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Air traffic control errors — such as allowing planes to fly too close together — rose sharply across the nation in recent years, with the highest increase coming from the San Diego-based hub that manages air traffic for much of Southern California, according to a federal audit released this week.
The increases are "dramatic" and "continue to be a major air safety concern," concluded the report by the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Errors soared by 473 percent at the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility, which is located in Kearny Mesa. They jumped from 33 in fiscal year 2009 to 189 in fiscal year 2010, the audit showed.
Nationwide, they rose 53 percent — from 1,234 to 1,887 — during the same period, according to the audit. Air traffic hubs in central Florida, Houston and Miami all saw steep increases, though none as high as the San Diego-based center.
The figures remained at the same high level from 2010 through 2011, the latest year for verified data.
The inspector general's findings became fodder for the nation's continuing political debate about government spending. While federal aviation officials said the vast majority of mistakes did not lead to significant safety risks, projects to avoid such errors are now in jeopardy due to the forced federal cuts that went into effect last week, a spokesman for an air traffic controller association said Tuesday.
"Safety is air traffic controllers' top priority. The safety reporting systems … are working well and helping to keep our nation's aviation system the safest in the world," Doug Church, spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in an email. "Unfortunately, sequestration may soon put that progress at risk. These budget cuts may stymie the efforts of air traffic controllers and the FAA to move safety reporting systems forward with updated technologies and procedures.
Last month, the FAA said worker furloughs and possible shutdowns of air traffic control towers could start by April. On the list of tower shutdowns are San Diego's Brown Field and airports in Ramona.
The nation's regional TRACON facilities, as they are called, manage air traffic in the vast space between airports. Southern California TRACON is the nation's busiest air traffic center, assisting pilots between the more than 60 airports from Ventura County south to Mexico.
The center had 252 staff members in January 2013; 266 in January 2012; 277 in January 2011; and 263 in January 2010, according to figures provided by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Controllers at individual airports, including the San Diego International Airport, manage air traffic when arriving or departing planes are within several miles of the runway.
The audit did not study errors made by controllers at individual airports.
The FAA, which employs controllers at the nation's regional TRACON hubs, said the rise in errors resulted mostly from increased error reporting, not from an uptick in actual mistakes.
But the inspector general said that reason couldn't account for the overall skyrocketing of errors found. The audit cited other causes, including a 39 percent rise in errors reported by an automated system "in place for years."
Another factor was the reclassification of 147 aircraft landings guided by the Kearny Mesa-based TRACON that were later considered too close to other planes, the report added. The recategorization made them "operational errors."
Kevin Karpe, a manager at the Kearny Mesa-based TRACON, declined to comment on the audit and referred a reporter's questions to the FAA.
FAA officials say the agency has bolstered its safety mechanisms and that a vast majority of mistakes are breaches of procedure or safety buffers but not near-collisions. Even with the increase in reporting, agency officials said the errors occurred on a tiny fraction of overall air traffic operations.
The inspector general audit recommends the FAA:
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• Determine the "true magnitude" of operational errors
• Assess the potential safety impacts of the mistakes
• Identify the root causes of the errors
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Seventy-eight percent of Florida's west central coast and 23 percent of the Panhandle are very likely to face beach and dune erosion as Tropical Storm Isaac moves into the area early next week, according to an assessment released by the U.S. Geological Survey on Friday. These numbers are likely to increase if the storm reaches hurricane strength as predicted.
For many Florida beaches that had significant erosion during Tropical Storm Debby in June, the impact of additional erosion may be even more significant.
"With Isaac bearing down on Florida beaches so soon on the heels of Debby, this is like a 'one-two punch' for the dunes that provide coastal protection," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "As these sand dunes dynamically morph to new configurations, our science-based models can help in forecasting where communities are at most risk from storm damage in this ever-changing spatial and temporal pattern of storm intensity and coastal morphology."
During tropical storms and hurricanes, elevated water levels and waves can lead to dramatic coastal change through erosion of beaches and dunes. These beaches and dunes can serve as a first line of defense for residents for many coasts exposed to these types of storms.
Using a USGS-developed model scientists incorporated measurements of beach elevation and wave and surge forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to determine the probabilities of collision, overwash and inundation during the coming storm.
Collision is when waves attack the base of dunes and cause dune-front erosion. Overwash occurs when waves and storm surge overtop dunes and transport sand landward. Inundation, the most extreme of the three, occurs when increased water levels completely submerge beaches and dunes.
"Tropical Storm Debby eroded many beaches along Florida's west central coast, impacting the property of many gulf-side residents and hotels," said Hilary Stockdon, a USGS oceanographer and lead of the assessment team. "Beaches typically take years to recover from severe storm impact, so having what is likely to be a Category 1 or 2 hurricane move up the coast just two months later could take a heavy toll on some already heavily eroded areas."
In addition to the likelihood of erosion, the team found that 15 percent of the west central coast was very likely to face overwash should the storm make direct landfall there, while that likelihood was only 5 percent for the Panhandle where dune elevations are higher. Unless forecasts change significantly, inundation is not expected in either area.
The team will revise its calculations as storm track and intensity forecasts are updated, and will update their projections and website accordingly. They plan to include the Alabama and Mississippi coasts in their assessments this weekend. Additional information on coastal change and extreme storms can be found on the USGS Coastal Change Hazards website.
In May, the USGS released a report assessing probability of coastal change for the Gulf Coast when facing hurricanes of different strengths. The report included an interactive map that allows users to focus on different parts of the Gulf Coast shoreline to view how the probability of erosion, caused by waves and storm surge, will vary depending on hurricane intensity.
The research is expected to help emergency managers at local, state and federal levels as they prepare for hurricane events such as this one in this and future seasons. Planners will be able to determine how different categories of hurricanes would impact their beaches and surrounding communities, helping them better protect lives and property.
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Ohio State president, the whimsically-named E. Gordon Gee, fired off a rather enthusiastic tweet regarding the Buckeyes' big game against Wisconsin.
The Schott is in reference to the Jerome Schottenstein Center, where Ohio State will host the Wisconsin Badgers tomorrow. It's OK, he's old and old people are typically insane. Maybe he thinks he's in the arena with lots of excited Buckeyes fans. Neighbors could be playing some loud music or something.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The body of Ildefonso Martinez arrived on a Friday night last April as John Doe, Case No. 12-01000. He wore black Nike shoes, a Perry Ellis belt, a Casio watch.
For medical examiners at the Pima County morgue, his was an unusual case. Not in how he died — making the same arduous journey that has claimed thousands of illegal immigrants — but rather because he was identified so quickly.
