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The questions of whether or not contract extensions are coming for players like Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman and Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz have been popular ones to discuss this offseason.
Not so the contract status of Rams long snapper Jake McQuaide, but Freeman and Cruz are still looking for new deals while the ink is drying on a four-year pact for McQuaide with St. Louis. The Rams announced the deal, without any financial details but with a picture of McQuaide putting pen to paper, on Monday.
McQuaide has played all 32 games for the Rams over the last two seasons after signing with the team as an undrafted free agent out of Ohio State and beating out incumbent Chris Massey. He's made three tackles on special teams over that period.
Long snappers don't tend to bask in much limelight if they avoid blunders, so McQuaide doesn't have the biggest profile. He does make an appearance in a trick kicking video that Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein and punter Johnny Hekker made with a group called Dude Perfect and snaps a ball into a basket from a great distance, though, so perhaps he'll have a higher profile by the end of his new deal.


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The western theater Florida regiments would not serve in the same brigade under newly promoted Brigadier General Jesse Johnson Finley until November 1863, so the early sections of the book track individual regiments. Prior to the creation of Finley's command (excepting brief periods spent inside their home state), the 1st, 3rd, and 4th infantry regiments served in the Army of Tennessee, while the 6th and 7th infantries and 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted) found themselves stationed in East Tennessee. Sheppard does a fine job of presenting the organizational histories of these units (which are also charted nicely in an appendix), while also giving readers a taste of the leadership infighting so common to Civil War volunteer formations.
Floridians were present at most of the theater's important campaigns and battles, including Pensacola, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, and Bentonville, and their roles on those terrible fields of conflict are duly noted in By the Noble Daring of Her Sons. Sheppard's summaries of Florida's participation in these battles offer the degree of detail appropriate to good brigade scale unit studies. However, unlike many other Civil War histories of this type, Sheppard's is not given to exaggerating the prowess of the brigade. Its analyses of Florida's good (e.g. 2nd Jackson), bad (e.g. Nashville), and mixed success (e.g. Chickamauga) days on the western battlefields are always judicious. Given the paucity of existing regimental histories [I only counted one -- for the 1st Florida Cavalry -- in the bibliography], the author's diligent attention paid to individual regiments prior to the November 1863 reorganization goes some way in making up for the deficiencies of the literature in this regard. The most noticeable weakness of these sections is with the maps. They are too few, and would have benefited the reader more if drawn at a smaller scale.
In addition to his treatment of the brigade's military affairs, Sheppard also offers insights into the background of the men (most of whom had close familial ties to nearby Georgia and South Carolina) and the overall political and social milieu that spawned them. In terms of age of enlistment and range of motivations, the author found similar patterns to those found in works by Noe, McPherson, and Glatthar, but the percentage of Florida Brigade soldiers owning slaves was lower than the average figure for Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Throughout the book, Sheppard puts his manuscript research to good use, conveying the opinions and experiences of the brigade's officers and men in their own voices.
After so many decades of neglect, it is remarkable that fine unit histories for both major Florida Brigades have been published by the same press within a span of only two years. Compact without sacrificing coverage with depth, By the Noble Daring of Her Sons is highly recommended reading for those desiring to learn more about the contributions of the "Flowers" to the Confederate war effort in the West.
* - see my review of Zack Waters and James Edmonds' A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (Univ of Ala, 2010).


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General relativity is our fundamental theory of space, time and gravity; it successfully accounts for such awe-inspiring phenomena as black hole formation and cosmological expansion. But it is also much more than that. Its geometric formulation, based on the concept of curved spacetime, provides a powerful framework to describe a variety of condensed-matter systems, from inhomogeneous fluid flows to Bose-Einstein condensates and gradient-index dielectrics. In my view, these "gravitational analogues'' or "analogue spacetimes'', offer a splendid opportunity to push further the boundaries of general relativity itself, especially where it interfaces with (i) quantum mechanics and (ii) equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
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As students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., returned to school last week, debate continued over how to make the nation's schools safer in the aftermath of second-deadliest mass murder in U.S. history.
But lost in the debate is that school shootings are extremely rare — fewer than 1 percent of all homicides occur at school or on the way to or from school, according to government statistics.
"Relative to how rare they are, school massacres have a much stronger leverage on the public perception and fear of school violence than their numbers would really warrant," said Glenn Muschert, associate professor sociology at Miami University whose research focuses on school shootings and school security. "But people can't help but feel emotional when there are these horrible attacks that take place."
School shootings serve as a stark reminder of how vulnerable schools can be, invariably leading to calls to step up security to prevent such tragedies. But installing elaborate security systems — measures that became widespread after the 1997 Columbine High School massacre — can have unintended negative consequences, according to Muschert.
"Things like cameras, metal detectors and police in schools are visible measures that school administrators can point to to show parents what they're doing to insure safety in the schools," he said. "But if they create a feeling among students that they're in a lock-down zone that might actually undermine the primary goal of their education."
The push for more security officers and having weapons-trained teachers or administrators in the schools is no panacea, Muschert said, noting that armed guards were present at Columbine and were still unable to stop the shooters from killing 12 students and a teacher.
Research has shown subtler approaches are often more effective, he said, including teaching peer mediation and conflict resolution skills to students and establishing tip lines where students and staff can report threats and other suspicious behavior anonymously.
Any safety measure must involve open communication to be effective, Muschert said.
"If you have students and faculty and administrators who have an antagonistic relationship with one another, which happens in some schools, then it might be very difficult for some students to go to administrators when they feel threatened or worried about their safety," he said.
Safety fears
In Ohio, about 6 percent of the state's high school students missed at least one day of school last year because they feared for their safety, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Almost a quarter of those students — 22.7 percent — said they had been bullied on school property, and about 9 percent said they had been involved in a fight at school.
Meanwhile, high school students are arming themselves at an alarming rate. More than 16 percent in Ohio said they carried a weapon in 2011, up from just over 4 percent in 2005, according to the survey.
School officials are quick to point out that statistically, schools are still the safest places for children — even safer than being at home. But a perception of danger — regardless of what the statistics say — can retard the learning process in a multitude of ways.
Addressing the concerns of children who feel unsafe should be priority for every school, said Springfield City School District Superintendent David Estrop.
School safety and student performance "go together hand in glove," Estrop said, and taking steps to eliminate the threat of violence only enhances students' ability to learn.
Estrop traces his district's improvement in test scores — he said Springfield is the state's only high-poverty urban district to be rated "effective," or the equivalent of a "B" letter grade — to steps taken to improve the students' environment for learning.
"We have improved over the last 10 years from what was an F, or academic emergency," he said. "There's no doubt in my mind we have made progress as a result of having good school environments where the children can focus and feel safe."
