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Michigan Vital Records
This entry was originally written by Arleigh P. Helfer, Jr. and Carol L. Maki for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Marriages, recorded in the county where they occurred, are the earliest public vital records in Michigan because of a marriage registration law that was enacted in 1805. A later law required marriages to be collected by the county clerk after 1 April 1867 and forwarded to the Secretary of State. Births and death records for each county, with copies also sent to the state, began no later than January 1867, although registration of all vital records was certainly not enforced. A 1905 law was much more effective. Divorce records began in 1897.
Photocopies of these registrations can be ordered from the Michigan Department of Community Health, Vital Records Requests, P.O. Box 30721, Lansing, MI 48909.
All death, marriage, and divorce records, and those birth records over 100 years old are public records, and photocopies of them are available to any individual or agency upon written application and payment of the fee. Birth records less than 100 years old are available only to the individual to whom the record pertains, the parent(s) named on the record, any heir, legal guardian, or any legal representative of an eligible person. 'Heir' generally is interpreted as any descendant with a blood relationship to the individual. Relationship to the person named on the birth record, and date and place of death for that person must be supplied when requesting such a birth certificate.
Official forms, all available online, are required to request a certified copy of any vital record (non-certified copies for genealogical research are not available.) Non-refundable fees for any type of copy are the following: first record request, including a standard three-year search'$15; duplicates of certified copies'$5 each; additional years searched per record request'$4 per year. Marriages registered before mandatory recording (1867) in some counties (see Michigan County Resources) may be ordered from the appropriate county clerk. Charges for searches and/or copies will vary from county to county but must not exceed the state fees. Some township clerks also recorded births and deaths.
The Michigan Department of Community Health offers the Genealogical Death Indexing System (GENDIS), which provides Internet access (see address above) to selected death records at its website. The data (individual's name, date of death, father's surname, and county of death) have been obtained from microfilmed death ledgers and transcribed by genealogical society members. GENDIS contains well over 200,000 records from 1867 to 1897, with additions planned.
Microfilm copies of indexes to specific groups of Michigan vital records are at the Library of Michigan, State Archives of Michigan, Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library, and the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana (see Archives, Libraries, and Societies for location of all four repositories):
- Michigan. State Department of Public Health. Index of Death Records, 1867'1914. 13 reels.
- Michigan. State Department of Public Health. Index to Marriage Records, 1872'1921. 21 reels.
The government archive records at the Burton Historical Collection include the forms for Wayne County Marriage Returns. Completed by a minister or civil authority, the forms were sent to the county clerk between 1818 and 1888, although most are dated 1860 to 1877. The forms include the date of the marriage and names of the bride and groom with their color, residence, age, place of birth, and occupation.
FamilySearch.org has a variety of collections available for free online:
- Michigan, Births and Christenings, 1775-1995
- Michigan, Births, 1867-1902 (includes images)
- Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1935 (includes images)
- Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995
- Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925 (includes images)
- Michigan, Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995
- Michigan, Deaths, 1867-1897 (includes images)
- Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952
- Michigan, Death Index, 1971-1996
External Links
- Michigan Birth, Marriage, and Death Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing Michigan birth, marriage, and death records (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Includes links to FamilySearch vital record databases.
- Michigan Marriages Search Engine - free Michigan marriages search engine that has indexed marriages posted across the web.
- Michigan Obituary and Death Notice Archive - free Michigan obituary archive that has transcribed obits from across the state.
- Michigan Library of Files - free Michigan obituary and data files archive from across the state.
- Michigan Vital Records - links to Michigan vital record sources organized by county


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Enjoy our roundup of a fantastic week of glider racing at the Husbands Bosworth Challenge Cup 2019! The competition returns on the 25th July-2nd August 2020. https://www.facebook.com/TheGlidingCentre/videos/417388962212561/
Congratulations to the winners!
Well done to everyone who competed in this year's Challenge Cup, but particularly to Francesca Roberts (3rd), Peter Baker (2nd) and Richard Large (1st). Congratulations also to Mynd Gliding Clip for winning the inter-club competition!
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Is Linux In Trouble, or Is It Just Something About East Texas?
Apr 28, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Hardly a week goes by here in the Linux community without some company or other claiming that Linux and everyone who uses it is violating their patent -- or patents, more frequently.
Not uncommonly, it's Microsoft doing the suing. Most recently, however, it was Bedrock Computer Technologies, a company -- many would say "patent troll" instead -- that has apparently taken it upon itself to sue not just Google but also Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, PayPal, AOL and more, all over "methods and apparatus for information storage and retrieval using a hashing technique with external chaining and on-the-fly removal of expired data."
Though it appears to maintain no official company website, a Google search on Bedrock's name turns up several years' worth of litigation, apparently all in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX).
A 'Renegade Jurisdiction'?
In this most recent case -- once again, in Eastern Texas -- Bedrock won against Google, to the tune of US$5 million.
Some are saying that all of Linux is in trouble; others maintain it's just one more wacky, pro-patent decision coming out of the "renegade jurisdiction" of EDTX.
Which side is right? That's what Linux bloggers have been trying to figure out. It took no time at all for the topic to hit the top of the charts down at the blogosphere's Krazy Kernel Kafe -- not to mention on Slashdot and beyond.
'An Absolute Travesty'
"I expect Google to appeal," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl. "This patent covers a well-known programming technique that goes back into the 1980s and possibly even the 1970s -- it's an absolute travesty that the patent office ever offered a patent on it."
In other words, "it's yet another glaring reason that patent reform is badly needed," Mack opined.
Indeed, "the silliness of East Texas and patents is disgusting," blogger Robert Pogson agreed. "Google should ignore that result and appeal to higher courts. That's the only way the patent trolls will be put in place until SCOTUS throws out software patents entirely."
'Software Patents Are Wrong'
The fact is, "USPTO is broken and needs to be reworked as well as fixing the patent laws," Pogson added.
"Software patents are wrong -- they do the opposite of what the constitution envisaged," he went on. "The idea was to give an inventor in the days of nuts and bolts a monopoly on some implementation of something to reward the investment of time and energy."
When it comes to software, however, the concept is "ridiculous," he opined. "It takes minutes to 'invent' a logical process/mathematics that will generate some software, and for that the patent trolls want a tax on as many millions of implementations spread by the web as possible."
Put another way, the effort and the reward are disproportionate, Pogson said.
"It's just maths," he concluded. "Once someone describes the objective of one of these patents, without disclosing any details, any graduate of programming 101 in high school can implement it. Hence there is a lack of creativity and prior art is in the programming manual. No need to invent anything for this kind of thing to happen."
'Death by a Thousand Cuts'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet saw it differently.
"With the USPTO handing out software patents like lollipops, EVERYONE infringes," hairyfeet told Linux Girl. "This is just the beginning, and MSFT won't have to do a single thing to hurt Linux; now that Google and others with deep pockets are using it, the trolls WILL come out of the woodwork, and it will be a death by a thousand cuts."
As an alternative, "it really wouldn't be hard for Google and other corps to switch to BSD if need be," hairyfeet suggested. "That is even easier to lock up than TiVo-tricking Linux."
Meanwhile, "if the Linux Foundation doesn't find a way to fight back, then Linux may end up relegated to the backwaters of eastern Europe and other places that don't recognize software patents," he predicted.
No 'Yabba-Dabba-Doo'?
Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site, wasn't so sure.
"Despite the glee of some of the linux-haters, you won't be hearing much 'Yabba-dabba-doo!' around Bedrock any time soon," Hudson predicted.