The death of migrants crossing the border has long been a tragic consequence of illegal immigration and, many say, the increase in U.S. border enforcement. For some, the problem is a powerful motivator in pushing Congress to act this year on immigration reform. But critics say proposals offered so far call for more enforcement with few specifics on how to save lives.
"The language coming out is alarmingly more of the same," said Kat Rodriguez of Coalicion de Derechos Humanos in Tucson, who gathers information on missing migrants from family and friends to give to medical examiners trying to identify the dead.
Thousands more Border Patrol agents, hundreds of miles of fencing, and cameras, sensors and aircraft have made it more difficult to enter the U.S. illegally, prompting smugglers to guide migrants to remote deserts. People walk up to a week in debilitating heat, often with enough bottled water and canned tuna to last only days.
While illegal crossings have dropped dramatically in past years, hundreds of bodies are still found annually on the border. Border agents conduct more than 1,000 rescues each year, and humanitarian groups have placed water stations along the boundary in hope of helping.
In the last 15 years, at least 5,513 migrants have been found dead along the 1,954-mile border with Mexico, including 463 in fiscal year 2012, the Border Patrol reports.
The Tucson sector — which since 2001 has accounted for more migrant deaths than any other Border Patrol sector — located 177 bodies in the last fiscal year. Texas' Rio Grande Valley saw the greatest jump in bodies found: 150 last year compared to 66 in 2011.
In that state, migrants cross the Rio Grande, catch a ride north and then hike for days on vast ranches in Brooks County to avoid a highway checkpoint. The county has no medical examiner and does not test DNA of deceased migrants, who are buried in unnamed graves at a cemetery in the town of Falfurrias.
The situation is similar to what Pima County authorities faced when Arizona became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings more than a decade ago. At the Pima County Forensic Science Center campus, file cabinets hold dossiers on more than 700 unidentified corpses discovered.
since the late 1990s. Many bodies were too decomposed to identify. Others carried false identification or no identification.
Coolers for 262 corpses and refrigerated trucks on call with room for another 45 give the nation's 30th-largest city one of the country's largest morgues.
"Nobody has this problem. Nobody," said Dr. Gregory Hess, Pima County medical examiner. His office rules on more than 2,000 deaths a year by murder, suicide and other causes, but migrants pose the biggest challenge because they so often cannot be identified.
Since 2001, the office has examined the bodies of 2,067 border crossers, the vast majority of them Mexican men. Men like Ildefonso Martinez.
Martinez, 39, was born and raised in a farming village in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi. After paying a smuggler some $200 to get him across the border, he settled in the San Diego area in the early 1990s and worked whatever odd jobs he could find.
Then last March, he agreed to watch the cash register at a friend's convenience store. A sheriff's deputy who required a signature on a regulatory notice turned suspicious when Martinez produced a Mexican consular identification card. The deputy called the Border Patrol, and Martinez was deported.
Left behind in California were his wife, Juana Garcia, and five children and stepchildren. Desperate to return to them, Martinez tried crossing three times in the mountains east of San Diego but was caught.
Then he decided to try his luck in Arizona. "It will be one night and one day, and we'll be there," Martinez told another crosser, Isaac Jimenez, whom he convinced to come with him.
Jimenez would later share with The Associated Press what happened during the two men's journey north.
At 7 p.m. on Friday, April 20, he said, they crossed into the U.S. with 19 others at Lukeville, a border town 150 miles south of Phoenix. For 10 hours the group traipsed through the desert before resting in a cave. They had resumed their trek under a blazing sun for four more hours when Martinez collapsed.
"'I'm too young to die,'" Jimenez remembered him saying.
"Then he said he didn't know who I was. He began to go crazy, to lose his memory," Jimenez told the AP.
The smuggler insisted the group abandon Martinez, but Jimenez said he stayed, rubbing alcohol on his friend's hot, swollen body and starting a small fire to draw attention. About two hours later, when Jimenez left in search of cellphone coverage, Martinez's eyeballs were rolling and he had stopped talking.
What happened next is unclear. Jimenez said he dialed 911 after about three hours of walking and insists the Border Patrol agents who drove him back to Mexico assured him they would find his friend. The Border Patrol said in a statement that agents arrested Jimenez but that it had no record of him pleading on behalf of Martinez.
Five days later, after frantic phone calls from Martinez's stepdaughter to U.S. and Mexican officials, Border Patrol agents met Jimenez at the Lukeville border crossing and he quickly led them to the body. Birds circled above.
At the Pima County Forensic Science Center, the cause of death was listed as probable hyperthermia. Typically, investigators measure bones and examine teeth to determine gender, date of death, age and other characteristics. If the skin is dried up, they may soak a hand in fluid called sodium hydroxide, rehydrating it to get fingerprints.
Relatives searching for missing loved ones are pressed for details. Any chipped or gold teeth? Tattoos or scars? Broken bones?
"It's like a puzzle," said Robin Reineke, a cultural anthropology graduate student at The University of Arizona who interviews families and feels comforted when her work helps ease their anguish. "I've talked with some of these families for five years. They've been waiting for that long for an answer."
One in three migrant corpses remains unidentified, forcing investigators to send bone or blood samples out for DNA testing. Some bodies stay in coolers for more than a year.
Until the mid-2000s, unidentified remains were buried in Tucson. Now they are cremated to save money. Lockers at the center store the keepsakes of those who go unclaimed: a digital music player, $20 bills, paper with scribbled phone numbers.
With Martinez, investigators had a lot to go on: The personal belongings his family eventually would identify, including a business card for his dentist back in California. Examiners were able to obtain his dental records and make a positive match.
The Mexican government will pay to bring corpses home, but Martinez's family scraped together $16,000 to bury him near their San Diego apartment, the living room walls lined with portraits of his mustachioed face.
"Here we go see him every weekend," said stepdaughter Gladys Dominguez.
Juana, 43, speaks warmly of Jimenez for attempting to save her husband's life. He settled in Fresno, Calif., after sneaking back across the border, and said he wanted the widow to know her husband's last words.
"He did all that he could," she said. Now she hopes that the U.S. government finds a way to do more to prevent such deaths.
"People like my husband need immigration reform," she said. "There are lots of people like him."
Martinez was buried last May, on Gladys' 19th birthday. The gravestone bears a photo of him with Juana at their 2010 wedding and reads, "Juntos Por Siempre." Together Forever.
AP reporter Christopher Sherman in McAllen, Texas, contributed to this report.
