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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As Atlantis rolled to a stop on its Florida landing strip, ending the space shuttle fleet's 30-year run, the atmosphere around NASA was filled with uncertainty.
It's not like it was 42 years ago, at the time of America's highest space triumph. That's when Neil Armstrong took humankind's first steps on the moon. The only thing for sure following Atlantis' farewell flight is that most members of its launch team will be out of a job.
Critics say NASA is in shambles. They say foot-dragging and indecision by the Obama administration has left America with no defined mission in space. NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, a veteran astronaut himself, strongly disagrees. "I'm not about to let human spaceflight go away on my watch," he says.
Despite the dithering, private companies could have Americans flying in their commercial spacecraft by 2015, and Bolden says test flights aimed at sending astronauts to deep space on NASA spaceships could begin in 2016 or 2017.
Back in 1969, the scene at America's spaceport was clearly different: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's walk on the moon represented the height of prestige for America's space program. The country was first. Americans were beating the Russians. A decade-long race to put a human on another world had ended.
Pride poured from cheering throats across the country, from New York's Times Square to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
It was good to be an American.
Boots on the Moon: An excerpt from "Moon Shot"
Neil Armstrong stepped backward from the lunar module's hatch. He headed for where no human had ever gone, toward the surface of a world devoid of life, a surface below with craters and endless dust — an alien world with the rubble of cosmic bombardment.
He felt strangely comfortable. Both his booted feet touched the ladder's rungs with confidence as billions on distant Earth were fixed on their television screens, on a ghostly figure of a space-suited human moving slowly and steadily down the ladder.
Suddenly he was there.
'Moon Shot' revisited
The classic tale of early space exploration, "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings," has been republished as an enhanced e-book, complete with embedded video and fresh stories about America's greatest space adventures. Print copies are also available.
Co-authors Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton were at the very heart of America's efforts to tame space. No one was more qualified to recount the victories won and the defeats endured by a small but remarkable group of humans who took aim at outer space. And no one is more qualified to update this seminal work than NBC News correspondent Jay Barbree, the only journalist to cover every spaceflight flown by astronauts from Cape Canaveral.
Barbree offers edited excerpts from "Moon Shot," plus updated commentary, exclusively on msnbc.com.
Billions watched as Neil dropped to the moon's surface.
His left foot pressed hard on a fine-grained surface at 10:56 p.m. Eastern Time on July 20, 1969.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Neil said slowly as he looked down, studying the lunar soil beneath his boots. "The surface is fine and powdery," he reported to a fascinated world. "It adheres in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the soles and sides of my boots. I only go in a fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles."
Neil didn't know it at the time, but it was these highly defined footprints that armchair physicists would offer as "proof" that the moonwalk was a fake.
Humans would rather think the worst of themselves than the best.
Myth-believers claimed that Neil and Buzz could have only left such firm, defined bootprints in soil with moisture. But close examination of the lunar soil brought back to Earth showed it to be virgin. The grains still had their sharp edges. They had not been rounded off by wind and erosion in an Earthlike atmosphere. In the vacuum, the sharp edges of the lunar soil cling together, leaving a smooth surface much as moist sand does on a beach.
"Where were the stars?" the myth-believers asked. The cameras that NASA sent to the moon had to use short-exposure times to take pictures of the bright lunar surface and the moonwalkers' white spacesuits. Stars' images, easily seen by Armstrong and Aldrin, were too faint and underexposed to be seen as they are in photographs taken from space shuttles and the International Space Station.
And why didn't the descent rocket carve out a crater? Its thrust was simply too weak to make a huge dent in the lunar crust.
The two moonwalkers had problems jamming the American flag into the lunar surface. Even though a metal rod held the flag extended, the subsurface soil was so hard that they had to bang and push on the pole to get it to barely remain upright. Their forcible actions left the flag's staff rocking back and forth for an unusual length of time. The myth-believers claim that it was wind blowing the flag.
Space news from NBCNews.com
Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
- Buzz Aldrin's vision for journey to Mars
- Giant black hole may be cooking up meals
- Watch a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse online
- Teen's space mission fueled by social media
There's no wind on the moon, just vacuum. But an object forced into repeating motions in a vacuum repeats the motions many more times than it does in atmospheric drag. The flag's motion was later duplicated in a vacuum chamber at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters" television show.
With Old Glory standing, Neil moved off to take more pictures while Buzz set up various instruments. One was a multi-mirror target for returning laser beams fired from Earth — laser reflectors that have been used worldwide to determine the distance to within an inch between Earth and the moon.
Many universities and governments have used the Apollo laser reflectors, and if American astronauts didn't put the laser reflectors precisely at the Apollo landing sites, what and who did?
Orbiter provides more proof
Four decades would pass before the myth-believers' claims could finally be put to rest. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sent back pictures of the Apollo landing sites as it circled the moon.
The pictures show all six of the Apollo descent stages that served as the moonwalkers' launch platforms for their trips home, including Apollo 11's resting place, where Neil and Buzz left Eagle's base on the moon's Sea of Tranquility.
The Apollo 14 landing area shows a faint trail of Alan Shepard's and Edgar Mitchell's two-mile round-trip walk to Cone Crater, pulling their "rickshaw" tool and sample mover.
The Apollo 17 picture is so detailed that experts can tell which way the wheels were pointing when the astronauts abandoned their lunar rover in 1972.
It's clear there was no fraud, but despite the overwhelming evidence, many still believe the Apollo landings never took place.
I've reported for NBC News on every launch of American astronauts from Cape Canaveral — 166 to date, including the Apollo moon landings. And the arguments of the myth-believers leave me with questions: If NASA was trying to get away with a fraud, why didn't the agency stop after one landing? Who in his right mind would try to get away with the same lie nine times, for Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 through 17?
Another question: Just how was it NASA convinced 400,000 Apollo workers, the space press corps, with solid sources located in and out of Apollo, and the Russians and the British and the Chinese who were tracking America's nine trips to the moon to lie?
As the reporter who broke the cause of the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed three, and the cause of the Challenger accident that killed seven, I promise you: NASA would never have gotten such a fraud by me.
More from 'Moon Shot':
- Yuri Gagarin: Relive the world's first space odyssey
- Alan Shepard: How America's first astronaut 'got it done'
- John Glenn: Mystery surrounded first American in orbit
- Apollo 1 fire: A spark touches off Apollo's darkest hour
- Apollo 8: Round-the-moon flight revised our perspective
- Apollo 11, Part 1: Moments of tension and triumph
Excerpted from "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings," by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton with Jay Barbree. Reprinted with permission. Published by Open Road Integrated Media, copyright 2011. "Moon Shot" is available from Apple iBookstore, BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, Sony Reader Store and OverDrive.
