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A Lyme disease activist and sufferer claims two high-ranking state Department of Public Health officials are stalling the release of a report that could shed more light on the disease.
Patricia A. McCleary of Sturbridge said state epidemiologist Dr. Al DeMaria and state veterinarian Dr. Catherine Brown are not endorsing the findings of the Massachusetts Lyme Disease Commission's report, which was originally slated to be released in October.
Mrs. McCleary, Dr. DeMaria and Dr. Brown all served on the 21-member commission that researched the report.
Mrs. McCleary said Dr. DeMaria and Dr. Brown told members of the commission they didn't realize they were representing their department and, as a result, did not have the authority to sign off on the final report.
"They have delayed us now for a couple of months, and now they're saying, no, we will not sign off on it, knowing that it is going to hold up future legislation that could come from this report that could help people," Mrs. McCleary said. "This is holding up a huge process for people who really need it and it's not OK that our DPH is getting away with this."
State Rep. David P. Linsky, D-Natick, commission chairman, said neither Dr. DeMaria nor Dr. Brown has supported the findings of the report.
"I am disappointed that the DPH appointees chose not to sign the final version of the report," Mr. Linsky said. "I have asked the DPH commissioner for a specific list of reasons why they cannot and I am waiting for that response."
On April 28, 2011, the House of Representatives approved creation of a Lyme Disease Commission to investigate the need for new screening programs and other steps to combat the illness, which is spread by bacteria from bites by infected ticks.
The amendment authorizing the commission charged it with studying the value of public health screening in high-risk areas, more prevention steps in schools and more medical research on the progression and treatment of Lyme disease.
"If you look at the language of the statute that set up the commission, there were various people that were appointed by various agencies and they were there to represent the interests of their agencies or organizations," Mr. Linsky said. "From day one, the people of the commission should have had the authority to speak on behalf of their agencies or organizations."
Although no one has officially signed the Lyme Disease Commission's final report, Mr. Linsky said there is a consensus of the commission to the report's current text, with the exception of the DPH appointees.
When it is signed and finalized, Mr. Linsky said the report will be published and posted and he and his fellow legislators serving on the commission will file any necessary legislation based on the findings and recommendations agreed on in the report. However, issues dealing with the budget will have to be taken up during the budget process.
Mrs. McCleary said she is not surprised by the state Department of Public Health's stance on the matter, calling them "gatekeepers" for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Disease Society of America."We can go forward without them but it sure would have been nice when we're talking about such a crisis and epidemic here that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is concerned about it and want to improve on what's happening. And once again, they're showing us they're not."
But Sam R. Telford III — a commission member and professor in the department of biomedical sciences and infectious diseases at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in North Grafton — said he thinks the delay in Department of Public Health members' signatures has to do with all the difficulties the department has had in the last two months.
In mid-September, state Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach and Lab Bureau Chief Dr. Linda Han both resigned and Julie Nassif, the director of the state's analytic chemistry division, was fired in the wake of the scandal at the state drug lab. State chemist Annie Dookhan allegedly tampered with drug evidence for tens of thousands of criminal cases.
A national fungal meningitis outbreak was linked to New England Compounding Center in Framingham, a speciality pharmacy that was regulated by the agency's Board of Registration in Pharmacy.
Laura Smith is serving as the department of public health's interim commissioner.
"My guess is that it's an administrative glitch because of the flux in leadership at the Department of Public Health," Mr. Telford said. "The DPH has done a marvelous job considering the limited resources that they have in terms of defining the problem here."
Anne Roach, media relations manager at the Department of Public Health, said her department commends the commission "for its efforts to produce a meaningful report that examines the seriousness of Lyme disease in Massachusetts."
"The department's first priority is to protect the public health and it will continue to identify ways to reduce the transmission of Lyme disease and all tick-borne illnesses," Ms. Roach said. "As part of its efforts to increase awareness about the growing extent and seriousness of Lyme disease in Massachusetts, DPH is working collaboratively with the commission. DPH focuses its efforts on the promotion of proven prevention methods through educational materials available online as well as outreach to local boards of health and community groups."
Mrs. McCleary said the report has "some pretty shocking" stories from chronic Lyme disease sufferers, as well as "good and really important" recommendations, including the need for better testing methods, better education of physicians about Lyme disease's symptoms and treatment, and more up-to-date information readily available to the public, especially on the department's website.
"The standard treatment that is available right now is not working for people, quite frankly, and there are other options out there," Mrs. McCleary said. "In Massachusetts, people have to go out of state and they have to self-pay for their treatment and that's not OK."
Mrs. McCleary said her husband and their two adult sons have been treated for Lyme disease.On top of that, Lyme disease has cost the McCleary family a small fortune.
"By the time we saved my life, there was no college fund or anything when it came time for my kids to go to school. We are hanging by a thread. Our house is on the market. But you do what you have to do," she said. "Anybody who got this disease is in debt, unless they are a millionaire."


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WASHINGTON — In an interview released Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton said President Obama should make sure Americans can retain their current health insurance plans, even if it means revamping the Affordable Care Act.
"I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they've got," Clinton told OZY, a news website.
But that doesn't mean Clinton is joining Republican calls for a complete overhaul. "The big lesson is that we're better off with this law than without it," he said.
Clinton compared the difficulties during the rollout of the healthcare law, in particular the tumultuous debut of the healthcare.gov website, to the rocky launch of Medicare drug benefits for seniors in 2006.
The Medicare expansion "was not as complicated, but had exactly the same problem with the rollout. It was a disaster. There were people who even lost their prescriptions for their existing medicine. And they fixed it," Clinton said.
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But Clinton's support of the law was being overshadowed by his comments about canceled plans, which have begun to gain traction among conservatives looking to undo Obamacare. Those cancellations have now taken a prominent place in Republican arguments against the law.
Last week, Obama apologized to those "finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me." "I've assigned my team to see what we can do to close some of the holes and gaps in the law," he said in an interview with NBC, though he didn't mention any specific changes.
This isn't the first time Clinton's remarks have caused the Obama team headaches, with the former president previously critiquing Obama's handling of the conflict in Syria, the debt ceiling early in his first term and some issues during the 2008 presidential campaign before they buried the hatchet for 2012.
[Updated, 11:03 a.m. PST Nov. 12: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that Obama agrees with Clinton's remarks.
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AGE: c. 1935-1940 Photomontage at Boulder Dam Dedication ceremonies, a lithograph.
.CONDITION: A-, Linen Mounted, beautiful. very minor restoration and edge tears, must be scrutinized closely to see, displays beautifully.
"See Boulder Dam, Enroute to California," This Union Pacific Railway poster depicts a photomontage scene of Boulder Dam. The dam and Lake Mead are located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam after President Hoover), is one of the engineering marvels of the world built by FDR Franklin Roosevelt in the depression era, new deal era and WPA era.
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Fri, 25 Jun 2010
Professors' Open Source Summer Experience @ RIT
Last week Red Hat put on a Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE) at RIT. Being an alumni, I was excited by the opportunity to be able to go back up to The ROC and teach some of the people that taught me. Going into it, I really had no idea what to expect. All I knew is that I was going to help lead the 'deep dive' section of the course, where I would teach professors how to dive in head first and get productively lost in a strange codebase. This is not something that can be accomplished with a set of powerpoint slides. Teaching how to hack on open source requires that you emerse yourself into a codebase, and bring your students with you.
The previous POSSE at Worcester State dove into the Sugar Measure Activity, and we were going to do the same.
Measure is an activity that turns the computer into an oscilloscope. Signals
from the microphone (and sensors) can be plotted in time and frequency domains.