"First, just reading the title of the patent, I think someone at the USPTO slipped up again," she explained. "It was filed in 1997, and yet databases have been using the same techniques decades before the patent, with hashing functions to locate data and removal of obsolete items in external storage.
"Even the final claim is clearly anticipated by database systems that use overflow buckets to store data with hash collisions," she pointed out.
'More Like Rubble'
It's also worth noting that "while $5 million judgment is a lot of money to you or me, it doesn't even pay the lawyers' bills in cases like these," Hudson noted. "It's one thing to have a patent, and another to actually make money with it, if even a jury in the most patent-troll-friendly district in the entire universe won't give you enough to cover your costs.
"This low award, combined with the pending appeal and the Red Hat demand for a declaratory judgment of non-infringement, make it harder to shake down others," she added. "There's a good reason why they're not suing OraKILL over Oracle Unbreakable Linux. Think Novell vs. SCO. Now multiply by 100, and get the popcorn and marshmallows."
Then, too, there's "the beauty of open source: 'show us the code and we'll work around it,'" Hudson said.
Finally, "the patent expires in January 2017," she pointed out. "Even if Bedrock does win all the appeals and other cases (and that's a big 'if'), that won't leave much time to hit up other Linux users."
So, for now, Hudson concluded, "Bedrock is looking more like rubble."


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Google just bought a startup called Nest for $US3.2 billion.
Nest makes Internet-connected thermostats and smoke detectors.
The company is only three years old.
One of it's first investors was a venture capital firm called Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Partner Peter Nieh led the deal for Lightspeed.
He's just published a blog post on how he got the deal done.
Turns out, Nieh had known Fadell since the early nineties, when they worked at a start up called General Magic together.
"In a company full of talent (the founders of eBay, WebTV, Android all came from GM), Tony stood out even at a very young age," writes Nieh.
After GM went public, Fadell went onto other work — including a stint at Apple where he helped create the iPod.
Every time Nieh saw Fadell he would "tell him I had Lightspeed's checkbook handy and was ready to write him a check whenever he wanted to start a company. Not sure he knew, but I was dead serious."
Eventually, Nieh's perseverance paid off and Fadell came to him with plans for Nest.
Nieh and Lightspeed will do very well on this deal. It co-invested in Nest with Kleiner Perkins, and Fortune's Dan Primack is reporting that KP will get a 20X return on the $US3.2 billion sale. Lightspeeds returns are almost certainly similar. Not bad for three years.
Congratulations to Tony Fadell, Matt Rogers and the world class team at Nest! Today Nest announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Google. As investors in the company since the early days, we here at Lightspeed have been honored to be a partner of Nest. Nest is a very special company with a truly exceptional team… a VC's dream. We are thrilled to see Nest have an opportunity to further accelerate its business as part of Google.
I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991. I was an intern at a then 30 person startup called General Magic (GM) while I was a student at Stanford Business School. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the world's largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GM's technology. Tony was a fresh U of Michigan grad and part of a small team that worked on low-level software and hardware to develop prototypes of PDAs (the ancient predecessors of what is now an iPhone) that companies like Sony, Panasonic and Motorola would manufacture. As I look back, Tony's success throughout his career starting at GM has been his uncanny ability to make software and hardware meld together as one to create a sublime user experience. In a company full of talent (the founders of eBay, WebTV, Android all came from GM), Tony stood out even at a very young age. Not only was he exceptionally gifted technically, he gained everyone's respect for his integrity and strong convictions about the company's product direction and overall strategy. Tony even as an individual contributor in those very early days of his career was already a leader with vision and capability.
After General Magic went public and Tony and I went on with our respective careers, we would bump into each other from time to time whether it be at tech conferences, at a General Magic alumni gathering at Zot's, for Halloween at the home of our mutual GM friends Marco & Tracy DeMiroz, or at Hobee's in Cupertino. I had a long-standing "joke" with Tony that whenever I would run into him, I would tell him I had Lightspeed's checkbook handy and was ready to write him a check whenever he wanted to start a company. Not sure he knew, but I was dead serious.
After many years and all the success Tony had at Apple — from creating the iPod to leading the development of the first iPhones — I finally had the opportunity to write Tony a check. There was no hesitation from my partnership. That's what we here at Lightspeed live for: to back visionary, world-changing entrepreneurs like Tony Fadell. And our excitement went off the charts when we met Matt Rogers, Tony's co-founder, who was responsible at Apple for iPod software development and one of the first engineers on the original iPhone team. We would have invested had they been looking to start a food truck. We had a deep belief that Tony and Matt would make something BIG happen no matter what — it would have been a game-changing food truck no doubt!
Already thrilled to work with Tony and Matt, our enthusiasm for Nest was compounded because of our strong belief in a disruptive wave of next generation, connected devices. The opportunity is massive as even the seemingly most mundane items (like the smoke detector or the thermostat) will be innovated on and brought to life. At Lightspeed we are convinced that we are at the dawn of new era where every product stands to be improved through innovation around Internet connectedness, cloud-based services and data. We are big believers in the use of disruptive Big Data technology (such as from our companies DataStax and MapR) that can make these devices smarter, more capable, and easier to use.
We had high expectations for Nest given all this, but the team exceeded even those expectations. The vision and product design were all exceptionally compelling and powerful, but what really impressed me was their relentless execution and focus on every little detail. I was one of the beta testers for their first product. Matt personally brought a beta unit of the first Nest thermostat to my house and took copious notes as he watched me install it. Thereafter every single bug I reported was attacked until squashed and every piece of feedback I gave was voraciously devoured. What also struck me was the team's ability to make decisions through instinct but backed up by hard cold numbers and analysis. The team was supremely confident but at the same time incredibly paranoid. They got the Ying & Yang thing down! I honestly wish I could have done more to help them, but it seems like great teams like Nest's that we are fortunate to back don't need much help. Any time I attempted to add some insight, they were already at least two steps ahead of me! Our role was really to be consistent supporters as the company rapidly grew and tackled all the challenges they faced.
We applaud and thank them for their amazing accomplishments. It has been personally fulfilling to work with Tony again and thrilling to see him, Matt and the team build an incredible Nest and hatch their first couple of eggs. The acquisition by Google is just a milestone along the way as these brilliant, visionary founders and world class team continue their quest to change the world. I can't wait to see the rest of their eggs hatch and how they will continue to bring magic to all those unloved things in our homes…
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I had forgotten about this web site, it is worth keeping an eye on it. http://www.familydeeds.org/index.php
The Family Deeds Project provides a large amount of FREE online information to help you with your family history using information contained in the collection of old deeds and documents. They have information on thousands of documents available with new documents being uploaded each week. Whilst in the possession of Family Deeds, wherever possible, the documents are transcribed in full and they hope that at least by passing through their hands, the information in them is preserved and as much of that as possible is provided on this free to view website. Sadly no mention of CUMPSTONs but worth checking back on!


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Welcome to the second annual Red Bulls Youth Summit, an educational experience for Red Bulls Youth Club partners.
Red Bulls RDS to offer a cost-free spring training program, specifically for boys born in 2005 or 2006. All sessions to be held at Red Bulls Training Facility, in Whippany, NJ.
The NJ Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (ODP), in partnership with the New York Red Bulls, will begin programming for its Young Olympians program (birth year 2005) and Club NJYS (birth year 2006 and 2007) on Saturday, November 12th. Sessions are hosted regionally (south, shore, central and north) to facilitate participation throughout the state.