Like many school districts, Springfield has installed high-tech security equipment, including surveillance cameras and a buzzer system for visitors. The district also employs a crew of school resource officers.
But Estrop attributes much of the school district's success in safety control to a change in attitude among students, some of whom have established their own anti-bullying programs in the middle schools and high schools and are no longer reluctant to report threatening or suspicious activity by their peers.
"I think Columbine changed everything," Estrop said. "Before Columbine, the norm among students is that you don't talk. You don't rat out anybody. If you were bullied, you didn't say anything. Now, clearly, students have come to recognize that if they don't speak up, they could be putting themselves and their friends in danger. And educators have became a whole lot better listeners."
No. 1 priority
Tom Henderson, superintendent of Centerville City Schools, views the school district as its own ecosystem that requires the buy-in of parents, teachers and all other stakeholders to be effective in educating and protecting its students.
"Impressing upon your students that this is an educational community, and we're all in this together is really paramount," Henderson said. "When you build that kind of environment, that kind of situation where there is mutual respect by all, hopefully, that transcends into that feeling of safety."
The safety concerns in Centerville might not be as pronounced as those in other school districts: "We can go months without anything ever being reported," Henderson said.
But school officials remain vigilant, knowing that suburban districts have been the target in many school shootings. Fights, bullying and other intimidation tactics can get in the way of the learning process in any district.
"We work hard at making sure that we do everything we can," Henderson said. "We're ready to talk to students if they need to talk or to support them in any way they need support. I'd like to think students feel safe at our schools, and I'd like to believe that they understand student safety is our No. 1 priority."
Risk tolerance
No matter how dedicated schools are about ensuring the safety of their students, the grim reality is that going to school — just like going to the mall, grocery store or movie theater — will always involve a certain level of risk, Muschert said.
"Statistically speaking, you're more likely to get hurt in a car or in the bathtub" than at school, Muschert said. "But we're not going to stop driving or using the bathtub because we have a risk tolerance for those activities.
As of last week, more than 450 teachers and other school employees from around Ohio had applied for 24 spots in a free firearms training program being funded by the Buckeye Firearms Association foundation.
Ken Hanson, the legal chairman for the association, said the Sandy Hook shooting was the "breaking point," and the group decided "it's time to quit talking about it and move forward."
At the end of the three-day course, participants will be given the same firearms tests administered to law enforcement officers.
"If they can't qualify, they shouldn't be carrying a gun," said John Benner, a former member of the Hamilton County regional SWAT team who owns the Tactical Defense Institute, which is doing the training.
Muschert cautioned against turning schools into armed camps.
"The contradiction with schools is that our risk tolerance is really low, almost zero," he said. "It's such an emotional topic that people cannot engage in reasonable conversation and say there's only so much we can do, and if we keep adding more and more safety measures beyond that it's not going to help.
"And some of the punitive measures like zero-tolerance policies and police in schools, might actually have some negative consequences for many of the students."
Staff Writer Jill Kelley contributed to this story.
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The mystery of what could be in Mitt Romney's still unreleased-tax returns deepened once more this weekend, when the Republican presidential hopeful let slip that he has been audited "from time to time" by the IRS.
Speaking to ABC's David Muir during a sit-down in Israel Sunday, Romney said that he couldn't say whether he has ever paid less than a 13.9% tax rate, but that he has "paid all the taxes required by law."
Muir: You are here on what some have termed your world audition and democrats, not surprisingly, continue to hammer you back home on taxes, you remain firm two years and two years only. So from what you have released and from what we have seen we know that there was one year when you paid about 13.9% tax rate. Can we clear this up by asking a simple yes or no question? Was there ever any year when you paid lower than 13.9%?
Romney: I haven't calculated that. I'm happy to go back and look but my view is I've paid all the taxes required by law. From time to time I've been audited as happens I think to other citizens as well and the accounting firm which prepares y taxes has done a very thorough and complete job pay taxes as legally due. I don't pay more than are legally due and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president. I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.
Muir: You said you would go back and look, would you look for us?
Romney: I haven't looked at the tax rate paid year by year. I know that I pay a very substantial amount of taxes and every year since the beginning of my career so far as I can recall.
Although the remarks have been largely lost amid news from Romney's overseas trip, they raise even more questions about the Republican presidential candidate's murky financial records. How many times has Romney been audited by the IRS? In what years? And what did the audits find?
We emailed these questions to the Romney campaign. Here's the response, from campaign spokesperson Ryan Williams:
"Mitt Romney has been scrupulous about observing the requirements of the tax code. Mitt Romney is in full compliance with U.S. law and he has paid 100 percent of what he has owed."
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I posted some comments on the all in one mapping for the twister. I would love to test it for you if u have a new update. check the comments i gave u on the mapping page itself. Let me know if i can test it for you when u have updated it.
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Hi Stewe - if you have the time, would really appreciate an update to the Twister All In One 0.2.0 mapping. Would like a version where the Filter Adjust knob on the effects page is replaced with FX knob 3. Thanks, Christian
Hi Stewe pelase can u help help me to map this effect on my x1 mk2 ?
i think i make thread for this at the forum because im new at the mapping and its too hard for me
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Hi Stewe,sorry I'm a bit late to this as I recently added two behringer pl-1 controllers to my set up and after seeing your brilliant mapping I've been getting used to that.(great by the way).just wanted to ask if I'm on the correct current version or if you've since updated/tweaked it in any way?anyway really appreciate you sharing this mapping to all.Andy Skinner.(Scotland,U.K.)
Hey can you help me get through this mapping so it works? http://forum.djtechtools.com/showthr...771#post721771
all my music gets imported straight to iTunes and then i delete the original. does this prevent the mapping from working?
Could you please turn off the need to moderate my posts? Thanks!
Stewe, how are you, I have a questions that might seem stupid...jajajajaja
I have Traktor S4 MK2 and 2 F1's, one I use to control 1 of the remix decks, and the other I use for hot cues as the standard mapping, but now I still want to control 1 remix deck and with the other want to control one button effects and freeze mode, or whatever other mapping I can come up with, but I ve been trying to have 2 different mappings for the F1 at the same time and eerytime it seems to overwrite the previews one.
Can you help me?
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Socialism in Action
Comrade Obama fines farmers $650,000 for the Capitalist crime of daring to grow grapes on their own land.
- Big Brother Government violates the 5th Amendment and forces farmers to "set aside" 30% of the raisin crop, but only pays them for a portion.
- Taking without paying is called theft back when I went to school.
