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THE PRIVACY ISSUE: WHERE DO WE STAND? by DONALD R. WOOD/Partner, Chicago A serious question faces our society today: can it guarantee each citizen's constitutional right to privacy, given the magnitude of information that is routinely collected in the files of both government and business? In the public's mind, this concern is linked to a developing technology that enables one's personal history to be flashed on a screen at the touch of a button. What is the role of the computer in this issue of information privacy? Are the public's concerns valid? Traditionally, such fear has centered on the federal government and information that a citizen has no choice but to provide: tax returns, census forms, medical records, welfare and unemployment applications, and so on. But it is being compounded by recent headlines: • The Internal Revenue Service is planning a billion-dollar tax administration system that by 1985 will enable authorized employees to obtain access through 8,300 terminals to tax returns of any U.S. citizen within seconds. • By 1979, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service will be required by law to share incoming tax data on all W-2 forms; it is anticipated that this computerized information pool will contain more information on individual citizens than has ever been possessed by any single federal agency. In the past decade, moreover, private organizations have developed their own information systems that can influence an individual's life to a degree that only the government could achieve in the past. Thus, given past breaches of confidentiality in regard to medical records, legislative concern arose recently with news that several insurance companies and private hospitals would have access by computer terminals to the Social Security Administration's data and response system. And given its sensitivity to credit information, more concern was prompted by news that banks would soon be linked with the Federal Reserve Board's electronic funds transfer (EFT) system. As a result of such headlines, executive and legislative bodies on both the federal and state levels have proposed various methods to control the availability of private information to external users. And given that these concerns have arisen under a conservative federal administration, they are not likely to disappear under a more liberal administration. What has been this governmental response? To some it has been excessive, to others reasoned. • The Federal Information Privacy Act of 1974 was passed, stating the rights of individuals and establishing regulations governing the collection and use of information by federal agencies. Implementation began in 1976, and the results thus far are inconclusive. • An omnibus bill, HR 1984—the Orwellian title is deliberate—was sponsored by congressmen Edward Koch (D-New York) and Barry Goldwater, Jr. (R-California). Essentially, their bill would extend the Privacy Act of 1974 to cover the information in private sector data systems. Strongly criticized by business, its fate is hard to predict at this writing, given the shifting political moods of a new congress. • The U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission— established by the Privacy Act of 1974—is scheduled to deliver its report to the president and congress in July. At this writing, it is expected to recommend regulations and guidelines that will protect the privacy of individuals and yet recognize the need of government and business for accurate information. Its recommendations will propose not omnibus legislation, but regulations directed toward specific industries. In addition, more than 30 state legislatures are actively considering some type of privacy bill. (Abroad, West Germany and Sweden have already enacted privacy laws, and a privacy policy is in an advanced state of preparation in nine Common Market nations.) Finally, the Domestic Council on the Right to Privacy, a presidential advisory group, recently called for a coordinated national information policy. It cited how the use of increasingly complex technology in the business and economic worlds has impacted the individual's ability to control information about himself. Are computers across this nation waiting for a signal to print confidential data on anyone who has a Social Security number, an employment record, or a credit card? That appears to be the public understanding, even though little such information has yet been entered into computer systems by either large companies or small. In other words, the confidentiality that has been breached to date has primarily been through manual rather than computer transgressions. Such facts, however, have not hampered the speculation by proponents of a privacy law. The Office of Technology Assessment, an arm of congress, tries to anticipate the implications of major new scientific developments. It has concluded that the IRS tax administrative system could pose "a threat to the civil liberties, privacy, and due process of taxpayers" and ultimately bring "surveillance, harassment, or political manipulation of files." (One sees here the influence of Watergate.) Representatives John Moss (D-California) and Charles Rose (D-North Carolina) have suggested that the IRS be denied funds for its new system, because it would probably result in "some kind of hookup between IRS computers 3
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where do we stand?
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Leah12346 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
We are new website scheduled to launch in March of 2011.
Our Goal is to create a fun and lively place that will bring the maritime and coastal communities of Southern California closer together.
We will include a dynamic maritime directory, a Sustainable Seafood Guide to Restaurants, as well as weekly discount deals and local news pertaining to the ocean.
We work very closely with non-profit organizations that are connected to the ocean including those that focus on water pollution, boat safety, and wildlife rescue and preservation.
Above all we are looking to bring the maritime and coastal communities closer together. At the moment surfers don't talk to boaters, and scuba divers don't know a lot of commercial fishermen... our goal is to change that and bring everyone together for the love of the ocean!
Our name comes from the idea of "getting your sea legs", or becoming comfortable on the water.
- Those that love and use the water (specifically the ocean)
- Maritime business owners
- Water-related non-profit orgs.
We need a COOL logo ... most importantly it must not be cheesy or outdated.
It is easy to become cheesy really quickly when you are trying to incorporate maritime or nautical aspects into a logo.
We will have multiple cartoon characters featured throughout the site (illustrator is still working on them, but will be in the simplistic "Japanamation/ Paul Frank" style). Because of this we don't want to go too cartoonish on the logo.
Overall, we are looking for something modern and creative. We are open to ideas and are really just looking to get a different take on our image.
We are leaning toward having the logo just say "My Sea Legs", but are open to having it include the ".com" if it is done tastefully.
Some key words that we'd like our logo to convey include:
-oceanic (can include anything you can imagine, but stay away from cheesy ;))
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Palestinian international cooperation minister Nabil Shaath said Monday Israel was standing in the way to improving trade relations with Jordan and said both sides should work closely together to remove that "obstacle".