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A judge in Los Angeles has postponed a hearing on rape charges against former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper to await the results of an upcoming bail hearing in Arizona.
Sharper appeared briefly Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom in the case alleging he drugged and raped two women in West Hollywood last year. He has pleaded not guilty and remains in custody without bail.
Superior Court Judge Renee Korn postponed the hearing, noting that Sharper's attorneys have proceedings in Arizona on Wednesday to set bail in a separate case alleging the former player sexually assaulted two women in Tempe.
Sharper is expected to stand trial first in Los Angeles. Another hearing was set there for Thursday.


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Celebrating NoroozNorooz, a celebration of the new year that is marked by people from every religion and belief, was met with relief and joy by Iranians all over the world. Millions in Iran traveled in cars, buses, trains, and planes to see family and friends and to do a bit of urban camping. Iran's press was filled with stories of tourist attractions and the numbers of travelers.
"Unbelievable Inflation"Sanctions are taking a huge bite out of the budgets of most Iranian households. Prices are "unbelievable," sources tell Arseh Sevom. "Prices change three times a day and the government blames it all on the embargos," an Ahwazi householder says. A Tehrani resident says that her home has lost 50% of its value this year. With sanctions on doing business with Iran's central bank kicking in, inflation is expected to continue to rise. The Economist Intelligence Unit predicted further pain for the majority of Iranian households as the rial continues to plummet.
Women Hit HardestIn a Swedish publication (translated by Anusche Noring), Sholeh Irani writes of warmongering and the oppression of women, stating there is broad consensus among Iranian women's rights that sanctions and war do not lead to freedom and democracy. The article quoted prominent women's rights activist Parvin Ardalan as saying:
"Under the shadow of the looming threat of war and economic sanctions, the Iranian regime has been stepping up its oppression of women, new discriminatory legislation is coming into force, and further pressure has been brought to bear upon civil society actors in recent months. One example which has not attracted any attention or resistance was the new legislation introducing total gender segregation in the country's universities." Ms Ardalan, who has been following developments closely, finds that the impact of economic sanctions is manifesting itself more and more each day. They are affecting civil society – the regime, on the other hand, has managed to get by so far. "In the majority of families in Iran, the husband is the sole breadwinner. Women are in charge of handling the family's finances and need to ensure that their husband's small income will cover all expenses. This has been a difficult struggle for the majority of women for some time now, due to the regime's economic policies, but in recent months, it has become an impossible task. Alarmingly high prices for food, rent and other necessities of life, combined with rising unemployment and the general anxiety that exists in Iran, entail a dramatic increase in the burden borne by women."
Extended Term for UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in IranThe report presented by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmad Shaheed, was discussed at length in the Iranian blogosphere. There was wide agreement among activists and organizations that the report was comprehensive and accurate. More than 20 organizations signed a letter urging the retention of the Special Rapporteur:
The country mandate has mobilized, in an unprecedented manner, Iranians both inside and outside the country, to engage with the international community. In meeting after meeting, victims and activists have told us that they see the office of the Special Rapporteur as a critical focal point for documenting rights abuses, and an impartial and reliable channel of communication between victims and the United Nations and its member states. In this regard, the Special Rapporteur fulfills an important role for Iranian survivors of human rights violations which is denied to them in Iran.Last week a second year was indeed added to his mandate. (Arseh Sevom has been following this story on its Persian site: Iranian Human Rights Activists at an International Meeting in Geneva, The Need for Human Rights Education in Iran, Torture and Oppression of Prisoners)
Iranian Journalist Wins British Media Award While Another Spends his 999th Day in EvinRadio Farda interviewed Amir Taheri who was awarded International Journalist of the Year by the British Media Foundation. Eighty journalists signed a letter to the imprisoned journalist Massoud Bastani on the occasion of his 999th day in Evin Prison. They thanked him for his resistance, courage, and nobility in the face of brutality and imprisonment.
Who Would've Guessed?News that Chinese companies have been supplying Iran with surveillance technologies since at least 2010 has come as no surprise to many. Human rights activist Anita Hunt tweeted:
@lissnup: 14 months after you saw it on Twitter, Reuters does a special on #China selling #Iran snooping software http://snup.us/v6XIt should also come as no surprise that these technologies are often used to track down dissenters. In related news, China has been using malware to attack Macs used by NGOs focusing on issues related to Tibet. Activists should expect similar actions from Iran.
EU Sanctions Human Rights Abusers and Bans Export of Surveillance TechChina is not the only country providing surveillance technology to Iran, the EU is home to a number of companies that have provided surveillance and monitoring capabilities in the past. This past week, the EU banned these sales to Iran. In addition 17 human rights abusers in Iran were sanctioned by the EU. Enduring America has the complete list on its site. Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament, told Arseh Sevom:
"In the midst of all the talk about possible military actions against Iran these important new human rights sanctions signal the EU's ongoing concern about the systematic violation of the Iranian's fundamental rights and freedoms. By banning the export of European-made Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and operational services used for surpression and by targeting those within the Iranian regime responsible for the massive censorship and monitoring of internet and mobile communication traffic, the EU seeks to prevent the successful establishment of an electronic firewall and the "national internet," which would cut off Iranians from the open world wide web. Sustainable change in Iran can only come from within, therefore the international community should stand by the Iranian people and preserve an ongoing dialogue, both online and offline, how difficult that may be. In my opinion democatization and human rights should be elevated even higher on the political agenda."
A Holiday Reprieve for Some, Communication Blackout for OthersThe holiday of Norooz gave some relief to political prisoners such as Mehdi Karroubi, who after four months was allowed to see his family. The Guardian reported:
The news about Karroubi comes after several activists and journalists were given temporary leave from prison for the Nowruz holiday. Journalist Ali Mousavi Khalkhali, singer Arya Aramnejad, activist Mehdi Khazali and Parvin Mokhtarea, the mother of human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi, were among those let out of prison for Nowruz. There was no news on whether Mir Hossein Mousavi, another opposition leader, had been given prison leave.Most, however, were left imprisoned, without access to family or even telephone calls. To bring attention to their situation, political prisoners refused all communication in the week after the holiday.
Arab Minority Targeted for Harsh PunishmentsIn Ahwaz, six Arab minority, political prisoners arrested during a peaceful demonstration, were sentenced by the revolutionary court to imprisonment and execution. The Arab minority in the area continues to be targeted by authorities.
