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Now your repository is quite ready. You need still to do just something:
Now your repository is quite ready. You need still to do just something:
* ask Albert
* ask Albert Cid to point the scripty bot to your git repo (He'll ask you your main branch name and your repo push url)
* ask Ian Monroe to add the post commit hooks to your repo, to let things as the keyword BUG: and CCBUG: work
* ask Ian Monroe to add the post commit hooks to your repo, to let things as the keyword BUG: and CCBUG: work
* ask (again) the KDE sysadmins to get integration into lxr.kde.org working
* ask (again) the KDE sysadmins to get integration into lxr.kde.org working
Currently, Amarok and Konversation are testing out git to help with KDE's migration. There are also one or two kde-related projects that have started on gitorious (although this is *not* recommended yet!)
First up, a brief description of the Gitorious.org user and permission model:
KDE currently operates the kde-developers and kde-sysadmin teams on Gitorious.org, as well as several <appname>-reviewers teams (e.g. konversation-reviewers). The purpose of each of these can best be illustrated by examining how a KDE project on Gitorious.org has to be set up:
Commit access is thus handled exclusively via kde-developers, and any member of kde-developers can commit to any KDE repository. Getting into kde-developers is done by filing a KDE sysadmin request against the gitorious component, which is then implemented by one of the administrators of the kde-developers team.
The kde-sysadmin team exists for the purpose of making sure KDE's sysadmin squad can edit all KDE repositories on Gitorious.org, to fix issues or help people in a bind.
The '<appname>-reviewers' teams were originally created to be able to remove the 'review' flag from kde-developers for all the repositories, because otherwise every kde-developers member got email notifications about every merge request for every project. So someone with no interest in Amarok or Konversation would still get MR mail about them. Project-specific reviewers teams solve that routing problem. The reviewers teams usually have all the core developers from a project as members, and are administrated by one or more key developers.
Now, about those optionally-added key developers with the 'admin' flag: Pushing a tag into a repository requires being allowed to do a "force push". Force pushing can be enabled/disabled on a per-repository basis on Gitorious.org by anyone who has the 'admin' flag for a repository. As outlined above, this currently means every member of the kde-sysadmin team - as well as one or more key developers from a given project that have been added individually with the 'admin' flag. Thus the the main motivation for this is to allow projects to push tags without having to involve KDE's sysadmin team.
The post-update hooks enable features like the CCMAIL:, BUG: filters and emails the kde-commits mailing list.
The remote hooks repo has the scripts that set all this up. However just send the old SVN url and the new git:// url to Ian Monroe (eean in #kde-git) and he will set it up on the Amarok server.
FIXME: Is this a KDE project? Why are permissions not set for kde-developers?
http://gitorious.org/+kde-developers has a more up-to-date list of kde-run projects. However, that list includes projects that don't use kde frameworks (like KDE developers' personal projects), and experiments, and isn't sorted in any way. We plan to have a better directory of kde-related projects once git.kde.org is up.
Ok, consider that things are ready to move your own project to Gitorious and you wanna know what you have to do. Let's start doing it together.
First of all, you should subscribe to Gitorious and move there your project. This will not be explained here... :)
Now you need to ask KDE sysadmins from here to include your account in the +kde-developers group. Give a couple of days to sysadmins to value your request and (hopefully) accept it. Now you have one project in Gitorious (and you own it) created with an account included in kde-developers group.
Next step is moving ownership of your project to the group. In this way, every kde developer will be enabled to collaborate to your project. :) To do this, mail Gitorious support team asking to move yourproject ownership to the kde-developers group. Given that, you have to ask again KDE sysadmin to properly set up your project. Just read about that, didn't you?
Now your repository is quite ready. You need still to do just something:
(note: can I include their kde mail here?)
That's all! In a couple of days your git repo will be ready.
Happy hacking with KDE!


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Food and entertaining is always big on the East End of Long Island, particularly in summer when glittering fundraising benefits abound during the "season," a period formally defined as the days between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
On Saturday, July 16, Dan's Papers will launch Dan's Taste of Two Forks at Sayre Park in Bridgehampton. The event benefits East End food pantries through the Have a Heart Community Trust. With award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson of New York's Red Rooster restaurant hosting the event, and TV anchor Rosanna Scotto of the famed Scotto family restaurant Fresco in NYC as Master of Ceremonies, this will be a night of culinary magic as chefs, restaurants, wineries and purveyors from both forks will gather. Participants including 1770 House, Nick & Toni's, Rugosa, Starr Boggs, Luce + Hawkins, Bedell Cellars, Channing Daughters and Wölffer Estate Vineyard – and ever so many more – will offer the best of food and wine for your pleasure.[ expand]
Sam McCleland of The Beacon restaurant in Sag Harbor will be serving up panzanella, an Italian bread salad, with local tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and capers. Growing up in Illinois surrounded by miles and miles of cornfields, Sam's simple American cuisine is inspired by his roots in the heartland.
On Saturday, July 23, The James Beard Foundation will present its annual Chefs and Champagne event at Wölffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack. The event will honor award-winning chef, author and TV personality Emeril Lagasse. The annual summer fundraiser features a select group of fine chefs from Manhattan, New Jersey and the East End, many from James Beard Foundation award-winning restaurants. Included are Daniel Boulud of Daniel, Jennifer McCoy of Craft, Michael Toscano of Manzo – all of New York City – plus Guy Reuge of Stony Brook and James Carpenter of the Living Room in East Hampton, with another terrific lineup of chefs and restaurants.
Founded in 1986, the James Beard Foundation is dedicated to celebrating, nurturing and preserving America's diverse culinary heritage. Funds raised at the event will help support missions and programs including the Christian Wölffer scholarship award for food and wine studies.
James Carpenter, executive chef of the Living Room and a Slow Food devotee, has focused on local ingredients with a Swedish twist at the restaurant. He will offer a classic Scandinavian shrimp cocktail for the James Beard event.
Both fundraisers are guaranteed to be sumptuous tasting parties!
The Beacon restaurant's Italian-inspired salad for Dan's Taste of Two Forks.
Serves 4 to 6
14 to 16 1/2-inch slices baguette
2 large local tomatoes cut into 1/2-inch dice
1/2 English cucumber, peeled and cut into
1/2-inch dice
1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
1/4 cup capers
4 tablespoons chiffonade of fresh basil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Thinly sliced fresh chives for garnish
1. Cube the bread into bite-size pieces and set aside.
2. Place the tomatoes, cucumber, onion, capers and basil in a mixing bowl. Dress the ingredients with the vinegar, oil and salt and pepper to taste. Add the bread and toss gently to mix. Let stand for 5 minutes for the bread to absorb the dressing and soak up the vinaigrette. Divide equally on 4 to 6 plates and garnish with chives
The official name for the shrimp cocktail is Toast Skagen.
The Living Room is offering it at the James Beard Foundation event.
Serves 4
1/2 pound Maine baby shrimp
1/4 cup finely diced shallots
2 tablespoons finely chopped dill
2 to 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
4 tablespoons crème fraîche
1/4 cup finely diced cucumber pickles
1/4 cup fresh or lumpfish caviar
1/2 cup mesclun or baby greens, washed and
Freshly ground pepper and sea salt
4 slices brioche toasted and cut into triangles
1. In a bowl mix the shrimp with the shallots and dill. Drizzle with 2 teaspoons olive oil, toss to mix and set aside.
2. When ready to serve compose the salad in the following arrangement: Place equal amounts of shrimp, crème fraîche, dollop of caviar and greens on 4 plates. Drizzle remaining olive oil, or more as necessary, equally over the ingredients and finish with a twist of black pepper and sea salt to finish. Arrange toast points on the side of the dish and serve.
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Around mid-day Wednesday, the Barker Street resident returned home to find two burglars inside his house, according to police. The homeowner got involved in an altercation with the men and stabbed them both.
Smith was found dead in a yard near the burglary scene. An autopsy was scheduled to be performed today by the Erie County medical examiner.
The second man was being treated at a hospital in Erie, Pa., for his injuries. His name has not been released. Authorities said no charges have been filed at this point and the incident remained under investigation.