His remarks came at the end of talks with senior Jordanian government officials on ways of boosting trade relations.
"Removing Israel's economic hegemony (on Palestinian territories) will mean opening the door to Jordanian-Palestinian relations," Shaath said.
"Our cooperation will be aimed at removing this Israeli obstacle," he said.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Ilah al-Khatib who attended the talks along with Trade Minister Mohammad Halayqa and other senior officials said discussions focused on ways of boosting trade and investment ties.
Talks centered on ways of facilitating the "exchange of goods" between Jordan and Palestinian territories and "removing obstacles" standing in the way, he said without elaborating.
Trucks carrying goods between Jordan and the Palestinian territories cannot transport the goods directly to the customers but must unload them at Israeli checkpoints, reload them onto other trucks and continue their journey.
Both sides have complained that this, and steep taxes of up to 1,000 dollars per truck, puts an added financial burden on their trade relations and hampers its development.
Israeli trade minister Ran Cohen said in Amman earlier this year that he would look into reducing the taxes and means of facilitating the transport of goods between the two sides of the Jordan River - (AFP)
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In a 1975 paper `Not Every Number is the Sum or Difference of Two Prime Powers', Cohen and Selfridge use covering congruences to prove their Theorem 1, which states that there exists an arithmetic progression of odd numbers which are neither the sum nor difference of a power of two and a prime.
The paper is available here:
As I understand their explanation, they are claiming that if $M$ satisfies a list of congruences (given on the left-hand side of the table on page 2 of the paper), then for any $n$, there will be a prime $p_i$ which is a factor of $M+2^n$ and a prime $p_j$ which is a factor of $M-2^n$, and then they deduce that $M+2^n$ and $M-2^n$ are not prime.
My difficulty stems from the fact that while I can see that their conclusion that there is a $p_j$ which is a factor of $M-2^n$ is clearly justified, I cannot see how to elimiate the possibility that $M-2^n$ might actually be equal to $p_j$.
I have looked back at the paper of Erdős:
On integers of the form $2^k + p$ and some related problems
which is referenced by Cohen and Selfridge, but have not found that it solves my problem.
To a certain extent, my query might be somewhat academic, since, in Theorem 2 of the Cohen and Selfridge paper, they extend their method and their coverings to prove the existence of two distinct prime factors, but I am curious as to whether I have missed something obvious in Theorem 1.


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In which issues concerning the profession of philosophy are
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
This One Was My Fault
I go to record the grade in my gradebook when I realize that she was there for an intro phil exam and I had given her the intro ethics test. (I have another make-up exam scheduled this afternoon.) I gave her the wrong exam, and that's why she flunked. My bad. In my defense, I am responsible for nearly 200 students and I am barely capable of being organized.
So, obviously, I emailed her right away and apologized profusely, and asked when she could schedule a make-up for the make-up. Then I apologized some more.
But what I don't get is, why didn't she say anything? I mean, none of the questions would have looked the least bit familiar. There is literally no connection between the material on the test in front of her and the subject matter of her class, apart from some logic stuff that goes into every lower-division class I teach. Maybe she figured that I know what I'm doing, and so it must be her fault if she didn't recognize anything. Shows what she knows.
And the really weird thing is, she got some stuff right. Like, really right. Although the exam was a disaster overall, she was able to state some theories and arguments very clearly, just like they are on the handout. Eerie. So much so I triple-checked the gradebook against the name and student ID on the exam.
It's all very weird. And it's all my fault. Shit.
--Mr. Zero
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Do you have access to her transcript? Maybe she took the ethics course with someone else in the department.
- March 1, 2011 at 9:15 AM
I once receivede a call from a mother of a student inquiring about a final grade--an F. I knew the student and told her that that waas impossible--and my spreadsheet confirmed that she had received an A. Turns out that when entering the grade I accidentally slipped one box down in the on-line gradesheet and assigned the F to my A student that was meant for the person above. (I duplicated the F in other words.) The student just assumed that she had utterly bombed the final and deserved the F. I apologized quite profusely and complimented the Mom for believeing in her daughter.
And now I triple-check my entries for the final grade.
- March 1, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Oh no!!!! Poor kid, she must feel awful. I wonder if you should reward her for getting some stuff right on the wrong exam when you grade her makeup makeup?
At the end of the day, though, you made an honest mistake. Don't let yourself feel too bad.
- March 1, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Anon 10:12--FERPA.
- March 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Most kids waive FERPA these days, at least at my institution...
- March 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Great example of how a perception of a power differential between student and teacher can silence the student. Admittedly, we don't know if this is the case, but I've been in my share of courses where you quickly learn to never, ever, ever question the teacher...even if they are demonstratively and irrefutably incorrect. I would guess that for any student there are only so many experiences of this until they learn to just shut-up and not question anything in school.
- March 1, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Sounds like you're a pretty tough grader, or maybe my kids are just pathetic. If a student managaged to adequately explain a few theories on an in-class test, there is no way it gets an F-.
- March 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM
Responsible for 200 kids? Yeah, don't beat yourself up.
- March 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM
In other news, will there be any more non-4/4 jobs or should I start to look for alternative employment now?
- March 1, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- BunnyHugger said...
Anon 1:55: There might be some 5/5 or 5/5/1 jobs at community colleges. Hope this helps!
