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Summer School Les Houches (France): Frontiers of condensed matter
PhD defence - Georgios Papadomanolakis: "Into the Darkness: Forging a Stable Path Through the Gravitational Landscape"
PhD defence - Uditendu Mukhopadhyay: "Quantum simulation using arrays of gate-defined quantum dots"
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Reading out qubits 100 times faster than before: new step towards the quantum computer (article in Nature Nanotechnology by Casimir PhD student Guoji Zheng and colleagues)
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First, I made the bread
Herb Crusted Stuffed Hens
What you'll need:
2 Cornish Game Hens (I bought frozen, so make sure they're completely thawed. Fresh ones generally have giblets inside, so be sure to remove those first)
1/2 loaf Cinnamon Raisin Bread, cut into 1/2" cubes (Fresh from the oven bread won't work as well for stuffing, so I made these 2 days after I baked the bread)
1/2 c chicken stock (I make my own, so it's full of onion, carrot and celery as well)
1/4 c carrots, diced very small
Equal parts savory, rosemary, sage
3 parts Thyme
Salt and pepper
Mix all seasonings/herbs in a small bowl and set aside. Prepare hens by rinsing thoroughly.
Take the remaining seasoning mixture and coat the hens well.
Bake at 375 until a meat thermometer reads 180 when inserted in the middle of the thigh (about an hour). The meat is done when the juices run clear and the wings and legs move freely. If skin starts browning too much, make a tent with aluminum foil and cover the hens. Because stuffing can be a potential bacteria hangout, make sure it's cooked thoroughly!
The skin was so crispy and full of the wonderful flavors of the herbs!
The stuffing soaks up the earthy flavor of the herbs and a tasty juices from the poultry, while the meat absorbs the cinnamon and raisin flavors. It all makes for a surprising and wonderful combination!
From Mess Hall to Bistro-Iron Chef Challenge entries
January Maple Leaf Farms (Duck)
February American Lamb (Lamb)
March Red Gold (Tomatoes)
April Clabber Girl (Baking Powder)
June Dean's and Kelsay Farms (Milk)
July King Arthur (Flour)
September Red Star (Yeast)
October Ocean Mist Farms (Artichokes)

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This was one of my favorite looks of my last trip to Milan, maybe its the white jeans again.
Monday, April 7, 2014
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This is so cute on every level!
Him! His outfit! The …. "man clutch"! I love the shoes, too.
i like his clutch! :)
Great color mix!
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Today I bring you a Very Comfy outfit with ripped jeeans, trainers and suede biker!!!
What a fun post, have a fab week!
- Jenessa
And the coat. And the boots.
Yes! What an oversight on my part …. hahahaha
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Let's do this!
He's the sweetest. Wow.
Jacket and boots are great. The pants, hmmm.
there's something to be said for a nice and comfy, loosely silhouetted coat
I want that man-clutch.
I love that bag….!
Love the boots… are those Alden Indy in suede?
All the colors work with his look.
Thank you all !!
coat…GRENFELL Ă— BEAMS
bag…MAISON BALUCHON
I love the natural tones and the white pants.
Love the white jeans with the Coat!


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Sometimes, a mobile device just misses its mark. It can be any number of factors that ultimately do it in: lack of sales, a price that's too high, glitches and bugs. And sometimes, it's the device maker that pulls the plug, putting a device out of its misery before any real losses can stack up.
The latest victim of this is the HP TouchPad. But the TouchPad isn't the first, and it certainly won't be the last device to hit the market, only to land with a thud and be destined for extinction. Here we take a look at 10 devices (the TouchPad and nine other doomed souls) that weren't long for this world.


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You won't find fiber in cheeseburgers, grilled chicken, cheese, or any other animal products. But a diet based on whole grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables can provide plenty of this essential nutrient.
Dietary fiber, or roughage, is a known cancer fighter found only in the cell walls of plant foods. Studies have shown that increased fiber intake decreases the risk of cancer, particularly colorectal cancer.
Fiber adds bulk to the digestive system, shortening the amount of time that waste travels through the colon. This waste often contains carcinogens and potential cancer-causing hormones that need to be removed from the body as quickly as possible. Fiber decreases the chances for intestinal cells to be affected by carcinogens. When bacteria in the lower intestine break down fiber, a substance called butyrate is produced. Butyrate may inhibit the growth of tumors of the colon and rectum.
Fiber may also help protect against breast cancer, especially when the fiber comes from grains and wheat bran. High-fiber diets are often lower in fat, and dietary fat is believed to increase the risk of breast cancer because fat can increase hormones in the body and speed tumor growth.
Increased fiber also expedites the removal of potentially harmful excess estrogen. The liver filters estrogens out of the blood by passing them into the digestive tract where fiber helps remove them from the body.
Fiber may also have a protective effect against mouth, throat, and esophageal cancers. And fiber may be part of the reason that vegetarian diets have been shown to result in low risk of prostate cancer. Of course, vegetarian diets are also rich in cancer-protective antioxidants.
Most Americans consume only 10 to 15 grams of fiber per day. But studies have shown that optimal intake for cancer prevention is at least 30 grams to 35 grams of fiber per day.
Studies suggest that small increases in fiber, such as adding vegetables to a chicken stir-fry or having a hamburger on a whole wheat bun, do not offer much protection. Replacing high-fat animal products such as chicken, fish, cheese, and eggs with plant foods helps boost fiber to levels where real protection is possible.
There are two types of dietary fiber—soluble and insoluble. Soluble fiber dissolves in water and is found in a variety of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains. It cuts cholesterol, adds to a feeling of fullness, and slows the release of sugars from food into the blood. These actions reduce your risk for health problems including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Good sources of soluble fiber are oats, oat bran, oatmeal, apples, citrus fruits, strawberries, dried beans, barley, rye flour, potatoes, raw cabbage, and pasta.