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We've done this before, so let's do it again: what'cha been playing?
I started Halo Wars yesterday, and gameplay-wise, I'm pleasantly surprised. It's simple compared to a lot of PC RTSes, but the missions are interesting and the control scheme is great. The only major gripe about it is that the campaign seems to be short (I'm roughly 2/3 of the way into it) and story-wise, the typical Halo Formula is wearing thin.
I'm also playing Pokemon White, which is really focused and different for a Pokemon game, but still fun if you like the franchise. Recently got Gym Badge #8, but I don't want to head to Victory Road just yet


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daydreamlily says...09:51
...wake me up in a few days. Photography by Kubra Kactioglu , Istanbul, Turkey.
...wake me up in a few days.
Photography by Kubra Kactioglu, Istanbul, Turkey.
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can't wait to hear about your weekend!ReplyDelete
i love the tights too. i always love pictures with pretty patterned tights but it's funny cause i would never wear patterned tights myself, plain old black is fine with me. But in pictures they look lovely.
oh dear! I hope you feel better! Stay in bed and drink lots of soup and water!ReplyDelete
Sadly, I'd kill for the flu right now. Hope you feel better soon.ReplyDelete
Those photos are lovely! Get better!ReplyDelete
I love these photos! Love the tights the most!ReplyDelete
xo Erin
Why did you change what the post said?ReplyDelete
beautiful lighting!ReplyDelete
@Louis Duke ~ oh I changed it cause I want to talk about that in another post.ReplyDelete
Lovely pictures. You have a knack. When will you be curating exhibitions?ReplyDelete
these capture my mood - exhausted! i'm sleeping, but not getting sleep - i'm just catching up to being tired :(ReplyDelete
Just have to say that i love all photos posted on this blog.ReplyDelete
Sleep well then, until we wake you up.ReplyDelete
Oh the lighting here is just exquisite!ReplyDelete
I feel the same way! Too bad I have one busy day ahead of me.ReplyDelete
Hope you feel different soon!
P.S. Lovely pictures;)
sleep well, I could sleep for ages.....ReplyDelete
I feel this way everyday. I just want to sleep all day.ReplyDelete
Feel better soon okay!
PS...Love the lighting.
I'll wake you when I do... :)ReplyDelete
just lovely. :) i love everything about your blog! i hope you'll read this comment. would you maybe want to visit my blog some day? it would be a great honour. i've just started a new blog and would love to hear what you think about it. you're wonderful.xxReplyDelete
beautifull, being lazy and a cute outfit and the way the photos are taken, it says it all, wish I was that girl:-)ReplyDelete
oo i miss that! go to sleep and wake up 3 days later. no phones, no work, no thoughts..ReplyDelete
This makes me crave 3 days of r&r sans phone calls, emails, arguments... just reading, sleeping, and dreamingReplyDelete
SUch dreamy, lovely pictures.. I love that style!ReplyDelete
I feel the same way. These images are gorgeous : )ReplyDelete
Images are sooo pretty!ReplyDelete
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I have never been one much for animal print or floral print, but I must say, these go quite nicely together.ReplyDelete
those tights are so cute!ReplyDelete
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Nice photos.ReplyDelete
nice pictures! well done,ReplyDelete
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Oysters may struggle to build shells as carbon dioxide rises
Ocean acidification could hamper larvae's growth
Taylor Shellfish Farm, NOAA
The changing chemistry of ocean waters may cause baby oysters to have trouble mustering the energy to build their shells, new research suggests.
Oysters, clams, mussels and other bivalves build calcium carbonate shells using mostly raw materials from seawater. A two-day-old oyster larva is already 90 percent calcium carbonate by body weight, ecologist George Waldbusser of Oregon State University in Corvallis and colleagues report May 29 in Geophysical Research Letters.
During their shell-building blitz, larvae rely solely on energy derived from their eggs, the team found in a study of Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from a commercial hatchery in Oregon. By looking at the forms of carbon present in eggs versus


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Anyone willing to make absolute statements regarding fetal, infant or adult neural development and processing is a brave person. The complexities of the brain defy absolute explanation. —Dr. Ray Paschall
The baby blankets had elephants, giraffes and clowns. The nurses wore colorful scrubs. But the attempts at cheer in a sterile NICU room awash in the bluish light used to treat jaundice struck the parents as oddly macabre, and the efforts were certainly lost on the tiny patients.
Ian Puente spent three months with his wife, Melissa, at the Kaiser Permanente Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Woodland Hills, Calif., coaxing their twins, Caleb and Julian, through premature birth and major surgeries. Caleb had a heart ligation to close a valve just a week after birth, a common preemie procedure. Julian had his cecum removed two weeks later, a much more invasive step.
"The hospital tried to create a warm environment, but it didn't really work," Ian said.
Not that they weren't happy to be there. A generation ago, they would not have been alive at all. The Puente twins were born at 26 weeks and 5 days of gestation. The date is exact because the twins were conceived in vitro.
Back in 1972 the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade ruled that a state could regulate abortion only after a child could survive outside the womb. The court held that point of "viability" to be 28 weeks, which at the time was about right.
Since then, technology has steadily eroded the foundations of Roe v. Wade, beginning with viability outside the womb. By 1992, the Court simply acknowledged reality when it bumped the limit down from 28 to 24 weeks. But survival outside the womb was only part of the story.
Advances in fetal surgery were making it possible to address serious problems in the womb, often weeks before the infant could survive outside of it. Fetal surgery made possible new ways of thinking about life within the womb, altering politics and shaping new research agendas.
Then came the question of pain. Anesthesia is now routine for both neonatal and fetal surgery, but a generation ago newborns were thought to not perceive pain, and they routinely underwent surgery without anesthesia.
"It gives me chills to think of newborns in surgery without anesthesia," Ian said, after witnessing the struggles of his own sons.
Today newborn and fetal anesthesia are routine, but the logic behind the latter is hotly disputed.
The Puente twins were thus born into a scientific, ethical and legislative no-man's land, the front edge of abortion politics where doctors dispute whether a developing child can feel pain, while legislatures reshape law on the assumption they can. This summer, Texas became the 13th state to rely on fetal pain theory to ban abortion after 20 weeks.
Both sides are very aware that abortion politics and policy turn on how the humanity of the fetus is perceived by science and, thence, by the general public.
"Fundamentally, I'm a scientist," said Maureen Condic, a neurobiologist at the University of Utah Medical School, who has recently taken a prominent role arguing for the reality of fetal pain. "And whatever views I hold, if the scientific evidence were to contradict them, the other views would fall."
What does the science say? That depends on who you ask — and how you phrase the question.
Surrogate measures
For the Puentes, there is no doubt that their twins felt pain at birth.
At birth, they didn't have the strength to cry or squirm or even grimace, Melissa said. But she soon came to recognize signs of discomfort in their facial muscles, especially in the eyelids. When they were at ease, she said, "their eyelids are smooth and facial muscles are relaxed." But after surgery their muscles tightened and their eyelids appeared stressed. "It was obvious he was in pain," she said of one son.
The pain markers went well beyond facial cues. Even routine blood draws or IV insertions could cause measurable reactions.
"You saw a spike in blood pressure and heart rate, and a drop in blood stats and oxygen stats," Ian said.
The Puentes' observations of facial expressions and stress measures mirror techniques used by medical professionals to judge pain in premature infants and fetuses in the womb. These "surrogate measures" are needed since a newborn preemie or an unborn fetus cannot express itself, cannot even vocalize or even squirm.
But these surrogate measures are also controversial. Some experts argue they are not reflections of perceived pain at all, but rather a kind of biological reflex.
"Those surrogate measures in the fetus and in the premature newborn are imperfect at best," said Dr. F. Sessions Cole, director of the Division of Newborn Medicine the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, "so there are always debates about whether a given measure of what a fetus or baby is feeling is accurate or not."
From newborns to unborns
The Puente twins would have been treated quite differently a generation ago, when newborns were thought incapable of pain and routinely underwent surgery without anesthesia.
In the early 1980s Dr. Kawaljeet Anand, then an intern at a British hospital, noticed many of his neonatal patients exhibiting stress and dying after surgery. This sparked research that led to a landmark 1987 piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine that outlined the evidence of neonatal pain, including a litany of stress and hormonal responses, key "surrogate measures" of pain. Neonatal surgery would never be the same after Anand got done with it.
Anand proved that newborns not only perceived pain, but that they were literally dying from it. In one of his studies, mortality dropped from 25 to 10 percent just through using anesthesia. By the turn of the 21st century, thanks largely to Anand, newborn anesthesia was standard. By the time the Puente twins came along, it was not even a question.
That challenge conquered, Anand's research moved on to premature infants like the Puente twins and from there to the pre-viable fetus. It is on the latter point, of course, that the controversy really takes life.
Now with an endowed chair at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, the pioneering pain researcher finds himself at the center of the national abortion debate, often castigated for his insistence that the fetus and premature newborn feel pain. As ever, the politics of abortion lurk directly behind the question of fetal pain.
Anand has, in fact, argued that a fetus or premature newborn may actually feel pain more intensely than an older newborn. He asserted in 2007 congressional testimony on fetal pain legislation that "a fetus at 20 to 32 weeks of gestation would experience a much more intense pain than older infants or children or adults" because certain pain mechanisms are in play much earlier, while "fibers which dampen and modulate the experience of pain" are delayed until between 32-34 weeks.
The JAMA article
The most widely known rejoinder to Anand is a 2005 coauthored article published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. The lead author is Dr. Mark Rosen, a prominent researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and, oddly enough, one of the pioneers of fetal anesthesia.
The article reviews the evidence on both sides, concluding that "pain perception requires conscious awareness and recognition," which in turn requires a functional link between the thalamus (which records sensory data) and the cortex (which makes sense of it), a link not firmly established until 29 or 30 weeks.
The JAMA article is probably the central pillar of the argument against the fetal pain position. On one level, the authors do seem to discount fetal pain. But on closer inspection, the article uses very careful phrasing suggesting significant uncertainty. The article refers repeatedly to "pain perception" rather than simply to "pain," and it clearly allows that pain may harm a fetus that cannot consciously "perceive" it.
For example, the authors argue that fetal anesthesia in pre-birth surgery is justified not to dull pain perception in the fetus, but rather to (1) keep the fetus still, (2) relax the uterus, (3) prevent "hormonal stress responses associated with poor surgical outcomes in neonates," and (4) to "prevent possible adverse effects on long-term neurodevelopment and behavioral responses to pain."
In short, Rosen and his coauthors allow that fetal anesthesia may prevent long-term harm, though they add that, if the fetus is being aborted anyway, there is no long term. And yet, the mere fact of the dialog casts a long shadow over the abortion debate. If fetal anesthesia can reduce long-term harm, then the contested personhood of the fetus suddenly becomes much more tangible, and thus politically charged.
Fetal anesthesia
An anesthesiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr. Ray Paschall is a pioneer in the field of fetal anesthesia since 1997 and has done anesthesia for more fetal surgeries than anyone in the world.
"It's not even close," he said "I've personally done around 260 now."
Paschall was part of a team that developed fetal surgery for myelomeningocele, a type of spina bifida where the spine fails to close correctly, leaving it exposed to corrosive amniotic fluid. The result is severe nerve damage, partial paralysis and hydrocephalus, or water on the brain.
Pre-birth intervention has been found to significantly improve outcomes. The target age for these surgeries, Paschall said, is between 21 and 25 weeks of gestational age, which happens to be precisely the age targeted in fetal pain abortion legislation.
These fetuses are not viable outside the womb. But they do, Paschall firmly believes, feel pain. They thus are right in the target zone of fetal pain legislation.
In one of their early surgeries, Paschall says he saw, and Dr. Noel Tullipan felt, a fetus move in response to pain. Paschall said he is "absolutely convinced, 100 percent more than I was even back in 2000, that that was a purposeful movement away from a neurosurgeon's knife."
In response, Paschall upped the doses of anesthesia for the fetus, and he has not seen one move in 200 surgeries since. "I would never go back and do less. I might do more."
Paschall's experience butts up against another theory offered by fetal pain skeptics, who argue that the unborn fetus is immersed in a mix of fluids that chemically induce sleep, meaning that even if the brain wiring were in place, the fetus will still be oblivious. Paschall, obviously, doubts this.
"Anyone willing to make absolute statements regarding fetal, infant or adult neural development and processing is a brave person," Paschall said, adding that "the complexities of the brain defy absolute explanation."
Brain wiring
Those who doubt that the fetus perceives pain have focused on the link between the thalamus and the cortex, two key parts of the brain which don't fully connect until relatively late in fetal development. The thalamus is the key sensor of pain, the cortex the primary seat of conscious awareness.
Skeptics hold that without that connection the fetus cannot be aware of pain. And they widely hold that this connection doesn't happen until 29 weeks or later.
But not all experts agree.
Anand believes the fetus feels pain through the "subplate," a temporary structure that matures around 18 weeks and recedes after 30 weeks. The subplate provides a possible pathway for pain signals from the thalamus to the cortex. The JAMA article does not dismiss Anand's subplate theory, but it does treat it as unproven.
But pain wiring is, in any case, much more complex and multifaceted than suggested in the simple model of thalamus to cortex signaling, argues Maureen Condic, a neurobiology researcher at the University of Utah Medical School.
Condic argues that the thalamus plays a fairly central role in pain perception even in the adult organism — meaning, if she is right, that the focus on much later development of wiring to the cortex simply misses the point.
In fact, Condic argues that the cortex plays a limited role in pain perception, citing numerous studies that have yet to find any significant portion of the cortex that responds to painful stimuli. "You can map out what the brain is doing," Condic said, and in studies, "thousands upon thousands of cortical sites have been stimulated without finding any place in the cortex where people report pain."
Condic is equally dismissive on the timing of brain wiring. "The brain develops over a very long period of time," she said. "The earliest stage of brain development is probably 20 days post-fertilization, but the brain continues to develop until roughly the mid-20s. So young adults do not have a fully developed brain."
"I sometimes tell my teenagers that they are not fully human because their cortex isn't fully wired," Condic said.
Perception and awareness
Condic sees the "perception" debate as a philosophical dispute, not a scientific one.
"One camp gives a fundamentally psychological definition of pain perception," she said. "They say that to experience pain you must have conscious awareness. That, they argue, requires life experience to put sensations in context."
On the other side are those who, like Condic, see pain mainly as a biological reaction to trauma, one easily centered in the thalamus long before (and long after) the cortex is involved.
This expansive view of early pain builds on Anand's early research, which demonstrated that anesthesia could reduce neonatal mortality at a time when newborns were thought not to feel pain.
Condic points to studies where an animal's cortex was removed but the animal still responded to pain. She also points to research on hydranencephaly, in which the cortex simply does not develop and the space is filled with fluid instead. That research indicates that such children are conscious and respond to pleasure and pain despite not having a cortex at all, Condic said.
In short, Condic argues for a complex view of pain and consciousness in which pathways to the cortex are not the be-all and end-all.
Outer limits
The notion that pain hinges on conscious experience rather than on brain development is taken to extremes by some experts that, in some cases, push pain and personhood well beyond birth itself.
A 2011 article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, entitled "After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?" argues that both a fetus and a newborn are "potential persons," not "actual persons," and thus "abortion" should be legal even after birth.
"If a behavioral and neural reaction" to a noxious stimulus is considered sufficient for pain," the authors write, "then pain is possible from 24 weeks and probably much earlier. If a conceptual subjectivity is considered necessary for pain, however, then pain is not possible at any gestational age."
"Regardless of how pain is defined, it is clear that pain for conceptual beings is qualitatively different than pain for non-conceptual beings. It is therefore a mistake to draw an equivalence between fetal pain and pain in the older infant or adult," the authors conclude.
Stuart Derbyshire, a British psychologist and one of the most outspoken fetal pain skeptics, takes a similar stance in a widely-cited 2006 British Medical Journal piece, arguing that "psychological processes" center on "people, objects and symbols" that are "outside the brain."
"If pain also depends on content derived from outside the brain," Derbyshire concludes, "then fetal pain cannot be possible, regardless of neural development."
Not even a complete link between the cortex and thalamus would thus satisfy Derbyshire, who insists that pain requires experience only gained with time. Even a full-term newborn fails that test.
Back in St. Louis, Cole says no one really knows if a fetus feels pain. Cole does not himself stake a position on the fetal pain question, nor on the abortion policy implications.
"There is not a definitive source of knowledge about this," he said. "It is very hard to measure these things. Today, I'm not sure we have any reliable or defensible methods for measuring fetal response to pain."
Cole said that he definitely sees early preemies, like the Puente twins, showing strong responses to heal pricks and other intrusions. The surrogate measure like heart rate, hormonal responses and grimacing are all real, Cole acknowledges, but he can't say for sure what they mean.
"If you want to anchor legislation in science, you are going to have a hard time right now," Cole said.
Cole thus steers a middle ground. On the one side are experts, like Anand and Paschall, who argue emphatically for what they have observed. On the other side are the "perception and awareness" advocates like Derbyshire, who argue that only social awareness after birth counts for pain perception.
The question then becomes which side benefits from ambiguity.
Does the legislative and judicial default in U.S. law stick with the viability standard laid down in Roe v. Wade?
Or does medical ambiguity around fetal pain nudge public opinion toward earlier abortion regulation, more in line with European countries, where abortion limits after 12 weeks of gestation quite common?
Maureen Condic accepts that there is unclarity on the "psychological experience of pain," but holds on a biological level things are much more clear.
Condic accepts that there is no clarity on the "psychological experience of pain," but holds that on a biological level things are much more clear. "This is not so much a medical ambiguity," she said, "as it is an opportunity for us to consider what kind of society we want to be. And I think there is sufficient uncertainty to warrant giving the fetus the benefit of the doubt."
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The Flying Dutchmen enter the second century of Hope College football eager to get back on the winning track. The Flying Dutchmen are coming off back-to-back losing campaigns for only the third time over the past 40 years.
The 2009 team posted a 3-7 overall record for the second consecutive season and tied for fourth place (3-3) in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
Coach Dean Kreps begins his 16th season with 31 returning letterwinners, evenly balanced among offensive (14) and defensive (16) players. There are 14 players who were starters a year ago, six on offense and eight on defensive. The pre-season roster includes 52 freshman prospects, 27 sophomores, 25 juniors and 18 seniors.
The co-captains of the team are junior Josh Droppers of Kalamazoo (Portage Northern HS), senior Chris Feys of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Christian HS), and senior Zach Jones of Three Rivers (Three Rivers HS).
The Flying Dutchmen return five players who received All-MIAA honors in 2009. Returning first-team honorees include senior tailback Tim Elzinga of Grand Rapids (South Christian HS), senior wide receiver Kyle Dietrich of Gobles (Gobles HS), and junior offensive tackle Josh Droppers of Kalamazoo (Portage Northern HS). Players who received second-team distinction are senior linebacker Zach Jones of Three Rivers (Three Rivers HS) and junior defensive back Kyle Warren of Grandville (Unity Christian HS).
Dietrich has led the Flying Dutchmen in pass receptions the past two seasons and enters 2010 ranked fifth all-time in both catches (112) and yards (1,775).
Last season Elzinga became the eighth player in Hope football history to rush for more than 1,000 yards. He rushed for 1,038 yards, averaging 5.2 yards on 199 carries. Elzinga was also among the Division III leaders (330) in all-purpose yardage (rushing-receiving-punt returns-kickoff returns), averaging 144.5 yards per game. He enters the 2010 season ninth on the all-time Hope career rushing list (1,725 yards).
Feys passed for nearly 2,000 yards in his first varsity season, completing 150-of-310 attempts for 10 touchdowns. He was among the leaders in Division III (#71) in total offense, rushing for 294 yards and passing for 1,979. Zach Jones led the MIAA in tackles and ranked ninth in all of Division III with a per-game average of 12.2.
The Flying Dutchmen, who will be seeking their first non-league victory since the 2004 season-opener, have a change in their pre-conference schedule. The team will travel to Milwaukee, Wisc. to meet former MIAA member Wisconsin Lutheran on September 11 and a week later will meet first-time opponent Millikin University of the CCIW in Decatur, Ill. The non-league schedule concludes September 25 with the renewal of a rivalry that has been dormant for 40 years at home against Lakeland, Wisc.
The season begins Saturday, Sept. 4 with the traditional Community Day game against Illinois Wesleyan.
The conference season will feature three games at home and three away highlighted by the October 23 Homecoming showdown against defending MIAA champion Trine.


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Many liberals are dismissing and conservatives are gloating over a Republican victory in a special U.S. House election in Florida that could offer clues on what will happen in congressional elections in the fall. Yet what does the outcome in central Florida really tell us about the national political scene?
The answer won't be known for sure until House and Senate elections are held in November, but the result is clearly a bad omen for Democrats. The Republican candidate mainly ran against Obamacare and the better known Democrat largely took a "mend-not-end" approach while trying to avoid the issue.
The result: a 49% to 47% win for slight underdog David Jolly over the favored Alex Sink.
After the contest ended, some top Democrats downplayed the results. They pointed out that the seat had been held for years by Republicans and made the odd argument that Jolly got fewer votes because of his opposition to Obamacare.
Yet other prominent liberals, including David Axelrod and Paul Begala, said the loss should serve as wake-up call for Democrats. Axelrod said opposition to Obamacare clearly energized the conservative base to help propel Jolly to victory and Democrats need to do a better job of motivating their voters to get to the polls.
Independent analysts, for their part, tilted to the view that the election results spell trouble for the Democrats ahead of the fall elections. Democratic control of the Senate is in particular jeopardy.
"Tuesday night's special election in Florida should be a serious scare for Democrats who worry that Obamacare will be a major burden for their party in 2014," said John Kraushaar at the National Journal. Read: Why a Republican wave looks likely.
Kraushaar and other analysts caution that the outcome of special elections don't always jibe with full congressional results in November. A review of special elections over the past decade, for example, shows that they have a mixed record at predicting which party will fare better.
Still, Sink was widely viewed as the likely winner and her loss is being seen as a significant blow for Democrats. President Obama won the district in both 2008 and 2010 and Sink also carried the district when she ran for governor in 2010 in a race she barely lost to Republican Rick Scott. She had much greater name recognition and a big fund-raising advantage early on over Jolly before conservative groups helped to even the score.
Before the vote, longtime Washington political handicapper Stu Rothenberg called the election a "must win" for Democrats because of all the advantages possessed by Sink. Afterward, Rothenberg said Jolly's win is likely to "put Democrats more on the defensive."
A new poll by the Wall Street Journal/NBC further underscores the problem. President Obama's approval rating fell to a new low at 41%. The troubled rollout of Obamacare and ceaseless Republican attacks on the law have taken a toll and put Democrats between a rock and a hard place – as the loss by Sink shows.
"I've stood here after losing some special elections. I've tried to put lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig," asserted House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. "You can bet [Democrats] will try to put lipstick on it today, but you all know what the facts are."
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Predicted Record: 91-96 wins
Actual Record: 89-73
This was pretty much right on because most of my prediction revolved around the acquisition of Dan Uggla, who was absolutely wretched compared to expectation this season. I mean, yes, he did have a 33 game hitting streak from the beginnings of July to the beginnings of April, but do you realize that despite that he had a .233 average for the season. This just shows how terrible his first half was that he could get at least 1 hit for 33 games straight and still not have an average above .250.
Imagine he actually hit his usual .260-.280. We would have a different World Series champion this year. It wouldn't necessarily be the Braves, but they were the team the Cardinals beat out to get into the playoffs in the first place. Despite all of this, I still have no idea how the Braves didn't make the playoffs. After the first game in their penultimate series against the Nationals (which I was at all three games of) the Braves magic number (number of their wins+ Cardinals losses to get into the playoffs) was 2 or 3. The weirder thing: a Nationals fan in the bleachers the second game was telling a Braves fan that nothing would give him more joy than to keep them from the playoffs, which looked like a fantasy at that point.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Thousands of items that belonged to a longtime aide of President John F. Kennedy sold for as much as $2 million in an auction that ended on Monday, nearly 50 years after the president's assassination.
A birthday card from his son, the late John F. Kennedy Jr., fetched $17,000, a flag flown on Kennedy's motorcade limousine sold for $55,000, while a seal that hung above the aide's desk in the West Wing sold for $17,000, excluding buyers' premiums, said Dan Meader, auction appraiser at John McInnis Auctioneers.
A top sale item in the bidding that began on Sunday morning was Kennedy's Air Force One bomber jacket, which sold for $570,000 plus a buyer's premium, far greater than the expectation of a $20,000 to $40,000 final bid.
The collection included letters, photographs, books and other items that had been tucked away in drawers and file cabinets at the home of David Powers, who died in 1998. They were discovered in recent years by relatives as they prepared the Arlington, Massachusetts, residence for sale.
Powers was close to the president throughout his political career, from 1946 until his assassination on November 22, 1963. He later remained close to the Kennedy family and became curator of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston before retiring in 1994.
The auction included personal effects that reflected Powers' years of shared history with Kennedy and his family. Among them were dozens of letters from former first lady Jackie Kennedy and books inscribed by the president.
Some items sold for as much as 20 times their estimated price in bidding sessions that took twice as long as expected, Meader said.
Organizers have not yet tallied the total amount bid in the auction, but it was on the high end of $1 million to $2 million, he said.
"It far exceeded the estimates," Meader said.
Roughly 400 people from across the country attended the auction in Amesbury, Massachusetts, which ended shortly after 5 a.m. (1000 GMT) on Monday. Bidders from around the world participated online, he said.
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As Michigan State quarterback back Connor Cook was growing up a huge football fan in Hinckley, Ohio, he was mesmerized by the bright, sun-splashed images on New Year's Day from the Rose Bowl game 2,000 miles away in California.
Between the beautiful weather and historic contrasting match-up pitting the glamorous, wide-open Pacific-10 Conference and the meat grinders that ventured west from the Big 10, Cook was fascinated by the thought of one day playing in arguably the greatest bowl game in college football.
"It's something you dream about as a kid, playing in the Rose Bowl, starting in the Rose Bowl," Cook said. "It's the granddaddy of them all. It's the Rose Bowl."
Across the country, San Diego's Tyler Gaffney was sprouting into a Division I prospect and was as transfixed as Cook by what he saw 120 miles north in Pasadena.
"You grow up watching the Rose Bowl, especially as a West Coast kid," said Gaffney, now a running back at Stanford.
Gaffney is in Los Angeles this year with the Pac-12 champion Cardinal, as is Cook with the Big-10 champions from Michigan State.
On Wednesday, they will take the field in the 100th Rose Bowl, both players fulfilling their life-long dreams.
"It's almost a surreal moment where a year ago today I was just a fan, and now I'm in the game," Gaffney said.
Cook can relate.
"We have stuff all around our entire university, just play for the Rose Bowl," Cook said. "We had banners hanging up in our locker room, the practice field, stuff like that."
Less than a week after Stanford and Michigan State clear out of Pasadena, Auburn and Florida State will use the same field to decide the BCS national champion.
And just like that, college football will be finished until next fall.
But this end comes with a dramatic twist.
It marks the conclusion of one of the most controversial eras in college football history and the launching point of a new, exciting era, one that will transport college football to a new frontier.
When the final whistle blows in Pasadena next week, we'll officially bid farewell to the Bowl Championship Series and usher in a four-team playoff format, aptly identified as the College Football Playoff.
After much hand-wringing and debate, college football finally got together to figure out a mechanism that will rightfully expand the pool of potential champions while preserving — for the most part — the long-standing bowl traditions of the Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta and others.
Most importantly, it will help mitigate the near annual debate and disappointment resulting in an antiquated system in which a combination of human opinion, bias and computer data deemed just two teams worthy enough to play for all the marbles.
Despite 120 teams beginning the season eligible for consideration and four or five teams typically ending it with a legitimate gripe they deserve inclusion.
It won't be perfect, as the human opinion and influence of a 13-person committee — which will change every three years — will decide the four finalists.
It probably is just the initial step in a playoff format that will expand to eight and maybe 16 teams over the years.
But for the next 12 years at least, it's the best we've got.
That the current format will end in Pasadena inside the Rose Bowl — where college football's bowl tradition began 112 years ago when Stanford played Michigan — seems a fitting conclusion.
It's one the participating players and coaches of Wednesday's game are appreciative of.
"To be able to finally get here, into the Rose Bowl, and be out here right now in Los Angeles is something of a dream come true," Michigan State offensive coordinator Dave Warner said.
The good news is, the new system will not end the Rose Bowl as we know it — at least most of the time.
In fact, it will help preserve the long-standing Pac-12/Big-10 matchup, a relationship sometimes compromised in the BCS era when a Mountain West Conference team like TCU was called upon to replace Oregon when the Ducks were summoned to play in the national championship game.
The new format will enable other esteemed bowl games like the Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Cotton and Chick-fil-A to live on, each serving as semifinal games every three years and reverting back to their longtime conference affiliations or formats the rest of the time.
Here is how it works:
Beginning in mid-October and continuing throughout the season the CFB selection committee, comprised of five athletic directors and a wide-ranging group that includes former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will unveil its top 25 teams.
There will be no computer influence or media or coaches poll to decide the top 25 or when selecting the four finalists on the last weekend of the season. The panel will consider records, strength of schedules, conference championships, head-to-head comparisons and other criteria in deciding the four finalists.
The semifinals will be played in prime time on New Year's Day — unless New Year's falls on a Sunday — with the remaining top bowl games played between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
The championship game will take place a week later at a site to be determined — much like the NFL decides its Super Bowl sites — although a city hosting a semifinal game is not permitted to also host the championship game that year.
The Sugar and Rose bowls are first up as semifinal games next year with Cowboys Stadium in Texas hosting the championship game.
As for the six bowls in the rotation, the Rose, Sugar and Orange will remain contract bowls when they aren't serving as semifinal sites, with the Sugar Bowl affiliated with the SEC and Big 12, the Orange with the ACC and either the Big Ten, SEC or Notre Dame and the Rose with the Pac-12 and Big 10.
When the Fiesta, Cotton and Chic-fil-A are not used as semifinal games their bowl participants will be determined by the selection committee, with consideration given to major conference champions not among the four finalists and the highest-ranked teams from the five non-power conferences — the MAC, Sun Belt, Conference USA, American Athletic Conference and Mountain West.
For fans of the Pac-12 and Big 10, that is an important distinction. They will maintain their relationship with the Rose Bowl.
"In fact, it will be exclusively Big 10 and Pac-12, which is a great thing," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said earlier this year at Pac-12 media day. "We never liked those years we had to let in the TCU's and others."
That was a major factor in college football agreeing on the new format.
"Our partners at the Rose Bowl, as well as the Big 10 and Pac-12, have always been progressive and forward-thinking, and we are partners in one of the greatest sporting and cultural traditions in America," Scott said. "The Rose Bowl parade and the Rose Bowl game are really important to us. We're celebrating the 100th anniversary this year, and how many sporting events can say they're approaching that kind of milestone? It's special.
"By the same token, college football has evolved quite a bit. Fans have been crying out for a playoff and there has been the sense of unfairness and inequality in the BCS system. So I certainly felt strong that migrating to a playoff was important.
"By the same token we're limiting it to four teams to make sure that the Rose Bowl continues to get the best teams from the Pac-12 and Big 10 most years — and of course there's compromise in that maybe our best team will go to the playoff — but we've also insured that the Rose Bowl will get to be semifinals in the new system."
It might not be perfect, but it's better than what we've had.
And if the Rose Bowl gets to stay the Rose Bowl the majority of the time, all the better.
So enjoy the next week or so in Pasadena. Beginning next season, we enter a new frontier.
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text: The Cybersecurity Framework: Administration, Congress move to incentivize private-sector cooperation, strengthen federal acquisition process Cybersecurity Law Alert Share this 12 SEP 2013 By: Jim Halpert The White House has announced its eight preliminary incentives to encourage private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure (CI) to adopt the final Cybersecurity Framework, now under development by the Administration. And in the meantime, a report from the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration, still in draft form, addresses incentives and other cybersecurity issues in the federal acquisition process. These are among the latest developments around the ongoing implementation of President Barack Obama's cybersecurity Executive Order (EO), which aims to broadly improve cybersecurity within organizations that operate CI and their contractors. The EO requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the Commerce Department, to closely coordinate with owners and operators of CI in developing a voluntary risk-based Cybersecurity Framework which will provide standards and guidelines on how to improve cybersecurity and reduce cybersecurity risks to information technology and operational technology. The deadline for the Framework is February 2014; however, NIST released a draft of the Preliminary Framework in September this year in advance of the Preliminary Framework's deadline of October 10. We will have a further alert on the Preliminary Framework in the coming weeks. Today we focus on the incentives being created to prompt cooperation with the Framework. 1. THE EIGHT INCENTIVES TO ENCOURAGE ADOPTING THE FRAMEWORK The EO, released in February 2013, requires the Secretaries of Homeland Security, Commerce and Treasury to provide recommendations on incentives that federal agencies can offer to encourage CI owners and operators to adopt the final Cybersecurity Framework. Once the Framework is finalized, DHS will develop a Voluntary Program to encourage CI owners and operators and other entities to adopt the Framework, including by offering incentives. These incentives are a key feature of the Executive Order to drive adoption in the absence of regulatory authority and, if successful, could prove more effective than regulation at driving better cyber security practices. The incentives initially recommended by DHS, Commerce and Treasury varied. In August, the White House selected eight incentives that will be the focus of further development by the Administration, the appropriate federal agencies and CI owners and operators and other private sector entities. The White House incentives were released in the form of a blog post available here by Michael Daniel, Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator, with the caveat that these incentives are not final and will continue to be refined as implementation of the EO proceeds. Depending on how the incentives evolve and whether Congress acts on legislation that authorizes incentives that require a change in law, the incentives could be a key mechanism for reducing the costs of Framework adoption for organizations that decide to comply with it - or the incentives could be largely symbolic due to limited utility to a significant portion of the CI sectors. Cost effectiveness was a key requirement for the Framework under the EO. While it appears that the Framework will avoid imposing proscriptive mandates, by the same token, it will likely leave it to individual entities to figure out how to implement the Framework in a cost effective manner. As Mr. Daniel discusses in his blog post and as highlighted in the three departments' recommendations, some of the incentives can be implemented by agencies using the agencies' existing authority, while other incentives will require legislation or "further maturation" of the Framework before the precise parameters can be established. Cybersecurity insurance and liability protection incentives Cybersecurity insurance is at the top of the White House incentives list. It reflects the Administration's growing interest in fostering a robust cybersecurity insurance market to address risk, especially in the absence of Congressional action on liability protections. The White House and NIST hope to engage the insurance industry in discussions during development of the Framework in order to promote risk reducing practices and risk-based pricing. As noted above, the Administration hopes the availability of a robust cybersecurity insurance and risk management market (primarily through the private insurance market) will be one of the many tools available in promoting cost effective adoption of the Framework. DHS's recommendations to the White House in this area provide some insights into the potential segue between cyber insurance and liability protection by tying a statutorily created liability protection to adoption of the Framework and purchase of cybersecurity liability insurance - both actions that should mitigate the effects of cyber risk. However, the White House presented liability protection and cybersecurity insurance as separate and distinct incentives. The White House liability incentive identifies reduced tort liability, limited indemnity, higher burdens of proof or creation of a federal legal privilege that preempts state disclosure requirements as potential levers. The White House discussion notes that the federal agencies providing input on the incentive indicated that more information is needed on whether liability protection would lead to broader adoption of the Framework. The White House liability limitation incentive is significantly narrower than the liability protections included in many other earlier proposals: the Lieberman-Collins bill (112th Congress), CISPA (112th and 113th Congresses), SECURE IT Act (Representative Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, in 113th Congress; Senators John McCain, R-AZ, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX, and Representative Mary Bono Mack, R-CA, in 112th Congress), the Whitehouse-Kyle draft compromise (112th Congress) and the House Homeland Security Committee Discussion Draft (113th Congress). The Department of Treasury has proposed further study of statutory protections, including a rebuttable presumption that an entity had exercised duty of care that could be established in a civil lawsuit for an entity that adopted the Framework. The Department of Commerce has recommended a study of the legal and financial risks CI owners and operators face from tort liability. It also called for a determination of whether cyber insurance or statutory liability protections for an entity that has adopted the Framework or portions of it could provide adequate protection in the event that a cyber incident causes damage. Make compliance easier by streamlining regulations Consistent with explicit requirements under the EO to reduce regulatory duplication and burdens, the White House included recommendations from agencies to make compliance with the Framework easier by eliminating overlap among existing laws and regulations. Although adding this incentive is largely symbolic , the elimination of legal and regulatory duplication and conflict remains a top priority for the private sector. DHS went even farther than the White House in specifically recommending streamlining information security requirements, both domestically and internationally. The specific focus on streamlining data security rules again goes beyond the general White House incentive for streamlining regulations. We plan to watch the developments in this space, especially on the international level, in the context of the US-EU trade negotiations and the proposed EU Cybersecurity Directive. Further, the Department of Treasury recommended clarifying the rules and guidelines on information sharing in order to assuage private sector concerns about the reputational, legal or competitive consequences of cyber-threat information sharing. Process preferences incentive The White House incentives also include providing preferences to entities that adopt the Framework. The precise form of these preferences will be further examined by the Administration and existing programs where preferences may be helpful to drive adoption of the Framework will be identified. The White House has concluded that agencies have adequate authority under existing law to use the preferences incentive. One form of preference the White House did specifically mention: agencies would provide prioritized technical assistance to companies that adopt the Framework in addressing non-emergency cybersecurity incidents. Although not specifically mentioned in the White House incentive, DHS recommended including a requirement for Framework adoption for federal IT and communications technology providers and for other contracts including for essential services. Similarly, in June DOD and GSA recommended baseline cybersecurity requirements in acquisitions, which are discussed in Part 2 of this update, below. Cybersecurity R&D incentive As the Framework has developed, it has become clear that some problems cannot be addressed because defensive cybersecurity technical solutions are not sufficiently developed. The White House, therefore, has included an incentive to promote R&D to seek commercial solutions for such gaps. The Department of Commerce recommendations included a fast-track patent pilot for R&D intensive critical infrastructure companies who have adopted the Framework. Other White House incentives The final two White House incentives are of more limited applicability. They are: tying federal grant programs to adoption of the Cybersecurity Framework and allowing price regulated utilities to recover cybersecurity investments through their rates The White House will continue a dialogue on rate recovery with federal, state and local regulators and sector-specific agencies. 2. CYBERSECURITY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FEDERAL ACQUISITION PROCESS Another deliverable under the EO that was due in June of this year was for DOD and GSA to issue a report on improving cybersecurity through the federal acquisition process. The report (still in draft form) identifies very basic security protections such as "updated virus protection, multi-factor logical access, methods to ensure confidentiality of data, current software patches . . ." as baseline technical requirements that should be conditions of contract awards for acquisitions that present cyber risks, not only in the services and information and communications technology (ICT) products sold to the government but also by contractors in their own operations. The recommendations are to be "harmonized" with the ongoing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rulemakings on information systems. As background, the Proposed Rule on Basic Safeguarding of Contractor Information Systems, published in the Federal Register on August 24, 2013, seeks to amend the FAR to add a new subpart – 4.17, Basic Safeguarding of Contractor Information Systems – and a new contract clause for the basic safeguarding of contractor information systems that contain information provided by, or generated for, the government (other than public information) that will be resident on or transiting through contractor information systems. However, as we noted in our March 2013 Cybersecurity Alert, Cybersecurity and US federal public procurements: what contractors need to know, the GSA already has one of the most comprehensive contract clauses addressing cybersecurity. The GSA clause, GSAAR 552.239-71, imposes significant obligations upon contractors by requiring contractors to afford the GSA access to the contractor's and subcontractors' facilities, installations, operations, documentation, databases, IT systems and devices, and personnel used in performance of the contract, regardless of the location. Such access is to be provided to the extent required in the judgment of the GSA in order to conduct an inspection, evaluation, investigation or audit (including vulnerability testing), to safeguard against threats and hazards to the integrity, availability and confidentiality of GSA data and to preserve evidence of computer crime. Contractors, as a practical matter, are well advised to become familiar with the April 30, 2013, NIST Special Publication 800-53, Rev. 4, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. This 457-page report continues to be the most comprehensive update on core information security controls, and addresses cybersecurity standards for mobile and cloud computing technology as well as supply chain protection, advanced persistent threats and privacy controls for federal agencies and contractors. Notably, this NIST report was favorably received by both the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a good indicator that federal contractors can expect FAR and DFARS rulemaking to implement the new and expanded security standards outlined by NIST. The DOD and GSA report also recommended using standardized government-wide cybersecurity requirements for similar types of acquisitions. Consistent with recent Congressional hearings on the federal supply chain, the report recommends a limitation across the federal government to allow purchases only from "OEMs, their authorized resellers, or other trusted sources" in order to provide protection against inauthentic or counterfeit products, which increase cyber risk. Implementation of this recommendation may not be easy, though, because the mandates of the Competition in Contracting Act ("CICA") require the federal government to balance this legitimate concern against the requirements for full and open competition. In this regard, the federal government is compelled to avoid imposing overly restrictive requirements which unreasonably operate to limit competition and reduce the competitive field, particularly when there are other methods to verify that an offeror's products are authentic and meet required cybersecurity standards. 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Four, three, two …
The Derrick Williams position countdown goes on, the No. 2 pick in the 2011 draft still trying to find his spot in the NBA before time runs out.
The Minnesota Timberwolves tried him at power forward and small forward before deciding neither worked and trading him in November to the Sacramento Kings. Williams now plays both positions as well as occasional stints at shooting guard.
Like a 300-pound man shopping for pants, the right fit has been elusive.
Some nights, Williams looks like a star. He tallied 31 points in a Sacramento victory over the Dallas Mavericks in December and collected 26 points and 12 rebounds Friday night in the Kings' loss to the Lakers.
Other times, his presence is negligible. He will hoist an occasional jumper and hardly resembles the dynamic dunker who seemed to be having so much fun while starring for Arizona in college.
Nearly three seasons into his NBA career, Williams knows where he wants to go but doesn't seem quite sure how to get there.
"I want to regain the Derrick Williams that I have been before," he said Friday at Staples Center after Sacramento's morning shoot-around.
The trade that sent him to the Kings seemed like a good beginning. He started his first seven games before the team made him somewhat redundant as a starter by acquiring small forward Rudy Gay.
It has been mostly back to the bench since then. He started against the Lakers on Friday because DeMarcus Cousins was serving a one-game suspension for punching Houston's Patrick Beverley.
Williams' big games have mostly come in the ones he has started, but Kings Coach Mike Malone said Williams' production has also been closely linked to his mindset.
"We've all seen it," Malone said. "He plays at his best when he's aggressive and he's confident and he gets out and runs the floor and he attacks the basket and plays above the rim. When he settles for jump shots and is not as aggressive, he becomes a lot easier to guard."
At 6 feet 8 and 235 pounds, Williams said he's the lightest he has been since he played for La Mirada High. He lost 15 pounds at the behest of the Timberwolves, who wanted to find out whether a more svelte Williams might be better suited to small forward.
He never really got the chance this season, averaging only 4.9 points in 14.7 minutes per game before the trade.
Williams said there is an upside to playing either forward position but acknowledged a preference for small forward.
"I feel more comfortable at the three just because I'm not as big as some fours in the NBA," he said, "but when I'm at the four, I'm quicker than most of them."
Some don't believe either spot works for Williams.
"He isn't skilled enough to be a three and he doesn't have the size or post game to be a four," said one league executive, speaking on condition of anonymity because he did not want to publicly criticize a player on another team. "His ceiling was always going to be [veteran journeyman] Al Harrington."
Williams has at least been playing more with the Kings, averaging 10.0 points and 4.7 rebounds in 26.6 minutes per game. He has one more season left on his contract for $6.3 million and said he would like to remain part of a young core that also includes Gay, Cousins, Isaiah Thomas and Ben McLemore, all in their 20s.
The team's potential has been reflected in victories over Miami, Portland and Houston (twice), though the Kings have the second-worst record in the Western Conference.
Still only 22, Williams is nowhere near ready to give up on his team or himself, even if he's not where he thought he would be at this point of his career.
"I would probably say I'm a little bit behind just because I really haven't gotten the opportunity to get out there and play," he said. "I've seen some guys on other teams that got drafted top five that play 40 minutes a game whether they're playing good or bad.
"I think sometimes that's a good thing and it can be a bad thing. When you're being thrown into the fire and being able to learn from mistakes and things like that, I think that does work. I haven't really had that opportunity, besides when I [first] got here."
He hopes to get the chance again, before anyone else tries to categorize him as a disappointment.
Twitter: @latbbolch
Times correspondent Eric Pincus contributed to this report.


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CHICAGO - Derrick Rose had 18 points and 11 assists, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 77-64 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Saturday night.
Rose keyed a seven-point burst to open the fourth period, assisting on three straight field goals. John Lucas III hit a three-pointer and Taj Gibson scored twice, opening up an 11-point lead for Chicago.
Carlos Boozer added 17 points and Luol Deng had 14 points for Chicago, which won its fifth straight and improved to a league-best 12-2. Gibson scored nine of his 11 points in the fourth.
The Bulls are 5-0 at home for the first time since opening the 1996-97 season with seven straight wins at the United Center. Chicago has held its opponents to just 66.8 points game on its home court.
DeMar DeRozan and Leandro Barbosa scored 15 points each for Toronto, which dropped its fourth straight.
Chicago was played its ninth game in 12 days, something the Bulls hadn't done since 1972. Chicago is 8-1 over that span.
Toronto played for the seventh time in nine nights.
Chicago led by four entering the fourth quarter, an unusually close game for a team that had won all four of its home games by an average of 20 points per game.
Rose took over with his playmaking, scoring just two points but notching five assists in the final period as Chicago went on a 19-6 run to start the period.
The Raptors didn't score from the foul line until Linas Kleiza made a free throw with 7:14 to go in the fourth. Toronto was just 1 for 7 from the line in game and was whistled for 15 fouls to only seven for Chicago.
Chicago shot 55 per cent and led by 13 points in the opening period, but fell flat in the second, shooting just 30 per cent from the floor.
Former Bulls player James Johnson capped a 10-2 second quarter surge with a jumper, putting Toronto ahead. Johnson scored 10 points in the first half, surpassing his season high of eight points for a full game.
Rose scored seven points in the first quarter and keyed a nine-point run with a pullup three-pointer in transition as Chicago jumped out to a 23-14 lead.
The game was tied 37-all at the break and the pace didn't pick up much in the third. Rose scored seven points in the period, but both teams shot under 40 per cent.
NOTES: Bulls guards Richard Hamilton (sore left groin) and C.J. Watson (left elbow strain) each missed the game. Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said he wants to avoid pushing Hamilton, who has missed eight of Chicago's last nine games, into action until the 13-year veteran is completely healed. . Watson may return to action as soon as Monday. Thibodeau said he'd like for Watson to go through at least one practice before playing in a game. . The Raptors played without leading scorer Andrea Bargnani for the second straight game because of a left calf strain. Coach Dwane Casey said Bargnani, who is averaging a career-best 22.3 points per game, is as day to day but his injury is not as serious as the Raptors initially feared. . With backup point guard Jerryd Bayless still out with a sprained left ankle, Casey said he will continue to mix wing player Gary Forbes in at the position. . Neither team made a free throw until Chicago's Carlos Boozer sank one to complete a three-point play with 9:41 to go in the third quarter.


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Western Swing stands to become the official music of Texas.
The state House adopted a resolution Monday after three lawmakers put on their cowboy hats, yelping as they approached the front microphone.
Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth duly noted that none of his young intern staff members "have a clue what this is about."
Burnam asked why Rep. Doug Miller, R-New Braunfels, Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, and Rep. Doc Anderson, R-Waco, wanted to celebrate 20th century music.
Rep. Rodney Anderson, R-Grand Prairie, insisted that the three cowboy legislators perform.
"C'm on, Cowboys! Cowboy up!.
The trio obliged with a short and very painful rendition of "Miles and Miles of Texas."
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Actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson of the hit HBO series The Wire is behind bars and without bail after dozens of people were arrested for allegedly conspiring to sell and distribute heroin in Baltimore.
The 30-year-old Pearson was taken into custody on a state warranton conspiring to distribute heroin and aiding and abetting, according to the Baltimore Sun. During the arraignment, Pearson argued the judge and claimed she would not be a flight risk.
Prosecutor[s] accused her of helping to bankroll the suspected drug organization. "I have no money," she told Judge John Addison Howard. "Check my bank account. I have no money." When the prosecutor argued that Pearson travels frequently for her job, the 30-year-old actress angrily shot back, "How can I go anywhere? Everybody knows my name."
Howard answered that is the precise reason for holding her without bail. "You are a good actress. … Everybody knows your name. People change names. They …"
Pearson interrupted: "I can't change my face."
"Well, you can change your appearance," the judge responded. "I've seen the episodes of The Wire in which you appear. You look very different than you do here today, and I'm not talking about the jumpsuit, I'm talking about your general appearance."
The Associated Press adds: "The judge mentioned that the state has audio of Pearson putting in a large amount of money to fund the drug operation."
Pearson has a very troubled history with the law. At 14-years-old, she was convicted of second degree murder and released from prison after serving a six-and-a-half year sentence. She also was arrested recently for refusing to testify in a murder trial, reports the Washington Post.
The Wire ran from 2002 to 2008 and was filmed in Baltimore, putting a spotlight on the city's struggle with drug violence. Pearson's character—also named "Snoop"—was hardcore killer for a drug gang. "Snoop" was one of several Black gay characters in the series—homothug and stickup artist Omar Little became a pop culture icon—and Pearson attracted a cult following for playing television's first unapologetic Black, butch lesbian. "Snoop" was famously killed off by actor Tristan Wilds, who played a reluctant young assassin.
Pearson was described as "one of [the] rare openly gay Black actress in Hollywood." In a 2008 interview with Jasmyne Cannick, Pearson said she "really wouldn't know" anything about homophobia or discrimination in Hollywood. And on the deeply-entrenched homophobia in the Black community, Pearson said she had "no thoughts. It doesn't come around me."


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Rihanna Lets Loose at a Shooting Range
It looks like Rihanna had a little time on her hands recently, because the girl headed on over to a shooting range to practice her shot -- and uh, we'd never wanna cross her when she's mad.
The singer is currently in Las Vegas for the iHeart Radio music festival, which begins tonight (Sept. 21) and ends tomorrow (Sept. 22). So while the rest of us would probably hit the casino or go see Wayne Newton, Rihanna decided it was time to give her bad girl image even more street cred by (legally) shooting a gun.
"Bad gals do it well! We got our guns in the mutha------ air," tweeted Rihanna, who accompanied the tweet with a picture. In the Instagram pic, she stood in the forefront rocking her new short hair style, which totally reminds us of Halle Berry, a cut off T-shirt, and small, round-rimmed sunglasses. The three women in the background must've been part of her posse, but they're trying way too hard to look cool, whereas Rihanna makes it look effortless.
The singer also posted a photo of her holding up the aftermath of her stationary target practice, and it looks like RiRi's damn good with a gun. The majority of the bullet holes were in or around the red zone of her target, which, in a shooting range, is a very good thing.
Rihanna, have you done this before?


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2247?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Uwe Schindler updated LUCENE-2247: ---------------------------------- Attachment: LUCENE-2247.patch Improved patch: - keySet now returns a CharArraySet view on the map - toString() improvements of all views in CAS and CAM - further tests on the views and toString() outputs > Add CharArrayMap to lucene and make CharAraySet an proxy on the keySet() of it > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: LUCENE-2247 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2247 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Analysis > Reporter: Uwe Schindler > Assignee: Uwe Schindler > Fix For: 3.1 > > Attachments: LUCENE-2247.patch, LUCENE-2247.patch, LUCENE-2247.patch, LUCENE-2247.patch > > > This patch adds a CharArrayMap<V> to Lucene's analysis package as compagnon of CharArraySet. It supports fast retrieval of char[] keys like CharArraySet does. This is important for some stemmers and other places in Lucene. > Stemers generally use CharArrayMap<String>, which has then get(char[]) returning String. Strings are compact and can be easily copied into termBuffer. A Map<String,String> would be slow as the termBuffer would be first converted to String, then looked up. The return value as String is perfectly legal, as it can be copied easily into termBuffer. > This class borrows lots of code from Solr's pendant, but has additional features and more consistent API according to CharArraySet. The key is always <?>, because as of CharArraySet, anything that has a toString() representation can be used as key (of course with overhead). It also defines a unmodifiable map and correct iterators (returning the native char[]). > CharArraySet was made consistent and now returns for matchVersion>=3.1 also an iterator on char[]. CharArraySet's code was almost completely copied to CharArrayMap and removed in the Set. CharArraySet is now a simple proxy on the keySet(). > In future we can think of making CharArraySet/CharArrayMap/CharArrayCollection an interface so the whole API would be more consistent to the Java collections API. But this would be a backwards break. But it would be possible to use better impl instead of hashing (like prefix trees). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Yesterday at work I overheard part of a consversation that hurt my brain.
Customer: It's so warm today!
Worker 1: Must be global warming.
Worker 2: Global warming isn't real.
Worker 1: Yes, it is. Go back to school.
Worker 2: Do you believe in God?
Worker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Worker 2: [looks skeptical]
Worker 1: Yes, I do. Why would I lie about that?
To my great dismay, I missed the part where Worker 2 explains how his belief in God conteracts the Greenhouse Effect. It kind of shocked me that they would talk about something politicized, like climate change, at work. I was blown away when Worker 2 brought up God.
Has anyone else encountered this kind of God-trumps-climate-change thinking? What do you think the Climate Change Skeptic/Theist would have said next? For my edification and general amusement, please tell me, how does this work?
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Not at all, Gallup - what you may not know, is that over the past couple of centuries, many German brewmeisters have migrated to Mexico, where they opened breweries. Very few "Mexican" beers use anything other than the German brewmeisters' formulae.
The lime is for additional flavor - even Bud has come out with it's own lime-added beer. Since spending some years in Mexico, I drink lime in all my beer, domestic or imported.
Stay thirsty, my friend --
We already have moss in our trees...
Oh yeah...should have said "hanging"...You live in a really beautiful area.
Actually we have 'moss' growing where I would rather there were none., My last can wash made this rather obvious. LOL
LOL nonsense!
Maybe I should have paid more attention to this first statement earlier.
I have fallen into the 'humans can't, because of X', argument/discount a few times since 'climate change' has been an issue. One version has been, 'humans can't, because only God has that power', or 'humans can't, because God said he would never again distroy the earth', or 'humans can't, because God would not allow it'.
Sadly, with this argument, or an attempt at one, what evidence is available, is not considered either valid or important. Using, or refering to 'God' as a legitamate 'power' in the universe, does not really let humans off the hook, but only attempts to replace one cause or power with another that is not concrete. Since we cannot confront 'God', the conversation ends, and so skurting the question entirely.
At a job site, this might have been the best outcome. Attempting to 'win' in such a context might have created a web of bad feelings that in the end could be used to validate the/an extream position.