(I teach 4/4 and if I could have a tenure-track version of this job I'd be pleased as punch.)
- March 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Happened to me once too - with exactly the same courses! The student who took the wrong exam simply had no idea what the correct course was all about (he missed a lot of classes, didn't read the textbooks, and missed the exam on top of it).
When I gave him the "correct" exam, he scored a bit LOWER than on the "wrong" one! A well deserved "F" no matter what...
- March 1, 2011 at 3:15 PM
Given my three preps, I've worried about giving the wrong lecture. I've avoided it so far, but I'm sure it has been done. I do recall that a prof in grad school gave the same intro lecture twice.
- March 1, 2011 at 3:41 PM
- zombie said...
Anon 1:55 -- a lot of adjunct jobs are 2/2 or 1/1.
- March 1, 2011 at 4:13 PM
I did the same thing earlier this semester. But fortunately the student realized the mistake (they were there to take a logic test and I gave them an ethics test).
Word verification (this couldn't be more apropos): reelonu
"This one was all my fault."
Response: "True dat. It's ReelOnU this time."
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In a career spanning three decades, forensic psychiatrist Steven Hoge has evaluated just a handful of people implicated in acts of cannibalism. It's exceedingly rare behavior, he says, and clear answers are often elusive when it does occur.
"I understand people are looking for an explanation, but there are some things that don't have any explanations," said Hoge, who directs the Columbia-Cornell Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program in New York.
Hoge said he could not comment on the case of 21-year-old Alexander Kinyua, charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a man who was staying in Kinyua's family's Joppa home. According to charging documents, Kinyua told Harford County law enforcement officials that he ate his victim's heart and part of his brain.
Drug use, psychosis or both have figured into past cases, Hoge and other mental health experts said.
In Miami, investigators are reportedly examining whether synthetic drugs known as "bath salts" played a role in the attack Saturday by a naked man who chewed the face of a homeless man and gouged out one of his eyes.
The Harford County sheriff's office has consulted with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit for assistance in the Kinyua case.
University of Arizona clinical psychologist Joel Dvoskin said he has talked to a "tiny number" of people who have engaged in cannibalism.
"Some of them can explain what they were thinking at the time, some can't, and some, I'm not sure I believe them," said Dvoskin, who has consulted for the Clifton T. Perkins psychiatric hospital in Maryland.
Dvoskin described the case of a man who was "very psychotic" when he was arrested for crimes involving cannibalism and ended up being committed to a forensic hospital. Although his mental state improved relatively quickly, he never gave a reason for his behavior.
"I don't think he had an explanation in his own mind," Dvoskin said. "It confused and scared him almost as much as it confused and scared everybody else."
In the Harford County case, Dvoskin said, he expects that authorities will investigate whether Kinyua used mind-altering drugs and that psychiatrists will examine his mental state.
Accounts from officials at Morgan State University, where Kinyua was a student, classmates and social media postings paint a picture of a troubled young man. Kinyua was arrested in May, accused of fracturing a classmate's skull with a baseball bat, and his Facebook page has commentary on "mass human sacrifices."
One of the most notorious cannibals is the fictitious Hannibal Lecter of the movie "The Silence of the Lambs." But another, Jeffrey Dahmer, was all too real. He confessed to killing 17 people before his capture in 1991. He ate some body parts and kept human remains in a refrigerator.
"He felt if he ate these people, they would become part of him," said criminologist Eric Hickey, who directs the Center for Forensic Studies at Alliant International University in California and appeared in a British Broadcasting Corp. documentary on Dahmer.
Dahmer, found competent to stand trial, was convicted and sentenced to prison, where he was bludgeoned to death by another inmate in 1994.
Asked what notions or impulses could lead to cannibalism, Hoge said one view is that it's an attempt to "capture the power or the spirit of their victim." He said most cannibals are gripped by psychosis, a state of mind characterized by a loss of contact with reality.
"When someone is psychotic, they come to believe all kinds of very, very bizarre things," he said. "There is nothing logical or coherent or expectable about the kinds of delusions that would lead someone to cannibalize."
In a career spanning three decades, forensic psychiatrist Steven Hoge has evaluated just a handful of people implicated in acts of cannibalism. It's exceedingly rare behavior, he says, and clear answers are often elusive when it does occur.


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The story of the Four Horsemen -- the good and bad -- is told in near-perfect form on the new WWE two-disc DVD set Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen.
How good is it? The special two-hour feature documentary is honest at times, and very honest at others.
"Embarrassing, no talent, bad attitude, never should have been there," Ric Flair comments on Sid Vicious' entry into the Horsemen, concluding on-camera, "Put this on the DVD because that is how I feel."
The first 45 minutes of the main documentary center around the formation and the original Horsemen in 1985 consisting of Arn and Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Ric Flair and manager James J. Dillon. All but Ole is there to comment.
Surprising was the appearance of James J. Dillon, who had left the WWE on bad terms in 1996.
No one of the original group is spoken badly of, including the missing Ole. The original name was coined by Arn Anderson during a televised interview, but sadly the footage is not shown. Some of the Crockett-owned NWA footage at the time was taped over years later when the company was making cost cutting measures.
Cheap shots are the sign of any WWE DVD, and this one is no different. Jim Ross refers to the Ric Flair's reign as NWA World Champion by saying, "That is when the NWA belt meant something."
When Ole left, Lex Luger was introduced. Arn and Flair spoke the obvious about Luger. They expressed that he had a great look but was green and they ended up
teaching him how to work in the ring.