I had never used this activity, let alone hacked on it before. I've also never
done any sugar activity development, aside from some tweaking of the OpenVideoChat, so I really
had no idea what I was getting myself into. The obvious first step was to
get it running. All of us were able to start the activity in virtual machines
or emulators, except for one install which hit some odd errors upon startup.
We were able to quickly track the bug down to a stray
statement in
__init__ before some critical initialization code.
Right after we fixed the problem we noticed that Walter Bender had already
fixed this issue a few hours earlier. After a
git pull, we were
up and running.
Once we all got the activity running, we took a look at the bug list to see if there was any low-hanging fruit for us to tackle. Since the previous POSSE had already done some work on this activity the week before, there were not any trivial tickets left in the queue. So, in that case, we dove head first into the hardest one, "Measure activity gets stuck after recording". This ticket had very little information, and no log output, so we were on our own to try and track it down. We were able to reliably reproduce the issue on the XO-1.5, but not on the 1.0. In our virtual machines we hit it sporadically. We all agreed that it felt like a race-condition, most likely due to threading. So we started instrumenting the code and adding some debugging statements to try and figure out which line of code was the culprit.
In our efforts to scatter
raise Exception("WTF?!"). We finally realized that since the activity would freeze, it was never able to flush stderr/stdout to the log. A quick find/replace regex later, and we were using the proper
logging module and seeing our debugging output hit the logs.
We were then able to track the bug down to a line of code that uses GTK to try and get
the coordinates of the parent window. At this point, since none of us were GTK
experts, we had to go upstream. So, I dropped into #fedora-devel and asked.
Within 10 minutes I had responses from 3 different GTK hackers. One was a
typical RTFM response, which humored the professors (who are very used to
hearing/saying this), but the others pointed us in the right direction. One
mentioned that gtk.gdk calls probably should not be done in a seperate thread.
So, a suggested workaround was to add
calls before running any gtk.gdk code in the thread. A 2-line
patch later, and we had squashed the bug.
We eventually bumped into the inevitable typo in some comments. So, we made the fix locally, and committed it to our git repo. A few minutes later and we found another one. I saw this as a great opportunity to show off some of my git-fu. Instead of sending two "Fix typo" patches upstream, I showed the professors how to use git interactive rebasing to squash multiple commits into a single one. They all followed along closely, and the workflow made sense to them.
While we were looking through the ticket queue, we saw an issue where Measure
would apparently leak memory and crash when running it for a long period of
time. While keeping this in mind, we kept our eyes peeled while wandering
around the codebase to see if we could track the issue down. When looking at
the code that takes screenshots of the waveform, I noticed that it created a
temporary file with
tempfile.mkstemp, saved the pixmap to it,
injected it into the Journal, and then deleted the directory. This looked fine
at a first glance, until I realized that it never closed the temporary file descriptor.
Another 2-line patch later, and this issue was solved.
The next day both of the patches that we sent upstream were applied by Walter Bender.
Overall, POSSE definitely exceeded my expectations, and I'm extremely satisfied with how the 'deep dive' section went. I went into it feeling completely unprepared to teach, but by trusting my "hacker intuition", I feel that it turned out to be a fantastic learning experience for all of us.
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"Lives Per Gallon: the True Cost of Our Oil Addiction" Terry Tamminen gives us the price tag. Roosevelt High School yanks an invitation to speak from Alveda King, niece of MLK. She thinks civil rights for black folks begins before they are born. Not welcome at Roosevelt High School. Kim Lehman from Iowa Right to Life with the story. Alexis McGee from ForclosureS.Com says there's money ta be made in them thar foreclosures. Bishop Jackson says race relations in the US need lotsa work. Including Roosevelt High School's dissing of Alveda King.
Editor Note: Mrs. Kathie Danielson, Principal of Roosevelt High school later in the day clarified the cancellation. She said the controversial nature of the presentation didn't give the administration sufficient time to notify parents. Mrs. Danielson has committed to including Alveda King in a future assembly as part of Black History Month.
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Richmond not on list of Chevron cuts
Oil giant Chevron Corp. has revealed where it plans to cut its worldwide refining and marketing operations - and Richmond is not on the list.
Chevron executives told a gathering of Wall Street analysts Tuesday that the oil company, America's second-largest, will lay off 2,000 employees this year from its global "downstream" division, which makes and sells gasoline. Oil companies have seen their downstream profits gutted by the recession, as drivers buy less gas.
"Downstream market conditions are likely to be difficult for the next several years," warned Mike Wirth, the company's executive vice president for worldwide refining and marketing operations.
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In response, Chevron plans to sell its refinery in Pembroke, Wales, and will seek bids for some of its downstream operations in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America.
But the company made no mention of its refinery in Richmond. City officials there are trying to raise the refinery's taxes, and environmentalists have blocked a project to upgrade the plant's aging equipment.
Chevron executives, including Wirth, had previously hinted that they might pull out of Richmond if the company didn't get its way. Critics considered that a bluff.
"That's what we were saying all along - that the likelihood of them closing the Richmond refinery was very small," said Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, who often rails against the company.
Job losses
Chevron representatives would not say how many jobs could be lost at the company's San Ramon headquarters or its offices in Houston. Severance packages will cost an estimated $150 million to $200 million in the year's first quarter.
Just a few years ago, refineries were enjoying record profits, and analysts declared that the industry had entered a "golden age." Now those same businesses are struggling.
Demand for gasoline and diesel plunged with the recession, as consumers stopped spending and shipping companies idled trucks. Today, refiners must pay top dollar for oil, with crude oil futures trading above $80 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. But weak gasoline sales prevent the companies from passing the full cost on to consumers. As difficult as it is for drivers to believe, refiners have been losing money.
"It's something most of the general public doesn't get," said Ken Medlock, an energy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. "They look at the price of gasoline, and they think the oil companies are doing great, but that's not necessarily the case."
Chevron makes most of its money by pumping and selling crude oil, so the company as a whole remains profitable even when its refining and marketing operations aren't. In the fourth quarter of 2009, for example, the company made $3.1 billion in profit, while its downstream operations lost $613 million.
Refining has always been a cyclical business, and Medlock predicts that gasoline demand will eventually pick up. But even as the economy recovers, high gas prices will force many drivers to cling to the thrifty ways they learned during the recession, he said. Regular gas costs an average of $2.76 per gallon nationwide, according to the AAA automotive club. In California, the average is $3.07.
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"We certainly won't see demand grow the way it was when gas was $1.50," Medlock said.
Richmond city officials said they hope Chevron's planned layoffs would largely spare the refinery, the city's largest private employer. But they gave no indication that they would back down in their disputes with the oil company.
City Councilman Jim Rogers said he will continue to oppose the refinery's upgrade project until Chevron guarantees that the changes will not lead to more air pollution. Critics say the project, which has been frozen by a lawsuit, would allow the refinery to refine heavier grades of crude oil and create more pollution.
The company says the grades of crude oil used at the refinery would stay the same, although the changes would allow the plant to process larger amounts of the heaviest grades already in use there.
"I don't think it's Chevron-bashing to insist - absolutely insist - that they don't make the air dirtier," Rogers said.
"I certainly don't want the refinery to close," he added. "I'm certainly gratified that it doesn't look like that's happening at this point."


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Bad dog! When should you shoot a canine?
How many times have you withdrawn your firearm, trained it on a human subject, and pressed the trigger? How many times have you had to withdraw your firearm, train it on some four-legged creature running amok in your jurisdiction, and put the beast down? For many cops, the answer to that first question is either "none" or "one" or some other very low number. For many cops — depending on where you work — the answer to that second question can be considerably higher.
