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from the taking-things-for-granted deptThe Internet Archive is a jewel of the digital world:
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.Here's the amazing scale of the project today:
Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes: texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains almost 2 petabytes of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress.The Internet Archive is the world's online memory, holding the only copies of many historic (and not-so-historic) Web pages that have long disappeared from the Web itself.
Bad news:
This morning at about 3:30 a.m. a fire started at the Internet Archive's San Francisco scanning center.
Good news:
no one was hurt and no data was lost. Our main building was not affected except for damage to one electrical run. This power issue caused us to lose power to some servers for a while.
Bad news:
Some physical materials were in the scanning center because they were being digitized, but most were in a separate locked room or in our physical archive and were not lost. Of those materials we did unfortunately lose, about half had already been digitized. We are working with our library partners now to assess.
That loss is unfortunate, but imagine if the fire had been in the main server room holding the Internet Archive's 2 petabytes of data. Wisely, the project has placed copies at other locations:
We have copies of the data in the Internet Archive in multiple locations, so even if our main building had been involved in the fire we still would not have lost the amazing content we have all worked so hard to collect.
That's good to know, but it seems rather foolish for the world to depend on the Internet Archive always being able to keep all its copies up to date, especially as the quantity of data that it stores continues to rise. This digital library is so important in historical and cultural terms: surely it's time to start mirroring the Internet Archive around the world in many locations, with direct and sustained support from multiple governments. They can also help provide the Internet Archive with a wider, more international range of content, to make an even more representative store of the world's digital activity.
Unfortunately, that's not likely to happen anytime soon, as people seem happy to take for granted the amazing work of Brewster Kahle and his team. The next best thing would be to donate so that they can continue with their indispensable project -- and perhaps create a few more backup copies.
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"Invisibility cloaks" have been in development for years, but keep hitting a major roadblock — the materials used absorb too much light. New research may have found the trick to get around that, and get us our cloaking devices.
The premise of cloaking devices hinge on metamaterials — materials which are engineered to have abilities not found in nature. This stuff of superheroic legend can be created for any number of purposes — and one of the most prominent is to have a refraction index of below one, or ideally below zero. In other words, light doesn't refract when it hits them, which would be invaluable for creating ultra-sensitive lenses, microscopes powerful enough to see DNA, better solar panels, and usable invisibility.
The problem is that the materials used in the construction of metamaterials — notably gold and silver — absorb too much light, making them remarkably inefficient. That's where the research of Shumin Xiao of Purdue University comes in. In research published this week in Nature, the scientists discovered a way to make the metamaterials massively more efficient.
These metamaterial cloakers are made up of repeating layers of silver and aluminum oxide, in a fishnet-like film with holes of 100nm. Where most previous work involved adding another layer of material to boost the light — which wasn't efficient enough to counter the loss — the Purdue researchers went a different route. They etched away at the aluminum oxide between the silver layers, and filled it with a special dye that can amplify light when used at a sufficiently small scale. Putting this dye inside the layers rather than above created a 50x increase in its efficiency.
Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue's Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, said:
"What's really important is that the absorption coefficient can be as small as only one-millionth of what it was before using our approach. We can even have amplification of light instead of its absorption. Here, for the first time, we showed that metamaterials can have a negative refractive index and amplify light."
However, manufacture of this new metamaterial is hardly an easy task. The maximum amount of aluminum oxide has to be removed, but enough has to remain behind to keep structural stability; and the dye layer has to be precisely placed, and not more than 50nm thick.
While this research is funded by the U.S. Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation, given the difficulty manufacturing it, it might be a while yet before invisible soldiers stalk the battlefields.
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MADRID (AP) — Maria Menendez, a 25-year-old caught in Spain's job-destroying economic crisis, would love to work in Germany as a veterinarian. Germany, facing an acute shortage of skilled workers, would love to have her.
A perfect match, it seems, but something's holding her back: She doesn't speak German.
The European Union was built on a grand vision of free labor markets in which talent could be matched with demand in a seamless and efficient manner, much in the way workers in the U.S. hop across states in search of opportunity. But today only 3 percent of working age EU citizens live in a different EU country, research shows. As young people in crisis-hit southern Europe face unemployment rates hovering at 50 percent, many find themselves caught in a language trap, unable to communicate in the powerhouse economy that needs their skills the most: Germany.
"I think going abroad is my best option," said Menendez, "but for people like me who have never studied German, it would be like starting from zero."
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Earlier this year the agency announced it would invest up to €40 million ($51 million) in special programs to help jobless Europeans aged 18 and 35 learn German so they can pursue jobs or training in Germany.
The measure targets people like Menendez, who graduated from veterinary school and has two master's degrees but hasn't been able to find work in Spain.
The market for veterinarians in her home country has taken a phenomenal beating over the past four years. Veterinary clinics are cutting back severely because crisis-hit Spaniards are spending less on pets, and a recent hike in the sales tax to 21 percent is hurting these businesses even more. "They're just not hiring," Menendez said.
She would also be qualified to work as a veterinarian for an agricultural company, and she has sent about 1,000 resumes to all corners of Spain over the last year. But only two companies called her back for a preliminary interview. Neither called to invite her for a formal one.
Menendez said she found plenty of jobs online in Germany, where EU rules mean her Spanish qualification would be accepted. But the ads are either in German or, if in English, say that candidates must have good German.
Like most Spaniards, she studied English at school and is now focusing on improving her English. Often touted as the continent's 'lingua franca,' English is widely used in multi-national companies but rarely in the public sector or the small-to-medium sized enterprises that employ the bulk of the European labor force. Meanwhile, London isn't the magnet for young English-speaking Europeans that it used to be. Migrants who flocked there a decade ago are now returning home or looking elsewhere for work as Britain, too, struggles with a rising jobless rate.