Religious Minorities Face DiscriminationOn April 1, 7 Baha'i will have been in prison in Iran for a combined total of 10,000 days and several cities, including Amsterdam, will be taking action to bring attention to their plight and to that of other prisoners of conscience. This comes in the wake of a report on religious freedom issued by the US State Department that condemns Iran for its discrimination against religious minorities.
The commission condemned the Iranian government for discriminating against its citizens on the basis of their beliefs, using imprisonment, torture and executions. The annual report, published Tuesday, describes how conditions have worsened for the country's religious minorities, such as the Baha'is, Christians and Sufi Muslims. But even those protected under Iran's constitution — including Jews, Armenian and Assyrian Christians and Zoroastrians — have come under attack.A pdf of the report can be downloaded here: http://www.uscirf.gov/images/Annual%20Report%20of%20USCIRF%202012%282%29.pdf


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When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva's celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, he'd been hired to help replace the control systems for several of the lab's particle accelerators. Almost immediately, the inventor of the modern Web page noticed a problem: thousands of people were coming and going from the famous research institute, many of them temporary hires.
"The big challenge for contract programmers was to try to understand the systems, both human and computer, that ran this fantastic playground," he later wrote. "Much of the crucial information existed only in people's heads."
In his spare time, Berners-Lee was working on some software that might alleviate this fragmentation and spread more useful information around. It was a little program he named Enquire, and it allowed users to create "nodes"—information-packed index card-style pages that linked to other pages.
Berners-Lee was pleased with what he eventually produced, but the PASCAL application ran on CERN's obscure and proprietary operating system, so he didn't take it with him when his contract expired.
"I gave the eight-inch floppy disk to a systems manager, and explained that it was a program for keeping track of information," Berners-Lee recalled, and told CERN staff to deploy the program as they saw fit. "The few people who saw it thought it was a nice idea, but no one used it. Eventually, the disk was lost, and with it, the original Enquire."
Four years later, Berners-Lee returned to CERN. This time his innovation took on a life of its own and gradually morphed into the World Wide Web. But for now, let's stay with the Enquire story. Let's stay with that eight-inch floppy sitting in a circular file in the back corner of somebody's office—a great communications technology idea that got lost in the shuffle.
Why focus on the the dustbin? Because from the dawn of telecommunications history through the present, that's where most innovations actually wind up.
Wholly unnecessary
Take Sir Francis Ronalds. In 1814, it occurred to the British meteorologist that Europe's widely used semaphore telegraph system could be improved by sending signals electronically, rather than visually through sign post towers. So he put together an elaborate gizmo in the garden of his Upper Mall house in London.
Can you imagine Jack Dorsey inventing Twitter, then offering it to the State Department? That's pretty much the equivalent of what Francis Ronalds did.
I've never been able to find a description that adequately explained Ronalds' contraption, but the device centered around a glass tube encasing a wire linking two synchronized clocks. Each station had a pair of pith balls ready to bounce into each other in response to an electrical signal, then the receiving clock would rotate to the specific character prompted by the electrically charged sending clock.
By 1816, Ronalds had demonstrated the machine to his satisfaction. What did he do next? Something that is completely unthinkable in our time, so far as I can tell. He offered to hand his gadget over to the Crown.
"Why should not our government govern at Portsmouth almost as promptly as at Downing Street?" Ronalds wrote to Viscount Melville, Lord of the Admiralty. "Let us have electric conversazione offices, communicating with each other all over the kingdom, if we can."
Can you imagine Jack Dorsey inventing Twitter, then offering it to the State Department? That's pretty much the equivalent of what Francis Ronalds did. And what did Lord Melville say in response to this patriotic largesse? He turned Ronalds down.
Since the war with Napoleon had concluded, Melville's secretary wrote back, there was no particular reason to improve on the semaphore system. "Telegraphs of any kind are now wholly unnecessary. No other than the one now in use will be adopted."
Not being able to give away your masterpiece; can it get any worse than that? Sure it can. At least Ronalds noticed that he had built a world-changing invention. The same couldn't be said for Reginald Fessenden.
A song for the ships at sea
In 1906, the Canadian engineer was experimenting with high frequency alternators to send wireless Morse code across the Atlantic Ocean. But he also saw that his continuous wave technology could be used to transmit the human voice. And so on Christmas Eve of that year, Fessenden broadcast live to the ships sailing by his Brant Rock, Massachusetts wireless station. He played his violin, some phonograph records, sang a few tunes himself, then made a speech.
Amazed shipboard wireless operators wrote back to say that they had heard Fessenden's performance. "The Christmas Eve program is still considered the first radio broadcast in American history," notes the communications historian Susan Douglas, "and a truly dramatic demonstration of the alternator's capabilities."
So what did Fessenden do then? About radio broadcasting—nothing. He saw his innovation only as a way to improve wireless communications between individuals. "It is important to note that Fessenden was not proposing that the wireless telephone be used for broadcasting," Douglas adds. He was "still trying to improve point-to-point communication."
Bottom line: either Fessenden didn't notice that he'd invented modern radio, or he just didn't care.
Just about every innovator in history has been described as "ahead of their time." But the trick is not to be too ahead of your time. You don't want to invent the telegraph in 1816 when hardly anyone had access to electricity and railroads, telegraphy's natural partners. You want to be Charles Wheatstone or Samuel Morse twenty years later, when both Britain and the United States were more technologically developed and it was clearer that semaphore telegraphy couldn't keep pace with the economy.
Similarly, you also don't want to be Reginald Fessenden in 1906, when radio receivers were still not a popular consumer item. You want to be innovator and broadcast radio booster Lee De Forest just a half decade down the road, when amateur wireless had become all the rage and the possibilities for broadcasting were more obvious.
And you definitely don't want to be entrepreneur Cyrus Field, mid-19th century developer of the Trans-Atlantic Cable.
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Using Cactus in a Low-Maintenance Container Garden
Light and temperature are the defining needs of many succulents. In general, most need a great deal of bright light, although some take part shade. Most cannot survive for more than a night with temperatures below 40 degrees F, but some are hardy in all climates. Looking on the bright side (so to speak), the range of preferences means that there are succulents for every garden taste and climate.
The basic rules for growing succulents in containers are pretty simple:
- Provide as much light as possible during the summer — although full sun in really warm places, including their desert homelands, can be too hot for many succulents in the confines of a container. Some types prefer part shade.
- Protect succulents from cold weather in the winter. Move them indoors to a sunny window where temperatures do not drop below 40 degrees F.
If you have large heavy containers, plan to put them on wheels unless you want to start building your muscles.