The New York Red Bulls announced today that a multi-year renewal agreement with Long Island Junior Soccer League (LIJSL) as their exclusive camps provider and Regional Development School (RDS) partner has been signed.
The New York Red Bulls U-13s are the champions of the NPL National Championship. On Monday, July 13 the Red Bulls defeated St. Louis Scott Gallagher-Missouri in the championship match, 2-0. The Red Bulls U-13s finished undefeated in the tournament.
HARRISON, N.J. – Friday July 10, 2015 was a special day to honor women's accomplishments, thanks to the 2015 FIFA World Cup champion U.S. Women's National Team (USWNT). The momentous occasion marked the first ever ticker tape parade for a women's team in New York City, and the Red Bulls Regional Development School (RDS) girls were there to enjoy it alongside their role models.
It could be happening on any field in our area — on Long Island, in Westchester or in Connecticut. Perhaps it's in the five boroughs of the city, or maybe in New Jersey and possibly in the shadows of Red Bull Arena.
Throughout the Tri-State Area, there are thousands of kids playing youth soccer at both the instructional and intramural level. In many cases, the kids involved in those games are being impacted or have been impacted by the New York Red Bulls.


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Your Mac has a property list file (plist) that controls what appears in your Dock. If a macOS update changes the name or location of an application, the plist updates the Dock. If a macOS update removes an application or adds new major features, the plist may remove the application from the Dock.
Use an alternative plist
If you want to change this behavior, you can use an alternative plist. Learn how to create configuration profiles and create plists. Then follow the steps below.
You can use a configuration profile to set an alternative plist. In the profile, set the AllowDockFixupOverride key to true in the com.apple.dock domain.
The Apple provided plist is located at /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/com.apple.dockfixup.plist. You can put a modified copy of this file in the /Library/Preferences folder.
If the configuration profile is active and the com.apple.dockfixup.plist file isn't located in /Library/Preferences, the original plist and customized plist settings won't work.
If the application is renamed, moved, or removed
If an application name changes, an application is removed, or if the location of an application changes, the original plist updates the Dock entries. If you use a customized plist, you may see question marks in the Dock after you update macOS. This happens if the customized plist can't find the linked applications.


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Tesla needs to educate the press about the big picture, i.e.: Gen III, the affordable car for the masses.
Tesla needs to educate the press about the big picture, i.e.: Gen III, the affordable car for the masses.
Do first, then talk I say.
I am more concerned about the queue. More than a few potential buyers are going to be unhappy about buying the 2013 MT COTY in 2014!
They are establishing a brand and a halo effect. When Gen 3 is announced the market will be ripe. Tesla will have established itself as a quality aspirational product that has now made its way to an affordable price point.
I agree with TheAustin. I've designed the advertisement:
I think Tesla is on the right track and should not waste time telling the "I want what I want NOW" American public about the cheaper car coming later. The American public for the most part does not care what Tesla says.
I will admit I am one of those typical "I want what I want now" people. I am here buying a car 30k-40K more than I would normally spend because I want what I want now and I don't want to wait for the GenIII... plus I can afford a Model S.
oh.. almost forgot, Getting Amped Soon, do you mind if I grab that banner you created and post it on my FB page?
I wonder if we should get permission from MT and Tesla? I know it sounds silly but on a game I beta tested there were a bunch of us that were going to advertise (banner adds) for it but the publisher and the software house didn't want us using their copyrighted stuff.
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Make the words Tesla Model S more prominent!
For the record, you can't use any content from the TM website, or the MT Car of the Year award graphic for any commercial purpose. This is posted for the enjoyment of the users of this forum only.
When friends and family refer to Tesla as only for the wealthy, I refer them to the secret Tesla master plan!
Consider that Elon wrote that blog more than 6 years ago! It's amazing to me what they have done over these 6 years. The success of the Roadster. The success of the Model S. Cannot wait for the success of the Model X and Gen 3!
BryanW - excellent reference to re-review 6 yrs later. The man is confident and has a plan if nothing else.
Leasing will make this question rhetorical:
Can you afford a Tesla or...? ?
Can you afford NOT to buy a Tesla?
In a nutshell, I believe Tesla is smart to not press the issue of cheap EV's, just yet. A good example is what happened when Volkswagen released the Phaeton. It didn't sell very well, because most folks only know Volkswagen for inexpensive small cars, and no one wanted to own a latge luxury Volkswagen, even if it was a very impressive car for its time.
When Tesla does introduce a $30k car, the brand will already be established as an impressive brand.
Think of it this way...
Dude1: "Hey, I'm getting a Kia!"
Dude2: "Big whoop."
Dude3: "Hey, I'm getting a Tesla!"
Dude2: "Wow! really?!?!?"
Dude4: "Which one?"
Dude, Where's My Car? Maybe Feb. 2013 for P3900+.
Rememebr the base priced car will only get about 150-200 miles to the charge. The 300+ mile car will be 50k. The average public will still cry the car cost too much and it's for the rich because 300+ miles is what they drive all the time. Most people are pushing it to purchase a 30k car. Honda Accords are in the 20-30k range with options included. The GennIII will start at 30k.
Elon was on the Fox Business channel (I saw it on-line: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1967301651001/tesla-motors-ceo-we-expect-...), and was able to say just exactly what the long-term plan was. That was really good, because certainly the price of the Model S doesn't make it a mass market product offering.
It will be very interesting to see what the mass market product will be. Can't wait to see it.
GenIII isn't Honda Accord. It's more like 3-series BMW. That's a different price and a different target audience. As far as I can tell, Tesla relies on larger, main-stream manufacturers to cover the market below that segment -- be it with their own developments, be it by licensing Tesla's power train, or part of it.
In any event, yes, when GenIII is presented they will discover that again it isn't a car "for the rest of us". If the Model S is for the 2%, then GenIII is for the 20%, and the other 80% of the market will still be up for grabs.
"Affordable" not "cheap". Car that pretty much anyone can afford. Emphasis on "can". Most people can afford to buy Model S, but it would mean sacrifices in other areas of living, gen III "affordable" car just makes those sacrifices a bit less hurting.
I mean I'm not rich and I have no huge incomes, but I would be able to buy Model S if I really stretch by budget. It just takes a really spartan lifestyle and some patience and consideration where and to what you use your money. Main reason I'm not considering buying Model S is that I simply don't need it, it's too big and too "fancy". Heart wants, brain says "you don't need it", currently brain is winning. When GenIII "affordable" car comes available I think heart wins (I actually don't need car at all, so even that would be purchase made for fun, not for reason).
I think there will be several models for gen III platform, some that might be even more expensive than Model S (next Roadster-equal two or four seater sport car comes to mind), some a lot cheaper.
The teslarumors.com/teslanomics site already puts the base S TCO down with some 20K cars; the calculation for GenIII should allow it to compete with the Tata!
They need to talk more.
Just like Obama - don't just do, connect with people. In my office, when I told a republican that Tesla has a wait list of 13000+, he was shocked, and wanted to know more about this car that republicans have loved to demonize. I think I have converted 3-4 people who keep bugging me about details on this car a lot now.
Knowledge and education can overcome barriers, I say. Shouting that knowledge is for the better cause.
AFAIK, aside from EV-doubters in general, the repubs disliked the "odeur" of insider lending and subsidizing. The Solyndra case was a serious case of "Friends of O" getting special treatment.
All TM's financials look way overextended on paper; as Elon acknowledges freely, TM survival depends on making and moving product (and now playing some catch-up for the supplier QC bottlenecks). That is now playing out quite well, and is likely (fingers crossed) to continue doing so.
