and family members established that Norbury had been behaving more and more erratically in the months leading up to the shooting. He had become obsessively concerned over police observing him with helicopters and listening devices.
While Norbury had originally pleaded not guilty to the murder, in July he changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
Under the law, having a mental disorder is not enough for a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict. To find Norbury not guilty, the jury would have had to determine Norbury either did not understand the nature of his act, or was unable to distinguish between right and wrong at the time of the crime.
When Norbury was arrested, shortly after the murder, he denied shooting Andrews and told detectives he did not even know the victim.
Despite Norbury"s assertions, he had driven his ATV to Andrews" home twice before the fatal shooting. On the second visit, Norbury apologized for his first visit, saying he was drunk, according to testimony by Miranda Mills, Andrews" longtime girlfriend. She and Andrews lived together in their Redwood Valley home along with their infant son.
On the third and fatal visit on January 24, 2011, Norbury drove his ATV to Andrews" residence carrying a 30-30 rifle. He then shot Andrews once in the front of his shoulder and again in the head as Andrews tried to flee.
Norbury then returned to his residence.
When detectives arrived at Norbury"s home to question him, the ATV engine was still warm. Detectives found Norbury"s recently fired 30-30 rifle at the residence.
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Home Health Products
For those in need of compression stockings, orthopedic supplies, mobility aids, or other similar items, Peterson Physical Therapy in East Hampton now can provide them, saving customers from having to drive west in summer traffic. Peterson has a state-of-the-art facility at Franklin Triangle, at the corner of Skimhampton Road and Montauk Highway, where one-on-one physical therapy is available.
Driving Service
Looking for a fun time out at a favorite restaurant or club but worried about driving home? Main Beach Drivers is a new luxury car service company that offers to drive customers, in their own vehicles, to wherever they ask. The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Prices start at $40 an hour, with a minimum three-hour commitment. Drivers are required to pass a thorough screening prior to being hired. More information can be had by e-mailing email@example.com.
Free Ride at "The End"
Hamptons Free Ride — an electric shuttle that debuted last summer, offering a free and ecologically friendly way to get to the beach and back in East Hampton Village — has expanded, now with service in Montauk.
The shuttle will make three stops along Main Street and four along South Emerson Avenue at the main town beach, near the Sloppy Tuna, and at Atlantic Terrace. Each cart holds five passengers and is fueled not only by electricity, but also by the colorful advertisements on its sides.
Second Retreat Boutique
People looking for gently used items can now sort through the wares at the Retreat Boutique Too at 30 Park Place in East Hampton. It joins the Retreat's flagship store in the Bridgehampton Commons.
The Retreat, a nonprofit organization that provides domestic-violence services, turns clothing, furniture, and other household goods into tax deductions for donors and treasure for shoppers. The new location is only paces from the Ladies Village Improvement Society's Bargain Box, another thrift store in East Hampton Village.
New Hardware Store
A new hardware store has opened on the Wainscott strip, next to Pet Hampton. Independently owned by Juan Carlos Diaz, it sells pool supplies, home improvement aids, garden tools, and more, all housed in a 3,000-square-foot space. The store has long hours for builders — 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week.
A Salon Pops Up
Warren Tricomi, a Manhattan hairstylist, will open a salon today at 64 Park Place in East Hampton. Hair and nail services, makeup application, eyebrow sculpting, tinting, and facial waxing will all be available, as will men's haircuts, offered by James Palese.


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Starting Sunday, Laguna Art Museum visitors will pay $5 less for tickets across the board.
The unveiling of the museum's spring 2012 exhibitions then will officially coincide with a revamped ticketing and hours of operation policy instituted by Malcolm Warner, who took over Jan. 3 as LAM's new executive director.
LAM will charge $7 for general admission, and instead of operating from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, the museum will close to the public on Wednesdays. LAM will keep those same hours on weekend days as well as on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
But the museum also will stay open till 9 p.m. every Thursday — not just on the first Thursday of the month, when Laguna Beach's First Thursdays Art Walk happens.
The museum has already implemented another change under Warner: LAM now offers free admission between special exhibits, such as during the days leading up to the "Victor Hugo Zayas" and "The Postwar Era" shows, which will open Sunday and run through April 29.
The changes are part of the 58-year-old Englishman's plan to make the museum more accessible to the wider public and be engaged with the Laguna Beach's arts community and schools, while also trying to raise LAM's excellence and ambition in its exhibition programming.