Jim Ross, whose mistake-prone comments have been the joke of other DVDs, seems to think the WWE has been perfect when noting, "The NWA thought Luger could be their version of Hulk Hogan, and it never worked." (Fast forward to 1993 and the WWE is in the middle of a steroid scandal. Hulk Hogan has left the promotion, and Vince McMahon calls on Lex Luger to be the replacement for the Hulkster as the big name for the promotion. It failed.)
Much detail is put into the departure of Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard in October of 1988. Pay and a strained relationship with Jim Cornette are mentioned as two motivating forces.
The relation between Flair and Jim Herd, who was head of WCW (the new name for the Jim Crockett Mid-Atlantic promotion) when Turner took ownership, is no secret. And Flair using his DVD time to vent on Herd makes for an entertaining moment on the DVD.
When Tully and Arn's contracts with the WWE were up, the original Horsemen were planning to reform in WCW (minus Dillon as manager who by this time was working backstage for the WWE). Blanchard speaks honestly about how a failed drug test in the WWE led to the end of his full-time wrestling career.
Although it is spoken of quickly the Horsemen were put on hold when Ric Flair left for the WWE in 1991. Flair and Arn comment how when Arn came back, it did not last long because Flair left right after. In fact, it was one and a half years between when Arn and Flair were back in WCW together.
Dillon's comments about how Flair's stay with the WWE was disappointing were surprising left in, especially when he commented the obvious "McMahon only liking his own creations."
When the Horsemen reformed in 1993 with the return of Flair back into WCW, Paul Roma was announced as the newest member alongside Flair and the Andersons.
Maybe the most shocking moment of the whole documentary is when Roma appears on the DVD to talk about his time with the Horsemen, noting, "Did I fit in? No."
Triple H appears to talk about his shock when seeing Roma, calling Roma a "jobber."
Roma comes across as bitter, by calling Flair "97 years old" and Arn a "Pillsbury Dough Boy."
Flashes about the stabbing incident between Vicious and Arn are mentioned along with the Arn Anderson-Ric Flair feud from 1995. Flair and Arn talk about their
choices for the Horsemen in the late 1990s, and which choices were WCW's.
Eric Bischoff, who was in charge of WCW during this time, appears to defend decisions made during the time, including the nWo mocking Arn Anderson and the 1998 lawsuit with Ric Flair.
The last incarnation of the Horsemen disbanded when Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko left for the WWE and Steve "Mongo" McMichael retired due to injuries. Arn and Flair speak about how they wish the group ended on a better note.
A second disc is included with interviews, matches and angles throughout the span of the different incarnations of the Four Horsemen. Although not perfect, it displays a good variety throughout the 15 years of the Horsemen.
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It becomes, in short, a history of the NWA and WCW because of the members' high profile spots with the companies.
The WWE understood in making the documentary that most fans want to see the originals, which makes it unclear why Barry Windham and not Ole Anderson is on the cover photo.
If there ever was a History of Pro Wrestling class, this DVD set would have to be part of the curriculum.
Perhaps Dusty Rhodes could be the professor. After all, Rhodes asked Ric Flair for admission into the Four Horsemen at the 2007 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. Flair's response? A raised four fingers, the symbol of the Horsemen.


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It has been a long time since flight attendant was a glamorous job title. The hours are long. Passengers with feelings of entitlement bump up against new no-frills policies. Babies scream. Security precautions grate but must be enforced. Airlines demand lightning-quick turnarounds, so attendants herd passengers and collect trash with the grim speed of an Indy pit crew. Everyone, it seems, is in a bad mood.
On Monday, on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said.
After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Mr. Slater, 38 and a career flight attendant, got on the public-address intercom and let loose a string of invective.
Then, the authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career.
On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said.Continue reading the main story
He was arrested at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens, a few miles from the airport, and charged with felony counts of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.
"When they hit that emergency chute, it drops down quickly within seconds," a law enforcement official said. "If someone was on the ground and it came down without warning, someone could be injured or killed."
In a statement, JetBlue said it was working with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to investigate the episode. "At no time was the security or safety of our customers or crew members at risk," the company said.
According to his online profiles, Mr. Slater has been the leader of JetBlue's uniform redesign committee and a member of the airline's in-flight values committee. Neighbors in California, where Mr. Slater grew up, said he had recently been caring for his dying mother, a retired flight attendant, and had done the same for his father, a pilot.
The contretemps on Monday unfolded as JetBlue Flight 1052, a regional Embraer 190 jet, landed at Kennedy around noon — on time — with 100 passengers aboard and pulled up to the gate, said another law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing.
The official offered the following account:
One passenger stood up to retrieve belongings from the overhead compartment before the crew had given permission. Mr. Slater instructed the person to remain seated. The passenger defied him. Mr. Slater reached the passenger just as the person was pulling down the luggage, which struck Mr. Slater in the head.
Mr. Slater asked for an apology. The passenger instead cursed at him. Mr. Slater got on the plane's public-address system and cursed out the passenger for all to hear. Then, after declaring that 20 years in the airline industry was enough, he blurted out, "It's been great!" He activated the inflatable evacuation slide at a service exit and left the world of flight attending behind.
In short order, his brick two-story house on Beach 128th Street in the Rockaways, just off the ocean, was swarmed by detectives and uniformed officers from New York City and the Port Authority. "It was like there was a hostage in there," said Curt Krakowski, who was working on the deck of a house across the street.