The loan, as Elon sometimes repeats, enabled TM to advance work on the X, GenIII, and ESS/battery tech prior to having large income flows from Model S, and was not necessary to the production of the S itself. The loan approximates the guesstimates of 2013 net profits, so could be said to have bought about a 1 year acceleration in the introduction of newer product.


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Water Meter Bees
Today Chelsea and I rescued a hive from a water meter in Chase Park in Marina Del Rey with fellow Backward Beekeeper Susan. Susan is a violinist in the Marina Del Rey Orchestra and noticed the bees coming out of the meter after a rehearsal. She contacted the park administration and asked them if we could rescue the bees. They didn't know about Susan's bees, but they had planned to call vector control to have another 3 hives in the park exterminated ("foamed"). They were happy to let us rescue the bees.
I thought it was going to be a fairly small hive because these water meters are checked every few months. Well, this one must have gone awhile because when I cracked the lid, I discovered at least a 6 month old hive.
We worked quickly to cut out the comb from the water meter, brush the bees into a nuc box and tie the comb into frames.
This was Susan's first cut-out and she did a great job. Ken, our park supervisor, was intrigued with the whole process, paying careful attention to our every move. He even got his first ever bee sting and could have cared less.
None of us could believe how many bees came out of this little water meter. After we brushed the queen into one of the nucs, it was like a stampede to get in. The entrance hole soon clogged, forcing the bees to pack another four nucs to the gills. In the end, we rescued every single bee, saving these prolific little creatures from the foam.


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UPDATED, June 1 at 2:30 pm. Baldassare responded to this post via email:
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Original post: In the release of a new poll from his organization, the brilliant, scrupulously fair president of the Public Policy Institute of California, Mark Baldassare, made an uncharacteristic mistake. It came in his comment last week on the decline of support for Prop 29, the cigarette tax to fund cancer research.
Said Baldassare: "The large drop in support for Proposition 29 speaks loudly about how a well-funded opposition is able to raise voters' doubts and distrust in state government, even when a tax increase is viewed favorably."
Baldassare was attempting to explain two findings of the poll: 63 percent of likely voters were in favor of increasing taxes on cigarette purchases -- the same as in previous polls. But only 53 percent of likely voters in the survey would vote yes on Prop 29, a double-digit decline in support from a previous poll.
The quote argues that this difference is because of tobacco companies' expensive campaign against the measure. But from my reading, the poll offers no evidence that the "No" campaign is making the difference.
And there's an alternative explanation to Baldassare's: perhaps a small percentage of the voters -- that 10 percent spread between supporters of cigarette taxes and supporters of Prop 29 -- may actually care about budget policy.
While a higher cigarette tax is good public policy (California's cigarette taxes today are relatively low, the state needs the money, and cigarette taxes reduce smoking and thus save lives and money), the budget policy of Prop 29 is a mess.
It's classic ballot-box budgeting, locking up tax money in specific funds that would be better used for broad public interests -- health and human services programs, higher education -- that have been starved of funds.
Your blogger, for example, is a Prop 29 skeptic not because of the opposition campaign and its ads -- which are full of misleading claims about "bureaucracy" and the location of research -- but because of the spending side of the initiative.
And mine isn't some radical or weird position. Some of the state's leading newspapers, including the LA Times, have made a similar good- tax-but-bad-budget-policy argument in opposing the measure. No one reads the paper anymore, sure, but maybe there are still enough informed Californians out there to explain the 10 percent spread.
It's also unfair of Baldassare to throw "distrust in state government" as an explanation for opposition.
It is the "Yes on 29" campaign that is playing upon distrust of state government, by locking up the money in ways that elected officials can't get at.
Those of us who think that's bad budget policy believe that this money should be on the table for our elected officials to use to meet the state's highest-priority needs.
That view is based on a trust in government, or at least a view that lawmakers, in negotiations and political back-and-forth, make better decisions than self-interested initiative sponsors.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
Send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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"We can argue forever what personhood means, but there is no empirical or logical way to prove it. It's the beginning of the argument, not the endpoint." The Wizard of Oz
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." Leo Buscaglia
A relative, who has studied psychology, said something which suprised me: that some psychology uses mathematical formulae to understand the human mind (something that he didn't agree with by the way).
I sort of knew it, but… I mean… I'm… it's… I mean… REALLY!?
Ok, maybe you can get some idea of how some things work in the human mind like that, it might be worth an experiment in the name of science, but… really?!
The problem, sorry, the "problem" with this approach is the human mind is better understood qualitively than quantatively. Is a person a nice predictable, defineable quantity that can easily fit into mathematical formula? ………. R E A L L Y ? !
Head. Brick wall. Head. Brick wall.
Personhood may not be an empirically proveable reality, as in when you take apart all those neurons and when you start dissecting personhood with words and formulae it disappears. Personhood is a gut feeling, it's a reality of human perception. When I point at "you" there is a curious and very concrete reaction within the lump of meat encased in a skull. "You" know exactly what I mean and it needs no formal explanation to understand. Without it we'd be robots, programmed along predictable lines and would not be such a challenge to the filing system of bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy is a symptom of having a very large, unwieldy, convoluted and messy society. It's a way of keeping it organised and balanced in its daily functioning. But it is impersonal and quantitive and is not made for "persons". Reducing the study of the human mind into something logical is a symptom of this impersonal system and, I think, detached from the real human perception of personhood. It's not something that shouldn't be studied, it could prove to be useful in its place. But human psychology cannot be reduced to that, and I suppose that the people that do this "mathematical" type of psychology know that (or if they don't they're in for a nasty shock lol).
In working with persons, there has to be a basic value: that of valuing personhood, of respecting it and of understanding it in the way it can be understood. Personhood, in my opinion, is something sacred, and it should not be reduced to a "mere" quantity. And perhaps this is why many people just aren't interested in it, because the way it sometimes works just doesn't value a person enough. *
One film I recommend (though with some caution, it is quite hard) is Family Life by Ken Loach. It has a good example of the different approaches in psychology, one being a more human form of therapy and another which looks more traumatic than therapeutic. One treats the person, the other treats the behaviour and puts the person on hold. Check out this IMDb link here.
And that's why I hate paper work. Just saying it I get a bad taste in my mouth. Seriously, I could have half-filled in application forms for various works sitting in a drawer for months. I could never explain why I didn't like it, especially as people would say "You've got to do it, you can't avoid it." But now I know, it's because I'm more person than robot LOL.
But that's another rant…
*I had two councellors in my teenage years. One good and one bad. The "good one" spoke to me as a human being. It was like having a "chat", though a chat about important stuff. The "bad one" asked fairly formulaic questions, repeating "How did that make you feel?" type questions that didn't really me tounderstand myself. Those questions are designed to help you reflect on your thoughts and feeling – hahaha


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Click this link for the latest NBC renewal / cancellation information: [rssinpage rssfeed='http://feeds.feedburner.com/TvbythenumbersCancel/renewNbcShows' rssitems='1′ rssformat='Y']
Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts the network's decision on renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows by the end of the 2012-13 season in May, 2013. (includes results from September 17-November 4, 2012):
|Renew/ Cancel Index
|Animal Practice*
|30 Rock
|final season
|Up All Night
|😥 😥
|Guys With Kids
|😥 😥
|Grimm (F)
|Parks & Recreation
|🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
|Chicago Fire
|😐 😐 😐
|Law & Order: SVU
|🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
|The New Normal
|🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
|The Office
|final season
|Go On
Since its premiere, the ratings for freshman sitcom The New Normal have bobbed right around the NBC scripted show average each week, and because networks almost always renew their average rated shows, it's been likely to be renewed all along. Interestingly, the show has generated more than its share of anti-fan wailing in our comments and on Twitter. As to why, your guess is as good as mine.
