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As an airline, we face many challenges.
We operate in a region that will see the biggest growth in our industry – which is great for our business, but also brings about increased impacts on the environment and communities. According to Boeing, it is anticipated that airline traffic (measured by revenue passenger kilometer - RPK) will increase by more than 5% from 2011 to 2030. In Asia Pacific alone, the long-range forecast for 2011 anticipates delivery of 11,450 new airplanes over the next 20 years, valued at more than $1.5 trillion.
Aviation is being increasingly brought under international limelight due to the industry's reliance on fossil fuels, increasing regulations, external interest, consumer and investor needs and other risks and liabilities associated with our operations. Our people and customers expect us to be the best in everything we do; they increasingly look at how we operate as a business. And so do we.
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dantheriver necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
I need a new, clean, "web 2.0ish" landing page design for our shop. This project is for a single home page, but I want to be able to slice it up to reuse the header and footer for other pages. The winning designer will most likely be offered more work from us to help design content pages, additional buttons, etc. The deliverable should be a single .ai, .psd, or .png file.
We need a very clean, fresh looking site for our shop. Our clients are endurance athletes and are equally split male and female. I want a site that has a web 2.0 feel to it... simple, rounded corners, gradient fills, etc. I will make available many assets that you can use for your design (our logo and many images to pull from). If you happen to be into road bikes or triathlons we can also hook the winning designer up with employee discount on some bike gear!
Current site is here: http://www.sbrutah.com
Assets can be found here: http://www.sbrutah.com/assets.zip
- Main content to fit in 1,000px width, but background can fill whole screen.
- Reusable header and footer with navigation links for Home, Bike Fit, Bike Repairs, Wetsuit Rentals, Shop Online, V02/Power Testing, Local Community, and Find Us.
- Integration of our logo into the header
- Emphasis on tag line "Utah's Premier Triathlon, Road Bike, and Fit Studio"
- Sections on the main page for the content on our current home page (www.sbrutah.com):- --- 1) Why SBR Sports is Unique
- --- 2) Doing your first Triathlon?
- --- 3) Doing a charity ride or century?
- --- 4) Want to get faster or stronger?
- --- 5) Looking for a local event, club, or coach?
- Colors should fit with our logo: orange, greys, and blues.
- Use of some action shots, at least one picture of swimming, biking, and running, or an area where I can embed an image rotator.
- Include the two company logos for Blue and Felt bikes (our two main bike lines)
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When I was sixteen, I bought a cigar box full of 1960s baseball cards for $5 from someone who was cleaning out their mother's attic. I sold one single card in the box – a 1965 Topps Mickey Mantle in excellent condition – for $200.
Several years ago, I was at a yard sale. The person running the yard sale had a box full of trading cards sitting there that her son had left behind when he went to college. I offered $5 for the box and proceeded to resell them on eBay, netting almost $1,000 in the process. (The cards were Magic: the Gathering cards from the Unlimited and Arabian Nights sets.)
About a year ago, I bought a pile of used video games at a yard sale. I picked them up for $2 apiece – 15 games for $30. Several months later, I piled these up and traded them at a local gaming store for approximately $200 in store credit, which (in combination with other traded-in items) I used to pick up a Playstation 3.
What do these little stories have in common?
First, in each case, I took advantage of a hobby of mine to turn a substantial profit. I'm familiar with the value of many types of trading cards, video games, and other certain types of collectibles because they're hobbies of mine. Thus, when I notice these items, I can inspect them carefully and often evaluate their prices.
Second, I routinely put myself in situations where I'll stumble across these items without a proper valuation. Yard sales and garage sales are a great start, but there are lots of places to look: going out of business sales, estate sales, and so on.
Third, I knew how to re-sell the items. There are many collectibles and other items that have theoretical value, but if you don't know how to re-sell them for that value, they don't have any value at all.
Let's look at how you can use each one to not only have a lot of fun enjoying a hobby of yours, but also turn a profit sometimes, too.
Know Your Hobby
This is the easiest part of the three. Almost every hobby involves some sort of equipment or materials. From rock collecting to gardening to more obvious things like movie collecting, hobbies usually involve the acquisition of certain items.
Simply by being involved with the hobby, it's often easy to be aware of the values of many of the items associated with the hobby. Keep your ears and your eyes open and you'll soon have a grasp of the value of many items within the hobby, as well as good resources for identifying the value of items you're unsure of.
Know Your Situation
It gets a bit trickier when you're looking for ways to find such bargains. Above, I named several avenues for finding such items. Here's some specific notes on these avenues.
Yard sales and garage sales These are almost always my best bet for finding huge bargains on hobby-related items. The trick, of course, is knowing how to separate the junk from the valuable. If the price is cheap enough, I'll often jump on board even if I'm not 100% sure of the value of the item because the profit potential is so high.
Going out of business sales I never miss these, particularly for independent non-chain businesses. Often, items are priced as a discount off of MSRP – and often they're cleaning out everything they can find from their back rooms. Sometimes, this means older and rare items that have a lot of value are out there for less than they should have sold for new. If you know what you're looking for, this can be a treasure trove.
Estate sales and auctions This is similar to a yard sale. It can work well for certain types of items. Your best bet is to simply peruse listings in advance to decide if the sale is worth your time.
Odd jobs Whenever you have the chance to perform odd jobs for independent businesses – or even do things like help someone clean out the house of a deceased family member (which is a nice thing to do anyway) – you can just stumble upon all kinds of great things. I've found great items in the back room of an independent coin shop and in the closets of a deceased cousin of a friend.
Know Your Outlet
Of course, just because you find an item that has significant theoretical value, that doesn't mean that you're going to make a profit. Thus, I only pick up items if one of these two statements are true.
The item must immediately be resellable at a profit. Can I go list this item on eBay and turn a profit on it? Or, can I take this item to some sort of trader or retailer and immediately get more for it than I paid for it?
The item must have immediate use. An item I might use doesn't cut it. I must be able to immediately put the item to some reasonable use within my hobby. Ideally, the item continues to retain some value as well.
If I can't immediately validate one of these two statements, I don't make the purchase.
Knowledge Is Money
In simplest terms, knowledge is rewarded here, as is participation. The more you know your hobby, the more likely it is you'll be able to identify potential bargains. The more you participate in events where such bargains appear, the more likely you are to find it.
That's why my wife and I often go to garage sales on weekends – and why we often go away empty handed. We usually go only to look for specific items – things we need, like children's clothes, or things we know we can profit from.
Good luck!
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Last week we learned the NBA 2K11 ratings for all projected starters in the league. Today we find out where the teams rank in the game, due out October 5.
You may recall that Miami and the Los Angeles Lakers had identical average scores across their starting five. NBA 2K11, according to Operation Sports (which has the game early) rates the Lakers first overall (and first on defence, third in the league on offence) with Miami No.2. Orlando is the third best team.
The bottom three teams begin with Toronto at No.30, then Minnesota and the Clippers.
I imagine this could change if Carmelo Anthony heads to the Nets. Denver, with 'Melo, has the game's top-rated offence and is seventh overall. The Nets are No.25.
Also of note: Oklahoma City is No.5, which should delight their fans.
Secondly, Operation Sports has posted a video cycling through the game's menu and showing all the ratings for all the players - bench warmers and legendary teams included. You might recall that 18 teams from the Michael Jordan years, eight of them Chicago, 10 of them their rivals, will be featured in the game. They're all here, so check out how Dominique Wilkins, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone measure up. There are also eight different Jordans, many of them rated 99. Those ratings begin at 5:54 of the video.