Mr. Slater, Mr. Krakowski said, "had a smile on his face when the cops brought him out, like, 'Yeah, big deal.' " Mr. Slater was taken to a Port Authority police building at the airport and was expected to be held overnight.
One person familiar with the investigation said JetBlue took more than 20 minutes to notify the Port Authority police, allowing Mr. Slater time to get home. A spokesman for the airline declined to comment when asked about the delay, and a Port Authority spokesman said, "In matters of criminality, the Port Authority Police Department should be notified immediately."
The episode is the latest round in what is seen as an increasingly hostile relationship between airlines and passengers.
A few weeks ago, an Air France flight attendant was arrested for stealing the wallets of first-class passengers. Last year, a Canadian singer parodied United Airlines on YouTube in a series of songs about how the airline broke his guitar.
A new study by the International Air Transport Association found an increase in instances of disgruntled passengers and violence on planes, with the chief cause being passengers who refuse to obey safety orders. By the same token, frequent-flier blogs echo with tales of "flight attendant rage."
While JetBlue's flight attendants are not unionized, a spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, Corey Caldwell, said anxieties were common on planes. "Anyone who has traveled since Sept. 11 understands that being in the cabin is stressful these days," Ms. Caldwell said.
The portrait of Mr. Slater that emerges from interviews with neighbors and friends and from profiles on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn shows a man with mixed feelings about his job.
Photographs show him in the mountains of El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico and sitting behind the wheel of a convertible. "Steven Slater has visited 22 percent of the countries in the world!" the MySpace page announces.
Yes, and Pittsburgh, too. "Chances are I am flying 35,000 feet somewhere over the rainbow on my way to some semifabulous JetBlue Airways destination!" the MySpace page says. "Truly, some are better than others. But I am enjoying being back in the skies and seeing them all."
A former roommate, John Rochelle, said Mr. Slater was seldom home. When Mr. Slater was not working, Mr. Rochelle said, he was usually in Thousand Oaks, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, caring for his sick mother.
A neighbor there, Ron Franz, said Mr. Slater also cared for his father as he was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease. Mr. Franz, 72, was hard-pressed to explain Mr. Slater's actions on Monday. "It could be the pressure of his mother's illness, because that's not the type of behavior or conduct that Steve exhibits," he said. "He's a very conscientious, responsible individual."
But a former flight attendant, Janet Bavasso, who lives next door to Mr. Slater in Queens, found nothing mysterious at all.
"Enough is enough — good for him," Ms. Bavasso said. "If he would have called me, I would have picked him up."Continue reading the main story


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In a new study published in Science Translational Medicine, Stage III human melanoma cells from 20 patients were implanted into specially selected mice with compromised immune systems. Using this xenograft model, in which tissue is transplanted from one species to another, the team observed reproducible differences in the rate at which the cancer spread in the mice, or metastasized, that correlated with clinical outcomes in patients.
Human melanomas that metastasized efficiently in the mice eventually progressed to advanced, Stage IV disease in patients – spreading to distant organs, such as the brain, liver, or lungs. When the melanoma did not metastasize efficiently in the mice, it also did not form distant metastases in patients.
This xenograft model will make it possible to study the mechanisms that regulate disease progression and distant metastasis of melanomas in patients. The researchers said they hope that their system will lead to new prognostic markers that identify patients at highest risk of disease progression as well as new therapies.
"We believe this is the only time in cancer biology that anyone has developed a xenograft model in which disease progression correlates with what happens in the patient," says senior study author Sean Morrison, Ph.D., director of the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
"The highly immune-compromised state of the mice makes it possible to observe the metastasis of human melanomas, and to study intrinsic differences among melanomas in their metastatic potential," he says
Previous studies of cancer metastasis were limited by a lack of workable models in which scientists could study the progression of a patient's cancer cells in laboratory animals in a way that correlated with clinical outcomes, he says.
But such correlation was clear in this study by the research institute, an innovative collaboration that melds the leading clinical resources of Children's Medical Center with the outstanding research resources of UT Southwestern. Melanomas that spread slowly and could not be detected in the blood of mice did not form distant tumors within 22 months in patients. Melanomas that spread rapidly in mice did form distant tumors in patients within the same time frame, giving rise to circulating melanoma cells in the blood of the mice. This finding suggests that entry of melanoma cells into the blood is a step that limits the rate of distant metastasis.
"Ultimately we want to identify new drug targets," Morrison says. "There are promising ideas coming out of this work that we hope will lead to clinical trials in melanoma."
The research arose from the Morrison laboratory's innovative techniques for studying neural crest stem cells – work that was recognized in 2004, when Morrison was at U-M, with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Neural crest stem cells make melanocytes, a type of cell that can mutate into melanoma if exposed, for example, to excessive sunlight.
This work originated with lead author Elsa Quintana and Mark Shackleton in Morrison's former lab at the University of Michigan. Other key collaborators from the University of Michigan were Douglas R. Fullen, director of dermatopathology, and Timothy Johnson, director of the Multidisciplinary Melanoma Clinic. Other UTSW researchers involved in the study were Elena Piskounova and Ugur Eskiocak, both postdoctoral researchers in the Children's Research Institute.
"This animal model offers unprecedented opportunities for discovery efforts that could be translated into patient care," Johnson says. "Dr. Morrison and I share a core mission to effectively treat melanoma, and that shared belief is the basis of the past, present and future collaboration between UT Southwestern and the University of Michigan."