My guess is that at current ratings levels NBC makes no decision on Chicago Fire until the end of the season, where, highly dependent on spring ratings for all NBC dramas, it could still go either way. Read more about that here.
Up All Night and Guys With Kids are both "likely canceled". Recent ratings moves have put both shows in a similar ratings range, and likely a similar fate. The seemingly desperate move by NBC to add five multi-cam episodes of Up All Night to the season order doesn't change it's prognosis, only a multi-cam ratings miracle would do that.
Better to Follow The Bear, Than Be Chased By Him. This season you can follow the Cancellation Bear on Twitter via @TheCancelBear. The Cancellation Bear will retweet all the Renew/Cancel Index post titles and links as well as engage in a little more back and forth banter than we do on our standard @TVbytheNumbers Twitter feed.
*shows no longer on the air have their Renew/Cancel Index "frozen" at the point they left the schedule.
- 😳 – certain to be cancelled by May, 2013
- 😥 :cry:- more likely to be cancelled than renewed by May, 2013
- 😐 😐 😐 – toss up between renewal or cancellation by May, 2013
- 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 – more likely to be renewed than cancelled by May, 2013
- – certain to be renewed by May, 2013
The Renew/Cancel Index is the ratio of a scripted show's new episode adults 18-49 ratings relative to the new episode ratings of the other scripted shows on its own network. It's calculated by dividing a show's new episode Live+Same Day adults 18-49 average rating by the Live+Same Day new episode average of all the new scripted show episodes on the show's own network. The network's average ratings in the calculation are not time weighted (ie. hour long shows are not weighted twice what 30 minute shows are).
(F) -Fridays: Shows airing on Fridays were renewed with significantly lower than average Indexes.
How would the Renew / Cancel Index Have Done Predicting Last Season's Scripted Show Fates? Check out how the Renew / Cancel Index predicted renewals and cancellations from past television seasons.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Sadistic Streep: Over the top in <i>Prada</i>
What happens when Mean Girls grow up? They become mean women, of course, and some of them go to New York and find work in journalism or other fields where a lack of compassion is an asset. The bitchiest rise to the top, and in The Devil Wears Prada, that would be Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the legendary editor of Runway magazine.
Described, not without admiration, as "a sadist, and not in the good way," Miranda can out-diva Diana Ross and all the Mariah-come-latelies who have followed in her wake. No one who values their job will refuse Miranda anything, whether they work for her or anywhere in the fashion industry, where "Her opinion is the only one that matters."
The film is based on Lauren Weisberger's best-seller, a lightly fictionalized account of the time she spent as assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Streep says she didn't base her character on Wintour but took what was in the script and ran with it. She's fierce, she's fearsome; if you can't be her, you don't want to be anywhere near her.
But she needs assistants to take care of details, so her mind can be free to rule the fashion world. Moving Emily (Emily Blunt) into the first assistant position leaves an opening at number two.
In comes fresh-faced Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway, following Lindsay Lohan more convincingly into the work force), recently graduated from Northwestern U. Having no interest in fashion (it shows!) but ambitions in journalism, she gets the job "a million girls would kill for."
Killing is easy; the job is hard. Miranda expects her assistants to be on call 24/7 and to follow the instructions she rattles off, finding answers elsewhere if they have questions. She assumes everyone from top designers to major airlines will revise their schedules on a moment's notice to suit her whims.
Andy's life has been simple until now. She has a boyfriend, Nate (Adrian Grenier), and two other friends, Lilly (Tracie Thoms) and Doug (Rich Sommer). Runway's art director, Nigel (Stanley Tucci), eventually takes her under his wing and gives her a makeover. He finds high-fashion samples that fit her despite her enormous size ("Six is the new 14," he warns her).
Andy still isn't interested in fashion, but she doesn't mind looking good. If she doesn't care about the job, it keeps her too busy to think. Eventually it comes between her and the people she does care about, as she sells her soul one piece at a time.
It's an ancient story, though told with men more than 99 percent of the time It's more fun this way.
Director David Frankel, helming his first feature since the under-appreciated Miami Rhapsody more than a decade ago, keeps it fresh and fun. We're on Andy's side, but we can never totally hate Miranda, especially since Streep shows just enough cracks in her façade to earn herself a 14th Oscar nomination.
The Devil Wears Prada. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll find an underling to send out for coffee.


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Network Time Protocol
This article describes two different methods to synchronize the Linux software clock (system clock) to internet time servers. For more information on computer timekeeping, see Time. Traditional ntpd is explained first and then OpenNTPD (part of the OpenBSD project) is explained. Both daemons can sync the local clock and act as a time server if needed. OpenNTPD is designed to be simple and secure, while ntpd has a larger set of features. Note that OpenNTPD is not currently maintained for Linux (see this thread).
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ntp is available from [extra]:
# pacman -S ntp
The first line in your ntp.conf file should contain the following:
restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
This restricts everyone from modifying anything and prevents everyone from querying your time server. In the past "notrust" was used here too, but the function of this option has changed to mean authentication with a key is required.
Following this line, you need to tell ntpd what to allow through into your server.
restrict 127.0.0.1 restrict 126.96.36.199 nomodify restrict 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap
This tells ntpd that 188.8.131.52 and all IP addresses from the 192.168.0.0 range will be allowed to synchronize on this server, but they will not be allowed to modify anything. All other IP addresses in the world will still obey the default restrictions (the first line in the ntp.conf).
Now, is where the stratum 2 servers that our server will synchronize with come into play. The lines in ntp.conf will be used to tell ntpd what servers we would like to use for synchronizing (these are just examples; use ntp servers that are closest to your location). Please see http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers for a list of closer servers. The iburst option is recommended, and sends a burst of packets if it cannot obtain a connection with the first attempt. The "burst" option should never be used without explicit permission and will likely result in blacklisting.
server ntp1.cs.wisc.edu iburst server ntp3.cs.wisc.edu iburst server ntp3.sf-bay.org iburst
Unless you have a good reason not to, it is advisable to use the pool.ntp.org servers: http://www.pool.ntp.org/.
The only thing left to do is add the drift file (which keeps track of yours clocks time deviation) and the log file location:
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log
In case our server loses internet access, we need to add localhost as a server or it will stop serving time to the network. We add localhost as a "stratum 10" server so that it will never be used unless internet access is lost.
server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
The complete file will look like this:
## default restrictions restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery ## override the default restrictions here restrict 127.0.0.1 ## serve time to a local network #restrict 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap ## public NTP servers to sync with (all stratum 2) ## change these to servers near you or comment them out server ntp1.cs.wisc.edu iburst server ntp3.cs.wisc.edu iburst server ntp3.sf-bay.org iburst ## ntp pool servers server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst server 3.pool.ntp.org iburst ## local server server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 ## NTP drift file - corrects for hardware clock time deviation driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift ## NTP log file logfile /var/log/ntp.log
Add ntpd to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf to have it start at boot:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network @ntpd ...)
Running as non-root user
When compiled with --enable-linux-caps, ntp can be run as a non-root user for increased security (the vanilla Arch Linux package has this enabled).