Ricardo de Campano learned the hard way how critical it is to have a wide set of language skills when he left London for Berlin two years ago. The 34-year-old said he quickly found work as a special needs teacher in London with the English he'd learned at school, but the same wasn't true when he came to Germany.
"If you want to have a decent job and be part of the system, pay your taxes and have your health insurance, you need to have German," said De Campano, who is now studying the language of Goethe at an adult education college where Spaniards have come to make up the biggest single group of students in recent years.
But despite the boom in German language teaching seen also in Spain itself, the number of Spaniards coming to Germany remains modest. According to figures provided by the Federal Employment Agency, less than 5,000 Spaniards have taken up jobs in Germany over the past year — a tiny fraction of the 4.7 million jobless in Spain.
Class of 2012 participant Rafael Gonzalez del Castillo speaks German and could work in Germany. He picked up the language on a student exchange program in the southern town of Darmstadt and lived with German flat-mates in Madrid. But, in perhaps an alarming sign for Europe, he sees more opportunity and cultural affinity in booming Latin America — and has started to learn Portuguese so he can see work in Brazil.
It's part of a rising trend in Spaniards departing for former European colonies in Latin America, meaning that Europe is losing much of its top-level talent to emerging economies.
"I see Brazil as a country that's going to grow so much in these years," said Gonzalez del Castillo, "And I feel close to them because we are Latin people, and our language is similar."
His fellow architect, 25-year-old David Garcia, is doing his masters in architecture in Spain after spending a year at the university in Regensburg, Germany. While there, Garcia took German lessons outside of his normal studies for the entire period.
Now, Garcia is working for a German company remotely while in Spain, and plans to return there when he finishes — but none of his classmates have targeted Germany for work even though there are plenty of building opportunities there.
"All the people I am studying with want to go abroad, but they prefer to go to England or South America because it will take them a lot of time for them to learn German," Garcia said.
Meanwhile, there are indications that workers from outside the EU are more willing to learn a new language than those from members of the bloc itself. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in its 2012 report that while only 3 percent of working-age EU citizens live in a fellow EU country, migrants from outside the EU make up 5 percent of the EU working-age population. And when Germany's economy minister recently launched a program to recruit skilled foreign workers, he turned not to southern Europe's vast pool of jobless workers but to India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Ten years ago European leaders at a meeting in the Spanish city of Barcelona called for "action to improve the mastery of basic skills, in particular by teaching at least two foreign languages from a very early age." Six years later, the EU's language czar, Leonard Orban, declared that speaking two foreign languages in addition to their mother tongue should be the goal for all citizens of the 27-nation bloc.
The result has been a deluge of programs to subsidize language learning in Europe. Yet a poll of more than 25,000 Europeans earlier this year still found only 54 percent said they were able to hold a conversation in more than one language.
And with austerity eating into European government budgets, the bloc's flagship student exchange program Erasmus, which supports 250,000 students and teachers with grants each year, faces a funding crisis.
"We've had bills for over €100 million already which we can't honor because there's no money in the pot," said Dennis Abbott, a spokesman for the European Commission's education and multi-lingualism directorate.
The shortfall represents less than 0.1 percent of the EU's annual budget, but the failure to break down language barriers could end up being far costlier.
Edoardo Campanella, a former economic adviser to the Italian government, says labor mobility is fundamental to the EU's common market, and in particular the eurozone, where countries with widely differing economic fortunes share a single currency.
"Labor mobility is an important adjustment mechanism," said Campanella, currently a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School. "The language hurdle impairs this safe-valve."
At Berlin's Cafe Colectivo, 30-year-old project manager Maria Sarricolea from Spain laughed as she recalled friends asking about the job prospects in Germany.
"A lot of Spanish people think they can come here and get a great job with a bit of English," she said.
Clendenning contributed from Madrid. Barry Hatton in Lisbon contributed to this report.
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On Windows Phone it's really easy to toggle between Ringer and Vibrate—simply press the volume key (up or down) and then tap the bell in the upper right hand corner to switch. But what about getting it to silent mode?
It's a little tricky but easy once you understand how it works: Simply head to Settings –> Ringtones + Sounds and toggle the Vibrate function off. Now, when you tap the bell in the upper right hand corner, it will switch between Ringer + Silent. Sure, we wish there was an easier way to toggle between all three (ringer, vibrate and silent) but this is Microsoft's current paradigm so that's what we have to use.
Should Microsoft offer a third tap to toggle vibrate on or off? Let us know in the poll after the break. And make sure you check out our other tips and tricks.


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Introduction to Watercolor Workshop
Course #2000018
Josette Urso
Required materials for all class sessions:
(Watercolors in tubes: Windsor Newton/Schmincke/Sennelier/Old Holland) Professional quality paint is highly recommended. (If possible, avoid Winton and Cotman -- they are WN's student grade).
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red (medium)
Cadmium Yellow ( light or pale)
Ultramarine Blue
Hooker's Green/Permanent Green
Neutral Tint (this is a very dark -- dark color)
Yellow Ochre
optional paints:
Cadmium Yellow (medium)
Cobalt Blue
Prussian Blue or Indigo
Sap Green
White Gouache
watercolor brushes (large round brush that comes to a point):
daVinci Spin-Synthetics (Series 488 #6 or larger)
Robert Simmons: AquaTip/other (#14-#16 round synthetic)
flat brush 1 to 1 1/2"
Note: Watercolor brush selections vary from store to store. If you can't find the large round brush recommended on my list, choose one that seems the largest that also comes to a really sharp point. Measure the neck (where the metal meets the brush) and try for 3/8" or larger. White synthetic holds up well and is a practical alternative to natural brushes.