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Here's what I don't like about the Democrats, who I very grudgingly count myself among:
We're running either a black man or a woman. That means that even if we lose, we get to feel good about ourselves. Either way, our self-respect and our pride are covered. We've got an insurance policy on our egos. What we don't have is a ruthless strategy for winning. We're prioritizing great television and our own feelings over political strategy and success.
The last time we made this choice, we lost.
I would feel so much better about the Democratic candidates if we were going to be feeling a sort of sick guilty sensation about what we had to do to win. Because that's what success in politics feels like. Politics is not a place where you win by feeling good about yourself. You don't get a law degree and a political career by hugging teddy bears. Lawyers are fighters. The whole job of a lawyer is to fight. They fight in the courts, wearing suits, but they are above and beyond all other concerns fundamentally people who fight each other for a living.
When you elect somebody, you're hiring somebody to fight for you. I don't want a good-looking, well-educated, charming, well-spoken black man to fight for me. I want a do-dirt nigga who'll kick a motherfucker in their balls. Because that's what the Republicans bring us every time. They might be bringing us white do-dirt niggas, but a do-dirt nigga is a do-dirt nigga. We win elections and they still take power! Obama is great, but when the Republicans are setting rows of men armed with shotguns between black people and their polling places, like they did in 2000, winning the black vote doesn't mean a whole lot. These motherfuckers are criminals, and they are raping our political process. The US government doesn't even allow the United Nations to send voting inspectors to observe our elections any more.
Obama wrote a book called The Audacity Of Hope, but it might make more sense to talk about The Wankery Of Upper-Class Delusional Self-Indulgence. I got to shake Obama's hand, and it was a thrill. I get the same thrill of optimism as most people from Obama. But I can totally see people smiling and remembering how the Democrats lost in 2008, and saying, "but what a great time we had." And I know that there are plenty of people who believe that America isn't ready for a black president, and many of those people who believe that thing are black people who can't even get seated at a family restaurant.
I mean, let's face it, they would know. All this talk about is America ready for a black president is just ridiculous when there are little black kids wondering when America will be ready to sell them some tater tots and let them sit down.
A year ago I posted that the Democrats never win the presidency unless they run white men from the South. Let's quit sucking our own dicks and run a white man from the South. Let's just do what it takes to win, for once. Is that really so hard?
Since that post last year, the amazing, kick-ass candidate who was a white man from the South has dropped out of the race, mainly because the media consistently ignored him, and we've got a really close nomination race. We're either going for a black President and a female VP, or the other way around. We might lose, but it'll be a precedent-setting election. (Like that's supposed to mean something.)
Meanwhile, the suicide rate among US soldiers is five attempts per day, and if your son kills himself in Iraq, the Army won't even count him among the casualties of war. And nobody even wants to know about the Iraqi casualties.
That's what's going on while the Democrats are mounting a "fun" campaign which is guaranteed to be "historic" and make you feel like some kind of hero even if your team loses. That's horribly irresponsible. As angry as anyone who loses a family member to suicide in Iraq might be at "President" Bush, as angry as any crippled Iraqi 11-yr-old or his anguished father might be at "President" Bush, they should be more angry at the Democratic Party, who took historic wins in 2006 over anti-war outrage and then refused to even consider impeachment.
What's really amazing about all this is that nobody seems worried about the possibility of election fraud, despite the precedent set in 2000 and even though election officials in the election-deciding state of Ohio recently went to jail for election fraud perpetrated during the 2004 election. We're supposed to believe that the same people who seized power illegally two Presidential elections in a row will just somehow roll over and play by the rules this time.
I hope Obama wins. I really do. But I wish we weren't running him. I'm sick and tired of this crap. We're up against people with a proven history of election fraud. Do we chart out a strategy for preventing election fraud? Or do we chart out a strategy for feeling like elections really, really matter, even though we know we can win the election and still not take power?
Is that not the most pathetic type of CYA behavior the world has ever witnessed?
What are we preparing for?
Cui bono?
Sometimes I think Democrats deserve Republicans. But the rest of us deserve something better.
(Sorry about all the negativity, but they put CNN on in my gym every morning. I'm looking for another gym.)


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Despite the near tie in the latest polling of the nationwide popular vote, Obama appears poised to remain in the White House for four more years.
Running our simulation model with the last set of weekly polls before Tuesday's election, President Obama once again has moved up to a near certain win for the electoral vote. As of November 2, our model predicts a 96% chance of reelection with Governor Romney's chance of unseating the President falling back to 4%. While there is still buzz about the possibility of an electoral college tie – and the resulting President Romney and Vice-President Biden – that probability has also fallen to near zero.
At this point, Obama can claim 199 electoral votes as near certainties to Romney's 159. When the likely wins are included Obama's total rises to 226 and Romney's to 173. If you include all of the states that are currently leaning for reelection, the President climbs well past the needed 270 to 332 electoral votes.
The challenge for Governor Romney is to retake several of the states that are leaning blue. The most likely of these is New Hampshire followed by Ohio but at a total of 22 electoral votes that only drops Obama to 310. If Romney can also win both Virginia and Florida he raises his total to 272 and a win – but even losing New Hampshire's four votes from that mix turns his win back to a loss.
At this point our model is predicting an electoral college vote of 314 for President Obama and 224 for Governor Romney – a buffer of 45 votes. While this is the most likely outcome, the next most likely possibilities have even higher totals for the President. In fact the top fifty percent of the outcomes are all above 294 electoral votes.
A common saying by candidates is that the only poll that counts is the one on election day. And while an upset is still a possibility, that possibility currently appears to be quite unlikely.
J. Brian Adams
J. Brian Adams, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Penn State Harrisburg.


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Amazon Web Services
From setiquest wiki
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud platform comprising services for computation (EC2), storage (S3), and data transfer. Many setiQuest projects and web servers are hosted on AWS.
For Jill Tarter's 2009 TED wish Amazon donated AWS services of 45K hours of EC2 processing, 40 TB of data storage[1], and 1 TB network data transfer per month.[2] The initial donation offer was for 5 years. In late 2010 it was announced that this offer had been extended by an additional year. The value 45K hours per month works out to 60 continuous machine instances running 24x7 which is a serious amount of processing power.
Amazon Machine Image
The Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a 32-bit or a 64-bit Linux distribution that runs on the virtual EC2 instances. The stock AMI is based on CentOS 5 which is a fork of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.[3] The size of the stock AMI has been minimized so most of the standard Linux packages are missing but they can easily be installed with the "yum" utility. The compiler in the stock AMI is gcc 4.1.2 but version 4.4 is available in the yum package repository. Other community machine images are available on AWS such as Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu but they are not as well supported.
Micro Instance
On November 1st 2010 Amazon began offering an EC2 Micro Instance free tier to new customers for one year.[4][5] This offer consists of 750 EC2 Micro Instance hours per month which is enough to run it constantly. The offer also included 10 GB of Elastic Block Storage (EBS), 5 GB of S3 storage, 30 GB network bandwidth (15 GB in and out), and numerous other cloud services. The Micro Instance can run in either 32-bit or 64-bit CPU modes.
The free Micro Instance defaults to using the stock Linux AMI. An openSUSE machine image is available on AWS but its use is prohibited for the free Micro Instance offer due to licensing costs.
The Micro Instance can burst up to 2 EC2 compute units and has 613 MB of RAM. This works out to brief access to a full core of a 2.66 GHz Xeon processor but heavy CPU usage gets throttled because of the time-sharing nature of the service. Unfortunately this means that the Micro instance is not suitable for processor intensive applications.
The Micro Instance uses EBS and does not have any swap space. This means that the total RAM usage by the kernel and all processes must be less than 613 MB. It is currently not possible to run SonATA on a AWS Micro Instance.
High-performance computing
High-performance computing (HPC) used to be the realm of dedicated supercomputers. Today HPC has moved to the cloud. AWS has several EC2 instances[6] that fall into the HPC category:
- m2.4xlarge "High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance" - 68.4 GB of memory, 26 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon 2.67 GHz X5550 quad-core architecture = 8 virtual cores). $1.80/hour
- c1.xlarge "High-CPU Extra Large Instance" - 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon 2.13 GHz E5506 quad-core architecture = 8 virtual cores). $0.66/hour
- cc1.4xlarge "Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large Instance" - 23 GB of memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon 2.93 GHz X5570 quad-core "Nehalem" architecture = 8 cores). $1.30/hour
- cc2.8xlarge "Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large Instance" - 60.5 GB of memory, 88 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon 8-core architecture = 16 cores). $2.40/hour
- cg1.4xlarge "Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large Instance" - 22 GB of memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon 2.93 GHz X5570 quad-core "Nehalem" architecture = 8 cores), 2 x NVIDIA Tesla "Fermi" M2050 GPUs. $2.10/hour
All EC2 instances are 64-bit and have 1690 GB of local disk storage except for the cc2.8xlarge instance which has 3370 GB of local disk storage. An EC2 compute unit is equivalent to a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 AMD Opteron or 2007 Intel Xeon processor. Costs are US-East prices[7] circa March 2012.
The three cluster compute instances use 10 Gigabit Ethernet for a very high amount of network I/O performance. This server architecture suggests that a cloud SonATA is feasible with ample network bandwidth out of the Hat Creek server room. It is unknown if the AWS 10 GbE switch supports UDP multicast subscribing. The cluster instances also utilize Intel's Hyper-threading for a doubling of the virtual core count. The three compute cluster instances are currently only available in the US East (Virginia) region.
Note that EC2 instances are not configured with any virtual swap space by default.
Data transfer
Transferring network data between AWS servers in a geographical region is free if the two servers happen to be in the same availability zone. Unfortunately determining a server's exact availability zone location is impossible because the zones are mapped and distributed randomly between users.[8] Experimentation is the only way to determine if two servers are in the same availability zone.
On July 14th 2011 AWS announced lower prices for outbound bandwidth and that all inbound bandwidth is now free.[9] Data transfer between different availability zones in the same region is still charged $0.01 per GB. So the availability zone problem mentioned above can be circumvented by being in two different regions. Example: a user's server in US West can stream unlimited data for free from setiQuest's servers that are located in the US East region, though this outbound transfer does count against Amazon's donated 1 TB per month quota.
Direct Connect
The AWS Direct Connect service is a fast data pipe into the AWS network. Both 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps ports are supported. The rumored dark fiber[10] out of Hat Creek could be used to create a dedicated network from the ATA directly into the internal AWS network at an Equinix access point in Silicon Valley. With enough bandwidth multiple beamformer beams could be sent to the cloud for processing. The cost to light the dark fiber is unknown. Also, Direct Connect is not an included service in the AWS donation. The data input costs are free which would match the expected usage perfectly. The Direct Connect pricing circa November 2011 is $0.30/hour for a 1 Gbps port and $2.25/hour for a 10 Gbps port.[11]
Hosted projects
The following setiQuest projects are running on AWS:
- Data conduit (work in progress?)
- IRC logbot (#setiquest IRC log archiving)
- setiCloud (obsolete)
- setiQuest Data (archive and web server)
- setiQuest Explorer (image data server)
- SETI Live (file receiving and rendering)
- setiQuest info service (ATA status) [12]
See also
- Cloud reservation (obsolete)
- ↑ http://www.tedprize.org/jill-tarter/
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2010-11-23#comment-1526
- ↑ http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonLinuxAMIUserGuide.pdf
- ↑ http://aws.amazon.com/free/
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/free-cloud-year
- ↑ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
- ↑ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2010-11-30#comment-1554
- ↑ http://aws.amazon.com/pricing_effective_july_2011/
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/some-brief-answers-many-questions
- ↑ http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/#pricing
- ↑ http://setiquest.info


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Earlier this month, I went to see one of my favorite musicians, Natasha Khan (aka "Bat for Lashes") perform live at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. It was definitely one of the most unforgettable musical experiences I've ever had.
I wanted to attend the concert with some of my friends, but everyone I called that day were either busy or out of town, so I decided to go by myself. While I would have liked it if someone came along with me, I think going alone made the experience that much better. It gave me some personal time to privately connect with the music and escape with it. It's hard to describe or even categorize the music of "Bat for Lashes" because of how unique they are, but if I were to draw comparisons, I would say they're like a cross between the "Cocteau Twins," "Bjork," and "Claire Voyant." It was amazing to see Natasha Khan's energy on stage; you can tell how passioante she is about performing and singing. She has an incredibly beautiful voice and unlike most mainstream singers, she doesn't manipulate or alter her voice. The way she sounds on the album recordings is exactly how she sounds live.
There are a lot of magical themes in Natasha's music and it's something I appreciate enormously. I think a fantasy element is essential to us, and yet it seems that humanity runs away from it. I've noticed, especially in the academic setting, that people tend to take on a more "logical" and "rational" approach to things, which is fine, but whenever a spiritual perspective is suggested, it seems there's often a negative reaction to it, as if spirituality is something reserved only for places of worship. I get a strong spiritual vibe from Natasha's music, but I think there's a unique fantasy element that is intertwined with it.
When we "grow up," we detach ourselves from fairy tales because we learn that they're not "real" — "real" in the sense that we cannot see a unicorn or actually fly out of our windows. In the midst of this reasoning, I believe we miss out on the point of these stories, particularly the beauty and gift of the human imagination. I believe everyone has an inner life that serves a significant purpose in the way we look at the world, interact with others, and manifest our own creativity. Our ability to imagine things, to me, is not so much about seeing than it is about believing. Sure, there's escape and fantasy, but there's something else there that connects with us deeply, something that evokes the importance of transcendence. We're surrounded by superficiality all the time and yet I believe a lot of us remain confused about what is "real" and what is "unreal." True Love versus the material world — both things are perceived as unreal to us, but in different contexts. We think True Love cannot exist because it's just too good to be true, but mostly because of the superficiality that surrounds us. It doesn't make True Love false, it simply reveals that True Love is something to be discovered amidst the illusions of the world.
Natasha Khan sings about things that many of us don't believe in anymore. She calls us to return to our childood, to revisit forgotten fairy tales, and to learn there is purpose in believing. I let my imagination take flight after the concert was over as I walked towards my car in the parking lot. I was reminded of the Angels that sit upon my shoulders and guard me. I imagined them and reflected on how much we ignore the unseen reality. I was reminded that we have friends in the unseen world; friends who never want us to see us frown or feel alone.
I also have to say that it meant a lot to see a fellow Pakistani on stage (Natasha Khan's father is Pakistani) and seeing so many people who appreciate her music. I read in an interview that she received a lot of racial slurs when she was younger and it's really repulsive when I see the same remarks being made about her on some of the YouTube comments. On the bright side, it's nice to see people taking a stand for her and showing their support. I'm sure that, for the most part, she's breaking a lot of stereotypes.
Here's a live performance piece by "Bat for Lashes" that I've been hooked to! Definitely check out 2:57 and onward — everything from Natasha Khan's energy, vocals, the incredible drumming, and the synth work works in beautiful harmony:


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Many of you know that I have been working on my master bath since Spring. I was unhappy with the overall contemporary style of the room and wanted it to flow with my master bedroom. I revealed my master bedroom makeover a few months back. This is what it looks like.
Here is what it looked like sitting getting ready for refinishing.
|Ready for refinishing
|Backside of cabinet with bead board set in.
|Look at the routed decorative edge! The white paint just brought it right out!
We installed the doors this past week and here is what they look like now.


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Barnard has a tradition of meeting the needs of individual students, and in 1978 this long-standing commitment was formalized with the establishment of the Office of Disability Services (ODS). Responding to the mandate of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and with contributions from public, private and College resources, the campus has become increasingly accessible. The Office works to ensure that reasonable accommodations are made to provide programmatic and physical access.
We serve students with visual, mobility and hearing disabilities and students with invisible disabilities such as chronic medical conditions, learning disabilities/ADD, psychiatric disabilities and substance abuse recovery. ODS works with and empowers students with disabilities in order to coordinate support services that enable equal access to education and college life.
Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - "No otherwise qualified disabled individual...shall, solely by reason of ...disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 - The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides for access to employment, public services, public accommodations, transportation and telecommunications for people with disabilities. An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as ''a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment.''


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Yesterday, we noted the strange case of the six burned-alive Sunnis, as reported by the Associated Press. Strange because neither the Iraqi government nor the U.S. Army could find any evidence that the outrage occurred, and the AP's principal source, described as a "police captain," was said by the Iraqi government to be no such thing.
So it looked bad for the AP. But today, the AP struck back, pushing pretty much all the chips into the middle of the table. Michelle Malkin has all the details and links, so I won't recreate that wheel. To summarize, the AP claims to have found new eyewitnesses and is "standing by its story." More than that: the AP has aggressively gone after the U.S. Army for doubting its report. AP International Editor John Daniszewski said in an email statement today:
The attempt to question the existence of the known police officer who spoke to the AP is frankly ludicrous and hints at a certain level of desperation to dispute or suppress the facts of the incident in question.
That's quite an accusation to level against the U.S. military, and is obviously unfair in light of the military's aggressive exposure of its own soldiers' misdeeds, not to mention those of Shia militiamen. But the AP evidently thinks it knows what way the wind is blowing, with the Democrats now in power in Congress and talk of defeat and withdrawal in the air.
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The Chinese government issued a set of new Internet rules on Friday. Internet users must now provide their real names to service providers, and ISPs are required to delete forbidden posts and report such activities to authorities. In other words, the so-called "Great Firewall of China" has been further fortified.
"This is just another indication that they really want to control what information gets to their citizens," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "From the standpoint of overall impact, it means that all communication going in and out of China are going to be more closely monitored."
The new regulations were issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. While users may still adopt pseudonyms for online postings, they will have to provide a real name to service providers first.
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The new regulations also will require Internet service providers, including those providing access for both fixed-line and mobile phones, to confirm their identities. However, just as the invaders of medieval China found ways through or around China's Great Wall, it is likely that Internet users will be able to exploit weaknesses in China's Great Firewall to thwart the stricter new security measures.
"There are some ways they could break through -- VPN and encryption could get through," Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "A VPN tunnel might be hard to monitor, but China might look to block those as well."
While it is likely that hackers could piggyback on communications and use high-level encryption, the truth is that for most users the so-called spy-level "black bag stuff" simply isn't going to be practical.
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Since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, which resulted in the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government has on occasion moved toward providing more individual freedom, but those in power have inevitably pulled back. This latest move is a far cry from the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution, but ironically neither movement is even allowed to be widely discussed in China.
This latest move shows that China's government will likely continue to crack down on the free flow of communication to avoid a turn away from party control.
This attitude isn't limited to China, though.
"We all know about the Arab spring and how Iran has tried to crack down on the Internet. Motivation and technology being what they are, word will get out," Claudia Rast, a business and technology attorney with Butzel Long, told TechNewsWorld.
"How do you keep 535 million people from accessing information they want or posting information they want?" she mused.
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The changes in the Internet rules in China essentially encompass three main points: allowing users to adopt pseudonyms only after providing real names; requiring providers to confirm the information provided is accurate; and requiring businesses to exercise greater caution in gathering and protecting data.
"Broadly speaking, China's government is attempting to eliminate Internet anonymity," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "While the concept is largely ignored globally, it occasionally arises in discussions of how to better control abusive online behaviors including stalking, harassment, bullying, etc. On the surface, China's move is likely to be interpreted as a simplistic response to a number of recent cases where corrupt government officials were publicly exposed and embarrassed on social networking and microblogging sites."
Both the broadness of the changes and their potential consequences for both users and service providers suggest that the problem -- and its resolution -- could be far more complex.
"According to a number of reports, while official Internet policies in China are highly restrictive, the government has mostly left enforcement up to the country's large and diverse community of service providers. In turn, many service providers have dragged their feet in order to avoid angering customers who can easily switch to other service providers," King told TechNewsWorld.
"With that in mind, it's possible to consider these new rules an obvious attempt by the central government to bring order to an increasingly freewheeling online environment," he added. "But cautiously spreading the pain between both users and SPs, and [sweetening] those bitter pills with data privacy sops, suggests China's new rulers may also be trying to avoid draconian measures that would be ignored or rejected."
In wartime, it was common to see posters that suggest "loose lips sink ships." This could be a new Cold War of over the spread of information, and users may not worry so much about ships as their own freedoms.
"The result is that individuals as well as businesses that look to do business in China will have to be much more careful about what goes in and out of the country," said Enderle. "Just watch what you say."


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Radical Children's Literature reappraises the place of children's literature in culture, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas - about books, society, and the possibilities for narrative in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories young people are given about the world and themselves, and how these interact with changing childhoods and new technologies.
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From: Inward letters - McColl, Donald & Jessie (uncle & aunt), Reference Number MS-Papers-0032-0405 (36 digitised items). One letter written by Rev Donald McColl, Kingairloch to Annabella McLean, 22 Jun 1840; 29 letters written by Rev Donald McColl from Glenorchy Manse, Argyllshire, 1845-1863, and one from his sister Jessie McColl, Apr 1847. One letter from Archibald McColl, Morven Hill, Otago, 1863. Also drafts of letters from Donald McLean to his uncle Donald McColl, 1853, 1854, 1856, 1859 & 1860 (latter re Duncan McInnes). Also letter from his cousin Helen Mary McInnes, written while she was a guest at Glenorchy Manse (ca 1851).
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While the Elis led the field going into Saturday – the second round of three – they fell back slightly, shooting an overall team score of 314 to finish on 620 (+52) overall. Penn sat two strokes behind yesterday, but today managed to rally to finish on 619 (+51) overall, a score that certainly makes for an interesting final day's play on Sunday.
It was a tough day for all players, with very few notching up better rounds than their first. But Yale golfers are right up in the mix of things at the top end of the leaderboard.
Three of the Bulldogs – senior captain Thomas McCarthy, sophomore Bradley Kushner and junior Jeffrey Hatten – sit comfortably in a tie for sixth place, ready to make a strong challenge in the final round. McCarthy, Kushner and Hatten finished the day with rounds of 79 (+8), 77 (+6) and 78 (+7), respectively, each closing with an overall score of 154 (+12).