- The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
Dissident raisin farmers from California's San Joaquin Valley and their ideological allies will get a shot at attacking a federal farm program, under a case that the U.S. Supreme Court accepted Tuesday.
Bucking the odds, Fresno-area farmers Marvin and Laura Horne succeeded in convincing the high court to hear their challenge to Federal controls on the raisin industry. Though the legal questions are complicated, the real-world stakes add up.
"This is a classic David and Goliath confrontation, where the government comes after these small orchardists and farmers," attorney Michael McConnell, who's representing the Hornes, said. "The fact that the court is taking this case is really indicative that they care about the little guy."
A Stanford Law School professor and former federal appellate judge, McConnell has joined with attorney Brian Leighton as a longtime skeptic of marketing orders and research and promotion programs. The programs differ, but they often compel private action in several ways. Promotion programs can force individual growers to pay fees for common advertising, while marketing orders can limit individual production and set quality standards.
In prior cases involving the likes of beef and San Joaquin Valley tree fruit, dissidents fell short of convincing the Supreme Court to strike down mandatory promotion fees as a violation of the First Amendment. Similar fights have continued in various state courts.
The case that was granted a hearing Tuesday is a little different, though McConnell said, "It's kind of like a free-speech case."
The court will hear the case sometime next year.
The raisin marketing order requires "handlers" who process and pack raisins to place part of their product in reserve, with the industry-run Raisin Administrative Committee deciding how much they're to be paid for this set-aside tonnage. Raisin handlers set aside 47 percent of their crop during the 2002-03 season and 30 percent for 2003-04, but they were paid for only part of what they surrendered.
The set-aside raisins may be sold for purposes such as the federal school-lunch program.
The Hornes, who've been producing raisins in Fresno and Madera counties since 1969, grew disillusioned with the regulatory program. They helped organize some 60 growers into the Raisin Valley Farms Marketing Association, which took care of the packing. By identifying themselves as producers rather than as handlers, the group's members reasoned, they were exempt from the set-aside requirement imposed on handlers.
The Obama administration, however, termed this a "scheme" designed to avoid legal requirements, and the Agriculture Department subsequently ordered the Hornes and their coalition to pay more than $650,000 in fees and penalties.
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Rejecting the farmers' claims last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Hornes' argument "is based on an erroneous belief that they have a property right to market their raisins free of regulatory control."
The dissident growers, in turn, call the fees and penalties for failing to meet the set-aside requirement a "taking" of property. Under the Fifth Amendment, takings require just compensation by the government. Ultimately a court will have to decide whether the takings rules apply to the marketing order set-asides for crops, such as raisins, that come into the government's hands.
The Supreme Court won't decide this question — at least, not yet. Rather, the court essentially will decide when and where the takings claims can be raised. The dissident farmers want the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the takings claim, while the government wants the farmers to file a separate lawsuit through the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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Today's recipe is yet another chicken biryani. I have already posted a Talasherry chicken Biryani and a Trivandrum style chicken biryani....so you may ask why another? This biryani is slightly different from the usual method,the chicken is first fried and them added to the masala. The first time I ate this biryani was at a function back home, it was a Trivandrum style biryani,but the frying took the flavor and taste to a new level. I tried to recreate the same recipe here and my family enjoyed. Try this..you will love it.
To marinate the chicken
Chicken- 2 lb
Turmeric powder- 1/3 tsp
Chilly powder- 3/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste- 1 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Lemon juice- 1/2 lemon
For the rice
Basmathi rice- 3 cups
Cinnamon- 2 -3 pieces
Ghee- 2 tsp
Few strands of saffron
Rose essence- 1 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
For the chicken masala
Shallots- 1 cup (slightly crushed)
Onion- 1 medium (chopped)
Ginger garlic paste- 1 1/2 tsp
Green chilly paste- 1 1/2 tsp
Tomato- 1 medium
Yogurt-2 tbs
Chilly powder- 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
Masala Powder- see below*
Pepper powder- 1/3 tsp
Lemon juice- 1 lemon
Coriander leaves -a little
*Masala powder( to roast and grind)
Cinnamon- 1 piece, Cardamon-2, clove- 2-3
nutmeg- a small piece,star aniseed- 1
Cumin- a pinch,black cumin- a pinch
Fennel seeds- 1/2 tsp
For Garnish
Thinly sliced onion- 1
Cashew nuts- 10
Raisins- 15
Saffron a few strands soaked in 1/3 cup of warm milk
Coriander leaves and mint leaves chopped- 1/4 cup
Chopped pineapple-1/4 cup
Ghee - 2 tsp
To cook rice:
Heat ghee in a heavy bottom vessel and add whole spices and fry till there is a nice aroma. Add washed and strained rice and fry till the rice changes color and the ghee the fully coated all over the rice. Add 6 cups of water,salt and a few strands of saffron. Cook till water evaporates.Using a fork spread rice on a flat tray and sprinkle rose essence and allow to cool.
To fry the chicken:
Clean and cut chicken, marinate with the ingredients listed under 'to marinate the chicken' for about an hour. Heat one cup of oil and fry the chicken in medium heat till it is almost cooked and slightly browned up,but not crispy. Drain and keep aside.
For the masala: Prepare the masala simultaneously while you are frying the chicken
Roast the whole masala listed under 'roast and grind' blend into a fine powder
Heat oil in a pan and add the onion and shallots and saute till it changes color to golden brown. Add ginger garlic past and the green chilly paste and saute till the raw flavor disappears. Add turmeric powder and tomatoes and fry till tomatoes become soft. Add chilly powder and fry for a minute and then mix in yogurt Add the fried chicken and powdered garam masala cover and cook for four to five minute or till the masala is well coated over the chicken and switch off the flame.
Final garnish and layering:
Heat ghee in a pan and fry cashew nuts and raisins till slightly brown. Fry one medium thinly sliced onion till golden brown,drain and keep aside.
Finely chop coriander and mint leaves and keep aside.
In a heavy bottom pan place a layer of rice followed by a layer of chicken masala. Sprinkle a little of fried onion, chopped pineapple,cashew and raisins and a little of coriander leaves. Spread rice on top and then another layer of masala. Spread the final layer of rice and garnish with fried onions, chopped pineapple,coriander leaves and nuts. Sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice, a few drops of rose essence, a pinch of garam masala,soaked saffron and one tsp of ghee. Cover tightly with a heavy lid and steam in a very low flame for about 15-20 minutes. Serve with raita and papadam.
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BITS & BOLTS SSL-encrypted tunnels protect sensitive data traveling the Information Superhighway.
SSL-encrypted tunnels protect sensitive data traveling the Information Superhighway.
