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|Birth Defects Prevention
Birth defects affect about 120,000 babies born in the United States each year. Birth defects account for more than 20% of infant deaths and contribute substantially to life-long disabilities.
The causes of about 70% of all birth defects are unknown. Various occupational hazards, dietary factors, medications, personal habits, and environmental exposures may contribute to birth defects, but many questions remain about the exact nature of their influence.
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are one of the most common birth defects. NTDs result when the neural tube (which includes the spinal cord and brain) fails to close during the first month of embryonic development. NTDs include several disorders ranging from spina bifida (incomplete closure of the bones around the spinal cord that can lead to paralysis) to a lack of a cranium (the bones of the head) and its contents, called anencephaly. Approximately 4,000 pregnancies in the United States are affected by NTDs each year.
Dietary changes that may be helpful for birth defects prevention
Drinking beverages containing caffeine may increase the risk of miscarriage among non-smoking women, according to one study.1 Women who miscarried during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy were found to have significantly higher consumption of caffeine compared with women who carried their pregnancies to term. This association was limited to women who did not smoke cigarettes. Non-smoking women who consumed 500 mg of caffeine per day, or roughly five cups of coffee, were twice as likely to suffer a miscarriage compared with women who drank less than one cup of coffee per day. An increased risk of miscarriage was also found in women consuming as little of 100 mg of caffeine per day. This finding appears to indicate that there may be no "safe" amount of regular caffeine consumption during pregnancy.
One cup of coffee contains roughly 100 mg of caffeine, depending on how it is brewed (drip coffee contains the most caffeine and instant coffee the least). Black tea contains about 40–70 mg per cup, and a 12-oz. can of caffeinated soda may contain 30–55 mg of caffeine. Caffeine is also found in cocoa, chocolate, and certain over-the-counter medications.
Lifestyle changes that may be helpful for birth defects prevention
Pregnant women should avoid alcohol completely. Alcohol intake by pregnant women can lead to a spectrum of disorders, including fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), and alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD). FAS is characterized by growth retardation, abnormal facial features, and mental retardation. In addition, about 80% of children with FAS have an abnormally small cranium, called microcephaly. Children with FAS also have serious lifelong disabilities, including learning disabilities and behavioral problems.2 3 4 ARND and ARBD are milder versions of FAS.5
Drinking just one alcoholic beverage per day while pregnant has been associated with increased risk of having a child with impaired growth. The potential for harm increases as larger amounts of alcohol are consumed. Even minimal alcohol consumption during pregnancy can increase the risk of hyperactivity, attention deficiency, and emotional problems in the child.6 No safe level of alcohol intake during pregnancy has been determined.7 8
There are many medications that a woman should not use during pregnancy. A healthcare practitioner should review all over-the-counter and prescription medications, as well as any nutritional or herbal supplements. For example, the commonly prescribed acne medication, isotretinoin (Accutane®), a synthetic form of vitamin A, can cause severe birth defects if used during pregnancy.
Excessive noise may have damaging effects on a developing fetus. Many pregnant women are exposed to noise in the workplace.9 10 In one study, the children of women exposed consistently to high levels of occupational noise during pregnancy were more likely to have high-frequency hearing loss (identified at four to ten years of age) than were children whose mothers were not exposed to such noise.11 Noise exposure at these excessive levels (i.e., 85 to 90 decibels) occurs in many occupations, even among women wearing protective hearing devices. Other environmental sources of excessive noise include rock concerts, boom boxes, car stereos, and airport jet traffic.
Women who are obese prior to pregnancy are at increased risk of having an NTD-affected pregnancy. One study showed a twofold or greater risk of NTD-affected pregnancy among women who were obese.12
Nutritional supplements that may be helpful for birth defects prevention
Several studies and clinical trials have shown that 50% or more of NTDs can be prevented if women consume a folic acid-containing supplement before and during the early weeks of pregnancy.13 14 The United States Department of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the March of Dimes recommend that all women who are capable of becoming pregnant supplement with 400 mcg folic acid daily. Daily supplementation prior to pregnancy is necessary because most pregnancies in the United States are unplanned15 and the protective effect of folic acid occurs in the first four weeks of fetal development,16 before most women know they are pregnant.
For women who have had a previous NTD-affected pregnancy, the CDC recommends daily supplementation with 4,000 mcg per day of folic acid. In a preliminary study, this amount of supplemental folic acid before and during early pregnancy resulted in a 71% reduction in the recurrence rate of NTDs.17
In a preliminary study, women with the highest total dietary zinc intake before pregnancy (including zinc from both food and supplements) had a 35% decreased risk of having an NTD-affected pregnancy.18 However, another preliminary study found no association between blood levels of zinc in pregnant women and the incidence of NTDs.19 Zinc supplementation (15 mg per day) is considered safe for pregnant women. Given its safety and potential role in preventing NTDs, a zinc-containing multivitamin is recommended by many doctors to all women of childbearing age who may become pregnant.
