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TripleHead2Go Frequently Asked Questions
|How do I know if my computer is compatible with TripleHead2Go?
The best way to make sure your system is compatible with TripleHead2Go is to download and run the Compatibility Tool (if you're using a supported Windows operating system) or use the Compatibility Wizard (if you haven't purchased the computer yet or you own a Mac). For more information, visit the GXM System Compatibility page. Note that you must verify and validate your system's compatibility prior to purchase.
I'm looking to buy a system to use with TripleHead2Go. Is there a list of compatible graphics cards
Yes. The Compatibility Wizard provides a complete list of compatible systems, based on GPU model.
Can I run a different application on each monitor?
Yes. The Desktop Management feature of your PowerDesk software enables you to control where your windows open, allowing you to drag different application windows to specific monitors and maximize them. PowerDesk also lets you extend your application window across multiple monitors if you choose to.
Can I work with my laptop lid closed?
Yes. Once TripleHead2Go is connected to your laptop and monitors, you can close your laptop, put it aside, and simply use an external keyboard and mouse along with your two or three extra displays. Setting up TripleHead2Go in this manner varies from laptop vendor to laptop vendor. For more information on working only with external monitors, see your laptop documentation.
Can I use my laptop screen in addition to a TripleHead2Go for a total of four screens?
Yes. In this case, your laptop screen is your primary monitor, and your TripleHead2Go becomes your secondary monitor. Note that you can set your TripleHead2Go as the primary monitor and your laptop screen as the secondary monitor. Configuration varies depending on your graphics card. For more information, see your laptop documentation.
Do you support the Apple Cinema 27" Display (2010 model) with the TripleHead2Go DP Edition?
The Apple Cinema 27" Display does not have a built-in scaler, therefore only the native 1280x720 resolution will work with the TripleHead2Go DP product, other resolutions will not be available.
Can I use TripleHead2Go with two monitors and then upgrade to three monitors at a later date?
Yes. TripleHead2Go supports extra resolutions (beyond the four native modes your product ships with), such as triple widescreen support, dual resolution support and a higher refresh rate for standard CRT monitors. You can enable these extra modes on your TripleHead2Go Analog Edition if you are running Nvidia or ATI graphics cards under Windows 2000 or Windows XP by downloading the Matrox TripleHead2Go Mode Expander Tool (TMET) software applet. For TripleHead2Go Digital Edition and DP Edition, you can enable these extra modes using Matrox PowerDesk software. See our Download Software page to download the latest Matrox software for your product.
Do I need a special brand of monitor?
TripleHead2Go can be used with any monitor that supports compatible resolutions. Note that all monitors connected to TripleHead2Go must run at the same resolution and refresh rate. To get the most of your Matrox product, we recommend you use three identical monitors (that is, monitors of the same size, display resolution, and refresh rate).
Can I use different sized monitors?
Compatibility is determined by resolution, not screen size. Although you can use different sized monitors, all displays connected to TripleHead2Go must run at the same resolution and refresh rate. To get the most of your Matrox product, we recommend you use three identical monitors (that is, monitors of the same size, display resolution, and refresh rate).
Can I mix analog (VGA) and digital (DVI) monitors with TripleHead2Go Digital Edition or DP Edition?
Yes. Any combination of analog and digital monitors is supported with TripleHead2Go, though you may require an adapter if the output connector on the TripleHead2Go is different from the monitor's input connector. Matrox can't guarantee the quality or functionality of any third party hardware used to connect your TripleHead2Go product (for example, a DisplayPort to HD-15 (VGA) adapter with your DP Edition product).
Can I use HDMI monitors with TripleHead2Go Digital Edition?
HDMI is compatible with DVI, so standard DVI-to-HDMI adapter cables may be used, as long as these HDMI adapter cables support the required resolutions and timings.
Can I use TripleHead2Go Digital Edition if my system only has a VGA connector?
Yes. TripleHead2Go Digital Edition has dual-link digital and analog (VGA) input connectors. If your laptop or desktop computer has only an analog (VGA) output and appears on the compatibility list, TripleHead2Go will work with the systems VGA connector.
Is full screen DVD and video playback supported with TripleHead2Go?
Yes. If your laptop or desktop computer is already equipped with a DVD player, you will be able to watch a DVD or video content on any of the monitors of your multi-monitor environment. Playback will be as smooth as it would have been without TripleHead2Go. Note that the native size of video file determines if the video plays across all your monitors.
How can I tell if my graphics card or laptop supports dual-link digital?
You need to check the specification of your graphics card or laptop to determine if dual-link DVI output is supported.
Why do I get black borders when I enable the Matrox Monitor Bezel Management feature?
TripleHead2Go Digital Edition and DP Edition provide Bezel Management by shifting the images from the left and right panels so that some of the data is effectively dropped behind the bezels. The data is shifted from the outside edges of the left and right panels, leaving a black border that is the same width as the gap. Please note that the number of adjustable pixels varies depending on the resolution your TripleHead2Go is using. The higher the resolution is the less adjustable pixel space you have. This is especially true if you're using triple the highest wide screen resolutions.
How do I set up a game to run in Surround Gaming mode (Windows only)?
To customize games so they can run across three displays, Matrox bundles a Surround Gaming Utility (SGU) with TripleHead2Go. The Surround Gaming Utility is a software application which automatically updates the configuration files of supported games so they're properly enabled for triple monitor resolutions. Note that certain game titles also have native support for TripleHead2Go. The SGU is not required for native titles because they will adjust automatically when a TripleHead resolution is selected in the game's graphics settings menu.
How does TripleHead2Go work?
Your computer's video output normally allows only one monitor to be connected to it. If instead of plugging a monitor into your system's video output you plug in a TripleHead2Go, your computer interprets this device as one triple-wide monitor, so it outputs a single extra-wide image. As you have three monitors connected to your TripleHead2Go, the TripleHead2Go takes the left third of this extra-wide image it receives from your computer and sends it to your left monitor, and sends the middle third to your central monitor and the right third to your right monitor. In this manner, TripleHead2Go effectively lets you drive three separate monitors from a single video output.
A TripleHead2Go used in DualHead mode behaves similarly: the extra-wide image is divided in two instead of three and each half is sent to your left and right monitors.
Is TripleHead2Go a graphics card?
No. TripleHead2Go does not contain a GPU itself but connects to your computer's video output and uses your own system's graphics capabilities to render the extra-wide image that is then divided and sent to each monitor. For this reason, you can enjoy the same performance across all monitors, whether you're working with office applications in 2D, high-end applications that use 3D or OpenGL technology, or engaging in HD video playback. The more powerful your existing graphics, the more powerful your TripleHead2Go multi-monitor environment.
Can I use the TripleHead2Go DP Edition even if my monitors don't have a DisplayPort connector?
Yes. When the proper adapter is used, DisplayPort can convert its signal to DVI, VGA or HDMI. Matrox offers optional cable adapters that enable you to connect your TripleHead2Go DP Edition to DVI- or Mini DisplayPort-compatible equipment. DisplayPort to HDMI and DisplayPort to HD-15 (VGA) cable adapters are currently unavailable from Matrox. Note that Matrox is unable to validate third party adapters.
Will adding TripleHead2Go affect my computer's performance?
The technology behind TripleHead2Go does not slow down your computer. TripleHead2Go works with your system's existing graphics card, and the graphics card is still responsible for all 2D, 3D and video rendering. However, TripleHead2Go opens up wider multi-monitor opportunities for you and these multi-monitor environments may require a greater number of pixels to be drawn simultaneously than in a single-screen mode. Just like higher resolutions can impact performance in single-screen systems, performance may vary with higher triple-screen resolutions. The more powerful your existing graphics, the more powerful your TripleHead2Go multi-monitor environment.
Can I connect multiple DualHead2Go/TripleHead2Go units in one system?
Yes. You can connect two of the same units (make and model) in one system. For example, you can have two TripleHead2Go Digital Editions together, but not a TripleHead2Go Digital Edition with a TripleHead2Go Display Port Edition. See the Multi-GXM support page for further details.
Can the monitors be pivoted?
The current TripleHead2Go product lineup does not support the pivoting of individual screens. However, if your GPU supports pivot functionality, then you can rotate the desktop as whole. Additionally, Matrox offers a series of add-in boards that may meet your pivot needs.
Can I place my laptop in between the monitors driven by TripleHead2Go?
While it may be physically possible to place your laptop monitor between the external monitors instead of off to the left or the right of them, it is not recommended to do so, as your virtual desktop won't have the same configuration as your physical one. The monitors connected to TripleHead2Go are viewed by your laptop as a single extra-wide display. Your mouse will move according to your virtual desktop (i.e. from one external monitor directly to the other), even if your laptop screen is between them.
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Wal-Mart to expand wholesale outlets in India
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it will open 50 more wholesale stores in India over the next four to five years, adding to the current total of 20 in the country.
These stores, known as cash-and-carry outlets, cater to retailers, rather than to individuals.
Wal-Mart also said Tuesday it plans to launch an online operation for cash-and-carry customers in India.
The world's largest retailer announced last October that it was splitting from its Indian business partner Bharti Enterprises and said it couldn't go forward with plans for its own retail stores in India because strict government regulations on sourcing from local small businesses make it impossible. Wal-Mart's growth in India has also been hampered because of an internal bribery investigation that's making the discounter evaluate its practices abroad.
"Wal-Mart is committed to India and we are excited about our growth plans," said Scott Price, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Asia, in a statement. "We will continue to focus on the cash-and-carry format as we are very happy with the way it has shaped up in the last few years."
Price said that Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, is making a number of important steps to strengthen controls and is evaluating and reinforcing procedures related to all compliance areas including licensing and permits, food safety and responsible sourcing among others.
India has a potential market of 1.2 billion people. But no large foreign retailers have formally applied to open supermarkets and other multibrand stores in India since the government changed the law in 2012 to permit them to invest more in the sector previously reserved mostly for Indian companies. The new law allows international companies to open multibrand retail outlets with a 51 percent stake and an Indian minority partner. India allows foreign companies to run 100 percent-owned wholesale chains.
Welcoming foreign retailers like Carrefour and Tesco was very controversial in India. Opponents argued it could hurt millions of small traders and family-run shops where most Indians now buy their products. To lessen the blow, the new law requires foreign retailers to source 30 percent of the products they sell from small and medium-sized Indian businesses.
Wal-Mart opened its first wholesale outlet store in India through the joint venture in 2009.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 2012, south Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen received $20.8 million in Medicare payments, the highest amount the government health plan for the elderly and disabled paid an individual provider that year, according to a Reuters analysis of federal data released on Wednesday.
A California laboratory received $190 million, the most Medicare paid a single entity in 2012.
Family physician Tatiana Pavlova Greenfield, who practices in Maryland, may have received an average of more than $86,000 per patient that year, according to the Reuters review, and $3.3 million in total. That compares to an average of $2,200 per Medicare patient in 2012. Asked for comment, an employee at the office where Greenfield worked said she "had left the country."
After decades of litigation and over the strenuous objections of the American Medical Association, the leading U.S. doctors group, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made public for the first time how much Medicare pays individual doctors and other providers.
The massive data release, totaling nearly 10 million lines, also includes which medical services each of more than 880,000 physicians and other healthcare providers nationwide billed Medicare for in 2012. In a sign of the disproportion in payments, 344 of those clinicians each received more than $3 million from Medicare Part B.
"While the data are not perfect, this is a major milestone in healthcare transparency," said cancer surgeon Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, whose 2012 book, "Unaccountable," argues for making public more information on doctors and hospitals.
In addition to allowing patients to see which doctors perform a particular procedure most frequently - often a proxy for expertise in rare and difficult surgeries such as colon operations - the data are expected to offer a roadmap to where waste and fraud are most rampant not only in the Medicare program but throughout the American healthcare system.
"If you see that a doctor is doing a procedure hundreds or thousands of times that should be done only on a small number of patients, you wonder," said Dr. John Santa, medical director of Consumer Reports. "Are they committing fraud by billing for something they're not actually doing, doing unnecessary procedures because they're greedy, or do they practice someplace where so many people need the procedure?"
CMS urged the public, press and academics to use the data to answer such questions. "We want the public to help us, we want the press to identify outliers in spending," Jonathan Blum, CMS's principal deputy administrator, told a press conference on Wednesday.
Medicare paid physicians, physical therapists, nurse practitioners, chiropractors and other individual providers $77 billion in 2012. About two-thirds of Medicare's total $540 billion in payments that year went to hospitals and most of the rest to prescription drugs.
Outpatient office visits were among the most commonly billed services, accounting for 18 percent of all Part B spending in 2012, or $14 billion. Part B covers physician, therapist and lab services ranging from eye exams and physical therapy to knee replacements, cataract surgery and CT scans for 35 million beneficiaries.
A small number of extremely expensive procedures account for an outsized fraction of Part B spending. Medicare paid $956 million for 144,000 injections of the Roche drug Lucentis for "wet" age-related macular degeneration, an eye disease. That works out to 1.2 percent of total payments for 0.4 percent of beneficiaries. Medicare also paid $13.6 million for only 530 procedures in which men with prostate cancer received the controversial treatment Provenge, made by Dendreon.
The data released on Wednesday include the names and addresses of physicians who submitted claims to Medicare in 2012, along with the codes for the approximately 6,000 services Medicare covers. It lists the number of times providers billed for each service, the average submitted charge and how much that deviated from the national norm.
The billing information is expected to indicate which physicians, therapists or others claim an inordinately high number of complicated cases. If a case is particularly complex, Medicare allows them to add a "modifier" to the code they use for billing and claim higher reimbursement.
"You'll be able to see back surgeons whose average bill is $50,000 because they say almost all of the spinal fusions they do are more complicated than the usual, and others whose average bill is $5,000" because they rarely classify the procedures as extra-complicated, said Santa.
That alone is not evidence of fraud, experts warned. But it can warrant additional scrutiny.
Last December, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, CMS's parent agency, found that 303 clinicians each collected more than $3 million from Medicare Part B in 2009, triggering "improper payment reviews" for 104. Those reviews identified $34 million in overpayments. Three of the clinicians had their medical licenses suspended; two were indicted.
Although CMS has had the data all along, outside healthcare experts are eager to scrutinize it, said healthcare analyst and Medicare expert Cristina Boccuti of the Kaiser Family Foundation. One thing they will look for is high-volume doctors. If some providers are billing for many more services per patient than others in the same community, she said, it could indicate overtreatment.
Consumer groups and media outlets have been trying to get the Medicare physician data since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. In 1979, the AMA and the Florida Medical Association convinced a judge to keep federal officials from releasing the data on the grounds that doing so would violate physicians' privacy. Last May, however, a judge in the District Court lifted the ban.
Last week, AMA president Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven said the group "is concerned that (the government's) broad approach to releasing physician payment data will mislead the public into making inappropriate and potentially harmful treatment decisions and will result in unwarranted bias against physicians that can destroy careers."
After CMS was deluged with requests for the data under the Freedom of Information Act, it invoked a law that requires federal agencies to openly publish "frequently requested" information.
The data are not exactly user-friendly. CMS posted the voluminous files, which must be downloaded to be read, here
Still, a determined patient could see, for instance, that a particular physician performs an operation only one way. Hopkins' Makary offers the example of a hysterectomy, which can be done as open abdominal surgery, vaginally or laparoscopically (through a tiny incision).
"When discussing your options with a physician," he said, "that's useful information to know," since it can indicate that the physician does not tailor procedures to patients' specific circumstances.
Healthcare watchdogs are optimistic the data will also reveal which physicians are abusing the system by billing for medically unnecessary procedures, which along with fraud are estimated to account for one-third of the $2.8 trillion in annual U.S. healthcare spending.
Reporting by Sharon Begley and M.B. Pell; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Prudence Crowther