Choosing containers
Succulents lend themselves to terracotta pots — the attraction's probably the desert look about both plants and the containers. Terracotta also is porous, which keeps roots from sitting in water; stone and concrete pots also work well for the same reason.
Making sure that the container has drainage holes is another important rule — sometimes so obvious it may be missed. Feel free to use a shallow container (just 4 to 6 inches deep) if it looks best for your plants — succulent roots don't go very deep. For a plant with a rounded shape, choose a container that's 2 inches wider than the plant. For an upright plant, choose a pot that's half the diameter of the plant's height.
When gardeners select containers, cactus and succulents sometimes bring out the eccentric. You can plant small hens and chicks or other rosette-forming succulents in strawberry jars, old boots, or even worn-out tennis shoes. Another popular choice is hypertufa — a do-it-yourself project made with concrete, peat moss, and the mold of your choice. Hypertufa's rugged beauty provides an appropriate setting for ornamental succulents like sedum, echeveria, and sempervivum.
Selecting soil mix
Quick drainage is the most important quality of a soil mix designed for succulents. The standard mix consists of one-half organic matter (peat moss, leaf mold, or something like that) and one-half grit (crushed rock or sand). You can find many cactus and succulent mixes already bagged.
Design your succulent containers following the same principles that you apply for other plants: combining something tall and spiky, something mounded, something trailing. A well-balanced landscape can be accomplished by using one large container with several plants. Or put each plant in its own container and then group the pots — this mix-and-match method gives you freedom to rearrange on a whim.
When planting cactus, care is the key word — for yourself and the plant. Wear thick gloves and/or wrap the cactus in a sleeve of thickly layered paper and use the ends as a handle. (If you get stuck with a few spines, use a piece of cellophane tape to remove them.)
1. First, cover the drain hole with a piece of broken pottery or a bit of metal screen.
2. Fill the container part way with soil mix and ease the plant into the container.
3. Use a narrow trowel or spoon to fill around the cactus with soil mix.
Most cactus and many other succulents have shallow roots, so do not plant too deeply. Burying part of the stem invites rot to set in. Make sure that the soil level in the pot is no higher than the level of the soil in the plant's nursery container.
4. After planting, add a top layer of gravel or crushed stone to provide a finished, desert-like look that also helps keep the base of the plant dry.
Buy any bag of gravel you like or choose crushed rock that enhances the look of the plant and the container — something with a pinkish tone, for example, may look nice with terracotta. Feel free to add any decorative details at this point — miniature dry steer heads, thirst-craved miners, and so on.
Forget some of the myths that you may have heard or imagined about cactus and succulents. You do need to water them and feed them.
Water regularly during the growing season — remember that this can be winter for some species. Thorough watering is better than a sprinkle every day or two. When the soil is completely dry, it's time to water again. One effective way to water smaller pots is to sit them in a tub of water nearly up to their rims, leaving them there until the top layer of soil is moist.
During their dormant season and in cool temperatures (50 degrees F), most cactus and succulents can go without water for weeks at a time. Don't become complacent and forget that the poor things are even alive. Resume regular watering just before the growing season begins.
When plants are in a growing stage, fertilize about once a month — or every other time you water, if you water every two weeks. Succulents need all the nutrients that other plants do — nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium — plus trace elements. You can use just about any complete liquid fertilizer or a special fertilizer designed for cactus and succulents; or try a tomato fertilizer at half-strength.
If you need to repot a cactus, use a piece of rolled-up paper towel or newspaper to remove the plant from its original container, as shown in Figure 1.


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I have said this before but I'll say it again, shooting features or serious television in 1080P is a big mistake. Since this view will certainly get thrown around the industry, let me explain why.
1. With the certain new standard of 4K delivery for movies AND tv, anything shot on 1080P will be left in the cold for a re-release. Several major companies have 4K displays and projectors nearing release to theaters and to the public. Sony has already converted many theaters to their 4K projectors. Epson has a killer home 4K projector in waiting. Panasonic, Samsung, Christie, Barco, Sharp, Meridian, and others are ready to get their fair share.
2. 1080P is not a quality replacement for film. It has 1/4 the actual measured resolution of film (some less than that). To make the "big screen" it needs sharpening. Often times lots of it. Sharpening is not good for the skin. Real resolution beats sharpening every time... by a lot.
It is my firm belief that hindsight will show the 1st two digital standards, SD and HD, will be considered "mistakes" in the not to distant future. Film will never be considered a mistake. It is the gold standard. It will hold up to 4K releases and you will see many classics re-released in 4K.
Don't count television out of 4K. The delivery mechanism is coming.
I started RED because I did not believe that 1080P was an adequate replacement for film. I love film. When its day is done, we need to honor it with at least as good an image... hopefully better. 1080P is not it.
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What kind of massage do guys like? I want to treat my man at the spa.
A deep-tissue sports massage it sounds manly and targets the dense muscles where guys hold tension, says Robert Napodano, of Nickel Spa for Men. Prefer to do the job yourself? Rub along either side of his spine, pressing in and then pushing away from his backbone using the pad of your thumb.


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Obama will head back to North Carolina in June
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will return to North Carolina in two weeks, when he is scheduled to visit the Triangle area — Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill — for a discussion about how the government can promote economic growth in the private sector.
Obama plans to meet with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council on June 13, according to the White House. He is expected to hear from local business leaders as well.
The Jobs and Competitiveness Council was created in January to get the private sector more deeply involved in job creation and to provide non-partisan advice to Obama. It held its first meeting Feb. 24 at the White House.
"The council is focused sharply on developing an actionable plan to create jobs and improve American competitiveness," said Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of the council, and chairman and chief executive officer of GE, in a prepared statement. "We look forward to discussing specific steps with the president in North Carolina."
Discussions likely will include ways to educate the workforce. Obama's last trip to North Carolina took him to Forsyth Tech Community College in December, where he toured biotech classrooms and spoke of the role technical colleges play in re-educating the workforce.
The state's unemployment rate was 9.7 percent in April, the 10th highest in the country. Some counties have been hit much harder, with rates topping 15 percent.
The exact location of Obama's June 13 visit has not been disclosed. It's also unclear whether he'll attend any fundraisers on the trip.
But expect visits from his administration to keep ratcheting up ahead of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, was just here Monday, and Tammy Duckworth, an assistant secretary for veterans affairs, is expected Thursday.
A new poll shows North Carolina is a key swing state in the election.
Obama has an approval rating of 50 percent and a 46 percent disapproval rating, according to a survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic leaning firm in Raleigh. It is the first time since June 2009, that the firm has found Obama with a majority approval rating in the state.