Use of a multivitamin supplement during the periconceptional period (defined as from the three months prior to pregnancy to the third month of pregnancy) can contribute significantly to a healthy pregnancy. Use of a multivitamin during these crucial months of fetal development has been associated with a reduced occurrence of many birth defects. In a preliminary study, periconceptional use of a multivitamin was associated with a lowered risk of heart defects in the offspring.20 This association was not evident when use of the multivitamin began after the first month of pregnancy. The authors of this study concluded that approximately one in four major heart defects could be prevented by periconceptional multivitamin use. In another preliminary study, periconceptional use of a multivitamin was associated with a 43% reduction in the risk of having an infant with a severe heart defect.21
In a double-blind trial, women given a multivitamin containing folic acid starting at least one month before becoming pregnant to at least the second month of pregnancy were much less likely to have a child with a birth defect than were women given a trace mineral supplement.22 The greatest reduction in risk was seen in the occurrence of urinary tract defects and heart defects. A preliminary study found that periconceptional use of a multivitamin reduced the risk for urinary tract defects and limb defects.23 When multivitamin use was begun after the periconceptional period, there was a reduction in risk noted for cleft palate and again for urinary tract defects.
Childhood brain tumor rates may also be reduced by a mother's intake of a multivitamin while pregnant. In a preliminary study, use of a multivitamin by women for at least two-thirds of their pregnancy was associated with a decreased risk of brain tumor in the offspring compared to women who took a multivitamin for less than two-thirds of the pregnancy.24 The greatest reduction of brain tumor risk (about 50%) was among children whose mothers took a multivitamin throughout the entire pregnancy.
A preliminary study, published in 1995 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM),25 concluded that supplementation with more than 10,000 IU (3,000 mcg) per day of vitamin A can increase the risk of certain birth defects. Since the publication of that report, women who are or could become pregnant have been told by doctors to consume no more than 10,000 IU per day of supplemental vitamin A. However, another study has challenged the findings of the NEJM report. In the new study, pregnancy outcome was determined in several hundred women who had consumed 10,000 to 300,000 IU (averaging about 50,000 IU) of supplemental vitamin A per day during early pregnancy.26 No birth defects occurred in any of the infants exposed to maternal intakes of vitamin A greater than 50,000 IU per day. In fact, when compared with infants not exposed to vitamin A, a 50% decreased risk for birth defects was found in this high-exposure group.
A closer look at the recent study reveals a 32% higher-than-expected risk of birth defects in infants exposed to 10,000 to 40,000 IU of vitamin A per day but, paradoxically, a 37% decreased risk for those exposed to even higher levels. This suggests that both "higher" and "lower" risks may have been due to chance. At present, the level at which birth defects might be caused by vitamin A supplementation is not known, though it may well be higher than 10,000 IU per day. Nevertheless, women who are pregnant should talk with a doctor before supplementing with more than 10,000 IU per day.
Are there any side effects or interactions with birth defects prevention?
Refer to the individual supplement for information about any side effects or interactions


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WASHINGTON — On the heels of a trip to see the destruction of the devastating wildfires in Colorado, President Obama said in his weekly radio address that America has the state's back in the recovery.
In a rare recording of the address from Colorado Springs, Obama asked Americans to give to the American Red Cross and vowed aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help victims of the fire.
"This is a good reminder of what makes us Americans," Obama said. "We don't just look out for ourselves; we look out for each other. And one of the things that I told these firefighters is that we can provide them all the resources they need, but only they provide the courage and the discipline to be able to actually fight these fires."
Obama closed the address asking people to remember America sticks together in times of tragedy.
"We don't usually do weekly addresses like this, but I thought it was a good opportunity for us to actually focus attention on a problem that's going on here in Colorado Springs," he said. "We never know when it might be our community that's threatened, and it's important that we're there for them."

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When the Flashback Trojan took hold and spread rapidly among Macintosh users, there was clear blame to be laid at the feet of Apple. The Trojan exploits a flaw in Java that had been patched six weeks before the discovery of the malware. However, Apple distributes Java to users of its OS X operating system and failed to push out the fix that had been available for some time.
Even more telling: Apple's patched Java appeared just after reports of Flashback's spread hit the Web. The update apparently was available, but not shared with OS X users until it was too late.
Apple's approach to security needs to change, according to Eugene Kaspersky, the founder and CEO of the security software development company that bears his name. He told attendees at Infosecurity 2012 in London Wednesday that, in terms of security, Apple is where Microsoft was 10 years ago.
From Computer Business Review:
"I think they are ten years behind Microsoft in terms of security," Kaspersky told us. "For many years I've been saying that from a security point of view there is no big difference between Mac and Windows. It's always been possible to develop Mac malware, but this one was a bit different. For example it was asking questions about being installed on the system and, using vulnerabilities, it was able to get to the user mode without any alarms."
Indeed, the Mac universe is becoming increasingly tempting to malware writers as more and more Macs are sold. On Tuesday, Apple reported another blowout quarter in which Mac sales outpaced the growth of the rest of the personal computer business. Macs still have a much smaller installed base and Macintosh sales are dwarfed by the aggregate sales of PC makers, but Kaspersky says that cyberscum are starting to take notice.
However he added an increase in Mac malware was, "just a question of time and market share. Cyber criminals have now recognized that Mac is an interesting area. Now we have more, it's not just Flashback or Flashfake. Welcome to Microsoft's world, Mac. It's full of malware."
"Apple is now entering the same world as Microsoft has been in for more than 10 years: updates, security patches and so on," he added. "We now expect to see more and more because cybercriminals learn from success and this was the first successful one."
What this means is that Apple must change its approach to security. Microsoft learned this lesson long ago and dramatically altered how it develops its code, emphasizing security first, beginning with Windows Vista and continuing with Windows 7 and now 8. The result is that its operating systems are much more secure, and the primary vector for Windows malware these days is through third-party software, older versions of Internet Explorer and unpatched installations of Windows.
Microsoft also has changed the way it distributes critical updates, and if necessary, will issue timely updates outside its monthly Patch Tuesday rhythm.
