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WASHINGTON (AP) — A week before mandatory budget cuts go into effect across the government, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing illegal immigrants being held in immigration jails across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday.
Gillian Christensen, an ICE spokeswoman, said ICE has reviewed "several hundred cases" of immigrants being held in jails around the country and released them in the last week. They have been "placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release," she said.
Christensen said the agency's "priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety." She did not say how released immigrants were selected or what jails they were released from.
Tuesday's announcement of jail releases is the first tangible impact of the looming budget cuts for DHS.
The Obama administration has been issuing dire warnings about the impact of the sequestration and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters at the White House Monday that across-the-board cuts would impact the department's core operations, including border security and airport screening operations.
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Republicans lawmakers decried the releases Tuesday.
"It's abhorrent that President (Barack) Obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte. "By releasing criminal immigrants onto the streets, the Administration is needlessly endangering American lives. It also undermines our efforts to come together with the Administration and reform our nation's immigration laws."
The administration asked for about $1.96 billion for immigration jail operations in the last budget. It amounts to about $5.4 million a day, according to the National Immigration Forum's report.
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Maryland would join 14 other states in legalizing medical marijuana. The neighboring District of Columbia legalized it in a 1998 referendum that was only recently allowed by Congress to go into effect. The District's city council is writing rules to establish the city's medical marijuana policy.
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The DDC is Killing our Libraries
The DDC is Killing our Libraries. Christopher Harris: "Instead of a 200 year old system that doesn't make sense, we need a new system that just works. Steve Jobs, love him or hate him, makes things that work. You don't have to learn how to use an iPad, children just pick it up and start using it because it is an almost instinctual interface. They have hidden the things that you shouldn't have to think about and removed the minutia that require instruction. Libraries must do the same. We must make our collections accessible, with a user experience that just works. And to do that, we must rid ourselves of the Dewey Decimal System. "
children can pick up a book and start using it, too.
the problem with something like an iPad is that you adapt your life to it. I dare anyone to write down all the things they want the iPad to do BEFORE they get one and then grade how well it did each thing.
if you are an idiot, you will write: watch videos. if you are a genius, you will write: organize my video collection into subgenres and share them with my friends.
if you are an idiot, you will write: find local music. if you are a genius, you will write: compose music for video I shot at the reunion.
trust me: you are all just cropping your lives to fit into what Steve Jobs gives you. You are not free. Or you are free, but living in a box.
iPod Touch
I don't have an iPad but I do have an iPod Touch and I have had to go look on the Internet for several things to figure out how to do something on the iPod Touch. You say "They have hidden the things that you shouldn't have to think about"
That is true for some things on the iPod Touch. Want to delete an email on you iPod Touch. You have to know that a right handed swipe across the email will prompt you to delete the email. Once you know this trick there is nothing to it but there is nothing about this feature that is intuitive. There are many parts of the iPod Touch that are intuitive but many are not so to look at Apple devices for the basis of perfection is off base.
It just works?
I agree that Apple's touch devices are easy-to-use. (Unless, of course, you have 10 pages of apps to through which to page...)
I think the cataloging and metadata for content in iTunes could use a ton of polishing. It isn't user-friendly. It doesn't "just work". The iTunes Store interface needs some work to become truly user-friendly. Have you seen the Advanced Search? Ugh!
I love Apple for its clean and minimalist designs. Yet, many options and commands are hidden in its most popular applications, to help maintain, I'm guessing, that clean look. But this doesn't mean Apple knows how to organize information well or even how to provide access to it.
"The system was conceived by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and first published in 1876."
"Instead of a 200 year old system [sic] that doesn't make sense, we need a new system that just works."
It does make sense, and it does work, you're just a lazy idiot unwilling to take responsibility for your own learning.
I hope librarians will resist the urge to dumb down library systems in the name of "greater accessibility".
Just what I was going to say!
You took the words right out of my mouth! The fact that the DDC is still working means the "system" is right. It continues to grow, and anything you want to add as a subject will fit into the "system". I would really challenge someone to come up with something else that would work as well. What do you want...color coding, maybe. To set up like a book store, which seems to be what most people want to go to, would mean that you would never know exactly what you had without looking at every shelf. Let's just keep the DDC! 8o)
Why is it necessary to teach DDC to an elementary school student? Only if (1) you don't have an online catalog or (2) you have an online catalog but it isn't very good (good = easy to use, intuitively obvious). As long as we have physical books, they all have to have a physical location. We can't just throw them into a pile on the floor, can we?
>We can't just throw them into a pile on the floor, can we?
If you use RFID in your library you can. Currently an economically impractical option for school libraries at this point.
Your are greatly dumbing
Your are greatly dumbing down how RFID works. It does not allow students to hunt through a pile of books to find the book they want at the price level any library can afford.
economically impractical
I said that this technology was economically impractical at this point for schools. Do you understand what the words economically impractical mean?
This is not just about
This is not just about school libraries. NO library can afford to throw books in a pile, provide RFID readers to patrons, and still plan on providing the service expected of users. It is not just economically impractical, it is totally impractical in every way imaginable.
You kill all opportunity for browsing if you remove call number classification system, which is they way most people research.
>>>You kill all opportunity
>>>You kill all opportunity for browsing if you remove call number classification system
What? Ever been to a used bookstore? Many have no classification at all. Just piles and piles of books that you can look at. People love to browse at used bookstores.
>>>which is they way most people research
It is really? Most people use the call number classification to do research? Wow, what crazy library ecosystem are you in?
>>NO library can afford to throw books in a pile, provide RFID readers to patrons, and still plan on providing the service expected of users.