Create ntp group and ntp user:
# groupadd ntp # useradd -r -d /var/lib/ntp -g ntp -s /bin/false ntp
Change ownership of ntp directory to the ntp user/group:
# chown -R ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp
Edit Template:Filename and change
NTPD_ARGS="-g -u ntp:ntp"
OpenNTPD can be installed from [community]:
# pacman -S openntpd
The default configuration is actually usable if all you want is to sync the time of the local computer. For more detailed settings, the Template:Filename file must be edited:
To sync to a particular server, uncomment and edit the "server" directive. You can find the server's URL in your area at www.pool.ntp.org/zone/@.
server ntp.example.org
The "servers" directive works the same as the "server" directive, however, if the DNS name resolves to multiple IP address, ALL of them will be synced to. The default, "pool.ntp.org" is working and should be acceptable in most cases.
Any number of "server" or "servers" directives may be used.
If you want the computer you run OpenNTPD on to also be a time server, simply uncomment and edit the "listen" directive.
For example:
listen on *
will listen on all interfaces, and
listen on 127.0.0.1
will only listen on the loopback interface.
Your time server will only begin to serve time after it has synchronized itself to a high resolution. This may take hours, or days, depending on the accuracy of your system.
If you would like to run OpenNTPD at boot, add Template:Codeline the DAEMONS variable in your Template:Filename following your network daemon.
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network openntpd ...)
If openntpd is being used to set local system time only, it may be safely backgrounded.
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network @openntpd ...)
To see the status of NTP syncing, visit Template:Filename and look for entries with "ntpd".
OpenNTPD adjusts the clock by small amounts at a time. It is designed this way to prevent sudden, large time fluctuations in your system, which could adversely affect system services (e.g., cron jobs). Thus, it can take some time to correct the time.
If your clock is off by more than 180 seconds you can try "Template:Codeline" in the console. If ntpd is already running, you can simply restart it with Template:Codeline, as the Arch openntpd package uses the "-s" flag by default. See Template:Codeline for more info. You can also set the system clock to as close to possible to the actual time and then let OpenNTPD fine tune the time.
Making openntpd dependent upon network access
If you have intermittent network access (you roam around on a laptop, you use dial-up, etc), it does not make sense to have Template:Codeline running as a system daemon on start up. Here are a few ways you can control Template:Codeline based on the presence of a network connection. These instructions should also work for Template:Codeline found further below.
Using netcfg
If you are using netcfg, you can also start/stop openntpd as a POST_UP/PRE_DOWN command in your network profile:
POST_UP="/etc/rc.d/openntpd start || true" PRE_DOWN="/etc/rc.d/openntpd stop || true"
Of course, you will have to specify this manually for each network profile.
Using NetworkManager dispatcher
OpenNTPD can be brought up/down along with a network connection through the use of NetworkManager's dispatcher scripts. You can install the script from [community]:
# pacman -S networkmanager-dispatcher-openntpd
Using wicd
These instructions require wicd 1.7.0 or later, which is available in the standard Arch repository. You will also need write access to Template:Filename.
Make one shell script inside Template:Filename with the following:
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.d/openntpd start
Similarly, make another shell script inside Template:Filename with the following:
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.d/openntpd stop
Using dhcpcd hooks
Another possibility is to use dhcpcd hooks to start and stop openntpd.
When dhcpcd detects a change in state it will run the following scripts:
The following example uses Template:Filename to start and stop openntpd depending on dhcp status:
[ "$interface" != "eth0" ] && exit 0 if $if_up; then pgrep ntpd &> /dev/null || /etc/rc.d/openntpd start elif $if_down; then pgrep ntpd &> /dev/null && /etc/rc.d/openntpd stop fi
Error adjusting time
If you find your time set incorrectly and in log you see:
openntpd adjtime failed: Invalid argument
ntpd -s -d
This is also how you would manually sync your system.
Increasing time shift
Starting openntpd in the background could lead to synchronization errors between the actual time and the time stored on your computer. If you recognize an increasing time difference between your desktop clock and the actual time, try to start the openntpd daemon normal and not in the background.
Initialization Failure
Openntpd may fail to initialize properly if it is started before the network is fully configured. In some cases you may want to remove Template:Codeline from the DAEMONS array in Template:Filename and add the following line to Template:Filename:
(sleep 300 && /etc/rc.d/openntpd start) &
This will wait 5 minutes before starting openntpd, which should give the system sufficient time to set up the network properly. If your network settings change often, you may also consider restarting the daemon regularly with cron.


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andrew.k necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
The SitePoint Marketplace offers a "Promote Your Auction" image for
Auction holders to place on their site.
The current image is too large and unattractive -- we'd like something smaller,
while conveying essentially the same information.
Please see the Design Brief for complete details
Accepted File Formats:
Photoshop file - PSD
Including a small, unobtrusive version of the SitePoint logo is desirable. Don't worry about any artifacts from resizing the PNG logo below -- I will replace it with a correctly-sized vector export when we choose the winner
The logo colours are #003366 and #ff6600
This is a tough one -- the image needs to have some punch, but it will be displayed in a wide variety of sites. I'll leave this up to individual interpretation.
Design Constraints
The final image will be generated with PHP (GD2). For the sake of my sanity, please work within the following limitations:
- Only use Verdana
- No drop shadows or other effects on text.
- No rounded corners on the image
Text does not have to be center-aligned, but keep in mind that all lines of text are an unknown length. Any Auction title that is too long will be abbreviated with a horizontal ellipsis.
Banner Text
Below are the different text combinations that will be on the banner:
What We're Replacing
Here's an example of the old Promote Your Auction banner:
We're ditching the button at the bottom the entire image is a link to the Auction.
First Try
Here's a quick design I did before we decided to make this a Design Contest:
I went overboard with gradients :)
If you have any questions, please use the comments section, not PMs to me. Thanks.


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Can we trust the whalers when they say they're innocent?
When those guilty of a crime investigate themselves it's hardly surprising that they arrive at the conclusion they are innocent.
When Greenpeace first exposed the long-held practice by whaling crew of Japan's so-called research whaling operation of smuggling prime whale meat cuts off the whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, and selling it for their own profit, the responses from those involved the Japanese Government's whaling programme were many and varied.
Kyodo Senpaku changed their story three times in almost as many days? Indeed, before the scandal was exposed, an official of the Japanese Fisheries Agency claimed that whale meat was never given to crew.
Latest updates and background on the whale meat scandal.
Finally the Fisheries Agency of Japan, the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) and the whaling company itself, Kyodo Senpaku, came out with a coordinated response to our findings. It's an extraordinary piece of work - even calling Greenpeace "malicious".
But the statement raises far more questions than it answers (well actually it doesn't answer anything).
Then there's the freight company involved:
The biggest question remaining, though, is this:
The investigation needs to be re-opened. No question. This is not the end of this matter.
It is not the end for Junichi and Toru, who are waiting trail having been charged with theft and trespass for bringing this scandal to public attention. It is not the end for the taxpayers who must be wondering why they are funding a so-called research whaling that supplies no science, whale meat that few want to eat and 'expensive gifts' for the whaling fleet crew.
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Research News
Rewiring the Brain to Regain Control After Stroke
Kris Appel's company, Encore Path, Inc., markets a new device that stimulates and encourages rewiring of the brain, helping stroke victims recover from partial paralysis
September 22, 2011
Kris Appel was a federal employee for 17 years, working for the National Security Agency, when she realized she wanted to join the ranks of America's entrepreneurs.
