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Whether you are building homes using foundations made of concrete block, poured concrete, concrete poured into foam insulation forms, precast concrete walls, or some other system, greening these systems means paying attention to several matters that reduce any negative impact that the foundations could have on the environment and the people living in the home. If the site is large enough,we want to keep most of the topsoil on the site. The topsoil, unless it is laced with lead or other contaminants, or is from a brownfield, is the natural soil for this site. Removing it and then replacing it not only adds an unnecessary transportation (and therefore, environmental) cost, but also spoils the natural conditions that could support plant life common to the area. We also want to use the smallest foundation necessary, so that displacement of large amounts of soil is not required. If a slab-on-grade home is to be considered, green building methods would recommend the use of a frost-protected shallow foundation, which can usually be constructed without excavating more than 1 ft below grade. Builders using this system have significantly reduced their building costs. &...
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Joseph Shamash believes that film creates space in real life for conversations to happen. That is his intention with his "One Wish for Iran, Love Israel," video, which has gone viral since it was uploaded to YouTube in early August.
The video shows Israelis and Palestinians from different walks of life and religious backgrounds sharing a wish for the new Iranian president, Hassan Rowhani, on his inauguration, and for the Iranian people. Shamash made the video with two of his colleagues, spoken word artist Andrew Lustig and cinematographer Jeff Handel, as part of their One Wish Project, a documentary series to "bridge the gap between peoples in conflict." The team also made a "One Wish Jerusalem" video, and soon they are planning to release a third video, focusing on the religious-secular divide in Israel.
Making "One Wish for Iran" was a very personal endeavor for 32-year-old Shamash, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Iran. He has worked in television in Los Angeles, and recently spent a year and a half at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, in Jerusalem. This fall he is starting a master's program in Jewish education at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. There he intends to develop conflict resolution curricular materials to accompany the "One Wish" videos. Shamash spoke with the Forward's Renee Ghert-Zand.
Renee Ghert-Zand: How did you come up with the concept for the "One Wish" videos?
Joseph Shamash: I arrived in Israel in December 2011 and staffed a [Taglit-] Birthright trip. It bothered me that the participants told me they had been so afraid to come to Israel, because they thought they were entering a war zone. But when they step off the bus, they're like, "Wow this is totally different from what I expected — and I had been so afraid, I wasn't even going to come." I was struggling with how to deal with this.
Then, when I saw a "Fifty People One Question, Tehran" video [an online video series asking everyday Iranians, "What do you wish to happen by the end of the day?"], I immediately thought, we have to do this in Israel. I thought it was a great way to try to show that question that I struggled with when I first got to Israel: How do you show people's actual beliefs, the realities on the ground, in a five-minute video?
Did you just go up to random people on the street for the interviews?
My crew did a tremendous job in approaching people in a nonaggressive, nonprovocative way. We had a little makeshift sign that said, "Time for a question?" and went around with it. We just had conversations with people first to get them comfortable and to encourage them to go in front of the camera. We tried not to ask the question until they were in front of the camera. If they were feeling very hesitant, we told them the question beforehand.
We had a photo of Hassan Rowhani, and we asked them if they knew who it was. The majority thought it was Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, but a lot of them knew that he was the new president of Iran but didn't know his name. From there we asked for a wish for him. Sometimes they kept it very short; sometimes they said very interesting things. Some of the things we showed were the best of the conversations that ensued.
Some people didn't get on camera, but we still had amazing conversations with them. It was an unbelievable way to get to know Israel, the people of the country, and to understand how they live their daily lives.
Were you surprised by how few hard-line, anti-Iran responses you got?
No one said, "Let's go bomb Iran." I was looking for that. I was hoping it would be there, because I didn't want this to be just a fluffy, everyone-loves-peace-and-happiness thing, because that is not the full reality. There are definitely people with hard-line attitudes who exist. But that wasn't the reaction of the people we asked.
What I was surprised about was that Palestinians feel the threat just as much as Jewish Israelis do. What they were saying is, "If you want to support the Palestinian cause, don't get a nuclear bomb and bomb Israel, because you're going to annihilate us at the same time." It hadn't registered with me that the Palestinians are very concerned about this, too.
I heard that you were planning to post the video on Hassan Rowhani's Facebook page. Have you received any response?
We haven't posted it on his Facebook page yet; we are waiting to finalize the Farsi subtitles. If Iranians can see it, I want them to understand it. It would be really cool if Rowhani saw it.
There are a lot of Persian Israelis in the video. Did you purposely seek them out?
We definitely actively sought out Persian Israelis. I wanted to incorporate the Persian-Israeli narrative…. They have the most legitimate voice in expressing what Iranians are like and what life in Iran is or was.
The thing that came up over and over was this great desire among Persian Jews living in Israel to return to and visit Iran. They were saying how beautiful Iran is, that there are so many amazing and incredible places to see and visit. There's this intense desire for them to go back to visit family graves, to see places where they grew up, to see old friends, their old school, the scenery. They miss the Persian culture.
I can understand that, because my grandfather, for whom I am named, died when I was 1, and my parents were already living in Texas. My father has not been able to go back to visit the gravesite.
Amazingly, during the filming of the video, I happened to meet an elderly man named Baruch who knew my grandfather. He and my grandfather had been friends and neighbors in Iran, and the man had memories of jumping from roof to roof with him.
You are Jewish, Persian and American. How do you integrate all the parts of your identity?
I am trying to tackle it head-on. For many years of my life, I pushed away one of my identities, whether it was the Jewish one or the Persian one…. Now I realize how rich my background is, and I want to be able to harmonize all elements of that. I have this amazing history and culture of three incredible countries, and all the while there's an internal struggle and also an external struggle. I have to incorporate my own identity into some of the challenges that are facing us in the world. Part of this film was my three-nation identity trying to come out.