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Guided Discovery and Scoring Rubric for Petrographic Analysis of a Thin Section
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Resources in this top level collection a) must have scored Exemplary or Very Good in all five review categories, and must also rate as "Exemplary" in at least three of the five categories. The five categories included in the peer review process are
- Scientific Accuracy
- Alignment of Learning Goals, Activities, and Assessments
- Pedagogic Effectiveness
- Robustness (usability and dependability of all components)
- Completeness of the ActivitySheet web page
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- A learning strategy is provided that demonstrates how to systematically observe and interpret a thin section;
- Students should begin to ask appropriate questions of the thin sections, and begin to seek the answers using a) all the techniques available via the petrographic microscope, b) making focused and purposeful observations, and c) making interpretations that are contextual, constrained (by known geologic relations), relevant and meaningful.
- The scientific method is used to formulate hypotheses about what minerals might be expected, and the tests are provided to confirm or reject the hypotheses; taking a Popperian approach, interpretations can be continually tested against new observations to check for validity;
- Predictions can be made based on geologic insights and reasoning;
- Sketching and photomicrographs: by sketching images of the thin sections, students must make critical observations, decide what is important and what to emphasize, and disregard "extraneous" information in the slide. Many students will have access to digital cameras; photomicrographs are also useful, but it's best to annotate the key features .
- Petrographic study should be purposeful: you should have a clear idea of what questions you are trying to answer and why: a) What is the stable mineral assemblage? b) What alteration minerals are present? c) What accessory minerals are present? How can these be used to interpret e.g. provenance, or to be used for further analysis e.g. geochronology? d) What is the history of the rock based on overprints and cross-cutting relations preserved in the rock fabric?
- Internal inconsistencies can be revealed as new evidence is brought to bear; Checks on observations and interpretations can be made by considering if the results are a) possible in Nature, b) internally consistent with known relationships, etc.
Description of the activity/assignment
Comprehensive lists of a) optical determinations, and b) textural features are provided as "cues" to the student to help focus attention on the full range of observations that could or should be made towards a comprehensive petrographic analysis of the thin section. These sheets are organized to include:
- Consideration of the geologic context of the sample: What is the geologic setting where the rock was collected? What is the rock type (if known), or at least is it igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic? This type of contextual information will help guide you to interpret what minerals are likely to be present (or excluded) in the sample
- Mineral Optics (identification of mineral phases in thin section.
- Observations at low power in plane and cross polarized light.
- Systematic characterization of the (stable) rock-forming minerals
- Identification of a) secondary or replacement minerals, and b) important accessory minerals;
- Description and Interpretation of Rock Textures
- Igneous rocks
- Clastic Sedimentary rocks
- Non-clastic Sedimentary rocks (carbonates)
- Metamorphic rocks
- Applications; can these minerals/assemblages/textures be used to determine source area, physical conditions (thermobarometry), geo- or thermochronology, and other useful geologic information?
Initially, use of these spread sheets will appear to be prescriptive. However, given the complexity observed in Nature, no single set of questions can be universally applied to all types of samples. So, the steps and observations represented in these spread sheets provide a general framework--a place to start--and the lists of optical properties and textures are meant to be a reminder to students about the types of observations that should be made. Students can use these spread sheets as a guide to make decisions about what is important and useful for the overall interpretation.
Metacognitive components of the activity
- Students derive an awareness of their own learning processes by considering "what" they are doing and "why" they are performing certain operations on the petrographic microscope.
- Students monitor their own progress by considering a) what they expect to find based on geologic contexts, b) are their observations and interpretations consistent with what can (or cannot) occur in Nature, and
- Adjust their learning strategies to accomodate new lines of evidence towards formulation of internally consistent (if not "correct") observations and interpretations of the thin section.
Metacognitive goals for this activity:The first encounter with an unknown thin section can be both confusing and overwhelming: Where do I start? What should I look for? How should I proceed? How will I know if I'm doing the right thing, and making the right observations?....
The purpose of this exercise is to "unpack" the steps taken by a master petrographer, to describe "what" observations can be made, and explain "why" these steps should be taken, what the utility or significance of the observations is, and how these observations can be appropriately interpreted (often these observations are done instantaneously in the mind of the petrographer, but in this exercise we try to explicitly outline these steps). With practice and experience these steps will become second nature. The goal of this exercise is to help students master the art of petrography so that they can independently do petrographic analysis of any rock from any context.
Assessing students' metacognitionIn the course of teaching petrography in my regular coursework, I find that I continually articulate to students (one at a time) what I am doing (and why), what I am seeing (and they may or may not be seeing the same thing), why certain relationships are to be expected or prohibited in Nature (by considering the larger geologic context). The development of these guided discovery activities is an attempt to clearly articulate to all students the steps that are routinely taken in the petrographic analysis of a thin section. The goal is to more efficiently and effectively get students past the "mechanical" stages of mineral identification and textural descriptions, and help them to begin to develop higher order thinking skills of application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Determining whether students have met the goals
I emphasize the use of sketches and am beginning to use annotated digital photomicrographs in my own instruction of petrography in my classes. This requires students to focus on the most important observations and to ignore extraneous details in the thin section. Again, this really helps to reveal what the students are seeing, and what they think is significant.
By having students explicitly write their observations in this graphical form on these spreadsheets, this should provide a good measure of their understanding of the procedures of petrography, and will also provide a window into what they are seeing and thinking.
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- Activity Description/Assignment (Microsoft Word 44kB Oct23 08)
Other Materials
- Spreadsheets with Guided Discovery Questions for Petrographic Analysis of a Thin Section (Excel 1.2MB Oct23 08)
- This activity has supplemental information submitted as part of the InTeGrate Teaching the Methods of Geoscience workshop in June 2012.


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FEWER and more expensive tests for cancer and other deadly diseases could be the result of a court ruling that private companies can control human genetic material.
Cancer advocates say the government must intervene and outlaw patents from being granted over human genes, after the Federal Court upheld US company Myriad Genetics' patent over the so-called ''breast cancer gene'' BRCA1.
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The judge also ordered costs against the 66-year-old pensioner, who has survived breast cancer twice and ovarian cancer once.