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- English translation : Thus always to tyrants (Latin)
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Spy Cams Installed at NY Hospital Bathrooms to Monitor Handwashing, an article by William Zimmerman at Telepresence Options, questions the correctness of recording behavior to reveal the need for change.
A camera lens focused outward may indicate a need for changes in health promoting behavior, but it also creates ethical challenges.
Zimmerman, in his piece, wrote that a hospital in New York placed cameras "to view sinks to insure proper hand hygiene."
If cameras can be utilized to spy on the medical community to insure they are doing everything they can to promote healthy outcomes, some worry that it is just a matter of time before the lens gets turned on everyone else, even on you.
Let's say though, that the lens that is turned on you is pointed inward. Then you ask, I'm just a banker, ballerina, bowler, jeweler, or student, how could a camera lens focused on me make a difference in my health?
When you leave pessimism behind and express greater optimism, your opportunity for health goes up exponentially. Research has shown that optimism causes positive impacts on health, but virtues like gratitude, forgiveness, and love, can do so as well. "Your mind affects your genes," wrote Deepak Chopra for CNN, while he grappled with the question Can positive thinking make you well? Of course, a camera can't tell what you are thinking, yet, your actions are often good indicators.
Would you object if cameras watched to make sure you prayed or attended religious services? Research indicates what some people have recognized for two thousand years: Spirituality is a vital ingredient when it comes to health. Virtues motivated by some degree of spiritual sense are problem solvers.
Two articles, Olmstead case was a watershed for Supreme Court by the National Constitution Center (NCC) staff at the Constitution Daily and Bill Scott's The redemption of Roy Olmstead, at Spotlight on Spirituality and Health, lead to a look at how an inside focus can also promote healthy behavior, but without the ethical and legal complications.
In the article, Olmstead case was a watershed for Supreme Court, the NCC staff informs us that June 4 marked the 84th anniversary of the Olmstead v. United States wiretapping case.
The case was based on the illegal activities of Roy Olmstead, a Seattle police lieutenant with quite a part-time job. He was "the most successful bootlegger in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition."
Olmstead was arrested on Thanksgiving Day 1924. In 1926, he was sentenced to serve four years of hard labor in a federal prison.
The article states, "Olmstead's empire was ferreted out by a federal investigation that became a landmark in the annals of American law. …After his conviction, Olmstead's appeal made it to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the wiretapping act [which brought down Olmstead's operation] was a violation of his Fourth Amendment rights relating to unreasonable search and seizure."
The Court's initial verdict in 1928 declared that the unapproved wiretapping was permissible. However, this decision was overturned in 1967 making wiretapping subject to warrant requirements.
"As he began to serve his sentence at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, …something happened that changed his life," writes Bill Scott, in his post.
Olmstead discovered, while reading a book given to him by another prisoner, the importance of turning the lens within. He learned that health was an outcome of spirituality. Health was a mental state protected by spiritual awareness, and this spiritual awareness coupled with righteous virtues promoted health.
Olmstead didn't have a spy cam in his cell, but history tells us that his sudden spiritual awakening enabled him to begin helping and healing fellow inmates.
He was released from prison in 1931. Scott concluded his post, by stating, "… bootlegging was not [Olmstead's] true calling; nor did he fade away into obscurity. Rather, he went on to live the most significant years of his life—serving humanity and quietly healing all those who sought him out."
In 1935, in recognition of his dedicated work with prisoners, including programs about alcohol abstinence, President Franklin D. Roosevelt granted him a full pardon.
Today, while court judges grapple with the ethical and legal considerations of the growing intrusive viewing of your every move, perhaps the better lens angle to consider is the one that points within.
– Keith Wommack is a Syndicated Columnist, Christian Science practitioner and teacher, husband, and step-dad. He has been described as a spiritual spur (since every horse needs a little nudge now and then). Keith's columns originate at: KeithWommack.com
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Sweden seems to be an egalitarian, feminist utopia. So why are American women ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?
On the surface, Sweden appears to be a feminist paradise. Look at any global survey of gender equity and Sweden will be near the top. Family-friendly policies are its norm -- with 16 months of paid parental leave, special protections for part-time workers and state-subsidized preschools where, according to a government website, "gender-awareness education is increasingly common." Due to an unofficial quota system, women hold 45 percent of positions in the Swedish parliament. They have enjoyed the protection of government agencies with titles like the Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality and the Secretariat of Gender Research. So, why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?
In a 2012 report, the World Economic Forum found that when it comes to closing the gender gap in "economic participation and opportunity," the United States is ahead of not only Sweden, but also Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Germany and the United Kingdom. Sweden's rank in the report can largely be explained by its political quota system. Though the United States has fewer women in the workforce (68 percent compared to Sweden's 77 percent), American women who choose to be employed are far more likely to work full-time and to hold high-level jobs as managers or professionals. They also own more businesses, launch more start start-ups and more often work in traditionally male fields. As for breaking the glass ceiling in business, American women are well in the lead, as this chart shows.
What explains the American advantage? How can it be that societies like Sweden, where gender equity is relentlessly pursued and enforced, have fewer female managers, executives, professionals, and business owners than the laissez-faire United States? A new study by Cornell economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn gives an explanation.
Generous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences: instead of strengthening women's attachment to the workplace, they appear to weaken it. In addition to a 16-month leave, a Swedish parent has the right to work six hours a day (for a reduced salary) until his or her child is 8 years old. Mothers are far more likely than fathers to take advantage of this law. But extended leaves and part-time employment are known to be harmful to careers -- for both genders. And with women, a second factor comes into play: most seem to enjoy the flex-time arrangement (once known as the "mommy track") and never find their way back to full-time or high-level employment. In sum: Generous family-friendly policies do keep more women in the labor market, but they also tend to diminish their careers.
According to Blau and Kahn, Swedish-style paternal leave policies and flex-time arrangements pose a second threat to women's progress: they make employers wary of hiring women for full-time positions at all. Offering a job to a man is the safer bet. He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years.
I became aware of the trials of career-focused European women a few years ago when I met a post-doctoral student from Germany who was then a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins. She was astonished by the professional possibilities afforded to young American women. Her best hope in Germany was a government job -- prospects for women in the private sector were dim. "In Germany," she told me, "we have all the benefits, but employers don't want to hire us."
Swedish economists Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula addressed the following question in their 2009 study: Why are there so few female top executives in the European egalitarian welfare states? Their answer: "Broad-based welfare-state policies impede women's representation in elite competitive positions."
It is tempting to declare the Swedish policies regressive and hail the American system as superior. But that would be shortsighted. The Swedes can certainly take a lesson from the United States and look for ways to clear a path for their high-octane female careerists. But most women are not committed careerists. When the Pew Research Center recently asked American parents to identify their "ideal" life arrangement, 47 percent of mothers said they would prefer to work part-time and 20 percent said they would prefer not to work at all. Fathers answered differently: 75 percent preferred full-time work. Some version of the Swedish system might work well for a majority of American parents, but the United States is unlikely to fully embrace the Swedish model. Still, we can learn from their experience.
This was not the Swedes' intention, but they have demonstrated to the world what the sexes will and will not do when offered the same opportunities. Despite its failure to shatter the glass ceiling, Sweden has one of the most powerful and innovative economies in the world. In its 2011-2012 survey, the World Economic Forum ranked Sweden as the world's third most competitive economy; the United States came in fifth. Sweden, dubbed the "rockstar of the recovery" in the Washington Post, also leads the world in life satisfaction and happiness. It is a society well worth studying, and its efforts to conquer the gender gap impart a vital lesson -- though not the lesson the Swedes had in mind.
Sweden has gone farther than any nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men. For decades, these descendants of the Vikings have been trying to show the world that the right mix of enlightened policy, consciousness raising and non-sexist child rearing would close the gender divide once and for all. Yet the divide persists.
A 2012 press release from Statistics Sweden bears the title "Gender Equality in Sweden Treading Water" and notes:
The total income from employment for all ages is lower for women than for men.
One in three employed women and one in ten employed men work part-time.
Women's working time is influenced by the number and age of their children, but men's working time is not affected by these factors.
Of all employees, only 13 percent of the women and 12 percent of the men have occupations with an even distribution of the sexes.
Confronted with such facts, some Swedish activists and legislators are demanding more extreme and far-reaching measures, such as replacing male and female pronouns with a neutral alternative and monitoring children more closely to correct them when they gravitate toward gendered play. When it came to light last year that mothers, far more than fathers, chose to stay home from work to care for their sick toddlers, Ulf Kristersson, minister of social security, quickly commissioned a study to determine the causes of and possible cures for this disturbing state of affairs.
I have another suggestion for Kristersson and his compatriots: Acknowledge the results of your own 40-year experiment. The sexes are not interchangeable. When Catherine Hakim, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, studied the preferences of women and men in Western Europe, her results matched those of the aforementioned Pew study. Women, far more than men, give priority to domestic life. The Swedes should consider the possibility that the current division of labor is not an artifact of sexism, but the triumph of liberated preference.
In the 1940s, the American playwright, congresswoman, and conservative feminist Clare Boothe Luce made a prediction about what would happen to men and women under conditions of freedom:
It is time to leave the question of the role of women in society up to Mother Nature -- a difficult lady to fool. You have only to give women the same opportunities as men, and you will soon find out what is or is not in their nature. What is in women's nature to do they will do, and you won't be able to stop them. But you will also find, and so will they, that what is not in their nature, even if they are given every opportunity, they will not do, and you won't be able to make them do it.
In Luce's day, sex-role stereotypes still powerfully limited women's choices. More than half a century later, women in the Western democracies enjoy the equality of opportunity of which she spoke. Nowhere is this more true than Sweden. And although it was not the Swedes' intention, they have demonstrated to the world what the sexes will and will not do when offered the same opportunities.
Today is Equal Pay Day. But as most feminists know by now, the wage gap is largely the result of women's vocational choices and how they prefer to balance home and family. To close the gap, it won't be enough to change society or reform the workplace -- it is women's elemental preferences that will have to change. But look to Sweden: Women's preferences remain the same.
Not only feminists, but also liberal and conservative policymakers should pay attention. Sweden is not the "tax and spend" welfare state of old -- while the rest of the world is floundering in debt, Sweden (along with its Nordic neighbors) has been downsizing, reforming entitlements and balancing its books. The budget deficit in Sweden is about 0.2 percent of its GDP; in the United States, it's 7 percent. But Sweden's generous family-friendly policies remain in place. The practical, problem-solving Swedes have judged them to be a good investment. They may be right.
Swedish family policies, by accommodating women's preferences so effectively, are reducing the number of women in elite competitive positions. The Swedes will find this paradoxical and try to find solutions. Let us hope these do not include banning gender pronouns, policing children's play, implementing more gender quotas or treating women's special attachment to home and family as a social injustice. Most mothers do not aspire to elite, competitive full-time positions: the Swedish policies have given them the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they prefer. Americans should look past the gender rhetoric and consider what these Scandinavians have achieved. On their way to creating a feminist paradise, the Swedes have inadvertently created a haven for normal mortals.
This article has been cross-posted with permission from The American.


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Jaguars release Owens, sign Gerberry
Jacksonville, FL – The Jacksonville Jaguars have released long-time running back Montell Owens and signed center Dan Gerberry.
Owens, a two-time Pro Bowl selection as a special teamer, signed as a rookie free agent in 2006 with Jacksonville. He holds the franchise record for career special teams tackles with 118 in 104 games over seven seasons.
Gerberry spent parts of the last four seasons with the Detroit Lions. He was not on the roster for the 2012 season after being waived during final cuts. He was a four-year starter at Ball State, where he earned first-team All-MAC honors as a senior.


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Nestle, Greenpeace, social media, crisis management, facebook, YouTube, Twitter. PR measurement. Interested?
Prediction: we should see signs of Nestlé's share price recovering from its latest issue within about 15 days.
Prediction 2: at some point this year, 2010 will be named the Year of the Social Media Crisis. So I'm doing it now just to be the first. (If I'm not the first then please let me know so I can link to that person's blog and boost my traffic But it didn't come up on Google today).
Last week Greenpeace kicked off the latest element of its ongoing campaign against the use of non-sustainable palm oil, lining up the cross hairs on Nestlé, and in particular the iconic Kit Kat.
What started out as a fairly run-of-the-mill campaign (Greenpeace has run similar palm oil campaigns in the past), took a bit of a turn when social media gurus jumped on Nestlé's response to criticisms on the company's facebook fan page. This was the point at which I started to pay a bit more attention as it was no longer just the Greenpeace campaign that was fuelling the issue (and thanks to fellow H&K blogger Matt Muir for flagging it to me on a Friday afternoon!). Interestingly, the official video in question still only has around 80,000 views on YouTube (sorry folks, one of those is mine).
The problem the company now faces is that the story of its engagement with stakeholders via social media has, as was probably expected by anyone with a facebook account, overtaken the original issue of its sourcing practices, as highlighted by this PR Week story.
Since there are 90,000-odd people out there all with an opinion on that, I'm going to leave that particular debate alone. I'm more interested in what's happening with the company's share price, which, as you'd probably expect, has taken a bit of a dip. (Hopefully on Monday our IT wizards – or Matt – can explain to me how I insert that as an actual image – to be updated…).Now updated with actual artwork.
While that's not wonderful for the company's shareholders, it's useful as an in situ case study. As mentioned previously on this blog, good crisis management can have a remarkably positive impact on shareholder value.
The Knight & Pretty study on which that assertion is based shows that companies that recover well from a catastrophe tend to show the start of an upward trend returning to their share price around 10-15 trading days post-disaster (recoverers are the top line):
This recovery is largely attributed to the performance of company management in the early stages of the recovery. I think Nestle is the kind of company that will be able to manage its way out of this fairly promptly. However, there are some additional challenges the company will face in getting there (I think):
- Getting the facebook thing right will probably involve a bit of sword-falling. But that's no good unless you mean it (which means there has to be some kind of behaviour change first, before the public perception piece will work).
- The marketing sub-set of social media guru-dom will continue to feast on its young, until more tech-savvy marketers take the point of view expressed by @mediaczar (thanks @Matt_Muir yet again). Great example of Twitter as a debate platform. In the meantime, watch the carnage continue.
- Institutional investors will remain all over the shop courtesy of having to work out how the economy works again after a global financial crisis. The upturn in value I think will be affected by just how much brokers and analysts value the impact of social media vs. the old fashioned kind.
- They're still going to have to do something about the palm oil. Incidentally, so are thousands of other companies because it's remarkably pervasive stuff – you wouldn't believe how much of it's out there, and ever since we all got scared of trans fats in our diet, palm oil's been making a comeback in ingredient lists.
- Supply-chain scrutiny is going to return to the fore. We've not long ago finished Fairtrade Fortnight, when Kit Kats across the world were celebrated for the appearance of the new logo. The ease with which this issue has captured public opinion will, I think, galvanise a lot of other interest groups who have previously struggled with highlighting labour/sourcing/deforestation practices in the past, having another crack.
Time will tell if I manage to fluke at least one of these (or my two predictions). I have a feeling there'll be a hat eaten at some point this year…
As an adjunct to all of the above, I think communicators/marketers/crisis managers and PR students should spend some time with a PR text book and the Greenpeace website.
Professionally I have a lot of time for the sophistication Greenpeace brings to its campaign activities, because they show all the hallmarks of strategic, issues-led communication campaigning. PR measurement isn't rocket science (well, only rocket science is really)…point being, if you set your PR or communication objectives properly, measurement becomes a binary thing. Either you achieve your objective, or you don't. Pretty simple stuff, and yet remarkably difficult to do well – usually because we get side-tracked by things like events, press clippings and "we want to do a viral video".


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Geometry is the mathematics of shape and space. It's about the properties of objects (their angles and surfaces, for instance) and the consequences of how these objects are positioned (where their shadows fall, how people must move around them).
When adults think about geometry, they usually remember a course in the second year of high schoolone loaded with proofs about isosceles triangles and vertical angles. For many of us, the geometry course sounded the death knell for our progressand interestin mathematics.
Here's a chance to put those memories to rest, to experience geometry anew. At its roots, geometry is not abstract. Rather, it's fun and colorful, instructive and practical. Geometry is about real things: how big they are, whether they fit, how to find them, what they look like in a mirror. Geometry is naturally concrete.This lab divides activities into two broad categories. Activities about shape center on identifying properties of various shapes and measuring their dimensions. Activities about space focus on moving objectsor yourselfaround in your imagination, and visualizing how things will look.
Simply put, geometry is important to real life. Before you start the activities, read this background to find out why.
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