This interview has been edited for length and style.
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To measure the extent to which states have created retirement systems that match and adequately support their teachers, we created a grading rubric focused on two questions: 1. Are all teachers earning sufficient retirement benefits? And 2. Can teachers take their retirement benefits with them no matter where life takes them? Our rankings use an equally weighted grading system comprising the six variables outlined below.
Based on our analysis of Vermont's teacher retirement plan, it earned an overall grade of F. Vermont earned a F for providing adequate retirement benefits for teachers and a F on financial sustainability. Read below for how Vermont did on each variable, or go here for a longer description of the variables and comparisons to other states.
1. Vesting period: Vermont has a 5-year vesting period, meaning new teachers must stay 5 years to qualify for at least a minimum pension. Based on our estimates using state data, only 33 percent of Vermont teachers will qualify for employer-provided retirement benefits. Teachers who leave the plan before then must forfeit contributions their school or state made on their behalf.
2. Break even: Nearly every state requires teachers to contribute toward the cost of their retirement benefits, but most teacher pension plans are so back-loaded that teachers must work many years before their future benefits exceed the value of their own contributions plus interest. Even teachers who qualify for a minimal benefit often fail to reach this "break-even" point. We estimate that in Vermont, only 4 percent of teachers will break even from the state retirement system.
3. Social Security: Social Security offers a solid foundation upon which states should build their own accompanying retirement plans. States alone can't match the national portability or progressivity of Social Security, yet approximately 1.2 million teachers (about 40 percent of all public K-12 teachers) are not covered by Social Security for their time in the classroom. Fortunately, Vermont does ensure all of its teachers have access to Social Security benefits.
4. Portability: In today's world, workers are likely to have multiple jobs, and they need to be able to cobble together enough savings at each stage along the way in order to afford a secure retirement. Teachers are no exception, and they should be able to take their savings with them no matter why they elect to leave the classroom, whether for personal reasons, as a career change, or to continue teaching in a different state. While a majority of states still trap teachers in back-loaded defined benefit pension plans, some have created more portable options. Vermont is not one of them; it continues to enroll all teachers in a back-loaded defined benefit pension plan and does not offer its teachers a more portable option.
5. Retirement contributions: We believe states should help teachers save enough each year while they're working so that they can afford to live a comfortable, financially secure retirement once they're done working. Most financial experts recommend workers save 10 percent to 15 percent of their annual salaries, including employer contribution, for retirement. Vermont contributes 1.4 percent of teacher salaries toward retirement benefits, which is below the national average and could leave teachers vulnerable to insufficient retirement savings.
6. Debt costs: The majority of contributions into teacher pension plans today are not going toward retirement benefits for today's teachers; they're mainly going toward unfunded pension liabilities. Those liabilities are the result of years of poor financial decisions by state leaders, and they leave today's teachers (and students) paying for past mistakes. Today, 90.1 percent of Vermont's pension contributions are going toward pension debt. If it had been more responsible in years past, the state would not be facing such large financial penalties and could be directing more money toward teachers or other budget priorities.
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|FG Percentage
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|.400 (8-20)
|FT Percentage
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Lipscomb women's basketball team struggled to find consistent defensive effort Saturday night and left UNF Arena with a 78-66 loss to North Florida.
All season long the Lady Bisons have had no problem scoring points. The 2013-14 squad is averaging 68.4 points per game. That is the highest single-season average in the NCAA Division I era for the Lady Bisons.
The problem this season has been stopping the opposition.
Heading into North Florida game, the Lady Bisons were giving up a league-high 82.5 points in Atlantic Sun play. They have allowed five of their last six opponents to shoot over 50 percent from the field.
Lipscomb held the Ospreys to only 42.9 percent shooting. But allowed North Florida, a team that averaged a league worst 53.6 points per game, to score a season-high 78 points.
"It starts with a stop," Lipscomb coach Greg Brown said. "We have really got to work as a staff to put our kids in the best position possible to defend. We are doing enough stuff to win games. I told our kids I thought they played hard and that's on us.
"We obviously have not prepared or communicated with them enough to do what we have to do to get stops. This bye week comes at a good time for us to tighten up some things defensively and that is obviously what we are going to work on."
The Lady Bisons suffered their seventh consecutive loss and dropped their record to 3-14 overall and 0-6 in the A-Sun. Picking up its first conference win, North Florida improved to 5-11 overall and 1-4 in the A-Sun.
One bright spot on the night for the Purple and Gold was Danay Fothergill continued her torrid start in league play. Two nights after posting 32 points, she responded with a game-high 27 with nine made field goals. She was also 6-of-6 from the free throw line and now has made an eye-popping 33-of-36 in her last three games for a 92 percent success rate.
Fothergill drained a 3-pointer on the night's first shot and the Lady Bisons led for most of the first six minutes before a layup by Raneisha Lamar put North Florida on top 9-8.
After the two teams swapped buckets, Ashley Southern nailed a jumper from the left elbow to give Lipscomb a 12-11 lead at the 11:10 mark of first half. But then Bailey Florin sunk a three to begin a 10-2 run for North Florida that would extend the lead to 21-14 with eight minutes till half.
Following a media timeout, the Lady Bisons began to chip away at the Ospreys lead.
Sara Bliss, who had only scored two points in her last two games combined, spearheaded a 12-4 Lipscomb run by scoring eight straight points including a 3-pointer from the left corner. Southern hit a jumper to put the Lady Bisons on top 26-25 with 3:24 remaining in the half.
Little did it know, that would be the final lead of the night for Lipscomb.