Now, I'm not talking about what my friend and colleague Dick Fairburn calls the "Noah's Ark Massacre" which took place in Ohio last month — although I have asked him to write a serious column addressing the issue as a result of a humorous conversation we'd had on the subject. Nor am I talking about events like the one in which San Francisco cops ended the Christmas Day 2006 rampage of a 243-pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana, or the one this past weekend in which officers felled two abattoir-bound bovines in the Canadian community of Masson-Angers, or the one reported just today in which an unidentified Douglas County (Calif.) sheriff's deputy accidentally shot a black bear with a live round rather than a rubber bullet.
Sure, these things happen — and, in fact, clearly happened — but the breed of animal most commonly in an officer's sights is a canine. Yes, man's best friend can be a cop's worst headache.
Late last week I had occasion to connect with a gentleman named Troy Kechely, who has authored a very interesting book entitled Management of Aggressive Canines for Law Enforcement. Having reviewed some of the pages of his work, and discussed some of its concepts with him, I'm eager to share just one of the "tips" I discovered.
Read a dog as you would a human, because that dog is definitely reading you!
Understand that dogs are highly communicative, and that they not only communicate through their own body language — through movement and positioning of the head (eyes, mouth, ears), back, legs, and literally all the way to the tail — but they are also very perceptive about the gestural movement and physical stance of humans. Furthermore, says Kechely, a canine's reading of you incorporates a number of other senses in addition to sight.
That rule of human communication "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" applies very well during interaction with a potentially aggressive canine. While it's estimated that dogs only "understand" a little over a dozen words, they are finely attuned to tone of voice, so the tone with which you speak can have a significant effect on a dog.
"Interestingly, human tones convey many of the same meanings or intent as with dogs," writes Kechely. "Low tones in the canine world typically denote aggression, correction and dominance behavior, whereas high tones denote play — excited, friendly behavior. But also bear in mind that high tones also denote injured prey and can trigger or amplify prey aggression at the wrong time."
Finally, we all know that dogs have an incredible sense of smell, and that humans tend to emit a unique odor when experiencing fear... so yeah, they can smell your fear.
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• Mitigating the risks to officers (and dogs) during SWAT entries
• Responding with appropriate medical care when you've been bit
For the time being, please add your own ideas on this subject in the comments area below. Perhaps together we can amass a catalog of concepts to ensure that the number of dogs put down by police officers is limited to those animals which truly are a threat.


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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Wendy Keil was known for being a fighter. She battled cancer twice and, until her final days, was determined to find a way to help others conquer the disease. Her cause has been carried on through family members and friends now fighting in her honor.
Before passing away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 60 in September 2011, Keil helped inspire a team, "Walking For Wendy," that has been active in various events over the past two years. Fittingly, an image of Keil wearing boxing gloves appears on shirts they wear.
"Our entire family has just embraced this cause," Indians assistant general manager Mike Chernoff said. "We all feel this is the legacy she's left behind."
Keil was a mother of four, including Chernoff's wife, Sarah. And her story is just one among many.
Rare is the family that has not been affected by cancer in some way, making awareness and support critical in the constant battle faced by so many people. Major League Baseball and its clubs have done more than taken note by stepping up and teaming with Stand Up 2 Cancer to help raise funds to help support, treat and hopefully prevent the disease.
"It's really important," Sarah Chernoff said of MLB's increased involvement in cancer awareness. "And it's really amazing, because baseball touches so many people. It's a really good place to get the word out."
MLB stood up again for cancer at this week's Winter Meetings.
The Meetings include an MLB.com Auction to benefit SU2C, which MLB has supported since 2008 as founding sponsor. Public relations representatives from all 30 clubs were inspired to act based on individual club members impacted by the disease, and they jointly organized the auction.
Bidding closes at 10 p.m. ET on Thursday, with 80 baseball-related experiences ranging from private pitching and batting lessons with players to lunches with general managers to team bus rides and meet-and-greets with Hall of Fame players.
The Indians' part in the auction includes two packages. The first is a "meet and greet" with Indians manager Terry Francona that includes four tickets to a home game, a tour of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a chance to take batting practice on the field and to watch the game from a private booth in the press box. The second package is an "On the Road with Francona and the Indians" experience, which includes a clubhouse tour, four tickets to a road game (excluding Opening Day) and the opportunity to meet Francona and watch BP on the field. Airfare and other travel fees are not included.
The Indians are not only involved with SU2C, but have helped Keil's cause, too.
"Awareness and support are huge issues in fundraising and support for cancer, so MLB getting behind this initiative is tremendously helpful," said Mike Chernoff. "The Indians have done a similar thing. The Indians have been sponsors of Pancreatic Cancer Action Network walks."
After being diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer in December 2010, Keil decided there was no time for feeling sorry about the circumstances. Keil beat the breast cancer diagnosis she faced in '07, and she planned on doing everything in her power to beat this cancer, too. Unfortunately, Keil's cancer had spread to her liver, creating difficult odds for an already-daunting form of cancer.
"She was a fighter -- always," Mike Chernoff said
Prior to facing breast cancer, Keil had taken part in a half-dozen walks in support of others faced with the disease. She even did a walk while undergoing chemotherapy. It was in Keil's nature to want to help others -- her first job was at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland -- and that did not change after she was the one in need of support.
Her family discovered the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and PurpleStride walks, and Keil could not wait to get started.
"My mom was competitive," Sarah Chernoff said. "She wanted the biggest team. She wanted to make the biggest impact. She wanted to raise the most money."
Keil and her family took part in a three-day walk in April 2011, and that only pushed Wendy to want to do even more.
"It was, 'Let's go bigger. Let's get better. Raise more money,'" Sarah Chernoff said. "At that point, she knew honestly that this was not about her anymore. At the end, the suffering was so bad, she just didn't want anybody to go through this again. That was her motivation at that point. It was, 'We have to make a difference here.'
"She was looking up how much money she had raised, who had signed up for the walk, literally to her last day."
In November 2011, less than a month after Wendy lost her nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her family took part in a walk in New Jersey. More than 160 people joined the "Walking For Wendy" team and raised roughly $96,000 in that event. To date, the group -- walkingforwendy.org -- has raised more than $350,000 through more than 50 walks in more than 20 places around the United States.
The Indians have also sponsored "Purple at Progressive" days at their home ballpark to help raise awareness about pancreatic cancer.
"We just, as a family, wanted to continue doing what she would've done," said Sarah Chernoff, who has two children of her own now. "There's four of us [siblings] and our dad [Gordon]. We just kept going, and we're trying to figure out how we can we raise more, and spread more awareness."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian.


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The Carrère & Hastings Digital Collection is a collaborative project with Flagler College. The collection was created through a Saving St. Augustine's Architectural Treasures project grant to conserve and digitally preserve an irreplaceable collection of the earliest architectural drawings of John Carrère (1858-1911) and Thomas Hastings (1860-1929). Created for Henry Flagler in St. Augustine, Florida, these drawings had been "lost" for decades. The few people who knew of their existence were unaware of their historical significance. Stored in a basement boiler room under high Florida temperatures and humidity, and exposed to insects and rodents, this treasure trove remained unknown and endangered until its rediscovery in 2004.
Carrère and Hastings were two of the most significant American architects of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Their firm designed more than 600 buildings, including the New York Public Library (1902-11) and the House and Senate Office Buildings in D.C. (1908-09). According to Charles D. Warren, co-author of Carrère & Hastings Architects, they were "innovators in both technology and aesthetics." Regrettably, as Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings & Archives, Columbia University, states: "Most of the archive of [their] office was destroyed in the 1920s." The newly discovered St. Augustine collection offers significant potential to yield unique information with enduring value. Comprised of 267 original, fragile drawings on cloth, silk and paper, as well as blueprints and copies, the collection is the largest known archives documenting the firm's earliest work.