She told Fairfax Media she hoped to appeal the decision.
In Australia, Myriad Genetics has granted an exclusive licence to the patent to a company called Genetic Technologies Limited.
In 2008, Genetic Technologies attempted to enforce its patent rights over the gene, but relented after a public backlash.
Amy is Health Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. Before working at the Herald she worked as a freelance journalist and radio presenter, as well as writing for a number of publications for doctors. She also keeps a health blog at www.dailylife.com.au.


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Click here to view the US '77 Tour Programme (flipbook) Press Review: Led Zeppelin's British rock quartet shows sell-out at Madison Square Gardens NEW YORK — Even though millions of young people have managed to acquire it, Led Zeppelin remains an acquired taste. The British rock quartet, which this week opened a run of six long-since sold- out shows at Madison Square Gardens, makes a monstrously loud, deliberately abrasive kind of music far removed not only from the sweet rustlings of classical music, jazz and Tin Pan Alley, but even from the tuneful, rhythmically enlivening rock songs of the 1960s. That said, this was the best Led Zeppelin show this observer has ever heard, and that includes the sound track from the group's recent concert film. It was certainly superior to the 1975 Garden shows, the last the band had given in New York. That time the guitarist, Jimmy Page, had an injured finger. Since then Led Zeppelin has been off the road, waiting for the singer, Robert Plant, to recover from first an auto accident and then a throat infection. This tour amounts to a re-assertion of the band's preeminence in the fickle youth market of America, and on its own terms the opening show was certainly a triumphant reassertion. It lasted three hours and included some 18 songs, depending on how you count — a Led Zeppelin "song" is often an excuse for a meandering instrumental that sucks in all sorts of extraneous material as it goes along and sometimes segues subtly into something altogether different. The repertory included much that was predictable, from "The Song Remains the Same" to "Stairway to Heaven" by way of "In My Time of Dying" (dedicated somewhat wickedly to Queen Elizabeth n and her Silver Jubilee): "The Battle of Evermore" (was also dedicated to the British monarch). "No Quarter," "Kashmir," "Achilles Last Stand" and others, But there was also an acoustic set that lightened the heavy-metal load. The mood of the Garden concert, offstage and on, seemed fresher and less hostile than some Led Zeppelin concerts and crowds of yore. The audience waited more or less docilely for 70 minutes past the scheduled starting time before the band appeared. When it did so, the mood of the musicians was good-natured and almost puckish. And Plant laudably and earnestly attempted to discourage the hurling of firecrackers and cherry bombs. Quite apart from its sheer massiveness and its mood, this was a first-class Led Zeppelin performance on several objective criteria. Plant's voice sounded fresh throughout, but especially during the acoustic portion, in "Going to California." And it was aided by a whole battery of echo and filter effects. Similarly Page's guitar playing, always concerned with coloristic exploration was positively kaleidoscopic in that respect. And his work along with everybody else's was projected forcefully and clearly by the sound system. The other two held up their ends, too. (J. Rockwell, 7.2.77)
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We're big on the little things. Like Wi-Fi, coffee and tea, and all the in-room conveniences that make you feel right at home, even when you're away.
Power up while you power down. Bedside outlets, a plush duvet, your pick of pillows, and a quiet place to settle in means you'll get some solid shut-eye.
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Discover all that downtown San Jose has to offer at the convenient, comfortable Holiday Inn Express Hotel San Jose. Our exterior corridor hotel is 6 miles from San Jose International Airport and 3 miles from downtown San Jose. Enjoy shopping at Valley Fair Mall or dining at the wide variety of downtown restaurants. Explore the endless rooms of the Winchester Mystery House. Visiting all tech companies, the San Jose Convention Center, or the campuses of San Jose State and Santa Clara Universities? All are within easy reach when you stay at our Holiday Inn Express Hotel San Jose. Another smart idea: we said good-bye to the traditional bedspread as part of our Simply Smart Bedding. Our all white triple-sheeting just screams freshness. And if you do your thinking in the shower, prepare to be inspired with our complete bathroom make-over such as the Stay Smart shower head. You'll appreciate the large work spaces in every room. From communications to accommodations, you'll find our amenities the perfect companion for the business or leisure traveler. Every room includes flat screen HDTV, 2 phones, microwave, refrigerator, hair dryer, coffer maker, iron & full size ironing board, free local calls and free Internet/WiFi .While here, we'll get you started each morning with our free Express Start breakfast buffet with lots of breakfast choices and hot entrees like cheesy omelets, fluffy scrambled eggs, sausage patties, crispy bacon and other favorites.
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Guest Rooms
Our Standard rooms have either one king, one queen or two queen beds. All rooms have fridge, microwaves, ironing boards and coffeemakers for the comforts of home. All rooms are accented with our Simply SMART bedding and amenities.
Room Features
- Black-out Shades
- Pillow Menu
- Rollaway Bed/Cot Available
- Crib Available
- Iron/Ironing Board
- In-room Safe
- Separate Hanging Closet
- In-Room Heating and A/C Controls
- Extra Bedding Available
Bathroom/Personal Care
- Private Bathroom
- Bathroom Amenities Available
- Hair Dryer
- Bathtub
In-Room Features
- Mini Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Coffee Maker
- Flat-screen TV
- Work Desk with Lamp
- Desk-level Electrical Outlet
- Free Local Calls
- Cable/Satellite
- Premium Channels
- Two-line Phone
- Phone with Voicemail
- Windows Open by Guest
Added Value
- Connecting Rooms Available
- Phone in Bathroom
- Complimentary Coffee/Tea Supplies
- Complimentary Bottled Water
Eat & Drink
Eat & Drink
- Full Breakfast Included
- Breakfast Buffet Included
- Continental Breakfast Included
- Complimentary Coffee in Lobby
- Off-site Restaurant Delivery Available
Business Services
- 1 Meeting Room(s) Available
- On-Site Business Center
- Printer
- Copier
Internet Access
- Free High-Speed Internet in all Rooms
- Wireless Internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
Entertainment & Recreation
- Outdoor Pool
- Outdoor Whirlpool
Health & Fitness
Complimentary Fitness Center
Modern upgraded Fitness Center With Brand New Equipments , 2 Treadmills, 1 Elliptical Trainer ,1 Upright Cycle, Icarian Functional Weight Training Workstation,Stairmaster and Dry Sauna
Hours of Operation: 12:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Fitness Center Type: LIMITED
Fitness Center Equipment:
- Stair Stepper
- Treadmill
- Elliptical Machines
- Free Weights
- Stationary Bicycle
Housekeeping & Laundry
- Daily Housekeeping
- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
- Hours of Operation: 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Added Value
- Wake Up Calls
- Ice Machine
Hotel Details
2660 Monterey Hwy
San Jose, California 95111
United States
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 12:00 PM
Check-in Age: 21
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- Complimentary Self Parking Available
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- Guest Rooms
- Public Restrooms
- Registration Desk
- Exercise Facility
- Business Center
- Pool
- Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 0
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Hotel Areas with Accessible Routes from Accessible Public Entrance
- Accessible Self Parking
- Van Accessible Self Parking
- Ramp Access
- Portable Bathtub Seats
- Closed Caption TVs
- Telephone with TDD
- Communication Kits with Visual Alarms
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- Number of Floors: 2
- Total Number of Rooms: 57
- Number of Suites: 16
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 57
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 5
- Connecting Rooms Available
- Current Renovation: 09-October-2017 To 31-December-2020
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SprinTurf Fields
What was once a grass, often muddy field, was transformed into a 24/7 practice facility in the summer of 2004 with the SprinTurf Practice Facility on the east side of the Kibbie Dome. The complex includes lighting, SprinTurf in-fill turf, and 150 yards of playing surface. Not only are the field used by Vandal Athletics but they also serve as practice and competition fields for University of Idaho club and intramural teams as well as an occasion local high school competition.