Thanks to a program designed to bring scientists and engineers together with small business owners, Appel launched a new company that is now bringing hope to some of the millions of people who suffer from paralysis due to stroke.
How was Appel, a linguist by training, able to successfully navigate a major career change and become head of a medical technology company? Her first step was to resign from her job and move into high-tech industry in order to get experience in the private sector. Her second step was to enroll in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded ACTiVATE® program offered by the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
ACTiVATE® program
The ACTiVATE® program seeks to bring together scientists and engineers who develop new technologies with entrepreneurs who can help commercialize these new techniques and products. Launched in 2004, it quickly attracted over a half-million dollars in federal funding from NSF's Partnerships for Innovation program. The goal of the ACTiVATE® program, which helps convert discoveries made through federally funded scientific research into innovations and marketable devices that benefit the economy and society, is well aligned with the goal of the Partnerships for Innovation program to generate market-acceptable innovations.
Appel joined ACTiVATE® in 2006 and was quickly matched with a group of scientists and medical doctors at the University of Maryland Medical School who developed a device to help people with stroke-induced arm paralysis. The investigators carried out controlled scientific studies that showed how their method--which used the Bilateral Arm Trainer with Rhythmic Auditory Cueing (BATRAC) device--significantly improved function in stroke patients suffering from the loss of function in one side of the body, also called hemiparesis.
Hemiparesis is by far the most common limiting symptom resulting from a stroke, affecting 80 percent of stroke survivors. The BATRAC method is specifically aimed at the loss of function in one arm, and tackles the problem by literally retraining the brain. The BATRAC device requires the patient to use both arms to carry out the motion of reaching forward for an object and bringing it in toward the body. The movement is "cued" by a rhythmic auditory signal that apparently entrains the motor cortex of the brain.
BATRAC success
In a study published in 2000, the developers of the BATRAC method reported significant improvement in the use of the affected arm with as little as one hour of training per week for six weeks. This initial study showed improvement from 12 percent to 26 percent on two different motor improvement scales. The study subjects were also asked to assess their ability for daily use of the affected arm in everyday tasks, and this self-assessment revealed an even higher rate of improvement, up to 43 percent after training.
The BATRAC investigators conducted further studies that compared BATRAC results to a more commonly used method of physical therapy--a technique referred to as dose-matched therapeutic exercises, or DMTE.
In a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, functional magnetic resonance imaging scans were gathered from subjects in a study that compared BATRAC and traditional training techniques. Blood oxygenation-level dependent scans were made of the entire brain as the subjects moved the unaffected arm first, and then the paralyzed one. The scans were taken before and after training with the two methods.
The investigators noted significant changes in brain activity in most members of the BATRAC group after training, but no changes in brain activity for the DMTE group. In addition, those members of the BATRAC group whose brains showed evidence for rewiring had improved function, while the control group showed significantly less improvement.
Since beginning her collaboration with developers of the BATRAC device, Appel has launched a company, Encore Path, Inc., through which she has licensed and is marketing a device based on the BATRAC method. The device, called Tailwind, costs about $3,000 and comes with a training course; it can be used at home and is covered by some insurance plans.
Appel's research continues and she is now working with doctors on a new device to extend the treatment to paralysis in the legs, promising to help many more thousands of people who suffer from the debilitating effects of stroke.
-- Raima Larter, Complexity Simplified, email@example.com
This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
The Tailwind device, marketed by Encore Path, Inc.
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Jim White, Tailwind user, demonstrates use of the device.
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LiveScience.com: Behind the Scenes: Rewiring the Brain to Regain Control After Stroke: http://www.livescience.com/16065-appel-stroke-tailwind-nsf-bts.html
ACTIVATE® Program: http://www.umbc.edu/activate/
Encore Path, Inc.: http://www.tailwindtherapy.com/


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No Joke! Ok, well maybe they weren't real elephants, but they were elephants to me! So when you move into the dorm, there are these people, OWLs, who help you move in. OWLs are Ohio state Welcome Leaders. And, to get all of your stuff up to your new room, there are these large wooden boxes on wheels with doors called elephants. My freshman and sophomore years, I was an OWL (you get to move in early for free, don't judge) and became very well acquainted with said elephants. The looming question I've had for years is where do they keep the elephants! Seriously — there are 40 some dorms, and each one had close to 50 elephants, and these things are huge! Where do they keep them? I should really ask my Aunt Christy. She's the assistant director of housing, but that would be too easy. Anyway, this morning, I was driving to work and I saw an OSU box truck with elephants in the back of it. If not for the fact that it was turning the opposite way of my work and I was already late, I would have followed it to see where they're stored. Oh well, another time.
I suppose that has nothing to do with OSU or Fisher, so I'll get back to business. Today is our econ final. Be impressed. I went from being majorly confused to understanding most of it! I still have some more studying to do, but it's just from last week's class and it's math formulas which come pretty easily to me. Hopefully it stays that way for tonight's exam. The worst part of it all has been figuring out when to move along a curve and when to shift a curve. But I'm fairly convinced I have it figured out – movement along a curve is due to a change in price which affects the quantity supplied or demanded; a shift of the curve comes from a change in the demand or supply, more suppliers entering the market, etc. Hopefully that's all right. Thank goodness for online resources – not that the book is written poorly, but because it's a custom textbook and a collaboration of 3, you there's no index in the back and not all of the chapter have key terms, so you never really know where to look to find something.
I finally scheduled for classes. Word to the wise – make sure you have no holds on your account BEFORE you try to schedule. I went to schedule the other night and to my surprise, I had a hold on my account due to someone's error other than mine. After 3 hours of waiting to talk to someone, the hold was lifted! I'm excited about the fall. I'm taking 2 electives in addition to the 2 required courses: MHR 870 – The Business of College Sports with Mr. Gene Smith himself, and MHR 869 – Strategic Management of Human Assets. I might drop one of the two, but for now, I'm going to try and stick with it. Both look to be very interesting, and 869 has no exams, just papers and a presentation, which I'm good at.
At Summit Vision, I was talking about my blog to some of my classmates, and they mentioned that I should be the Perez Hilton of the MLHR program. As much as I love gossip and knowing what's going on, I think I'll steer clear of that one. But a shout out to Jim for the idea. I'm finding that lately my blogs have become very lengthy. I'm not sure if that's good or bad for the readership, but I'll end this one here. Have a great Thursday! It's almost the weekend!


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Public hearings on weighted voting, salaries Tuesday at Madison County supervisors meeting
WAMPSVILLE -- Two public hearings for local laws will be held at the county supervisors meeting Tuesday morning.
At 10:45 a.m., a public hearing for local law No. 8 for a law regarding weighted voting and at 11 a.m. there will be a local law No. 9 for fixing salaries.
At a Dec. 28 meeting, supervisors reviewed each municipality's voting strength at supervisor meetings, the basis for local law No. 8. Each town is allotted a certain amount of votes based on population, but those totals have not been updated since 2002, and populations have changed since then.
Hamilton will gain 10 votes, the largest vote total jump, for a total of 139 votes. The town of Sullivan will remain the leader in the number of votes with 280. The city of Oneida has 240 votes; however it is broken up into four voting districts. The town of Lenox has 188 votes and Cazenovia has 147.
Combined, the vote totals for the entire county add up to 1,500.
The board meeting officially starts at 10:30 a.m. in the supervisors chambers at the county office complex on Court Street in Wampsville.