Research support came from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Melanoma Research Foundation, the Allen H. Blondy Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan, and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
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Get your wellies! Research is showing that Ireland may be headed for eight more summers of rain.
The summer of 2012 gave Ireland one of its wettest and coolest summers in decades, according to Met Eireann.
The meteorological service's stations at Mullingar and Cork airports reported their wettest summers in 68 years and 50 years respectively, while most stations recorded their highest rainfall ever in June.
And it may be getting worse. Kieran Hickey, a geography lecturer at NUI Galway, believes that the wet summers Ireland is becoming accustomed to may continue until 2020. He bases his conjecture on research which attributes increased summer rainfall in northern Europe since the late 1990s to a warming of the north Atlantic Ocean.
"It's more likely we will have more wet summers, though that doesn't mean every summer will be wet until 2020," Hickey told the Sunday Times. "The Irish are eternally optimistic about summer weather, but we are constantly disappointed."
"The loss of the Arctic sea ice means more heat is going into the ocean, which will prolong the AMO's current phase," Hickey said. The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO), a natural cycle of changes in the Atlantic's surface temperatures, has been in a warm, wet phase of a 70-year cycle that is not expected to end until the end of this decade.
Research on more than a century's worth of data by the University of Reading, published in the journal Nature Geoscience earlier this month, showed that a shift in Europe's climate in the 1990s — towards wet summers in the north and hot, dry summers in the south — correlated to a warming of the north Atlantic ocean to a level not seen since the 1950s.
"Because ocean temperatures are quite warm off Ireland, there is lots of evaporation, which tends to give us cloudy summers. We tend to have our sunniest months in May, June and September, because ocean temperatures aren't quite as warm," Hickey said.
Hickey went on to explain the importance of Ireland's relationship with its jet stream. He said research suggests the AMO has played a role in the position of the jet stream, a band of air at more than 30,000ft that normally brings settled weather to Ireland during the summer by keeping rainstorms further north.
"The jet stream must be playing a role and the AMO is playing a role on the jet stream," Hickey said. "If we could predict the mean position of the jet stream on a monthly basis, we could give seasonal weather forecasts, but that's about a decade away."


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South Carolina's popular beaches need better protection from development, even if it means some oceanfront landowners pay higher insurance rates, a coastal commission says.
The study commission voted 6-5 Tuesday to expand building restrictions farther inland along parts of the S.C. oceanfront, a move that would effectively ban new seawalls in some areas where they are now allowed. The group's recommendation also would make it harder to replace beach houses with more intense development, such as high-rise hotels, in some areas.
Tightening the rules would affect 264 additional developed lots along the state's immediate shore. That would increase to 43 percent the number of developed lots on South Carolina beaches affected by the restrictions, records show. It also would apply to undeveloped lots.
The panel's vote is a recommendation that would need Legislative approval.
"I'm not unsympathetic to any private property owners, but the fact is, if you choose to live in coastal areas, you automatically should know there is additional cost associated with that," commission member Mac Burdette said. "We have to be diligent in trying to balance out the rights of the public."
But the action by the Blue Ribbon Committee on Shoreline Development met sharp resistance from members who represent coastal cities and real estate interests. They expressed fear that extending restrictions to more property might send insurance rates skyrocketing for people who own beachfront houses.
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But in 1669, Isaac Meynell, citizen of London bought the manor back from William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, only to have his only daughter and heiress convey the lands to the Cecils who again sold the lands back to another branch of the family of Meynell. By far the strongest branch of the family was found later in Staffordshire at Hore-Cross. [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
The parish of Sowerby in the North Riding of Yorkshire was home to yet another branch of the family. "This place, at an early period, was the property of the Lascelles family, who in the reign of Elizabeth granted it to the Meynells, whose descendant Thomas Meynell, Esq., is now lord of the manor." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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Japan's HTV-3 moments from capture over the Indian Ocean. Image Credit: NASA TV
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully captured the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's HTV-3 re-supply craft as it rendezvoused with the orbiting science lab early Friday.
NASA's Joe Acaba, positioned in the station's Cupola observation deck, reached out with the 58-foot-long Canadarm2 to grapple the 16.5 ton HTV-3 at 8:23 a.m., EDT, a short delay after the scheduled capture time to ensure sufficient lighting.
Captured at 40 feet from the station, the bus-sized long cargo carrier was to be maneuvered with the robot arm to the station's U. S. segment Harmony module for berthing shortly before noon, EDT, by JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. HTV-3 will remain docked through early September and depart filled with trash for a destructive re-entry.
"It looks beautiful from here," NASA's Mission Control radioed Acaba and Hoshide as the delicate grapple operation neared. "We are go for HTV-3 capture."
The third of JAXA's unpiloted ISS re-supply ships was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan on July 20 with more than four metric tons of internal and external supplies and research gear.
Friday's operation unfolded smoothly. The failure of the backup reaction control system during the rendezvous activities had no impact on the operations.
Acaba and Hoshide were assisted in the Canadarm2 operations by NASA astronaut Sunita Williams.
In addition to food, clothing and other supplies, the HTV-3 delivered the station's first aquatic habitat, an aquarium that will serve as home to medaka and zebra fish. The fish, which were not included in the current missions, will serve as subjects in studies focused on their skeletal and muscle develop in microgravity.
The new ground-controlled internal ISERV camera will gather imagery for climate change studies and disaster management.