"We're almost there," he said in an interview on Feb. 14. "I just would like to get to the point where we've raised our profile to the extent that people immediately ... think of us as the showcase for California art of any kind."
He started spreading his message while presiding over the museum's annual benefit art auction Feb. 4. Warner told a packed house at LAM that he wanted to take it from being known as "a museum of California art" to being known as "the museum of California art."
Three days later, he repeated that message to the City Council.
"We want to raise its national profile," Warner said at the council meeting. "I and the board [of trustees] are one in this but, at the same time, we're very keen not to do that at the expense of being responsive to Laguna Beach as a community.
"That's very important to us. We want to be accessible and open and friendly to everyone in the city."
During a getting-to-know you interview at his office a week later, Warner expanded on his stated goals and vision for LAM, and also revealed his intention to work toward thawing relations with the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in neighboring Newport Beach. These had iced over after a merger between LAM and the Newport Harbor Art Museum — now known as OCMA — collapsed in the mid-1990s.
"I've been making a point of trying to meet as many people who do have an interest in the museum as possible, and to listen to them because I think one of the things I should be doing over the first few months that I am here is just doing a lot of listening," said Warner, who wore a cardigan over an Oxford shirt unbuttoned at the collar.
Warner came to LAM after a decade at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, where he served most recently as deputy director and previously, for 18 months, as acting director. Yet after living and working in the United States for 23 years and being married to an American since 1988, he still hasn't lost his English accent. He continues to hold a green card but said he is thinking of becoming naturalized.
Warner was born in Aldershot, England. He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he did his doctoral dissertation on John Everett Millais, a 19th-century British painter who was a leader in the pre-Raphaelite artistic movement. According to his bio from Laguna Art Museum, Warner is an authority on Millais.
Stateside, before joining the Kimbell as a senior curator in 2001, Warner worked as the curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art, and as senior curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University.
Since arriving in Laguna in early January, Warner has rented a place about a half-mile from the museum. His wife and two teenage children stayed on in Fort Worth but will join him at the end of the school year. His daughter is a high school senior, and Warner hopes to enroll his son at Laguna Beach High School.
In Laguna, Warner replaces Bolton Colburn, who resigned last spring as LAM's executive director after a 24-year career there. Colburn now heads the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente.
Although Warner's schooling, training and expertise lie in classical British art, LAM Board President Robert Hayden III said his limited experience with California art wasn't seen as a discrepancy in hiring him.
According to Hayden, the museum was looking to recruit someone who could bring "a wider view" to the museum and put the museum on the national and international map, rather than someone who specialized only in California art.
"That world view outweighs his limited understanding of California art history," Hayden said.
The last time that Warner dealt with California art first-hand was in 1994, when he organized an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art showcasing the work of painter, muralist and printmaker Harry Sternberg.
Sternberg died at age 97 in December 2001, according to his obituary in the Los Angeles Times.
"Certainly, in my interceding jobs at Yale and the Kimbell Art Museum, there wasn't any particular reason for me to be working with California art, but I've always kept up a kind of long-range interest in it," Warner said. "A big part of the attraction of coming to this position was that California art seems so exciting and fresh and new now, and so ripe for discoveries and rediscoveries."
While contemporary California art excites Warner, he said he wants to balance LAM's strength in that area with its more traditional strength in more classical California art dating to the museum's origins in 1918, when Laguna Beach was a colony of plein air painters.
As part of his plan to raise the museum's level of ambition and scope, Warner hopes to organize an exhibit for the coming fall that would showcase the finest pieces from the museum's large collection, which is largely stored off-site.
As for LAM's relations with the Orange County Museum of Art, Warner mentioned that he had met his counterpart at OCMA, Dennis Szakacs, and told him about his intention to work together for both museums' benefit.
"We have quite different slices of the art pie that we've served ourselves, so there's no need for rivalry because we have different missions," Warner said.
And, according to Marni Farmer, LAM's spokeswoman, relations between the two museums began to warm up even before Warner got to Laguna. In the months before he arrived, the two institutions coordinated their efforts and mutually publicized their special exhibits that were presented under the umbrella of "Pacific Standard Time," the Getty-led regional program showcasing Southern California's contributions to art during the post-war decades until 1980, Farmer said.