Kibbie Dome
The Kibbie-ASUI Activity Center, also called the "Kibbie Dome," is one of the unique facilities in all of the NCAA.
The Kibbie Dome has been the home of Vandal athletics since 1975, when the barrel-arch roof was completed. In 1976, the building earned the award for America's Outstanding Structural Engineering Achievement.
It took nearly seven years to complete the 14-story-tall structure, which is tall enough that Idaho's Theophilus Tower dormitory would fit inside. Construction began in 1969 on the site of the former Neale Stadium, which had been partially destroyed by fire. The field and stands were completed in 1971, but it took four more years to finish the unique roof. The east end addition, which includes the athletic department offices, locker rooms, training rooms and a weight room, was completed in 1982.
In 2004, the facility began its next phase of improvement, as enhanced academic and athletic support facilities were added for student-athletes. The Norm and Becky Iverson Speed and Strength Center was added to more than double the size of the previous weight room to 7,000 square feet. Locker rooms were also expanded to more than 14,000 square feet.
Team meeting rooms, two student-athlete computer labs and study rooms and expanded academic support areas have also been added. In 2010, the athletic training and equipment rooms were expanded and upgraded to nearly double their respective work areas.
In 2010 and 2011, the old plywood end walls were replaced with state-of-the-art KalWall translucent panels as part of a major renovation to bring the building up to code. In conjunction with the end-wall replacement and fire-safety measures, the Litehouse Center, Bud and June Ford Club and expanded premium seating, suites and loge boxes were added and the Bob Curtis Press Box was completely rebuilt on the North side of the facility. Those improvements were privately funded.
The Kibbie Dome serves as both a training and competition facility for many of Idaho's 16 varsity athletic teams, including football, basketball, track & field and tennis. The facility has a capacity of more than 16,000. When the fans get excited, the Kibbie Dome crowd noise can be deafening and intimidating to opposing teams.
Beneath the football field, which is rolled up and stored at season's end, is a premier indoor track & field facility, as well as a full indoor tennis facility. The Cowan Spectrum, where Idaho men's and women's basketball play their home games, is also a part of the Kibbie Dome floor. With 93,000 square feet of floor, there is plenty of room for each team to practice at the same time.
As a track & field facility, the Kibbie Dome is home to Idaho's perennial top-25 men's and women's indoor and outdoor programs. Vandal track & field athletes can practice year-round in the facility. The track is a 290-meter flat circular with eight lanes in the straightaway. It also has two long jump pits, two pole vault pits and two throwing circles. The spacious floor area also gives the Kibbie Dome enough space to host indoor discus and javelin competitions, a boast few other indoor facilities in the nation can make.
The Idaho men's and women's tennis programs use the facility to train and compete during the winter and in times of inclement weather conditions. The floor can be cleared for action on up to nine courts at once.
The Kibbie Dome is for more than just Vandal Athletics, too. The facility has been used to host a multitude of different events, including Idaho high school football playoffs, concerts, student activities, intramural sports, community events and graduations. The facility is also used by students and staff as a workout venue.
The internationally-renowned Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival also calls the Kibbie Dome its home. One of the banner accomplishments of the University of Idaho, the festival was recently awarded the National Medal of Arts, the nation's most prestigious arts honor.
The festival dates back to 1967 and during its history, it has featured some of the best jazz musicians to ever play, including Ella Fitzgerald, Gerry Mulligan, Dizzy Gillespie, Dianne Reeves, Stan Getz, Carmen McRae, Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis and Sarah Vaughan and of course, Lionel Hampton and his New York Big Band.
Every year, thousands of high-school, middle-school and elementary-school students from hundreds of schools all around the United States and Canada make the pilgrimage to Moscow to take part in adjudicated performances, workshops and concerts.


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George Agnew Reid
Canadian, 1860–1947
The Story, 1890
oil on canvas
123 x 164.3 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift from the Hugh F. Osler Estate
Painting, Canadian Historical (1800-1910)
George Reid painted The Story after returning to Toronto from his studies in France, and the work's theatrical naturalism and technical finish reflect Reid's solid academic training. The painting was displayed at the French Salon in Paris in the spring of 1890, but not before it was purchased by the wealthy financier, politician, and public art gallery advocate, Sir Edmund Boyd Osler. Osler's son, Hugh, later brought the painting to Winnipeg, where he relocated his family in 1903. Reid actually constructed the hayloft depicted in this work in his Toronto studio, and local boys were his models. The cascading light creates a dramatic mood, heightens the group members' interactive expressions, and illuminates an access point for the viewer, to the right of the ladder.
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- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
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Here's the first trailer to the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves.
If you don't know, this version puts a Greenpeace spin on the classic film from 1951. Here's a quote from the trailer:
"If you die, Earth survives."
Within the context of the film, I presume Keanu/Klaatu means mankind and not Jennifer Connely, to whom he is saying the line. So there ya go - in the big picture, the Earth is more important than the survival of mankind.