The HTV-3's external station cargo includes NASA's Space Communications and Navigation Testbed, or SCAN.
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A vote of no confidence has been passed at tonight's full council meeting and has seen leader of Calderdale Council Councillor Tim Swift ousted.
A motion was made by Conservative leader Councillor Stephen Baines and seconded by Councillor Janet Battye, leader of the Liberal Democrats, for the removal of Councillor Swift.
In a statement from the parties, it said: "It has become clear that the Labour Group has no intention of honouring the assurances it gave in May 2014 that it would consult and work with the other parties represented on Calderdale Council.
"This has come to a head over the past week, when there have been two instances (Hipperholme crossroads and the imposition of parking charges) where the Labour Cabinet have made clear their intention to push ahead with their own agenda. They are ignoring the views of the public of Calderdale and the wishes of the Council that were clearly set out at its budget-setting meeting in February.
"All the current opposition groups on the council believe that the attitude and actions of the Labour Cabinet are totally unacceptable, and that the public of Calderdale deserve better. We therefore have no option but to call for a vote of no confidence in the current administration. After serious consideration, we have resolved to work collectively over the next nine months to ensure that the Council better serves the local community.
"To achieve these aims, the only option open to the Council is to remove the current Leader of the Council and replace him with someone who will honour these commitments in stark contrast to the way that Labour deliberately have not.
"The result of this vote is a minority Conservative administration working in conjunction with all other opposition councillors."
The motion was passed for the removal of Councillor Swift, 24 votes to 22.
Labour has accused the Tories and Lib Dems of proving once and for all that the two parties are truly two sides of the same coin after they concocted a secret deal to carry out a coup of Calderdale Council last night.
Speaking after the council meeting, Labour Group leader Tim Swift said: "It shows that if you vote Lib Dem you get Tory. The chaos and hours of deliberations which followed their power-grab last night showed they didn't have a clue what to do next – if that is a sign of how Calderdale Council is to be run for the next nine months I worry for the people of the borough – they deserve better than this. "Labour will hold the new administration to account strongly and will be working harder than ever to secure an overall majority on Calderdale Council in next May's elections."


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It's not surprising that the Nintendo DS iteration of Assassin's Creed doesn't feature the often-stunning, open-world exploration of its console counterparts. It does feature many of the same elements, however: An attractive visual style, some nice animation work, and decent sound effects that make the Middle Eastern cityscapes you explore feel alive with activity. Its fundamental design, however, bears a closer resemblance to another of Ubisoft's landmark properties: Prince of Persia. In Altair's Chronicles, you travel through 3D environments on a mostly linear path, avoiding traps, scaling walls, and occasionally beating up some bad guys in the process. When the game hits its stride, this makes for some fairly enjoyable entertainment. Unfortunately, clunky controls and an overall lack of refinement frequently conspire to sully the experience.
The sense of sci-fi wonder that permeated the console release is noticeably absent from this prequel. The story is a pure, straightforward chase-the-artifact adventure that wouldn't be out of place in a Tomb Raider or Indiana Jones title. Chronicles' holy grail is a mysterious chalice, and while it serves its purpose as a plot catalyst, there's nothing very interesting about Altair's tale. The narrative plays out via dialogue texts that convey just enough information to keep you up to speed, and is thus missing the metaphysical, morally ambiguous ramblings you may have expected. Altair is reduced to a generic hero in ancient garb, which may be fine for Assassin's Creed fans but won't be of much interest to those new to this game universe.
Yet in spite of its generic characters and wooden script, you'll still glimpse a little magic here and there, as fleeting as it can be. The art design is quite nice, featuring soft, earthy hues and some nice details in the architecture. Altair himself often moves gracefully, and the climbing and running animations are splendid. Others don't look nearly as good, and some jumps are missing transition animations completely, making it look like Altair is teleporting instead of leaping. On your travels you'll hear the commotion of crowds, the chirping of birds, and the snoring of sleeping guards, and while the same effects are replayed often, they still make the cities through which you travel feel organic. Combat noise gets to be grating over time, however, since you'll hear the same grunts over and over again. The Arabian-themed soundtrack is similarly repetitive, but still properly dramatic.
You'll spend the bulk of the game getting from point A to point B by jumping from rooftop to rooftop, climbing walls, and crossing beams. The clear-cut level designs keep platforming sequences from being overly challenging, though they occasionally require some light puzzle-solving (push a few boxes or pull a few levers) and trap navigation (look out--spinning blades!). They do suffer from some frequent annoyances, not the least of which is that you are often required to jump to a platform that you can't see. Altair also has an annoying tendency to slide forward a bit after landing his jump--sometimes slipping right off the platform and into death's cold embrace. Even worse, the camera will occasionally move to a position that doesn't even allow you to see Altair, forcing you into even more guesswork. As a rule, the platforming works, but the general fluidness of what you see onscreen is never matched by similarly slick controls.
Combat is often enjoyable, though it too suffers from some execution troubles. Your trusty sword will do the bulk of the work, and the X and Y buttons perform weak and strong attacks, respectively. You'll also pick up a number of other skills along the way that require you to block, then counter, in a manner similar to the counterattacks in the console version. You'll earn other weapons along the way, such as throwing daggers and bombs, but Altair's Chronicles rarely gives you a reason to opt for them, since mashing X and Y will usually get the job done without too much trouble. Beating up a few guards at once can be fun, particularly when the encounter occurs in the midst of trap sequences, but like the platforming, it feels looser than it should. The autotargeting doesn't seem to work well much of the time, so you'll waste time slashing at empty air--which in turn is made more frustrating by the fact that combo animations seem to take forever.