John Pike/other large, white watercolor palette
18"x24" watercolor pad/block, (Arches 140 lb./cold press is recommended)
optional: assorted large sheets and/or blocks (Canson/Fabriano/other)
other materials:
two large containers (for water - large plastic yogurt containers work well)
several saucers/bowls/tuna cans/etc. (for mixing pools of color)
paper towels/kleenex
drafting or masking tape
clear push pins (after first class meeting depending on classroom location)
#2 HB pencil / gum eraser
straightedge or ruler
Suggested Art Supply Stores:
Some of these stores will give you a student discount if you present your Cooper Union Continuing Education registration receipt.


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We thought the Cowboys would be making moves on Wednesday and they haven't disappointed.
Quarterback Kyle Orton restructured his contract to make cap space for linebacker Justin Durant and now the team's made another move to create room for the addition of safety Will Allen. The team announced that they have released wide receiver Anthony Armstrong, a move that cleared $630,000 from the payroll than can now be applied to Allen's deal.
There may be more moves coming for the Cowboys, who have also visited with guard Brandon Moore recently. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that tackle Doug Free is expected to restructure his contract. That move (or Free's outright release) has been expected for a while since Free is set to count $10.02 million against the cap with a base salary of $7 million a year after his right tackle job turned into a time share with Jermey Parnell.
We'll see if Free winds up restructuring — pushing today's cap problems into an upcoming year — or if it's just a pay cut that allows him to stay on the roster, but the Cowboys would get some much needed cash either way. If they can reach agreements on new long-term deals for Tony Romo and Anthony Spencer, the Cowboys would have even more cap space at their disposal. For now, though, they've got just as much as they need.


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February 05, 2002
Los Angeles — The Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA Anderson in collaboration with the Urban Land Institute, the Los Angeles district council (ULILA), will present a symposium featuring an analysis of the strategies employed in successfully financing, redeveloping and disposing of infill apartment projects.
This first of its kind collaboration between the Ziman Center and ULILA will take place on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at Korn Convocation Hall at UCLA Anderson. The event will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., with the program scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Program sponsors include the UCLA Real Estate Alumni Group, Kennedy-Wilson International, Commonwealth Land Title Company, Hanover Financial Company and Nevers, Palazzo, Maddux & Packard.
The symposium will include a case study of a major multi-family housing project in the San Fernando Valley. Kennedy-Wilson acquired the project with equity from Hanover Financial Company, structured the deal, analyzed the needs of Panorama City's Hispanic community, and subsequently retained CB Richard Ellis to execute an exit strategy.
"Our objective is to provide all attendees with a road map of how other similar urban infill transactions of this kind can be successfully developed," said Donald Brackenbush, ULILA's chairman. "In addition we're delighted to be able to provide our members with a closer look at the new Ziman Center, which is destined to become an important asset to our industry."
The program will begin with a macro overview of the capital and multi-family markets by Walter Torous, director of the Ziman Center and professor of finance at UCLA Anderson. Torous will also moderate the panel discussion that follows. The panelists include Stephen Cauley, associate director of the Ziman Center, Robert Hart, managing director, Kennedy-Wilson International, Michael Sanchez, managing director, Hanover Financial, and Laurie Lustig-Bower, senior vice president, CB Richard Ellis.
John Long, managing partner of Highridge Partners and chairman of the Ziman Center, noted one of the Center's principal goals is to provide research, consulting and technological support to the real estate industry.
"In the past three years we have focused our attention on illuminating the need to develop more housing for our burgeoning population," he said. "This has been done in several ways including our highly acclaimed Multi-Family Housing Conference and the Center's multi-family forecast. We see this symposium as broadening our efforts in this arena and welcome the partnership with the Urban Land Institute."
The registration cost for the February 20 reception and symposium is $50 for ULI members, $55 for non-members and $25 for public officials and students. On-site registration is $10 more in each case. On-campus parking is $6. For more information and to register, please call (800) 321-5011 or access information online at http://www.uclareag.org/reag0220.pdf.


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Readers of this blog (both of you) know there is no shortage of AR-style carbines on the market these days. Yeah, and what else is new?
Well, while all ARs might look alike upon first blush, it's actually been a matter of "close but no cigar" if you wanted a genuine Colt M4 like those used by the military. Until now.
That's because, for the first time since the introduction of the iconic and standard-setting M4 in the 1990s, Colt Defense is offering a new rifle — they call it the LESOCOM — to law enforcement and civilian shooters like you and me. And son of a gun if this thing isn't as close in configuration to the M4A1 military carbine as anything you've ever seen. The Colt LESOCOM rifle is ideal for any law enforcement officer, marksman or hunter looking for a firearm that is most similar to what is used by the military.
The only thing it's missing is a light dusting of desert tan Krylon spray paint, and that part's up to you.
What differentiates the LESOCOM from the M4A1 platform currently used by the United States Armed Forces, you ask?
Basically, the LESOCOM's longer barrel length and semi-automatic fire controls. And that's not too darn much.
The barrel is 16.1 inches long, and has a rifling twist of 1/7 RH. With the stock extended, this M4 carbine has an overall length of 35 inches. The LESOCOM is chambered for .223 Remington (5.56×45 NATO) and comes with two 30-round Colt magazines.
Standard on the Colt LESOCOM is a Matech rear back-up iron sight for acquiring distances out to 600 meters, effectively. Also included on the LESOCOM is a Knights Armament Rail System, capable of accommodating the user's preferred optics and accessories at the three, six, nine and 12 o'clock positions.
The Colt LESOCOM features an M4 buttstock, pistol grip and flash suppressor. For left-handed shooters, an ambidextrous fire control selector is standard on all LESOCOM rifles.