It's no accident the Internet has been called the Information Superhighway. Huge volumes of traffic flow freely and, unless protected, in the open. E-commerce demands an increasing exchange of highly sensitive information, from credit card numbers to financial data, safely across the public network.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) secure Internet traffic in an encrypted tunnel, ensuring that it is seen only when it arrives at its destination, using digital certificates to guarantee that a Web site is what it purports to be.
Most Internet users have performed some type of online transaction involving SSL or TLS. The familiar closed padlock icon that appears in the Web browser window indicates that SSL or TLS is being used to secure the connection.
In this article, we'll explain the differences between SSL and TLS and how they work, and offer some important points to keep in mind when implementing them in your organization.
|How SSL works
(1) Client sends a request to the server for a secure SSL/TLS session.
(2) Server sends its certificate from a recognized certificate authority, such as VeriSign or Entrust, to the client for authentication along with its public key.
(3) Client receives the server's certificate, verifies it, and creates a one-time session key using the server's public key, and sends it to the server. Server decrypts the session key using its private key and establishes a secure tunnel.
Why TLS?
SSL and TLS both use cryptography to provide authentication and privacy to Internet communications. TLS was designed to replace SSL, and identifies itself in the protocol version field as SSL 3.1. There are a handful of minor differences.
So, why create a new protocol? Because SSL, created by Netscape about a decade ago, is a closed proprietary protocol. The community cannot make changes or validate its security. The Internet Engi-neering Task Force (IETF) created TLS, an open version of the protocol, so everyone would be free to use and comment on it.
In practice, it does not matter which you select. But since more organizations are migrating to TLS, it will give you a wider range of support.
Nevertheless, though very similar, SSL and TLS are not interoperable. This means that if your server is set up to utilize TLS, it isn't downward compatible with clients only using SSL. Newer browsers and other Web applications support both SSL and TLS, so this is generally not much of an issue.
How SSL and TLS Work
At a high level, it's simple: A key is established between the sending and receiving computers, the information is encrypted with the key, and the encrypted information is transmitted (see "How SSL Works"). However, there are important details to understand.
First, the encryption is done by the application, not the operating system. The application programmer doesn't have to implement the protocol, but must specify a secure socket when establishing a connection. A socket is simply a special type of file descriptor. Instead of specifying the name of the file to be opened, the IP address and port of the destination computer are specified. The operating system packages this data into packets and sends them to the appropriate spot. Low-level work, like calculating checksums and tracking sequence numbers, is done by the operating system.
SSL and TLS protocols work in three basic steps:
- Negotiation occurs between the client and server on the use of TLS or the version of SSL (2.0 or 3.0). This step also decides the cipher that is to be used for the rest of the protocol exchange. There are a number of public and symmetric key encryption algorithms that can be used.
- After ciphers have been negotiated, the server is authenticated and a symmetric key is created to be used throughout the rest of the communication. This is all done using public key algorithms and X.509 certificates. This certificate is issued by a certificate authority (CA), a trusted third party that verifies the identity of the server.
This one-sided authentication is all that is required; users must know they are talking to the proper server, not an impostor--such as a bogus bank site used in a phishing scam. The user then provides his user name and password, or multifactor authentication.
- The symmetric key is sent to the server using public key encryption. The public key for the server is included in the certificate validated by the CA. After the symmetric keys have been established and exchanged, communications are encrypted using symmetric key algorithms instead of the public key one used before. This is done simply because symmetric key algorithms are faster and computationally easier to use. All client-server traffic is now encrypted using this key until the connection is dropped or the key expires. This provides a secure tunnel of communication.
Security Considerations
SSL 2.0, the first publicly released version, has a number of security flaws, so SSL 3.0 and TLS are the clear choices. Current browsers, including Inter-net Explorer, Firefox and Netscape, allow users to enable support for SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0 and TLS. IE 7.0, now in beta, goes a step further by requiring either SSL 3.0 or TLS.
The primary consideration is picking a strong cipher. Though a number of both public and symmetric ciphers can be used during an SSL/TLS connection, TripleDES and, even better, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are the most secure and strongly recommended. DES as a cipher and MD5 as a hash function for authentication are no longer considered secure.
DES is vulnerable to brute-force attacks because it's limited to a 56-bit key, which can be cracked with a little time and some hefty computing power. It's not secure against well-funded attackers or someone with access to a cluster of computers. TripleDES applies DES three times, with three different keys.
AES, a new block cipher standard, supplants DES. It uses a 128-bit block and supports 128, 192 and 256-bit keys, making it a much more secure alternative. As a variable-length algorithm, as opposed to DES/TripleDES's fixed length, its key size can be increased to meet the challenge of faster computers' applied brute force. AES is typically used in TLS implementations.
As for hashing functions, both MD5 and SHA-1 have come under attack recently--especially MD5, which is all but obsolete. While both are based on the older MD4 protocol, SHA-1 was developed later and avoids some of MD5's vulnerabilities. It's still heavily used even though its security is debated. The National Institute for Standards and Technology is expected to hold a competition, much like the one that established AES, to create stronger cryptographic hash functions.
Among public key ciphers, the venerable RSA still stands as the best choice. The only requirement to ensure security is picking a large enough key, so any brute-force attack is bound to fail. RSA has been the most closely reviewed public key encryption algorithm and still stands strong. At this point, the chances of finding a flaw appear slim.
SSL and TLS are secure if they are implemented correctly and robust crypto algorithms are used. If the user is checking digital certificates, then a man-in-the-middle attack--spoofing the legitimate server--will be detected and defeated. However, a careless user can still be fooled by failing to check messages indicating that a certificate is suspect.
Versatile Protocol
There are many applications of SSL besides just securing connections to Web servers. SSL/TLS can be used by any application designer to create secure connections to a server. The protocol can be used just as easily on local networks, and theoretically on any type of network connection that is reliable. For example, SSL and TLS are often used on intranets and private networks to protect from insider threats. SSL can also be used as a wrapper for unsecured protocols like SMTP and FTP.
Since SSL and TLS treat all data as binaries, any type of data can be sent securely, such as HTML, Word documents and images.
However, anticipate some extra work on the programming side for internal implementations. Beyond the socket call described earlier to enable an application to use SSL, there is a whole suite of system/library calls that are used to establish a secure connection to a server. All of this work must be done by the application programmer on both the client and the server.
Above all, SSL makes e-commerce possible. It assures the customer that the Web site is genuine, and that he can do business on the Web with peace of mind.


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Do you find yourself routinely eating more than you mean to? Struggle with weight gain because you can't exercise "portion control?" Feel bad about it—but can't stop yourself from snacking?
In other words, have you ever gotten the feeling that food is addictive?