As a follow-up to that first step in cooperation, LAM and OCMA also agreed to coordinate press events for their special exhibitions opening this weekend, including OCMA's much-anticipated exhibition of "The Ocean Park Series" of paintings by the late Richard Diebenkorn.
Szakacs, through OCMA spokeswoman Kirsten Schmidt, declined to be interviewed.
"He and I already have struck up a good, friendly relationship, and we're determined to work together for our mutual benefit," Warner said. "Exactly what form that will take, I'm not sure yet. But certainly the will is there to do things together."
Warner added that he was aware of the past acrimony between the two museums while he was applying for the Laguna job.
"It's an unfortunate history because that merger was a complicated scheme that obviously didn't come to fruition ... ," Warner said. "But it was quite a long time ago now, and I think it's time for both institutions to completely put it behind them. It needn't haunt us forever."
Freelance writer Barbara Diamond also contributed to this article.
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Born in Ohio and raised in Florida, Khalsa is a graduate of Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, and was trained in anesthesiology at the University of California Medical School, San Francisco, where he was Chief Resident. He completed the UCLA Medical Acupuncture for Physicians course, and is the founding director of the Acupuncture, Stress Medicine and Chronic Pain Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine's teaching hospital in Phoenix, Maricopa Medical Center.
For the past five years he has been President and Medical Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation, the only complementary medicine program in the world researching the prevention and reversal of memory loss.
His first book, Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Program That Improves Your Mind and Memory was published by Warner Books in 1997. It has been translated into eight languages and is a best seller in Brazil. In September 1997, Dr. Khalsa presented a paper on his work at the World Federation on Neurology, the first-ever presentation on complementary medicine to that group.
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Daniel Redwood: Is memory loss and cognitive decline a normal part of aging?
Dharma Singh Khalsa: Certain doctors in the conservative medical establishment still hold to the idea that as we age, our minds and our brains are going to wear out just like the rest of the body. There is another school of thought that holds that we can regenerate rather than degenerate. In answer to your question, I don't think it's inevitable that our cognitive function will decline.
Redwood What are the key factors leading to cognitive decline in those people who do experience it?
Khalsa: There are a number of risk factors. The first, of course, is age. With increasing age, there is an increasing incidence of cognitive decline. People over age 85 have a very high percentage of risk of getting Alzheimer's Disease, a 50 percent risk. For those over age 65, it's ten percent. This means that as the population is aging, the number of people who develop cognitive decline as they get older will increase as well. The second major risk factor is family history. If someone has a first-degree relative with this problem, the chances are around seven times greater that they will also be susceptible to Alzheimer's. So if someone in your immediate family -- your mother, father, siblings, or an aunt or uncle -- has Alzheimer's, your chances are greater. Then there's a certain gene, the APOe4 gene. A person who has two of these genes is susceptible to a certain kind of memory loss. But genetic factors are a small part of the risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease.
The other factors all relate to lifestyle. Some are beyond a person's control, while others are within a person's control. For example, a head injury early in life is a risk factor. Lack of formal education is a risk factor. These are beyond a person's control. People can have depression that masquerades as memory loss as they get older, so that has to be ruled out, as would deficiencies of vitamin B-12 and folic acid. Nutrition is very important. If someone eats a high-fat, high-caloric diet throughout their whole life, they are at greater risk. Lack of exercise puts a person at greater risk. Having coronary artery disease definitely puts a person at greater risk for developing Alzheimer's Disease, which is why we use the adage in Brain Longevity, "What works for your heart, works for your head." Another important principle is that the brain is flesh and blood like the rest of the body.


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Morgenthaler's already posted his roundup and Monday isn't even done yet in his time zone! Hell, it's not even done in my time zone, and I'm three hours ahead of him!
So since I apparently missed out on this MxMo, I'm just going to skip it and post on Repeal Day instead.


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Nathan Drake (Uncharted Series) – Cosplay of the Day
It's no secret that we're fans of crossplay here on Arcade Sushi. Time and time again, we've shown you awesome costumes that not only bend genders, but blow our minds as well. It's great to see creativity flow and different versions of characters we love appear. With that said, here is a crossplay of Nathan Drake, from the Uncharted series as our Cosplay of the Day.
Nathan Drake is a treasure hunter with a quick tongue, sly wits and the unfortunate ability to find trouble wherever he goes. His adventures are some of the most harrowing, and exciting, that gaming's ever seen, making it no surprise that he's become such an icon in the video game world.
Here is Alexa Karii, one of our favorite cosplayers, in her take on a female Nathan Drake. She's dubbed this character "Natalie Drake" and captures the essence of the treasure-hunting adventurer. True to the character, she ends up climbing all kinds of things in the photoshoot, channeling Nate's penchant for getting vertical. She may be stepping into uncharted territory, but at least she's taking us along for the ride.
Come check out more of her work on her Facebook page and then let us know what you think of her Natalie Drake outfit.
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If Team Fortress 2 had an air supremacy mode, Dogfighter would be it.
It really baffles me why this game isn't more popular. It's got a great look, fantastically responsive controls, a simple premise - Mario Kart meets the Red Baron in a fight to the death - and right now you can buy the game on Steam for a ridiculous $1.50.
That's what you'll pay for some rubbish iPhone game, only in this case you're getting a full-featured PC combat game, with both multiplayer and singleplayer modes, and some of the wailingiest guitar riffs you'll hear this side of Aces High.


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This Tuesday, people from all over the country came to the Lightology showroom to participate in our first-ever Tweet Up with our co-hosts @IntDesignerChat! At the beginning of the night, guests at the showroom and around the country participated in the weekly twitter chat, #IntDesignerChat, where the subject of the night was lighting. (Read the transcript)
Afterwards, the party continued for guests at the showroom, enjoying food, drinks and social media tips for their business! If you are a trade professional, make sure to register for our trade benefits program to get exclusive discounts on products and invitations to upcoming Lightology events! Visit our facebook page to see all the photos from the Tweet Up!


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Saint Margaret of Cortona is called the light of the Third Order of Francis. This is the theme of the most extensive biography of any Franciscan Tertiary in the Middle Ages. Margaret's extraordinary career brings the historian closer to the early development of the Franciscans and the Order of Penance; it tells us much about how women saints were described, and about how civic cults of saints emerged. Another window, although a smaller one, opens to the tensions between the Franciscan Community and the Spiritual Franciscans before the split prior to Pope John XXII. Indeed it could be said that we know more about Margaret of Cortona than about any woman of 13th century Italy, with the exception of Clare of Assisi and Clare of Montefalco. This edition is translated from the critical Latin edition by Fortunato Iozzelli, O.F.M., of "The Life of Saint Margaret of Cortona" by Fra Giunta Bevegnati. The original translation by Thomas Renna has been edited by Shannon Larson.
Thomas Renna, Ph.D., is professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, Mich. Renna teaches history of the Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, Renaissance, France, and ancient and modern Middle East. He has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Scranton, a master's of medieval history from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. in medieval history from Brown University. Renna has published three books and 120 journal articles on various medieval topics. He also has given 160 paper presentations at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Middle East. Renna has received numerous awards and fellowships for scholarship and teaching.
Shannon Larson has a bachelor's degree from Northwestern College, where she studied Egyptian, Jewish and Church history and biblical studies. She has a master's degree in medieval history from Marquette University. There, she specialized in crime and justice. Larson's research has focused on the intersection of rape and virginity in medieval discursive contexts, and on British and Continental jurisprudence. She is an independent scholar and works part time at an historical society.
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Collaborative Art Santa Fe: Part II
If you caught Currents 2011, you likely remember the video installation Interference: a rubble-strewn urban wasteland that shifted to lush forest when intersected with human presence. Interactives were a big draw at the Currents exhibition (I had particular fun playing with John Carpenter's Dandelion Clock.) With Interference, cooperation yielded a greater payback: the more people clustered together, the more forest could be reclaimed.
That bonus-through-alliance was fitting for a piece that was itself a matrix of logistical, technical and professional harmony. The creation of three artists, Brian Bixby, Charles Buckingham and Mike Root, working cooperatively from three far-flung cities –Berlin, Portland, and Santa Fe—Interference is a monument to concord and methodical cooperation. How the piece came together was nearly as fascinating to me as the result, so I pummeled Mike Root for answers he happily supplied.
What was your intention?
We wanted to make sure the interaction didn't feel like a game. A lot of the best interactive work I've seen is basically a video game mechanic. I love video games but we didn't want to create one. So we developed this concept of 3 layers in 3D space and began playing with the idea of allowing the audience to move around inside this augmented space of 3 dimensions. Our intention was to create an experience where the viewer's presence immediately effected the scene, first mysteriously and abstractly, then as the viewer got closer the interaction became more concrete and a message emerged: "You effect your environment."
How did you pick the team and choose your roles in the project?
The three of us share interests in similar digital art forms, musicians, film directors. We've known each other for about 10 years, in which time we've worked on video and music projects together, including collaborative work an online ambient video series (Snowflakes) as well as developing web applications, like the website for SITE Santa Fe's 2010 Biennial, The Dissolve. To realize our idea for this piece was really a matter of matching what we know of each other's strengths, both technically and creatively, to the tasks at hand.
Tell me about the mechanics of working together over a distance. How did you communicate ideas and build the installation?
We held bi-monthly Skype meetings…during [which]…we critiqued each other's work in the context of the direction of the overall piece. Much of the honing of the idea and execution happened during these exchanges… A great asset was the ability to share huge digital files via a shared server. "Working" files in After Effects, Photoshop and Jitter were easy to view and "demo" once we each had the source footage and photography on our individual computers.
Who did What?
Charles and videographer Eric Macey shot several days of HD footage in scenic spots around Oregon. Charles also did the sound design, which fades between idyllic natural river sounds and haunting urban soundscapes.
The piece exploits infrared data captured by an Xbox Kinect unit. Charles spent many hours exploring how to best interpret and utilize this three dimensional data to make the installation react in "human" ways to the viewers. He configured a Mac computer to access and control the Xbox Kinect, then created a Jitter patch which took infrared data from the Kinect and used it to manipulate the audio and video components of the installation.
Brian shot high resolution photography of urban rubble and construction sites in Berlin, which he assembled into large scale seamless panoramas in Photoshop.… Through careful and tedious use of effects he transformed the images into a post-apocalyptic scene, eventually adding animation of smoke and rain along with 3D lighting.
I sorted through the extensive Oregon footage, eventually settling on a panorama of a forest, with river foreground. [I then] stitched together a giant-scale video composite from six high definition camera angles, [and] added 3D lighting to bring out certain areas of the scene. Brian and I collaborated on fine-tuning the rain and lighting of the Berlin rubble heap.
I also coordinated and interfaced with Currents curators Frank Ragano and Mariannah Amster who really "got" the piece and afforded a perfect space within the exhibition for the piece.
How did it feel when you saw the installation on site?
What was most gratifying was seeing the people who attended the Currents exhibition react in unexpectedly profound ways with our piece. We witnessed people go through an experiential envelope from curiosity to puzzlement to elation after spending a few minutes interacting with our piece. The "take away" from this experience was a spark of inspiration to re-envision the polluted decay of urban landscape as something you can affect and reclaim.
People commented on it and interpreted it in very positive and inspiring ways. One of the highlights was watching viewers grab other people nearby and create a human wall, which reclaimed the entire scene from ruins to pure nature.
New direction or never again?
This piece was the first time for us to work on something interactive as a team, so the resulting work is something new and unexpected for all three of us. We're applying to other exhibitions with this piece and hope to install it on a larger scale. We're curious to see how people in other places respond.
If you missed Currents 2011, or are nostalgic for a revisit, check out this video documentation. It's no substitute for the full experience, but it's a great commercial.


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By Steve Aschburner, NBA.com
There was a miserable morning in Toronto a few years back, when the airport was frozen over and the de-icing trucks were bone dry. He and fellow ref Mike (Duke) Callahan were booked for another game that night in Cleveland, so they rented a car and slid their way out of Ontario, no GPS and only the city of Buffalo as their North Star to navigate to northeast Ohio.
There was the time he had a flight to work a Celtics game re-routed to Bangor, Maine, and bribed a cab driver into taking him overnight to Boston for $400. Even then, they had to stop at the driver's house first, so he could convince his wife it was OK.
There have been snowstorms in Chicago, a broken nose in New Jersey and the triple-crown of airport lockdowns — LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark all shut down by weather. Yet even mail carriers with their "neither snow nor rain…" creed could learn a few things from veteran NBA referee Dick Bavetta.
Travel snags and injuries have caused a few close calls, but when the 74-year-old Bavetta works the Brooklyn Nets-New York Knicks game Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden (7 ET, ESPN), he will log his 2,633rd consecutive game. His streak dates back to his NBA debut game on Dec. 2, 1975, which means Bavetta has given the NBA 38 1/2 years of unbroken service without using one sick day.
Why is the number notable? Cal Ripken Jr., the MLB Baltimore Orioles' Hall of Fame shortstop, pushed his more famous streak of consecutive games to 2,632 after eclipsing Lou Gehrig in 1995.
"They could always find people to work if you had to miss a game, but I never wanted to inconvenience other referees," Bavetta said from his hotel in New York Tuesday. "To me, it was determination, dedication. I've always said, 'No, we've got to give it our best shot to get there.' "
Bavetta's Manhattan hotel was close enough this time that, even in the event of a flash blizzard, he could walk to MSG for tipoff between the Nets and Knicks. That meant he only had to avoid a misstep or an overzealous taxi in the crosswalk.
VIDEO: Open Court's crew recalls Dick Bavetta's classic footrace with Charles Barkley
Dedicated to honing his craft
Referees' schedules aren't made public in advance, so it's hard to know when one of them actually has stuck to his or not. A full season is pretty much the same as the players and the teams: 82 games. In his first two years, Bavetta was a part-timer, which meant he was scheduled for 68-70 games (making $200 a night, $16,000 a year at the start).
Since then, he has been full-time like no one else, adding 270 playoff games, including 27 in The Finals, to his resume. He has worked multiple All-Star games and international NBA events, as well as the "Dream Team" Olympics in 1992.
Raised in New York, Bavetta attended Power Memorial, the same Manhattan high school where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played. He had a first career as a broker on Wall Street, but his brother, Joe, refereed ABA games. That helped draw Dick into the profession. After years of amateur, high school and college games, Bavetta worked in the minors (the Eastern League that morphed into the CBA) for nine years.
Each year, he tried to get to the NBA. Finally, after honing his craft ("I thought I was ready earlier, but I wasn't") he made it on his ninth try. Now he ranks as the NBA's all-time leader among officials in games, with fellow vet Joey Crawford in hot pursuit 100 or so games behind.
"My upbringing was, you didn't miss days of school and you went to work, regardless of the circumstances," said Bavetta, the son of a New York cop. "I can't remember even high school games in New York City or the Eastern League … whatever it would take to get to the game."
A rough career, on and off the court
His only real concession to the grind has been requesting no back-to-back games for the past five or six seasons. Bavetta had plenty of years doing five games in seven nights or seven in nine, but spacing out his games gives him more travel and recovery time. That's helpful with the streak, but it does accordion-out his schedule, making it tough to get even consecutive days off. And on the days in between, he still works out — he had just gotten back from a long run through Central Park before he picked up the phone.
Schedules rocked by family members or other things from his personal life? Fuhgedaboudit. They've been scheduled around his NBA work.
"I've missed birthdays," Bavetta said. "Haven't missed weddings."
Obviously Bavetta has had memorable games prior to this one tonight. He had to go solo at a Celtics-76ers game after partner Jack Madden suffered a broken leg and it ended up being the game in which Larry Bird and Julius Erving grabbed each other by the throat and got tossed. There have been controversial moments, too, as Utah Jazz and Sacramento Kings fans can quickly recall and grumble about from the playoffs.
One game a while back that nearly snapped Bavetta's streak, though, came in New York. When a skirmish broke out between Knicks center Patrick Ewing and the Pacers' Jalen Rose that night, Rose threw a punch that missed Ewing and hit Bavetta smack in the nose. "I'm going down and if it wasn't for the fact I was holding onto Patrick's jersey, I'd have been down and out," Bavetta remembered.
Bavetta stubbornly finished the game with a broken nose and a Band-Aid across it, but required micro-surgery the next morning. That was supposed to put him out for at least a week but, hey, he had a Nets game at the Meadowlands the next night. So naturally, he persuaded doctors to give him clearance.
That night, Bavetta went onto the court again with a Band-Aid across his nose. His two fellow refs, goofing on him, did the same and got the folks at the scorers' table to all tape Band-Aids across their noses, too. Nets forward Jayson Williams already had a broken nose and was wearing one.
So when Charlotte's Baron Davis walked to center court shortly before tipoff for the captains' meeting, he wondered what was going on.
Said Bavetta: "I told him, 'Baron, you can't attend this meeting unless a Band-Aid on your nose.' He went back and got one so he wouldn't be different. … We do whatever it takes to work the game."
Bavetta keeps chugging along
Bavetta has seen all the changes swirl around him through the years, from two-man crews to the current three, from the "play on!" mentality a few decades ago to the replays and zero-tolerance policy applied by the referees' overseers today.
As for how much longer, Bavetta said: "I haven't thought about it. People ask about years. I look at this thing in days. Getting to the next game. I worked in Atlanta Monday, I'm in New York Wednesday. Health is so fleeting – I've seen it where a player just turns the wrong way. A calf pull, a knee can go in an instant."
The streak-breaker, whether MLB decides to recognize Bavetta's total or not, puts him full circle. He made his debut in 1975, eight days before his 36th birthday, in a Celtics-at-Knicks contest. "I said, 'What better way than to have the streak 'broken' than back at Madison Square Garden?' But the league arranged my schedule accordingly," Bavetta said. "We don't get a say."
So might he job around the perimeter of the court after the final horn, a la Ripken, slapping hands with fans in attendance? "I don't think so," he said. "Probably couldn't afford the fine."
Missing calls is a fact of any game official's life, from umpires to NBA refs. Missing games, that's been the infallible thing for Bavetta.


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WASHINGTON — Reps. Luis Gutierrez and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois were among several members of Congress arrested Tuesday outside the Capitol in a protest that called for the House to take up immigration reform, which stalled after passing the Senate.
Throngs of demonstrators marched to the Capitol after a rally and concert on the National Mall, and many then stood or sat in the street in what organizers called a campaign of civil disobedience. Gutierrez, Schakowsky and two New York congressmen, Charles Rangel and Joseph Crowley, were among the first to be loaded into police vans.
About 200 labor leaders and immigration advocates also were arrested.
U.S. Capitol Police said those arrested would be charged with "crowding, obstructing, and incommoding," which is a misdemeanor.
"Rep. Schakowsky stood in solidarity with her colleagues and immigrant rights advocates to demand a House vote on comprehensive immigration reform," her spokeswoman, Sabrina Singh, said in a statement.
The National Mall was technically closed along with other sites managed by the National Park Service because of the partial government shutdown. Organizers were allowed to hold the rally, named Camino Americano, on First Amendment grounds. The same exception was granted to veterans visiting the World War II Memorial last week.
Advocates held signs reading "Unite" and "Keep families together -- immigration reform now." Three young boys wore shirts bearing the words, "Don't deport my dad."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), joined on stage by about 15 lawmakers, told the rally that immigrants "make America more American." She was interrupted by chants of "Si se puede" -- Spanish for "Yes we can" -- and "We need a vote."
Pelosi praised an immigration bill proposed by House Democrats last week, which she said would be good for the economy and help reduce the deficit.
The Democrat-controlled Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill in July, but the bill failed to gain traction in the GOP-led House and is unlikely to pass in the current session.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), one of the strongest opponents of the Senate bill, criticized the rally and the proposed legislation.
"There's something odd about House leaders like Nancy Pelosi protesting on the Mall to get jobs for illegal aliens and pushing legislation to reduce job opportunities for U.S. citizens," he said in a statement.


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laser(redirected from Saser)
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See also: chromophore.
See also: chromophore.
laser/la·ser/ (la´zer) a device that transfers light of various frequencies into an extremely intense, small, and nearly nondivergent beam of monochromatic radiation in the visible region, with all the waves in phase; capable of mobilizing immense heat and power when focused at close range, it is used as a tool in surgery, in diagnosis, and in physiological studies.
laserLight amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, Physics A device that provides a focused beam of light with enough energy to cut or coagulate tissue Surgery A tool that focuses light into an intense, narrow beam to cut or destroy tissue Applications Microsurgery, photodynamic therapy, diagnostics Types of lasers Argon-405 nm wavelength, CO2-630 nm, tunable dye-1600 nm, YAG-neodymium-yttrium-aluminum-garnet-10,600 nm. See Argon laser, Excimer laser, Holmium pulsed laser, Nd:YAG laser, PTP laser, Roller ball technique, Selective photothermolysis, Yellow krypton laser.
laserAcronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. A device that produces light of a single, precisely defined wavelength, in which all the waves are in phase with each other (coherent light). This allows the beam to be intensely concentrated, with little tendency to spread out, and permits focusing into a spot of microscopic size. The properties of the various lasers make them invaluable for a variety of medical and surgical purposes, and a many laser types, including argon lasers, various YAG lasers, carbon dioxide lasers, various pumped dye lasers and high-precision excimer lasers, are being exploited for this purpose. See also LASER THERAPY.
laseracronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; device concentrates high-frequency electromagnetic energy into a (constant or pulsed) beam of monochromatic light (wavelength 660–950 nm); therapeutic action (burning, cutting or tissue stimulation) is dependent on device specification; tissue effects are inhibited by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids
chronic wound treatment with laser improved healing rates in chronic wounds (after initial deterioration and increase in exudation); used with caution over epiphyseal lines (in children) or photosensitive tissue; contraindicated with neoplasm and haemorrhage; indications: for laser treatment management of bone repair, verrucae, pain relief, myofascial pain, chronic heel pain, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, neuralgia, soft tissues and overuse injury, chronic wounds, burns, scar tissue
manner of use laser probe (protected by a layer of cling film) held at 90° to, and in contact with, skin surface
power of a laser laser energy density (in J/cm2) is directly proportional to product of probe power (in watts) and exposure time (in seconds), and inversely proportional to area irradiated (in square centimetres)
tissue effects of laser dose-dependent increased inflammatory response, immunological effects and capillary formation
argon laser A laser with ionized argon gas as the active medium, which emits a blue-green light beam with a wavelength of 514 nm. It may be used to perform iridectomy, iridoplasty, iridotomy, photocoagulation or trabeculoplasty.
excimer laser A gas laser that emits pulses of light in the ultraviolet region (at 193 nm). All the energy is absorbed by the superficial layers (e.g. the corneal epithelium), which are then exploded away or ablated without any change to the underlying or adjacent tissue or material. See photorefractive keratectomy; LASEK; LASIK.
laser interferometry See clinical maxwellian view system.
laser iridotomy See iridotomy.
krypton laser A laser with krypton gas ionized by electric current as the active medium, which emits a light beam in the yellow-red region of the visible spectrum (521 nm, 568 nm or 647 nm). It may be used to perform photocoagulation or trabeculoplasty.
neodymium-yag laser (Nd-Yag) A solid-state laser whose active medium is a crystal of yttrium, aluminium and garnet doped with neodymium ions. It emits an infrared light beam with a wavelength of 1064 nm. It is typically used with a slit-lamp and in conjunction with a helium-neon laser which produces a red beam of light (633 nm) to allow focusing. It may be used to perform capsulotomy, iridotomy or trabecular surgery. Yag is an acronym for yttrium-aluminium-garnet.
laser refraction See laser refraction.
laser refractive keratoplasty See photorefractive keratectomy.
laser trabeculoplasty See laser trabeculoplasty.
Patient discussion about laser
Q. Should I have eye laser surgery? I am 17 and have been wearing glasses since I was a kid. I was thinking of having an eye laser surgery in order to fix my eyesight. What are the risks?
Q. Is there a laser vision correction operation that will correct both near and farsightedness? My optometrist said that typical laservision would require that I wear glasses for reading since it only corrects farsightedness. I'm leery of the technique of doing only one eye for distance and leaving the other "as is" for reading. I seem to recall a brief news report of some new laser vision technique that corrects both near- and farsightedness. Is that true or were they referring to the "one eye for closeup and one eye for distance" type of correction that I'm skeptical about? Thanks!!
Q. I may have to undergo Laser Acupuncture next week. I am taking medicines for the heart attack I had last year and on my sons wish I am following acupuncture and after observation I may have to undergo Laser Acupuncture next week….I am afraid that this laser can lead to cancer …..And I also worried about the impact and effect of the medicine which I am taking…though my attack is in control will it be good to go for laser.?


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Identity Theft's Newest Victims? Kids
If you think protecting your credit is something only adults need to worry about, think again. Experts say one in 10 children is now the victim of identity theft.
Identity thieves ferret out kids' social security numbers on tax forms accessed by hacking home computers, and they also target hospitals, child-welfare agencies and schools.
Overall, the FTC says that in the past three years, there have been 57,000 cases of child identity theft reported to the agency, and identity theft protection company All Clear ID estimates one in 10 American children have been victims. And parents often have no idea until it's been going on for years.
"A parent will typically find out when their child is moving into adulthood," said Bo Holland, CEO of All Clear ID. "When they are about to go to college, they apply for that first loan and, boom, they get denied."
"They'll use your child's Social Security number with a different name and a different birth date," he explained, adding that if you try to pull your child's report, you'll get a "file not found" error and think all is well.
So how can you protect your little ones? Install anti-virus software on your computers, tell your kids to never reveal their social security numbers without your permission, and periodically check your children's credit reports.
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