Resolutions on the agenda also include:
o retiree recognition
o designating disposal of surplus county property
o entering into an agreement to transfer operation of chemical dependency treatment services to family counseling services of Cortland County, Inc.
o adoption of local laws 8 and 9
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Yes, it has been quiet here but development on Math::GSL has steadily continued behind-the-scenes. I just pushed a dev release (0.15_04) to CPAN, it should be hitting a mirror near you soon. If the CPANTesters don't find anything horribly wrong with it, it will probably become 0.16. Some new features of 0.16 will be:
- New subsytems: VectorComplex and MatrixComplex
- Operator overloading for addition and subtraction with vectors
- Added example: examples/matrix/nonsymmetric_eigen
Shows how to find the eigenvalues of a nonsymmetric matrix
- Added copy() method to vectors
- Improved Vector docs
- Sped up vector dot products by 15x using BLAS function gsl_blas_ddot
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- Added stub test files for Heapsort, IEEEUtils, Multimin, Siman, Wavelet2D
- All test files now keep track of how many tests should run and other important infrastructure changes
Only a few of the changes are user-facing but they are important in terms of the long-term development and health of Math::GSL.
While I have been making these back-end changes I have been prototyping a web-based interface to Math::GSL using jQuery. I have many functional parts but no coherent interface that I am willing to inflict on users. But I promise you that soon you will be able to use Math::GSL via your browser and bypass the whole "what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-compile-it" issue.


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Review: Nishiki, Freemans Bay
Address: 100 Wellington St, Freemans Bay
Phone: (09) 376 7104
Web: nishiki.co.nz
Cuisine: Japanese
Rating: 7.5/10
Confession: since moving to Freemans Bay recently, I have been to Nishiki every week. And it's not just the walking distance from home that has had me returning, again and again ... Nishiki is the type of place that quickly engenders affection. The decor may be a bit worn, a little tired, but this you hardly notice as the mood is always vibrant, starting with the calls of welcome in Japanese from the staff as you enter and enhanced by the near-full capacity of obviously happy diners each night.
Even with huge laminated menus with pictures beside descriptions, our initiation on how to go about ordering was boggling. Nishiki is a robatayaki bar - robatayaki meaning grilled food, mainly on sticks - but there's much more besides. It's a style best suited to sharing, Japanese tapas if you will. You are forewarned that "we try our best to deliver your meals without too much delay, however, there may be some occasions when the kitchen is very busy and it takes some time for your meals to be prepared".
On a busy Saturday night there were four of us and we were all famished. Which probably accounted for our rash of choices, perhaps thinking the more we ordered the better the chance of something turning up quickly. We needn't have worried because soon there wasn't an inch of table space spare.
First up, the "cheese fry"; deep-fried camembert bits served with a decorative squirt of tomato sauce (Watties was our guess). So far, not so Japanese. But deep-fried cheese? Hard not to like. Lovely warm salted edamame beans were hastily popped. Then out came skewers of okra wrapped in bacon which were smoky and delicious, same with the beautifully seasoned grilled pork belly skewers. Our sashimi platter took a little longer to arrive and one of our party decreed that this speciality is the litmus test for good Japanese food. This one passed with flying colours - beautiful cuts of smooth, fresh fish served with shredded white radish, wasabi and soy sauce.
I am sure all Nishiki regulars have a must-have and for us it's the tuna tataki - lightly grilled pieces of tuna sashimi served with tomatoes and avocado pieces and the most heavenly sweet onion and soy sauce. This and the green salad - shredded cabbage and other leafy greens doused in a special Nishiki dressing with that mysteriously moreish umami flavour - can't be done without. The salmon tataki too, with its citrus garlic soy sauce and, interestingly, dollop of sour cream, is lovely, light and flavoursome.
The gyoza and vege tempura were not especially impressive examples but that's not to say they weren't readily devoured. They were possibly just not as memorable as, say, the miso dengagu - deep-fried tofu with a light crunch on the outside giving way to a oozy stickiness and silky interior, served with a mildly sweet miso sauce and topped off with the crunch of shredded spring onion. Divine.
We were all looking forward to the ika maruyaki - grilled whole squid with a ginger soy sauce - and while we were delighted with the cooking of the squid, so very tender, it would've been nice to have tasted the ginger. A choice that exceeded expectations was the imomochi - a deep-fried potato cake with sweet sauce and butter. Creamy and comforting. By the time the negi-cha arrived - Japanese style BBQ pork, which seemed like slices of roast pork to me - we were starting to slow down. Sadly, the last dish to arrive, the grilled chicken thigh skewers with wasabi mayonnaise, was a slight disappointment - they were excessively fatty and verged on being undercooked. To finish with a bang, the decision was made to plough on with some shared desserts, forgoing the Japanese flavoured icecreams in favour of more deep-fried things - bananas served with cream and icecream and a fried apple cinnamon roll. Both were as expected - sinfully nice - although fresh cream would have upped the standard.
The extra dry house sake, warmed to counter the winter evening, accompanied our feast. There are many other options of this Japanese fermented rice wine and suggested food matches for each, which might be a nice way to narrow down dishes for a future visit. And we will be back. Because although the staff seem a little harried at times with the constant flow of diners, the experience is still an enticing one - so many choices, so many delightful flavours and all at reasonable prices. For a casual neighbourhood eatery, it doesn't get much better.
From the menu: Cheese fry $6.50, edamame beans $6, okura bacon $4.50, buta kushi (grilled pork belly skewers) $4.50, large sashimi $33, maguro (tuna) tataki $12.50, green salad $7, salmon tataki $12.50, gyoza (fried dumplings) $7, vege tempura $8, miso dengaku (deep-fried tofu) $9, ika maruyaki (grilled squid) $13, imomochi (deep-fried potato cake) $5, negi-cha (barbecue pork) $8, tori wasabi mayo (chicken thigh skewers) $4.50, banana boat $6.50, apple cinnamon roll $6.50.
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The WHO Medicines Strategy 2000-2003 identifies policy, access, quality and safety, and rational use as its four major objectives. In 2001, our medicines activities focused on extending the evidence base in each of these four areas. We applied that evidence to help countries improve access to affordable medicines of good quality, and ensure that those medicines were used to secure maximum health impact.
Our support to countries and regions included significant capacity-building, with courses and training for health professionals all around the world. Training was often carried out with collaborating institutions. All support was carefully tailored to meet country and regional needs (Box 1).
In parallel to regional and country activities, we provided guidance in support of major new medicines initiatives. This included technical advice to the European Commission, and to the Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria. Concurrently, we continued to work with the wider UN family, nongovernmental organizations and foundations.
In 2002, major impetus is on public financing of medicines and improving the capacity of supply systems to deliver medicines of assured quality. Efforts to further broaden our partnership base will also continue, so that medicines issues are tackled rapidly, using the full range of expertise available globally.
Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, Executive Director Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals
Dr Jonathan Quick, Director Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy
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China Releases Propaganda Video to Tune of 'America the Beautiful'
On Thursday night, China launched Tiangong-1, its first space laboratory, and the first step in an ambitious plan to build a complete manned orbiting space station by 2020. Naturally, to show off its handiwork, the Chinese government released an animated video simulating the launch of Tiangong ("Heavenly Palace"), set to the soaring strains of, uhhh, "America the Beautiful." Why? "I don't know how to answer your question," Chen Zhansheng of the CCTV propaganda told The Guardian. "I cannot help you." Clearly a ploy to lull Americans into a false sense of security while the Chinese use the space station to beam mind-control rays into the brain of their puppet-president "Barack Obama"! [Guardian]