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Award Note: If you look at the two symbols (the less than sign and the three), you'll see a sideways heart. Translation: "I love your blog!"
Anyway, my blogging energy has been fading lately, but deep down I want to keep writing. It helps to know that I have blogger friends out there who have encouraged me in their own ways. A super-harsh winter, a couple of recent deaths of loved ones, and a ton of advocacy work has left me feeling more than a little tired (mentally) lately.
First, thanks to Marla for writing in about what it is like to be a sibling of someone with special needs. If you have a chance, please take the time to read her comment on my post. The post is titled Siblings: my local editor's column about his two sons. Marla's insights are priceless.
Also thanks to Elissa at Managing Autism for writing about her beautiful little girl on her own blog as well as posting a few lovely pictures. Elissa created a truly wonderful tribute to the little sib in her family. Her post was a very thoughtful nod to my "sib week." I appreciate, too, her very nice comments on my posts.
I also am grateful for the many thoughtful comments (on some pre-sib week posts) of Casdok, Maddy (who gave me the less than three award on Monday) and everyone else who has commented this week or before (mind a little too foggy to list everyone.) I kind of like (love in Julie speak) this corner of the mom blogosphere to which I seem to belong. Feel free to pass on the award. I tried without success to post the picture of the award today. Hopefully, I'll be able to get it on this post by tomorrow. Update: Had a little more success today (March 1) getting the award posted--as you can see!
My Blogger Agenda:
Saturday, I'll wrap "sib week up with my newly started (last Saturday was the unofficial first offering) CREATIVE CORNER . I'm not sure if I'll start another theme on Sunday or if I'll begin a blogger break to recharge my energy. If you have a chance please stop by--that is if you like a little poetry, kiddy drawings and/or butterflies. I haven't decided if I'll stick soley to themed weeks, but hopefully the Creative Corner will stay. I'm thinking it might be a great way to share the creative endeavors of my entire family (and maybe other friends and contributors as well.)
Next week is Spring Break at Central Michigan University. My boys will still be in school and my husband at work (the library on campus will still be open) so we'll stay in frozen Michigan. Oh, for a little sun and warmth. I think it was only seven degrees yesterday smack here in smack dab in the middle of what has been dubbed "The Mitten" (lower pennisula of Michigan). As for me, I do need a little time to catch up with housecleaning and advocacy projects. Oh, I'll probably write at least two posts next week. I just can't help myself...