Looks to me like it rips a lot from Close Encounters of the First Kind, but what do I know?
The Day the Earth Stood Still is scheduled to open December 2008.
Evidence Loki Really Was Being Mind-Controlled In The Avengers


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220pp paperback book, 110mm x 171mm
Third edition: industrially-sized… black and white
Typeset in Aldine 401, Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk and Miso
Cover illustration by Michael Kummermehr, pixelated by SG.
For his first book, "Presets - Digital Shortcuts to Sound��?, Stefan Goldmann has talked to industry leaders, programmers, producers, musicians and fine artists to collect a comprehensive description of the world of preset audio: from synthesis to sample libraries, from instrument emulations and gear cloning to automated composition and performance – short cuts in electronic music, classical and traditional musics, guitar rock & fine arts are covered. Disruptive gear and iconic presets, their background and impact – from Korg's M1, Yamaha's DX7 and Roland's 909 to Ableton Live, Native Instruments Reaktor, Sidechain compression and Auto-Tune – are discussed with unprecedented depth and clarity.
Featuring interviews with Robert Henke (Ableton), Mike Daliot (Native Instruments), Michael Wagener (producer – Metallica, Janet Jackson, Ozzy), Cory Arcangel, the original Korg M1 developer team and many more…
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James Currier necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 67 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
BlueRed is a new type of online medical communication tool that is a product within Medpedia. It will dramatically simplify having eVisits with your doctor. We are a start up with 8 people in San Francisco.
We thought we could use an Apple style for this logo, but the Board came back today and said we needed to do a BlueRed logo that was clearly a brand extension of the original Medpedia logo.
We will be giving the best "Apple" type logo $100, as we have with other designers on other projects who did excellent work we couldn't use in the end.
30-55 year old women in the US. We want them to feel like this is safe, simple, and fast.
The logo should look like it's part of the family with the Medpedia logo (http://www.medpedia.com) A large, clean version of the Medpedia is in the PowerPoint document below.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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ACA tradeoffs: Now they tell us ...
President Barack Obama is suffering the worst season of his presidency because people are mad that critical parts of the Affordable Care Act are not working the way they are supposed to work.
The larger longer-term threat to his signature legislative achievement — and to his presidency generally — is different. It is the growing backlash over Obamacare working precisely the way it is supposed to work.
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The broken HealthCare.gov website, while an excruciating embarrassment, is on the path to repair. If Amazon and the airlines can manage millions of transactions a day over the Web with ease, say experts, the federal government's class of slow students surely will solve the problem in due course.
( Understanding Obamacare: POLITICO's guide to the ACA)
But the problem with Obamacare's stumbling start is that it shined a harsh light on intended consequences — more costs and more government regulation — that were always embedded in the ACA but were deliberately downplayed by Obama and Democrats on the way to passage. Backers hoped the costs of the ACA and its roster of losers would remain obscured after launch in a rush of good feeling about the law's benefits and its roster of winners.
This rush of good feeling, to put it mildly, hasn't yet materialized. But some very clear tradeoffs that were always central to Obamacare have been put on sharp display.
*It is, in many respects, a classic social welfare program. Like other social programs, it involves transferring from haves to have-nots. Healthy people are going to have to pay to help sick people get coverage. People who had skimpy coverage before — and in some cases, not-so-skimpy coverage — will have to upgrade to insurance that covers more things, but costs more. And young people will have to pay so older people don't face sky-high premiums.
( PHOTOS: 10 Sebelius quotes about Obamacare website)
*For some people, the policy changes were always going to be highly disruptive. To rebuild the broken individual health insurance market, the part of the market that has always been riddled with holes, the law eventually has to move people with individual coverage into new plans with stronger rules and benefits. Whether it happens now or later, it has to happen — otherwise the new market falls apart.
*There is no subtle way to control costs. To keep the prices of the new plans from rising even higher, a lot of them have narrower networks of doctors and hospitals than the health plans most Americans are used to. And the cheapest Obamacare plans have high deductibles — so people who go for the lowest monthly premiums may find that they're stuck with higher out-of-pocket expenses.
*The changes will be felt by more than a sliver of the population. You may not be taxed directly to pay for the financing of Obamacare itself, which includes subsidies to help low and middle-income people buy coverage. But health insurers will be, and they're going to pass their costs on to you. And there's talk that employers could follow the lead of the Obamacare exchanges and shift to narrower doctor networks in a few years — because they're running out of other ways to control their own costs.
( PHOTOS: House hearing on Obamacare website)
It is not as if these trade-offs — the kind required by any big social program — were not understood by experts at the time Obamacare was being debated in 2009 and 2010. But they certainly weren't part of the pitch Obama and the Democrats made to the rest of America — the people who shouldn't have had to read between the lines to know what was going to happen.
Here's how Obama pitched the health care bill to a joint session of Congress in September 2009: "It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don't. And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government."
It's not that Obama tried to make health care reform sound like a completely free lunch. He talked about the need for young and healthy people to buy health insurance, and for most businesses to cover their workers. What he didn't say, though, was that healthy people might have to pay more to cover sick people — or that people who already had individual health insurance would have to upgrade, even if they liked their skimpy coverage.
Republicans in Congress have been quick to say that they warned of the dangers of the law. But the truth is that they sounded the alarms about so many threats, including dubious assertions about death panels and the slippery slope to a Canadian-style single-payer health care system, that they never put any sustained focus on the very specific tradeoffs people are seeing now.
( PHOTOS: Senate's Obamacare hearing)
For example, John Boehner — then the House minority leader — warned during a November 2009 floor debate that the bill would "set up this big infrastructure for the government to eventually take control of all of our health care and just go to a single-payer system."
"The supporters were saying, 'It's all going to be great.' The opponents were saying, 'It's all terrible.' I don't think they really zeroed in on the losers," said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change.
Advocates say the trade-offs we're seeing now are acceptable costs in exchange for clear benefits: more needy people with health coverage, and even well-off people sheltered from the tyranny of pre-existing medical conditions.
They're also convinced that some of the trade-offs will be less painful when people with modest incomes can get subsidies. They haven't been able to see that part so far because, well, the website doesn't work.
There's also a strong possibility, the advocates say, that everyone will still be better off once they get through the shock of the transformation. Because the old individual health insurance market was so unforgiving to anyone who got sick, they say, anyone who switches to the new plans will have an actual safety net if that happens.