UNF got hot from behind the arc, connecting on three trey's, including a Florin heave at the buzzer to close the half on an 11-2 run and take an eight-point lead into the break at 36-28.
Bliss looked like her old self and scored 11 of her 16 points in the first half, including two 3-pointers.
"Sara kind of got down on herself lately, but she is very poised and mature," Brown said. "We got her some good looks tonight and she played through it. That is what we need her to continue to do.
"She does so many other things than just score. She is one of our better defenders. We look to her for leadership because she is the most experienced player we have and we look for her to continue to communicate with the team and be that leader for us."
Fothergill and Southern scored the first eight points of the second half and cut the UNF lead to 38-34 at 14:21.
But just when it looked like the Lady Bisons had life UNF continued to sink shot after shot. It did not hurt that the Ospreys grabbed 12 offensive boards to control the glass and out-rebound Lipscomb 43-36.
Brown's squad pulled down 10 offensive rebounds, but scored only eight points off of those chances.
"We do so many good things offensively, like having only eight turnovers, that we are giving ourselves chances," Brown said. "We have to shoot the ball a little better. We did shoot 43 percent in the second half and that is enough to win games. We just have to get stops defensively."
"Like Coach (Don) Meyer always said, 'It is not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.' Obviously we haven't emphasized it enough, so that's what we will spend the next week and the rest of the season doing."
With UNF up 14 the Lady Bisons tried to fight their way back into the game. They cut the lead to within 10 on four separate occasions, but never could quite get it to single-digits.
North Florida used career-highs from Destinee Smith (23), Brittney Wright (13) and Florin (15) to extend its lead to 15.
After falling behind Lipscomb had to continue to foul. The Ospreys were clutch at the line and scored their last 14 points from the charity stripe.
Fothergill struggled to find good looks in the first half, but torched the league's best defense for 22 in the second. She also added six rebounds to her stat line. Southern collected her 13th double-double of the season, finishing with 16 points and 12 rebounds.
"I thought she (Fothergill) relaxed a little bit in the second half and we got her some better looks," Brown said. "People are going to give her a lot of attention and she played through it well tonight. They (opposing teams) are going to just have to try and not let her get 30 on them.
"I thought Ashley did a good job and stepped up for us with another double-double. We just have to continue to try and get the ball into the paint as much as we can off of drives, cuts and rebounds. Again, 66 points is enough to win. We have got to get that fixed defensively."
For the game Lipscomb shot 39.7 percent behind 25-of-63 shooting. The Lady Bisons got to the line a total of 13 times, the fewest attempts in league play.
Of North Florida's 24 made field goals, eight were from three-point land. The Ospreys connected on 22-of-31 free throws.
After traveling back to Nashville on Sunday, Lipscomb will get the entire week off until it makes the trek to Highland Heights, Ky., to face a Northern Kentucky team that lost its first A-Sun game to Jacksonville on Saturday. The game is set to tip at 6 p.m. CT on Jan. 25th.
Brown looks forward to using the bye week to correct his team's problems on the defensive side of the ball.
"Our team has to continue to come in and practice hard like they have done all year," Brown said. "We have got to emphasize and see it carry over from day-to-day and into each game defensively. I thought we've had good practices and have done good things defensively in practice, but I have yet to see it carry over into a game. We have to improve as a staff on how to limit the game slippage."


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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Warhammer Online: Public Quests
A Public Quest is an area of the game in the open world which goes through a multi-stage fight. Everyone in the area can participate and work together to finish the battle. The first stages usually go through killing increasingly more difficult minions and the last stage is a boss. At the end, loot is distributed by a Random roll + Modifiers. You get a modifier based on how much you contributed to the fight.
The problem with Public Quests is that you need a minimum number of people. You also need a tank and healer. If you play at odd times, or stumble upon a PQ when no one is around, it's pretty much pointless. As well, the Empire and Dark Elves don't have a tank class, which makes PQs in their territory frustrating. Seriously, Witch Elves don't wear enough armour to tank a teddy bear. Perhaps this aspect will get better in later chapters.
Then, if you have too many people, the PQ devolves into a zerg, with everyone running around and spamming spells. There's no strategy or elegance. I don't really find that fun.
I think PQs will work nicely if you start with a good group. But starting with a proper group negates the entire "public" aspect of it, and it becomes just another dungeon fight.
Public Quests remind me of Alterac Valley (before the reinforcement timer) only without any PvP.* It's like a giant zerg. When you hit Drek'thar or Vannadar you hope to God that you have a half-way capable tank and some healers, and dps that doesn't react to getting aggro by running out of the room like a chicken with its head cut off. At least AV ensures that you have 20-40 people. Imagine showing up in AV with only 5 people, no tanks, and no healers. That's pretty much been my PQ experience.
*Let me preempt the wags: "So, just like normal AV, then?"
Finally, I hate the loot system. It's very annoying if you have a high contribution and roll low. If you have a low contribution and you roll high, it feels like you don't deserve the loot. If there are a lot of people in the PQ, only the first 10 or so will get a reward. This is a terrible design decision. Everyone should at least get the smallest loot bag. It's not your fault that a lot of other people decided to show up today. At least the loot bags offer you a nice choice of loot. You usually get to choose between an item for your class, some crafting components, or some gold.
It's a bit odd that I don't like the loot system, given that I don't mind rolling for loot in a normal dungeon. What really makes the difference for me is that PQs explicitly call out your contribution and give you modifiers to your roll. In a normal dungeon, there's a polite fiction that everyone in the group contributed equally, and so gets to roll on equal terms. It really sucks to be first or second on the contribution list, and yet end up with a white loot bag. Random + Modifier is more annoying than Random alone. Honestly, I'd probably prefer if the PQs didn't count your contribution, and just rolled equally for everyone in the group. Or even if everyone got the same loot bag, but the quality of the loot inside was randomly determined.