It should also be noted that the Flashback Trojan malware took advantage of software not initially developed by Apple, though Apple does take on responsibility by distributing OS X's Java client itself.
And to its credit, when a previous piece of Mac malware surfaced last year, Apple issued quick updates to the antimalware tool built into OS X.
Because most Mac users tend not to use antivirus and antispyware apps, many security experts consider the OS X ecosystem to be easy kindling for a malware conflagration. Add to that my contention that many switchers from Windows to the Mac bring poor safe-computing habits with them to their new platform, and you can see that the Flashback Trojan could easily foreshadow something much worse.
This is a critical time for Apple. Here's hoping the company – and the users of its products – get religious about security.


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As promised, I am posting the charts that I laboriously put together from data published by OSSE and a spreadsheet leaked to me, showing how unconvincing was the progress at the only 13 schools that WaPo reporter Jay Mathews could find that even vaguely resembled the ones that Michelle Rhee bragged about.
I am not going to look at the schools with large percentages of white students or at McKinley Tech.
First, here are my charts for Payne ES, Plummer ES and Prospect LC. I color-coded the chart much the way that Erich Martel does. That is, each diagonal sloping up to the right represents an individual cohort of students as they move from grade to grade, from year to year. Obviously I have no way of telling how many students transferred into our out of each cohort, but my experience in several DC public schools in all four quadrants indicates that students don't move around all that much.
Thus, at Payne, under "Reading", in the column for 3rd grade, in the row for 2010, you see the number 27. That means that at Payne, in the 3rd grade, in school year 2009-2010, about 27% of the students were 'proficient' or 'advanced' in reading according to their scores on the DC-CAS. The next year, most of those kids returned as fourth graders in the same school, and about 23% of them 'passed' the DC-CAS in reading because their answer sheets had enough correct answers for them to score 'proficient' or 'advanced'. Note, that cell is also blue. But the next year, 2011-12, the percentage of students 'passing' the DC-CAS doubled, to 46%. I find that jump worthy of a red flag. Either that teacher did something astounding, or the students are an entirely different group of kids, or else someone cheated (most likely not the students).
Any time I saw a drop or rise of 10% or more from the year before for a single cohort, I noted my "red flag" by writing the percentage of passing scores in bold, red.
Notice that at Plummer, the cohort in blue, in reading, went fomr 40% passing to 18% passing to 46% passing in the course of three years. The cohort in green in math went from 60% passing to 18% passing to 29% passing.
At Prospect, the cohort in yellow goes from 25% passing to 0% passing to 5% passing to 5% passing in reading. In math, the same group goes from 13% to 31% to 0% to 24% passing.
You see anything weird with that? I sure do.
Next come Thomson, Tubman, Hart, and Sousa:
The only one of these schools with a chart not covered with 'red flags' is Hart.
Your thoughts? (As usual, the "comment" button, below the end of this story, is tiny. Sorry about that.)


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The Building Blocks of an HIT Strategy
A comprehensive strategy can help providers promote adoption of health information technology and capture the benefits.
The adoption of health information technology (HIT) in its many forms—including electronic health records (EHRs), tools that assist in decision-making and patient interactions, and mobile technology—remains a work in progress. A recent Deloitte survey found that while many physicians recognize that HIT can improve the quality of care, they also remain unconvinced that it will reduce costs. Many smaller practices and older physicians in particular aren't transitioning to EHRs. What's more, many physicians have yet to fully utilize support tools and mobile devices that are intended to enhance patient service.
The stakes are high for providers that can lead the way in promoting HIT adoption. HIT has the potential to improve safety and outcomes, increase accuracy in diagnosing medical problems, and reduce administrative costs. HIT can also be critical to reaping the benefits of performance-based incentives used by Medicare and private plans to encourage effective care coordination and technology-enabled patient interaction and paperwork reduction.
As they seek to overcome physicians' skepticism and pursue these benefits, organizations need to avoid the trap of finding themselves with a patchwork of HIT implementations. That can happen if, for example, adoption is inconsistent among physicians or the new technology isn't well integrated into existing operations. To design a comprehensive HIT strategy, providers can consider the following questions:
How much will it cost and how can the risks be shared? HIT adoption is expensive. Organizations will incur costs related to vendor contracts for hardware, software, and technical support, as well as to eliminating redundant processes and paperwork. It is also critical to ensure that systems are interoperable. Questions to address include: How much capital is needed to acquire the technology and implement the HIT strategy? Is it worthwhile to consider bringing on a business partner to help lower implementation risk or co-invest? How should business relationships with vendors and other partners be structured to promote compliance with regulatory requirements?
Which types of information do we need and how can we manage it? In deciding where and how much to invest in HIT, organizations need to understand the information required at the levels of the practice and the shared risk pool, as well as for reporting to payers and regulators. They also need to identify which external data sources will be helpful, and determine the right process for gathering, storing, and managing data. Analytic capabilities and reporting tools, such as dashboards and alerts, can help translate the data into actionable insights. Permeable boundaries among existing and new entrants in the health ecosystem mean that policies and procedures to help ensure privacy and security of personal health information—both within the organization and with business partners—are also critical.
How can HIT be integrated into operations? Ongoing training of clinicians and administrative staff and technical support can help to efficiently integrate HIT into care and cost management and reduce operational errors. For example, raising physicians' awareness of an EHR system's capabilities, focusing on "What's in it for me?" may go a long way toward fostering adoption and use. Organizations need to carefully monitor the implementation of HIT and make adjustments based on an understanding of how the new systems and tools fit with existing ways of working.