It is the second poll in recent days showing Obama in positive territory. A poll conducted for The Civitas Institute, a conservative advocacy group in Raleigh, found Obama with a 51 percent approval rating in the state.
News & Observer staff writer Rob Christensen contributed to this report.


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The Detroit Institute for Children last week shut down three outpatient clinics serving 250 special needs children to focus more resources on the institute's larger school program that provides services to more than 4,500 children.
"It was a difficult decision to make and filled with lots of emotion," said Mike Rhoads, the institute's director of school services. "The last couple years we had a reduction in the volume of patients relative to changes in the health care industry."
Rhoads said the institute wants to expand its school services program. An advisory board composed of school principals and parents will make recommendations on what additional services are needed.
Some 27 employees, including 17 therapists, who staffed the outpatient clinics were laid off, said Marge Resmer LaRuffa, the institute's COO. Clinic locations were in Detroit, Clawson and St. Clair Shores.
Cost savings for the institute were unavailable. The clinics ran a deficit and were supported by charitable donations, LaRuffa said. The institute provided $2.5 million in uncompensated care each year, according to its website.
LaRuffa said health benefit changes over the past several years, including those contained in the Affordable Care Act, have resulted in fewer patients seeking care at the institute's clinics. She could not estimate the percent decline over the last few years.
However, LaRuffa said reimbursement reductions from insurance companies contributed to the decline in patient volume, along with coverage denials by insurers for services the institute provided the children.
"More recently, our struggles were related to how much insurance companies would reimburse us," LaRuffa said. "Insurance companies wouldn't authorize services for children. They told parents they should be receiving those services in schools."
LaRuffa said physician services were offered at the clinics for many years until about 2010. "We constantly needed to reduce staff because our schedules weren't full," Rhoads said.
LaRuffa said several other pediatric clinics in Southeast Michigan have closed for similar reasons over the last few years.
"There are private clinics, but most don't take Medicaid. Hospitals will take Medicaid for a limited amount of time, but there are long waiting lists," LaRuffa said.
Rhoads and LaRuffa said the institute is doing its best to refer parents of children seen at the clinics to other resources.
"We have been working with a number of organizations to transition the children to therapists," LaRuff said. "We are not turning our backs on these families. While we aren't providing these services, we want to make sure those services continue for the families."


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There are so many thoughts chasing themselves in circles inside my head. When I woke up this morning I'd already half way finished verbalizing what I'd write today. Yet when I got to work and opened the page to start typing - nothing came.
2008 has been a big year for me. Many things have happened - some good - some eh not so good - some absolutely heart breaking - some breathtakingly beautiful.
I guess the best way to wrap this year up would be to just make a list - an accounting of all the big things that were.. and those that weren't.
I'm not going to number them because my OCD self would get stuck or something and spaz out trying to come up with one more thing so I can end on an even number.
No particular order, no good first bad last, just.. as they come to me - here are the events that outlined this year of my life - 2008.
- I started the year with two kitties, I ended it with none.
- I re-homed them at separate times, but they both ended up at the same home - together again. That makes me happy.
- I got a puppy - my first since the dog I had through most of my childhood and early 20's died in 2000.
- Edit - I thought I got a puppy. Turns out I got a goat in a pit bull costume.
- Required walking to help tame her excessive energy is going to help me get back in shape.
- After 5yrs of being single I decided to try my hand at dating and signed up on a few dating sites.
- I ended up talking to quite a few guys, but only ended up going on two actual dates.
- One was eh OK. He was a sweet guy - just not for me.
- The other - turned my life upside down. He was the perfect guy for me, and he broke my heart. But I will always care for him deeply and never regret a single second of knowing him.
- I tried to help out some family members who seemed to be having a hard time of things by letting them move in with me. One was my cousin, she stayed with me a few months - then screwed me over and we no longer talk. The other was my mom - she stayed a few months as well. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't exactly pleasant and put a tremendous strain on our already tenuous relationship.
- My new roommate moves in this weekend - not sure if I'm nervous, excited or just apathetic.
- I enrolled in college in October and took 2 classes for the fall semester. Next week I will begin the spring semester - 4 classes. I will be in my 3rd semester as a freshman.
- It's taken 10yrs to go back to college but I finally did it, and in this particular thing - I have never been more proud of myself.
- I broke a 4yr vow of abstinence in January with a guy I'd been friends with for 20yrs, and now we don't talk. I cannot express how sad that makes me.
- I went 6 more months without sex then attempted the FWB thing - it worked for me in my 20's. It does not work for me now.
- PT was the last person I shared myself with - and unless a miracle of all miracles happens and I fall in love and get married one day. He WILL be the last person to ever know me in that way.
- I reached my 1yr anniversary at my job, had a 1yr review and did fantastic. Looking forward to my raise in January.
- I started actively blogging again - and have net met many great people as a result.
- I also started Twittering - and am on the way to some really incredible friendships because of it.
- I found a new church home that I love - although tensions with PT's friends have made it not quite as enjoyable going lately.
- I'm determined to work through that last issue- their attitude is their problem- not mine.
- I met an angel - well really a person, but the way God has used them to help me is truly Angelic.
- I'm thinking I may be putting that person on too high a pedestal, because thus far they've only made me smile - that just changed. No one is perfect.
- I still think that person is going to help me learn more about myself than anyone else ever has - and for that I am thankful.
- I've renewed my vow of chastity to myself - and to God.
- The last is going to be hard - that is a part of myself I have struggled with for years. It's time I stopped struggling and let God take care of it - and me.
I know there's more - so much more, but remembering all the things I've been through is making me tired. It's been a very draining year - emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausting. I've faith that 2009 will be my year of revival.
Remembering things can be hard, especially when you've not fully over them. I've learned this year that everything has a process and my processor doesn't always seem to work right. I don't like dealing with things, I don't like emotions so I don't allow myself to go through the stages that are apparently necessary to heal, which means I just bury things. Problem on top of problem, hurt on top of hurt until I run out of room to pile them and I collapse into a sobbing emotional wreck.
This next year I want to work on processing things as they happen - allowing myself to feel, to love, to fear, to hurt, to heal and then to move on.
Mostly though - I want to work on allowing myself to be happy. I've not done that in a very very long time - if truly ever. I want to allow myself to truly BELIEVE that I am special, that I am capable and worthy of being loved - by others - but mostly by me.
So while 2008 wasn't entirely great - it wasn't entirely sucky either. I lived, I learned, I loved, I lost.. and now I'm moving on.