So those are my thoughts on Public Quests. It's an interesting idea, but being utterly dependent on other people showing up hurts. Also, Random + Modifier is a terrible loot system.
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That's exactly what my experience has been. It's a lot of fun when you get a group of around 5-8 people there from the first stage.ReplyDelete
Contribution calculation also really sucks. I've tried to join up during stage 2 of a PQ before. Even if I do half the work for stage 2 and dps/heal for stage 3 it says I didn't contribute enough and won't let me roll. It's really frustrating to see 6 loot bags and only 5 people on the list.
I *think* that's because stage 1 tends to have a lot of minions to kill. So you get very high damage and healing totals. Stage 2 and 3 tends to have fewer, tougher targets. The total health pool is probably significantly less than Stage 1, but Stage 1 presents little danger, while Stage 2 and up are where the challenge lies.ReplyDelete
Sort of like inflating your stats on the meter by going all out on the trash mobs.
PQs have felt different since Open Beta ended. Waaaaay less people. They certainly need people in order to work, so I agree that I've been disappointed a bit since my first experience. That being said...ReplyDelete
I had a blast the other night running from PQ to RvR to PQ to RvR with my Guild the other night. About 10 of us were running around as our own little wrecking crew.
The lesson is that soloing (even at the low levels) isn't that much fun. The game really does encourage lots of grouping early on.
My advice if you are struggling is to use the Open Group system and just look for the biggest group near you. Go do what they are doing... chances are, it's more fun than what you are already doing and maybe you'll meet some people.
I'm not sure if you made a good case that random+modifier isn't a good system for distributing loot.ReplyDelete
It's very annoying if you have a high contribution and roll low. If you have a low contribution and you roll high, it feels like you don't deserve the loot.
That seems to imply that the modifier should be greater, not smaller.
Is it that the modifier doesn't accurately reflect your contribution to the group? It seems like that would be something pretty tricky to program, but you didn't mention that in your post.
Interesting post on Mythic Worlds on a PQ gone bad.ReplyDelete
Seems to strengthen what you wrote, that without strategy and and tank+healer, PQ phase 2 and over will wipe groups. OTOH that blogger seemed to have fun, even with the wipes. Go figure ;)
- Anonymous6:46 AM, September 21, 2008
A potential scenario is healers letting high dps players "accidentally" die, since that would increase the odds of the healer winning the loot roll.ReplyDelete
Also, I think healers have a loot roll disavantage because there's very little healing needed in the first and second stages when you have high dps.
I've been playing a Squig Herder and every PQ I've come across has always had a nice number of players taking part.ReplyDelete
However my girlfriend has been playing a Magus and she's finding it very hard to complete the PQ's she's finding as there are never enough players around.
The lack of communication makes the quests hard. So far WAR has felt much more like a single player game. People just don't seem to bother talking.
I'm finding the same problems with the loot system. When you contribute more I feel you should be almost guaranteed loot. And those who join too late should have almost no chance at the better loot.
- Anonymous6:24 AM, September 22, 2008
Public Quests are a novelty. The first five or so PQ's I took part in were fun. After that, they get kind of BORING. I'm currently level 14, so perhaps things change down the road, but so far all PQ's follow the same pattern. This pattern gets old, quick.ReplyDelete
Apart from being boring, there are a lot of public quests through out a given zone. I havn't counted but I'd say each zone has atleast five or so PQ's. Many of the PQ's are near empty. So I don't even get a chance to do them(thats okay, done one, done em all. See above). The only PQ's that active are the PQ's near an outpost. On my server it is either zerg PQ, or no PQ.
I'm sorry but I can't see myself doing PQ's until level 40, unless they get more variety. Also he's a ninja.
- Anonymous7:51 AM, September 22, 2008
I like the pq system and I'm in the 15 range so iv done a fewReplyDelete
As for the loot system its great for people that show up late do a lil damage and think they got rights.. you gotta put in or else you get squat
And if you do the same pq a few times if you loose you get a bonus to your roll for sticking around.. persistence has its rewards (its a little blue thing on the right of the roll so eventually your guaranteed loot you just gotta stick it out
Basically I pq till my rep is full then move on..
And ya iv been there where you cant complete a phase due to no tank or to few people.. but did you really try and do everything you could?
Like this one was stage 2, you gotta kill dudes (wolf worshipers or something) and when the dude dies it would spawn a champion wolf..
So if your short people, the phase says kill 25 dudes so kill the dude an don't aggro the wolf that spawns.. they eventually de-spawn but if you aggro the wolf by yourself your screwed.
This game makes you think.. like in the dwarf area (lvl 8 ish) when you gotta bomb 3 catapults.. you cant fight the dudes by the catapults because they are champions, so run in and drop 1/5 bomb and then run like hell.. do that 5 times and you killed one of the 3 catapults.. wash rinse repeat.. just like shampoo, easy as pie.
As for no tank.. its called kiting.. (you do remember kiting don't you.. or perhaps you never played a necro in EQ letting your dots tick away while making sure your snare stayed up..) if you get aggro then you need to run... and run like hell..(use that sprint button and use it often) in big circles tho so your not taking him to far, and when he turns from you to someone else.. get back on him.
Try to remember its not always about the "holy trinity" of MMO's its about accomplishing the mission with what you got... thinking outside the box.. ~insert other mumbo jumbo catch phrase here~
But just because you seem to be stuck in the WoW mentality of "lfg have healer, need tank" you shouldn't let that sour you on what war is supposed to be about.
To me W:AR is about kikin the livin snot outta da stunties.. I's been fightin dem forever and I's hates um.
Time to get dem brains a werkin.