"The point everyone's missing is, today's losers could be tomorrow's winners," said Jonathan Gruber, an MIT health economist who consulted on both Obamacare and the earlier Massachusetts health reform law.
But even some ACA supporters acknowledge that the trade-offs were obscured by feel-good rhetoric that has increased the political risks inherent in implementation. And some skeptics are having unabashed I-told-you-so moments.
"These kinds of tradeoffs were very obvious to knowledgeable people, but because of the nature of the debate, it never really came up," said Ginsburg.
Gail Wilensky, who ran the Medicare agency under the first President George Bush, was even more blunt.
"This isn't the kind of deal that was promised. The deal was, 'We'll all be better off,' " Wilensky said. "People like me were saying that. No one wanted to listen. The president was making promises he couldn't possibly keep."
( PHOTOS: Sebelius testifies on Obamacare rollout)
Another example: When Obama announced in March 2010 that the Democrats were going to push ahead and pass the bill over Republican objections, he didn't say average Americans would have to pick up the check. He said the $100-billion-a-year cost would be paid painlessly, out of the nearly $2 trillion a year in wasted health care spending.
"We're going to eliminate wasteful taxpayer subsidies that currently go to insurance and pharmaceutical companies; set a new fee on insurance companies that stand to gain a lot of money and a lot of profits as millions of Americans are able to buy insurance; and we're going to make sure that the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share on Medicare," Obama said.
What Obama didn't say, however, is that some of those costs would be passed on broadly to consumers throughout the country — especially the taxes on health insurers and medical devices.


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It's the worst case scenario. Anyone that's ever left their car with a valet has had this flash in their mind right as the grinning attendant takes the keys and assures that he'll "take care of it." It's the oddly specific fear that the valet is going to take your car on the road, drive it far too hard, and smash it into pieces. Well for one Audi A8 owner, that fear has been realized...we think.
Last night, a member of the Vortex for all things VW supposedly gave his beloved Audi A8 over to a Brooklyn valet attendant, but instead of getting the car back in the condition he left it, he found it totaled. Currently, details are slim — and completely unverifiable — but according to the member of the forum, the big German luxo sedan was being raced for about 45min prior to biting the sidewalk and sealing its fate. [via VWvortex member icuMk2]


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Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz is the director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University and the co-author of The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism.
This week, The Atlantic Cities has partnered with the Brookings-Rockefeller Project on State and Metropolitan Innovation to explore local solutions to national problems. You can find the rest of the series here.
In the United States and throughout the world, there is a growing consensus on the need for clean energy technology and greater energy efficiency. National security concerns about overreliance on foreign oil, climate change concerns, and the finite nature of fossil fuels all increase interest in expanding the capabilities of the clean economy.
Yet, many firms in the clean economy have trouble accessing the capital needed to grow. Companies interested in bringing new clean energy and energy-efficiency technologies to the marketplace face a particular obstacle known as the ominous-sounding "deployment valley of death." Because these technologies are not yet widely used, they require significant capital investment in order to take projects to scale. But private capital firms have proven reluctant to provide this capital because of concerns about uncertain demand, long cost curves, and other factors.
Connecticut has come up with what they hope will be a solution to this dilemma in the creation of a state green bank. Established in June 2011 with bipartisan support, the Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA) is designed to provide low-cost financing to promising clean energy and energy efficiency projects. By consolidating and repurposing existing state funds into a quasi-public finance authority, CEFIA leverages limited state resources for maximum effect in an attempt to place no additional burden on state taxpayers or utilities users.
As the nation's first fully funded green bank, CEFIA aims to spark growth in Connecticut's clean economy sector by providing low-cost capital for clean energy and energy efficiency deployment projects. "This is a model that is going to do much more to drive innovation," says Dan Esty, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection. "Our hope is to turn Connecticut into the leader on clean energy in the country."
In addition to the environmental benefits of cleaner and more efficient energy use, CEFIA also has the potential to strengthen the state's economy. "Connecticut has demonstrated that it is serious about putting people to work and lowering the cost of essential services for its residents," says Reed Hundt, CEO of Coalition for Green Capital, a D.C.-based nonprofit. "This legislation will serve as a model for the nation."
The troubled coworking company is the largest office tenant in New York City. What happens to the city's commercial real estate market if it goes under?
The bustling industry of immersive, Instagram-friendly experiences has put a new spin on the word museum.
The climate protest movement Extinction Rebellion is facing a backlash after disrupting commuters on the London Underground.
As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end.
A just-approved plan will redesign Market Street to favor bikes, pedestrians, and public transit vehicles. But the vote to ban private cars didn't happen overnight.


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Chinquapin Mountain
Level of difficulty: Moderate, 700-foot elevation gain.
Driving distance/directions from downtown Highlands, NC: 2.9 miles. Follow Route 106 (Dillard Road) to graveled Glen Falls Road on left, proceed to trailhead.
Parking: Adequate
Hiking distance: 3 miles round trip
Description: Take the trail that bears to the right from Glen Falls trailhead and bulletin board. Be ready to rock-hop over several small streams on the way to the summit, which has a number of rocky overlooks into Blue Valley.
Footnote: Remember how to get back to your vehicle. (Avoid side trail leading to Route 106.)
Hike descriptions adapted from the Highland Hiker's Guide to Day Hikes.


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This is the fifth in our Top 13 of 2013 series. Every day for the rest of 2013, we will count down the Top 13 moments/games of the year, with each program represented. With three Little East Conference Titles, several huge upsets over nationally ranked teams and some dramatic finishes-2013 was another step forward for UMass Boston Athletics.
#13: Softball Clinches Playoff Spot With Senior Day Win Over Rhode Island College (April 27)
#12: Women's Basketball 76, UMass Dartmouth 73 (January 22)
#11: Women's Tennis Earns First-Ever Win Over Plymouth State (October 19)
#10: Men's Soccer Earns Statement Tie against Eastern Conn. (October 5)
While the 2011-12 academic year was deemed the "Year of the Freshmen," 2012-13 could easily be entitled the "Year of the Champions."
Three different programs hoisted Conference Championships and seven total teams hoisted some form of hardware throughout the academic year. No regular season trophy may have been sweeter than Men's Hockey earning their first Codfish Bowl Title since 2007.
After falling in the Championship Game of the annual tournament each of the previous three seasons, the Beacons' seniors made it a point of bringing home the 48th Annual Codfish Bowl Championship in front of their home crowd.
Senior Mike DeGrazia (Novi, Mich.) was named Tournament MVP for his efforts, while fellow seniors Tim Richter (Naugatuck, Conn.) and Rob Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.) each joined him on the All-Tournament Team. The Beacons' fourth and final senior-captain Tim Niedzielak (Chicago, Ill.) was named the Lawrence F. Curran Award winner for his outstanding sportsmanship.
What made the moment so special, was the fact that the team got to enjoy the victory, after cruising to a pair of victories in the two-day tournament.
Men's Hockey opened the weekend with a 5-2 victory over the eventual ECAC Northeast Champion Wentworth Institute of Technology behind a three-point (1 G, 2 A) day from Florentino.
On day two it was DeGrazia and Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) carrying the Beacons' offense, as both players finished with a goal and two assists in a 6-3 win over Johnson & Wales University. Freshman goalie Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.) added a then career-high 33 saves in the win, to help UMass Boston capture just their fourth title in 31 years playing in the Codfish Bowl Tournament.
After leaping out to a 4-1 lead 13 minutes into the second period, the Beacons found their lead cut to 4-3 just four minutes later; but ECAC East Freshman of the Year Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.) and Cam Harvey (Bow, N.H.) each added quick tallies before the end of the period, to put the game out of reach.
This January (4th and 5th), UMass Boston will look to win back-to-back Codfish Bowl Titles for the first time in program history.


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text: Unable to find products suitable to provide the special needs of their own child, Bailey founders developed and built new products themselves. And, from day one, the same care that went into producing products for a family member has carried over to a wide variety of products ranging from tables and parallel bars, to stools, mirrors, training stairs, and more. Since the beginning, the philosophy at Bailey has been to provide the highest quality products at a fair price; and, as our product line has grown so has our commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction. Stall bars are commonly used by physical therapists, chiropractors, athletic trainers and gymnasts. Stall bars are an excellent tool for developing strength, conditioning, and flexibility throughout the entire body. Professionals use stall bars in a clinical setting for mobility, rehabilitation, injury prevention, correcting posture and improving body alignment. Stall bars work the best as a supporting accessory together with other tools such as kettlebells and barbells.


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The object capability model is an approach to security that utilizes object references as the primary means of controlling access and providing authority. Capability-based security follows the principle of using unforgeable capabilities to provide access to resources. Object capability builds on capability-based security by leveraging object references as the primary representation of capabilities, which are naturally unforgeable in memory safe languages. Object capability based security is an elegant approach to security because the goals of object-oriented principles of encapsulation and information hiding are realized in virtually the same exact manner as the principle of least authority that is at the heart of object capability security. This type of security is extremely flexible and customizable since it is based on object-oriented design. Plus, writing good code naturally leads to secure code, security can be designed with object encapsulation hand-in-hand.
In the object capability model, the authority to act on an object is permitted when one attains a reference to that object. Primarily, object references are gained by creating a new object (parenthood) or being passed an object reference (introduction). This means that a separate access control system is not needed, the passing of object references to functions and other objects provides the minimal, but sufficient, means and authority to carry out operations.
Object capability provides a fundamentally superior approach to alternates that have led to a vast number of the security flaws that have plagued operating systems and the web. Operating systems have long been unable to provide any true protection against malicious code. This is because access is defined by the current user's access levels (ACL approach) instead of through capabilities being appropriately passed to programs. In object capability terminology, providing all executing code (for a given user or other context) with the same level of access is known as "ambient authority". This has essentially enabled the whole class of exploits known as viruses. On the web, the problem is equally severe. Perhaps the most broad security threat to web applications is CSRF. This is also a direct result of how applications use cookies for ambient authority. Cookies are uniformly attached to all requests to a domain, regardless of who or what triggered the request. This allows malicious sites to trigger requests under the ambient authority of a logged in user.
Challenges: Doing something useful
While the object capability model provides a well-grounded and principled approach to security, it is not necessarily obvious, nor intuitive how to build real applications with this model. Application requirements are not usually defined in terms of object references, but rather in terms of who can do what, and how access is controlled. Since it is easy to just default to ACL-style approaches, how do we translate such requirements into object capabilities instead? We will take a look at how Persevere 2.0's Pintura and Perstore provide a framework for doing just this.
Object capability model advocates tend to be cautious around user-authentication schemes, since they often translate into ambient authority. However, that does not need to be the case, and the reality is that the vast majority of applications will indeed utilize user authentication to control access to resources. This does invalidate the object capability approach. Pintura makes it very easy to use user authentication. Pintura employs a middleware module that reads user credentials, checks them against a data store for credentials (which can be configured to be any data store), and then calls a function that can be implemented by the application to return a set of "capabilities", which are a set of references to data interfaces that they can access. These capabilities are passed to the entry REST or RPC handler, but one does not need to rely on ambient authority, code can then explicitly pass appropriate capabilities to any other functions that are executed.
Let's take a look at the Pintura's example application to see this in action. The app.js module defines a
getDataModel function on the security object that implements the logic of determining which capabilities are designated for each user. In this example, we define administrative capabilities, authenticated user capabilities for editing wiki pages, and the capabilities of an unauthenticated user which include the ability to view pages, authenticate and register/sign-up. As your application grows, you may wish to separate out the security logic into a distinct module.
Looking at the app.js module you will see that most of the capabilities refer to facets. Facets are an integral part of the Pintura/Perstore (Perstore is the persistence/data modeling framework used by Pintura) security system, and are introduced in the getting started with Pintura article. One of the primary challenges of using the object capability model is that a simple reference to an object often falls far short in terms of access level granularity. If you don't have a reference to an object, you can't do anything with it, and if you do have a reference, you can do anything to that object. In reality, applications often need much more fine-grained access levels like read-only access, create-only access, ability to delete from collections and even ability to define these levels at individual property levels instead of just the object level. With the object capability model, we can achieve this level of granularity by creating proxy objects that wrap an object. The proxy object can then be referenced and the proxy can handle attempts to modify and/or read data from the source object and determine which operations to allow, and which to deny.
Building these proxy objects can be onerous, but Perstore makes this easy, providing a complete, robust system for controlling access to store model persistent objects with "facets". We use the term "facet" in Perstore because proxy is an overloaded term, and facets also indicates the secondary purpose of providing alternate views and interfaces of data. The facets in Perstore automate most of the proxying process, and allow a great deal of flexibility in defining access. Facets actually are very analogous to the concept of a proxy server, and follows the layering principle of REST. Like proxies, facets add functionality (attenuation of access), but presents the same interface to the next level up.