According to the latest scientific findings, you're right—and a novel natural intervention may now help you bring those urges under control.
In a historic study published earlier this year,1,2 a team of researchers demonstrated for the first time that the underlying biomolecular mechanisms driving millions to overeat are identical to those that lock people into the death spiral of cocaine and heroin addiction.
This landmark discovery confirms what many clinicians have long suspected: compulsive eating is as much a matter of brain chemistry as behavior.
Of course, no drug exists that can regulate appetite and induce weight loss without significant health risks.3 Some have proven disastrous. It was only after the lethal FDA-approved "fen-phen" drugs were shown to cause pulmonary hypertension and heart valve disease4—that the agency was forced to withdraw it.
The exciting news is a natural appetite regulator has been identified that operates at the neurochemical level to help provoke "satiety"—the feeling of being full. This unique extract is derived from saffron, prized for centuries not only as a spice but also as a mood enhancer in traditional cultures.5,6
Here you will learn of saffron's capacity to boost serotonin, a neurotransmitter whose role in appetite and satiety is well established.3,7,8 You will discover how a team of French researchers uncovered the ability of saffron to dramatically decrease feelings of hunger between meals. You will also find out how just 88.25 mg twice daily of a standardized saffron extract may help you effectively modulate some of the underlying psychological factors that make you eat more than you want to, with no side effects.
Although its precise neurochemical mechanisms of action were confirmed only this year, the fundamentally psychiatric nature of what some experts call emotional eating has received clinical validation in an abundance of studies.9-12 When severe enough, it reaches the level of a compulsion—a clinically diagnosable anxiety-related disorder. Compulsive eating occurs in about 30% of obese women,13 although its prevalence in the general population greatly exceeds that number. It is strongly correlated with poor impulse control, depression,14 and relapse following weight loss.15 In keeping with anecdotal observation, research shows its victims tend to gravitate toward sweet, non-nutritious foods16 like candy and ice cream.
In one of the most compelling findings on emotional eating to date, Dutch researchers reported this year that compulsive eating can result from a common gene variant for the molecule that transports serotonin, one of the body's primary mood regulators.17 People carrying this gene suffer from lower serotonin activity, predisposing them to depression and anxiety, especially under stress.18-20 The Dutch study revealed that teens carrying this gene indulge in emotional eating at a significantly higher rate.
Antidepressants may offer some relief from emotional eating. Unfortunately, they can be costly, lose effectiveness over time, and come with a host of side effects—from sexual dysfunction to suicidal thoughts21-23—underscoring the need for safe, low-cost options.
Thanks to a team of pioneering French scientists, a next-generation natural alternative has come to light.
Saffron has been used in traditional Persian medicine for centuries as a treatment for insomnia and anxiety.24 French researchers Cédric Bourges and his colleagues Jacques Noury and Bernard Gout25,26 set out to corroborate these therapeutic effects and apply them to the treatment of eating disorders. They hypothesized that "through an action against the anxiety component of eating behaviors such as food compulsions, saffron could alleviate the need for food between meals."26
They first conducted a pilot placebo-controlled study using a proprietary saffron extract in a small group of healthy-to-slightly overweight women aged 46-61.25 Their results were modest: 3.6 pounds lost, almost all of it fat weight, after 4 weeks.
More striking to Bourges and his team were the significant declines in reported feelings of hunger between meals, an effect that persisted until dinner in 25% of women taking the saffron extract.25 In contrast, 50% of placebo recipients reported an increased desire to eat. By the end of the study, 100% of women in the saffron group reported successful reduction in daily between-meal eating, as opposed to controls, who saw no improvement.
Armed with these encouraging findings, Bourges and his colleagues launched a full-scale trial of 60 slightly overweight women 25-45 years old.26 This time, they focused specifically on women who reported frequent, anxiety-related between-meal and after-dinner snacking. Their goal was to test the saffron's psychotropic (mood-altering) potential in helping to reduce the anxiety behind compulsive eating.
Once again, weight loss was relatively modest: over one pound at the 2-week mark versus a slight gain in the placebo group. By 8 weeks, the average weight loss had increased, reaching just over two pounds, with 26% of subjects losing up to 11 pounds. Interestingly, women taking saffron saw a significant reduction in thigh circumference.
It was the psychological effect reported in the saffron group that again proved most compelling, especially given this cohort's susceptibility to compulsive between-meal consumption. The women reported a significant reduction in feelings of hunger before meals. They also experienced a significantly diminished "need" to snack between meals. The favorable alteration in these urges had concrete results. At baseline, women in both groups had reported an average of about 12 snacking episodes per week. After eight weeks, the average was just six episodes per week in the saffron group—a 50% reduction.
These results validated the French team's hypothesis: something about this particular saffron extract was working to control the compulsion to eat in this vulnerable sample of women. They reported that "subjects in the saffron group felt significantly more alert and energetic than the placebo group"26—feelings that correspond with emergence from sub-clinical depression and anxiety. As noted above, depression and anxiety are the foundation for compulsive eating. The key to this saffron extract's potency, it turned out, lay in its effects on levels of serotonin.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 115 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a couple of women who are setting up a website with the main focus being to inspire people with a spiritual aspect to it - and helping them with personal/spiritual growth and healing. We will include on our website: gifts to inspire (including crystal chakra kits, jewellery, books, hypnotherapy cd's etc), affirmations, quotes, meditations, energy healing therapies, life coaching, workshops (such as Goddess Playshops - workshops for women), and other information such as crystals, angels, goddesses. Our website will incorporate everything inspiring.
The audience we are targeting are from age 16-60. We expect the main audience to be women, however we do not want to exclude men in any way. They are people who are interested in personal/spiritual growth.
We want a logo that will compliment our website which we are currently building http://www.soulinspiring.com At the moment the main photo on the website (flower petals) will be replaced (this photo was just part of the template). We haven't found the right photo yet - it may be a few photos or ones that are rotated as everyone's idea of inspiring is different. The colours of the website are green & maroon so we'd like a logo that compliments that.
The logo must represent something inspiring, but can also include a fun aspect to it, something flowing, modern but not too contemporary. Something that incorporates light would be good as I believe Inspiration comes from the Divine.
Type face to be flowing but clear.
Please do not use cartoons, Clipart or stock photos in the logo.
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Wole Parks has booked a series regular role on Lifetime's "Devious Maids."
From ABC Studios, "Maids" is based on a Mexican TV format that centers on four maids with dreams beyond their jobs working for rich families in Beverly Hills.
ABC initially passed on the pilot from "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry, allowing Lifetime to give the project a 13-episode pickup.
Parks will play Sam, who works in the household of recording star Alejandro Reyes.
Thesp was last seen in feature film "Premium Rush." Parks is repped by Abrams Artists Agency.


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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, said on Monday that Iran had begun to test new uranium enrichment equipment, a move that would significantly increase the nation's nuclear research and development capacity.
The decision to go ahead with the controversial test seems to imply that Iran's response to calls to cease its nuclear program is to speed the program, rather than stopping it, according to reports in the New York Times.
The new test could lead to the doubling of Iran's current nuclear capabilities. In an interview on Monday, ElBaradei stated that "based on our most recent inspections, the second centrifuge cascade is in place and ready to go," referring to Iran's sporadic testing of its single "cascade" of 164 centrifuges which turn ordinary uranium into a fuel usable for nuclear power plants as well as nuclear weapons.
Iran publicly celebrated its first production of enriched uranium last February. Despite calls to cease its nuclear program, Iran has insisted that it intends to use its nuclear power solely for civilian energy purposes, and not for nuclear weapons. Therefore, it says, development of its nuclear program is fully within its right.
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The other day, I sent a text message to a friend and it read, "Ok I'm done just sitting around if I can help out let me know." After I sent the message, I re-read it and realized that I had sent the wrong message. What I meant to say was, "I'm done. Just sitting around. If I can help out, let me know." There is a world of a difference between the first message and the second message. The first sounds like I'm frustrated with sitting around and I want to do something about it. The second one sounds like I just finished what I was doing and now I'm sitting around. If I can help out, I'm available. This text message is not the first and won't be the last text that sends the wrong idea. Everyday, more and more people are using text messages, instant messages, social networking sites and e-mail to communicate with one another. Everyday, fewer and fewer people choose to meet in person or even pick up the phone.
When we have a face-to-face conversation with someone, we have a number of factors that help us get the message across. We have our eye contact, body language, vocal inflection and most importantly, the ability to correct a miscommunication immediately. Over the phone, conversations still have the vocal inflection and ability to correct a miscommunication. With a text message, you simply have typed words, often with poor grammar, and the way your message will be interpreted is at the mercy of the one receiving the message. At least we have emoticons that allow us to set the tone of the message.
So if face-to-face communication at its best is still challenging, what hope is left for us who choose to communicate via text messages, instant messages, email and social networking sites? How can we be sure that we are communicating effectively? It is important that we take effective communication into consideration when we send a text or instant message. We can start by simply proof reading our text messages to ensure that we are sending the clearest message possible. But more importantly, at some point, it would be wise to check in either over the phone or face-to-face with the person we are texting, to make sure that there wasn't a communication breakdown. Use of emoticons helps as well. 😉
Tina Babajanians, M.S. CCC – SLP, is a speech language pathologist working in Los Angeles, California. She works in variety of settings including elementary schools, full-time and hospitals, per-diem. Her passion is voice therapy and she is working on launching a private practice that specializes in the treatment of voice and resonance disorders. You can visit her website and find her on Twitter @lavoicetherapy.


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Nix, not fix: GOP pushed on ACA
Republican primary candidates are caught in an Obamacare fix.
Even the slightest hint that a GOP contender might support anything besides all-out repeal of the health care law is drawing attacks from the right. So, increasingly, in races across the country, proposals to fix the existing law or retain any of it are being ruled out by Republicans eager to further burnish their conservative credentials.
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It's a dicey situation for both establishment Republican candidates and their tea-party inspired opponents.
Health care looks to be the dominant issue of the 2014 midterm elections, so it's natural that GOP candidates in a primary, especially those taking on incumbents, would try to outflank each other on the right. But Republican pollsters warn that it's hard to paint many of the current crop of GOP candidates as not anti-Obamacare enough and that it could backfire on opponents who try. Democrats, meanwhile, are hoping the primary drama turns into another case of GOP overreach that ultimately alienates moderate voters in the general election.
( PHOTOS: 10 Sebelius quotes about Obamacare website)
Rep. Jack Kingston, who is running for an open Senate seat in Georgia, learned the dangers of the "don't fix it, just nix it" dynamic earlier this month when he argued against simply letting Obamacare fail.
The congressman mentioned in a radio interview that "a lot of conservatives say 'No, just step back and let this thing fall to pieces on its own,' but I don't think that that's always the responsible thing to do. I think we need to be working for things that improve health care for all of us."
His opponent Paul Broun, a fellow GOP House member, quickly accused Kingston of wanting to "keep" Obamacare.
( PHOTOS: 12 Democrats criticizing the Obamacare rollout)
He cited Kingston's vote for a Republican-sponsored bill that was intended to protect people set to lose their health insurance next year by letting them keep policies that would have been canceled under Obamacare. The White House opposed the bill, arguing it would undermine the new health law's standards. Broun was one of just four Republicans who voted against the measure; he said it was because it didn't go far enough to scrap the law.
"I don't want to fix Obamacare. I want to get rid of it," Broun said in blasting Kingston, whose campaign responded by saying he still wants to repeal the law.
The health care law is complex, and as more of its elements kick in, it will become impossible to repeal in its entirety. Even if Republicans capture the Senate in 2014, President Barack Obama has vowed to stop them from dismantling his signature legislative achievement.
( PHOTOS: 10 Sebelius quotes about Obamacare website)
In addition, polls have shown substantial support for parts of the law, such as requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, or allowing young adults to stay on their parents' plans until they are 26 — a provision that the White House says has already covered more than 3 million people.
It's tough to say whether voters might abandon a Republican candidate altogether based on the nuances of how much he or she wants to gut the health care law, but Democrats, nonetheless, see an opening. They point to fresh polls that show slightly more voters want to "implement and fix" the law than to "repeal and replace" it — the mantra the GOP has long used.
"The question for voters in these races is not whether they support or oppose the law," said Matt Canter, deputy executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, "but do they want a candidate who will work to fix it or a Republican who is hell-bent on repealing the law, wasting money and continuing the same partisan battles of the last several years."
Iowa Senate candidate Matt Whitaker was criticized earlier this year when he suggested that parts of the law might be worth keeping. "We don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water," he told a Des Moines Register columnist in May. "It's a very easy sound bite to say 'repeal Obamacare,' or 'repeal the Affordable Care Act,' but there are actually some good things."
The blowback in the crowded primary field led the former U.S. attorney to announce that he had examined the law more closely and found nothing good in it, something The Iowa Republican, a widely read blog, branded a "flip-flop." Whitaker then signed a pledge to try to defund the law.
That pledge has been promoted by the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group that has challenged establishment Republicans and opposes tinkering with the law. The group supported conservatives' bid to halt the law's implementation during a fiscal showdown in the fall, which led to a government shutdown. The shutdown badly damaged Republicans in the polls.