The way technology cost drop it may be feasible to do this in a couple years.
Also your statement is clearly wrong because The Munich City Library has RFID. 98 per cent of transactions were handled through RFID terminals at the library.
Sure, loads of libraries have RFID. That doesn't mean they "throw books in a pile, provide RFID readers to patrons, and still plan on providing the service expected of users."
RFID checkout and checkin is great stuff. RFID in lieu of browsing, or as a way to locate books within the library? Not so much.
Research online
Research in online now. You can throw the books in a pile because no one uses them anyway. For research it is Google, the free internet, and pay databases. You can keep your books. Put'em in a pile or a dumpster. Doesn't really matter.
Your comments reflect how
Your comments reflect how little time you actually spend watching patrons research and how little time you spend in libraries. I spend all day helping patrons research, watching them as they do their own research, reshelving the books they use, pointing them to the best source format for their needs. Don't tell me they don't use books. Sure, they use the web and databases our library provides, but information comes in many, many formats. For students who are writing papers that require multiple source formats, they must use books, along with magazine articles (many of which can be found in online databases), and the internet. For a vast amount of genealogical information, they must use books because much of that information is not online or in databases, or they want as close to the original source as possible. I could go on, but no matter what I say, you'll claim we could just throw them in a pile.
Aserton and Cudlow Study
Have you read the recent study by Aserton and Cudlow? 98% of all research at academic and public institutions is done online. (Page 755) Large portions of the research was done on pay databases but it was online.
Brian Aserton and Tony Cudlow, The Shift in Research Methods: An analysis of resources, Journal of Library Analysis. Volume 47 Issue 4 Page 751 (October 2009).
Studies only say so much.
Studies only say so much. Real patrons researching day in and day out is what I see. And I see patrons using books for research every single day. I see patrons incorporating all formats in their research.
Ancedotal evidence
A librarian of all people should not be reallying on anecdotal evidence. Why do we have libraries? One reason is to get to information and now you just want to ignore information because it does not support your point.
Studies and polls are not
Studies and polls are not the be-all-end-all. That was the only point I was trying to make. You seem to ignore the anecdotal evidence because it doesn't fit your point that DDC is worthless and that we should dump the books in a pile or throw them away because no one uses them anyway. We could go round and round on this and end up in the same place.
What is really sad is that you do not have the information literacy skills to see that no such study exist.
This cite is totally fictitious: Brian Aserton and Tony Cudlow, The Shift in Research Methods: An analysis of resources, Journal of Library Analysis. Volume 47 Issue 4 Page 751 (October 2009).
You got me. I didn't bother looking up the citation. That does not mean I do know have the skills to do so; I just didn't deem it worthy of my time.
It does not show anything
It does not show anything about the information literacy skills of the other person.
It shows your posts are useless and cannot be trusted.
While the DDC may not be the
While the DDC may not be the world's easiest system to understand, it is better than finding a book on the shelf by its color or size, isn't it? Aren't those two of the many ways of shelving and/or finding books that preceded DDC? My guess is that Dewey's system was such a vast improvement over what came before that librarians AND regular people too were euphoric at the wonder of it and put up with its peculiarities, if they even noticed them in the scaled down world in which they lived at the time. In all that I've read re: cataloging, no where do I remember seeing anything that suggested that DDC was the immutable end-all, be-all to the problem. Given Dewey's penchant for condensing words to the fewest letters possible, for example, as one of his most notorious peculiatiries, I daresay he would already have amended the existing DDC, if had not already come out with a new system altogether.
As to Apple, remember that if it can't entertain us from the instant we step away from the starting block, it probably isn't an Apple product. Oh, yes, and by the way, you can do work on an Apple product as well, but don't let that get in the way of you having fun first and foremost ... tra-la, tra-la.
I am a teacher-librarian (sorry, AASL, I will never abandon my hard-earned right to call myself as teacher as you would like me to do), and it is not impossible to teach DDC to kids, as long as you like and understand it first. For most LT's who have trouble getting it across, in my experience at least, the problem lies in the fact that they are not DDC-friendly librarians or that they are not DDC-friendly teachers; one place or the other, there is dislike and resistance to the system itself.
For their part, kids are fine with it if you base the instruction on the model of a known classification system -- baseball cards, kinds of candy at a candy store or food at the grocery store. Heck, science teachers teach classification systems -- class, phylum, etc. -- and nobody complains. But translate the descriptor words into digits and watch out! With science teachers, it's 1,000x worse; they use latin words where we use numbers, but do you hear anybody screaming?
And for those of you who are objecting to the DDC, you know, of course, that it is essentially a database, one that ran sans a computer for years! And do you have any idea how many databases you use every day that work on many of the same principles as the DDC? Made travel arrangements today and bought tickets, did you? You essentially used the DDC; Continent: North America (becomes a 9); country: U.S. (becomes a 7); state: New York (becomes a 9 in the search string), and so forth in Southwest Air's locations database, just like book on New York state history becomes 979 in the DDC. Now was that so hard, really?
The DDS isn't killing
The DDS isn't killing anything. You need some kind of technical-looking classification system to keep things straight. But computers have created a user-friendly front end that keeps the techie system out of sight.
Computer catalogs do this too. You can search by call number, but it's not a particularly useful tool; most people search by keyword and by subject to get books they need, and that works fine. Think of a hard drive--there's a whole lot of information whose access is mediated by layers of interfaces so that the user can easily get what they need.