A few boss fights break up the pace, and they aren't bad, but they do serve to highlight some other control issues. Like with other key elements (picking up boxes, assassinating snoozing guards), you need to execute context-sensitive actions that require you to hit a particular button when you are in range of your target. All too often, however, you have to be in a peculiarly specific spot for this to work. Shuffling around just to push a crate is an annoyance, of course, but it's a mild one. Having to do the same "find the right position for the A button icon to appear" dance when fighting a boss, however, could lead to Altair's untimely death. And sometimes the game simply changes its mind and executes the standard move mapped to the button rather than the contextual move it's supposed to deliver. Even trying to switch weapons, which requires you to touch an icon on the touch screen, can be a royal pain, since your tap will often not register.
The touch screen's other main purpose is to display your minimap, though it does get some use in Altair's simple minigames. In some cases, you need to pickpocket your victims. This minigame requires you to scribble all over the screen to uncover all of the items your target is carrying in his satchel, and then carefully slide the needed object around the other items and out of the bag. The assassination minigame is supposed to approximate how Altair uses various pressure points to subdue his victims, and involves tapping various points as circles close in around them, somewhat in the manner of Elite Beat Agents. You won't be doing much of this, though it's just as well, considering that from a mechanical standpoint, these minigames are the least enjoyable aspect of Altair's Chronicles--a tacked-on way of giving the touch screen something to do.
You could finish Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles in around four hours, but even the promise of a harder difficulty level won't likely lure you back for a second play-through. It's hardly a bad game; in fact, the final hour mixes the various elements together nicely and hits a smooth stride as a result. Nevertheless, the game offers few surprises, and some sloppy execution problems get in the way far too often to make it outright recommendable.


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*[[Louise A. Lewis]] (Associate Professor)
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*[[Shelley Olm]] (Research Associate)
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*[[Molly Letsch]] (Ph.D. Student)
*[[Molly Letsch]] (Ph.D. Student)
*[[Karolina Fucikova|Karolina Fučíková]] (Ph.D. Student)
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==Former Lab Members and Visitors==
==Former Lab Members and Visitors==
*Dr. T.A. Adesalu "Bose" ([http://www.unilag.edu.ng/index.php?page=home University of Lagos], Department of Botany and Microbiology) visited during September-November 2010.
*Dr. T.A. Adesalu "Bose" ([http://www.unilag.edu.ng/index.php?page=home University of Lagos], Department of Botany and Microbiology) visited during September-November 2010.
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My lab is located in Pharmacy/Biology Building, rooms 311 & 313
69 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3043 U.S.A.
Phone: +1 860-486-1811
Current Lab Members
- Louise A. Lewis (Associate Professor)
- Shelley Olm (Research Associate)
- Molly Letsch (Ph.D. Student)
- Karolina Fučíková (Ph.D. Student)
- Chien Lo (Pharmacy Student, formerly an EEB and MCB major)
- Diba Khan-Bureau (Ph.D. student in NRE, coadvised with L.Lewis and G.Robbins, and STRONG-CT director at Three Rivers Community College, Environmental Engineering Tech Program)
Affiliated Faculty
- Francis Trainor (Emeritus Professor in EEB)
- Paul Lewis (Associate Professor in EEB)
Former Lab Members and Visitors
- Nic Tippery (University of Wisconsin) was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the GrAToL (Green Algae Tree of Life) project in 2010-2011. Now he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. Congrats!
- Dr. T.A. Adesalu "Bose" (University of Lagos, Department of Botany and Microbiology) visited during September-November 2010.
- Andreas Holzinger (University of Innsbruck, Institute of Botany) was here for a short visit in August 2010.
- Elizabeth Salinas (Ph.D. student with Dr. Diego González Halphen, UNAM) visited for 4 months in 2010, to interact with us on a project investigating the architecture of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 2 genes in green algae.
- Jared Rada (Undergraduate Student in Biology), is applying to dental school this fall.
- Susan Brawley (Univ. of Maine Orono), July 2009.
- Valerie R. Flechtner (Emeritus Professor, Department of Biology, John Carroll University) visited our lab in 2007, 2008, and early summer 2009.
- Nicole Piatt (Undergraduate Student EEB) worked in our lab for 2 years. She is at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.
- Nicole Pietrasiak visited in 2007, 2008, 2010 (former M.S. student at John Carroll University and now a Ph.D. student at UC Riverside working with Dr. Robert Graham).
- Miracle Tali (NSF REU and NEAGEP Student from ASCC).
- Hilary McManus (firstname.lastname@example.com) (Ph.D. student 2001-2007) now an Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, at LeMoyne College in Syracuse NY.
- Dennis Gray (Postdoctoral Associate 2005-2006): currently a Postdoctoral Associate with Dr. Thomas Sharkey at Michigan State University.
- David Hoover (BS 2003, and completed a Master's degree in the Integrative Geosciences Program at Uconn) is in the Ph.D. program at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, working at the SGS-LTER.
- Karen Erickson (Research Associate): currently a Research Associate at Connecticut College.
- Jarmila Holkova
- Gizele Richards (BS 2003): currently pursuing a graduate degree in Environmental and Resource Policy at George Washington University.
- Brad Goupil (BS 2003): earned a BS/MS in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology.