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A California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) maintenance worker who helped save a toddler's life earlier this week was reunited with the happy, healthy baby boy and his very grateful family on Friday, according to NBC San Diego.
On Monday, Caltrans worker Joe Thomas was traveling when he noticed two women in distress on the side of the road, crying and waving for help.
The women, mother Denise Ortiz and grandmother Rebecca Hill, told Thomas their 13-month-old baby, Cesar Ortiz, wasn't breathing and needed immediate medical attention.
Thomas called 911, grabbed the child from Hill's hands and proceeded to render first-aid and CPR on the spot, saving the tot's life.
Hill says the family was driving on a freeway when baby Cesar suddenly began crying and shaking. After that, the baby's eyes rolled to the back of his head and he stopped breathing.
By the time Thomas pulled over and got to Cesar, Thomas says the boy was not breathing and had turned blue.
Thomas says he immediately began compressions on the baby's chest and back and then administered CPR. Eventually, Cesar began gasping for air and was able to breathe on his own again.
Emergency crews arrived shortly thereafter and transported the revived toddler to the hospital. He was released that same day and is now doing well.
Ortiz and Hill say they're extremely thankful to Thomas for saving Cesar's life.
Thomas says he just wanted the little boy to be okay and did what he had to do.
"I didn't think about it, I just did it," said Thomas.
All three believe Thomas was at the right place at the right time.
Normally, Thomas said he doesn't travel along the road he was driving on for work, but that day something just told him to drive that way.
"I just think God led me that way that day. God just used me," he added.
Thomas, who's worked for Caltrans for the past 15 years and has four children of his own, says he learned his CPR skills from training seminars held by his company.
Thomas says he receives CPR training through Caltrans every three years, but this was the first time he's ever had to use those skills. He urges everyone to become trained in CPR as a precaution.
After this scary incident, both Ortiz and Hill say they plan to take CPR classes.
"I was scared; I've never been through this before," said Ortiz. "I have to take a CPR class now, just in case."
Happy ending and all, the story of Thomas, baby Cesar and family doesn't end here.
They all say they plan to stay in touch for many years to come.
"We're in a long term relationship now – I'm bringing them into my family," said Thomas.
At Friday's heartfelt reunion, baby Cesar was full of energy -- walking, laughing, talking and playing like a healthy, bouncy, baby boy. He hugged the man who saved him and giggled when Thomas put a white Caltrans hard-hat on his little head.
As for Caltrans, well, they're pretty proud of Thomas' quick-thinking and compassion on the job.
The company thanked their heroic worker on Twitter this week, posting : "Great job Joe!"
Great job, indeed.


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Welcome to the State and Local Documents Taskforce (SLDTF) wiki!
The State and Local Documents Task Force (SLDTF) of the Government Documents Round Table provides a forum for librarians and others working with, or interested in, state and local government information. The Task Force focuses attention on the problems and concerns of documents librarian and others, offering an opportunity for discussion and exchange of ideas and news in the field of state, regional, and local information. The Task Force provides a means for initiation and supporting bibliographic control, guidelines and special programs and for increasing the availability, management and use of state and local information.
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- 3 Past Action (Summer 2015): Vote on the Future of SLDTF
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- 6 Projects
- 7 Annual Meeting Schedules
- 8 Midwinter Meeting Schedules
- 9 Strategic Plan
- 10 Draft Minutes
- 11 Approved Minutes
- 12 Wiki Training Section
Survey Results
Here are the results of the survey, described below media: SLDTFSurvey.pdf
Past Program (Summer 2015): Program on State Gov Info & Copyright at ALA Annual
The State and Local Documents Task Force will be hosting a program at Annual in San Francisco entitled "State Government Information and the Copyright Conundrum." The program will include a discussion of state government Information and copyright issues that libraries, digital repositories and state agencies, specifically state libraries, face with copyright ambiguity, and an overview of the work Free State Government Information (FSGI) is doing to address this little-discussed but major issue. Please join us Monday, June 29th from 1-2:30pm in the Moscone Convention Center, Room 2018(W) for this great program. media: SLDTFCopyrightFlyer.pdf Presentation slides are available on the FSGI website
Past Action (Summer 2015): Vote on the Future of SLDTF
The task force held a virtual brainstorming session on June 16 to build a list of possible projects or actions to focus on in the next five years.
Please vote on which 5 projects/tasks we should pursue through this online survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SLDTF_future
The Survey will close Friday July 17th.
Proposed Actions:
- Have representatives for state and local at other ALA wide meetings like GIS and LEG and Leg. Assembly to promote state and local
- Update projects listed on the wiki page
- Identify opportunities and support some of the legislative work being done by state library associations
- Connect with the e-gov subcommittee of LEG for webinar possibilities
- More virtual meetings during the year focused on specific issues like managing born digital materials/produce more webinars focused on state and local issues
- Create a list of listservs related to state/local documents on the wiki
- Create a listserv for state and local documents discussion
- Identify organizations, inside or outside of ALA, who would be good partners
- Identify who might have interests in state and local government information besides government documents librarians.
- Hold a Summer Institute for State and Local Gov Info (something along the lines of the Winter Institute for Statistical Literacy for Librarians but for state and local gov info collection development, public service, etc.)
- Sharing best practices through webinars – similar to Accidental Government Librarian series only specific to state and local
- Find ways to encourage those who teach gov docs courses at LIS programs to include more on state and local
- Identify webinar topics through needs assessment
- Conduct a periodic survey of state documents programs throughout the country (what they are doing and problems they are having) and publish the results.
SLDTF Members
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Policies and Procedures Manual
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General program layout.
There are a few sections in an Assembly program:
This is where all of your initialized data goes. App strings, numbers etc... It takes up room in your exe i.e. if you initialize a 5000 byte array here, your exe will be 5000 bytes bigger.
This is where all of your UN-initialized data goes. String buffers, arrays, structures, variables etc... It DOES NOT take up room in your exe.
This is where you can put all values that don't change in your code, i.e. IAmTrue equ TRUE
This is where all your program code goes
Technically you can have 1 asm file with everything in it. I don't do that, I have a few files:
Main.asm - basic code is here
strings.inc - all predefined strings here
data.inc - all uninitialized data here
WndProcs.asm - all window procedures are here
protos.inc - protos for procs are here
equates.inc - equates are here
I will be referring to the MASM32 package in this tut. You can find a link to MASM32 in this tut. It contains C headers/libs from the SDK translated to MASM inc/lib files
A bare minimum exe:
.586 .model flat, stdcall option casemap:none include kernel32.inc includelib kernel32.lib .code BareApp: invoke ExitProcess, 0 end BareApp
.586 tells ML what mnemonics you want to use. Unless you are doing something exotic, .386 - .686 is fine
.model flat, stdcall tells ML we want the flat memory model. This is what all Win32 apps use. stdcall is the procedure calling convention we are going to use - The called proc cleans up the stack
option casemap:none tells ML variables, labels, proc names etc... are case sensitive meaning exitprocess and ExitProcess are two different things (helps cut down on bugs)
On a side note. If you wanted to get creative you could do: GoAway equ ExitProcess and instead of invoke ExitProcess, 0 you could do invoke GoAway, 0, you could even redefine registers. EQU is a cool tool.
Next is include, and includelib. the include directive tells ML to process kernel32.inc. This file contains the prototypes for the functions in kernel32.dll. IncludeLib tells the linker how to resolve proc names.
In MASM, you don't need a "WinMain" as your entry point. In the above sample, the label BareApp is the entry point, whatever you name it, you need a corresponding end labelname at the end.
Hey, that is all great and all but how do I make an exe after I type all my code?
Good question. There are many ways: batch files, nmake, make, IDE's, even text editors allow you to shell out to ML.