If you compare a library to a hard drive, it's clear that subject classification is a good way to organize books--it increases the chances that a user will draw data from one sector of the storage unit and thus minimize access time. The problem is that you can't insulate a library user from the technical system that organizes the data. And if you used a less technical system (like, say, alphabetical by subject), you'd create confusion because the same book would be in different areas of different libraries. Libraries, by nature, are stuck in the Web of 1993, when you had to actually understand URLs in order to access Web pages. I don't see a solution, but I'm not an information specialist.
If your library is using DDC it is dead already. DDC is not killing your library it is just sitting around on a corpse.
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Q. A matter of Brett Anderson being too good or Tiger hitters, a lot of strikeouts there today?
JIM LEYLAND: Well, they pitched and played a perfect game. You have to tip your hat to them. Nothing you could do about it. He had a good curveball, had a very good breaking ball. I think Coco gave them a lot of momentum when he took the home run away from Fielder. Donaldson made a good play on a hard hit ball that turned into a double play. Their bullpen started out perfect for them. They played a perfect game. I think Coco's catch really got them into it.
And it was an excellent baseball game. Good pitching. Sanchez pitched well. Our bullpen did a good job. Their bullpen did a good job. It was a very good baseball game. Runs are at a premium so far in this series for both teams. So you tip your hat to them.
Q. Two great catches they made. Which seemed the more unlikely to you?
JIM LEYLAND: Well, I don't want to say unlikely, because you don't want to take any credit away from them. I thought Cespedes made a great catch, as well. Coco's was the one that was out of the ballpark and came back. I think the key to that was they played deep. Had he been playing a normal centerfield or just a couple of steps back he probably wouldn't have got there to make the catch. But the outfield plays deep. He plays deep. It was a great catch. I mean, there's no question about it.
Like I said, they played a perfect game. They had the bullpen lined up good for them. Bob was excellent in using it. And Anderson had a good curveball.
Q. Did you notice anything about this atmosphere here or anything that helps explain why they're not only a good team but why their record is so good here?
JIM LEYLAND: Well, I think you're seeing the atmosphere in Detroit, atmosphere in Oakland. If you look around, all the teams have great atmosphere at this time of the year. Cincinnati had the pom‑poms going or whatever it was. And they've got the yellow towels. And we had the white pom‑poms going. The atmosphere is going to be great no matter where you play this time of year. They played a perfect game. You tip your hat to them.
Q. Brett Anderson was a big question mark, no one knew how he would respond from the oblique injury. Were you surprised?
JIM LEYLAND: Not really because Bob Melvin is pretty smart. If he had not felt totally comfortable with him he would not have pitched him in this game. I expected him to be good. He's a very good pitcher. I thought he had an excellent curveball. They don't do foolish things here.
Somebody asked that question a little bit, what to expect from him, I wasn't really sure, but I knew Bob Melvin knew what to expect, he wouldn't have put him out there had he not had total confidence.
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SYDNEY—David Beckham's decision to leave the Los Angeles Galaxy is generating more speculation in Australia that the former England captain could make a move to the A-League.
The 37-year-old Beckham has announced that his six-season stint in U.S. Major League Soccer will end with the Dec. 1 MLS Cup against Houston.
Five Australian clubs have confirmed interest in bringing Beckham to the A-League, with the Melbourne Heart and Western Sydney Wanderers considered the top contenders due to the cosmopolitan nature of the two cities.
Last week, Beckham's management company denied reports he was headed to Australia.
Perth, Adelaide and the Gosford-based Central Coast Mariners all expressed interest, while Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory have previously indicated they won't pursue Beckham.
"We're putting forward an offer. It's compelling and the opportunity is here for him to come here," Melbourne Heart chief executive Scott Munn said Tuesday
"What I can say is that it's certainly real. . . . That is absolutely legitimate," Munn said. "Let's let David get through next week, play the final of the MLS and hopefully he'll have a win. Then I'm sure he'll assess every offer."
Beckham has been a big influence on the growth in popularity of the MLS since he joined the Galaxy, and even a short 10-week stint in Australia could generate extra interest in the fledgling A-League.
The Australian competition is already breaking its records this season after recruiting Alessandro Del Piero, Emile Heskey and Japan's Shinji Ono.
Beckham hadn't given any overt indications he was planning to leave the Galaxy after this season with a year left on his deal, and last week his management pointedly denied rumors linking him to a short-term stint in Australia.
But he released a statement in conjunction with the Galaxy late Monday saying he had an "incredibly special time" playing for the club, "However, I wanted to experience one last challenge before the end of my playing career."
The former Manchester United and Real Madrid star and his wife, former Spice Girl Victoria, have been living in Los Angeles with their sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz.
"There is no doubt that MLS is far more popular and important here and abroad than it was when he arrived," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said. "David has achieved great things on and off the field during his time with the Galaxy, and he will always be an important part of our history."


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NORMAL CARS EXIST: If you know anything about the kinetic wonderland that exists in the Arcata-Ferndale nexus of Humboldt County, you know that wacky, outlandish, odd, and wonderful vehicles pretty much rule the school. So it can be a tad discombobulating to head into the area and see actual cars, like, with run-of-the-mill fenders and license plates and four wheels -- four wheels, not eleven or seventeen! -- and a windshield and doors. You can think to yourself, "wait, this isn't the freak-flag-y land I know and love -- where are all of the whirligig-topped roadsters and toy-glued pedal cars?" Trust, they exist in the magical land of Humboldt, coming out in full force over one happy and high-jinks-ian weekend of the year. That weekend is Memorial Day, and the Kinetic Grand Championship will once again pedal, push, heave, coast, and lurch from Arcata to Ferndale over three deliriously delightful days.