Which physicians can serve as role models? A group of early-adopter physicians and physician executives can be valuable for promoting the widespread adoption and systematic use of HIT by other physicians and professionals in care settings. Skeptical physicians are likely to be more readily influenced by peers with credible firsthand clinical experience using HIT. Organizations should consider identifying which physicians can carry the torch on HIT adoption and help them share their success stories with their colleagues.
Powerful market forces exerted by health plans and consumers are motivating providers to accelerate HIT adoption. Whether on their own or with help from business partners, organizations will likely need to deploy HIT to remain competitive in the future health care system. While apprehension may be understandable, inaction is not an option.
—by Mitch Morris, M.D., Vice Chairman, U.S. Health Care Provider Leader, Deloitte LLP, and Harry Greenspun, M.D., Senior Advisor, Health Care Transformation & Technology, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
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Life as Servants in early 20th-Century America--
Supplementary Resources
By studying Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in early 20th-Century America students understand the "servant" experience in early 20th-century America, as well as the pros and cons for women working in factories versus domestic service. Those interested in learning more will find that the Internet offers a variety of interesting materials.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Public Broadcast Service: America 1900
The Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Collection
American Memory Digital Collection, Library of Congress
Modern History Sourcebook
Cornell University Library: The Triangle Factory Fire
Kingwood College Library
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OTTAWA - You've seen the new $100 notes, the $50 and even the $20. Now it's time for the rest of them.
Today, the Bank of Canada will release the latest and last in its series of new, polymer bank notes — the $5 and $10 bills.
The Supreme Court of Canada will issue a ruling today in the case of a British Columbia man, Thanh Long Vu, whose home was raided by police six years ago. The case deals with how much access police ought to have to computers and smartphones.
The high court will also render decisions in various leave to appeal applications.
There could be a lively discussion about the increased use of trains to get Canada's resources to market — particularly oil — as Michael Bourque, president and CEO of the Railway Association of Canada, speaks at the Economic Club of Canada about the renaissance of Canada's railways.
A number of patient advocacy groups will meet today with International Trade Minister Ed Fast and Health Minister Rona Ambrose.
The two ministers are to talk about how the recently announced Canada-EU trade agreement will affect innovation in health care.
Dairy farmers will also voice their concerns about the trade deal at the Commons agriculture committee.
Following up on Treasury Board President Tony Clement's recent pronouncements about upcoming public service contract talks, New Democrat MPs Alexandre Boulerice and Guy Caron will speak out against what they consider to be government attacks against unions.
Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser will release his latest annual report on how the federal government is adhering to Canada's bilingualism policies. Following the release, the New Democrats will weigh in on the findings.
A Commons committee will hear Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt's take on Bill C-9, the critically panned First Nations Elections Act.
And Liberal MP Wayne Easter will delve into the secretive world of Canada's spy networks as he talks about the need for a national security oversight committee of parliamentarians to enhance the accountability of the intelligence gathering agencies.


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St. Louis Chapter 2013 Golf Scramble
Want to put that extra PTO time to good use? Sign up for the Saint Louis Chapter of Credit Unions' golf scramble. It will be held on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at the Landings at Spirit Golf Club. The proceeds will go to the chapter's campaign of financial literacy and scholarship fund.
Registration starts at noon. At this time, a box lunch will be provided, courtesy of Credit Union Lending Systems. A shotgun start will kick off the festivities at 1 p.m.
After all that golfing, there will be a dinner and awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Prizes will also be given out at this time.
The cost to enter is $115 a person. The fee includes the meals, skins and mulligans. Or if you know a bunch of like-minded athletes, register four people for $450.
Reserve your spot before May 31, 2013, by contacting Lori Hudson via email.
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- Address: Costanera, Puerto Montt, X Región, Chile
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Costanera Puerto Montt Reviews & Ratings
Very uneven footpath along the harbour wall, goes behind the bus station & the museum. Good views to the harbour if you came in on a cruise ship. This path will eventually take you to the monuments & shopping centre which is no different to any other shopping centre. Quite a run down area but seemed safe enough. Look at the sign posts though 'Tsunami Warnings'.
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Big mall with lots of shops. Be careful of pickpockets outside though 😒
Beautiful walk and stunning bay
Beatyful place but dangerous in the night . Many people drunk and fight


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|Chicken piccata with greens.
I use boneless and skinless chicken thighs, which are usually thinner (and juicier) than breasts. (If you prefer breasts, slice in half or pound a little thinner. Using extremely thin cutlets will result in a overly dry final product.)
Coat the chicken in flour, shaking off excess flour. Heat olive oil and/or butter in a sauté pan and brown both sides of chicken. Remove chicken from pan and wipe pan mostly clean, leaving a little fat. Add white wine and lemon juice to pan. Cook, stirring occasionally, until strong wine flavor has disappeared and mixture has reduced by about a third to a half.
Add butter and capers, and stir until butter is melted and flavors are combined. Turn off heat, taste and reseason with salt, pepper, butter, capers and lemon juice. Put chicken back in to pan to warm, making sure to coat with sauce. Finish with chopped parsley, if desired.
Here are approximate measurements for the sauce (tailor to your tastes and double, if necessary, depending on how many people you are serving and how much sauce you want): white wine = 1/2 cup; lemon juice = 1/3 cup; butter = 3 tablespoons; capers = 1 tablespoon.


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- About us
- Blogs
- Funding/Donations
- Challenges
- Chapters
- Papers
- Projects
- Code of Conduct
- Google SoC
- Recent posts
- Security Workshops
Current Members and their activities:
Charles Lim – Chapter Lead, Honeypot Deployment, Research
IGN Mantra – Early Warning System, Research
Tita Latifah – Malware Analyst, Research
Dwi Ade Handayani Capah – Malware Analyst, Research
Amien Harisen Rosyandino – Honeypot Deployment, Research
Hadi Syahrial – Honeypot Deployment, Research
Mustafa – Honeypot Deployment, Research
Lukas – Honeypot Deployment, Research
Erwin Adi – Honeynet Deployment, Research
Stewart – Honeypot Deployment, Developer
Ammar Fuad – Honeypot Deployment, Developer
New active members include:
Digit Oktavianto – Honeypot Deployment, Research
Rio Indra Maulana – Honeypot Deployment, Research
Total active and non-active members are 35
2 HoneeBoxes received from David Watson during Honeynet Workshop 2013 in SF, USA
1 Dionaea Sensor deployed in Swiss German University
1 Dionaea Sensor deployed in Binus International University
1 Dionaea Sensor deployed in Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
Following deployments which are still experimental:
* USB Honeypot
* Glastopf
* Thug
* spampots
Currently, Central repository for malware collected at the universities are being developed using XMPP
Cloud-based Learning System for teaching honeypot deployment, malware analysis and other honeynet project
Early warning System that integrate various honeypot logs to better understand current attacks
We found that none of the source of the malware samples detected from honeypot deployed originated from Indonesia, on the other hand, Indonesia has been used by many attackers as the basis to attack other infrastructure. New Indonesia malware binaries have been decreasing significantly since brontok malware (Indonesia unique malware).
Randy Anthony completed his bachelor thesis in 2010, entitled "Design and Implementation of Honeynets to Capture Autonomous Spreading Malwares for Swiss German University's Malware Lab"
Ivan Firdausi, Charles Lim, Alva Erwin, Anto Satriyo Nugroho, "Analysis of Machine learning Techniques Used in Behavior-Based Malware Detection," 2010 Second International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2010.
Rocky Christian, Charles Lim, Anto Satrio Nugroho, Marsudi Kisworo, "Integrating Dynamic Analysis Using Clustering Techniques for local Malware in Indonesia," 2010 Second International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2010.
Indonesia Honeynet Project participation in various events:
1. Lukas presented Honeynet in Academy CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team)
2. Charles Lim presented Honeynet Indonesia Chapter Research Update in Binus International University Research Forum
3. Digit Oktavianto presented Setup your own Malware Lab in Binus International University Research Forum
4. Charles Lim presented The Honeynet Project – Fighting Against Malicious Hacking Attacks in ISACA Indonesia Chapter member forum
5. Lukas presented Indonesia Honeynet Project update in Indonesia Information Security forum meeting, organized by Indonesia Incident Response Team on Indonesia Critical Infrastructure (IDSIRTII)
6. Amien presented Honeynet Tools at TELKOM TLC H&F and conducted Honeynet workshop at TELKOM POLITECNIC
Indonesia Honeynet Seminar and Workshop, supported by Ministry of Communication and Informatics on 5 and 6 June 2012
1. Charles Lim presented Honeynet – Indonesia Chapter during Indonesia Honeynet Seminar on 5 June 2012
2. Charles Lim presented Honeypot and Malware Analysis during Indonesia Honeynet Workshop on 6 June 2012
3. Lukas presented Capture The Flag during Indonesia Honeynet Workshop on 6 June 2012
Our Indonesia Honeynet Project portal (www.honeynet.or.id) is maintained by Charles Lim, Lukas dan Digit Oktavianto.
Following are our chapter goals this year:
* To create information security awareness for the public and community of interest
* To build a community of information security research that supports various needs of Industry, Government and Education
Following are our chapter goals for the next year:
* To expand more research collaboration with other information security communities in Indonesia such Cloud Security Alliance – Indonesia Chapter, IDSIRTII, ID-CERT, Academy CSIRT, etc.
* To involve more members' participation in building public awareness, deployment, and research.
Honeynet Indonesia Chapter was formed on 25 November 2011 by more than 15 attendees from Industry, University and Government
Indonesia Honeynet Project was formally accepted as one of the Honeynet Chapter on 19 January 2012 and formal Indonesia Honeynet Project portal (www.honeynet.or.id) is created.
Charles Lim often provided various information security workshops to high school students to create awareness and interest in information security
Charles Lim maintained his own blog http://keamananinternet.blogspot.com
and http://indonesiacloud.blogspot.com to create information security awareness and cloud issues in Indonesia
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Hope senior Courtney Earles has been chosen the Sports Imports/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) NCAA Division III Player of the Week.
The middle hitter from Kentwood (East Kentwood HS) totaled 21 kills for an attack percentage of .556 and six blocks last week. She helped the Flying Dutch win two matches, including a five-setter against top-ranked Calvin, to move into a share of first place in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) standings.
Hope coach Becky Schmidt said the Flying Dutch are proud of and excited for Earles to receive the AVCA honor.
"Her ability to see the court and play smart volleyball is helping our team execute with high efficiency and as a leader, she brings a steady confidence to our side of the net," Schmidt said. "Courtney has worked very hard to overcome the adversity of a torn ACL last season and the hard work is paying off."
Earles is the third Hope player to receive this national recognition. Jenna Grasmeyer earned it in 2012, while Jacie Fiedler claimed it during the 2010 season.
On Friday, Earles totaled 12 kills and three blocks as Hope rallied to defeat Calvin in five sets, ending the Knights' 49-match MIAA winning streak dating back to 2010.
On Saturday, Earles had nine kills in 11 attempts (.818 percentage) and three blocks in a sweep of Saint Mary's that was less than 24 hours after the Calvin match.
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Getting a little nervous about Kenley Jansen?
Worried he's not pushing the radar gun close to 100 mph? That his 0-2 record, 4.58 ERA and 1.70 WHIP are less than pedestrian? That just maybe he's actually hurt and no one is admitting it?
"I think Kenley is fine physically," said Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly.
Jansen, too, claimed there was no physical problem.
"Nothing," Jansen said. "I'm good."
Except, of course, he wasn't Sunday, coming into a 4-4 game in the 10th against the Giants, getting only one of his six batters out and being charged with three runs in the Dodgers' 7-4 defeat.
Yet if you think Jansen has been some kind of mini-disaster this season, it's either because the disappointing days stand out, or you have been unable to watch games on TV.
Going into Sunday, in his previous nine games, Jansen actually had six saves in as many opportunities, with a 1.08 ERA and a .172 opponent batting average.
"He's been throwing the ball good," Mattingly said. "This kind of came out of the blue for me."
Still, his velocity was approaching 93 mph Sunday and not the 98 mph he can hit when he's really dominating. Jansen shrugged and said he was fine and wasn't to over think it.
"You can't get messed up, you can't think too much," he said. "This is not my first time going through this. I'm going to get myself out of it.
"I'm not going to panic, I'm just going to go out there and just keep competing. I know who I am and what kind of stuff I have."
There was a stretch in April where Jansen had appeared in 12 of 16 games and the concern was he might be overworked. But Mattingly has backed off since. Sunday was Jansen's fourth game this month.
"It just wasn't there today," he said. "It's already over."


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Big Rapids, Mich. – The Ferris State University men's and women's outdoor track and field teams opened the 2011 outdoor campaign by sending selected student-athletes to the prestigious adidas Raleigh Relays on Friday and Saturday (March 25-26) in Raleigh, N.C.
The large annual competition was hosted by North Carolina State University at Paul Derr Track and included student-athletes from schools at all levels of competition.
FSU's Jessica Pilling took fifth place in the women's hammer throw (48.77m) while leading the Bulldogs at the meet.
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FSU was also 10th in the women's 4x800-meter relay (9:32.30).
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman will be charged with breach of trust and fraud, the country's Ministry of Justice said Thursday.
Liberman will not face more serious corruption charges including money laundering and witness tampering, the ministry said.
There was insufficient evidence for the case that involved such charges, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said. That decision closes a case that has spanned more than a decade and allegedly involved hundreds of millions of dollars transferred through foreign businessmen to companies Liberman owned while he was serving as a Knesset member and minister.
He has long denied all the allegations.
"I have always operated according to the law and I have no reason to worry," Liberman said last year.
The case that goes forward, involving lesser charges, is from 2009. Prosecutors said Liberman pushed to get the Israeli Ambassador to Belarus posted to another country after the diplomat allegedly handed over confidential information that included details of a secret police inquiry pertaining to Liberman.
"We respect the attorney general's decision and we will study it," Liberman's attorneys said Thursday.
Liberman's party, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party, Likud, have formed a coalition ahead of the January 22 elections. Liberman is a prime candidate for a top spot in the government if the coalition wins a majority in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament -- which seems likely, given recent polls.
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I read a lot of stuff on here about faint lines on drug tests and none of them were very comforting to me. So hopefully this will help someone out. I am 5'7" 260lbs, I have never really been a heavy smoker but I would say I maybe smoke a quarter ounce every month. I just had to have a drug test for employment on Friday 1/15/16 and I hadn't smoked for 10 days.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
MVBOE New Members Sworn In
The organizational meeting was followed by the first regular meeting of the year.
There was no public participation.
Dates and times for upcoming board meetings will be posted on the board's website: http://www.mt-vernon.k12.oh.us/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=34.
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- FSM_Ed said...
Man, when are they going to actually fire this superstitious clown?
- January 24, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Sam Stickle (mountvernon1805) said...
Which of these board members are you calling a "superstitious clown"?
Since it is the voters who get to choose to retain or "fire" board members, the answer to your question would be that the next opportunity is during the 2011 election when the terms of three of the board members expires.
- January 24, 2010 at 3:25 PM
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- January 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Sam Stickle (mountvernon1805) said...
Freshwater is not currently a board member.
- January 24, 2010 at 6:45 PM
- FSM_Ed said...
He is the superstitious clown. It's tiresome to have to explain everything to you.
- January 24, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- Sam Stickle (mountvernon1805) said...
Ah, now I see. Your original comment was off-topic.
(The post doesn't mention anything about Freshwater—it's only about the school board members.)
I can understand how "tiresome" it must be to have to explain off-topic comments.
- January 25, 2010 at 6:00 PM
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
This events agency needs a logo that expresses how energetic/ creative and dynamic it is. It needs to appeal to a range of potential clients including both corporate and cutting edge. The logo/identity will extend throughout all marketing material/ website etc so needs to be attention grabbing without being too complex. The logo should be clean with the ability to become more within areas like the website.
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Wired Events - has been set up in London to compete against a lot of other ordinary and stale events agencies. We are trying to waken up the market place by positioning ourselves as a young, vibrant and energetic company that knows how to make ideas come to life. We want our passion to be palpable.
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Scores Game-Winner With 13 Seconds Left
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - After losing its first two Ivy League games in overtime, the thought of going to extra time with Cornell on Saturday certainly wouldn't have been comforting to the Yale men's soccer team. With the score tied at 3-3 and less than 30 seconds left, it sure looked like that would be the scenario the Bulldogs would face. Chris Dennen had other ideas. His goal with 13 seconds remaining lifted Yale to a thrilling 4-3 victory over the Big Red on a cold night at Reese Stadium.
The winning goal came off a free kick. Milan Tica sent a ball into the box that came to Scott Armbrust. His shot hit the post, but the rebound came to Dennen and he was able to get off a shot that just trickled over the goal line and set off a wild celebration on the Yale bench.
"Milan hit a great ball with good outswing," Dennen said. "It was chaos in the box. I had to jump a little bit and I think the ball went about a yard over the line."
It was a fitting end to a wild night of soccer. The Bulldogs (4-5-3, 1-2 Ivy) led 2-0 at halftime but watched Cornell score three goals in a 15-minute stretch of the second half. Yale tied it when Andy Shorten scored at 86:09.
"Our guys did a good job of riding the emotional rollercoaster," said Yale head coach Brian Tompkins. "I thought we played good soccer throughout the game. It was nice to finally have our persistence rewarded."
Early on, it looked like the Bulldogs might cruise to an easy win. Brad Rose tapped in a Jon Carlos cross at 15:16 to get Yale on the board. Andy Hackbarth then made it 2-0 at 35:27 when he blasted a free kick from 30 yards out off the crossbar and in.
"That was a highlight reel type of goal," Tompkins said. "Andy is a terrific ball striker. Our first two goals were really well executed."
Cornell (5-4-3, 0-1-2 Ivy) then took over. Matt Bouraee scored from the right wing at 57:16. Less than five minutes later, Matt Devitt headed in a Scott Caldwell free kick, and Chase Aaronson gave the Big Red the lead at 71:41.
Yale used another well-executed free kick to tie it, and it was Tica who took it. He sent a ball into the right side of the box where Shorten was able to head it past Cornell goalkeeper Rick Pflasterer.
The Bulldogs finished with a 14-11 edge in shots and a 5-2 advantage in corner kicks.
Travis Chulick earned the victory in goal for Yale.
The Bulldogs host Connecticut in their final non-league game of the season on Tuesday. Kickoff at Reese Stadium is slated for 7 p.m.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have a page with just the answer (and maybe the questions) for some topics.
The fact that there has been an extensive discussion about a question isn't always relevant to someone who wants to just learn about the topic. For questions that are quite general. E.g. "What are generics?" a wiki page that has a complete answer without all the fluff of the comments and "wrong" answers would be nice. Links could then be put in these pages to refer to other wiki pages. Hey, I hear you saying "Why don't you just use Wikipedia?" well maybe Wikipedia should use SO. I mean SO is a lot easier to work with than Wikipedia so why not add more Wiki-style features to it. I just think the navigation around SO is not quite up to scratch. If I go to a question about generics there should be a link in the answer to a question about inheritance etc. much like Wikipedia allows for easy navigation around the "knowledge tree" if you will.
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The Banks County High School Lady Leopard Softball Team will advance to the state softball tournament this week. BCHS won against White County 5-4 and lost to Fannin County 5-8 in the region tournament last week to advance.
The Lady Leopards scored two runs in the first inning and three runs in the fifth inning to take the lead from White County for the win.
Kaitlyn Stewart led the Lady Leopards with two at bats and two runs scored, Taylor Kennedy, Morgan Rylee and McKenna Rylee scored one run each. Haley Warner had three RBIs, Lindsey Elliott and Morgan Cox had one RBI each.
Savannah Denton pitched seven innings finishing the game with five hits , four runs, three earned runs, one walk and struck out two batters. Denton faced 32 batters and threw 63 strikes and 38 ball pitches.
Fannin took an early lead scoring one run in the first inning and a second run in the second inning. The Lady Leopards roared back to score four runs in the third inning and the lead was lost when Fannin scored four runs in the fourth inning and added two more in the fifth inning to take the win from BCHS.
Taylor Kennedy scored one run off two hits, McKenna Rylee scored a run, Brenna Parson scored two runs and Leia Rylee scored a run for the Leopards.
Mallory Parson pitched six innings allowing seven hits , eight runs, five earned runs, five walks and struck out one batter.
The Banks County Lady Leopards will take on Blessed Trinity on Wednesday, October 10, in Roswell. The games will be on the Blessed Trinity campus. This is the best of three game series. The first two games will be played at 2:30 p.m. and approximately 4:30 p.m. A third game will be played on Thursday if needed.
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A new accuser has filed suit against former Pennsylvania State University coach Jerry Sandusky. The shocking lawsuit claims more than 100 instances of sexual abuse, reports AP.
Sandusky sexually abused a young boy more than 100 times after meeting him through the charity he founded, then threatened the boy's family to keep him quiet about the encounters, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The lawsuit identifies the plaintiff, an adult, only as John Doe. It claims Sandusky abused the boy at the coach's State College home, at Penn State facilities and on at least one bowl game trip. The plaintiff is not among eight victims named in a grand jury report released earlier this month that detailed a series of alleged assaults involving Sandusky and boys as young as 10.
According to the lawsuit, Sandusky gave the boy gifts, travel and privileges after meeting him through his charity, The Second Mile, in 1992. The abuse began shortly after and lasted until 1996, the suit said.