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Researchers uncover population of cells that are targeted by cancer-causing human papillomaviruses
Virtually all cervical cancers are caused by HPV infections, with just two HPV types, 16 and 18, responsible for about 70 percent of all cases, according to the National Cancer Institute. Scientists have presumed for decades that the cervical cancers that develop from HPV infection arise in a specific location in the cervix.
Now, new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in close collaboration with Harvard Medical School and the Agency for Science Technology and Research in Singapore finds that a specific population of cells that are found only in the region of the cervix called the 'squamo-columnar junction' can become cancerous when infected with HPV while other cells in the cervix apparently do not. This research is published online the week of June 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
"We have discovered a discrete population of cells that are located in a specific area of the cervix that could be responsible for most, if not all, of HPV-associated cervical cancers," said Christopher Crum, MD, director, Women's and Perinatal Pathology at BWH and a senior author on the paper.
Xian Wa, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore and Frank McKeon, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School are also senior authors of the PNAS research paper. A prior discovery published in 2011 by the Xian/McKeon group on the origins of cancer in the esophagus set the stage for the current study.
Dr. Crum and Michael Herfs, PhD, a research fellow from the University of Liège and the lead author in the study, collaborated with the Xian/Mckeon laboratory to show that these cells have a unique gene expression that is also found in the cells of aggressive tumors of the cervix. This knowledge could potentially allow clinicians to differentiate benign from potentially dangerous precancerous lesions in the cervix and guide therapy.
Additionally, the investigators noted that when the cells are removed from the cervix, which typically happens when treating precancers, they do not regenerate. They believe this opens up intriguing prospects for cancer prevention.
"The removal of these cells in young women before they are subject to HPV infection or precancerous changes could potentially reduce the risk of cervical cancer, but further research is needed to evaluate the benefits and risks of this potential therapy," said the authors. Additionally, Crum noted that the discovery of these cells could promote more meaningful cell models to further study cervical cancer.
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Bold move to unearth political corruption
Governor, attorney general launch effort after lawmaker abuse cases
Insisting it will restore public trust in state government after a session pocked with lawmakers in handcuffs, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced an investigatory panel that will have "broad and sweeping" jurisdiction to investigate officials at all levels of government.
The 25-member panel, convened under the state's Moreland Act, will be co-chaired by Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick and Milton Williams of the Fund for Modern Courts. It includes district attorneys from Albany, Bronx, Erie, Essex, Franklin and Warren counties.
In an executive order, Cuomo charged Schneiderman's office with tackling corruption as a matter of "public safety and public justice," the attorney general said. Both Cuomo and Schneiderman say this will give the new panel broad power to subpoena records and compel testimony from officials at various state agencies, as well as sitting legislators. Schneiderman, in turn, designated the panelists as deputy attorneys general.
"This is a powerful signal, and I want to send a signal to two audiences," Cuomo said. "One are the elected officials in the state of New York — we're going to raise the bar on public integrity, public trust. And second is the people of the state. I want to say, 'Look, we have the best people in the business watching.'"
While the panel is centered on the state Board of Elections, which oversees campaign spending, Schneiderman said it is "fully empowered" with a "broad mandate" to "investigate anything to do with public corruption and the enforcement of the laws related to public corruption."
The panel will refer any findings for prosecution by either Schneiderman's office or a local district attorney, the officials said, and is also charged with recommending changes to state law. It is slated to issue a preliminary report by year's end.
Change in state law is sorely needed, Schneiderman said, because New York's campaign laws are currently a "national embarrassment" and "a welcome wagon for pay-to-play schemes."
Cuomo turned to the commission after the Legislature adjourned last month without enacting any legal changes in response to the indictment of three sitting lawmakers and the resignation of two others in various scandals.
Legislators were not present for the announcement at the Capitol or other repeat events in Binghamton and on Long Island.
Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos warned that the commission's work could become a "witch hunt" against sitting legislators, and said he hoped it would also look at Cuomo. Already, some whispered about his connections to the panel.
The new panel's executive director, Regina Calcaterra, is fresh off an appointment by Cuomo as director of a Moreland Commission that investigated the Long Island Power Authority. Rice also served on that panel. Two of the big-name Republicans on the panel, Onondaga County Executive Joannie Mahoney and Pat Barrett, assisted Cuomo during his gubernatorial campaign. Barrett has given nearly $70,000 to Cuomo's electoral efforts in recent years; Fitzpatrick, a Republican, said he has also donated, but a state disclosure database did not list the contribution.
A Skelos spokesman declined to comment. Assembly Republican Leader Brian Kolb said he was frustrated the commission had a defined beginning and end, and suggested broader legislative reforms — like revoking the pensions of convicted lawmakers — are needed. A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose Democratic colleagues dominate that chamber, noted in a statement that it had passed a campaign finance reform bill while the Senate did not. A series of other groups called on the commission to investigate improprieties they've long lamented.
Like former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo did in 1987, the current executive order blunts separation-of-powers questions about an executive commission investigating legislators by empowering the attorney general.
Cuomo has so far been reluctant to do so, and his aides have argued that a standing referral for public corruption cases — that Schneiderman has sought — is "illegal." The aides say Schneiderman is not getting blanket authority because State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico, a Cuomo appointee, has to sign off "as appropriate" before the attorney general brings a criminal case.
Cuomo and Schneiderman are not close political allies, but the times call for "dramatic action," the governor said.
"It's worse now," he said. "Read the papers."
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Yuliasir wrote:Bibi,
not weak but too flexy, most probbaly it happens due to aging of the muscles and some people (especially hypermobile ones) have muscles which tend to be extra elastic. That is why your stomach, which is normally placed in the abdomen, partially gets into the chest cavity - just because the muscles are extra flexy, like you have it made from soft rubber, not from harder one, and that's all.
in ALS, when it comes to weak diaphragm, denervated one, main trouble is not a reflux or piloric hernia, but oh, a breathing problems that is why they have to be put on ventilator. Piloric hernias, instead, are very very common, and no one of those people needs ventilator because of the hernia.
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A Raft of Surprises From China Stats Chief
China's chief statistician normally isn't seen as much of gambler. He knows the numbers too well. But at a briefing for the latest economic statistics on Friday, he seemed to be willing to roll the dice.
While rattling off a series of statistics that were closely watched but not exactly shockers, Ma Jiantang, the head of the National Statistics Bureau, stressed a few numbers that caught reporters' attention. He revealed that the nation's labor pool is dwindling, and said this was something of particular concern. He then strayed into the sensitive areas of the one-child policy and the nation's relatively young retirement age, suggesting maybe it was time to adjust policy.