PREPARE YOURSELF... for the "Triathlon of the Art World," a colorful run devoted to ingenuity, pluck, and slapdash bravado. The 42-miler involves bike power, but, nope, they're not straight-up cycles. They've been tricked out to the nth degree which means a) they're quite photographable and b) sometimes things don't always go as planned. But such is the way with kinetic sculptures, which have a lot of love put into them, even if they're not always road-worthy. Oh, did we say "road-worthy" there? The sculptures also enter the water during the Championship, meaning they have to float, not sink. Right? Simple enough. Sand, mondo inclines, and other challenges away.
CAMERA TIME, CAMERA PEOPLE: It's fun and it's colorful, as is the way with all things in the Universe Kinetic. Plus, Humboldt at the verrrry start of the summer season is a good place to be. Need some wacky? Yeah, you do. You don't have to race, but you should pick a sculpture to root for. Go for the weirdest one, we say, though that might be hard to choose.


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Ross Alan Beam, of Middletown, NY, passed away Sunday, September 8th, at Orange Regional Medical Center. He was 54.
Born in Middletown, NY on June 2, 1959, he was a son of May Hall Brown, of Middletown and the late Edward Beam.
He was a fork lift operator at Delford Rubber Middletown, and was previously employed by the Orange County Department of Public Works.
He is survived by his wife, Sandra Smith; daughters: Naiomi Beam, Tonya Hendrickson, Candice Beam, Brandy Beam; son, Ross Rittacco; mother, May Brown, stepfather, Richard Brown; brothers: Richard Beam, Vincent Beam, Edward Beam and wife, Debbie Beam, Wayne Beam and wife, Yvonne Beam, Glen Beam, Roy Beam; sisters: Carol Boyce and husband, Rex Boyce, Sharon Simpson and husband, Dick Simpson, Viola Meland; grandchildren: Nyzel Muller, Alicia Muller, Cheyanne Beam, Nyasia Beam, Adrianna Valle, Demani Hanson, Xavier Hanson, Nyzaria Lewis, Jahzara Beam; aunts: Patricia Figueroa, and Mary Newman, and several nieces and nephews.
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The Basics About Lung Cancer–
Thursday, November 13 we will "Shine A Light" on lung cancer and will have information available and an art display at the June E. Nylen Cancer Center
The lungs are sponge-like organs that are part of the respiratory system. During breathing, air enters the mouth or nasal passage and travels down the windpipe or trachea. The trachea splits into two sets of tubes, bronchial tubes, which lead to the left and right lung. The bronchi branch off into smaller and smaller tubes that eventually end in small balloon-like sacs called as alveoli. The alveoli are where oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other substances are exchanged between the lungs and the blood stream.
The lungs are divided into sections, called lobes. The right lung has three lobes, the left has two.
Cancer is the word used to describe a group of diseases in which normal cells change, grow and divide out of control. This out of control growth causes problems such as the creation of a mass (tumor). Cancer can also affect the tissue surrounding the mass and interfere with the functioning of organs. Cancer can also break away from the original mass and spread to other parts of the body (metastasis).
Lung cancer is when cells of the tissue of the lungs grow out of control.
A word about primary and secondary cancers: Other cancers can spread to the lungs. When this happens, it is not considered "lung cancer." Primary lung cancer starts in the lung. Secondary lung cancer (or lung metastases) starts in another part of the body and spreads to the lungs. Secondary lung cancer is generally treated in the same way as the primary cancer, which may be different than primary lung cancer. The information on this page, and on this website, pertains only to primary lung cancer, that which starts in the lungs.


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Technoracle has been on Blogger now for over 4 years and feel I may be missing out on some of the new features of blog platforms. While investigating these, I also started thinking about just using another company's Website hosting and build my own blog and condense all my other websites on to one provider. The reasons are pretty obvious. No waiting on third party sites for widgets, auxiliary items to load, full control over look and feel, etc. On the downside, WordPress, Blogger and others give you a lot our of the box and the server hosting from various third party suppliers is actually pretty cheap.
I already have my web collateral pretty spread out too. Web2open.org (where I place a lot of tutorials) is hosted on a Dedicated server hosting. www.duanesworldtv.org is on yet another provider and nickull.net and 22ndcenturyofficial.com are on two different providers. This is before we ver get into myspace, facebook etc. Here are some things running through my mind though:
1. Will condensing all of them into one IP address affect search engine results. While they are not interlinked much, there are some links. My gut tells me yes but I am looking for anyone with actual experience.
2. Staying on blogger seems to result in blog posts being indexed much quicker than using non-Google owned blog platforms. Anyone have some experience here?
3. I haven't migrated to the new templates. Has anyone experience with this old Technoracle Blogger template moving to a newer one? I heard it is lossy?
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Dear Blogger:
At 35, I've done pretty well financially - good silicon valley job, enough income to meet my family's expenses, and by virtue of having been extremely frugal through my 20's, a $900k nest egg. My family had our first child this year, and I'm frequently asked about investing in 529 plans. My question is whether to take advantage of them or not. I don't expect higher education to look much like it does today in 18+ years (and I'd be very surprised if it was as expensive), so I'm weary of saving up a huge chunk of money in a plan that penalizes using that money for any other purpose. If higher education is free or nearly so online in 2032, which seems reasonable, this will turn out to have been a bad investment. My thought has been to save and invest normally in a taxable account, and just use that money and pay the capital gains for any amount that's necessary to educate our children. What do you think?
Saving to Address Variable Education Risk
Dear SAVER:
It's a stumper, isn't it? Your little bundle of joy will graduate into a world that we can't quite imagine right now. If it looks like the one we're in, a 529 plan or an Educational Savings Account is probably a great idea, because the money to pay for college will accumulate without dividend or capital gains taxes. On the other hand, the government doesn't want you using that money for anything else . . . so if your kid is paying a $12.95 annual subscription to Coursera in 2032, you're going to have to pay a hefty penalty to recover what you invested in the 529. And that's not the only thing that could go wrong. Even if the education of the future remains expensive, if your kid gets a full ride scholarship somewhere, or if they just decide that they don't want to go to college, you are going to have to pay a hefty penalty to get that money back.
It's also worth noting that 529 plans give you very little control over the investments in the account; the fund administrator chooses. Fees are usually low, but getting locked in like that makes me uncomfortable. ESAs give you more flexibility (and you can pay for more ancillaries, like computers), but I assume from your email that you make too much money to qualify.
On the other hand . . . capital gains. If you don't use a tax-advantaged educational acount, taxes are going to take a 20% whack out of any money you save for college. And that's if capital gains taxes don't rise, which I personally kind of doubt. The government needs a gigantic amount of money to pay for all the entitlements we've promised. Given the angry noises about Mitt Romney's tax returns, a higher capital gains tax seems like one obvious place that politicians are going to look.
It comes down to a judgement: how certain are you that education will change (and change in a way that will make a 529 plan inappropriate?) The Blogger can't tell you what to think about that; you have to look deep into your heart and ask whether you prefer the risk (certainty, I'd say) that capital gains rates will rise, or the risk that a 529 won't be much help paying for the kind of education that will be needed for the world of 2032. On balance, I would probably use the tax free account, but I can see why you would decide not to.
If you're really having trouble deciding, use this time-tested method suggested by a friend of mine: flip a coin. See what it says. If you are possessed by the sudden urge to go two out of three, then hey, that's not really what you wanted to do.
But here's the really great news: it doesn't matter that much. You're doing great financially, and however you choose to save, you're going to have more than enough to pay for whatever education your kid needs. Decide what you're going to do, and then relax to the possibility that it may cost you money you can well afford to lose.
Dear Blogger:
My family of 3 (working mom, working dad, teenager) does not have any health insurance and I see no feasible way of getting any. What is NOT having health insurance going to cost me once the new laws go into effect? Does it make any difference how much money you make as to what your penalty is or is it the same across the board for everyone? Does it make any difference what state you live in ? I don't understand this whole exchanges thing and how it relates to penalties. I don't have a clue how to get any answers. If it wasn't so stressful, I would totally appreciate the irony of a law presumably trying to help people with their health that caused them to become worried sick.
Worried Sick
Dear Sick:
I can't answer your question precisely, because the answer is: no one knows yet. The health care exchanges are being worked out now, it's not clear which states are expanding Medicaid and which are not, and the rules surrounding things like the individual mandate are still being finalized.
The assurance I can give you is this: the health care plan is not supposed to penalize people for not buying health insurance because they can't afford it. It is supposed to help those who can't afford it with subsidies. And if it does end up penalizing a lot of hardworking families who simply do not have the money for health insurance in their family budget, that is going to cause a huge political uproar--big enough that I'm pretty sure Congress will quickly alter the law. So don't stress out about this too much. Whatever you think of the new health care law--and I was not a huge fan--it was not intended to whack families who can't afford to buy health insurance. Try not to worry about this unless it actually becomes a problem. And as we get more specific information, Ask the Blogger will be revisiting this topic, so stay tuned.
Dear Blogger:
I'm a 32-year-old professional with a steady well-paying job and a hobby of building mobile and web applications for small businesses. I've made a little bit of money working on these projects, but so far I've never given into the animal spirits enough to justify quitting my stable job.
What sorts of things do I have to think about if I was to quit and start a new company? What will be the career implications if I fail?
I have a emergency fund that I could live off of for 6 months, if necessary, and a well-funded (for a 32-year-old) 401k. I also have a wife and four children.
Hesitant Entrepreneur
Here's the bad news, Hesitant Entrepreneur: most small businesses fail. Even startups headed by someone who has previously founded a startup, and has good funding, fail more often than they succeed. Startups headed by folks who have never done this before fail at an even higher rate.
Here's the good news: being your own boss is great, and startups are the economic engine of the United States. If you have what it takes, it's a great life, and probably the only way you will get truly wealthy. And even if you fail, it's unlikely to deliver a permanent career blow.
So, how to decide?
Ask yourself some questions. Like: do I actually want to run a business? Do I want to sell, do accounting, and make sure we've ordered enough toner? As an entrepreneur in the early stages, you'll be doing all those things. I've worked for several startups, and I loved the "Hey, kids, let's put on a show and raise enough money to save the community center!" spirit. I also don't mind doing a bunch of different jobs--rather like it, in fact. But I'd still never found my own business, because one of the things I learned from that experience is that I hate telling other people what to do, and while I'm actually good on a sales call, I absolutely dread making the kind of phone calls needed to set one up.
Look at your finances. You need a good cash cushion, because your income will be variable and your expenses will not. Do not view that emergency fund as your operating funds, or I guarantee that just as you plow the last of it into new inventory, your home furnace will die; you need money saved on top of that. You also need basic insurance payments for life, disability and health insurance. Many entrepreneurs are tempted to skip those items when cash flow gets tight. Don't you be that idiot. When you're a small business owner, there's no one to float you a couple of paychecks when you get sick.
Did I mention that you'll be doing accounting? Take an accounting course, if you haven't already. The single biggest mistake that first-time entrepreneurs make is that they often can't even tell whether they're making money or not.