So to 2008 I say - goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend - you have been the one - you have been the one for me. But now I'm ready for someone new.
I'm ready for ME.


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The "Battles of the Boulevard" will once again be televised this season as the Lipscomb Bisons and the Belmont Bruins continue their long-time, heated rivalry.
On Jan. 12 the Bisons visit to Belmont will be televised beginning at 6:30 CST, 7:30 EST. The game was originally scheduled for Jan. 13.
The Bruins make the short trip to Allen Arena to face the host Bisons on Feb. 9. That game will also be televised live beginning at 6:30 p.m., 7:30 EST. The game was originally scheduled for Feb. 10.
Both games will the CSS Atlantic Sun Game of the Week for their respective week.
Lipscomb and Belmont tied for the A-Sun regular season championship. Both teams went to national postseason play with Belmont losing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to UCLA and Lipscomb losing in the first round of the NIT to Texas-El Paso.


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Michael Vick, who is 30, earned $1.2 million last season and picked up a second-year option of $5.2 million last spring. Tonight, he's so far thrown 14-for-18 for 264 yards, three touchdowns, and zero interceptions. His friend and former teammate Donovan McNabb, who turns 34 next week, agreed today to a 5-year, $78-million contract ($40 million guaranteed) with the Washington Redskins. Two quarters in, Donovan is 9-for-16 for 206 yards. He's thrown two touchdowns and two interceptions.
Not the greatest discrepancy, sure — but perhaps a bit of a red flag for the Philadelphia front office, which reportedly has not yet discussed a contract extension with its starting QB.


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Mr-shifter wrote:So this is what happens to sealed vectis shipping containers I guess. It looks fucking crap. How the fuck can this be u graded untouched by human hand when the fucking pleb at Afa would have had to put it together.
I hope the spring releases the parts when it gets shipped and they end up with a box of bits.
theforceuk wrote:I don't agree with this really but I'm just stuck in my ways. Some people would say that buying it U graded is as bad as getting it U graded. As your putting money in the U graders pockets. The thing is with this for me which is what I struggle with is before it was just a cardboard box that we new had Vader sealed in it. Now I'm saying it should have been kept like that as it's a part of vintage Star Wars toy history. But in a way I'm just complaining about a bit of tape being cut? Does it matter that it's not sealed any more? The contents are still preserved and it now displays like a piece of toy history?
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The Internet is generally plagued by websites that break basic rules of security, then there's a middle tier where website try to secure passwords... but they do it incorrectly. And finally, there's websites that do security correctly and are generally secure, but may be vulnerable to attacks not directly on the password but the authentication process itself.
Please note, I'm asking strictly about the authentication part. User management, rights management, baning accounts, and so forth are not part of this question, but if you have a solution that comes with these things that's an amazing bonus, but not what I'm asking.
What boxed solutions exist that allow us to wrap authentication around pages/content, and are not vulnerable to things easily read up in OWASP: they hash passwords correctly, they send Diffie-Hellman cookies (or something like that) rather than the hash of the password as a cookie. They follow RSA PKCS specs.
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Uncertainty engulfed the political climate in Syria amid conflicting reports over the likely leader of the interim period following president Hafez Assad's death on Saturday.
The official Syrian news agency (SANA) said that Vice President Abdul Halim Kahddam began to discharge the duties of a caretaker after issuing a statement endorsing the amendment of the constitution approved Saturday by the People's Assembly. The amendment was bound to pave the way for Bashar Assad the son of the late president to succeed his father.
Khaddam's statement followed reports that Syria's prime minister Musatafa Miro has been named as the country's caretaker,
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Feb 27, 2013, 09:58 am
Just wondering what some of you charge your customers when doing Arduino-related work. I end up making a lot of "custom" changes to the regular airsoft props that I sell, and I really have no idea what the going rate is. The changes I make range from the trivial (adding a couple more blinking LEDs, relays, buttons, etc), to more complex rewriting of code to work with different hardware (going from a serial LCD to a 7 segment display, integrating into existing hardware, incorporating extra shields, etc.). The problem is, even the trivial changes require laying out and cutting an add-on PCB.
I'm trying to find a midpoint somewhere between ripping off my customers and ripping off myself.
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Feb 27, 2013, 10:50 am
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This can be a really difficult question to answer as it can be so variable.
It will be interesting to hear what other peoples ideas are and what they charge.
I can tell you for a couple of artistic jobs I have been involved with, it was just for the love of it.
They pay for the parts, I do the design, construction, programming, installation and and looking after.
I don't have thoughts of being ripped off, the fun and involvement has been all that I needed.
Then I was asked to mentor an artist in a high school situation to do with wearable art using Arduino, for the 14 hours of my time I invoiced for AUS$800. Again, it was a lot of fun for me and the kids. They even taught me a thing or two!
If someone from a commercial enterprise came to me and asked me if I would be interested in being involved in a more of a 'meaty' project, more akin to the industrial automation engineering I sometimes do, then I would propose a rate based on the rates normally expected in that industry and dependant on the complexity of the project itself. I like to leave a lot of room for movement on the way I like to be paid for my time. Mostly I try to provide a good estimate of the effort involved and attach a monetary value to that. I really like to see the end user happy and comfortable with the whole deal.
To give you an idea, for my industrial engineering, my hourly rate may be AUS$50/hr to AUS$150/hr, typically falling at AUS$90/hr for project work that spans a longer time. I have a lower rate of course for any travelling to site that may be needed.
If an individual hobbyist was seeking assistance with say for example an Ardiuno project, I seem to provide it free of charge, just as so many do on this forum. I guess it harks back to my days as a radio amateur where we did and still do that, helping our like minded folk.
I don't know if I would be interested in small project jobs, especially if they, the customer, is hoping for a super cheap deal. If I did that, then I may feel somewhat irritated with thoughts of having ripped myself off. There are other things in life to do as well, sometimes doing nothing is beneficial.
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Feb 27, 2013, 11:17 am
Look and see what local businesses charge. Maybe you want to pitch it at the private tutoring rate.
My wife charges £35 an hour for this and that is also my rate for hourly based work. If you look that is the sort of rate a car mechanic would charge. ( I know the word mechanic means something else in the U.S. but in the UK he is a man who mends your car ).
She often tells parents would you want to pay less for some one to fix your child's head than your car?
Rates for whole projects are often less than the pro-rata hourly rate. Depending the amount of equipment you bring to the party you could charge between £150 and £300 a day.