And for good measure, he gave out the closely guarded figure of China's Gini coefficiency – a yardstick of income inequality.
"Your question reminds me that I should never stress any data," he told a reporter who asked about the intriguing figures on the labor pool. He smiled and added: "Just kidding."
What he went out of his way to stress was the drop in the nation's working-age population, covering those between 15 and 60 years old. The total slipped by 3.45 million over the year to 937 million. That's still a huge number, but Mr. Ma noted it was the first absolute drop in many years.
The aging of China's population is hardly news. And this number does not reflect the actual labor force, but rather potential workers. Getting more people into the workforce and boosting productivity can offset this drop.
Still, the shift has important implications for China's long entrenched family-planning policy, which critics say could be a drag on the country's economy if it isn't adjusted soon.
Asked whether the new numbers might mean it's time for a change to the one-child rule, Mr. Ma moved ahead slowly. "As the statistics bureau chief, I am actually not well positioned to comment on our one-child policy," he said, before adding he would like to express some of his own thoughts.
"After decades of population control, we are seeing some changes in labor force demand and supply, though the change is preliminary. To respond to the change, I think it's appropriate to research a more proper, scientific policy while insisting on control measures."
He also said perhaps "there could be a flexible adjustment in the way we employ people and the limits on the working age." In a belated acknowledgement of the sensitivity of the issue, that remark later disappeared from the online transcript of the news conference.
The current retirement age for most government workers is 60 for men and 55 for women.
Still not finished, Mr. Ma said that in 2012 the national Gini coefficient stood at 0.474 – as measured on a scale of 0 to 1. On the Gini scale, perfect equality is a reading of 0 while perfect inequality – or one person having all money – is measured as 1. A reasonable income gap is seen as coming in between 0.3 and 0.4. China has not released an official figure since 2000 and says that its efforts in calculating the rate are hampered by difficulties in gathering data on the rich.
While the economy has grown at a rapid rate, available data point to a big expansion in the gap between rich and poor in recent years. In the abence of an official figure, a Chinese think tank called the International Institute for Urban Development issued a report in September that estimated China's 2010 Gini coefficient at 0.438. After conducting an independent household wealth survey in August 2011 and June 2012, Texas A&M professor Gan Li put the Gini number for China at 0.61 – worse than all but a handful of developing countries.
Mr. Ma said that the Gini coefficiency stood at 0.479 in 2003 and hit a peak of 0.491 in 2008 before gradually trending lower. By the end of the day, Mr. Ma's remarks on the Gini were still there online for the world to see – spared the wrath of China's censors. Maybe he was right to be feeling a little bit lucky.
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Am I remembering correctly? Is there some way to get that feature back in Lion (without using MailTags, which won't sync across machines with my Gmail accounts)?
I never really cared about the feature but found a use for it just this week.


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One of the biggest "features" of Amazon Web Services is the frequent price cuts developers can expect. Today, Amazon announced another one, cutting the prices of "dedicated instances," which offer a higher level of security than Amazon's other virtual machines by isolating the instances on private hardware dedicated to a single customer.
Compared to multi-tenant hardware, dedicated instances "are ideal for workloads where corporate policies or industry regulations require that your EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances be isolated from instances that belong to other customers at the host hardware level," Amazon said.
Dedicated hardware pricing is a little more complex (and expensive) than Amazon's typical virtual instances. There is a "dedicated per-region fee" a customer must pay once per hour for each region in which they run virtual machines (there are three US regions, two on the West Coast and one of the East Coast). The dedicated per-region fee is paid once per hour regardless of how many instances a customer is running. Amazon has cut the price of this fee 80 percent, from $10 per hour to $2 per hour.
In addition to that fee, customers pay an hourly charge for each instance. These instance fees can run anywhere from 6.6 cents to $8 per hour, depending on whether you're using Linux or Windows Server or Windows with SQL, and on how much CPU power, memory, and storage each instance has. Amazon today cut these prices up to 37 percent. "For example, the price of an m1.xlarge Dedicated Instance in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region will drop from $0.840 per hour to $0.528 per hour," Amazon said.
On-demand instances (whether on dedicated or non-dedicated hardware) are paid for as they are used, with no up-front commitment, but reserved instances, which require up-front fees, offer reduced rates. On dedicated hardware, Amazon has cut the price of this upfront fee and hourly usage rates by up to 57 percent, the company said. The cheapest up-front fee for a reserved Linux instance in US East is now $67 per year, allowing customers to purchase virtual instances at 3.7 cents per hour. Hourly pricing can get lower than that, but at the cost of significantly higher up-front fees.
The cloud price cut contest is an ongoing one, with Google, Microsoft, and others continually lowering prices. Today's price drop is likely far from the last.


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I forgot I had a personal wordpress blog until someone reminded me of it. Duh. I feel kind of sheepish.
The only blogging I've been doing lately is on 2W, Second Wind Publishing. I haven't seen my own blog for over a year. WordPress was either very kind or just too lazy to delete it.
Since it's still here, I guess I'll start blogging a little bit. I don't anticipate making much of a dent in the internet's blogasphere. However, that won't stop me from using this as a 10″ x 10″ soap box to stand on.
Without further adieu, here's something I was thinking about today that kind of fits with the topic of forgetting you have your own personal blog:
I Don't Want to Grow Younger (or, The Value of Getting Older)
1. Slow motion. I can walk at my own pace without anyone getting irritated that I won't keep up. I can still move very fast when I want to, but sometimes, I don't wanna.
2. Hearing. I've always been a little hard of hearing; I blame all the rock concerts I went to during my younger days. Now, I can get people to repeat what they say – not because I didn't hear it, but because I wasn't paying attention the first four times.
3. Paying attention. It's an old-age deficit that is more excusable now then it was ten years ago. Instead of saying, "Never mind," I can get them to tell their story over and over again until I get bored.
4. Clothes. I can get away with wearing anything as long as it's age-appropriate. Dressing like I did in my twenties is strangely age-appropriate because we all dressed like old people back then.
5. Forgetting. See #3. That's always been my excuse.
There is an acquaintance of mine (I can't stand her, but I can't erase her from my memory, so, "acquaintance" will do until my amnesia kicks in) who is stuck in the early 90's with her bleached hair, clunky shoes, tasteless gobs of jewelry, and weird sleeveless clothing that she wore back when she was in her 20's. She's pushing 40 now. She can't blame OLD age yet. She's just older than she wants to be. To her I say, it's a new century, ya weirdo – try to keep up.
Old is the new cool. Just look at Betty White. She's my old coot mentor.