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The Gun Digest Book of the AR-15 Vol. II
Gunsmithing the AR-15, How to Maintain, Repair & Accessorize
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I think if America votes it would be after the F2 are confirmed. At the finale Americas vote will be used if a tie takes place. Otherwise it will be null and void.Just saying immediately after F2 is decided, voting will start and probably continue until the night before the finale. JMO and I am speculating of course
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Texas A&M coach Rob Childress was as emotional as I've seen him in talking about John Stilson's season-ending injury late Saturday afternoon. Stilson, the Aggies' hard-throwing ace, has a torn labrum, Childress said following the Aggies' 9-8, 11-inning victory over Kansas State in the Big 12 tournament.
"My disappointment is not for my team," Childress told me in a tunnel of Bricktown Ballpark. "It's for John. He's given us everything he's had from the day he stepped on campus at Texas A&M, and for him to not be a part of the most fun time of the year breaks my heart. This is a guy who's 110 percent sold out to our program and our team and his teammates. That's what breaks my heart."
In terms of moving forward without their ace, Childress said of the upcoming NCAA tournament, "Next week it really comes down to who's coming to College Station. How the matchups work as far as who we're going one, two or three."
Stilson is a junior and was a projected first-round selection in next month's amateur draft. I asked Childress what the injury means for Stilson's future.
"That's something that will be determined obviously in a couple of weeks as far as the draft goes," Childress said.
Childress said they got the results of an MRI taken a couple of days ago just before Saturday's game against Kansas State. Meanwhile A&M will face Missouri in Sunday's 1 p.m. title game, and try and press on without their ace in the league tournament, and then more importantly in the NCAA postseason.


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Hope's outstanding volleyball season is reflected in the final national statistics of NCAA Division III teams.
Hope's outstanding volleyball season is reflected in the final national statistics of NCAA Division III teams.
The Flying Dutch won a school-record 34 victories, were undefeated MIAA conference champions and advanced to the final four of the NCAA championships for the first time in school history.
Hope ranked second among all Division III teams in kills per set (14.18), behind only national champion Washington-St. Louis (14.45). The team was third in assists per set (12.77), trailing Washington-St. Louis (13.26) and Ohio Northern (12.78).
The Flying Dutch were ranked 17th in both digs per set (19.70) and hitting percentage (.247).
Individually, senior setter Andrea Helminiak of Maumee, Ohio (Maumee HS) ranked fourth nationally in assists per set (11.1). The national leader was Marilee Fisher of Washington-St. Louis (11.40). Helminiak was voted the player of the year in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and received Division III All-America third team honors.
Junior outside hitter Jacie Fiedler of Richmond, Ill. (Richmond Burton HS) ranked 16th nationally in hitting percentage (.370) and 49th in kills per set (3.66). The national leaders were Eliza Badeau in hitting percentage (.478) and kills per set (4.93). Fielder was voted to the All-MIAA first team, was named the outstanding player of the NCAA Regional tournament, and received honorable mention All-America recognition.


text: What if you could live forever? What if you had to spend that eternity stuck in a cemetery with only a limbless corpse for a friend, and cantankerous "residents" that were anything but resting in peace? That's the situation for Rue Morgan, night watchman extraordinaire, in this rollicking supernatural adventure-comedy. Rue, along with his buddy Herb, spends his nights watching out for zombies, and his days dreaming of a date with hard-nosed day-shifter, Claire. It's an okay eternity--until a scourge of paranormal occurrences leaves Rue not only watching the cemetery, but also watching his back! Based on the hit short film that critics have called "delightful", "charming", and "unapologetically goofy", "The Night Shift" is guaranteed to be the most fun you've ever had in a cemetery!


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I`m thinking about getting the Naish Skater 4'8 from 2012.
It would be my second directional next to an Underground Kipuna 5'8.
I weight about 176lb and my kites are North Rebel in 6, 9 and 14 m.
It should be fun in small (maybe to medium) waves in the East/North Sea but I also would like to ride it in flat water. So I really like my Kipuna but for my car it`s quite big, so I thought I could better take the Naish in the car if it`s not sure whether there will be any waves at all, or when getting to the spot with somebody else. I almost allways ride in sideonshore to onshore conditions.
I only startet wavekiting some time ago but I love it so much that I`m searching for a board which I could use in many conditions instead of my twintips.
So my main questions are:
Do you think it would fit for me?
Is it suitable to my weight?
In which wind could I probably start? And when would it get me upwind well?
Is it fun to ride (even for a longer time or does it start to get boring soon)?
What are the best conditions?
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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) - The traumatic brain injury that Army Staff Sgt. Isidoro Castillo suffered when a suicide bomber attacked his unit in Afghanistan could have meant the end of his deployment.
Instead, Castillo's doctors handled his inju
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) - The traumatic brain injury that Army Staff Sgt. Isidoro Castillo suffered when a suicide bomber attacked his unit in Afghanistan could have meant the end of his deployment.
Instead, Castillo's doctors handled his injury without sending him back to the United States, part of a military effort to better treat and track brain injuries that have become a signature affliction of the war.
Castillo, originally from Fayetteville, N.C., described the bombing days later while he was recovering in a new specialized housing unit for soldiers being treated for brain injuries.
"He was in my peripheral vision. I heard a pop and I hit the ground and the explosion went off," Castillo said. Five soldiers from his 18-member mentoring team were killed during an April meeting with Afghan soldiers at an outpost in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
The Army has had to rethink the way it deals with traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan and Iraq because U.S. soldiers often are targeted by roadside or suicide bombs. Not treating the sometimes hard-to-spot injury can lead to physical and emotional problems that linger long after the soldier returns home. But sending troops out of country for treatment can leave battle units short-handed.
Medical evacuations from combat zones for traumatic brain injury have been growing, from 194 in 2008 to 303 in 2010, according to statistics provided to The Associated Press from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. Last year, the military implemented a strict new policy on treating and tracking soldiers with concussions right on the front lines of war.