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A report by the Lebanon Invest Group, Lebinvest, indicates that Lebanese government expenditures reached $5.36 billion and revenues totaled $2.62 billion in the first 10 months of 2000, resulting in a budget deficit of 51.17 percent of expenditures compared to 44.8 percent for the same period last year and to a target deficit of 37.3 percent for this year.
Expenditures increased by 18.6 percent while revenues rose 5.22 percent from the corresponding period of 1999. The deficit rose to 54.85 percent in October. Overall revenues from direct taxes fell by 5.26 percent to $1.695 billion. The deficit was 54.85 percent in October compared to 48.13 percent in September and 57.89 percent in October 1999.
Debt servicing accounted for 42.81 percent of expenditures and constituted 87.68 percent of overall revenues and 97.85 percent of budgetary receipts. Excluding debt servicing, the primary surplus reached 8.17 percent of budgetary expenditures, and was down 1.78 percent to $350.44 million year-on-year.
Debt servicing, salaries of public employees, funds allocated to municipalities and subsidies to the money-losing Electricité du Liban continue to constitute a major burden on the budget and Treasury.
Imports reached $5.16 billion in the first 10 months of 2000, a 0.19 percent rise compared to the same period last year, while exports totaled $594 million, up 9.19 percent over the same period last year. The trade deficit amounted to $4.566 billion, down $40 million, or 0.87 percent, from the first 10 months of 1999. The export to import ratio was 11.52 percent, improving from the 10.57 percent registered during the corresponding period last year.
The stagnation in imports is attributed to higher customs duties, and reflects the prevailing tight liquidity and continuing weak consumer demand. Italy was Lebanon's main source of imports followed by France, Germany, the United States, and Switzerland. The United Arab Emirates was the main export destination with $64 million, or 10.8 percent or the total, and was followed by Saudi Arabia with 10.6 percent, Switzerland with 7.6 percent, the United States with 6.1 percent, and France with 5.4 percent.
Customs revenues reached $1.08 billion in the first 10 months of 2000, down 7.38 percent from the same period last year. Customs revenues stood at $128.7 million in October compared to $106.2 million in September and $120.1 million in October 1999. Income from customs and tariffs accounted for 44 percent and 47 percent of government revenues in 1999 and 1998, respectively. — (Lebanon Invest)


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The primary objective was to systematically review the literature on how sleep disordered breathing (SDB) affects recurrence and death among stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients. A secondary objective was to evaluate how treatment of SDB with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) affects the risk of recurrence and death in these patients.
Adults (18+) with a stroke or TIA diagnosis were eligible for inclusion. Case groups consisted of patients with a sleep disorder. The outcomes of interest were all-cause mortality, recurrent vascular events, and case fatality.
Ten articles covering 1,203 stroke and TIA patients were included in the review. The results generally support a dose-response relationship between severity of SDB and risk of recurrent events and all-cause mortality in stroke and TIA patients. Three small-scale articles with substantial risk of bias evaluated the effects of CPAP therapy, and the results are inconclusive. Data on case fatality is too sparse to be conclusive.
Existing studies provide sufficient data to establish obstructive SDB as a negative predictor of all-cause mortality and recurrent vascular events following stroke or TIA. The ability of CPAP treatment to lower the risk of serious adverse outcomes after stroke remains controversial because of substantial risk of bias identified in most of the eligible studies addressing this relation. Additional studies are needed.
Birkbak J; Clark AJ; Rod NH. The effect of sleep disordered breathing on the outcome of stroke and transient ischemic attack: a systematic review. J Clin Sleep Med 2014;10(1):103-108.
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is a term used to describe nocturnal breathing and ventilatory problems. SDB includes obstructive sleep apnea, which is defined as partial or complete closure of the upper airways and central sleep apnea, which describes apneic events due to lack of respiratory effort.1 The severity of SDB is measured by the number of apneas and hypopneas per hours of sleep, the apneahypopnea index (AHI).
SDB has been associated with 2-3 times higher risk of incident stroke in several large well-designed prospective studies.2–5 Moreover, a recent meta-analysis concludes that SDB with an AHI > 5 events/hour is seen in 72% and with AHI > 20 events/hour in 38% of all stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients.6 The highest prevalence of SDB is seen among male patients, patients with recurrent strokes, and those with stroke of unknown etiology. The underlying mechanisms explaining a high prevalence of SDB among stroke and TIA patients remain to be established, but the hypothesized mechanisms behind a deleterious effect of SDB on stroke incidence and prognosis include hypertension, endothelial damage, cardiac arrhythmias, variability in cerebral blood flow, and oxygen desaturation.7–9
Two previous reviews have found that SDB in stroke patients leads to poorer outcomes and increased risk of recurrent strok e.10,11 Another review is inconclusive about the benefits from treatment of SDB after stroke.12 The relationship between stroke and SDB is being increasingly discussed in the scientific literature,12,13 and we aimed to systematically evaluate serious adverse outcomes in stroke and TIA patients related to SDB. This review differs from previous reviews by focusing exclusively on the effects of SDB after stroke, and by reviewing the literature systematically. The systematic design ensures that all relevant studies are included regardless of outcome, which is necessary to draw conclusions about the state of the art of current literature.
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can be applied to patients with obstructive SDB. The rationale is that the closure of the upper airway can be prevented by the applied airway pressure when given overnight. CPAP treatment has been shown to reduce the severity of SDB in stroke patients from an AHI > 30 events/hour to 10 events/hour or less.14,15 The ability of CPAP to reduce recurrent events and death in stroke patients is still uncertain due to small and, in some cases, methodologically weak intervention studies.16,17
The objective of the present study is to systematically review the literature on how SDB affects the probabilities of recurrence and death among patients diagnosed with stroke or TIA. A secondary objective is to evaluate how treatment of SDB with CPAP affects the risk of recurrence and death in stroke or TIA patients. Our goal is to systematically review the literature and to investigate whether the present data are sufficient to draw conclusions. The methodology of this systematic review follows the PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analysis.18
Initially, a review protocol specifying the criteria of the review was developed. The protocol was changed once when the area of interest was restricted to only include stroke and TIA in order to get a reasonable number of studies for the qualitative analysis. The protocol can be assessed by contacting the corresponding author.
The eligibility criteria for inclusion were: adults (18+) with stroke or TIA diagnosed by qualified personnel (in an emergency department, stroke center, department of neurology, or a similar unit). Case groups had to consist of patients with a sleep disorder (e.g., obstructive or central sleep apnea, Cheyne-Stokes respiration). In order to comprehensively review the literature on sleep and stroke outcomes, our initial protocol included no restrictions on sleep disorder measurements, and patients suffering from sleep impairment (e.g., long/short sleep, snoring, nightmares, poor sleep, and insomnia) were also eligible for inclusion into the review. However, no relevant articles on sleep impairment and adverse outcomes of stroke and TIA were identified, and assessment of these associations was therefore omitted from the review.
The outcomes of interest were serious adverse events, including case fatality (death within 28 days), all-cause mortality, and recurrent vascular events. Experimental studies and observational studies were eligible for inclusion (i.e., cohort design, case-control design, cross-sectional studies, and case-studies with ≥ 10 cases).
A systematic search of articles using MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and The Cochrane Library was conducted using the following search terms: Sleep; sleep apnea; sleep disorders; insomnia; nightmare AND stroke; transient ischemic attack AND prognosis; disease progression; recurrence; case fatality. The searches were conducted in the total time span available in the respective databases with no language restrictions. In order to identify unpublished data, we contacted the corresponding authors of all included studies.
Database searches were conducted on March 5, 2012, and updated on November 28, 2012. The study selection process is illustrated in Figure 1. Eight articles met the eligibility criteria and two additional articles were identified and included by screening reference lists of the full-text articles and reviews on adjacent topics found by a search in The Cochrane Library. Thus, a total of 10 studies were included in the review. During the selection process, studies were excluded on the grounds of: not performing a sleep study in all patients, mixing stroke or TIA patients with other diagnoses without performing separate analyses, and not investigating the outcomes of interest.
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As we wanted to include all types of sleep disorders and sleep impairment, we did not make any restrictions about sleep exposure and sleep exposure measurements. However, all studies that met the eligibility criteria focused on obstructive or central sleep apnea or habitual snoring, which is included in the term SDB. The severity of SDB (the AHI) was measured with sleep study recorders of different brands, henceforth known as partial polysomnography (PSG), in all studies except two: Good et al. used overnight oximetry,19 and Mansukhani et al. used a questionnaire.20
The literature search and the screenings of headings and abstracts were made by JB. Data on methods, participants, exposure, outcome, and results was extracted using a data extraction sheet developed by inspiration of The Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group's data extraction template.21 The data extraction sheet template used is available from the corresponding author upon request. The extraction of data and the assessment of bias were done by JB. AC read all 41 full-text articles that were assessed for eligibility and verified all data extraction sheets. If consensus was not achieved, NR was included for a final decision.
The risk of bias was systematically evaluated in each eligible study. This included limitations related to study design and study population, randomization to treatment, proportion lost to follow-up, degree of adequate compliance, adjustment for potential confounding factors, and possible conflicts of interest.
We found great differences in the characteristics of the eligible studies regarding measurements of outcome, assessment of sleep exposure, eligibility criteria for participants, and follow-up time. This lack of comparability between the studies was expected; thus we focused on qualitative analyses rather than conducting a meta-analysis.
We identified eight studies on SDB and serious adverse events in stroke and TIA patients. Study characteristics and main results for these are presented in Table 1. Six studies were European22–27 and two were North American.19,20 The sample sizes were small, ranging from 47 to 174 stroke or TIA patients. The study designs included seven prospective cohort studies19,20,23–27 and one cross-sectional study.22 Two studies presented stroke recurrence as a primary outcome,22,25 five studies addressed all-cause mortality as primary outcome,19,20,23,26,27 and one study evaluated both fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events.24 Two studies had case-fatality as secondary outcomes.20,25 The definition of SDB varied from AHI of 5 events/hour to 20 events/hour. An apnea episode was defined as 10 seconds of cessation of airflow,22,23,26,27 > 75% decrease,24 or > 50% decrease in airflow.25 A hypopnea was defined as a 25% to 50%,24 ≥ 50%,22,26,27 or a discernible23 or clear25 reduction in airflow or thoraco-abdominal amplitude for ≥ 10 seconds. In most cases, the hypopnea had to be associated with a 3% to 4% oxygen desaturation.23–27
Overview of studies addressing the effect of sleep disordered breathing on stroke and TIA outcome
Two cohort studies and one cross-sectional study found SDB to be associated with higher risk of recurrent events.24,25 The study by Rola et al. included 91 stroke patients and found a higher risk of recurrent stroke or TIA after 24 months of follow-up (odds ratio [OR], 1.52; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.06-2.14).25 They defined SDB as AHI > 5, which is markedly lower than in any of the other included studies. The mean AHI in patients with SDB was 20.8 ± 15.8 compared with 1.75 ± 1.4 in patients without SDB (p < 0.05). The relatively low cut-point for SDB could have overestimated the fraction of patients with SDB and consequently underestimated the effect. The study by Martinez-Garcia et al. included 166 stroke patients; they found that an AHI ≥ 20 and intolerance to CPAP treatment carried a hazard ratio (HR) of 2.87 (95% CI, 1.11-7.71) for a recurrent nonfatal cardiovascular event.24 In a cross-sectional study, Dziewas et al. showed a dose-response relation between the severity of SDB and the risk of stroke recurrence.22
Six cohort studies have addressed the relationship between SDB and all-cause mortality19,20,23,26,27 or fatal cardiovascular events.24 Three of these studies found an exposure-dependent relationship between the severity of SDB and risk of death, within six months,27 two years,23 and 10 years26 follow-up. Martinez-Garcia et al. found an increased risk of premature death among stroke patients with AHI ≥ 20 and intolerance to CPAP treatment (HR, 1.76; 95% CI, 1.12-2.68) after seven years follow-up.24 Good et al. found nocturnal oxygen desaturations to be associated with mortality after a one year follow-up.19 In a similar vein, Mansukhani et al. showed a nonsignificant association between SDB assessed by a questionnaire and mortality (OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 0.9-3.6) after 262 days follow-up.20 In summary, despite differences in study designs, definition of SDB, and length of follow-up, all of the included studies supported a higher risk of mortality among stroke and TIA patients with SDB.
Two studies included analyses on case fatality.20,25 Mansukhani et al. found no clear association between SDB and case fatality based on 11 cases (relative risk [RR], 1.15; 95% CI, 0.35-3.78).20 Rola et al. found that SDB was related to a nonsignificant higher occurrence of case fatality based on six cases.25
The study by Sahlin et al. found no association between central SDB and increased risk of death (HR, 1.07; 95% CI, 0.65-1.76).26 There was, however, limited statistical power to assess this association. In the study by Parra et al., 39% of the participants had central SDB, but they were not analyzed separately in the study.23
The three studies, which addressed the effect of CPAP on adverse outcomes in stroke and TIA patients with SDB are summarized in Table 2. All 3 studies were European, involving 376 participants in total.24,28,29 The definition of SDB varied from an AHI of 10 events/hour in combination with excessive daytime sleepiness to 20 events/hour. Compliance rates varied from 11%28 to 72%,29 with a mean of 37%.
Overview of studies addressing how CPAP affects stroke and TIA outcome in patients with sleep disordered breathing
Parra et al. contributed with the only randomized controlled trial identified on this topic. They found no significant impact of CPAP treatment on all-cause mortality after two years of follow-up (HR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.11-3.46).29
The two other intervention studies are cohort studies with follow-up between five and seven years.28,24 The study by Martínez-García et al. concludes that patients with an AHI ≥ 20 and adequate CPAP compliance had hazard ratios that were not different from patients with an AHI < 20 in terms of both fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events.24 In the final intervention study by Bassetti et al., only eight of 70 intervention patients had adequate compliance, leaving limited strength to assess the association.28
Based on this systematic review of the literature SDB is identified as a risk factor for recurrence and mortality following stroke or TIA. Central SDB is only seen in few cases and its impact on recurrence and mortality following stroke remains controversial. The evidence suggests that there is a dose-response relationship between the severity of obstructive SDB and the risk of serious adverse outcomes in stroke and TIA patients. The presented data are too sparse to draw conclusions about the risk of case fatality.
In terms of CPAP treatment, the only randomized controlled trial showed no protective effect of CPAP usage among stroke patients with SDB.29 Martínez-García et al. found that adequate CPAP treatment neutralized the excessive risk of cardiovascular events associated with SDB.24 The cohort study by Bassetti et al. did not prove any benefit of CPAP treatment in stroke patients with SDB.28 The evidence is too sparse to draw conclusions. Low compliance rates, mainly because of discomfort with the machine, are a major problem even when the patients in the worst mental and physical conditions are left out.24,28 Further studies are needed to clarify the role of CPAP treatment among stroke patients with SDB.
Six of the included studies were well adjusted for baseline characteristics and known cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk factors; one study adjusted for only age and stroke severity20; while three studies investigated for differences in the distribution of confounding factors among the study groups, but made no adjustments (Tables 1 and 2).19,25,28 In studies with insufficient adjustments cerebrovascular risk factors such as hypertension, smoking, obesity, and arrhythmias could be distributed unevenly among the study groups and potentially introduce confounding.
None of the studies used full PSG to measure SDB in all patients. Instead, different validated partial PSG systems were used. Good et al. used a simple overnight oximetry to calculate the desaturation index (DI) on basis of episodes with ≥ 4% desaturation from baseline and time with SpO2 < 90%.19 The authors recognize that the fraction of patients having SDB could be underestimated. In the Mansukhani study20 SDB was assessed by the Berlin Sleep Questionnaire, which has previously been validated to have a positive predictive value between 89% and 96% in identifying patients with sleep apnea.30,31 While the use of alternatives to full PSG might be an economic necessity when classifying SDB, low diagnostic agreement with full PSG may lead to misclassification of some SDB patients and probably underestimation of the associations.
The time interval from stroke onset until sleep study varied significantly among the studies - from 24 hours to 76 days. The previously mentioned meta-analysis by Johnson et al.6 found no difference in SDB frequency related to the timing of the sleep study in a review of 29 studies. A few studies have found spontaneous remission of SDB, and we cannot exclude that the variations in time interval could possibly influence the findings.
Two studies included both stroke and TIA patients, but the results were not subdivided by these diagnoses.23,25 There is no indication that stroke and TIA differ in risk of serious adverse outcomes in relation to SDB, but a separation of patient types would have been preferable. Few studies included both central and obstructive SDB, with up to 39% of the patients having central SDB,23 without conducting separate analyses. If central SDB is not a predictor of serious adverse outcomes, as the Sahlin study26 suggests, these studies potentially underestimate the deleterious effects of obstructive SDB.
In terms of bias associated with study design, the two non-randomized intervention studies had control groups consisting of patients who did not tolerate CPAP treatment. Even though the groups were adjusted for potential cerebrovascular confounders, it is likely that patients who tolerated CPAP had better mental, cognitive, or social status, and potentially a better prognosis before treatment, thus introducing selection bias. This could have led to an overestimation of the protective effect of CPAP treatment.
Low compliance rates caused substantial risk of bias in most of the intervention studies. When a great deal of the intervention group, and most likely those in the worst condition, is left out of the analyses, the beneficial effect of treatment is likely to be overestimated.
The only potential conflicts of interest declared in the included studies were related to Bassetti, who is member of the medical advisory board of ResMed, the company that produced the CPAP device used in the study.28 The role of this relationship is unknown, however, the results of the study did not show any beneficial effects of CPAP treatment in stroke patients with SDB.28
The AHI score used to classify SDB was very variable, and while some studies found a higher risk of adverse outcomes even at low cut points for SDB,22,23,25,27 other studies only found an effect in the more severe cases of SDB.24,26 The definitions used to classify apneas and hypopneas and the partial PSG recorders differed slightly across the studies. Such variations and their possible influence on the results are inevitable. No studies used placebo CPAP, also known as sham CPAP, though this is available.32 Given the major impact on daily living associated with CPAP usage, long-term trials with placebo CPAP could very well be considered unethical, though a demand for these trials is proposed by many authors.
Patients with a diagnosis of previous stroke are expected to have a worse prognosis than first-time stroke victims. However, four studies screened for and included patients with previous stroke at baseline,19,24,26,27 and two studies did not assess the occurrence of previous stroke in their baseline characteristic.20,28
It is well known that positive results are more likely to be published than negative results, especially in terms of small studies as the ones included in this review. By making a broad search in different electronic databases, and by contacting authors of eligible studies, we did our utmost to assess all existing relevant studies, but the existence of publication bias cannot be fully excluded.
In summary, based on this systematic and comprehensive review of the literature, we conclude that existing studies provide sufficient data to establish obstructive SDB as a negative predictor of serious adverse outcomes following stroke or TIA in terms of all-cause mortality and recurrent vascular events. The evidence on central SDB is insufficient, and additional studies are needed to address this relationship. The present data on case fatality are also very sparse and inconclusive. The ability of CPAP treatment to lower the risk of serious adverse outcomes after stroke remains controversial because of substantial risk of bias identified in most of the eligible studies addressing this relation. Intolerance to CPAP treatment among stroke patients is high, and alternative ways of treating SDB should be considered including, for example, positional therapy, which has been shown to reduce SDB by changing sleeping position,33 and usage of therapeutic pillows.34 In relevant cases, weight loss intervention should be considered as a way to reduce SDB severity and cerebrovascular risk. Given the results of this systematic review, we suggest that SDB should be recognized as a predictor of worse outcome among stroke patients, but further studies are necessary in order to recommend an appropriate intervention for these patients.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
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Denver Post sports writer Chris Dempsey posts his Nuggets Mailbag every other Thursday during the NBA season.
Pose a Nuggets- or NBA-related question for the Nuggets Mailbag.
Why has Jordan Hamilton fallen out of the team's new "shorter bench" rotation?
— David Wright, Denver
This is simply a numbers game at small forward, especially when everyone is healthy. Wilson Chandler starts, and then it becomes kind of a collage of players on the perimeter once the bench gets involved.
I don't know that there is a specific small forward replacement, just players who are slotted there in certain lineups — everyone from Randy Foye in the three-guard lineup, to Evan Fournier to Darrell Arthur in some bigger lineups.
The Nuggets have identified the nine players they want to play and develop and Hamilton just isn't among them right now.
Chris, am I crazy or is Quincy Miller's ceiling crazy high? It was only a couple of years ago scouts were comparing him to Kevin Durant before the knee injury. He had lottery type of talent if he hadn't hurt his knee, right? And it seems like Brian Shaw is committed to him, which is important. Does this situation have Paul George possibilities?
— Ben, Los Angeles, CA
Certainly seems like his ceiling is extremely high, doesn't it? Here's what I like about Quincy: His desire to play, to learn, to get better. Love his attitude and his skill set – he's 6-10, can handle the ball, shoot out to 3-point range and rebound.
Man, that's valuable. He was a highly-regarded prep player, who wants to fulfill all of the promise he showed back then, before that ACL injury. Now, he'll have to continue to work on his focus and professionalism in terms of becoming a student of the game, immersing himself into game plans and plays, knowing what he's supposed to do on the court inside-and-out and the personnel he's facing that night. But it's been fun to watch him get playing time this month.
He won't always get this much this season, there are likely more stretches of bench time ahead, but getting his feet wet and playing so well bodes well for his future. Is there Paul George in him? I don't know.
But, as you pointed out, Shaw has liked what he's seen, the Nuggets seem committed to him, and that's all that matters for Miller's future.
In your opinion, should Andre Drummond, Isaiah Thomas, Manu Ginobli and Al Horford make the All-Star Team? It seems like all four are on the bubble. Which of these guys should, which of these guys shouldn't, and why?
–Cody, Brooklyn, NY
Right away, I'm going to remove Al Horford, because he's out for the season with a torn pectoral muscle. Manu Ginobili is a no, either way. Too many good perimeter players having better seasons than he is to include him. Isaiah Thomas is going to make a strong push. His numbers are All-Star caliber, to be sure.
But unless there are more guards going down with injuries that won't allow them to play in the All-Star Game, his team's performance will cost him. I've seen players like that get sacrificed all the time — just ask Monta Ellis when he played for Golden State; his numbers were always awesome (even if he shot a lot), but his team was terrible and he was pretty much always snubbed. When Sacramento plays better as a team, Thomas will get the All-Star credit he deserves. Andre Drummond?
I'd fully expect him to be part of the Rising Stars Challenge, being that this is his second year with a healthy double-double average, but not among the All-Star mix.
Do you think Brian Shaw can survive this season? I was not a fan of George Karl's half court offense and defense. I do not think Coach Shaw currently has the players to be like Indy. I hope management will be patient with him and provide him with players that fit his system.
–Stu, Pueblo
Brian Shaw will be fine. He's a really smart coach, whose team has done what so many teams under first-year head coaches with philosophy changes have done – play up-and-down while they figure things out. This team has two winning streaks of five games or more, and bad teams don't have those.
But Nuggets management is squarely behind him and that's that. The roster will be developed/reshaped over time to where they need it to be, no doubt about that.
Chris, The NBA season is way to long for the number of games they play. Do you think the NBA should try and play more games a week and restructure the playoffs? Just doesn't seem right that 16 teams get in every year.
–Jeff, Denver
If these guys played more games a week, they'd never — and I mean never — survive the season. It's a long season, for sure, but I think it's fine. There have been those who think the season should be shortened and start around Christmas, but that's just not going to happen. There's too much money involved to cut a season short.
As far as the playoffs are concerned, there's been a groundswell of those who want changes, but that's more due to the lack of quality teams at the bottom of the Eastern Conference than anything else. I say they're overall fine. The quality of teams at the bottom will get better this season as injured players return – and in the future as new young talent is infused.
I feel like we need to pull the trigger on a big trade. Would Pete D'Alessandro trade DeMarcus Cousins and Jimmer Fredette for Wilson Chandler, JaVale McGee and Andre Miller? Cousins would be the big man we seek and need. Your thoughts?
— Jeremy Michael, Fort Collins
No. Sacramento likes DeMarcus Cousins too much to do anything like that.
Who do you see being the odd men out when Danilo Gallinari and JaVale McGee finally come back? Do they end up trading 1 or 2 bigs to make room?
— Eric, Los Angeles, CA
This is a really good question, and a tough one. There are a number of players who deserve playing time. Alright, for purposes of this exercise we'll assume everyone is healthy without restrictions and playing reasonably well.
First, I'd have to think the rotation would stretch back to 10, instead of the nine they've settled on of late. Then, if Gallinari is back and playing well, I'd have to think that it would be tough for Evan Fournier to hold on to the additional minutes he's been given of late.
So then the bench would look like this: Nate Robinson, Darrell Arthur, Danilo Gallinari/Wilson Chandler (depending on who starts), J.J. Hickson and Timofey Mozgov. That leaves Fournier, Jordan Hamilton, Quincy Miller, and Anthony Randolph needing to stay ready for whenever they may be called upon.
And then the team wouldn't have to trade anyone to make it work. But this is just a guess on my part.
Chris Dempsey covers the Nuggets and NBA for The Denver Post. Pose a Nuggets- or NBA-related question for the Nuggets Mailbag. Follow him at twitter.com/dempseypost


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Last week in New York, I walked along crowded sidewalks beside and old friend and we talked about our lives. Our real lives. The lives we don't talk about.
It's funny, how so much of me is laid bare in these pages, yet really, you don't know me any more than you know any other transgender pseudonym on the internet. Everything I tell you could be some elaborate fable. I could be the 389 pound phone sex operator you are *convinced* is 18-and-three-weeks old and totally into you. You and I have no tangible relationship relative to reality and yet, everything I haven't told you, every lie of omission in the story you read about me has effectively stopped me from writing all together.
She and I walked through Central Park under the cold, damp, creamsicle streetlamps, eating pretzels with too much Gulden's, talking about how difficult it is to hide some of our story and share the rest of it. We naturally want to keep the most tender parts of ourselves held back from the harsh LED lights of the internet, but those are the ones that push the hardest to come out and in order to stop them, we have to shove a cork so far down our throats that not another word can pass by.
Last month, I had to go through my archives for last year to pick my three favorite posts from 2011. It took me 8 minutes to read *all* of my archives. Three years ago, exactly on my 33rd birthday, I signed with a literary agent. One who approached me. One who signed me without so much as a proposal for a book. And three years later, I still haven't written one tangible sentence.
It gets to the point where, until you say the one thing you can't, you won't be able to utter any other words.
My husband is an alcoholic.
He was missing for seven hours tonight.
I am more afraid of what will happen next if I don't say that than I am afraid of what's going to happen once I do.
Mostly, I am just afraid.


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Tom Kovac has designed a clean-cut piece, a composition of containers for different foods. "The new design for Alessi was conceived as a series of curves with the potential to generate a complex family of receptacles. Objects of different shapes and sizes can be placed inside this sculpted form, while the gently curved hollows for holding different objects or foods form an unbroken line. The combination of the six hollows in the bowl allows you to personalise the display each time, with simple gestures designed to provide a unique, multi-sensory experience, creating an endless array of shapes, patterns, colours and positions. This "enhanced functionality" develops the aesthetic, tactile and visual relationship with the object, heightening your enjoyment of the bowl's shape and enhancing the way you look at its contents".
Tom Kovac, of Slovene descent, is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at rmit University in Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture and Masters Degree. Kovac has taught, lectured and exhibited in Europe, Japan and the United States. Founded in 1992, Tom Kovac Architecture is a research, architecture and design office producing projects that combine the use of digital tools and manufacturing technologies for the conception and realisation of projects on varying scales. In 2002 Kovac participated in the 8th International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, with two projects for the United States Pavilion, World Trade Center, Past Present & Future and the Alessi City of Towers exhibition. Most recently Kovac has designed a proposal for the World Trade Centre in New York (2002), the digital environment The Light of Room for the theatre group Company in Space at the Melbourne Museum during the Melbourne Festival (2002) and the most recently completed the Urban Attitude project on Federation Square in Melbourne (2002). Current projects include the Digital Design Laboratory for the rmit University, a Virtual Learning Interactive Platform, an Alessi space to be built and exhibited in the Non Standard Architecture exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, collaboration on a line of international generic hyper sports clubs, and a series of international hotels. Since 2001 Kovac has also been Creative Design Director of Curvedigital, a joint project between rmit University and Melbourne Museum.


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Saturday night marked the third time since Jan. 29 that the Freedom High boys basketball team had a shot at taking down Deer Valley.
The visiting Falcons were 0-for-2 in their first two attempts, and the CIF Division I Northern Regional quarterfinal would bring no charm.
The Wolverines duo of Marcus Lee and Kendall Smith combined for 62 points and 25 rebounds in an 83-69 victory that advances the tournament's top seed into hosting a Tuesday semifinal against Bellarmine College Prep-San Jose.
Deer Valley (25-5) trailed 46-42 a little more than three minutes into the second half and was forced into a timeout to regroup. Then it promptly closed the third period on a 14-3 run and never looked back.
"Every game we get better, and we know we just have to trust each other in those moments (of adversity)," said Smith, who finished with a game-high 32 points to go with nine rebounds and six assists. "We know if we trust each other to win our individual battles, we'll win together as a team."
Lee finished two blocks shy of a triple-double with 30 points and 16 rebounds.
"It's hard," Freedom junior Elliot Smith said of defending the Deer Valley duo. "You've got to worry about defending the post (against Lee) and you're not able to give help (against Smith)."
Elliot Smith led the Falcons (20-10) with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
Bellarmine College Prep 64, McClymonds 46: Bellarmine (21-9) got hot from behind the arc in a Division I quarterfinal win over McClymonds (22-8) and is headed to its first Northern California Regional playoff semifinal game in school history.
The Bells connected on nine 3-pointers by four different players. Jackson Gion led the way with four 3-pointers and 14 points. He hit three 3s in the third quarter. Teammate Blair Mendy his two 3s in the second quarter and had 12 points and Grant Vermeer had 10 points and a pair of 3s in the first quarter.
Eric Jones led the way for Mack with 13 points.
— Steve R. Waterhouse, correspondent
De La Salle 43, San Leandro 39: Elliott Pitts had a game-high 21 points as the Spartans used their trademark defense down the stretch to advance to the semifinals of the Division I Northern California regional playoffs for the seventh time in the last eight seasons, beating the Pirates at Chabot College.
With the victory, De La Salle (26-4) will travel to take on Pleasant Grove-Elk Grove, which won 60-36 over Piedmont Hills, on Tuesday.
The loss ends an incredible season by San Leandro, which advanced to the Northern California playoffs after reaching the North Coast Section championship game for the first time in school history.
Trailing 38-29, the Pirates (24-7) went on a 10-2 run to pull within a point and had the ball with 34.5 seconds left.
Dejon Budreaux missed a jumper from the top of the key, and De La Salle's Mac Hoffman grabbed the rebound before Pitts was fouled with 25.1 seconds remaining. After Pitts split a pair of free throws, Budreaux missed a shot before Pitts iced the game with two free throws.
— Tony Gonsalez, correspondent
Dublin 86, El Camino 75: The host Gaels wore down El Camino in the fourth quarter and pulled away for the victory in a Northern California Division II regional quarterfinal.
El Camino scored 19 points the first four minutes of the game and had a 12-point lead at that point. Dublin (25-6), which got the first NorCal win in school history, roared back with a 22-5 run to lead by five, only to see El Camino draw even at the half, 37-37.
The Colts started the third quarter much the way they started the game and opened a 55-47 lead before Dublin turned the game its way for good, leading by as much as 18 in the fourth quarter.
JoJo McGlaston scored 24 points for Dublin. Cameron Moses scored 21, going 9 of 9 at the foul line, and Jamir Andrews scored 13 for the Gaels.
— Glenn Reeves
College Park 67, Mt. Eden 59: Seb Flores scored 16 points and Steven Dailey added 14 as the Falcons (25-5) led from start to finish against the host Monarchs in a Northern California Regional Division II game.
Dailey, whose previous scoring high this season was 10 points, scored eight points in the first quarter as the Falcons grabbed an 18-5 lead over the third-seeded Monarchs (19-11).
The Falcons, repeatedly penetrating the soft Monarchs defense for easy baskets, got balanced scoring in the third period to take a 45-36 lead.
A frantic Monarchs effort cut the lead to 59-55 with 1:56 left, but College Park's Joe DeMers dropped in three free throws with under 20 seconds left to seal the victory.
Young led Mt. Eden with 18 points and Noel Briones added 14.
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Finding that face in the crowd
Even though it dates me as someone who has been around a while, the first time I can remember the "face in the crowd" phenomenon coming to notice was in the case of Arthur Bremer. Bremer was the man who tried to assassinate then-presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972, while Wallace was speaking at a rally in Laurel (Md.). He didn't succeed in killing Wallace, but did make him a paraplegic, confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
In the investigation that followed the assassination attempt, the U.S. Secret Service found Bremer in photographs of crowds in attendance at other Wallace rallies around the country. He was usually standing with his hands in his jacket pockets, wearing sunglasses, and smiling in a creepy way. Even before that, arson investigators knew the value of photographing the crowds of spectators at building fires. Arsonists often return to the scene of the crime to watch the results of their handiwork. If the same person shows up at multiple fire scenes, it's probably a good idea to try and locate them for a chat.
Researchers Kevin Bowyer and Patrick Flynn in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame University got interested in this problem when Bowyer attended a conference that included a discussion on counterterrorism. One of the conference participants mentioned the problem of scanning videos or photographs of crowd scenes in the aftermath of a detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED) or suicide bomb. There could be hundreds of people in the pictures, and it was close to impossible to compare all of the faces with all of the others, looking for a commonality.
The new technology uses the geometry of certain unalterable facial features to identify each face in the image frame and compare it to faces from other images. While someone can wear a disguise that changes their hairstyle, facial hair or even skin tone, the distance between the pupils, and the angle that connecting line forms with the tip of the nose, among other features, is always consistent. The geometry of each face isn't unique, but is sufficiently distinctive that is greatly reduces the number of faces a human has to compare to something manageable. The software is called the Questionable Observer Detector, or QuOD.
Just identifying the faces in an image used to be quite a feat for a computer, but that technology is now so "ho-hum" that it's included in consumer-grade point-and-shoot cameras. For a couple of hundred bucks, you can buy a camera that will find every face in a group and snap the picture only when everyone has their eyes open and is smiling.
While this is a great development that you can see through a short video on the Notre Dame website and below, there are still some problems to work out before it can be put to work. Video clips are of highly varying quality and resolution, and some don't have enough detail to identify the faces. Lighting and clothing can put a face in shadow, and not everyone may be looking directly into the camera. All that adds complexity to the identification task, which also increases with the number of videos to be analyzed.
One refreshing aspect to this technology is that civil rights and privacy advocates are less likely to find fault with it than with facial recognition systems that compare every face detected to a database. Critics say this casts too wide a net, increasing the chances for false positives and detentions of people who haven't done anything but look similar to someone who is wanted. When the comparison database is limited to people who showed up to watch bodies being recovered from a bombing, there is less of an opportunity for error.


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President Leith Mullings wields her pen once again in request for preservation of historical sites against reality television shows. This year the Travel Channel has a new reality television show "Dig Wars". President Mullings' letter gives a detailed overview of the show and suggestions to rethink the show's direction towards a productive and entertaining piece.
Below is the text of the letter. To read the letter itself, click here (PDF).
Dear Mr. Sharp:
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and its 12,000 members worldwide join other professional organizations and concerned communities in urging you to withdraw or modify the new reality television show, "Dig Wars." This program actively encourages the needless destruction of the archaeological record. Its theme is a competition among teams with metal detectors to determine which team can locate and dig up antiquities from the ground. These are treated as "loot" (the show's term) and assessed for their monetary value.
Reasonable viewers watching this program may be mistakenly led to believe that such behaviors are ethically acceptable. On the contrary, the looting as portrayed on the show is deeply disturbing. The overall message is that this nation's cultural and historical heritage is "loot" that is up for grabs for anyone with a metal detector and shovel. This the wrong message to give the public, especially in an age when so many historical sites are disappearing.
The show focuses on taking teams of metal detector enthusiasts to known archaeological sites of historical interest (notable examples include Fort Saint Phillip, Louisiana, and Eastover Plantation, Virginia). The historical interest of these places is important to the program and is an obvious reason for showing it on Travel Channel. However, the program's emphasis on digging at those archaeological sites to retrieve relics described as "treasure" is at odds with maintaining the historical integrity of these places. Your viewers are encouraged to consider these historical sites as places to plunder, experienced through the activities of the metal-detecting teams. It is at best a mixed message for your program to feature historical places as worthy of travel and tourism and at the same time promote their wanton irrevocable damage, robbing them of historical value.
The winning team is determined each week on the basis of the total monetary worth of their "finds," as assessed by an appraiser at the end of the show. The value of historical relics is reduced to dollars and cents. The Travel Channel's message is that any value of historical places and objects as reflecting our common heritage is negligible compared to the money to be made trafficking in looted artifacts. That disturbing message causes grave concern among the archaeologists and historians who seek to preserve and protect our historical legacy.
This is doubly unfortunate because the program has the potential to promote the historical value of these artifacts. It could be retooled to enlighten Travel Channel audiences, explaining how the objects found by metal detecting enthusiasts can be used to interpret the historical past. For example, instead of being appraised, the objects could be assessed for how they tell a story about the past, as evaluated by local historical societies or local archaeologists. Such stories could make for more compelling programs on these historical sites, drawing in larger and more diverse audiences.
As an example of how this could be done, last year the National Geographic Channel, working with professional archaeological associations and metal-detector enthusiasts, modified its "Diggers" program. It now focuses on topics in American history from the point of view of two hobbyists working in coordination with local historians and archaeologists. That program became an opportunity for a multi-platform franchise that provides entertaining content for a broad TV audience and celebrates our shared history.
The AAA urges you to modify the contents of "Dig Wars" so that it will enlighten the public, encouraging respect for cultural heritage and for the many surviving historical sites of interest that are worthy of travel and tourism. We would be happy to help you locate and work with trained archaeologists to communicate the excitement of discovery and of history in a more responsible, ethical, and engaging manner.
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Contradictory Lawrence
The Life of D.H. Lawrence
The hectoring urgency in D. H. Lawrence's novels has been outstripped by what has happened to us all since his time. His short stories and poems seem to me his finest work, and his prolific letters stand out among the most lived and arresting in the English language. They reveal all his contradictions: they are instant self-portrayals, for good or ill. They spring from the same source as his need for fearless conversation, with its mixture of beguilement, vision, and insult that kept him alive as an artist and a man. There was always a quiet low laugh from him when silence closed on his exorbitance.
Many of these letters appeared in an edition introduced by Aldous Huxley in 1932; but now far more are available—5,000 in all—and also we have had many intimate recollections from young women Lawrence was in love with when he was young and from the numbers of men and women who were "taken" by his spell throughout his life. Mr. Sagar, who is editing the seven volumes of a collected edition of Lawrence's letters, has now skillfully drawn on them for an album-like biography. It has over 150 pictures, including sixteen in color, of Lawrence, his friends and acquaintances; places where he lived; and his paintings. (Like many writers with a strong visual style, he was attracted to the instant satisfactions of painting when tired of words; it was, at any rate, a therapy.) At first sight the book is rather a breathless race through what is now well known, but it is not really so much a race as an ingenious mosaic from portions of his letters, cemented by commentary. There is not an item that does not point to the portrait.
Mr. Sagar is acute on the influences of Lawrence's early life in the now socially remote England of the time. He recovers the sensations of fevered struggle with the Victorian ethos and Lawrence's passionate pursuit of freedom to go where and how one wanted to go, i.e., anywhere so long as it was outside the Great Britain of the Twenties. Such escapes have since become a luxury. We are now left with a choice between things like the package tour, the gang-life of hippies, the struggle with currency or enforced exile, not to mention the chances of new wars and revolutions. The villas and ranches the Lawrences so easily tumbled into and took over are in the hands of the speculators and may be traps for hostages. Industrial civilization which drove Lawrence to revolt and escape is now more intricately established than it was in his sunny time. The change for the worse, of course, justifies him as a prophet.
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) � A grand jury has indicted a 55-year-old Maine woman for allegedly stealing half a million dollars from the company where she worked as a bookkeeper.
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Published March 17, 2017
Passcode signs off
The Monitor's cybersecurity and privacy project ends March 31.
As the Monitor winds down its cybersecurity and privacy project, Passcode founders give special thanks to readers, writers, contributors, and sponsors, and look back on some of their favorite articles, projects, and columns.
CSM Projects
Published February 10, 2017
The web of vulnerabilities
The ecosystem of spies, criminals, and companies that compete to find and exploit software defects.
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Published October 25, 2016
The Passcode Cup
Scenes from Passcode's capture the flag hacker challenge
At the inaugural Passcode Cup capture the flag challenge, competitors raced through hacking challenges that ranged from password-cracking to compromising a mock water treatment facility.
Jack Detsch
Published October 23, 2016
15 under 15: Rising stars in cybersecurity
By Sara Sorcher & Ann Hermes
Published August 19, 2016
Hacking diversity in cybersecurity
How gender and racial imbalance in the field affects women, minorities, and white men working in digital security.
At the Black Hat and Def Con conferences, attendees addressed the lack of diversity in the cybersecurity community.
CSM Projects
Published August 15, 2016
The Cybersecurity Podcast
Passcode and New America have a new podcast featuring the leaders and thinkers of cybersecurity
Published July 31, 2016
Stronger together
India is home to 18.3 million modern slaves. Can mobilizing freed ones help change that?
Story by Michael Holtz, photos by Ann Hermes | July 31, 2016
Published July 20, 2016
The cypherpunk revolution
How the tech vanguard turned public-key cryptography into one of the most potent political ideas of the 21st century.
An excerpt from "Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History."
CSM Projects
Published June 10, 2016
Artist's campaign targets biometric surveillance
Artist and researcher Adam Harvey wants to raise awareness about the pervasiveness of biometric tracking on the web and in everyday life.
CSM Projects
Published March 25, 2016
Can developing petrostates learn to live without oil?
What looks like an economic catastrophe may turn out to be an opportunity.
CSM Projects
Published March 23, 2016
What does privacy mean to you?
A photo series exploring this key issue of the Digital Age.
At this year's South by Southwest Interactive festival, photographer Ann Hermes asked people what privacy means to them. Here's what she found out.
CSM Projects
Published March 21, 2016
FBI v. Apple timeline: Tracking legal battles over iPhone security
Though the Department of Justice has concluded the cases over locked iPhones in San Bernardino and Brooklyn, those cases could prove instrumental in future fights with Apple involving smartphone security. Here are the significant dates, legal filings, and arguments in both cases.
Malena Carollo | March 21, 2016
Published March 21, 2016
Lessons on security and privacy from SXSW
Everything we talked about, debated, and discovered at the 2016 South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin.
Security and privacy were hot topics for the tens of thousands of digerati who flocked to Austin for the 2016 South by Southwest Interactive festival.
CSM Projects
Published March 17, 2016
The source code of political power
Human interaction is a march toward change and turmoil – not stability
CSM Projects
Published March 8, 2016
Hackers in training
Students from two of the world's top universities raced to conquer the toughest cybersecurity challenges.
The Cambridge 2 Cambridge contest involved MIT and the University of Cambridge in a hackathon meant to hone students' cybersecurity skills.
Story by Jack Detsch and photos by Ann Hermes | Mar. 8, 2016
Published February 23, 2016
Is the UK's clean-energy future at risk?
The government says it's working to reduce over-spending on subsidies for renewables, but critics aren't convinced.
Cristina Maza, Staff writer of the Christian Science Monitor • Feb. 23, 2016
Published February 11, 2016
Exploring cybersecurity from China's perspective
Excerpts from a talk with Adam Segal, Sharon Hom, Michael Sulmeyer, and Lobsang Gyatso Sither.
Passcode spoke with cybersecurity experts and human rights activists to better understand how and why China is hacking the world.
Michael B. Farrell • Feb. 11, 2016
Published January 29, 2016
Beehives and voting booths
There's order in the chaos of presidential primaries, but is there wisdom?
By John H. Miller, Carnegie Mellon University and the Santa Fe Institute
Published January 27, 2016
Where the candidates stand on cybersecurity
From encryption to Chinese hackers, a handy guide to Internet politics in the 2016 presidential election.
As presidential candidates take the stage Thursday for an important Republican debate – the last before the Iowa caucuses – all of them will likely be prepared for questions on digital security and privacy.
By Lauren Leatherby | Jan. 27, 2016
Published January 25, 2016
Human trafficking: California keeps a closer eye on recruiters
A new law seeks to protect vulnerable guest workers, and unwary businesses, from unscrupulous recruiters.
CSM Projects
Published January 19, 2016
Why people become terrorists
How violent extremism emerges from complex social systems.
Mirta Galesic, Santa Fe Institute
Published January 18, 2016
California wants to know who's harvesting your shrimp
When it comes to big business, what can a transparency law really achieve?
CSM Projects
Published January 11, 2016
Radical idea to help freed slaves: Just give them cash
In Thailand, the Issara Institute gives freed workers money, instead of services, and a chance to make their own choices
CSM Projects
Published January 8, 2016
Why GPS is more vulnerable than ever
The space-based navigation and timing system faces a growing risk of attack. But there is a simple solution.
The Global Positioning System that some 4 billion people rely on daily is essentially unprotected, opening it up to serious attacks from rogue nation states or criminal hackers who want to wreak havoc on American cities. But there is a simple solution to protect the navigation and timing network that underpins modern daily life.
By Joe Uchill | Jan. 8, 2016
Published January 6, 2016
Engineered societies
Can science help orchestrate social outcomes? Should it?
Jessica C. Flack, Santa Fe Institute, and Manfred D. Laubichler, Arizona State University and Santa Fe Institute
Published January 4, 2016
In Seattle, a team approach gets victories against traffickers
CSM Projects
Published December 22, 2015
Are humans truly unique? How do we know?
Jennifer A. Dunne and Marcus J. Hamilton, Santa Fe Institute
Published December 21, 2015
On embassy row, a fraying veil of immunity
Foreign missions in the US that abuse their domestic staff are being held to account
Taking on diplomatic immunity that shields labor trafficking
CSM Projects
Published December 14, 2015
For migrants, a push for cross-border justice
Lawyers are helping Mexican workers sue abusive employers in US courts.
CSM Projects
Published December 7, 2015
An epic legal battle pays off for trafficked workers
The lessons learned from a landmark US lawsuit
CSM Projects
Published December 1, 2015
Old economic models couldn't predict the recession. Time for new ones.
The US uses 'Big Computing' to analyze climate, healthcare, and even traffic – why not the economy?
Rob Axtell, George Mason University, and J. Doyne Farmer, the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Santa Fe Institute
Published November 30, 2015
World's chocolate gets sweeter: How consumer outrage is reducing child labor on cocoa farms
CSM Projects
Published November 25, 2015
Could finance derail Paris climate talks?
CSM Projects
Published November 25, 2015
In Paris, a turning point for global climate talks
Long-time participants hope this year's UN climate summit can succeed where past efforts have fallen short.
by David J. Unger, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor • Nov. 25, 2015
Published November 18, 2015
How to free modern slaves: Three tech solutions that are working
From satellite surveillance of illegal fishing boats to online sleuthing into recruitment practices.
Part 5 in a series on solutions to labor trafficking.
CSM Projects
Published November 17, 2015
A Planet of Cities
Why all cities – despite their unique geographies, cultures, and accidents of history – are really the same.
Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West, The Santa Fe Institute
Published November 13, 2015
In Florida's tomato fields, a fight for ethical farm labor grows
For most of Immokalee's field hands, blatant abuses have largely vanished from the tomato rows.
CSM Projects
Published November 11, 2015
CSM Projects
Published November 10, 2015
Worlds hidden in plain sight
David Krakauer, President, Santa Fe Institute
Published November 9, 2015
Energy Voices
Perspectives on the future of global energy and the climate
Curated by The Christian Science Monitor
Published November 9, 2015
From England's pews, a quiet abolitionist finds his voice on slavery
A collaboration between Catholic churches and police officers to fight trafficking takes shape
CSM Projects
Published November 9, 2015
Why universities and industry should collaborate on climate change
To achieve the kind of sustainable future we will want our grandchildren to inherit, we need everyone on board.
To achieve the kind of environmentally sustainable future we will want our grandchildren to inherit, we need everyone on board, Armstrong writes.
By Robert Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative • Nov. 9, 2015
Published November 8, 2015
The Summit
CSM Projects
Published November 4, 2015
UN climate chief: Global warming above 2 degrees C is not an option
Christiana Figueres talks climate risks and energy transformations at a Monitor-hosted event.
by Cristina Maza, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor • Nov. 3, 2015
Published November 2, 2015
One woman's journey from Staten Island slavery to being her own boss
Labor trafficking victims in New York have banded together to help others and build new lives.
CSM Projects
Published October 26, 2015
Labor trafficking is everywhere and nowhere
An overview of 21st-century slavery
CSM Projects
Published October 16, 2015
The secretive industry of social media monitoring
Schools and police turn to private firms to help address school violence.
Story by Malena Carollo and illustrations by Erick Montes
Published October 16, 2015
Momentum – but uncertainty – in final pre-Paris climate talks
by Cristina Maza, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor • Oct. 16, 2015
Published October 14, 2015
Everyone's favorite climate change fix
Economists, officials, and executives across the globe are increasingly united around using carbon pricing to stem the
by Cristina Maza, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Published October 6, 2015
As winter looms, war-weary Ukraine shows signs of energy independence
As Russia and Europe push for a wintertime natural gas deal, will Ukraine assert its independence and forgo Russian gas?
by Cristina Maza, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor • Oct. 6, 2015
Published October 2, 2015
Seeing the Paris climate talks through a wide-angle lens
What happens around and after the summit is just as important as the summit itself, experts said at an event Thursday.
David J. Unger, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor • Oct. 2, 2015
Published September 24, 2015
Central Asia's shifting pipeline politics
Caught between superpowers, can "the stans" find independence amid an energy revolution?
by Cristina Maza, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor • Sept. 24, 2015
Published September 15, 2015
From Boston to Beijing, signs of climate momentum
Experts talk energy progress at an event hosted by The Christian Science Monitor and World Resources Institute.
By Cristina Maza and David J. Unger, Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor • Sept. 15, 2015
Published September 8, 2015
'Hackers' at 20
How a 20-year-old, mostly inaccurate flop predicted the future, reshaped sci-fi, and won over the real hacker community.
By Joe Uchill
Published September 2, 2015
Clean energy made simple
Power your home or business with 100% wind energy in minutes.
In five minutes, you can hit the switch on clean, renewable wind energy for your entire home. Learn how from Arcadia Power.
Sponsored by Arcadia Power
Published August 31, 2015
The battery's next revolution
A new generation of super cells promises to reshape the future of energy.
by David J. Unger, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor • Sept. 3, 2015
Published August 18, 2015
Whistleblower's dilemma
Before Snowden, Robert MacLean's leak ruined his career. Now, he's calling for stronger whistleblower protection.
By Mary Cirincione
Published July 7, 2015
Opinion: Why strong encryption is elementary
The case against encryption 'back doors' simplified so even a child can understand it.
The debate heating up in Washington over privacy safeguards on consumer devices may seem complex. But, simply put, strong encryption is better for everyone.
Robert M. Lee
Published June 30, 2015
The battle between Washington and Silicon Valley over encryption
Tech titans such as Apple and Google are battling the Obama administration over strong security on consumer devices, strengthened after the Snowden leaks. The outcome could impact the future of the Internet.
Story by Sara Sorcher & illustrations by Erick Montes
Published June 26, 2015
Meet Passcode's Influencers
Big thinkers vote on the most critical issues in security and privacy.
Published May 5, 2015
Exploring the identity economy
From the black market to the consumer protection business boom
Passcode | For ID360
Published March 12, 2015
The race to build the Silicon Valley of cybersecurity
Cities and regions around the US vie to draw business and brainpower in a market projected to top $160 billion by 2020.
Sara Sorcher
Published March 6, 2015
What we learned about security and privacy at SXSW
Sara Sorcher and Photos by Ann Hermes
Published February 11, 2015
The Pentagon is building an app store for cyberoperations
An exclusive inside look at DARPA's futuristic Plan X.
Sara Sorcher
Published October 17, 2014
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Twitterbot
What it's like to have your identity hijacked and replaced with a Russian-speaking Bruce Willis impostor.
By Sara Sorcher


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