The Carrère & Hastings Digital Collection will include over 200 architectural drawings from the 1880s-1920s for the Ponce de Leon Hotel (now Flagler College), the Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, and select others by Carrère & Hastings, the Beaux-Arts architecture firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings. In 1885 Flagler initiated a grand scheme to turn Florida into the "American Riviera" and St. Augustine into the "Winter Newport." The Hotel Ponce de Leon (1885-1887), now Ponce de Leon Hall at Flagler College (National Register, 1975; National Historic Landmark, 2006), was the first and the flagship of Henry Flagler's resort empire. This palatial Spanish Renaissance Revival hotel is nationally significant as it was the first commission for Carrère & Hastings and is America's first large cast-in-place concrete building. The other Carrère and Hastings projects included in this project are the Memorial Presbyterian Church (1889-1890) (NR 1983) and the Hotel Alcazar (1888-1889) (NR 1971).
The Carrère & Hastings Digital Collection consists of 267 architecture drawings, blueprints and related material dating 1896-1957. About 55% are blueprints, 30% are pencil drawings on various types of paper, and 15% are other types of prints such as Vandyke prints, diazotype, ink on linen and a few printed materials. Many of the blueprints are working copies that contain notes, corrections and changes in pencil, pen, and red and blue grease pencil. A number of the drawings have hand applied color. Sizes range from 8x8 inches to over 4x8 feet. The majority of the collection was stored rolled, wrapped in craft paper. The condition of the collection ranges from good to very poor. It is possible that some of these drawings were not been unrolled since they were created at the end of the 19th century until this grant project began.
Funding for preservation and digitization of the early blueprints and architectural drawings by John Carrère and Thomas Hastings is provided in part by the National Park Service, through a "Save America's Treasures" grant awarded in 2009 and will complete in 2012 (full grant proposal). Project team members include faculty, staff, and students from the University of Florida in the UF Special Collections, Conservation, and the Digital Library Center and they are blogging about their work on this active project here.


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Products that can detect stealthy malware-based attacks aimed at cyber-espionage and data exfiltration should be considered a specialized area of the security market, according to research firm IDC, which has designated a new market category for them: "Specialized Threat Analysis and Protection."
STAP for short, this was not much more than a $200 million market worldwide last year, according to IDC, but it's expected to triple by next year and reach $1.17 billion by 2017. IDC is defining STAP as technologies that are primarily "signatureless," that is, not relying on malware signatures. These might include sandboxing, big data analytics and containerization to detect malicious activity.
And STAP products, whether they work on the network level, the endpoint or both, are scanning inbound and outbound traffic for anomalies, including botnet and command-and-control traffic that typically indicates a compromise. IDC says STAP products might also be used for reverse engineering and forensic analysis of discovered malware.
"Basically, enterprise security must constantly analyze all aspects of infrastructure for threats, assuming there is a compromise somewhere," says Phil Hochmuth, IDC program manager, security products.
Gartner: Cloud-based security as a service set to take off
STAP technologies work alongside traditional signature-based anti-malware and intrusion-detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), Hochmuth says. IDC expects that STAP will evolve a lot like the IDS/IPS market did, with enterprises deploying in a monitoring, "listening" mode at first and then move to a prevention model when "they're comfortable with the technology." IDC expects that STAP is going to become an important part of the "kill chain" concept of the advanced attack model, Hochmuth says.
IDC says the "key players" in STAP include Blue Coat, with its acquired Solera products; Bromium; CounterTack; Damballa; FireEye; HBGary; Invincea; Norman ASA; Palo Alto Networks with Wildfire; Proofpoint; Sourefire with FireAMP (acquired by Cisco); ThreatTrack Security; and Trend Micro with its Deep Discovery line.
Other vendors with recently introduced STAP technologies, sometimes embedded in their other security products, include AhnLab; Cognitive Security (acquired by Cisco); Cylance; Check Point Software with its Threat Emulation Blade; Fortinet; Mandiant; Intel's McAfee with its entry into sandboxing via the ValidEdge acquisition; EMC company RSA with its RSA Security Analytics (NetWitness Spectrum) and RSA Enterprise Compromise Assessment Tool. And finally, Websense, with its ThreatScope sandboxing, which the security firm now offers integrated into its Triton Enterprise gateways.
In fact, integration of STAP technologies into existing network, endpoint and content security products is expected to be commonplace going forward, IDC says. The incumbent security vendors are mostly seen as catching up to smaller STAP-focused providers, some new like Cylance but some around for several years, such as Damballa.
STAP is meant to detect zero-day attacks and data exfiltration by attackers, which can go on for weeks if not years. IDC believes STAP products today are used to augment more traditional network security and endpoint security products,. Early adopters are large financial institutions, large government agencies and large enterprises with "acute data protection requirements."
"Among enterprises, it appears extra budget is being allocated for STAP technology, as opposed to shifting spend to STAP from other solutions," an IDC report notes. IDC expects this trend to continue, saying it could help STAP-focused vendors grow while not directly competing with other parts of the security market, such as anti-virus. But IDC also cautions that STAP vendors will have to show they can somehow stay ahead of the attackers, who may use clever "sleep" techniques on malware, for example, to counteract STAP technologies such as sandboxing.
Will security vendors and customers start regularly using the expression STAP, which was coined by IDC earlier this year? That's unclear but IDC expects to continue keeping the running count going on how STAP evolves in its future reports on this market segment.
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security. Twitter: MessmerE. E-mail: email@example.com
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Made of stainless steel 18/10, Tea Rex kettle was created in 2015 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the famous 9093. Michael Graves redesigned the whistle of that first famous kettle, transforming its shape: the little bird has become at the same time a fascinating mythological and futuristic creature, a kind of imaginary dragon. The choice of the dragon is Graves's reference to Chinese culture which has chosen these creatures as symbols of strength and fortune.
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Kerry's rise from son of a diplomat to secretary of state
With Friday's announcement by President Barack Obama that he had nominated Sen. John Kerry to become the next secretary of state, the Massachusetts Democrat would go from a diplomat's son to the nation's top diplomat – overcoming a few setbacks along the way.
The lantern-jawed and lanky senator had hoped to be winding down his second term in the White House by now but was defeated in 2004 by incumbent President George W. Bush. He longed to be Obama's secretary of state four years ago only to be bypassed for Hillary Clinton, Obama's Democratic primary rival.
But after each political disappointment Kerry did what Senate colleagues who've watched his career say he always does: He went back to work.
"The defining feature of John Kerry is whatever the setback, he gets back in the saddle," said Karl Inderfurth, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former assistant secretary of state for South Asian Affairs during Bill Clinton's presidency. "He's clearly a fighter – he gets back up."
Republicans outside the Capitol seemed eager to raise questions about Kerry, but inside the Senate, colleagues had praise. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called him a "very popular choice," and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said, "I don't anticipate any surprises." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., maintained Kerry was "a popular choice with the Senate."
In nominating Kerry to replace Clinton as secretary of state, Obama has chosen a decorated Vietnam Navy veteran who exploded onto the political scene by protesting the war, an ambitious but deliberate lawmaker well-versed in international affairs and treaties, and an avid athlete who hasn't let hip replacement surgery stop him from playing in rough and tumble ice hockey games. He showed up at a White House event last January with a broken nose and two black eyes courtesy of a friendly pickup game back home.