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Feb 27, 2013, 02:32 pm
It depends on the job but these days I think $50/hr is reasonable, although 20 years ago I got twice that.
That said I'm doing a job now for a Brazilian company for a LOT less for reasons I won't go into but what I am charging is apparently a lot for them. Yeah I know, not my problem eh? But it's a fun design and to be fair I'm also learning things as I go.
Caveat: I don't have to work, so don't use this value if you need to support 5 kids
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Feb 27, 2013, 08:47 pm
ball park is to charge enough that the customer thinks it's too much and you think it's not enough!
I usually reckon £150 to £250 a day
longer projects tend to get the lower rate
a good wheeze is to offer discount for prompt payment
I always offer 5% discount for payment within 15 days
never happens!
such an easy way for them to save money
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Feb 28, 2013, 01:52 am
Thanks for the replies. I havn't had any consistent numbers to go on. I usually pick a number that seems reasonable for the project, and then work within that (which also lets me discount long term projects).
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Feb 28, 2013, 02:29 am
The highest your market will bear... considering any competition you have (if any).
The problem is, even the trivial changes require laying out and cutting an add-on PCB.
If I were you, I'd charge per hour (and materials) if this is a custom one-off job.
Once you know the total, offer to give them a discount but with the condition the custom job they hired you to do, you can re-sell to others.
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Feb 28, 2013, 02:30 am
If I'm performing the work at my home of hours of my choice I charged $55/Hr for technical writing projects as an independent contractor. This was just part time stuff I started doing after I retired about 6 years ago. Haven't worked any hours in well over a year now but you never know when the firm I worked with/for will land a new contract.
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Feb 28, 2013, 10:41 pm
The old rule from the Army - Depends on the terrain and the circumstances.
If you reside in some places on the globe then you will have to charge low rates as that is what the local market can bear. In other places the rates seem astronomical, but the costs there are much higher. Rates here in South Texas are rather low, but there is little demand. In Southern California the costs are much higher so the rates are much higher. You also have to look at whether you are clearing any money at the end of these jobs. Enough to cover costs? or are you really doing it as a hobby?
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When doctors are attempting to save the life of someone who has suffered a heart attack, they do a better job if they use a free iPhone app developed to brief them through procedures and drug dosages, according to a recent trial.
"Every year approximately 30,000 people in the UK have an unexpected cardiac arrest in hospital and, despite significant advances in resuscitation research, survival rates for adults suffering a cardiac arrest remain poor," says Dr Daniel Low, consultant anaesthetist.
Low and his colleagues found that one of the main problems in cardiac arrest situations – where doctors are under severe time pressure and may be outside their personal specialist comfort zone – is the matter of getting drug dosages right. The amount of adrenaline or other drugs to be given varies according to the situation and the patient, and the numbers vary from time to time based on the latest research – much as the recommended techniques for ordinary cardiopulmonary resuscitation by first-aiders have altered bewilderingly over the years.
To deal with this, Low and his colleagues developed an iPhone app dubbed iResus©, which is distributed by the UK Resuscitation Council for free. The app is very fast to use and is always updated with the latest information (provided the iPhone running it has a data connection).
To find out whether the app was effective, Low and other medics involved in the project carried out a trial. They recruited 31 doctors at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, all of whom had had advanced resuscitation/life-support training within the last four years. The docs were split into two groups: roughly one-third of them already owned iPhones and these fanboi and fangirl medics were split equally between the two groups.
The two groups were then put through a simulated cardiac arrest emergency and their performance was graded on a scale known as the CASTest scoring system. The trial group were armed with iPhones running iResus, and the control group had no smartphones.
The Jesus-phone-packing docs found it significantly easier to bring their simulated patients back to life after their hearts had stopped, scoring an average of 84.5 (out of a possible 100) on the CASTest as against the primitive smartphoneless medics who scored just 72.
Low regards this as a firm endorsement of his app's lifesaving properties.
"More than 60,000 free copies of the iResus© application have already been downloaded," he enthuses, "and a healthcare professional recently told us that they had used it when they were involved in an out-of-hospital paediatric emergency. Being able to refer to paediatric drug doses they were unfamiliar with helped them to save a child's life."
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We would like to see this guidance in the pockets of all doctors and healthcare professionals. Currently it is in the top 10 medical apps.
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
Directed by Glenn JordanGenres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama | Run Time - 156 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
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This production presents the complete text of A Streetcar Named Desire, the 1947 Tennessee Williams masterpiece. The story centers on the destruction of a lonely Mississippi widow, Blanche DuBois (Jessica Lange), by her brutally outspoken brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Alec Baldwin). The play begins when Blanche arrives in New Orleans from Laurel, Mississippi, at the squalid apartment of her pregnant sister, Stella, and Stella's husband, Kowalski. After announcing that she is on leave from a teaching position, Blanche discloses that creditors have expropriated the family estate, Belle Reve. Consequently, sister Stella will never receive a penny of her share in the property. Skeptical, Stanley angrily demands documented proof of the property loss. Blanche provides it. The lingering animosity from this incident then builds relentlessly over several months. To protect herself from Stanley and his crude working-class world, Blanche cocoons herself in a delusional world of Old South ideals. She is ever the aristocratic belle. Truculent Stanley, however, seizes every opportunity to bullyrag dainty Blanche. He despises her elegant ways, her put-on airs. In turn, she shudders at his rudeness and vulgarity. But deep in her lonely soul--deep in the instinctual id that drove her to promiscuity in Laurel--she harbors a perverse attraction for Stanley. Her mental state, meanwhile, verges on insanity; one day her prince will come, an Old South cavalier with a gleaming sword. When Stanley's friend Mitch woos her, Stanley sabotages the romance after digging into Blanche's past and tattling to Mitch about her affairs. Stella goes into labor and gives birth. When proud papa Stanley returns from the hospital, Blanche is swilling liquor. Stanley gulps a few and rapes Blanche. She then steps across the border between the real and the unreal as the play draws to a conclusion.
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I'm a singer and composer from Brazil. Hansi has always been a great influence in me as other singers - Bobby McFerrin, Kurt Elling, Louis Armstrong and so on.
I'm happy to share my first album which has just been released. It is called Rio Escuro (Bleak RIver), a duo I have with a fellow composer/guitar player called Giovanni Iasi. 14 original compositions, half mine and half his.
There's a lot of vocal work there, and lots of layers on the 7th track. Although it is not metal music (it covers everything from ballads to classical waltz, lullaby, swing and blues), it definitely has agression and intensity on many tracks. And it has two songs in english
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