Think hard about your risk appetite. Every business goes through a period when the founder thinks that everything's going to hell and they've wasted valuable years on the stupidest idea ever. Can you keep it together when that happens? Or will you go wobbly under the stress? There's no shame in saying "I don't want that much pressure on me".
Also, seriously, I cannot stress the accounting thing enough. You need to be able to tell whether you've got a business, or an expensive hobby.
Luckily, you're in an extra-enviable position: you have started doing your business on the side. That means you already know you have a product people want. It also gives you time to grow the business and make some mistakes without feeling like you're one step away from disaster. My advice is to keep your job and grow your business on the side until you can't--until making it bigger requires a full time you. And at that point, you need to stop and assess: is the business making enough to cover a stripped-down set of expenses? As mentioned above, those expenses need not include cable, but they do include basic insurance. You have four children, and you need to make sure they're taken care of.
If the business can support you and your kids at that point--or if you're so close that putting in a few more hours is obviously going to take you there--and if you're still loving it, then close your eyes and jump. If it's not generating enough income to provide you a decent minimum lifestyle, then you stay put. Doing it this way means that you're going to have to spend the next year pouring all your spare time into the business, which will be exhausting, if also exhilirating. But it will be the thrill and exhaustion of riding a roller coaster, not the thrill and exhaustion of jumping off a cliff without knowing whether or not your safety harness works.
Dear Blogger:
I graduated with a BA in political science from a good liberal arts school in New England in 2011, and I've been working in Boston since then in a job with no real career track (read: I took what I could get). I didn't want to jump right into graduate school after college--I wanted to work for a few years, pay off some debt, build up some savings, and know that I was making a responsible graduate school choice.
I think I've been successfully scared away from two of my post-grad ideas. It seems getting a Ph.D. in poli. sci. would not be a particularly good idea, since the academic job market is very weak and has it's own peculiarities. Law school doesn't look like a good choice either--that is a lot of debt for shaky job opportunities. In each case, I could probably get into good programs-- if I had to guess, I could probably get into a top 30 or top 40 law school--but after watching my girlfriend and her classmates struggle to find jobs after graduation, I'm very hesitant to pursue a J.D.
Which leaves me with something of a middle choice: masters programs. I'm very interested in pursuing an MPP--it seems most of those policy-related jobs that used to be available to smart BAs now require a law degree or an MPP. I've been looking at a few programs, and most of them seem to focus on building real job skills, not just emptying my pockets for two years. But I'm still hesitant to take the leap--what do you think youngsters like me should consider before taking the plunge into graduate programs, especially ones without the well-known career tracks like law school or medical school?
Graduate Requiring Another Degree
Dear Grad:
Believe it or not, I've been where you are more than once. I spent my very early 20's kicking around various jobs, including a couple of startups and a job as a secretary at a non-profit. Eventually I ended up as a technology consultant, and a couple of years after that, i had the epiphany that I didn't like technology as much as the other technology consultants. That's when I decided to get an MBA. Three years later, I graduated from Booth into a weak job market, and the consulting firm I'd signed on with rewarded my decision by promptly going out of business.
What I have learned from a decade of slowly and painfully paying off high five-figure student debt on a salary considerably lower than I expected when I got my MBA, is that you should think long and hard before you try to solve a career crisis by going back to school. As it happens, I enjoyed my degree, and ended up using my coursework more than many of my classmates. On the other hand, I also spent much of my thirties dining on thins like "Ramen and Cheez-Doodle surprise"--the surprise being that you're 32 and still have to eat ramen because you can't afford, y'know, meat.
The MPP is a less expensive degree, but it's still pretty pricey. And the jobs for which it qualifies you are often at government agencies, not known for their over-generous pay or rapid career advancement. I know people who have gone to high-ranked programs and ended up spending years toiling in the underpaid bowels of a state agency. The schools will highlight their successful graduates with glamorous-sounding federal positions, but understand that unless you go to Harvard, that is not necessarily the norm.
You are doing the responsibel thing by saving a little money and taking some time to really think hard about this decision. So: bravo! The best advice I can give you is first, to understand what sort of job you want, and are likely to get, before you go. And second, to pay very close attention to the ranking of your school within your field of graduate study. Yale has the number one law school, and an MBA program with a so-so reputation. People often erroneously assume that a top-ranked school in a field they know well must mean that all the programs are good. But even a school like Yale has some notso-hotso graduate programs.
When you do this research, do not ask the schools, who will shamelessly lie to you while waving the resumes of their three recent grads who got awesome-sounding jobs (working for their uncle). Find some employers you would like to work for, and ask them where they recruit from. Find out what sort of people they hire. Then see if you can do what it takes to become that sort of person.
As someone who has been there twice, Grad, let me reassure you of one thing: even if grad school turns out not to be the panacea you're looking for, you will eventually figure something out. Your dead-end job feels like forever to you because you haven't been in the job market for very long. Those of us who have been working for longer have noticed that shockingly few of our acquaintances are still doing data entry or driving a fork lift twenty years later. As long as you're actively looking for the next thing, and talking to employers about how you might become the worker they want, you will eventually figure out what you're good at, and find a better job. If you can do it without racking up a great deal of student loan debt, so much the better.
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Brain Tumor Cells Killed by Anti-Nausea Drug
19-Mar-2013 9:00 AM EDT
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KEYWORDSBrain, Cancer, Tumor, Brain Tumor, Substance P, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Chemotherapy
Newswise — New research from the University of Adelaide has shown for the first time that the growth of brain tumors can be halted by a drug currently being used to help patients recover from the side effects of chemotherapy.
The discovery has been made during a study looking at the relationship between brain tumors and a peptide associated with inflammation in the brain, called "substance P".