Here is a sample batch file from MASM32:
@echo off if not exist rsrc.rc goto over1 \masm32\bin\rc /v rsrc.rc \masm32\bin\cvtres /machine:ix86 rsrc.res :over1 if exist %1.obj del %1.obj if exist %1.exe del %1.exe \masm32\bin\ml /c /coff %1.asm if errorlevel 1 goto errasm if not exist rsrc.obj goto nores \masm32\bin\Link /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /OPT:NOREF %1.obj rsrc.obj if errorlevel 1 goto errlink dir %1.* goto TheEnd :nores \masm32\bin\Link /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /OPT:NOREF %1.obj if errorlevel 1 goto errlink dir %1.* goto TheEnd :errlink echo _ echo Link error goto TheEnd :errasm echo _ echo Assembly Error goto TheEnd :TheEnd pause
I use RadASM as my IDE, I just set a few paths and Assembling and linking is easy. BTW, we don't "compile" in Assembly, we Assemble and link. :-)
Before we get on to a sample app, let's go over a few things.
DOS and 16bit ASM use Interrupts to interact with the OS, screen, drives, files etc... Win32 Asm (Which we will be doing) uses the Windows API, so if you have experience with it that is a plus. MSDN will be your best friend or you can
download the SDK from microsoft (you can even get it on cd for free from MS, just pay shipping)
Variables: One thing I could never grasp in the HLLs are the MANY different variable types when there are only a handful the CPU uses - BYTE (1 byte), WORD (2 bytes), DWORD (4 bytes), FWORD (6 bytes), QWORD(8 bytes), TBYTE(10 bytes), REAL4(4 bytes), REAL8(8 bytes), REAL10(10 bytes)
For general Windows programming, you will mostly use BYTE, WORD, and DWORD. Naturally, 64bit adds a few others.
You may be tempted to use the smallest data type (BYTE) for something like a Boolean variable, but that will actually give you a performance penalty since memory is DWORD aligned, so use a DWORD for a Boolean variable.
Everything is basically a pointer to some memory.
Yes you can use COM in Assembly, it is far beyond this tut and is hair pulling at first.
I seen a lot of newbies over the years or people that use different Assemblers saying, I don't want to use the MASM high level stuff... bah, the .ifs, .whiles produce decent code. I say, use em at first until you get comfy with ASM.
A little info on Anti-Virus programs - THEY SUCK when writing in Assembly. They don't like the small code, the way sections are aligned, the order of certain instructions, whatever. Ways to shut them up -
include a manifest and a version block in your exe, re-order some instructions/API calls.
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2013 went by so fast, it's hard to believe that it's about to end. A lot of good things happened to me this year and as much as I would want to hold on to 2013 a bit longer, I have to face the new year hoping that it'll be as awesome or even better than this year. I have so many things to be grateful of; countless of blessings showered upon me, overflowing me with happiness despite some difficulties I had to face. Everything was unexpected, but I know it was planned already by God.
Perhaps, to some people, 2013 is one of the worst years they've had especially since Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda engraved sadness to Philippines. We actually have the option to mourn for days and blame leaders for not having direct response to the situation, but we could always think positively. Through typhoon yolanda, we now know how to appreciate little things, we saw how people from in and outside the country value each other by giving donations or doing campaigns to raise funds for yolanda victims, etc. If Yolanda didn't bother you as much as the victims, maybe personal problems gave you a hard time to appreciate this year; instead of forming friendships somehow it turned out the other way, maybe all the things you've expected never happened, your bucketlist for 2013 is left unchecked, or for any reason it might be, cheer up! Maybe everything is designed to happen on 2014.
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Ruapehu has so much to offer, New Zealand's largest ski areas on towering volcano Mt Ruapehu, two national parks, an abundance of mountain bike trails, the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, the historic Whanganui River and famous locations from international films The Lord of The Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit - just to name a few.
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Every other Thursday, we bring you Nicholas Day -- on cooking for children, and with children, and despite children. Also, occasionally, on top of.
Today: Nicholas finds kid food in an unlikely place -- this time, it's a hamburger.
A few weeks ago, I went on a dyspeptic tangent about how cooking for children is mostly making the old revelations look less old. There are new ideas out there, I said. They just aren't usually what's for dinner.Today on Dinner vs. Child, we inaugurate an occasional series in which we try to change that: we look for family dinner-friendly recipes in overlooked and unlikely places—where the kids' menu fears to tread. And in the name of sheer stubbornness, we start with the most overlooked and unlikely place of all: Burma. You. Put down the Italian cookbook.For decades, no one did much looking for anything in Burma, also known as Myanmar: a brutal military dictatorship all but sealed off the country from the rest of the world. In recent years, though, there's been an unexpected political thaw in the country. For those of us half a world away, among the auxiliary benefits of the thaw is Naomi Duguid's new book Burma: Rivers of Flavor.
If you know her name, that's because Naomi Duguid, with Jeffrey Alford, has written a series of books that get unusually close, in a fly on the counter sort of way, to how people actually cook. Their books are part ethnography, part travelogue, part recipe binder, and for anyone looking for unfussy, family cooking, they're essential. It's true that their unfussy, family cooking is very different from what we're used to from those words: theirs is usually Asian and it is often unmoored from anything that you already know your child will eat. But let them into your home and they become homey: their nam prik ong is our freezer alternative to bolognese.Even after children, even after Project Sanity, I turn to their books every week, and more out of practicality than escapism.In Burma, Duguid's first solo effort, she's grappling with a cuisine that few Americans have ever tasted. (Burmese restaurants in the States are nearly nonexistent.) This brings with it pantry-defying ingredients: Toasted chickpea flour! Fermented soybean paste! The recipe for tea-leaf salad is included, Duguid admits, "in an act of optimism." If you have any guests coming over, I recommend you have them make you the coconut sauce noodles with homemade broth, homemade fish balls, and homemade fried noodles.Still, there's a lot here that could be weeknight, child-tolerated fare: the delicate curries (a reprieve for sensitive palates), the eclectic and lovely salads. But let's start slow. Let us, in the name of weaseling out of a tough spot we got into through sheer stubbornness, start with hamburgers.
Your Burmese hamburger is originally a meatball, made into a slider by Duguid. It's packed with ginger and lemongrass. The tomato goes not on top but inside; so does a handful of cooked jasmine rice (a substitute for traditional green hog plum wood, obviously). Serve with a crisp salad and a pile of sticky rice. Then go plant some hog plum trees for next year.
Lemongrass-Ginger Patties
Lightly adapted from Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid (Artisan, 2012)
Serves 4
1 pound ground beef or ground pork1/4 teaspoon turmeric2 tablespoons garlic, minced2 tablespoons lemongrass, minced1/2 cup shallots, minced2 tablespoons ginger, minced1 teaspoon salt1/4 cup cooked jasmine rice, cooled1/4 teaspoon cayenne powder1/4 cup plum tomatoes, finely chopped2 tablespoons peanut oil
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
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Ruth Gonzales-Montague has nearly reached her goal of collecting 350 brand new coats for kids. Through her Pontiac-based nonprofit, Thankful Hearts, she is preparing for the 2nd Annual Thankful Hearts Christmas Benefit Dinner to be held Saturday, Dec. 8. The organization is seeking donations in order to fulfill the goal and provide the coats at the dinner. To make a donation, call 248-895-7278 or mail to: Thankful Hearts Foundation, 257 Rapid St., Pontiac, 48341.
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Harrison Ford appeared on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' last night (April 17) to talk about his new movie '42′ — but the host was having none of that. Instead, Kimmel wanted to know about the continuation of the 'Star Wars' franchise in which it's rumored Ford will appear.
While Harrison couldn't contractually talk about that, he did agree to take audience questions with the caveat that they not be about the movies that made him a household name.
Enter planted audience members dressed as Jedi, Princess Leia and Chewbacca making innocuous queries like, "Are you hungry?"
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Five students from a high school in Plano, a southwest suburb of Chicago, were released to the custody of their parents late Wednesday after being arrested and charged in a case of ongoing hazing at the school.
The Plano High School students, all boys younger than 17 at the time of the incidents, were charged with criminal sexual assault, aggravated battery and unlawful restraint, Kendall County State's Attorney Eric Weis said.
Principal Eric Benson said he learned about one incident in early February involving the school's basketball team. Other incidents were revealed when the state's attorney's office got involved, he said.
Weis said there were multiple incidents between August 2012 and February of this year involving three victims. He said the five boys would attack the victims -- members of the same sports teams and not randomly selected -- in the locker room after practice.
He said there could be more incidents and more victims, and that the crimes might have been part of ongoing hazing rituals involving the football and boys basketball teams.
"There are indications incidents could have occurred before August 2012," Weis said. "It's possible other victims could come forward."
For that reason, Weis and Plano Police Chief Steve Eaves said the investigation remains open.
Weis confirmed the incidents involved multiple students holding another student down. One of the offenders would then penetrate the victim with a finger.
He said only one of the youths charged did the penetrating, while the others held the victims down.
"It doesn't appear to be a sexually motivated crime," Weis said. "It's dominance, humiliation … this would be on the extreme end of hazing incidents I have heard of or dealt with."
Nick Ferazzo, a junior at the school, said the attacks were common knowledge among many of the student athletes and the reason he quit participating.
"If it were someone's birthday, they'll be messing around with him and they'll get too far into it," he said. "I didn't like what was going on so I just quit sports."
Benson said the school has taken measures to increase supervision in locker rooms and throughout the school, and did so immediately after an incident was first reported seven months ago.
Each of the boys have separate court dates through the end of October.
Anyone with information about the incidents should call Plano police at 630-552-8275.
Earlier this week a fifth student alleged hazing at Maine West High School in Des Plaines. That scandal has already cost two coaches their jobs.


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Sept. 19, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In the inaugural meeting between both programs, the MIT men's soccer team defeated visiting Newbury College, 8-2, on Friday. Zachary Kabelac paced the Engineers (6-0-1) with three goals and two assists as Christian Therkelsen registered his first hat-trick of the season.
MIT opened the scoring 3:18 into the contest when Neil Zimmerman's throw-in from the far sideline crossed the box and was redirected by Therkelsen's left foot. Almost nine minutes later, Max Stein-Golenbock sent a throughball which was chased down by Zimmerman, who outraced three Newbury defenders and tapped the ball into the left side of the net. Kabelac then set up Therkelsen at the 13:50 mark before registering a solo blast from 25 yards out 15 seconds later to give the Engineers a 4-0 lead.
The Nighthawks (0-6-0) ended the shutout in the 30th minute when John Mawson corralled a rebound and found Andy Osei for his second goal of the season. MIT extended its advantage (5-1) on Kabelac's shot that deflected off a Newbury defender and sailed into the right side of the goal. The Nighthawks quickly answered with a solo effort by Anthony Fannoh III, who converted a turnover by the Engineers outside their box. Therkelsen completed the hat-trick courtesy of a feed from Kabelac in the 36th minute and then returned the favor four minutes later to put the Cardinal and Gray up, 7-2, at the break.
MIT carried the momentum into the second stanza as Lance Wall registered an unassisted goal after 3:48 elapsed. The remainder of the frame was a defensive battle with each side posting two shots on goal.
In net, Dylan Rankin collected four saves through 61 minutes while Javier Duarte closed out the game with one save for the Engineers. William McNally grabbed seven saves for the Nighthawks.
MIT continues its home-stand on Monday, Sept. 22 when it hosts Emerson College. On the same day, Newbury will host Brandeis University.


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Mr. Wonderful's Tips on How to Win 'Shark Tank'
ABC's reality show "Shark Tank" is eating up ratings and launching start-up stars. But what are the real business lessons from 'Shark Tank'? Kevin O'Leary, known on the show as "Mr. Wonderful," joins the News Hub with Sara Murray.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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If you read your email regularly using an Internet-enabled phone, you probably know that it's an experience that can swing from awesome to awful. While an email newsletter can look superb in the inbox, when squeezed onto a small screen, it can become absolutely unusable, with small fonts, narrow columns and broken layouts being common issues.
In this guide, we'll look at why designing for mobile has become a necessary skill for email designers, cover the fundamentals of designing and building a mobile-friendly email and back it all up with some neat tips and techniques.
If you send email newsletters, it's likely that a growing percentage of your subscribers are reading your messages on an iPhone, tablet or similar. When we last surveyed email client popularity in 2011, we found that almost 20% of email opens occurred on a mobile device, rising dramatically from a mere 4% of the market when we last ran the numbers in 2009. iOS devices accounted for over 90% of these reported opens.
What this means for designers is that getting your email newsletter to display optimally on mobile devices is just as important as ensuring it can be read in long-standing email clients like Outlook and Gmail. In fact, mobile email client usage is soon set to eclipse both that of webmail and desktop clients, meaning that providing a less-than-optimal reading experience on the small screen may not only inconvenience a few recipients, but eventually the majority. This could lead to diminished response rates, or as Return Path summarized in a recent report:
"…those that aren't tracking which device their subscribers are reading their emails on, or optimizing their emails or websites for mobile devices stand to lose out. A poor user experience could mean no response, no action, or plainly put, no ROI."
In this guide, we'll look at a couple of ways you can improve the mobile email experience, from the use of media queries when coding up responsive layouts, to more advanced techniques. We'll also cover design considerations when planning your newsletter and even look at how to best cater your subscribe forms to smartphone users.
A quick caveat first – the techniques listed here aren't universally supported by all mobile email clients. As you may know, not all email clients were made equal – even on the same device, how an HTML email displays can vary radically from inbox to inbox. For example, while the default Android email client that appears on the Google Nexus is renowned for its superior CSS support, the Gmail client that also comes shipped with the handset ignores styles within the tags and can't make head or tail of many run-of-the-mill CSS2 properties.
Thankfully, the iPhone and other Apple iOS devices can not only boast of near trouble-free email rendering, but also account for a large percentage of mobile email opens, too.
With this in mind, we present to you a non-exhaustive list of mobile email clients and their support for media queries. The skinny is that media query support enables you to use many of the responsive techniques which we'll be covering in this guide.
|Media Query Support
|Amazon Kindle Fire
|Amazon Kindle Fire HD
|Android 2.1 Eclair
|Android 2.2+
|Apple iPhone
|Apple iPad
|Apple iPod Touch
|BlackBerry OS 5
|BlackBerry OS 6+
|BlackBerry Playbook
|Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1
|Microsoft Windows Phone 7
|Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5
|Microsoft Windows Phone 8
|Microsoft Surface
|Palm Web OS 4.5
|Samsung Galaxy S3+
|Media Query Support
|Microsoft Outlook Exchange 3rd party app (Android)
|Gmail mobile app (all platforms)
|Yahoo! Mail mobile app (all platforms)
Many thanks to Style Campaign for their ongoing help with testing many of the above devices – their blog is recommended reading when it comes to mobile email design.
Just as most web designers take a 'design-first' approach to their projects, we're going to cover the visual side of creating a mobile-optimized email newsletter in this guide, before going elbows-deep into coding. This will help you make informed decisions when next planning an email newsletter, plus make it that much easier to conceptualize the techniques we'll be discussing later on.
We've already started talking about responsive email design. If you're familiar with the use of this term in the context of the web, then you'll be pleased to know that we'll be using the same concepts and techniques here for email. If things like 'adaptive layouts' are new to you, I highly recommend reading this primer by 'A List Apart'.
The skinny is that we'll be designing two CSS layouts of the same newsletter – one layout that looks great in webmail and desktop clients, plus another layout that can be easily read on the smaller screens of mobile devices. For example, here's an HTML email in Outlook:
Below is the same email, only this time viewed in Apple's iPhone Mail. As you can see, there are significant differences between the two layouts. The mobile version is skinnier, lacks visual clutter and is just as readable as the desktop version. This can be attributed to the use of mobile-specific CSS:
As a point of comparison, the right image is the same newsletter, without this stylesheet. See how tiny and unreadable the text is? Well, that's the problem that faces millions of email newsletters received on mobile devices, every day.
Designing for mobile isn't simply a matter of taking a crack at writing mobile-specific CSS. Other things to consider are:
When mocking up an HTML email or template, our advice is to create two sketches or wireframes – one of the desktop/webmail layout and one of the mobile layout. Keep in mind where your call to action (CTA), such as 'View deal' appears on both – is it immediately visible when the email is opened? Or does the recipient have to scroll in order to see it?
Now you've seen what mobile stylesheets can do, let's get into the code.
When web designers talk about mobile stylesheets, usually they're talking not about a totally separate stylesheet, but the good stuff that appears within the curly brackets of a media query. Here's what a basic one looks like:


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Fans of Lie to Me will be disappointed to learn that Fox has decided not to pick up a back-nine order for the show - limiting the third season to only 13 episodes.
Fox made the decision to not order more episodes of the well-received investigation procedural, which stars Academy Award-nominee Tim Roth, due to the incoming show The Chicago Code (yet another police procedural).
However, there is a (slight) silver lining to Fox's decision. According to Deadline, the move to not pick up the back-nine of Lie to Me does not mean that the network is canceling the series - at least, not yet. It also doesn't mean that Lie to Me to me is certain to get a fourth season - Fox won't make that decision until spring.
Realistically, Lie To Me's chances of getting picked back up in the spring don't seem that good. Despite a strong first season, the show lost viewers in its second year, and hasn't started out 2010 with much energy.
According to TV by the Numbers, Lie to Me pulled in a Live+SD rating of 1.9 and a Live+7 rating of only 2.5 for the week of November 15th-21st. In case you were wondering, Live+SD represents ratings from the viewers who watched on the original air date and Live+7 represents the number of viewers who watched on the original air date plus the viewers who caught the show on DVR (in the seven days following the original air date).
I'm not a huge fan of Lie to Me, but I'm sure there are devotees of the show among our loyal readers. Should Fox pick up the show in the spring, or has Lie to Me lost its spark?
Source: Deadline, TV by the Numbers


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Africa Congressional trip April 27- May 6, 2012
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, Ranking Member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, traveled with a Senate colleague to Cote d'Ivoire, Botswana, South Africa, Malawi, and Zambia the first week of May 2012. When Enzi travels on official trips, he keeps an informal journal. The main focus of the trip was to see how American HIV/AIDS funding was being spent. Enzi met with American aid workers, diplomats, country leaders, Peace Corps volunteers and people from many different countries who care about their fellow human beings. Below are some excerpts/highlights from Enzi's journal.
President Bush, in 2003, shocked both sides of the aisle in his State of the Union Speech by suggesting a staggering sum of money that should be spent on stemming the AIDS pandemic in other countries. I got involved in the issues and wound up helping draft the bill ---- which passed both houses of Congress unanimously!!! Shortly after that, August 2003, several of us were sent to Africa to see what the problem was and how close we came to helping. I always wanted to visit all the continents and knew that meant going to Africa. Instead of picturing the jungles of Tarzan, I thought more of Egypt - riding a camel and climbing a pyramid. I have now been to Africa seven times - and have yet to see Egypt or the jungle.
Africa would be a shock to most any American. I often say we would be better as a country if every American young person had to visit a country in Africa - any country. They would see a level of poverty unknown to us. They would see a giving people who have nothing monetary to give. This trip was much improved from the 2003 trip Diana and I took. At that time HIV/AIDS was rampant in many African countries and continuing to spread in the United States. We knew relatively little about the disease. What we found was a disease spread from infected mother to newborn infant who, without treatment would live a sickly, painful life to no more than five years old. We saw villages having daily funerals. Caskets were made of paper mache and were reused. We saw and discovered entire teen generations wiped out. Grandparents were taking care of grandchildren from several of their own "children" because the "children", the parents, had died of AIDS. A single surviving grandparent might be responsible for 10 to 15 grandchildren from infants to teens. (For more detail see my report, Trip - Africa 2003)
We went from Côte d'Ivoire to Botswana to South Africa to Malawi to Zambia. We visited HIV testing centers, a transfusion center, circumcision clinics, maternity clinics, tuberculosis testing and treatment centers, malaria treatment and testing facilities, a cervical cancer testing, treatment and surgery center and villages to see their basic facilities and their form of "banking". We saw pharmacies, military facilities for soldier HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, hospitals, orphanages, and some small business economic development. We met with parliamentarians, traditional leaders and even members of the faith community - all playing a major role in the life of the countries. I even got to speak to and swear in 36 new Peace Corps Volunteers.
Political tribulation in Malawi
We were in Malawi at a critical time. The President died in office on April 6. He had thrown the vice-president out of the party, but hadn't gotten her out of office yet which threw succession into a turmoil. Our U.S. Ambassador to the country, Jeanine Jackson was a tremendous help to the Vice-President, assuring the smooth constitutional transition by letting people know a rough transition could mean a problem for aid money coming in from the U.S.
When the President died, we were told that our trip would have to be cancelled. I suggested it was more important than ever as the U.S. could have a bipartisan delegation - one Republican and one Democrat, with some Senate longevity - supporting the new government on behalf of the United States. As it turned out, the visit was even more critical. The new President and members of the Parliament found that the previous administration had gone off the deep end in under-the-table- deals and the country was bankrupt. Rapid inflation made it possible for "insiders with access" to get dollars from the treasury and sell them on the black market for an instant 100% profit. The only solution is to let the value of the money float on the free market which amounts to a devaluation of the money instantly making everything more expensive for everyone - not a very popular political move. Senator Conrad proved to be an expert in this area and was able to emphasize to those in power the need to do the devaluation quickly to stop the bleeding. The catch is that the country would have to have money reserves to survive. Ambassador Jackson was already holding meetings with representative of the World Bank, IMF and donor countries regarding assistance. Our two-person delegation was in the right place at the right time to be able to help our very efficient ambassador meet some of these challenges while we still were able to see the level of HIV/AIDS work and improvement in that country.
I can't emphasize enough the capability and experience of our ambassador, Jeanine Jackson, who is career foreign service officer. She has had incredible assignments around the world to prepare her for this particular change. This is a case where we sent the best at exactly the right time. She is extremely efficient and her military career has given her a sense of organization and urgency. She is a list maker and a list completer. She and Mark, her husband, have taken assignments where they usually could be together. That often meant going to difficult places others did not want. So he too brings some sound counsel to the ambassador.
Great work by the Peace Corps
When I spoke to the Peace Corps Volunteers in Malawi I told of how special Africa is. I mentioned how Diana and I always wanted to visit all the continents but was honest in admitting that I pictured my trip to Africa as Egypt. But when President Bush told us of the amount of money he thought should be spent on AIDS primarily in Africa I wound up involved, helping that pass unanimously and then being sent to Africa to learn more about the problem. I said we have been to Africa seven times and have never made it to Egypt. But we have gotten to see many of the countries and left a little of our heart in each.
I told of our first trip to Africa where we met a retired nurse who emphasized the importance of gaining confidence wherever Peace Corps work is being done. She established health lectures that simultaneously trained the interpreters as lecturers. She saw a need to educate, particularly on sexually transmitted diseases. She knew of the stigma. She organized a series of eight lectures that started with handling headaches, later to backaches, eventually getting to tuberculosis and malaria in the seventh lecture. The eighth lecture, after she has gotten the confidence of the people gets to HIV and AIDS. Because of languages and dialects the interpreters are essential. The advantage is that as the interpreters followed her from village to village doing the same series of lectures, they learned the lectures and can carry on even when she is gone. She made a very astute observation of a need and filled it by slowly gaining the confidence of those she was working with. I also paraphrased the words of President John F. Kennedy, "Ask not what the village can do for you, instead, ask what you can do for the village." If members of the Peace Corps are successful in changing the people to look outward for opportunities instead of inward for personal needs, they will make a big difference. And no one in the Peace Corps has ever had to ask if they made a difference. They always knew they did.
No ordinary orphanage
The highlight of the trip had to be the visit to The Kasisi Children's Home in Zambia - home to 250 orphans at a time. This is a Catholic orphanage run by Polish and Zambian Sisters. The Mother Superior may be the most likable person I've ever met. Volunteers paint the walls of the different rooms with caricatures. Sister Mariola pointed to a purple hippopotamus and said that was her. You have never seen such love and management capability in one small package! Once every three years a Sister gets to return home for 20 days. She delayed her trip a week to take us through her orphanage. She has been there 28 years and seen over 3,000 orphans come through. Some are now doctors and nurses in other places. One got married in the orphanage chapel and Sister Mariola got to give her away. The Sister has one building for very sick kids. We met the young man who is "chief" of that wing. He looked like he was about 9, but short. When we left the room the Sister let us know he is 17 years old. We visited the different buildings and met lots of the delightful kids. All of them seemed very happy. Senator Conrad asked what counseling was done for those who lost their parents at about age five. She explained that they mostly love them a lot. They do have a counselor. But the best therapy seems to let them talk through it many times. Several women live and work there too. They mostly do the 24 hour care needed particularly with infants and being room mothers in the rooms of slightly older children. There is no age at which the children have to leave. It's their home and even when they get an education and a job they come back on weekends or holidays because they are family.
At the house with the older boys (jr. high on up) they introduced themselves. I was surprised at the number of biblical names until it occurred to me that many of them were probably named by the Sisters. They help with the upkeep and painting as well. She runs the orphanage on $220,000 a year. By my calculation high school tuition for the 18 boys and 19 girls has to be $50,000 of that a year. They also have to buy shoes, uniforms and books for elementary students. They have to buy formula for the infants. That runs about $10 a tin for 18 tins a day.
The preschoolers have two classrooms so they can "go to school" when the older kids go. Each of the preschoolers had to shake hands. One little girl in pink alternated between the classroom and the bathroom. In one nursery we got to meet some of the newest additions. One little girl was three months old and couldn't yet weigh four pounds. Another infant girl was three days old. She was brought by her mother who then passed away. Beside the pharmacy we saw the "Place of Rest", a table under a crying Mary, Mother of God, where ones who have died are laid until they can be attended. Much of what they are able to provide in medicine and facilities was provided through PEPFAR that I helped get started. Before the antiretroviral drugs, Sister Mariola said they buried about 18 children a month. That has gone down to one a month. Each child had their own bed, towel, clothes, and a pair of shoes for play and a pair of shoes for special days. There is mass every day. The Jesuits take turns coming. Senator Conrad and I were each given a painting by the student who painted it. We in turn gave them supplies; paint, sidewalk chalk, color crayons and soccer balls. We were greeted with singing and clapping. They sang us out to the bus when we left. While we were having some refreshment we were thanked for those who gave up a meal to give them HIV/AIDS drugs. If you visited there you too would want to give up a few more meals.
Less money should mean more focus
At meetings, in every country, when U.S. agencies made the plea for more U.S. money, we explained our financial situation as well as explained that the effort was to find some solutions to the mass deaths and to make a case for what their country could do to save the lives of their people. We told them they would have do more as we are forced to do less.
There is also a "branding" fight going on between U.S. agencies. Each wants their logo on projects they have a part in. Sometimes all partners are U.S. agencies. They need to understand they work for the United States and that the only branding needs to be Our Flag prominently displayed.
I heard a presentation by one USAID director about all the things they were involved in that needed more money to continue. I may have interrupted her by saying, "Don't you think you could be more effective if you focused MORE on LESS missions? Shouldn't you prioritize what you are most effective at and what makes the most difference?"
At one luncheon we were bombarded by every project person in the embassy about the need to continue funding. I did my litany about debt and the shortage of money.
Clinics and their African staff are familiar with doing more with less. At many of the clinics there is "duty shifting". That means shifting what is done, down one skill level so there are providers. In other words, what is usually done by doctors is done by nurses and so on down the line. For instance we saw one health care worker who does an examination for cervical cancer and performs a freezing technique to cure early stage cancer. This worker uses vinegar and a digital camera to make a determination about the presence of cancer. If she is in doubt, the pictures she has taken can be looked at on the internet by a doctor. The testing is promoted at community centers and HIV testing places and at circumcision clinics. A high number of the women with HIV/AIDS have cervical cancer.
Circumcision by men is sold as a successful reduction in their odds of contracting AIDS. Circumcision reduces the chance of getting HIV/AIDS by 60 percent and is the most effective prevention found so far. Of course, it also reduces the chances of the woman getting cancer of the cervix by a large percentage but that is not a big selling point to many men.
I learned that the way we coped with South African health officials who hated the United States in 2003 and put out the word that our medicines were to kill off Africans, was to go to the military who were losing trained soldiers. Like the civilian population four would have to be trained for each job because three would die before the training ended. So we were able to help the military and prove that the medicine extended life and improved the quality of life. Today's Minister of health knows the benefits of the U.S. PEPFAR program and is appreciative.
They've come a long way, but still have a long way to go
The big hospital in Soweto, South Africa that we visited that first trip has been greatly improved with accommodations for the interns and accommodations for the nurses. The city around the hospital has been dramatically upgraded to a town with real houses (although many of them allow a hovel or two in their small yard as rentals). It was built as a series of barracks, each with beds separated by hanging sheets sometimes. They were built ranch style because elevators were seldom operable, making it impossible to get patients from one floor to another. We visited a number of different kinds of wards, the most difficult being the infant pneumonia ward. Pneumonia is a very common seasonal ailment in South Africa. Many children can't breathe and die. The treatment is oxygen and antibiotics. But many clinics do not have access to oxygen or antibiotics. The oxygen alone makes a difference. I was thinking of how common for seniors the oxygen concentrator is that many have in their own home. I have trouble believing that a caring world couldn't find used ones for at least one at each clinic. We did hear of an organization that takes old medical equipment, repairs and revitalizes it and then ships it to where is most needed. That includes a wide variety including laboratory equipment.
We saw a Botswana clinic that has the first certified lab in their country. The shocking part is that all records are kept on paper in notebooks. The storage requirements alone are staggering, let alone the ability to find a person's record on a return visit.
In Malawi at a clinic we got to see a computer system they designed for keeping those medical records. More importantly, the touch-screen had yes, no and quantity entries only, so it was simple enough to be used even by their less skilled staff.
We were also surprised by how little privacy patients received when we were visiting. We went into rooms where patients were being treated. The waiting lines would also appall most Americans. Huge rooms were filled with benches closely spaced. Every bench was filled with people waiting and constantly moving down the bench to another bench and eventually being seen only to be helped and then directed to another line just as long to wait their first procedure. Often women were even sitting, closely packed, in aisles. On benches people sat close enough that a shoulder had to be in front of the next person to make more room.
At a maternity delivery facility in Malawi, most of the deliveries were by midwives. In the whole country about 73 percent of the women get an assisted birth. About 43 percent of the assisted births are in that facility. They sometimes come by whatever conveyance or walking will get them there and some come a month before their due date to be sure they will be there. The hospital does have barracks and food for them.
We met with the religious leaders of Malawi, some of whom had to drive four or five hours to get to the meeting. One was Seventh Day Adventist, another Catholic, a Lutheran, several Presbyterians from the various Synods, and a Muslim woman leader. It was amazing to hear what their churches were doing and able to do. Their biggest complaint was that the government wasn't reimbursing their private hospitals as promised. I was able to raise that issue when we met with the President.
We toured a "township" village with the traditional leaders of that village. These leaders are the ultimate authority in the village so we congratulated them on being pro-active and saving the lives of their people. The village consisted of homes made of mud bricks. Each house must have been eight foot by twelve foot. Apparently the floors were dirt. They had two windows for ventilation. Their property was probably four times the size of the house. An outdoor bathing/laundry area was given some privacy by the hanging laundry. A latrine and a garbage pit were located furthest from the house. Outside the latrine was a hand washing area. A gallon plastic container with the bottom cut out was suspended upside down and filled with water. A dipper of a plastic bottle had a wire handle to dip water out of the bigger container. The dipper could be hung beside the big bottle. A hole in the bottom of the dipper let a small flow of water out to wash your hands in. A bar of soap on a string was there too. Emphasis was on air drying the hands so they didn't touch dirty clothes. That had cut the incidence of diarrhea. Latrines had reduced the deaths from cholera.
The village had a Common Building where hygiene was taught in five lessons. Nutrition and exclusive breast feeding were also taught. (Mothers even with HIV were encouraged to breast feed as the medicine comes through the milk to the baby and prevents transmission of HIV to the baby about 99% of the time.) This is a change from the early days when it was thought the only prevention was to feed the baby formula - and most couldn't afford that nor is it as nutritious as mother's milk.) We also got a demonstration of a slow cooker that has been developed. A pot of porridge is put over a fire for 15 minutes to get it boiling. Then the pot is removed and placed in a bed of banana leaves and covered with a blanket full of banana leaves. The porridge stays hot for up to six hours and frees the woman to do activities other than cook. We got to see the healthy ingredients they used for the porridge. I'm betting few in America would eat it. One ingredient was potato leaves. The women who did the explanations and demonstrations were rightfully very proud. We learned what they were saying through an interpreter.
Community banking on a whole different level
We got to see a meeting of the community bank. Members of the bank assemble and sit on the floor in a circle. The metal box with three locks is brought out. The three women who have a key to one of the three locks go forward and unlocks their padlock. Accounting books for each member are distributed. Deposits are collected by a member stating the amount and giving it to the "teller" who verbally confirms the amount and records it. The individual enters the amount in the personal record book. Then people can purchase up to five "shares" the same way. A share is a portion of ownership in the bank sharing in the profits. Next, loan repayments are received with the same announcements and recording. Then members can make loan requests, giving an explanation of what it will be used for and how they will pay it back. At this point a couple of members related their stories. One lady bought the ingredients to make sweet beer (in other words she brewed a drink and then opened a bar). She was so successful she was able to repay the loan and be able to buy a case of Fanta (orange soda pop in bottles) which she also sold. I think she had the equivalent of a $60 loan for two months. The interest charged is 20% per month which is 1/3 the amount they can borrow from other sources. You also have to remember that the only profit that shareholders get is from that interest paid in. It was neighbors helping neighbors with a safe place to store some money. We asked about defaults. They have a procedure where someone who falls behind is visited by some of the members. If that doesn't work, one of the village leaders talks to them. They have never had a default. We got an abbreviated meeting that went on long after we left.
China's influence everywhere
In Malawi we saw a new Parliament building and stadium built by the Chinese (who always use Chinese laborers). In Zambia two stadiums are being built by the Chinese. Since the Chinese always get something in return, I am curious as to what deals had been made. In both countries there were new administrations. I am concerned about China's quest to obtain ownership of "Rare Earth" minerals all over the world including Malawi. There are very limited sources and the Chinese already own about 50%. Someday those deposits will be worth more than gold or diamonds, especially if China has a monopoly.
Country leaders and wrap up
We not only got to meet extensively with the President of Malawi, but got to meet with the President and First Lady of Côte d'Ivoire. We met with parliament members and leaders in every country. We met with the key new Ministers of Finance, of Agriculture, and of Health in Zambia. In Botswana we even met with the feisty lady who is Speaker of the National Assembly. In Malawi we met with seven Parliamentarians, five of whom were from the different political parties. Having them together for an evening at the Ambassador's invitation to her residence gave them an opportunity to informally work out some questions about succession and those who changed parties. President Banda had been the Minister of Women's Issues. We met the woman the President appointed to that ministerial.
In Côte d'Ivoire we saw a transfusion center where large numbers of people go to donate blood for free to save lives of people they don't even know. The cells in the blood that fight disease get to be so few in an infected person, that the person can only be saved by an infusion of blood. Not only do the centers collect and type the blood, they have to test it for disease as well. One clinic does the tests for all of Cote d'Ivoire amounting to about 2000 a day.
In Botswana a highlight was getting to meet with the Baylor Hospital Teen Club Leaders. Children who have HIV/AIDS from birth transmission from their mother have formed a club that helps kids adjust to having HIV/AIDS.


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Photographing Art in the Streets
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Larry Clark's mother was an itinerant baby photographer, and she took her son with her on her rounds. This means that Clark, the photographer famous/infamous for his grittily voyeuristic depictions of youth culture, began photographing kids when he still was one. Before he reached 20, he was taking his camera deep into[…..]


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The 2015 BMW 2-Series, which is actually going to replace the BMW 1-Series, is about to debut. The Bavarian Motor Works have accordingly presented the world with this teaser video, in anticipation of the coupe's October 25th debut. If its predecessor is anything to judge it by, then it should be good.
We know a whole bunch about the 2-series so far, mostly as its derived from the existing 1-series, but also because we've seen some of the specs. The base model 220i will have a 2.0-liter turbocharged four cylinder engine, with 180 horsepower. There should be a few models in between that and the range-topping M235i, but it's the M235i that we really care about.
The 2015 BMW M235i will have a turbocharged 3.0-liter sixpot, good for 322 horses and 0-60 in five seconds, and should come in under $50,000. And if the M235i is anything like the M135i at all, we've got a lot to look forward to.


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New Sign At The USOC: Help Wanted
October 7, 2009: Less than a week after the International Olympic Committee put an end to Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympics, the Board of Directors of the U.S. Olympic Committee said it would form a search committee and hire a recruiting firm "to assist in identifying candidates for the position of Chief Executive Officer" to replace acting CEO Stephanie Streeter.
Streeter, who was named to the position after Jim Scheer resigned this past March, has asked not be considered a candidate, according to the USOC. Scheer held the position for six years. Streeter will remain in her current capacity until the search for a permanent CEO is concluded and a candidate is named.
The USOC recently signed a marketing deal with Procter & Gamble, but has lost over the past two years such marketing partners as General Motors, The Home Depot, Kodak, John Hancock, Kellogg's and Bank of America.
This past January, Lisa Baird was named CMO of the USOC, replacing Rick Burton, who resigned after about a year in the position. The USOC also has come under fire for unveiling a plan to launch a 24/7 TV network devoted to the Olympics, and has had revenue-sharing issues with the IOC, both situations that analysts said might have been part of the reason IOC delegates eliminated Chicago in the first round during voting on Oct. 6 for the 2016 host city, which went to Rio de Janeiro.
"When we asked Stephanie to serve as acting Chief Executive Officer in March, we did so knowing of her strong management skills and mindful that the USOC was at a critical juncture in many ways - facing the economic crisis, preparing for the Vancouver 2010 Games, and supporting Chicago in its bid to host the 2016 Games," Larry Probst, USOC chairman, said in a statement. "She graciously agreed to take on the challenge and has been an outstanding chief executive. We were disappointed when Stephanie told us she did not want to be considered for the permanent CEO position. She has done an excellent job, and we are all very grateful for her many contributions to the U.S. Olympic Movement."
"With the decision now made regarding the Chicago bid, it is time for the USOC to focus its full effort on our athletes' preparation for [the 2010 Winter Games in] Vancouver, and the organization's long-term strategy, as well as shaping the USOC's relationships with its stakeholders and the international community," Streeter said in a statement. "Knowing that I am focused on returning to the corporate arena, I thought now was the ideal time to let the USOC know of my future plans and allow them to start with a clean slate."
Official USOC Partners: GE, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, P&G, Acer, Atos Origin, Anheuser-Busch, Omega, Panasonic, Samsung and Visa.
Official USOC Sponsors: Adecco, 24 Hour Fitness, Allstate, Deloitte, Hilton Family, Jet Set Sports, Nike, Tyson and United.
Is It Too Soon To Start Thinking Chicago 2020? How About Tulsa? Boston? Minneapolis?


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EAST HAVEN — East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. says he'd like to hire civilian police dispatchers to replace officers as overtime costs soar.
The New Haven Register reports that from August to October, patrolmen worked 777 overtime shifts equal to about $286,000 in pay.
Chief Brent Larrabee has said one driver for overtime costs is the $2.5 million consent decree between the town and the U.S. Department of Justice following the arrests of four officers over racial profiling allegations. The document outlines policies and practices to ensure bias-free policing.
About $900,000 of the cost of the consent decree is for overtime. Officers participating in consent decree training practices are paid a police wage.
In addition, the arrests of several officers and the officers' subsequent decisions to retire also have hampered manpower.


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Issa: D.C. part of IRS scandal
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on Sunday released partial transcripts from new interviews with Cincinnati-based IRS employees, arguing they suggest higher-ups in Washington played an active role in the choice to target conservative groups seeking tax exempt status .
Issa contends that the interviews show the targeting was not done solely by the Cincinnati office and that officials in Washington requested that searches identifying applications by conservative groups be conducted and then asked to see certain files.
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"As late as last week, the [Obama] administration was still trying to say there was a few rogue agents from Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is they were directly being ordered from Washington," the California Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union" shortly before the panel released the partial transcripts.
( Also on POLITICO: Plouffe rips Issa 'loose ethically')
The Oversight panel did not release the full transcripts from the interviews and did not identify the two IRS employees who spoke with the committee. In addition, the transcripts do not identify who in Washington was involved or the specific office. The question and answers in the transcripts mostly refer to "Washington, D.C." rather than a specific person or office.
In one instance, an interviewee complains about "taking all my direction" from "EO Technical," or the IRS's Exempt Organizations office in Washington.
Issa's charge drew a rebuke from the panel's top Democrat, Elijah Cummings, who said the chairman's statements were "reckless" and that no one interviewed by the panel has identified an IRS official in Washington who directed the Cincinnati office to use terms like "tea party" to target conservative groups.
( PHOTOS: 8 key players in IRS scandal story)
"Chairman Issa's reckless statements today are inconsistent with the findings of the inspector general, who spent more than a year conducting his investigation," Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, said in a statement. "Rather than lobbing unsubstantiated conclusions on national television for political reasons, we need to work in a bipartisan way to follow the facts where they lead and ensure that the IG's recommendations are fully implemented."
The scandal came to light early last month when the head of the IRS tax-exempt division, Lois Lerner, who is currently suspended from her post, disclosed that the agency had been improperly targeting conservatives groups. Her admission came days before the IRS inspector general released a report detailing the problem.
Since then several congressional committees have held hearings on the issue, with Republicans probing to see who outside the Cincinnati office was involved.
Former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman and former acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller have testified that they were not aware of what was going on until after the practice of singling out tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status was being addressed.
While not identifying the specific employees in the transcript, committee spokesman Ali Ahmad told POLITICO they were two of the four officials the panel singled out for testimony last month: John Shafer, a screening group manager; Gary Muthert, a screener in the tax-exempt division; Liz Hofacre, a former case coordinator from April to October 2010; and Joseph Herr, a former advocacy group manager.
According to the transcripts, one of the interviewees — described as "one Cincinnati IRS employee" — told committee investigators that in March 2010 employees in the Cincinnati office became aware that some applications for tax-exempt status referenced the tea party "or other conservative groups."


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tackdriver necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 121 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Require a home page and layout for a secondary webpage for a website "Capital Guardians". The website is to display information to interested parties about the business that manages the "petty cash" of aged care residents in nursing homes. The target audience are the professional managers who run these homes and the guardians who manage the small $$$ of the residents.
Capital Guardians
1.1 The Objectives
§ Want toconvey a professional image of a successful modern company.
§ Veryeasy to get around, intuitive.
§ Thebusiness is to be positioned to the aged care industry where elderly people areenjoying their retirement and happy times.
§ Theessence of the brand is to "make life easy" and eliminate the administrativehassles of petty cash management for elderly people who are not looking aftertheir own financials. The website is toconvey the "trust" and integrity of the business in freeing up individuals fromadministrative tasks and introducing the comfort of transparency, access andconfidence in the business managing someone's financial affairs.
§ This notcomplex, hence words need to be kept to a minimum, lots of photos, again easy.
1.2 The Target Audience
The target audience is largely three important groups:
This is largely people who are considering using the service who viewthe public website. They will be:
§ Agedcare residential facilities (where elderly people stay);
§ Relativesof elderly who look after an aged persons financial affairs; or
§ Formalisedpower of attorneys, who look after an aged persons financial affairs –contractually (they get paid for it), ie Trustee organisations
The residential facilities include the key decision makers being: the manager;the administration clerk; and the "Board" of Directors. These decision makers care about:security/integrity and trust of the system (the money is safe) and the ease ofuse (especially its simplicity for administrative) including the fact thatthere isn't much work for the facility to do (they "endorse" the system toothers).
The relatives and formalised power of attorneys aremore interested in simplicity of the system, ensure it just makes sense….
1.3 The Proposition
Cash management simplicity for residents in nursingfacilities allowing them freedom of access to goods and services without hassleand management ease & transparency for their families.
1.4 Tone of Voice
Trusted banker, mentor or accountant. He is professional, but not officious, morelike the family solicitor or accountant.
1.5 Additional Points
I expect the home page to be very simple with the limited text below, maybe three great click thru icon's photos implying great experiences in an aged care theme.
The secondary page maybe a bit more work as it has all the secondary headings (that might be accessible from the home page), and the simple layout or other treatment of these headings (pop up, roll over, etc) will require a bit more thought, the vertical index here might be down the left hand side?, when the horizontal index tab (secondary heading) is selected. Great photos, making the text headings easy to read might pop up here.
Naturally we will get it coded, just the design of how it will represent is required.
Scalable or fixed width
þ Fixed width
Minimum screen resolution
þ 600x800
Screen position
þ Centered
Printable content
þ Design for print
Flexible structure to allow for expansion
þ Flexible design
þ Not required
Splash page
þ Not required
Background colour
White (using blue widely)
Main navigation position
þ Horizontal
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhpk…hl=enStock images can be selected from iStockphoto or similar low costservice. Key words include: happyseniors; aged care; grandparents; friendly doctor; friendly pharmacist;healthcare professional.
User Scenario
Potential customer looks atthe website and want to get a feeling of comfort. Immediately goes to about us and clicks onthe Relatives & Power of Attorney (resident representatives) button andreads the content with particular focus on the "how it work" (do theyunderstand it is it simple) and security*. The potential customer will probably print this page, where by it willcome out in an A4 format looking like a professional brochure (with contactinformation on the bottom right).
A residential facility isresearching the service, and enters the website, where immediately they need toquickly see: how the system works, where they will be presented with easy tofollow steps* on what has to be done, how to sign up* – where they will be ableto follow directions on how to signup, who to contact* for more questions, andalso an area where they can view who/what* is behind the business and thesecurity of their funds.
* represents very importantpages that must be un-cluttered and very clear.
Reference Sites
§ http://www.iplotz.com/index.php,simple, few words simple menus.
§ http://www.capgroup.com/,just really simple and professional very clear. Great use of photo and graphics.
§ http://www.wesabe.com/, great photos andnavigation when wanting to know everything quickly
§ http://www.61pixels.com/, just simple, niceinterface – limited words
§ http://www.wesabe.com/, makes it really easyto sign-up…. Nice with the site map down the bottom on first page and left onsecondary pages, good use of large strong photos.
1. Wireframes
[homepage items, maybe in order across top]
Login: Username Password
Residents / Guardians (design secondary page, see below)
Aged Residential Facilities (no secondary page)
Suppliers (no secondary page)
Print Page[1]
Signup / contact us (top left)
[secondary page, to be included on this page, or navigation to]
Secondary pages (under Residents / Guardians heading)
§ What is it?
§ Deposits
§ Withdraws
§ Statements
§ How does it work?
§ Security of funds
§ Signup
[1] Createsa pdf brochure like print (very good looking), of the key information on thewebpage
4.1 Home Page Text
CapitalGuardians is a specialised business supporting agedcare residents and or their power of attorneys (supporting their financialmanagement) in managing aged care residents petty cash trust monies.
CapitalGuardians is only manages the "small" dollars andcents of aged care residents, that is the petty cash payments for variousessentials to maintaining a high quality, stress free, lifestyle: including:podiatry, chemists, newsagents, outings, physios, nursing services, andhairdressers.
4.2 Secondary PageText, Main Users
Residents / Guardians
What is it?
CapitalGuardians is a relevant service to all Self Managed Residents, Powers of Attorney and other financial guardians who support the financial welfare of individuals in residential care.
Making petty cash "trust" money administration easy……………
§ Podiatry
§ Chemists
§ Newsagents
§ Outings
§ Physios
§ Nursing services
§ Hairdressers
§ Other?
CapitalGuardians provides a service to make life easy as it manages all "petty cash" payments on your behalf. All you have to do is ensure the "trust account" is topped up, when reminders are given.
Albeit, the service is powered largely through the internet, if required, the services are accessible without using a computer at all…..you can receive statements in the mail.
CapitalGuardians acts just like a secure bank account that can only be spent on a limited number of products or services.
Several methods are available to post Deposits to resident accounts. Cash can be manually posted to an account for Cash given by family or relatives via electronic deposits. Direct deposits for pension or trustee allowances can be
organised. CapitalGuardians alerts you, via email or SMS when the account reaches the maximum allowable limit of funds allowed.
Withdraws Residents can withdraw cash to spend, via the residential facilities petty cash system or residents can charge the items or services to be deducted from their account.
Statements CapitalGuardians offers detailed Resident Statements, generally accessed via the internet, or, if requested, can be received in the mail, like a traditional banks statement.
How does it work?
§ You approve the relevant suppliers who will provide the goods and services and their financial limits
§ You can pay money into the trust account, via cheque or via eft
§ Expenditure reviews are on-line or via optional printed monthly statements
§ You are required to top-up the trust account when necessary
Your obligations only reflect fully delivered service and products from your chosen suppliers for the balance of the account.
Security of Funds
All monies are kept in a Statutory Trust Account, administrated by the Commonwealth Bank. The funds are visible to all account holders and returnable within 24hours.
Please complete the following form
------Promotional points------
Easy access to products and services
Eliminates administration
Access to audit trail of expenditure authorisations
Environmental – no paper….
Transparency for all expenses
Security of limits & professional fundsmanagement
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- advertisements
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Oral history interview with Konrad E. Bloch
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The interview begins with Konrad E. Bloch describing his childhood in Neisse, Germany, and his undergraduate education at Technische Hochschule in Munich. During a research assistantship in Davos, Switzerland, Bloch had…
- Interviewee Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-
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Thoughts On Collaboration.../
Ah, the windfall of public speaking. My two stop tour of Sydney & Auckland generated a lot of material. I did a handful of interviews with some very knowledgeable journalists/filmmakers. They have been coming to print and pixel. I spoke to Fiona Milburn from Transmedia NZ for the big idea on several subjects. You can read the whole article here. Amongst the questions I was asked about collaboration:
The key to collaboration is: the acknowledgement of what you don't know; respect for the experience and contributions of others; and a general level of openness and discovery. I don't think that changes. It is still at the core of everything. However, what is exciting is the move away from geo-location based collaboration. You no longer need to gather in the same spot.
Traditional collaboration was certainly very fruitful, but we now have tools that allow for different ways of working. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was the first time I was aware of work done in a decentralised manner. Due to differing time zones, the film had teams of people working on VFX 24/7 around the globe. And, the visual effects coordination involved somebody working with these globally diverse, individual teams of contractors. Now this form of collaboration is accessible to all of us.
One of the difficulties with these new forms of creating and consuming is that, until they've seen it done, many people don't know how to do it. Thus, when somebody "gets it," they feel like a pioneer. And, they're easy to recognise. The history of pioneers tells us that they're the ones with arrows and swords in their back.
Currently, the folks who've done well in film are those who've lived through the period of capital intensive creation. It's a different era now, but our experts, the people who have delivered the current proof of principle, are used to working in that format. It's the new creators who will be the new leaders and thinkers. They are going to be pioneers and, unfortunately, some of them will be sacrificed.
There's a lot more in the article on story world building, transmedia, and finding a new way forward. Read it: http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/blogs/transit/121245-a-new-way-forward-for-cinema


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An epidemic of baldness and short hair is expected to start this weekend among Auburn police officers and others who support Auburn Police Officer Stephanie L. Segur's fight against cancer.
Officer Segur, 28, was diagnosed May 30 with anaplastic large-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a particularly aggressive and rare form of cancer.
Her last day on the job was the overnight shift of June 18-19. Chemotherapy began June 21, the first day of summer.
Her introduction to cancer began last month, when she noticed a golf-ball-size lump under her arm.
"It was painful and hard," she said.
Her older brother, Timothy J. Segur, said, "I told her to get it checked out."
At first, she was told it was just a cyst, but when the painful lump grew to the size of a tennis ball, she decided to get a second opinion. A biopsy of two lymph nodes found one was malignant.
"I was told mine was a rare, aggressive form of the disease, and that only 3 percent of non-Hodgkin's is the type I have, and only one in three of that 3 percent are women. The good news is that it is super-curable," Officer Segur said.
She is under the care of hematologist-oncologist Dr. Eric D. Jacobsen at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
A port was embedded in her chest, through which six chemotherapy treatments will be given once every three weeks.
One of the side effects she can expect is hair loss, which might have greatly saddened other pretty blonde beauties, but roused Officer Segur to action.
"It's something I have to go through. A lot of this is out of my control, but if I can control one thing, I will," she said.
She decided to preemptively shave her head.
Her brother said he would do the same in support of his sister, and then her best friend, Christina Bowes Berardi, decided to cut her hair short as a show of support.
"I asked Tina if others might be interested. Word spread, and so far 200 have registered for haircuts or shaves. It started small, but grew," Mr. Segur said.
He decided to host an event, Shave It for Steph, where Ms. Segur and Ms. Berardi will be among those to have their hair cut or shaved by volunteer hairdressers.
Everyone is invited to participate in the fundraiser to benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 2 to 6 p.m. June 30 at CrossFit CenterMass, 333 Shrewsbury St., Worcester. Mr. Segur is co-owner, manager and trainer there. A $10 donation will be collected at the door. Those who shave their heads will receive a free T-shirt and five free raffle tickets.
Mr. Segur said several local businesses have donated raffle baskets for the event.
"No one has to shave their head or cut their hair. Anyone can show their support for Steph just by donating and joining the festivities."
He said there will be food, music, drinks and fun.
All collected hair will be donated to Locks of Love, which provides hair pieces to disadvantaged children with medical hair loss, and to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, which provides wigs to adult cancer patients.
Among those signed up for a shave is Auburn Police Detective Sgt. Jeffrey A. Lourie, chairman of the School Committee.
He said. "It's only hair. It will grow back. The Police Department and the Auburn Police Association will do what we can to help. She will be a focus of our `Relay for Life' team this fall as well."
Police Chief Andrew J. Sluckis said, "Stephanie is a great person and a terrific police officer. We'll miss her, but will be glad when she comes back."
He said that, unfortunately, the Police Department is "all too familiar with cancer." Officer Eric Snay was 31 when he died March 7, 2002, after a seven-month battle with brain cancer.
Officer Segur expects to miss about six months of work.
She said, "You're not handed anything you can't deal with. I can't wait for this to be over and to get back to work. I love my job."
Donations in any amount, with checks made out to the "Dana-Farber Cancer Institute" or the "Jimmy Fund," with a notation "in honor of Officer Stephanie Segur," can be dropped off at CrossFit CenterMass in Worcester or be sent to Timothy Segur, 10 Fairchild Drive, Holden, MA 01520.
For more information, visit www.together4cancer and enter Stephanie Segur, Auburn, MA.