- Anonymous6:50 AM, September 25, 2008
Well there is no point in doing PQ's in the early stages because you can pop into a scenario instead and gain renown instead then by your gear from the renown gear merchant because the gear is higher then what the PQ offers. Plus the item is always the same thing, I went on as a Dwarf Ironbreaker and did the first PQ at least 3 times and won the PQ drawings all three times but the bag loot was the exact same item all three times.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:55 AM, September 25, 2008
For the boss you generally need a healer yes, but a tank?...not necessarily. it's nice ofcourse..but not necessary. using detaunts in a meaningful way can get you far (they halve the damage taken).ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:47 PM, February 16, 2009
I understand what your saying about Public Quests, and if you don't like them then don't do them. Personally I like them because its another option of playstyle. If I am tired of PVP or running around on quests, I can do some Public Quests for a change of pace. Also the Public Quest influence rewards are a good way to keep your character in decent gear.ReplyDelete


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This book is a book to teaches you that you should never take life for granted.
I really would recommend this book to people, so they too could know about Aaliyah. The truth is, I really enjoyed the book because it really taught me that this certaint singer loved her music and really did not care if people bought her music.
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A POLISH man was lucky to be alive today (Friday) after sailing from Papua New Guinea to a north Australian island on a raft made of twigs and sticks, through crocodile and shark-infested waters, during a cyclone.
The man was found washed up in mangroves on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, a treacherous stretch of water that lies between the two countries.
What made his survival even more miraculous was that he attempted the trip in the aftermath of Cyclone Oswald, with 1.5 metre swells and 40 knot winds, rescue authorities said.
"It's the first time I've heard of someone trying to cross the Torres Strait in a raft in the middle of a cyclone," Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) spokeswoman Jo Meehan told AFP, adding that the raft was held together with string.
"It's not something we'd recommend. Navigation in the area is challenging for normal vessels, it's quite treacherous with reefs and rocks, and he did it in high winds and high seas.
"He's very lucky to have made it."
AMSA was alerted when residents of Saibai, which is part of Australia but only four kilometres (2.48 miles) from Papua New Guinea, spotted the man offshore on Thursday.
They sent a helicopter and a customs ship but failed to find him, so they called in local police who discovered the exhausted man in the mangroves.
Australian media reports said the Pole, who has not been named, set off from Sigabadura village in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday and that locals tried talking him out of the voyage, to no avail.
Australian immigration authorities said they were waiting to interview the man.
"He has been transferred to Thursday Island where he has been detained," a spokesman said, adding that he was being medically assessed before being interviewed to find out why he made the trip. -AFP


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Ultrasound Findings to Adjust the Duration of Anticoagulation (AESOPUS)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00380120
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 25, 2006
Last Update Posted : March 18, 2008
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|Condition or disease
|Deep Vein Thrombosis
|Drug: sodium warfarin Drug: Sodium warfarin
|Phase 3
Study patients Consecutive patients with symptomatic proximal-vein thrombosis who have completed three months of anticoagulation will be eligible for the study. Patients with thrombosis occurring in association with recent (less than three months) trauma, surgical intervention or puerperium, prolonged (more than seven days) immobilization from any cause or use of hormonal treatment will be regarded as "secondary thrombosis". All other patients will defined as having idiopathic thrombosis.
Study design and interventions The AESOPUS study is a randomized, multicenter, open trial, with independent and blinded assessment of study outcomes. The study is designed to evaluate the long-term clinical benefit and risk of adjusting the duration of oral anticoagulant therapy based on to the persistence or recanalization of venous thrombosis, as shown by repeated ultrasonography.
Randomization is stratified for secondary versus idiopathic thrombosis and for center. After completing the first uneventful three months of anticoagulation, patients will be randomized to fixed durations of warfarin or to flexible durations. In the fixed duration group, patients with idiopathic deep-vein thrombosis will receive 3 additional months of treatment (for a total treatment duration of 6 months), and patients with secondary deep-vein thrombosis will discontinue treatment (for a total treatment duration of 3 months). In the flexible duration group, patients will have ultrasound at the time of randomization and then at 3, 9, 15 and 21 months if the index event is idiopathic or at 3 and 9 months if the index event is secondary. Anticoagulant therapy will be discontinued if the thrombosis has recanalized. If residual venous thrombosis is detected, treatment will be continued until the following ultrasound testing, and for a maximum of 9 months for secondary and 21 months for idiopathic venous thrombosis. In both groups, warfarin will be adjusted to a target international normalized ratio of 2.0 to 3.0.
Ultrasound assessments of the common femoral and popliteal vein (transverse plane) will be done according to a standardized procedure by independent experts unaware of clinical details and of previous ultrasound findings. Vein diameters will be measured during maximal compression, and considered recanalized in case of a diameter < 2.0 millimeters in a single determination, or a diameter < 3.0 millimeters in two consecutive determinations.
Follow-up, recurrent VTE and bleeding Patients will be followed-up for 33 months to document the incidence of symptomatic recurrent thromboembolism. Follow-up visits will be scheduled in all patients at 3, 9, 15, 21, and 33 months after randomization. Recurrent thromboembolism will be diagnosed by compression ultrasound, ventilation/perfusion scanning, or helical tomography as appropriate. If recurrent thrombosis is suspected in a previously unaffected leg, the sole diagnostic criterion will be incompressibility of a proximal vein. Ultrasound criteria for recurrent ipsilateral thrombosis will be incompressibility of a proximal vein segment initially free from thrombi and/or incompressibility of a proximal vein that has completely recanalized. Nonfatal pulmonary embolism will be defined by a (sub)segmental ventilation-perfusion mismatch on lung scanning or an intraluminal filling defect on spiral computed tomography of the chest. Fatal pulmonary embolism will be diagnosed if it is confirmed at autopsy, if it is anteceded in the immediate period before death by objectively confirmed pulmonary embolism or venous thrombosis, or if it is a sudden death that cannot be explained by a disease or condition other than pulmonary embolism.
Bleeding will defined as major it is clinically overt and associated with a hemoglobin drop of at least 20 g/L or transfusion of al least two units of red cells, is retroperitoneal or intracranial. All outcome events will be reviewed by an independent adjudication committee whose members were unaware of the treatment assigned.
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|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
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|538 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
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|The AESOPUS Study: Ultrasound Findings to Adjust the Duration of Anticoagulation in Patients With Deep Vein Thrombosis
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|January 1999
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|June 2003
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2006
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Tailoring the duration of anticoagulation according to the ultrasound persistence of residual vein thrombosis
Drug: sodium warfarin
dosage: as much as it is required to prolong the international normalized ratio, checked every 2-3 weeks, between 2.0 and 3.0
Drug: Sodium warfarin
As much drug as it is necessary to prolong the international normalized ratio between 2.0 and 3.0
Active Comparator: 2
Administering a fixed duration of anticoagulation (i.e., discontinue it at the time of randomization in patients with secondary DVT, and prolong it for 3 additional months in patients with idiopathic DVT)
Drug: sodium warfarin
dosage: as much as it is required to prolong the international normalized ratio, checked every 2-3 weeks, between 2.0 and 3.0
Drug: Sodium warfarin
As much drug as it is necessary to prolong the international normalized ratio between 2.0 and 3.0
- The main efficacy outcome is objectively confirmed recurrent thromboembolism from randomization up to completion of 33 months of follow-up. [ Time Frame: 33 months ]
- To establish clinical and/or laboratory parameters associated with the development of recurrent thromboembolism [ Time Frame: 33 months ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- acute proximal DVT associated or not with clinically symptomatic pulmonary embolism
Exclusion Criteria:
- history of previous VTE
- active cancer
- indications for permanent anticoagulation
- contraindications to anticoagulation
- pregnancy
- geographical inaccessibility for long-term follow-up
- life expectancy shorter than 1 year
- refusal of informed consensus
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00380120
|Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, 2nd Chair of Internal Medicine, University of Padua
|Padua, Italy, 35128
|Principal Investigator:
|Paolo Prandoni, MD, PhD
|Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy
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|Responsible Party:
|Prof. Cesare Scandellari, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua
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|First Posted:
|September 25, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 18, 2008
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|March 2008
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Road to Mac Office 2008: an introductionMicrosoft's Office for Mac 2008 adds new features and a revised user interface to the standard suite of productivity applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. Scheduled for release in January 2008, the upgrade will be the first new release for the Mac since 2004, back in the days of Mac OS 10.3 Panther.
This report goes to great lengths to explore the origins, history, and maturity of software-based office suites and Microsoft Office for the Mac. For those readers with limited time or who are only interested in what's due in Office 2008 for Mac, you can skip to page 4 of this report.
Ten years ago, Steve Jobs took the stage at the summer 1997 Boston Macworld Expo to announce plans to restore confidence in Apple. Key among those plans was a deal with Microsoft to deliver the first new edition of Office for Mac since Microsoft had halted development back in 1994, prior to the release of Windows 95.
Microsoft recently announced new plans to again introduce a new version of Office for Mac after delays led to a four-year development process. This time, however, Microsoft faces new competition from Apple itself, which has impacted Microsoft's Office 2008 pricing and features. New competition between the two firms in the productivity application arena is great for consumers; here's how the two companies have acted as both rivals and partners over the last three decades in productivity applications, leading up to renewed competition today.
The Origins of Office
The first graphical office application suite wasn't Microsoft Office, but rather Apple's Lisa Office (below), which debuted in 1983 and was bundled with the Lisa computer. Critics gave the Lisa's application software better marks than the computer itself. However, third party developers were irritated that Apple had delivered a full suite of software with the new system, killing any aftermarket for productivity suites.
Apple hoped the Lisa would move microcomputers into the realm of office business machines, but sales for the $9,995 systems were slow in coming, particularly in comparison to the expectations Apple had set for it. The Apple II had sold 16,000 units in its second year and was considered a success; the Lisa sold nearly 100,000 units but was considered a failure--by 1983, the Apple II was selling a million units per year.
Despite its sales not meeting expectations, Lisa systems were widely deployed as shared systems in many large and medium sized offices, exposing a broad audience of office workers to the new graphical desktop, the mouse, and windowed documents that had until then only existed in technology demonstrations. Lisa computers demonstrated the practical utility of a graphical interface for tasks such as project management and document publishing, delivered via its bundled Lisa Office apps.
In parallel with work on the Lisa, Apple had also funded development of the Macintosh as a lower priced system aimed at volume sales and individuals. Faced with limited resources, the smaller Mac team could only deliver a subset of the Lisa Office applications on the Mac; instead, it worked to promote interest among third party software developers similar to the market that had sprung up around the Apple II with VisiCalc. However, even more momentum had been growing behind IBM's 1981 DOS PC, with specialized applications such as WordPerfect's word processor and the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet serving as major reasons to buy the machines.
Microsoft's Applications for Macintosh
After taking over the Macintosh project, Jobs began courting third party developers but found limited interest. Developers were delivering applications for DOS PCs because of the large installed base. Apple's last two systems--the 1981 Apple III and the 1983 Lisa--had both failed to sell in impressive numbers.
Offering software for Apple's new Macintosh was a big gamble; it required additional investment in learning how to write software designed to specific guidelines and using Apple's unique Mac Toolbox, neither of which could be ported back to DOS or other systems if the Mac failed in the market.
In 1981, Jobs approached Microsoft's Bill Gates about developing for the Mac. The two companies had already partnered to produce Applesoft BASIC for the Apple II, and Jobs knew Microsoft wanted to get into the applications business, but that it faced difficult odds on the PC platform against entrenched competitors. That left Microsoft willing to explore other platforms. Microsoft was preparing to release a VisiCalc-clone called Multiplan, and subsequently delivered versions for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and TI-99/4A; the company's circumstances similarly pushed it into the role of an early adopter of the Macintosh when few others expressed much interest.
Apple signed a deal in 1981 that gave Microsoft early access to Macintosh prototypes and development tools in exchange for the delivery of Multiplan for Macintosh, with the understanding that Microsoft wouldn't deliver any mouse-based software for the PC until a year after the Mac shipped. At the time, Apple planned to ship the Mac in 1982, limiting the exclusive deal to late 1983. That same year, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie--who had developed the Bravo word processor at Xerox PARC--to port Bravo as a companion word processor to Multiplan called Multi-Tool Word.
Microsoft's DOS Applications
In 1983, Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for DOS (below), which shipped with a mouse for the PC. Apple was outraged, as it had not yet shipped the Macintosh. However, Microsoft was able to exploit a loophole in its contract with Apple, which had set a fixed date for the exclusive period ending in 1983 rather than explicitly floating the clause to the Mac's actual release date, as Andy Hertzfeld described in A Rich Neighbor Named Xerox.
Even so, both Multiplan and Multi-Tool Word (later renamed Word for DOS) found little interest among PC users trained to use the conventions of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect. In contrast, Microsoft's applications had far less initial competition on the Macintosh, where Multiplan was released under the new name Excel in 1985, next to the first graphical version of Word (below).
Much of the reason for Microsoft's success on the Mac but failure on DOS came from the fact that it followed Apple's user interface guidelines on the Mac, so its new applications worked the same as every other program on the system. On the DOS PC, every application used its own keyboard shortcut conventions. While Excel and Word shared many of the same commands, nobody was familiar with them. The market preferred to continue using the applications they'd already learned, including Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.
Early Mac Apps
While Jobs partnered with Microsoft, Apple also worked on its own applications. The Mac team contracted with former Apple employee Randy Wigginton to develop MacWrite (below), which was bundled on new Macs. Jobs also outsourced a parallel effort to produce a second Mac word processor as a contingency plan in case MacWrite was not finished on time.
That effort resulted in WriteNow (below), a fast and lean application that was later sold independently as a commercial product. After Jobs left Apple, he bought WriteNow and sold it through NeXT. It later became the included word processor for NeXT systems.
Unlike Microsoft, other vendors who developed for the Macintosh frequently failed to grasp the human interface guidelines Mac users quickly came to expect. WordPerfect's' initial release for the Mac was panned for being too much like DOS. Lotus' attempt to deliver a Mac spreadsheet called Jazz was a similar failure. Both were derided by the Macintosh press for not being "Mac-like," and both companies later delivered new versions that worked closer to what Mac users expected.
While delivering a highly revised WordPerfect 2.0, the company complained about Apple's bundling of MacWrite, and also later complained to NeXT about its bundling of WriteNow. As a result, Apple spun its own Mac applications off into the Claris subsidiary in 1987, which sold apps such as MacWrite separately. NeXT also removed WriteNow and replaced it with a simpler, stripped down text editor called TextEdit (below), which eventually found its way into Mac OS X.
That same year in 1987, Microsoft purchased Forethought, a Mac software developer which had released a presentation software program called PowerPoint (below) that spring.
On page 2 of 4: Microsoft Launches its Mac Apps on the PC; Microsoft Develops Windows for OS/2; Windows 3.0 Gets Bundled on PCs; Microsoft's Mac Applications Stall: Office 4; and Microsoft Focuses on Windows.


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This morning three Greenpeace polar bears chained themselves to oil barrels in front of Norwegian energy firm Statoil's office in central Moscow. Holding banners reading "Arctic worth more than oil" and "Arctic not for sale," our brave polar bears declared they are being held hostage by oil companies rushing to drill in the Arctic.
But why would these polar bears do something like this against a company from an enlightened and progressive place like Norway?
After all, Norway conjures up images of towering mountain ranges, clean, fresh air, stunning fjords, glaciers, waterfalls and abundant wildlife. That same, liberal Norway whose prodigious environmental virtues and policies sets the benchmark for sustainability.
But a dark shadow lies just behind this green and pleasant visage: an oil company whose plans could tarnish Norway's green reputation forever and put the Arctic in serious trouble.
This oil company is Statoil, the Norwegian state-owned energy provider, and it has huge plans to explore for oil in almost every corner of the Arctic.
Though Statoil recently announced it was cancelling plans plans to drill in the chilly Arctic waters of the Norwegian Barents Sea this summer, it still wants to look for oil away from prying eyes in the remote Russian Arctic, where drilling regulations are far less strict. What's worse, to make its Arctic dream a reality, Statoil has teamed up with a company responsible for more spills than any other on the planet: Russian oil behemoth Rosneft.
The Arctic is already an endangered and fragile environment. Its ice is melting fast, the vanishing white blanket at the top of the world warning us that if we don't stop exploiting this pristine environment, the impact on everyone could be devastating. There is no technology to deal with an oil spill under ice and, considering the catastrophes already caused by Rosneft, there is a big chance that the same will happen with in the fragile Arctic Ocean.
Statoil's plan is perfectly clear: it wants to make a fat profit at the expense of the Arctic, risking spills in icy waters a long way from Norway, whilst keeping up its veneer of social responsibility at the same time.