Substance P is commonly released throughout the body by the nervous system, and contributes to tissue swelling following injury. In the brain, levels of substance P greatly increase after traumatic brain injury and stroke.
"Researchers have known for some time that levels of substance P are also greatly increased in different tumor types around the body," says Dr Elizabeth Harford-Wright, a postdoctoral fellow in the University's Adelaide Centre for Neuroscience Research.
"We wanted to know if these elevated levels of the peptide were also present in brain tumor cells, and if so, whether or not they were affecting tumor growth. Importantly, we wanted to see if we could stop tumor growth by blocking substance P."
In laboratory studies for her PhD, Dr Harford-Wright found that levels of substance P were greatly increased in brain tumor tissue.
Knowing that substance P binds to a receptor called NK1, Dr Harford-Wright used an antagonist drug called Emend® to stop substance P binding to the receptor. Emend® is already used in cancer clinics to help patients with chemotherapy-induced nausea.
The results were startling.
"We were successful in blocking substance P from binding to the NK1 receptor, which resulted in a reduction in brain tumor growth – and it also caused cell death in the tumor cells," Dr Harford-Wright says.
"So preventing the actions of substance P from carrying out its role in brain tumors actually halted the growth of brain cancer.
"This is a very exciting result, and it offers further opportunities to study possible brain tumor treatments over the coming years."
This research has been funded by the NeuroSurgical Research Foundation (NRF), which is celebrating 50 years of supporting neurosurgical research in Australia and at the University of Adelaide.


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Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
We've got some exciting racing on tap this weekend, ladies and gentlemen. Saturday will have NASCAR trucks in Michigan, NASCAR cars in Canada and ALMS streaming on the Internets. Sunday brings us a Sprint Cup race in Michigan and Moto GP at Indy. It's plenty hot outside, so stay cool by parking yourself in front of your TV — or computer — and watching some races.
All times Eastern.
Saturday, August 18
FIA GT1 World Championship Qualifying
Orechová Potôň, Slovakia
11:30 a.m. on SPEED 2
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series VFW 200
Michigan International Speedway
Brooklyn, Michigan
12 p.m. on SPEED
AMA Motocross Red Bull Unadilla National
New Berlin, New York
12:30 p.m. on FUEL, 3 p.m. on NBC
NASCAR Nationwide Series NAPA Auto Parts 200
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Montreal, Canada
2 p.m. on ESPN
ALMS Road America Road Race Showcase
Road America
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
3:15 p.m. Live Streaming on ESPN 3
Also 2 p.m. Sunday on ESPN 2
Rolex Sports Car Series Montreal 200
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Montreal, Quebec
7 p.m. on SPEED (same day broadcast)
Sunday, August 19
NHRA Lucas Oil Nationals
Brainerd International Raceway
Brainerd, Minnesota
12 p.m. live streaming on ESPN 3
Also 9 p.m. on ESPN 2
NASCAR Sprint Cup Pure Michigan 400
Michigan International Speedway
Brooklyn, Michigan
1 p.m. on ESPN
Moto GP World Championship Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis, Indiana
2 p.m. on SPEED
Did we miss any? Who do you think will win? Let us know in the comments below.
Photo credit: Getty Images


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Ivan's Place
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My name is Bill Becker, and I live in Southern California.
This site is named in honor of Ivan Karamazov, my alter ego. To get an idea of what that means, you must read two chapters in The Brothers Karamazov: Rebellion, followed immediately by The Grand Inquisitor. (This is a PDF file, which requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here to download the reader.)
Ivan's Place is dedicated to all of the beautiful and loving people with whom I have worked in the peace and justice movement over the years. They have been my inspiration, and whatever strength and stamina I have been able to muster, I owe largely to them. I am deeply, profoundly, inexpressibly grateful for their being in the world. Nevertheless, I tried:
Those who work for peace with justice
Unless otherwise designated, all photographs on this website are mine. All others were taken with my camera(s) and my film, and I took all the pictures except those with me in them.
|If you like what you see on my website, I will of course appreciate any small donation you might make to help defray expenses. Just click on the Donate button below to go to a secure PayPal donation page. In any case, thanks for visiting, and I hope you will find the site useful. —Bill Becker
Page updated August 11, 2009


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#1 Amherst College - 61, Farmingdale State - 32
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's basketball team fell to the top-ranked team in Division III tonight, Amherst College, by a score of 61-32. The Jeffs remain unbeaten with a 13-0 record, while the Rams fall to 5-6.
In the first half, Farmingdale State held an early 7-4 lead over the first four minutes before a 10-0 Amherst run put the Jeffs ahead 14-7 with 9:49 remaining. The Rams cut the deficit to five points but a 14-3 spurt by Amherst would close out the half as they held a 32-16 advantage. Jeffs senior forward Lem Atanga McCormick (Chicago, Ill.) finished the half 4-for-5 with eight points, while Farmingdale junior guard Nikita Green (Roosevelt, N.Y.) scored eight in the first, including 2-for-3 from long range.
Amherst led throughout the second, although struggling from three-point territory, and would roll on for the non-conference win. The Jeffs finished with a 41-percent field goal percentage and eight blocks on the night, while the Rams shot just 21-percent from the field for the game.
Farmingdale's Green led her team with 15 points, while senior forward Dominique Cunningham (Amityville, N.Y.) controlled the rebounding with a team-high nine rebounds.
For Amherst, McCormick posted a game-high 16 points (8-for-9) and pulled down five rebounds. Freshman forward Megan Robertson (Tewksbury, Mass.) was the second player in double figures with 12 points, seven rebounds and two blocks.