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The new HTC One (M8) comes with a radically different than all else 'Duo' camera (this refers to the two rear cameras on its back) that allows you things like selecting the focus of an image after you capture it.The new One also comes with the latest Snapdragon 801 quad-core system chip, an even more intense aluminum unibody construction, and 25% more powerful BoomSound front-facing stereo speakers. And it's not just that - HTC has improved the phone all around, even adding expandable storage via microSD cards of up to 128 gigs. Actually, the only change we can think of in the new One that could possibly bring forth some negativism is the increased overall footprint of the device - it's just larger and a bit bulkier.


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FRIDAY, March 15, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Jet Landis was only 4 years old when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1992. Even though she was so young, she can still recall the extreme thirst she felt because of diabetes.
Landis was lucky, though, because her mother was a nurse and recognized the signs of type 1 diabetes before her condition became life-threatening. Still, the diagnosis was a difficult one because it meant that, while still a preschooler, Landis had to begin taking daily insulin injections to replace the insulin her body was no longer making.
Multiple daily injections of insulin remain part of Landis's routine. Now in her early 20s, she manages her diabetes with the help of a continuous glucose monitor to measure blood glucose levels. The device, which is inserted under her skin, has to be changed about once a week. She also has to poke her fingers to do a standard blood sugar test to make sure the device is still providing accurate readings.
"I like to describe diabetes as a constant balancing act," said Landis, who lives in New York City. "Sugar and insulin are polar opposites, and if you add one, you must add the other. If too much insulin is taken, the blood sugar will drop and needs to be replenished by eating sugar."
She explained that "sugar represents any foods with carbohydrates." Pasta, potatoes, and even broccoli can cause blood sugar levels to rise, so their consumption needs to be balanced with just the right amount of insulin.
When Landis was 12, her endocrinologist told her that she also had hypothyroidism, an underactive thyroid. The condition was discovered during a routine blood test.
Being diagnosed with hypothyroidism didn't seem like a big deal, Landis said, because she just had to take a pill to manage the disease.
"It was much easier for me when I found out that I had hypothyroidism," she said. "It seemed like a walk in the park to take a pill every day in comparison to the constant nagging that type 1 diabetes causes on my day."
To others in a similar position, Landis's advice is to "hang in there!"
"Take the best care of yourself that you possibly can because the tools that we have been provided allow people with type 1 and thyroid disease to live long and healthy lives with zero complications," she said.
And though it can be difficult to live with not one but two chronic conditions, Landis said she doesn't resent having them. She believes it made her more responsible at a younger age, she said, and she's thankful for being part of the community of people who live with chronic conditions.
"It's taught me not to sweat the small stuff," she said.
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A companion article looks at the frequency of thyroid disease among people with diabetes.


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Twelve Lost Tribes of Israel
The Twelve Lost Tribes of Israel are twelve separate groups of Jews that left Israel throughout its history and never found their way back. Despite their wives nagging them to ask for directions, the husbands refused, saying it would waste gas, and they knew where they were going.
They didn't know.
In recent years, most of the members of these tribes have returned to Israel.
Neptunian Jews[edit]
This tribe left Israel on the promise of discount jewelry in Brooklyn in 1,000 B.C. A maelstrom and subsequent wormhole led them to Neptune. They use their ability for infared vision and their ability to eat gold to survive in the harsh environment. These are abilities all Jews have, but refuse to admit to having. Israel has gone against natural Jewish stinginess by offering to spend 10 trillion to bring the remaining Neptunian Jews to Israel. A few hundred Neptunian Jews moved to Pluto, but now only one remains on the dwarf planet, most of them having left in disgust when it was discovered that Pluto was no longer considered a planet.
Ethiopian Jews[edit]
These Jews were black, and could not take the abuse they faced in Israel for the colour of their skin. They moved to Ethiopia and discovered that their cock size was no longer superior there, leading to a hasty re-entry into Israel after it was declared a state in 1948. The Ethiopian Jews invent a new genre of music, mixing hip-hop and Klezmer called Klez-Hop. It is awful.
Beverly Hills Jews[edit]
These Jews left Israel in 300 A.D. and settled in Persia. In 1978, Youssef, a young upstart Jew from Tehran, discovered that he could get discounts on Gold Lexus cars, Curtain rods, and white faux-marble statues in Beverly Hills, leading to a massive diaspora to the chic L.A. Enclave. They also tried to take over a gay bar in South Park, Colorado, but failed due to bravery of the 300 Lesbos who defended their turf.
Persian Jews in Beverly Hills have terrible taste.
The Stennerman family[edit]
The Stennerman family left Westchester NY to go on a road trip out West. When Judith told Henry to pull over for directions, he promptly refused, citing the cost of gas it would take, as well as the toll to get off and back on the toll road just to frequent a town to ask for said directions. Henry then pulled out a map of the state and horribly misread it, and they were halfway to Montreal when he finally admitted they were lost. They turned around and reached their checkpoint for that day, Pittsburg Pennsylvania, seven hours late. Judith did not cease to nag Hanry about his mistake for four hours. During the course of this ordeal, their son Joshua was able to beat Super Mario eight times on his game boy.
Woody Allen[edit]
By all accounts, Woody Allen's first few films were top-notch. But slowly and surely, they got more and more pretentious. 3 films and 56,903 pretentious literary references later, Israel had him exiled to Manhattan. He has lived there ever since. Of all the lost tribes, he is the only one to not have received an offer to return to Israel. They do not want him back. He sucks now anyways. His movies are so unfunny they make Israel vomit collectively. This Nebbish isn't getting back into the promised land any time soon.
George Allen[edit]
U.S. Senator George Allen, despite being super-Christian and calling an Indian dude "Macaca", is of semitic descent himself. From his mother's line, he is about 1/8th Jewish, which is still too Jewish to be an elected Republican, hence why he lost his senate seat. Moreover, since his Jewishness has been passed down Matrilinealy he is full-blown, bona fide, Grade A Jew. There has never been a more lost Jew in the history of Jewry. Israel offered him 12,000 dollars to return to Israel, but not so much to take him as to get him off of America's hands.
The Jew-Tang Clan[edit]
A group of black Jews, who because of their deep and abiding love for Tang, a.k.a. "The Negroe's Orange Juice , moved to the tropical climate of Shaolin to harvest orange concentrate to make tang powder. They are led by RZA-stein, who makes their beats. Old Dirty Bastard-stein was killed by a gang of gunmen representing rival juice faction, Kool Aid, particularly its grape variant. Other members of the Jew Tang Clan include the GZA-stein, Method Man-stein, Red Man-stein, and other, uncreative and poorly inspired puns that include a member of the Wu-Tang Clan and the surname "stein".
Texas Jews[edit]
Led by Kinky Friedman. these Jews live in a harsh environment where the only minorities even mildly accepted are Mexicans, because they share the Texans' love of rodeo sports. Friedman led these Jews from Israel after discovering he was unelectable there. The Texan Jews briefly stopped in Cuba, where Friedman discovered he could not get elected because the process of free elections did not exist there. THey then moved to Texas where Friedman ran for governor. He got 11 percent of the vote, which roughly correlated to the proportion of Jews in Texas. After his loss, Israel took back most of the Texan Jews and gave them ranches in the Golan Heights. Of the 20,000 remaining Texan Jews, 18,000 moved to Brooklyn, where they frequntly go down the block to saddle up some Chinese Food and go over to their friend Nussbaum's house. The 2,000 remaining Jews in Texas work mostly in comedy.
The Basement Jews[edit]
These Jews left Israel to live in their parents' basements scattered across Westchester County. They play Dance Dance Revolution and World of Warcraft all day and eat only hot pockets. Despite frequent attempts by their parents to get them to move out and meet a good Jewish girl, as well as cash bribes from the Israeli government to return to Israel, they refuse to budge.
David A. Malkowitz of 13, Pershing Square, Chico, CA[edit]
Fuck you David Malkowitz, you know what you did...
Canadian Jews[edit]
These Jews never exactly left in a collective group and got lost as such, they preferred to come into "America Jr." in a trickle of obviously accidental immigration. Why accidental? Because there is no reasonable way that thousands of Jews moved to Canada by choice, I mean really, out of all places. Free healthcare? Fuck free healthcare, even the cheapest Jew I know wouldn't move to such a hell hole for "free healthcare" Jews don;t even like hockey! cmon!
The Israeli government's offers for repatriation must be kept getting lost in the mail, because there is no reasonable way that they could have gotten such offers and not wanted to get the hell out of Canada.
Natalie Portman[edit]
C'mon Natalie, we all know that Los Angeles is the only place a talented young actress like yourself can get work, but do Israel a favor and go back to the country of your birth. Your beautiful presence would make the day of every Israeli male ages 14-22. We all loved you in "V for Vendetta", "Closer", and "Garden State" and "The Professional" and we're willing to forget about "The Phantom Menace" too if you come back!


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In this page point slope form question6 we are going to see solution of first question. After verifying the solution you can continue the quiz from the second question.
Point- Slope form:
(y-y1) = m (x-x1)
Here m = slope and (x1,y1) are the given point on the line.
If we have slope and one point is on the line we can use this formula to find the equation.The tangent of the angle of inclination is called slope or gradient of the line.
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Find the equation of a straight line whose slope is 5 and which passes through the point (1,-3)


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Leak investigations: Just the start
The investigations that seized Associated Press phone records and dug into the email account of a Fox News reporter labeled a co-conspirator are just a warm-up act for what's coming next.
New probes might be uncomfortable politically after the recoil from recent revelations of how far the Justice Department went in hunting leaks — and President Barack Obama says he welcomes the debate that the flurry of new and potentially more significant leaks in recent days have sparked.
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But revealing the government's telephone call tracking, surveillance conducted on foreign users of America's top web companies and a highly-classified order Obama signed authorizing the development of offensive cyber-operations have, according to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, caused "potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm" to intelligence operations. And they may be far more broad and far reaching in their impact than what was behind the AP's stories about a terrorism plot busted in Yemen or the information about North Korea's nuclear program that James Rosen reported for Fox.
( Also on POLITICO: Guardian reveals NSA leaker)
"I've been saying for two weeks that this would be the best time in the world to leak, because no one is going to want to launch a leak investigation, but I was wrong," said Peter Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the investigation into the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. "When you look at this pattern of leaks, they don't have any choice."
"They've really got immediate huge, major leaks that sort of put the AP story and the Fox and Rosen things in a complete different light. Those look relatively minor, while these are huge," said Ted Boutrous, a media lawyer who has represented journalists caught up in leak inquiries. "I have very little doubt that they will conduct an aggressive investigation."
( WATCH: Holder, senators tiptoe around NSA)
Making things potentially more uncomfortable for Obama: though the phone tracking and internet company surveillance programs could be seen as Bush-era extensions that he's at least somewhat detached from, his Offensive Cyber Effects Operations order to prepare targets for cyberattacks is his own — and potentially not the last revelation that's going to come from the sources or sources behind what's come out.
The initial leak published in the Guardian by writer Glenn Greenwald, disclosing a top-secret court order to Verizon to turn over daily reports on Americans' calls, might have gone without an aggressive investigation simply because of the current atmosphere of concern in Washington about intruding on reporters and the First Amendment.
( PHOTOS: Pols, pundits weigh in on NSA report)
However, when the following hours brought another leak in the Guardian and the Washington Post about the PRISM program scooping up data from Facebook, Apple and other companies, followed by the leak of Obama's presidential policy directive, the balance of factors moved sharply towards a forceful, urgent investigation.
"You can sort of hear the polygraph machines warming up," quipped Steven Aftergood, who's been tracking leak probes for two decades for the Federation of American Scientists.
Former officials and investigators said one looming concern is that the leaker might have more documents or access to them and could release them if not caught.
( Also on POLITICO: Graham 'glad' NSA tracking phones)
"It's very, very alarming. You've got basically a double agent in your midst taking all your secrets and just handing them out to the press," said Zeidenberg. "I think that that's a huge issue."
"Clearly someone stole many sensitive US NatSec docs for systematic release," former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
The Defense Department's official anti-leak directive says "the reasonable expectation of repeated disclosures" is one factor to consider in launching an investigation.
( Also on POLITICO: Five things you need to know about the NSA phone-tracking)
The Washington Post has already said its source was a "career intelligence officer" who was driven by "firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities … to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy."
With Director of National Intelligence James Clapper calling the leaks "reckless" and, in the case of the e-mail and social media tapping program, "reprehensible," it seems all but certain that a formal request for an investigation will be coming soon.
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Using the axiom of choice, one can show that $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{R}^2$ are isomorphic as additive groups. In particular, they are both vector spaces over $\mathbb{Q}$ and AC gives bases of these two vector spaces of cardinalities $c$ and $c\times c = c$, so they are isomorphic as vector spaces over $\mathbb{Q}$.
Is there a way to prove that $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{R}^2$ are isomorphic as additive groups which does not use AC? Are there models of set theory in which these groups are not isomorphic? I'm also curious whether there is a proof (perhaps using AC) which does not make use of this vector space machinery, though I'm fairly sure the above proof is the simplest.


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Nouel Alba, 37, arrested Thursday on a charge of lying to FBI agents who were investigating the alleged scheme to raise funds in the name of Noah Pozner, 6 -- one of 20 students who were killed Dec. 14 when Adam Lanza, 20, went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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The justices heard arguments on a snowy Monday in a challenge from a Florida inmate who says there is ample evidence to show he is mentally disabled, even though his most of IQ scores have topped 70.
That score is the widely accepted as a marker of mental disability, but medical professionals say that test results have a margin of error and in any case are just one factor in determining mental disability.
The decisive vote appears to belong to Justice Anthony Kennedy and he repeatedly questioned the state's argument for a rigid cutoff.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from a Florida death row inmate who claims he is protected from execution because he is mentally disabled.
The case being argued Monday at the court centers on how authorities determine who is eligible to be put to death, 12 years after the justices prohibited the execution of the mentally disabled.
The court has until now left it to the states to set rules for judging who is mentally disabled. In Florida and certain other states, an intelligence test score higher than 70 means an inmate is not mentally disabled, even if other evidence indicates he is.
Inmate Freddie Lee Hall has scored above 70 on most of the IQ tests he has taken since 1968 but says ample evidence shows he is mentally disabled.
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I'm on workers comp 100% disabled. My nurse gets $20 an hr. How much does wc pay her agency she works for? I've heard 2-4 times more.
I'm on workers comp 100% disabled. My nurse gets $20 an hr. How much does wc pay her agency she works for? I've heard 2-4 times more.
I know that a few agencies that I've contracted pay their CNAs ~$9/hr, and they charged me $20/hr. So about 2x more.
EyesOfTexas; Do you pay the carer yourself ? Do you do the Payroll/withholding taxes out of that 50%? Do you pay the required workman's comp out of that $9.
It is pretty fair to say that required payroll deductions the Agency is obligated to pay out, are somewhere near another 50% to 60% that the Agency has to cover. That $9 becomes $13.50 to $14.40 all depending what kind of agreement your carer with her Agency.
So they likely make $5 more or less on every worker they send out. They must also cover their own overhead out of that $5+/-. Your carer may also be eligible for some sort of Health Care insurance as a part of their work contract. But "I" do not Know what her/his agreements are.
It is enough to say that any employee sent to your home, actually costs much more than the Agency actually pays the carer. The Agency is of course the carer's employer, not you. They must have some sort of liability insurance as well. NO insurance company insures such an agency cheaply.
The gross profit margins may seem high, but Bob Sullivan nailed it on the head. Between overhead, insurance, and caregiver salaries, we make less than half of what you might assume in net profits. I'll tell you right now that I know agency owners who act as care managers and work 14+ hr days regularly, for less than what you would think. Plus being on-call 24/7 if your team just can't make a shift. Not to mention constant stress in terms of the client's condition, caregiver performance, and so many other things. Being involved in a care agency is so much less .. easy, for lack of a better word... Than people could possibly imagine (and probably assume).
(The take home is dollars per hour per caregiver. Depends on rates and pay, rent, insurance, and other overhead considerations.)
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I'm not sure how applicable this is to the US but would think it should be similar. Our agency charges ?14.50 an hour, care workers get ?8.50 an hour. Care workers pay their own income tax, agency covers their holiday pay, employers national insurance. We looked into running care ourselves and could make a few savings but also pay a higher hourly rate. Our biggest problem is a lack of staff which we might struggle to change. Agency has to advertise which is expensive to do and comes out of the profit they make. I've got no doubt that if we get a full team we'll end up running it ourselves as I know we'd retain staff if we paid more.
The other expense for an agency that I didn't see brought up yet is the cost of paperwork. Dealing with insurance companies, Medicare, state agencies, payrolls, billing... all costs money. That's why mom-and-pop agencies are either going out of business or being bought up by larger companies that can spread this overhead over a larger number of clients.
I know a couple cases where the insurance companies are cooperative enough that they allow clients to hire their own caregivers. One guy with this situation has made the whole thing into a family business with his mom and sisters essentially being paid to take care of him. The situation is sad because the family has kept him from becoming more independent because that would reduce their work.
The Agencies do make good money for not bearing the brunt of the work. Keep in mind they do have to pay for things like advertising costs ect. to actually find the patients so they do not take home 100% of the difference.
A nice comparison would be to see what the going rate is on craigslist for a caregiver. Most of the time they will be a bit more expensive than what an agency would pay directly to the employee. And for less of a hassle you are better off paying a bit more of a spread.
It varies with the agency, but it is common for the agency to bill at 130-150% of what the actual nurse makes per hour.
Agencies in any industry will always add a markup so try to avoid them where possible. However, healthcare agencies do provide a valuable service and often take their work more seriously so it could be well worth it!


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Adhesion and Bond Strength
In the context of steel reinforcement of rock or concrete materials, adhesion describes a bonding mechanism (Farmer, 1975; Littlejohn and Bruce, 1975) in which a pseudo-chemical bond develops at the steel/cement interface which is brittle (no residual bond after rupture) and independent of confining pressure (stress normal to the interface).
Typically, for regular carbon steel and cement grouts with W:C in the range of 0.35 - 0.5, this adhesion or shear resistance is equivalent to 1 to 3 MPa. Over the surface area of a 15.2 mm diameter cable, this is equivalent to a capacity of 10 kN over a 20 cm length of grouted cable. Unfortunately, this adhesion is exceeded after less than one fifth of a millimetre of relative slip (Fuller and Cox, 1975; Hyett et al., 1992; Nosé, 1993). As such, it is unlikely that adhesion can act simultaneously over any appreciable embedment (grouted) length and rarely accounts for any significant percentage of the instantaneous pullout resistance (bond strength). In fact, as the cable is loaded and begins to slip at the cable/grout interface, a wave of localized adhesion failure propagates down the cable away from the loading site.
Adhesion is thereby rapidly removed from the system as this initial bond is broken and is not considered hereafter as a load transfer mechanism. Slip, dilation, friction and bond strength The helical, multi-wire nature of the cable surface creates a negative relief of equivalent geometry in the hardened grout. After adhesion is removed from the interface, the cable slips with respect to the grout annulus. If rotation of the cable during pull-out is prevented, a geometric mismatch occurs between the cable flutes and the corresponding grout ridges. This mismatch increases with increasing relative slip as illustrated in Figure 2.6.4.
As the grout ridges must ride up and over the cable wires, the grout compresses in the confined borehole and thus generates a normal pressure on the grout/steel interface. Friction (pressure dependent shear strength) thus develops along this interface providing resistance to further slip. This interaction is called dilation. Dilation is limited in the extreme by the absolute scale (height) of the grout ridges. In reality, dilation pressures develop to the point where these ridges crush, reducing the maximum dilation to less than 0.1 mm for plain strand cable (Diederichs et al., 1993).
Dilation is the key to cablebolt performance and is a complex process which is dependent on grout stiffness, rock stiffness and grout strength. This relationship will be explored in the next section.
Bond Strength and Load Transfer
Before proceeding with a discussion of bond strength, it is necessary to understand the process by which load is transferred from the rockmass to the cable via the shear resistance at the cable-grout interface. As the rock slips with respect to the cable, shear stresses (load/unit area) are generated at the interface. As these shear stresses accumulate along the length of the cable due to the addition of incremental rock loads, the tension in the steel strand increases (for an unplated cable) from zero at the face to a maximum at some point into the borehole.
Beyond this point (i.e. in the "anchor" section of the cable) the shear stresses act in the opposite direction and can be considered as negative. In this region, the loads accumulated in the bottom portion of the cable are transferred back to the rockmass and the cable tension drops back to zero at the upper end of the grouted strand. The following examples illustrate this concept.
In this example, a slab or wedge of thickness, A (less than critical embedment length), displaces downwards under the influence of gravity. If the ultimate bond strength along segment A is less than the critical bond strength, the shear stress acting on the cable-grout interface in section A will become approximately constant as the slab slides along (and off) the cable. During slip, the tension in the steel cable rises linearly from zero at the face to a maximum at the separation plane between A and B. Segment A is called the pick-up length. Note that in the anchor length, B, the shear stresses act in the opposite direction as the cable tends to slip down with respect to the rock. Section B, in this example, is long enough to transfer the load from A back to the rockmass without significant slip (10mm).
The end of the cable in B may or may not displace at all, depending on the length of B (if A=B, the amount of slip will be equal). The tension in the cable returnsto nil at the top of section B as all of the load is transferred back to the rock.
Load Transfer Example: Fractured Ground
The concept of bond stress and load transfer become slightly more complicated when dealing with a fractured rockmass, displacing under gravity or the influence of stress as in this example. Here the displacement profile (Bawden et al., 1995) of the rockmass is assumed to be non-linear, with maximum displacement at the face reducing to nil into the rockmass (at the top of section B). The boundary between the loading section, A, and the anchor section B, becomes undefined. In the lower section (A) the rock has displaced more than the cable (with respect to initial conditions). This generates slip and shear loading on the cable-grout interface and tension in the strand. At some point into the back, the relative displacement between the cable and the rock is zero. This is the neutral point (zero shear and maximum tension) and is the boundary between the pick-up length and the anchor length. Above this point the load is transferred back to the rockmass (Section B) as the shear reverses direction and the cable tension drops back to zero.
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Palestinians love their children and want them to live just like the rest of us.
I shouldn't have to say this, but I feel it's necessary following a New York Times piece by Jodi Rudoren critiquing the funeral held for members of the Dalou family killed in a single Israeli airstrike on Gaza, four of who were small children between the ages of one and six. Rudoren is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. While I have mad respect for all of the journalists risking their lives to report from Gaza while bombs are falling, her piece is totally unacceptable and I'm utterly shocked that her editors at the Times allowed it to be published.
From beginning to end, the piece is packed with racially loaded buzzwords that reflect common negative stereotypes westerners hold about Arabs and Muslims. The trouble begins in the opening sentence:
Sweat streamed through the beards of three men clutching the body of 7-year-old Jamal Dalu as they raced through the streets toward his final resting place here amid bursts from assault rifles fired into the air and shouts of "God is great."
This immediately paints a picture of bearded, Islamic fundamentalists. You know, the people the media loves to show us setting fire to effigies of US presidents and American flags with AK-47s strapped across their shoulders as they chant, "Death to America." The reason I know I'm not over reacting is because I'm an Arab deeply aware of these dangerous stereotypes, yet that opening sentence still elicited those images in my mind. I imagine it was the same for readers far less aware than me. So already, the reader's ability to empathize with Palestinians is compromised. The racial undertones continue in the second paragraph:
There were few if any visible tears at the intense, chaotic, lengthy funeral on Monday of Jamal and seven relatives, among 12 people killed the day before in the single deadliest attack since the latest hostilities between Israel and the Gaza Strip began Wednesday after months of Palestinian militant rocket fire into Israel. Instead, there were fingers jabbing the air to signal "Allah is the only one," defiant chants about resistance and calls for revenge, flags in the signature green of Hamas and the white of its Al Qassam Brigades.
The message here is that Palestinians don't cry even when 12 people are killed. Instead, Rudoren explains, they vie for revenge while praising the evil terrorists (Hamas) and their evil terrorist God. Nevermind that the dozen civilians who were killed had absolutely no affiliation with Hamas, Islamic Jihad or any other militant group. Still, sandwiched in between all of this is the false though frequently repeated notion that Palestinians started this round of bombardments with "months of Palestinian rocket fire into Israel," a claim that's been overwhelmingly disproven.
Despite the focus being on a funeral, we don't learn details about the victims until the eighth paragraph, preceded first by the unchallenged claims of an IDF spokeswomen justifying the attack and inflammatory rhetoric by Hamas officials unrelated to the victims. It's not until the tenth paragraph that Rudoren even quotes a relative of the victims. This is because the true theme of the article is the inappropriate way Palestinians mourn their dead:
At the destroyed Dalu family home, a man climbed atop the pile of rubble where a dozen photographers had positioned themselves and hoisted the body of one of the four dead children into the air several times, as though a totem. At the mosque, the eulogy was disrupted by the sound of missiles launched toward Israel from nearby…Much of the militant pageantry most likely was meant as a message for the news media, and thus the world, given how the Dalus had instantly become the face of the Palestinian cause.
Rudoren's description would have you believe that Palestinians view their dead children as nothing more than photo-ops, a chance to gain sympathy from the west. She even refers to the funeral as "militant pageantry," which she echoed in a Facebook post, writing, "I have not been to a lot — OK, any – Hamas funerals before."
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She proceeds to quote Hamas officials and mourners calling for revenge, as though that's an unnatural response to a massacre, especially since westerners, particularly Americans, have a penchant for vengeance too, arguably more so than Palestinians. When 3,000 Americans were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we reacted by attacking not one, but two countries, one of which (Iraq) had no connection to the attacks whatsoever. Over a decade later, we are still bombing countries (Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Philippines this year alone) to avenge the deaths of those 3,000 Americans. In this context, it's almost laughable that American journalists from publications that cheer-led these attacks have the audacity to scold Palestinians for seeking vengeance.
Then comes the most deeply offensive part of all:
But the tone, far more fundamentalist than funereal, was also a potent sign of the culture of martyrdom that pervades this place, and the numbness that many here have developed to death and destruction after years of cross-border conflict.
Many of them aspire to what they see as martyrdom in the struggle for a Palestinian state.
This is a common accusation among the pro-Israel crowd who like to say that Palestinians have a desire for death and that parents are proud when their children are blown to bits while fighting Israel. Israeli Jews on the other hand love their children and respect the sanctity of life. Later, Rudoren doubled down on her portrayal of Palestinians on Facebook, writing:
…while death and destruction is far more severe in Gaza than in Israel, it seems like Israelis are almost more traumatized. The Gazans have a deep culture of resistance and aspiration to martyrdom, they're used to it from Cast Lead and other conflicts, and they have such limited lives than in many ways they have less to lose…I've been surprised that when I talk to people who just lost a relative, or who are gathering belongings from a bombed-out house, they seem a bit ho-hum.
When challenged by Philip Weiss and others about her troubling comments, Rudoren did not apologize for her remarks, but rather for bad word choice.
While her reporting and subsequent comments aren't surprising given her clear attachment to Israel, I still have a hard time comprehending how someone can see the destruction and suffering in Gaza first hand and still hold such deeply bigoted views.
For starters, the idea that Muslims and Arabs "aspire to martyrdom" is nonsense. For people who are struggling against occupiers, colonizers or any great abusive power, there is indeed a sentiment that their death is not in vein because they've sacrificed their life to free their people. As any quick look at history will show, this is far from unique to Palestinians and extends to those who fought the American revolution, blacks who resisted slavery, Native Americans who fought against European colonizers and the list goes on. As for calling dead Palestinian children "martyrs", that's simply a way to cope with the death of a loved one, or in Gaza, loved ones. We do it in the west too when we say, "it was God's will" or "it's all a part of God's plan."
Palestinians love their children and want them to live just like the rest of us. Why is that so hard to see?


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Relive the excitement of the unforgettable World Series Championship of 1988. The teams: The Oakland Athletics and The Los Angeles Dodgers. The lineup: Muscle-Bound Mark, Heavy-Hitting Jose and Awesome Eck for the A's and on the Dodgers' side: Gibby – who despite his injury, just may save the season.
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BOSTON, April 30 (UPI) -- The lawyer who saved Tucson shooter Jared Loughner and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski from the death penalty was assigned to defend the alleged Boston Marathon bomber.
San Diego criminal defense attorney Judy Clarke has the "background, knowledge and experience" that will "enable her to provide adequate representation" to suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said in a ruling.
Clarke will join three other public defenders -- Miriam Conrad, Massachusetts' chief federal public defender, and two assistant public defenders -- in defending Tsarnaev, 19, who faces charges of using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death.
He and his older brother, Tamerlan, are accused in the April 15 bomb attacks near the marathon finish line that killed three people and injured more than 260.
They also allegedly killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died after a police shootout early April 19. Police say they were subduing him when his brother ran him over in a stolen car in a desperate escape.
Clarke, who had no immediate comment on her appointment, has served as a public defender in many high-profile U.S. cases.
She defended Loughner, who was spared the death penalty last year by pleading guilty to 19 charges of murder and attempted murder in 2011's Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
She also defended Kaczynski, who avoided the death penalty in 1998 by pleading guilty to all the government's charges associated with his 17-year nationwide bombing campaign against modern technology that killed three people and injured 23 others. Kaczynski is designated a "domestic terrorist" by the FBI.
Clarke's clients also included convicted Islamic terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty to helping plan the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- the only person tried in a U.S. court on charges of involvement in the attacks -- and convicted child murderer Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons Oct. 25, 1994, so she could resume an affair with a wealthy man who had no interest in a "ready-made" family.
Both of those Clarke clients are also serving life sentences.
The Boston Globe cited Bowler as writing: "A federal death penalty case implicates particular procedural requirements and 'is extremely demanding to defend because of the effort and pressure involved.' In light of the circumstances in this case, the defendant requires an attorney with more background, knowledge and experience in federal death penalty cases than that possessed by current counsel.
"Appointment of Attorney Clarke is therefore justified to provide the defendant with adequate and proper representation," Bowler wrote.
After Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged last week, the defense asked Bowler for two lawyers "learned in the law applicable to capital cases," the Globe said.
In her ruling Monday, Bowler denied, at least for now, the request for death-penalty specialist attorney David I. Bruck to join the defense team.
Bruck teaches law at Washington and Lee University law school in Lexington, Va., and directs the school's death-penalty defense clinic.
Bowler said Clarke's "qualifications demonstrate she is 'learned in the law' of capital cases."


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Poll Shows Most Americans Oppose War in Afghanistan
Thursday, August 20, 2009
A majority of Americans now see the war in Afghanistan as not worth fighting, and just a quarter say more U.S. troops should be sent to the country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Most have confidence in the ability of the United States to meet its primary goals of defeating the Taliban, facilitating economic development, and molding an honest and effective Afghan government, but few say Thursday's elections there are likely to produce such a government.
When it comes to the baseline question, 42 percent of Americans say the United States is winning in Afghanistan; about as many, 36 percent, say it is losing.
The new poll comes amid widespread speculation that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, will request more troops for his stepped-up effort to remove the Taliban from Afghan towns and villages. That position gets the backing of 24 percent of those polled, while nearly twice as many, 45 percent, want to decrease the number of military forces there. (Most of the remainder want to keep the level about the same.)
In January, before President Obama authorized sending an additional 17,000 troops to the country, public sentiment tilted more strongly toward a troop increase.
Should Obama embrace his generals' call for even more forces, he would risk alienating some of his staunchest supporters. Although 60 percent of Americans approve of how Obama has handled the situation in Afghanistan, his ratings among liberals have slipped, and majorities of liberals and Democrats alike now, for the first time, solidly oppose the war and are calling for a reduction in troop levels.
Overall, seven in 10 Democrats say the war has not been worth its costs, and fewer than one in five support an increase in troop levels.
Republicans (70 percent say it is worth fighting) and conservatives (58 percent) remain the war's strongest backers, and the issue provides a rare point of GOP support for Obama's policies. A narrow majority of conservatives approve of the president's handling of the war (52 percent), as do more than four in 10 Republicans (43 percent).
Among all adults, 51 percent now say the war is not worth fighting, up six percentage points since last month and 10 since March. Less than half, 47 percent, say the war is worth its costs. Those strongly opposed (41 percent) outweigh strong proponents (31 percent).
Opposition to the Iraq war reached similar levels in the summer of 2004 and grew further through the 2006 midterm elections, becoming issue No. 1 in many congressional races that year.
By the time support for that conflict had fallen below 50 percent, disapproval of President George W. Bush's handling of it had climbed to 55 percent, in contrast to the solid overall approval of the way Obama is dealing with Afghanistan.
But there are warning signs for the president.
Among liberals, his rating on handling the war, which he calls one of "necessity," has fallen swiftly, with strong approval dropping by 20 points. Nearly two-thirds of liberals stand against a troop increase, as do about six in 10 Democrats.
On the GOP side, views are more evenly distributed, as Republicans divide about equally in support of an increase, a decrease and no change to troop levels.
Partisan divisions on the handling of the Afghan war are tempered when it comes to faith in the ability of the United States and its allies to get the job done. Broad majorities across party lines say they are confident that the United States will defeat the Taliban and succeed in spurring economic development.
Far fewer, 34 percent, say they think Afghanistan's national election will result in an effective government, with just 3 percent "very confident."
The poll was conducted by telephone Aug. 13-17 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults including users of both conventional and cellular phones. Results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points; it is higher among subgroups.