We can't allow this to happen. This is why our polar bears took action in Moscow and we have a way to stop Statoil!
Russian police have just taken our polar bears into custody, but not before they managed to hand over a letter to Statoil's head of Public Affairs demanding the company scrap its plans to operate in the far north and you can help too!
At the next Statoil AGM on the 14th of May, the Norwegian government can vote to stop the company drilling in the ice. We need your help to put pressure on the government to make the right decision for the future of the Arctic!
Take action and send a letter directly to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to tell him to make sure that Statoil keeps its paws off the Arctic!
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What are you guys doing? Could anyone pleeeeaase google 'Rosneft BP' and tell DOCTOR Naidoo about it?
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What are you guys doing? Could anyone pleeeeaase google 'Rosneft BP' and tell DOCTOR Naidoo about it?
This is a unique Chance!!! Think someone called Sun Wu already mentioned it something like half a year ago.
Sun Wu, GODFATHER of Rainbow Warrior III
PS: I would like to become next CEO of Greenpeace International...could you please inform me about application-procedures?
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States need to stop this doubletalk between committing to the environment and allowing large companies do what they want for a profit! This article hi...
States need to stop this doubletalk between committing to the environment and allowing large companies do what they want for a profit! This article highlights a key problem for reducing climate change - although states can be pressured from below.. it is essentially their relationship with oil companies and other corporations which defines their actions towards the environment. The state has the power to define these oil companies' limits, but they yield to them for the sake of economy, resources, ang geo-power politics. But if we put the reputation of 'green' states like Norway on the line maybe we can begin defining those relationships from below. Orgs like GP are helping redefine those relationships - keep up the good fight Greenpeace!
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BP used 7 Million liters (in words: SEVEN MILLION LITERS) of Corexit 9527 (highly toxic solvent) to touch up effects of Deepwater Horizont.
BP used 7 Million liters (in words: SEVEN MILLION LITERS) of Corexit 9527 (highly toxic solvent) to touch up effects of Deepwater Horizont.
By now next to environmental damage made invisible by massiv use of Corexit 9527 there is severe health-problems among workers being involved in BP-clean up who got in touch with Corexit 9527.
After Russian state BP is the second biggest shareholder in Rosneft (so-called Putin-Oil).
BP considers the Arctic to be THE stepping stone to rejoin championsleague of oil-producers after having had to step down after Deepwater Horizon
BP is said to provide the technical know how for Rosneft's Arctic-plans.
Can anybody here follow Sun Wu and the historical chance given to any environmental NGO claiming to be the voice of our fragile earth?
Does anybody see this unique chance to fight exploration of the Arctic?
Deepwater Horizon - Corexit 9527 - BP's involvement in Rosneft and Rosneft's/BP's Arctic-plans....madness western consumers would not tolerate - if they knew about it.
Sun Wu, GODFATHER of Rainbow Warrior III
PS: but cool you guys chained three polar-bears to an oil-drum in Russia to adress Statoil...I only hope the activists are not on their way to Sibiria by now.
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Rosneft is, according to Greenpeace, responsible for more oil-spills than any other company on the planet.
Second biggest shareholder of ...
Rosneft is, according to Greenpeace, responsible for more oil-spills than any other company on the planet.
Second biggest shareholder of Rosneft is (after Russian state) BP.
Just to make sure everybody got what Sun Wu tried to say something like 6 month ago...
If being CEO of GPI Sun Wu would not only have attacked USA and BP by now..one major focus of Greenpeace-campaigning would be GREENWASHING1
Feel free to follow courtcases against the fraud Niels Stolberg, owner of the Beluga Skysails, who financed ships worth BILLIONS by pretending to save the climate.
Sun Wu, GODFATHER of Rainbow Warrior III
PS: have you already heard this wonderful news? Since 2011 Cargill is GREEN and saving the climate using Skysails... so far they have not equipped a single ship.
Maybe Skysails was never intended to save the climate? I will have to talk to Niels Stolberg about it when I will meet him in court soon!
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Most of you have heard about KONY 2012 filmmaker Jason Russell having some type of breakdown. I found out today that he was diagnosed with a Brief Psychotic Disorder. You might say...what, I've never heard of it!" "It is just an excuse." Actually, most have not heard of it because it is rare in the United States and other developed countries. But, it is a very difficult and scary disorder that lasts one day, but less than a month, in which, the person returns to his/her regularly expected behavior. I REALLY HOPE THAT THIS WILL HELP TO END THE STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND NOT PERPETUATE IT!!
From what I know of Jason Russell, the sudden, whirlwind and emotional and behavioral demands that KONY 2012 is more than enough to be a stressor to trigger this disorder. Psychosis means that one has a break from reality and may have delusions (having odd thoughts that one believes are real) and hallucinations (hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, etc things that no one else experiences). It is marked by poor judgement, cognitive impairment or acting on the basis of a delusion or hallucination.
As with all mental illness and disorders, they are very real and not an excuse for inappropriate behavior. In this case, he did not have the resources to deal with his mounting stress. It is not a character flaw and does not mean that he cannot continue to make fantastic work. It does mean that he needs a support system and resources to manage his stress levels.
The following is from http://www.sabp.nhs.uk/eiip/index_html/client/what-is-psychosis:
What is Psychosis?
The symptoms of psychosis vary a lot between individuals and not everyone will experience those that we have listed.
- HALLUCINATIONS – Unusual or strange experiences (eg) Hearing, smelling and/ or seeing things that other people do not.
- DELUSIONS include: thinking people are conspiring against you, that you have special powers or skills OR that people on TV or radio are talking to or about you.
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- The symptoms of psychosis vary a lot between individuals and not everyone will experience those that we have listed.