Medical officers in Afghanistan say the new approach, which required opening seven new rehabilitation centers called Level II clinics throughout Afghanistan, is allowing more soldiers to go back to their units rather than be evacuated for treatment. Soldiers who are sent home for treatment generally don't come back.
Castillo was treated under the new guidelines. After diagnosis in the field, he was sent to the rehabilitation clinic the 101st Airborne Division set up at Bagram Air Field for about a week before returning to his unit.
On the hot and dusty military base, Castillo had his own room in a cool, quiet housing unit near the hospital, where he could watch movies on a flat-screen TV, play video games or toss a volleyball around on the sandy court outside. Medical crews use these leisure activities combined with military fitness tests, such as running with body armor or maneuvering around obstacles, to determine whether the soldier is fit to return to duty.
The clinics are also stocked with card games and Wii video games, which help occupational therapists look for memory loss or balance issues.
Castillo and other soldier patients meet daily with doctors and have dedicated occupational therapists who monitor symptoms like concentration, balance, headaches and dizziness. The care they are receiving in Afghanistan is similar to TBI rehabilitation programs at military hospitals in the U.S.
"It makes you feel like the stress is gone," Castillo said. "You have nothing to think about but how am I going to get better, what's my next appointment. They just let you breathe."
Clinics that opened last year in eastern Afghanistan returned about 1,000 soldiers to their units, said Maj. Kevin Ridderhoff, the pharmacist for the 101st Airborne Division who oversaw the program during the division's deployment. Ridderhoff said about 97 percent of soldiers who were referred to a Level II clinic were returned to duty after an average three-day stay.
"A big thing is eight hours of uninterrupted rest. Sleep is the goal," Ridderhoff explained. "With concussion, most of these guys get better. That's a good thing."
One of the final assessments is a military performance test. The soldiers don their body armor, go on a road march or a run, maneuver around obstacles, jump in and out of vehicles - all normal activities for active duty. If a soldier is able to complete them without problems or recurring symptoms, the occupational therapist can recommend a return to their unit.
The 101st Airborne Division, which sent 24,000 soldiers to Afghanistan over the past year, has been at the forefront of the new care regimen for what's called mild traumatic brain injury, often called concussion. It trained all unit medics on symptoms and brought the occupational therapists to Fort Campbell for additional training before opening the Afghanistan clinics.
The policy says soldiers are to be given at least 24 hours rest after the first concussion, seven days of rest after the second concussion and an in-depth neurological exam after the third. The policy also directs medics to check for signs of a concussion after key events, such as if a soldier is near a blast, is in a vehicle rollover accident or has a direct blow to the head.
The soldiers recovering at Bagram are separated from their units, but they could still bond with other injured troops over their near-death experiences.
Photos get passed around of a pile of charred, twisted metal - all that's left of the armored vehicle that Pfc. Kyle Kinmartin was in when it rolled over a pressure plate armed with homemade explosives. Kinmartin said he was still having trouble sleeping because he kept thinking about the explosion and fire that could have killed him or his buddies.
"I don't feel like I got blown up, but my body feels it," he said. "I just want to get back and see the guys."
Capt. Barbara Drawbaugh, an occupational therapist who worked at the mTBI center at Forward Operating Base Fenty in Jalalabad, said they are not pushing injured soldiers back into the fight if they aren't ready. "It's not so much that we are trying to force them back out there. It's that we are providing a really good environment of care to allow them to heal," she said.
Soldiers are at risk of more severe and enduring symptoms if they are not allowed to heal after a concussion and suffer a second one too quickly, Drawbaugh said.
But not all soldiers return to their units after a brain injury if more specialized care is needed.
Spc. Matthew Wright, a military policeman, spent weeks at Bagram and watched other soldiers get better and return to their units, but his symptoms weren't improving. Wright had stepped on a hastily planted bomb and got the brunt of the force of the explosion, but the shrapnel went into the ground instead of his body.
Eventually he was medically evacuated back to Fort Knox, Ky., to get further treatment in a Warrior Transition Unit. He hopes he can return to his job soon.
"It's nice to see they are taking this brain thing seriously," he said.
Feeling a sense of obligation to the mission, Castillo returned to the base where his unit was attacked. He still deals with symptoms, like headaches and feelings of anger. But the 40-year-old non-commissioned officer who has had three previous deployments said he's learned not to ignore the real consequences of a concussion.
"Don't fake the funk. If you're not real and let it out, then you're not going to heal properly and it will cost you in the future," Castillo said.
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General Manager, Townhall.com/HotAir
Garthwaite has been with Townhall.com since its launch in 1995, taking over as Editor in 1998. Following the 2005 spin-off from the Heritage Foundation, Garthwaite was elevated to editor-in-chief and has continued in that capacity since Townhall.com was aquirred by Salem Communicatons in 2006. In 2009, Garthwaite was appointed to the position of General Manager. In 2010, Townhall.com acquired HotAir.com.
He can be followed at @JonGarthwaite
Prior to devoting his efforts toward Townhall.com, Garthwaite served as Director of Online Communications at the Heritage Foundation where he managed Heritage's web presence at heritage.org. Prior to Heritage, Garthwaite coordinated the Internet site for the Leadership Institute in Northern Virginia, and assisted Colorado State Representative Mark Paschall. Garthwaite received his B.S. from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He lives in the Washington D.C. area with his wife Sarah and children, Emily and Chandler.


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The Department of Political Science at The College of Wooster welcomes student interest in internship programs. The term "internship" loosely refers to a part-time or temporary position (whether paid or unpaid, for academic credit or not) that entails some relevant professional experience. Internships also represent a special educational opportunity that can help to bridge the gap between theory and real world experience. According to the American Political Science Association's guide to internships:
"The positive and exciting educational opportunities inherent in an internship stand on their own. In terms of visualized learning, internships provide a low-risk and limited-cost vantage point from which to preview a general class of careers…For students unfamiliar with office work, city life, or government employment, being able to observe them first hand without the fear of making career-jeopardizing decisions, or totally closing other options through narrow specialization, is quite desirable… [Many] interns find their experience reduces career startup costs, provides guidance for future educational choices, helps hone valuable skills, and may provide an entrée to a permanent job in the area they have found they like, since many government offices use internships as a low-risk recruiting and evaluation process" (Frantzich, 2002, 3).
Internship Programs Approved for Academic Credit
The Department of Political Science at Wooster has high standards for granting academic credit for internships to count toward College graduation requirements. Our department endorses academic credit transfer for internships completed through only three sets of programs: The American University Washington Semester Program; the Drew University United Nations Semester Program; and Urban Semester experiences in Portland, Oregon, or Birmingham, Alabama.
American University Washington Semester
Many Political Science majors at The College of Wooster choose to gain hands-on experience through a professional internship in Washington D.C. This program offers a unique opportunity to cultivate your career goals. The program offers a wide variety of internship opportunities to fit almost any interest. Indeed, there are over 2,000 different internships to choose from. Students intern for two days a week on the days that they do not attend their seminar classes. Every student who participates in the Washington Semester program is guaranteed an internship, and many will receive multiple offers.
This program is a one-semester program in Washington, D.C., in either the fall or spring, for juniors in good academic standing. The Washington Semester program features a full semester of transferable credit, including: a two-course seminar featuring weekly sessions with public and private sector decision-makers; a one-course internship in an agency or organization of the student's choice; and a research project utilizing the resources of the nation's capital. For more information on the Washington Semester students can contact Professor Eric Moskowitz at The College of Wooster.
Drew University United Nations Semester
Students at The College of Wooster with an interest in international organizations might want to consider this semester in New York on the United Nations. The program consists of two parts: the seminar, which provides an overview of the activities of the U.N. and helps to evaluate the effectiveness of this organization, and the independent research project, which allows for in-depth exploration of a topic of interest. Participants also have the option of working as an intern in an organization related to the U.N. or involved in other aspects of international affairs. Over the course of the program students will spend time with guest speakers who address the issues currently facing the U.N., participate in question and answer sessions with the speakers, as well as engage in a simulation mirroring the training developed for incoming civil servants at the U.N. This program offers students a rare chance to engage in the realities of international relations through first-hand experiences.
This unique program runs every fall semester and is open to juniors with a strong academic record. Students must also have completed an introductory course in international relations, foreign policy, or international organizations. Please contact Professor Jeffrey Lantis at Wooster for more information or contact Drew University's off-campus study program office.
Urban Semester Internships
The urban semester is the core of Wooster's Urban Studies major program. Urban semester internships may be arranged in Portland, Oregon, or Birmingham, Alabama. Students experience life in the city for the semester, work 32 hours a week in their internship (two credits), and participate in the seminar (one credit). Students may also choose to enroll in an Urban Studies reading course for an additional credit. They experience first-hand the problems of life in a city and the rigors of a full-time job. Wooster students are eligible for the program if they have completed Urban Studies 101 or are Urban Studies majors. Students' performance is evaluated by the internship supervisor and the faculty advisor to the program. For further information, contact the chair of the Urban Studies Program at The College of Wooster.
Helpful Hints
Wooster faculty members have developed some helpful hints for students considering internship program options, such as:
- The best internship programs are well organized and closely affiliated with accredited educational institutions. Internships can be valuable as you look ahead to the political science job search process. Internships provide an avenue to address the dilemma of many first-time job seekers: they want to obtain working experience but employers are reluctant to hire them without experience.
- Many Wooster students complete internships to gain valuable experience, whether paid or unpaid, for academic credit or not. Students develop greater knowledge of a career field and they gain valuable experience in a professional environment.
- Internships promote the development of personal networks that may yield job ideas and even career opportunities in the future.
Frantzich, Stephen E. 2002. Studying in Washington: A Guide to Academic Internships in the Nation's Capital, Fifth Edition. American Political Science Association: Washington, DC.


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beyerdynamic celebrates 88th anniversary / microphone classic M 88 turns 50 years old
Heilbronn, March 2012/VS: 2012 is a special year for beyerdynamic: the company is celebrating its 88th anniversary and as such has stood for applied high technology in the field of professional audio electronics for over eight decades. At the same time, the microphone classic M 88 is turning 50.
The emergence of sound film gave the initial ignition: the young electrical engineer and company founder Eugen Beyer developed cinema speakers and in 1924, laid the foundation for the development of beyerdynamic into an international audio specialist. In 1937, he presented the first dynamic headphones (DT 48) to the market; shortly after, he brought the first dynamic microphone (M 19) to series production. The success of beyerdynamic headphones and microphones has written history: the 1966 Beatles tour was played with the E 1000 microphone made especially for the mop tops and gave the microphones from Heilbronn international renown. In the 70s and 80s, musicians and bands like Abba, Bob Dylan, Udo Lindenberg and many others used beyerdynamic microphones. Today, young successful bands (Clueso, P:lot) continue to rely on beyerdynamic (see a full list of friends of beyerdynamic on www.beyerdynamic.de/friends).
The company is still owned by the Beyer founding family. They are proud of their long years of experience and of the engineers some of whom have been loyal to the company for over twenty years. "The pioneering spirit of Eugen Beyer is still within us. The close bond between the employees and the beyerdynamic brand and naturally the enormous technical know-how make our products stand out. The sound quality has continually improved over the years, the workmanship has been optimised and the technology has been adapted to the modern requirements for high-end acoustics," said Wolfgang Luckhardt, Managing Director of beyerdynamic. Particularly the steadily growing customer requirements such as for mobile music enjoyment set new challenges for the company time and time again. "Recognising market trends early and having an offer ready at the right moment, that is the art, especially since the competition from the Far East has grown significantly in the last few years," Mr Luckhardt added. However, beyerdynamic is holding on to its premium positioning and will continue to stand for 'Made in Germany' quality. The portfolio contains classics which have not lost much of their original character and show that good products can be long-lasting: the M 88 moving coil microphone, the M 130 double ribbon microphone or the DT 48 headphones are only three examples of the perfected developments of beyerdynamic engineers of the 50s and 60s. These products are still on the market with only slight changes and are amongst the most successful specimens of their kind.
By deciding to enter into the conference technology business, market shares in a future-oriented business area were secured early on. With the MCW-D, a digital wireless conference technology, beyerdynamic made its breakthrough. Here, secure transmission of speech and flexible system solutions are just as important as excellent sound features. With its Revoluto technology that is still unique today, the company has accelerated its innovative power in the last few years. Some of the renowned customers in the conference technology sector in Germany include the German Bundestag (Berlin), the Deutsche Bank (Frankfurt) and the Federal Ministry of Economy (Berlin). On an international level, beyerdynamic technology is used in the Baden-Württemberg representation office to the EU (Brussels), in the OECD building (Paris) and the University of Moscow (see a full list of references and project reports on www.beyerdynamic.de/Referenzen).
Strictly speaking, it is not only the company anniversary that is celebrated this year, but another "double-eight": the M 88 microphone classic celebrates a milestone birthday in 2012. It has been the standard microphone on the rock and blues music scene for 50 years. Its high-quality transmission and unbeatable elimination of feedback helped the microphone all-rounder gain the highest honours shortly after its birth in 1962, when it was selected as the only microphone for events as part of Queen Elisabeth's inaugural visit to Australia.
This birthday year at beyerdynamic will be celebrated with many activities: a special model of the DT 770 Pro headphones with a 32 Ohm system specially for mobile sound sources complete in a black design will be presented as a "limited Edition" on the occasion of the anniversary (RRP: 200 EUR, available from March 2012). Draws on the internal website, a competition, an anniversary t-shirt and an exhibition of historic headphones and microphones are also in preparation.
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Seniors at Middlebury College are studying the harvesting standards for biomass at the college's new biomass plant, which the college fired up last winter.
As part of their study, these students are hoping to gauge the community's general perceptions and opinions regarding the new biomass plant, and the future of biomass in the area. That's where you come in: If you're an Addison County resident, take a moment to weigh in with your thoughts for this unscientific poll on public opinion. The results will be used in a final project for an Environmental Studies senior seminar.
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Katy Perry Cleanses Her 'Chakra' on Volcano + Confirms Obama Fundraiser Performance
These days, Katy Perry is getting spiritual and political. After cleansing her spirit with meditation and a journey to the top of a volcano, Perry has signed on for a fundraiser for President Obama.
On Saturday, Perry hinted that she was in the midst of a spiritual awakening when she tweeted, "Starting the day with a group meditate #breakfastofchampions." Monday, that was followed by, "Getting some sh– out my chakra's! #eloquent." And Tuesday, she wrote, "I ate, I prayed, I climbed a volcano," and included a photo of herself basking atop an unnamed volcano with mountains visible in the distance.
Perry's new mental and physical challenges could be a way of finally putting ex-husband Russell Brand in the rear-view mirror for good. Though they separated in December, their divorce did not become official until July. Perry has been hanging out with John Mayer in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign told The Hollywood Reporter that the 'Wide Awake' singer will be one of many performers on the bill for the "30 Days to Victory" concert at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Oct. 7. Tickets start at $44 for those under the age of 40.
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Autumn is here and nature is changing her coat. An invitation to go outside and savour the fresh fragrances of a new season. Vincent van Gogh, too, was inspired by life outdoors at this time of year. In 1882 he painted Girl in the woods in situ, as the leaves we have found embedded in the paint prove. That is just one of the remarkable discoveries to emerge from Van Gogh's studio practice, a joint research project by the Van Gogh Museum, Shell and the Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency. This is the final blog posting about the project, but in 2013 it is due to reach a spectacular climax in the form of a major exhibition. Read the rest of this entry »
Van Gogh's Studio Practice: an introduction
The Van Gogh Museum, the Institute for Cultural Heritage of the Netherlands and Shell form an innovative, multidisciplinary team pursuing a collaborative research project in art history, technology and natural science: Van Gogh's Studio Practice.
The objective is to gain new insight into Van Gogh's working method by investigating every facet of his creative process and his works of art, and through comparison with his contemporaries.
Into the lab
A physiological look at complementary colours
We have already touched on the topic of complementary colours a few times on this website. But just what makes this complementary effect so special? Underlying this phenomenon is a physiological explanation. The optic nerve that translates incoming information into shapes and colours has a very distinctive property that helps it to process colour. Each colour that falls upon the retina is perceived as if it were an attack that must be weakened. The eye does this by instantly creating a matching filter in a complementary colour in order to protect the optic nerve from irritation. This filter in a complementary colour acts to somewhat neutralise the original colour. Read the rest of this entry »
Van Gogh shows his true colours…
Sometimes, my job is like an episode of CSI: I can solve mysteries about a work of art with the help of evidence I find in the lab. A few months ago, researchers from the Van Gogh Museum came to me and requested that I examine a small painting of a seated nude girl using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). Van Gogh produced this painting in Paris in the spring of 1886, at the studio of his teacher Fernand Cormon. He painted it on a small canvas that he had previously used for a flower still life, as we know from examining an X-ray photograph of the piece. The photograph is difficult to interpret, but we can make out a bouquet of flowers in a tall vase. X-ray photographs are always black and white, however. I knew that the XRF technique would not only produce a sharper image, but also tell us the colours of the concealed flower still life.