The Rams will now host The Sage Colleges on Saturday, January 14 at 1:00 p.m.


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Everyone loves Domo and because of this I wanted to fill another request and make a lesson on "how to draw chibi Domo", step by step. This is going to be such an easy lesson to tackle because Domo is nothing more then a figure shaped like a tooth, with eyes and a mouth added along with some arms and legs. His dusty red cheeks and the way his lips are lined with a light shade of red makes him even more attractive to draw. I am almost positive that folks will love drawing chibi Domo is this chibi form. Well, that's about it. Enjoy this lesson and be sure to keep your eyes out for more submissions to come. Peace people!
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Sugar Rush: Custard Filled Long Johns at Holtman's Donuts, Cincinnati
There's a bit of anxiety that comes with biting into a custard-filled doughnut. It often explodes in a mess of filling that drips on your chin and fingers and, taste-wise, too-much filling and too-much sugar can pound the palate, leaving you with a dissatisfied "meh".
Such is not the case at Holtman's Donuts outside of Cincinnati in Loveland, Ohio. Opened in 1950 by Charles Holtman, they had 13 stores in their heyday, but rising sugar prices and the decline in the doughnut's trendability brought them down to only their Loveland and Williamsburg locations. Now Charles' daughter Toni and her husband Chuck run the shop along with their son Danny, and they've held tight to what is classic while moving forward when something fun calls to them like, say, their "doughsant" version of a cronut.
What they nail, though, are the classics. The key to their Custard Filled Long John ($1) is balance. Their doughnut dough is stellar; a spot-on amount of sweet with a texture that is soft throughout but doesn't collapse with a bite or the slice of a knife. They pipe in a house-made custard that isn't too sweet. While on first glance it looks sub-par in quantity, it's actually just the right amount for every bite. On top of that, the icing actually tastes like chocolate, rather than just a smear of confectioners sugar, so the combination of vanilla custard and chocolate icing both get their place with a chew.
Altogether, you get a perfect balance of everything—doughnut, custard and icing—so that you can taste and enjoy each. Oh, and in case you didn't quite catch that above, they're a dollar. A dollar! Which is why it's no surprise that these have been a constant classic for Holtman's and sell out particularly quickly.
If you live in Cincinnati proper and aren't drooling quite enough to make it to Loveland or Williamsburg, fear not; they're opening a new Over the Rhine location (hopefully) by the end of August.
Holtman's Donut Shop
1399 Ohio 28, Loveland, OH 45140 (map)
(513) 575-1077 holtmansdonutshop.com


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Robot programming through demonstration: Building Ikea furniture
During his internship at Willow Garage, Scott Niekum from the University of Massachusetts Amherst developed a learning from demonstration system that allows users to show the PR2 how to perform complex, multi-step tasks, which the robot can then generalize to new situations. Our main test application was the autonomous assembly of simple IKEA furniture.
First, the user provides several kinesthetic demonstrations of the task in various situations, demonstrations in which the user physically moves the arms of the robot to complete the task. A series of algorithms are then used to discover repeated structure across the demonstraions, resulting in the creation of reusable skills that can be used to reproduce the task.
The robot is then able to sequence these skills in an intelligent, adaptive way by using classifiers learned from the demonstration data. If the robot happens to make a mistake during execution of the task, the user can stop the robot at any time and provide an interactive correction, showing the robot how to fix the mistake. This information is then integrated into the robot's knowledge base, so that it can deal with similar situations in the future.
For more informaton see:
Scott Niekum, Sachin Chitta, Andrew Barto, Bhaskara Marthi, Sarah Osentoski, Incremental Semantically Grounded Learning from Demonstration. Robotics: Science and Systems 9, June 2013.
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About Security
You have a question about security, whether you can bring weapon replicas...? We have the answer!
Information available on this page may be updated at any time and until the festival.
Q: Can I bring a katana replica at Japan Expo Sud?
A: No, you can absolutely not, for obvious security reasons. ALL WEAPON REPLICAS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, whatever they are made of. Nerf-like blasters are allowed in if they're all made of plastic, on the condition that you don't have darts.
Q: If I've come along with a replica and want to get it back at the end of the festival, what do I do ?
A: You can leave it at the checkroom in hall 8. Yet we remind you that they are forbidden in all public places, including the festival or public transportation.
Q: What if the replica is part of my costume and I keep it in its case?
A: The same security rules apply to cosplayers and other attendees. Only harmless replicas of fantasy weapons are allowed, on the condition that they bear strictly no resemblance with a real weapon and are made of harmless material only, such as foam, cardboard, light wood, or worbla.
As for the cosplayers entering the contests, you'll find more information by asking your questions to the cosplay team on www.facebook.com/epicassociation.
Q: But I've seen katana and other weapon replicas on sale on several booths?
A: The exhibitors are allowed to sell replicas to people over 18 only, and must provide a closed box to carry them, which must remain closed until you get home.
If you buy a replica from one of the festival exhibitors and unpack it inside, it will be confiscated by security and destroyed.
Q: Are airsoft replicas allowed?
A: Airsoft weapon replicas are also prohibited.
Q: Are there forbidden costumes?
R: Yes, all military, police, SWAT, or other response team costumes are forbidden.
More security instructions from the French government at www.gouvernement.fr/reagir-attaque-terroriste
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Q: I have another question! What do I do?
A: You can read the attendees' guide and the other practical information here and the other FAQ sections. If you still cannot find the answer to your question, send us a message and we'll find it for you! Use the "Contact us" section of the website and be careful when choosing the type of request, it will be easier for us to find the answer.