"He knows most of the leaders and the hot spots of the world, he's a known quantity on the world stage, he's had 20 years of experience on the Foreign Relations Committee, he understands the Congress, he has a lot of friends over here," said Graham, who was among a group of Republican senators who opposed Obama's presumed support of United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to replace Clinton. "What he brings to the table is continuity. It's not bringing in someone from part of the foreign policy world that people don't know who they are or generally what they believe."
Not everyone laud's Kerry's political skills. Some Democrats still maintain that he lost to Bush in 2004 because he failed to quickly and forcefully respond to a controversial group that launched ads that challenged Kerry's military record, which was one of the cornerstones of his failed presidential campaign.
Bush's 2004 re-election campaign suggested that Kerry's political career has been more style than substance, a charge echoed by some Massachusetts political observers. In 2004, the nonpartisan website FactCheck.org determined that only 11 bills that Kerry authored passed during his Senate career at that point.
"He kind of reminds me of the actor Bill Murray," said Thomas Whalen, associate professor of social sciences at Boston University. "He has all this talent, but what's he have to show for it? He doesn't have any legislative achievements."
But several foreign affairs experts argue that while Kerry's penmanship may not be on significant pieces of legislation, his imprint and influence on U.S. foreign policy is. Obama tapped Kerry for sensitive diplomatic missions to Pakistan in May 2011, shortly after Osama bin Laden was killed there, and to Afghanistan at times when tensions were running high between Washington, Islamabad and Kabul.
"He'll be remembered as someone who was very active on foreign policy," said Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution. "He played a significant role behind the scenes."
As Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Kerry has embraced the traditional role of "a statesman on several issues," West said. In the waning years of the Bush administration, Kerry took a leading role in trying to end the Iraq war, often losing by lopsided votes with efforts to tie the U.S. to a withdrawal date.
In 2010, he pressed for ratification of a "New START" nuclear arms treaty with Russia, overcoming fierce Republican resistance by sometimes tossing Senate collegiality and diplomacy-speak aside to accuse Republicans of political foot-dragging on a pact desperately wanted by the Obama administration.
"Kerry has demonstrated that he's loyal and solid, he's been a good soldier on several diplomatic assignments that were almost 'Mission Impossible,'" Inderfurth said.
John Forbes Kerry was born Dec. 11, 1943, in Denver, the son of Rosemary Forbes Kerry, a member of one of Boston's wealthy upper-class Brahmin families, and Richard Kerry, who served in the U.S. Foreign Service. Growing up, Kerry lived in Berlin and attended a Swiss boarding school. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and earned a law degree from Boston College in 1976.
During the socially and politically turbulent 1960s when most young men from means used family connections to avoid military service and Vietnam, Kerry joined the Navy in 1966. He became a lieutenant junior grade and commanded a Swift Boat patrol that ran counterinsurgency missions in South Vietnam's Mekong Delta. He won the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts during his service.
But Kerry grew to oppose the war and became an organizer of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In 1971, he spoke to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and created a stirred when he tossed of some of his military ribbons – but not his medals – on the Capitol lawn to protest the war.
Despite eschewing talk of entering politics in media interviews, Kerry unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives in 1972 and went on to serve as lieutenant governor under Michael Dukakis from 1982 to 1984. He was elected to the Senate in 1984.
Divorced from his first wife, Julia Thorne, in 1988, Kerry married Teresa Heinz, the widow of Rep. John Heinz, R-Pa., in 1995. The marriage to the ketchup fortune heir made Kerry one of Capitol Hill's wealthiest lawmakers. The congressional publication Roll Call ranked Kerry as the third-richest member of the Senate and House in 2011, worth an estimated $193.07 million.
If approved by his Senate colleagues, Kerry will move from the comforts of Capitol Hill to the spacious seventh-floor secretary's office in the State Department's Foggy Bottom building, where he'll get a different view of an unsettled world: a still-tense Pakistan, a civil war in Syria, a bellicose North Korea, a grumpy Russia, a nuclear-ambitious Iran, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a rising China.
"John Kerry will no longer have the luxury of issuing a statement and calling for a hearing," Inderfurth said. "He'll have to deal with issues in real time."


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I really like them, but after seeing them getting 1st place during the 3rd leg, I don't feel very hopeful now....
Pre-race, I think they will be a nice, boring couple but right now, I have to change my mind.I like their competitiveness. Can't wait to watch next week ep.
The Leg 3 curse was broken in TARV.
Quote from: Airlinesguy on October 28, 2013, 08:44:13 AMThe Leg 3 curse was broken in TARV.What IS the curse?!
I wanted to like'em but the editing gave them the "we're-gonna-win/they're-gonna-win" edits ...well teams with that kinda edit tend to "not win"remember the snowboarders? Art & JJ? the chippendales? Maxie?you can't even count how many times they said "we're-gonna-win" and it turned out they're NOT!!!well, we'll see!
Only team left that I ended up originally cheering for Please leg 3 curse break
Are they the team that has the best rank until now? Their lowest place is 4th.
Quote from: paradoxinee on November 17, 2013, 10:16:43 PMAre they the team that has the best rank until now? Their lowest place is 4th.Best rank of all times or only this season?This season, it's right but of all time, i think Art&JJ did better.
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Poll: Most support letting working illegal immigrants stay in U.S.
As a bipartisan group of senators announced an agreement on immigration reform today, most Americans think illegal immigrants currently working in the United States should be allowed to stay either as guest workers or with the opportunity to become U.S. citizens.
A slim majority - 51 percent - thinks illegal immigrants working in the U.S. should be able to stay and apply for citizenship; another 20 percent say they should stay but only as guest workers. A quarter of Americans think illegal immigrants now working here should be required to leave the country.
Nearly two in three Democrats support giving illegal immigrants the chance to stay and apply for citizenship, compared to a third of Republicans who back that approach. A majority of non-whites (67 percent) back citizenship for illegal immigrants working in the U.S., while fewer than half of whites (46 percent) support that. Younger Americans are also more likely than those who are older to think illegal immigrants working in the U.S. should be allowed to apply for citizenship.
The percentage of Americans overall who would like to see illegal immigrants stay in the U.S. with the opportunity to become citizens is similar to what it was last fall, but it has risen 14 points since September 2011. Back then, 38 percent said illegal immigrants working in the U.S. should be required to leave the country.
Support for giving illegal immigrants the opportunity to become citizens has risen among many demographic groups since 2011, even across party lines. Among Democrats, support has gone up 15 points since September 2011. Republican support has risen from 24 percent to 35 percent now.
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This poll was conducted by telephone from January 24-27, 2013 among 1,052 adults nationwide. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups may be higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.


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Don't clear your calendar yet for the NHL playing a full 82-game schedule starting on Nov. 2.
The owners' offer of a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue with locked-out players is a game-changer because it takes negotiations where everyone, including players, knew they were headed. But we are still many compromises away from saving a full season.
Now it's up to players to decide how badly they want to play all 82 games.
STORY: NHL offers 50-50 split
NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr certainly won't accept the owners' offer as is, but the players' response will tell us whether they'll play a full schedule or risk losing one. If players don't come back with a reasonable position, the blame will shift to them.
Players have long known their share of revenue would drop from 57% to 50%. But they thought it was grossly unfair to expect them to take an immediate cut considering they accepted a 24% salary reduction and gave in on a salary cap when the last contract was negotiated in 2005.
When the owners' first proposal this summer demanded players' share of revenue drop from 57% to 43%, players could play the role of victims. The public perception was owners were being unreasonable, engaged in a money grab. When Commissioner Gary Bettman canceled the first two weeks of the season, owners bore the brunt of the blame.
But now the NHL looks like the reasonable party by offering a plan to save the season. A hockey fan generally will view a 50-50 split as a fair compromise. Regardless of whether this leads to a deal, the offer gives the league a public relations victory a day after it was reported that it had hired a focus group specialist to help it deliver its message in a more positive fashion.
The players' next move isn't simple because the NHL has strategically offered a proposal that can't be easily dismissed. They want a gradual reduction from 57%, and this is a straight drop to 50%. But the NHL offered a provision to mitigate players' salary loss in the first two seasons. It's not everything players want, but it's a reasonable place to start negotiating.
The brilliant move by the league was putting the full season back in play. Canceling two weeks meant players would lose 7.7% of their pay. If another month of the season soon was canceled, which the league is contemplating if talks remain stalemated, their total pay loss hits 23.1%, more than players would lose next season with a straight drop to 50%.
TIMELINE: The lockout so far
Players would gladly accept adding one game every five or six weeks or extending the season to accommodate the make-up games. And they'll be thrilled that training camp will last a week. Most players believe the need for a lengthy training camp is outdated because they are religious in their offseason training. If it were up to players, camp would never be longer than 10 days.
A Nov. 2 startup is no problem for arenas. NHL teams were told from the beginning to prepare as if the season could start at any moment.
Although Bettman didn't reveal details, the league backed off some of its harsh demands on arbitration and entry-level contracts, etc. It is still asking for a five-year limit on contract lengths with a provision to restrict teams from adding fake years to lower a cap hit. Owners are making it clear that the 50-50 split is the key issue, and they are at least offering the players a path toward an agreement, even if that path needs to be widened first.
The trick for players will be to make a counter-proposal that will launch negotiations instead of ending them. Players certainly can appreciate what happens when one side makes a proposal that seems grossly unreasonable to the other side.
Players have asked all along what they are getting in exchange for concessions. If the sides start to meet continuously, players can tell owners what they want. That's what happens in true bargaining. But we wouldn't know that based on these negotiations because there has been no true bargaining to this point.


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Newtown, Conn. Shooting: Young Kids, Survivors Cope with Horror
(NEWTOWN, Conn.) -- Witnesses at Sandy Hook Elementary School reported horrific scenes as a shooter took 27 lives today -- the shattering sounds of gunshots, children locked in the bathrooms and parents crying outside in the parking lot.
Experts say that the young children who saw events first-hand can have lasting psychological scars, but those whose home lives are stable and supportive will have fewer long-term scars.
"It was horrific," said Kaitlin Roig, a 29-year-old teacher, who was in a morning meeting when the gunman entered the school.
"Suddenly, I heard rapid fire, like an assault weapon," the first grade teacher told ABC. She rounded up her 14 students and locked them and herself in the bathroom. "I helped kids climb on the toilet dispenser [so they could all fit in].
"I thought we were going to die."
Children in such a situation "are terrified, and they don't have the cognitive or emotional capacities to make sense of this," said Dr. Nadine Kaslow, professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry at Emory School of Medicine.
"Not that any of us can make any sense of this," said Kaslow. "It's truly inconceivable."
At least 27 people, mostly children under the age of 10, were shot and killed at the K-to-4 school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News.
The massacre drew SWAT teams to the school and the town of Newtown locked down all its schools, authorities said day.
According to federal sources, the gunman was identified as Adam Lanza, 20. His mother, who worked at the elementary school, was one of the victims.
One mother named Christine who has a child at Sandy Hook told ABC about the chaos that ensued when she arrived at the school this morning.
"When I got there, there were just parents running into the firehouse because they were directing us there. That's where children had been evacuating to, and we went in and people were just grabbing their children and hugging and crying. There were lots of children crying."
She said another parent who had been at the school at the time was "pretty broken up." Many parents didn't know where their children were.
In 1996 in Dunblane, Scotland, 15 children and a teacher were killed in a similar massacre.
Parents and caregivers play the most important role in a child's recovery from a traumatic event, according to Dr. Gene Beresin, director of training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"Children need to know that they are safe," he said. "Are people taking care of me? How is this going to affect my life? They need to be reassured."
"Thinking about kids in all disasters, you think about the airlines -- when the oxygen mask drops, you put your mask on first and then help the child next," said Beresin.
"Parents need to take care of themselves first. [The children] need to know you are calm and in control," he said.
Adults and community support is critical, according to Beresin.
Young children who witness violence can have acute or post-traumatic stress disorder. "The immediate reaction is shock and horror," he said.
After events like this, communities typically set up crisis centers in a church or other public place where people can seek professional and spiritual help.
Turn the television off, say experts, but answer your children's questions. Don't disregard an older sibling who is watching the news unfold and is worried. They need assurance, too, he said.
According to Beresin, young children may not have "discreet memories" of the event, but they can still have an emotional reaction, experiencing nightmares or, conversely, emotional numbing, said Beresin.
"Some kids shut down," he said. "They may actually turn off and not want to be hugged or cuddled -- that's a normal response. Some kids are clingy, and others will withdraw."
Kids can also regress in the aftermath of a traumatic event.
Parents should not force a child to open up, but "don't let them be alone," he said.
One way young children can work out problems are through reenactment. "They may be playing a game about shooting and dying, and parents should not stop that," said Beresin. "Let them do it."
Young children can also ask questions that don't directly relate to the event, according to Rahill Briggs, assistant professor of pediatrics at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
"They can ask directly or less directly about guns, or heaven or death or about a pet that died," she said.
In studies of 9/11 one of the findings -- not a surprising one -- after the terrorist attacks was that those who were most directly affected "suffered the most," according to Briggs. Coping with grief long-term depended on the cohesion of the child's family -- "how well the caregiving system responds to distress. When it is proactive, by definition the children do better."
"What was the most incredibly predictive five years out was how everyone was doing before the incident," said Briggs. "It is the same for mental health in general, those who are coping well in their lives before a trauma are the most likely to cope well afterwards -- even if they saw the towers fall."
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Domonique Foxworth worked with the Ravens' starting defense for the first time in a couple of weeks, a sign that his surgically repaired knee is improving.
Foxworth, who started every game in 2009, missed last season when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee on the eve of training camp.
"I feel good now. I can finish practice, I think I can finish a game," Foxworth said. "We'll see. I'm definitely not as good as I was. [The knee] doesn't feel as good as it did. … It's about getting my explosion back. There are glimpses of it."
Foxworth suffered a setback this summer and missed the preseason opener at Philadelphia. He made a brief appearance in Friday's preseason game and ran with the second team.
"It's preseason, [and] they've taken care of me," Foxworth said. "That's the mistake we made the first time. I was full speed all the time."
Foxworth can't predict how far along he'll be by Sept. 11, when the Ravens open the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers. But he's following the rehabilitation program the Ravens used to get Lardarius Webb and Fabian Washington back from ACL surgery a year ago.
"They've done it with other players before," Foxworth said. "This is my first time with an ACL, but it's not our training staff's first time, and it's not our coaches' first time. So I'm just going to trust in them, and whatever they think is right, I'm going to do."
Revisiting Beck trade
It was just more than a year ago when the Ravens traded John Beck to the Washington Redskins for cornerback Doug Dutch.
Beck is battling for the Redskins' starting quarterback job, and Dutch is out of football. When the Ravens made the move, they had Marc Bulger as their primary backup and needed depth at cornerback.
"I think last year's circumstances when we went out there to get Marc Bulger and go with two quarterbacks were a unique opportunity," Cameron said.
Cameron was the Miami Dolphins' coach in 2007, when the team selected Beck in the second round. Beck served as the Ravens' No. 3 quarterback in 2009 after the Dolphins waived him.
The Ravens will face Beck on Thursday when they play the Redskins at M&T Bank Stadium.
"He's one of the harder workers I've been around," Cameron said. "I'm hearing good things about what he's doing. I think everybody around here has a lot of respect for him because he worked hard when he was here. Nothing John can do in a positive way would surprise me. That's the kind of person he is, the kind of worker he is. We all wish him well."
Comparing fan bases
New Redskins cornerback Josh Wilson, who played last season for the Ravens, said there is no comparison between the fan bases of the two regional rivals.
Wilson grew up in the Washington area and rooted for the Redskins.
"One thing about it, they have nowhere near the tradition of Redskins fans," Wilson told The Washington Post with a grin. "My uncle is 50-so years old and all they know are Redskins, and you'd almost think somebody's died when the Redskins have lost. And now I'm getting all these phone calls asking, 'What do you think about this?' and they think I'm going to give them all the insight, and I'm like, 'Get out of here!' But the Ravens have a strong fan base up there. They're growing and getting kind of that establishment that the Redskins already have."
End zone
Jarret Johnson, the most durable player in Ravens history, missed his second straight day of practice with a back injury. The linebacker has played in 113 consecutive games, the longest streak in team history. Others not practicing were: center Matt Birk (knee), wide receivers Justin Harper (undisclosed), James Hardy (hamstring) and Terrell Zachery (undisclosed) and defensive back Marcus Paschal (quadriceps). … After watching Bernard Pollard run with the first-team defense all last week, safety Tom Zbikowski is starting next to Ed Reed in practice. That starting jobs there and at inside linebacker next to Ray Lewis remain open competitions. "I think it's all going to shake itself out," defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano said. … Cary Williams continued to work with the first team at cornerback. Foxworth and rookie first-round pick Jimmy Smith alternated at the other starting spot. … Wilson isn't the only ex-Ravens player starting for the Redskins. Chris Chester, a second-round pick in 2006, is Washington's right guard.


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Selling your home is a big task and your house is likely your biggest asset. You are more invested in the outcome than an agent could be, but in order to succeed you'll want to be engaged at every step, from preparing it for sale, to pricing, to negotiating, and finally, in closing.
ForSaleByOwner sets you up for success with how-to's, legal forms, referrals to professionals, and other tools that you need to sell your house. Plus, our Start to "Sold!" Checklist will track your progress through each phase of the selling process. Here are the key steps for selling on your own:
1.Your Personal Timeline
Two months before listing:
- Evaluate your finances and budget
- Add up transaction costs and remaining equity
- Collect key documents including your title, survey, mortgage and insurance
How urgently do you need to sell your house? Is a career or job change prompting your relocation? Is your move tied to the school year, medical concerns, or financial pressures?
Urgency determines price. The more quickly you need to sell, the lower you'll need to price your house. If you can wait for the ideal offer, you can price your house accordingly.
Either way, you'll want to price your house in line with current trends for your neighborhood.
2. Assess the Condition and Ability to Sell Your House
Two months before listing:
- Evaluate the condition of your property
- Fix problems
Nobody wants to buy your postponed projects. These days, a house must be in top condition to sell – especially if you want to sell quickly.
Tour your home with a critical eye. (You may want to get an outspoken friend to give you an honest opinion of how your house looks to an outsider.) Look for three types of problems:
Cosmetic problems that can be fixed or neutralized quickly at minimal cost. Grimy walls should be painted. Torn carpeting should be replaced – or, better yet, removed and the underlying hardwood floors, refinished. Small repairs, such as torn window screens and crooked light fixtures, all must be made. Touch-ups and freshening can also update your decorating and even soften strong color schemes to make your house more appealing to more people.
Functional repairs and upgrades. Sure, you've lived with that gold-tone refrigerator for four decades, and it may still have ten more useful years…maybe. But why would a buyer pay top price for a kitchen with an ancient refrigerator? Ruthlessly examine the condition of appliances, plumbing, electrical, heating, air conditioning, the roof and structural elements of your house. When you repair or replace iffy systems, you remove a reason for people to reject your house. And, your house will appeal to cash-strapped buyers who are worried about expensive surprise expenses.
Problems you can't fix. The location of your house is something you can't change. The same can be said for your neighbors; the school district; noise and traffic patterns; and other factors. Be honest: are there factors that damage the appeal of your house? If so, you will have to price and market your house accordingly.
Some unfixable problems (such as seepage in the basement) must be disclosed to buyers, per state law. You can provide ease of mind to buyers through a home warranty, which covers the cost of repair or replacement for some major house systems.
3. Establish the Price
One month before listing:
- Research the local market
- Establish your price range
Establishing a simple baseline for your asking price can be simpler in a rising market: just add the cost of home improvements to the most recent purchase price and calculate the average rate of appreciation. When market conditions are uneven foreclosures, short sales and bank-owned real estate can drag down the value of neighboring properties by as much as 30%, further complicating your estimate.
Here are the essential steps to establishing a fair market value for your house.
• Check the sale price of recently sold properties. You can find prices through local property records, which are open to the public.
• Get a top-line value estimate through an automated valuation service. ForSaleByOwner.com offers an automated home pricing tool.
• The most in-depth, and most authoritative, valuation is an appraisal done on-site, in person, by an appraiser who is familiar with your neighborhood. The appraisal will compare the condition of your house to others recently sold, adding value for unique features (like a fireplace) and deducting for features you don't have, or for the worn condition of the house. An appraisal can cost as much as $500, but it can also help prioritize spending for repairs, replacements and upgrades. It will also validate your asking price to the buyer, giving you a authority when negotiating.
• Calculate selling expenses. If you sell by owner, you can save all or much of the agent commission. Use our Pricing Guide to estimate how much your expenses could be.
Whether you use an agent or sell by owner, you will still have to pay for preparing the house for sale; marketing costs; legal fees; and transfer taxes, if required by your state or municipality. It's important to estimate these expenses as closely as possible. Many homeowners have little equity. Marketing and transactional costs – especially the commission – can slice away what little equity they hope to claim from selling. Especially if you are counting on getting a check at closing, you must have a firm grip on selling expenses.
Monitor the latest mortgage rates and lending news at our Mortgage page, with fresh content delivered daily by LendingTree. Why? So you understand the lending conditions that potential buyers must navigate. Understanding that will equip you to negotiate the best deal.
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One month to two weeks before listing:
- Declutter
- Clean
- Stage
Declutter and Clean
Clearing out the debris of everyday life will help sellers see the actual house. You might want to rent a storage unit for out of season clothes, decorations, memorabilia, sporting equipment, furniture and other goods that come between a house hunter and the house. First, clear out the clutter. Then, clean your suddenly-spacious house.
Staging is the art of creating a welcoming environment that helps buyers envision their life in your house. Chances are you can stage using accessories and furniture you already have. Staging might also involve light renovations, such as painting and replacing window treatments.
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- Assemble materials for listing (photos, pricing documentation, room measurements, etc.)
- List with ForSaleByOwner.com – 1 day
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- Produce print fliers and 'house book"
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• Advertise on Craigslist. ForSaleByOwner customers get a template to make it even easier to place an ad at this popular online classified site.
• Listing at ForSaleByOwner.com
• Listing through your local Multiple Listing Service and Realtor.com. Both the MLS and Realtor.com position your house to be found by the 92% of buyers who start house hunting online. The local MLS is used by agents for their clients, and by the public. Realtor.com is based on MLS listings from around the country and is one of the most popular online listing sites.