Studio behind bars
Where did Van Gogh work? Behind bars in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
In May 1889 Van Gogh was admitted to an asylum for the mentally ill in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, not far from Arles. He would remain there for a year. In addition to the standard cell assigned to every patient, he was allowed to use another one as a studio. There was plenty of room: about thirty cells were unoccupied.
A wider horizon
Van Gogh in the flow: Van Gogh took great pleasure in painting, making clear artistic choices but also leaving some things to chance. But did he really mean to make those strange splotches on his painting of a landscape at twilight?


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Stress starts when your body is confronted with more than it can handle be it physical, emotional or mental. At first, your body prepares by increasing adrenalin production. You know the signs: pounding heart, heavy breathing, sweating, tense muscles. However, when stress persists, physical preparation turns into physical deterioration. Here are some simple suggestions how you can decrease the stress in your life.
Step 1. No Caffeine
America's wake-up call, caffeine, is her downfall as well. This ubiquitous stimulant is found in coffee, black tea, chocolate, soft drinks and some medications such as cold remedies, diet formulas and wake-up pills.
It's easy to understand why caffeine ranks as the most popular drug in the world and the United States (about nine out of ten Americans consume caffeine) (American Family Physician, 1991, vol 43). Caffeine not only wakes you up, it also sharpens concentration and temporarily chases away the blues. No wonder a cloudy town like Seattle boasts coffee drinking as its number one past-time.
Unfortunately, most people use caffeine's stimulating qualities to prop themselves up during tense times. Martin Feldman, MD, a New York physician says: "In our society, the stress of day-to-day living has a tendency to 'wear out' our adrenal glands." Caffeine is an ideal way to squeeze more adrenalin and norephinephrine out of the adrenals for a boost of energy. This constant jolting is tiring for both you and your adrenals. The result is usually another cup of coffee, exhaustion and addiction (The Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, volume 13, number 1).
Stress and caffeine build upon one another. You can't sleep at night because of stress; caffeine makes it worse. Stress sends you into mood swings; caffeine pushes you harder. Caffeinism, caffeine addiction, can't be turned off at will so sleepless nights and restless days take a toll on your already stressed-out body.
Besides adding to stress, caffeine causes "coffee nerves", that nervous, irritable, anxious feeling. Other complaints include insomnia, increased urination, headaches, irregular or fast heartbeat, stomach pain, breathing problems, excessive sweating, spots in front of your eyes, ringing in your ears and tingling in your fingers and toes (Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook (2nd ed) (Williams & Wilkins) by Joyce H. Lowinson, MD et al (eds)).
Dan, a longtime coffee drinker, told me: "I quit coffee and don't want to drink it again. I found coffee harder to quit than smoking cigarettes." Desire aside, withdrawing from caffeine, even moderate usage, is difficult. Symptoms include headaches, fatigue, nausea, muscle pains, changeable mood and foggy thinking.
Give yourself a week to break the caffeine habit. To ease the pain of withdrawal, take extra vitamin C, drink calming teas like chamomile, peppermint and valerian and avoid other addictive substances like refined sugar and alcohol.
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Road link to be opened earlier than expected
Almost 40 years since it was first touted, the Peninsula Link freeway connecting Carrum Downs and Mount Martha will open to traffic on Thursday night.
The toll-free road will shave 40 minutes off the average peak hour journey.
The Premier Ted Baillieu says the road, started by the former Labor government, will attract more tourists to the Mornington Peninsula.
"This freeway will assist many communities to spend less time in traffic and more time with family and friends," he said.
Mr Baillieu said Victorians will be able to travel all the way from central Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula without encountering a single traffic light.
"Peninsula Link will give people the choice to bypass the nine sets of traffic lights and six major roundabouts that exist on the current route," he said.
The 27 kilometre road has been under construction since 2010.
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It takes about twelf years to bring a new drug component to the market and the time for developing processes has permanently increased during the last few years. But how can you accelerate drug development?
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Robin Hood school funds system fares poorly in poll
AUSTIN - A pollster hired by property-wealthy school districts testified Tuesday that voters in those areas have virtually no interest in supporting school tax increases knowing that nearly half of the new revenue would flow to the state under the so-called Robin Hood system.
Property-wealthy school districts contend the state's underfunded school funding system leaves them without meaningful discretion in educating children because they cannot generate additional revenue to pay for increasing enrollments and rising school costs.
Polling in three ISDs
Larry Harris, a founder of the Mason Dixon Polling & Research firm, testified about polling done in three property-wealthy school districts for the Texas School Coalition, one of six groups involved in a lawsuit against the state.
Four of the groups include school districts with claims the state is not adequately funding education or doing it equitably.
The polling was conducted in the Frisco ISD, Calhoun ISD and Grapevine-Colleyville ISD areas in July. Nearly 9 out of 10 voters in those property-wealthy school districts would oppose a property tax increase when informed that almost half of the extra revenue would go to the state because of the Robin Hood school funding system in Texas.
Property-wealthy school districts are required to share their tax revenue.
"That is a tough nut to crack … nearly insurmountable," Harris told Lacy Lawrence, an attorney for the Texas School Coalition, which represents mostly property-wealthy schools.
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Property-wealthy districts share about $1 billion of their local tax revenue each year.
A total of 374 school districts will be required to share their property wealth during the current school year.
When the Robin Hood system started in 1993, only 35 school districts in Texas were required to share their tax wealth.
That list has expanded as the state has found itself increasingly unable to generate sufficient school funding from its existing tax structure.
The poll surveyed 500 registered voters living in those three school districts and has a 4.5 percent margin of error.
The school finance trial is expected to continue into January.