As mentioned in the getting started guide, Perstore provides two facet constructors: Restrictive and Permissive. The Permissive constructor gives full access to the underlying objects by default, and you must explicitly define functions or schema constraints to restrict functionality. The Restrictive constructor restricts access to the underlying objects to read-only by default, and you must override functions to permit access. Perstore facets utilize JSON schemas for further defining the facets. The same familiar structure that is used for model object validation is used for facet definitions. Therefore you can write:
var Permissive = require("perstore/facet").Permissive;
var SomeProductFacet = new Permissive(Product, {
productCode: {readonly: true},
managerNotes: {blocked: true}
"delete": function(){
throw new Error("Can not delete");
In this example, we have defined a facet for accessing the Product model and its instances. All instances that are retrieved through
SomeProductFacet will be writable objects except that
productCode will be read-only and
managerNotes will be completely blocked (can not read or write to it). Furthermore, this facet defines that any attempt to delete products through SomeProductFacet will be denied.
Facets are the primary mechanism for authorization in Pintura. This fulfills the essential role in a web application of controlling access of clients. However, with the firm basis on object capability model, Perstore's faceting will be appropriate for the eventual sandboxing of untrusted code. While JavaScript sandboxing is still somewhat of a research and development level topic, and is more of a platform level concern, (Perstore/Pintura do not provide any sandboxing themselves) such mechanisms are in the works, and should work perfectly with facets to provide fine grained access to persisted data for various modules.
Facets are a powerful concept with a multitude of uses. We have seen how to utilize them for access control, but facets can also play an important role in providing different "views" of data. One can utilize facets for applying different query filters, providing different locale-specific data to achieve internationalization, or revealing various levels of object details based on application views. Out of the box, facets are based on authentication information, but facets (and even layers of facets) can also be selected based on locale, user agent, or custom headers.
Persevere 2.0's new object capability model with facets provides a flexible security framework based on the best principles of security research, avoiding the pitfalls of ambient authority and giving you the tools to quickly and efficiently build solid, secure applications.
Other posts in the series
- CommonJS/JSGI: The Emerging JavaScript Application Server Platform
- Nodules: Better Module/Package Handling for Node.js
- Introducing Pintura
- Getting Started With Pintura
- Promised-IO
- Patr: Promise-based Asynchronous Test Runner
- Pintura JSGI Modules
- Run-Anywhere JavaScript Modules Boilerplate Code
- CommonJS Utilities
- Object Capability Model and Facets in Persevere
- Real-time Comet Applications on Node with Tunguska
- Multi-node: Concurrent NodeJS HTTP Server


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Teravainen expected to be first Finn drafted Fridayby Mike G. Morreale
Finnish forward Teuvo Teravainen may be small in stature but he's already a proven performer among men.
The 17-year-old Teravainen had as impressive a second half to the season as one could possibly have in their draft year after being promoted to Jokerit in the prestigious SM-Liiga, the top professional league in Finland.
"He joined Jokerit right after the Christmas break [after a fast start with the club's Under-20 team] and proved to be a player with outstanding hockey sense and great overall skill," NHL Director of European Scouting, Goran Stubb, told NHL.com. "He was 17, but running the power play. He's not overly physically but is not intimidated by the physical game."
The elusive Teravainen, who is 5-foot-11 and a mere 165 pounds, exploded for 12 goals and 20 points in 11 games with Jokerit's Under-20 team before producing 11 goals and 18 points in 40 games in the men's league. The left wing was even bestowed the Jarmo Wasama Trophy as the rookie of the year.
"I felt I played well at the end of the season and played a big role for [Jokerit]," Teravainen told NHL.com. "I played a top-six role and was on the power play and I think that's the reason I was able to play so well. In the playoffs, I also played center for the big club."
At center, in fact, Teravainen had two goals and six points in nine postseason games. He topped all tournament scorers with six goals and eight points at the 2012 U18 Five Nations Cup in Pori, Finland, in February.
"It was pretty difficult during those playoff games," Teravainen said. "In the playoffs, things get bigger. It was tough but the coaches moved me to center and that was a good thing for me -- I had no problems there."
Carolina Hurricanes director of amateur scouting, Tony MacDonald, recently told the Raleigh News & Observer how impressed he was with Teravainen. The Hurricanes currently hold the No. 8 pick in Friday's opening round of the 2012 NHL Draft at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh.
"He's deadly one-on-one and very good with the puck," MacDonald said. "He does things with the puck beyond the skill level of many players. He can distribute the puck both ways, can pass on the backhand better than most people can on their forehand.
"There's a lot to like about this kid. The only concern, if there is one, is he's not a real big but I don't think it's going to be an issue going forward with a player with that kind of skill and that feel and the offensive dimension he brings to the table."
MacDonald actually compared Teravainen to Chicago Blackhawks center Patrick Kane. Teravainen likes the comparison.
"I try and model my game after Patrick Kane and Pavel Datsyuk," Teravainen said. "While I try and watch those guys a lot, I think I'm similar to [Detroit forward] Valtteri Filppula.
"Valtteri is like me, a good overall player and he's fun to watch."
Central Scouting expects Teravainen to be the first player from Finland off the board. He's ranked No. 2 behind Sweden's Filip Forsberg on Central's final list of draft-eligible skaters from Europe.
"He tiny, but has gone straight up the charts this season," Stubb praised. "He's playing with confidence and he ended up the season playing on the first line in Jokerit, which is huge. His understanding of the game is unbelievable and he's always in the right spot at the right time. He's a very dedicated young man and any team would be lucky to have him as part of their organization."
Teravainen knows he needs to get stronger and improve his defensive game, but he possesses all those intangibles that would be difficult for any coach to teach.
"I'll get stronger and it will take a lot of work," Teravainen said. "A lot of work in the gym. My defensive game did improve a bit later in the season and is not the problem now."
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- Read a book or story about a famous explorer or navigator. Tell your den or family what you learned.
- Make a simple compass with a magnet and pin.
- Explain the difference between latitude and longitude and show them on a map or globe.
- Draw a compass rose for a map. Label north, south, east, and west.
- Study a blank map of the United States of America. Label your state, and the states that share its boundary lines.
- In the field, show how to take a compass bearing and how to follow it.
- Show how to measure distances, using a scale on a map legend.
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- Using a road map, determine how many miles it is between two major cities or familiar destinations.
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