• The ForSaleByOwner.com Seller's Guide includes dozens of stories, tips, and how-to articles for all elements of marketing.
6. Negotiate and Accept an Offer
- Confirm buyers' financial qualifications
- Negotiate terms
If you can justify your asking price with recent market research, you are in a strong negotiating position. Still, you might want to hire a lawyer to coach you through the negotiations. And, a lawyer can advise you on the specifics required by your state and municipality.
7. Prepare Paperwork and Closing
6 – 8 weeks before closing:
- Cooperate with home inspector
- Cooperate with lender's appraiser
- Provide buyer and buyer's agent, lawyer, and other professionals with legal documents
- Contact your lender to start mortgage payoff process
- Make your own arrangements to move
The paperwork has just begun once you accept a buyer's offer.
Be prepared to handle:
• Disclosures as required by your state and municipalities
• Property records, building permits and receipts for the appraiser
• Property records for the title insurer
• Insurance documents
• Mortgage, loan and lien documents
• Related legal documents for financial and estate planning
• Many of these documents can be purchased through ForSaleByOwner.com.
Selling a home always takes time, attention and energy. When you sell by owner, you will receive maximum benefits for your efforts.
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The son of Sarah Palin is also father to 1-year-old daughter Kyla Grace Palin
Track Palin, the eldest son of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is reportedly ending his marriage to Britta Hanson after a year and a half.
The couple, who were former high-school sweethearts, are jointly petitioning for divorce, reports TMZ.
Shortly after they got married, Track, now 23, and Britta, 22, announced the arrival of their first child, a girl named Kyla Grace Palin.
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Track is an Army Reservist who spent a year deployed in Iraq with a Ft. Wainwright Stryker Brigade.
At the time of his marriage it was reported that he had planned to study at the University of Alaska after the commercial fishing season.


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Age: 1918 WWI
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I think this menagerie of little felt chairs looks lovely parading across the Pottery Barn dish (I found it at a thrift store for $1.00) and it proves true ~ good things often do come in small packages.
As we gear up for the New Year, I'm hoping your 2013 is filled to the brim with good things. Thanks for taking the time to stop by Tattered Style. Be sure to like Tattered Style on Facebook ~ here or follow me on Pinterest here! XO ~ Dana


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In my opinion, this is unlikely. And I know my man Mac thinks he is the second coming, but my out-on-a-limb prediction for the Djoker is that he finishes around #6. He finished the year poorly, and a couple others finished it very well. He's a great all-arounder but doesn't have any real weapons.
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The understanding of the differences in what a state and nonstate actors are and do in the Global South is augmented if we historicize these categories. In particular, the category of the nonstate actor is best understood when contextualized in the project of the state in which such actors operate. Building on established critical approaches, it is necessary to interrogate the a priori assumption that distinctions that frame as exclusively distinct categories of state and nonstate actors hold blanket validity for understanding politics in the Global South.
A meaningful understanding of how an actor's influence—regardless of category—is enhanced when placed in a context, and where analysis addresses strategies and actions and their effects. To this end, an actor is defined as an entity with two characteristics: it is able to develop preferences and goals, and it is able to mobilize individuals and material resources in their pursuit. Presenting the benefits of contextual analysis shows how a focus on actors' "sovereign potentialities" (i.e., attributes such as control over territory, service provision, generation of markers of identity, and the international recognition that an actor has and through which it can impose change on its context and environment) allows for a clearer understanding of what constrains or enables actors qua actors.
One way to explain the analytical purchase of this argument is via a novel reading of Hezbollah and of Lebanon's politics, which is the party's anchoring context. This makes it possible to analyze the profound effects of Hezbollah's actions in Lebanon and regionally through its alliance with Syria (and Iran), its appeal to a wider Arab audience, and its confrontation with Israel. Special attention is given to Hezbollah's actions in Lebanon, its involvement in the 2012–2013 Qusayr battle in support of the Syrian government, and its decision-making during the 2006 Israel War. This discussion will highlight Hezbollah's state-like and non-state-like sovereign potentialities, and the factors that limit or enable its strategies in different contexts.
Keywords: Hezbollah, nonstate actors, empirical statehood, sovereignty, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, empirical international relations theory, Global South
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Nicola Ivica posted 16 kills and seven digs in the win
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NEWARK, N.J. - Sophomore Matt Jones recorded 20 kills as the Crimson downed NJIT, 3-0, to pick up the team's first win of the season at the Fleisher Athletic Center Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Nikola Ivica played an important role both offensively and defensively, as he recorded 16 kills and committed just three errors on 23 attack attempts and also notched seven digs in the match.
Ivica recorded a kill for the Crimson to grab the opening point in the first set and Harvard never looked back. Attack errors plagued the Highlanders, and the Crimson offense quickly built a 10-5 lead. A kill by Ivica and two consecutive attack errors by NJIT spurred an 8-2 Crimson run that gave Harvard a 10 point lead with the score at 20-10. The Highlanders had a burst of offense led by Christian Puszies to close the Harvard lead to six, but a kill by Jones stopped the host's run and propelled Harvard to a 30-21 set win.
The second set played out much like the first, as Harvard jumped out to a 10-6 lead following a service ace by senior Soren Rosier and an Ivica kill. The Crimson used several offensive spurts to quickly bring the lead to 23-16. Harvard used a 4-1 run, capped by a Rosier kill, to claim a 30-24 win.
The third set was very close in the beginning, as the teams traded points and a kill by NJIT's Puszies gave the Highlanders its first lead of the afternoon. Senior Gil Weintraub used a kill to put a stop to the Highlanders offense, as the Crimson scored three unanswered points to regain a 9-7 lead. Harvard never trailed from there, and later went on a 6-0 run to bring the lead to 19-10. The teams again traded points, but the Highlanders never got within six. A kill by Weintraub gave Harvard a 30-22 win to capture the match win.
Weintraub handed out 47 assists and recorded two kills. Defensively, freshman Derek Jansma and Ivica led the team in digs, with seven and eight, respectively. Rosier recorded seven blocks in the match.
Harvard led in every statistical category in the match, as the team had 53 kills, eight service aces, 30 digs and eight total blocks.
The Crimson returns home to host Springfield Tuesday, March 9 at 7 p.m.
Ivica and Jones Lead Men's Volleyball Past NJIT, 3-0
Nicola Ivica posted 16 kills and seven digs in the win
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Does any1 wanna co-host a race like this with me? and will any of you guys play it?
Roadblock: Who can use your boobies? (ONLY A FEMALE TEAM MEMBER CAN PERFORM THIS CHALLENGE)In this Roadblock, the female team member had to choose an 1800-gallon fish-breeding tank, jump in, and catch and transfer all 80 flounder from the breeding tank to a holding tank at the other end of the farm, with only their two hands and boobies. At the same time, the other team member had to keep shouting at the team member to remind them to "Use your boobs, use your boobs"! If your team has no female team members, you have to put on fake boobies and perform the similar challenge, or you can also opt for a 2 hour time penalty to skip the task.Who can remember which season and what task is this?
Detour: Brent or CatieBrent - Differentiate ANONYMOUS & UNANIMOUS.Catie - Locate Iraq, South Africa and everywhere such as in the map.
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The Weavers McDonalds Yield.Teams who choose to utilize their Yield power on another team will force each team member in the Yield-ed team to finish a McDonalds meal completely before they can continue on with the race.WARNING: MAJOR PRODUCT PLACEMENT.
Amani/Marcus: Teams must use 5 football metaphors in each leg. Failure to do so will result in elimination.
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