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Next month during Apple's sold-out Worldwide Developers Conference, the company is expected to take the wraps off the next version of iOS, its mobile operating system. That software will be used to power the next releases of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
As is always the case with Apple products, there have been a slew of rumors and speculative leaks regarding iOS 7. With former software chief Scott Forstall out and hardware design guru Jonathan Ive now in charge of bits as well as atoms, iOS 7 is expected to have a cleaner, flatter design, an approach already taken by Microsoft's Windows 8 and HTC's Sense overlay for Android. Simply Zesty, a digital design agency, even came up with a concept video showing what an Ive-influenced iOS might look like.
The basic look and design approach of iOS has changed little since its original 2007 release on the first iPhone, and critics have begun calling it tired and in need of an overhaul. Its technical limitations – such as the lack of lock and home screen widgets, the inability to have alternate default apps and limited app interoperability – have it lagging behind rival Google's Android OS. Apple's played it safe so far, and it's paying a price as a result.
Many iOS users have a list of updates and new features they'd like to see in iOS 7. Here's mine, along with some items suggested by my Twitter followers. Unfortunately, some of these are holdovers from my wish list for iOS 6.
• Lock and home screen widgets. This is a longstanding desire for many iOS users. If you've ever used an Android device, you know how handy it would be to have widgets for weather, power management, calendars, messaging and social media front and center. Even a setup similar Dashboard on the Mac – in which you'd swipe over to a screen dedicated to widgetry – would be welcome. C'mon Apple, it's way past time.
• Default application choice. I'd really rather have Chrome as my default browser, maybe the Mailbox app as my default email, and Google Maps as my default navigation app. Alternative keyboards would be nice, too. Let me choose my own best experience, Apple.
• Let apps talk to each other. Why can't Camera+ save a photo directly to Dropbox? Why can't Google Mail save a copy of a PDF to Google Drive? Why can't I push an image displayed in Chrome directly to Photoshop Express? If apps could communicate more openly with each other – and yes, it can be done securely, particularly given Apple's software approval scrutiny – life with iOS would be so much easier.
• Give apps more access to hardware. This is another holdover from my iOS 6 wish list. Apps should have the ability to turn hardware features on and off, particularly radios and those consuming power. This particularly relates to the first item on my wish list, because what I really want is to be able to have a choice of power-management widgets for controlling the state of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, etc., to save battery life.
• Dramatic Siri improvements. Siri remains a novelty, something that's useful maybe 60 percent of the time. Google's voice search and Google Now put Siri to shame, even in their iOS incarnations. I find myself using Google's apps for voice-based searching much more than Siri, which I use mainly when I want a good laugh.
• Quit hiding often-used settings. Apple continues to bury settings that I use a lot. While some smart changes were made in iOS, such as bringing the Bluetooth on/off switch to the main Settings screen, there's more to be done. Try finding the Equalizer feature for the Music app, for example. That should be available directly in the app, rather having to drop into the Settings module.
• Improved iCloud services. Why do photos sync between devices via the Photostream and iCloud, but videos won't? While apps can be configured to use iCloud for syncing, the process is apparently very difficult for developers to master. Make it easier for the makers of apps to take advantage of iCloud syncing.
That's my wish list. What would you like to see in iOS 7? Let us know in the comments.


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DUBLIN — The Dublin public schools system and Special Olympics will join forces Nov. 14 to stage a soccer competition for children with special needs.
The event will be held 9 a.m. Nov. 14. at the Dublin High School stadium, 8151 Village Parkway.
The public is encouraged to attend. The soccer competition is open to special needs students 3 to 22 years old who are enrolled in the Dublin Unified School District.
Organizers of the event are seeking contributions and volunteer help. For information, visit www.sonc.org.
Contact Denis Cuff at 925-943-8267. Follow him at Twitter.com/deniscuff


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This is a quick tutorial for anyone who wants a different image to show up depending on whether the page is views on screen or printed.
I forsee a few questions, which I'm going to try to answer up front:
Q) Why don't you just set a different background-image in the print stylesheet?
A) Because (almost?) all current browsers override author styles with something similar to
background-image: none !important;
in their default styles, and there's nothing you can do about it. Basically, when you print a web page you (usually) get IMG images but not CSS background-images.
Q) Why don't you set the print version as the default and then use javascript to change it on page load?
A) Because I'd rather not rely on javascript to do something that can be accomplished using HTML/CSS. If the user has scripts turned off, they get the wrong image, and even if they have scripts turned on, they will likely get a flash of the wrong image up first.
Q) You can make special stylesheets that are specifically for print versions? I never knew that! I always offer people a special "printer friendly" version of the page, so if they want a hard copy they have to jump through my flaming hoops!
A) You apparently live in a cave. Say "hi" to the bear for me.
A2) Oh, ok. You can put this in your document:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="whatever.css" />
Q) Why would you want a different image on the screen than the one on paper?
A) Because you have a website with a particular colour theme with a dark background, and printers use white paper - you can either print the entire page black and waste ink or you can make a clean white version which will look good on paper.
Right. On with it! And by example, please...
Say you have a header with an H1 element, and you're using a common method of text-image replacement to make it look pretty:

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How can we go about making that use a different image for print? I've already said it's not as simple as putting


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MidPen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 387 diseños de 121 diseñadores freelance.
Popular San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley veterinary hospital needs unique, creative, professionally designed and prepared logo.
Mid-Peninsula Animal Hospital
Mid-Peninsula Animal Hospital is a premier veterinary hospital providing premium general medicine, surgery, dentistry, dermatology, and reproduction services. We provide services to San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley residents who love their dogs & cats, (we see a small number of reptiles, and pocket-pets (i.e., gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc). Age, sex, income, and other demographic info are spread across the board; we provide extremely high-quality veterinary services to all animals and service customers from a wide range of demographic backgrounds.
Mid-Peninsula Animal Hospital prides itself on providing leading-edge medicine and extremely high professional integrity. We have 50 years of providing concierge-like service to our clientele. As such, more than anything, our name is our brand
This logo will be used in web, print, advertising, stationary, invoicing, clothing, and other collaterals.
• We are interested in exploring logo designs that use both text and a mark and text-only. If a mark is used, it must be clear from a distance and easily discernable/distinguished.
• If animals are used in a mark design, they must look dignified and stately.
• If a mark design includes a dog it must also include a cat (and visa-versa).
• We have no particular color preferences, but prefer brighter, more lively colors to drab or pastel colors. We want our logo to be vibrant while not being colorfully gaudy ... colors that emphasize sophistication and elegance while not coming off as stuffy or pretentious.
• In all designs, we would like fonts to be elegant and sophisticated. We are open to both serif and san-serif fonts.
• We would like the logo to look modern, but not modernist, and be something that will withstand the test of time. 3-D treatments are fine.
• In all cases, we want our logo to convey warmth, love, care, and well-being.
• No logos containing cartoon- or comic-style renderings.• No silly or 'cutesy' looking dogs or cats.• No puppies or kittens.• No guard dogs with cropped ears.• We do not want a design that are overly trendy or which will look dated in a short period of time.
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