The 67-year-old Sandusky has been charged with 40 counts of criminal acts involving sexual abuse toward eight young boys between the ages of 10 and 15. Prosecutors have revealed that police were never alerted despite several eyewitness accounts of the sexual abuse.
Legendary coach Joe Paterno—with 61 years and 400+ wins—was fired after being accused of covering up Sandusky's criminal behavior.
Meanwhile: Lawyers are seeking an injunction to stop Sandusky's Second Mile Foundation from dissolving or transferring its assets. Prosecutors contend that Sandusky's Second Mile Foundation gave him "access to hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations."
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They had a state Senate election the other day in Jonesboro, the candidates spent money and campaigned, and it may not have mattered. One candidate had an "R" beside his name, and the other had a "D" beside his.
The Republican candidate, John Cooper, received 4,314 votes, and the Democrat, Steve Rockwell, received 3,227.
Why should a state with three million people care how 7,541 people voted in one Senate district? Start with the fact that the election was further evidence of Arkansas' shift to the Republican Party. In the 24 state Senate elections pitting a Republican against a Democrat since the election of President Obama and the passage of Obamacare, Republicans have won 19 races and the Democrats have won five.
Put it another way – Cooper collected 57.2 percent of the vote. In those 24 state Senate races, Republicans have won a combined 55.4 percent of votes cast. In the three 2012 congressional elections where Republicans faced Democrats, the Republican candidates won with 56 percent, 55 percent, and 60 percent of the vote.
Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once wrote, "All politics is local," but I'm not sure that's the case anymore. In Arkansas, a member of the non-Obama party is tending to win, and typically with something like 55 percent of the vote. Maybe Cooper and Rockwell didn't have to go to the trouble and expense of campaigning. Maybe all they had to do was put their names and party affiliations on the ballot.
The other big reason this election matters is because of what it means for state policies – specifically, the private option. That's the program passed last year that uses Medicaid dollars via Obamacare to buy private insurance for Arkansans with incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty line.
The idea mostly was conceived by Republican legislators, none of whom like Obamacare. However, they figured it was the law of the land, the money probably is going to be spent somewhere, so the prudent thing to do is to accept that money for Arkansas while changing the program to reflect more conservative values. Instead of enrolling people in Medicaid, a government program, as Obamacare intended, most of those people are getting private insurance.
As of Jan. 13, more than 70,000 people have completed the enrollment process. Another 7,700 will be covered through traditional Medicaid because of their individual medical circumstances. It's not known how many of those 78,000 had no coverage before the private option was created, but based on their incomes, it's safe to assume the vast majority did not.
Gov. Beebe says the state needs the federal dollars – $89 million – that come with the private option. Hospitals say they need those dollars to offset the costs of paying for low-income, non-Medicaid patients who often can't or won't pay their medical bills. Obamacare cuts the federal dollars hospitals receive for those patients because it was anticipated that more of those patients would be on Medicaid. Three hospitals closed last year in Georgia, a state that, unlike Arkansas, turned down the money.
The issue has split Arkansas Republicans. It was some Republicans' idea. But opponents, also Republicans, consider it yet another government expansion and a capitulation to Obamacare. There are no free dollars, they say, and the nature of government programs — even "creative" ones — is to grow.
This has been a huge political deal. Seventy-five percent of both houses of the Legislature must appropriate funding every single year. It passed with two votes to spare in the House and one in the Senate last year. One of those votes was former Sen. Paul Bookout's, whose seat Cooper, a private option opponent, now occupies. The private option was the defining issue of the Cooper-Rockwell campaign, and the guy against it won.
These things tend to snowball. Sen Missy Irvin, R-Mountain View, who barely voted yes last time, now says she will vote against funding it, which means it's one vote short unless someone switches from a no to a yes. Some of the Republicans who voted for it have drawn opponents from their own party.
In a few weeks, legislators may vote to remove the mechanism that is insuring 78,000 Arkansans, most of whom probably were not covered by anything beforehand. Or they could change it – maybe even improve it.
But however this session ends, the private option's future remains shaky at best. There's a good chance that, in November, more private option opponents will be elected – probably with about 55 percent of the vote.
Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. His email address is email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @stevebrawner.


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Let's face it, we expect our personal trainers to look and act one way, and we expect our lawyers to look and act a completely differently. If your lawyer showed up dressed like and acting like a physical trainer, you'd probably opt to choose a different lawyer, and vice versa.
In rhetorical terms, the dynamic I'm describing is called decorum: looking and acting like someone's idea of what a ______ is supposed to look and act like. And decorum is important to PPC Ad copy as well. Take a look at this example:
If you're ordering a custom-fit wedding dress that's also available at a discount price, what do you expect that service to look like? Do you expect it to be a local seamstress? Do you expect it to be a local formal wear store that offers custom fitting as an added service?
Or do you expect the seemingly impossible combo of "custom-made" and "discount" to be offered through the brave new world of online commerce?
If you're like most people, you expect the company offering custom-made, discount wedding dresses to be a dot-com business. So which headline better matches this expectation? The one that features just the name of the company, or the one that ads in the ".com" at the end?
And if a company is custom making or custom-fitting a dress to you, don't you expect that there would be a lead time involved? So which ad meets and addresses this expectation? Right: the one that mentions a 30-day guarantee.
So take a tip from the boosters, and ask yourself, "what does the searcher expect me to sound like? What does she expect me to say? What concerns are she expecting me to address? Then make sure you match those expectations to get more clicks. Or, heck, test strategically breaking those expectations to grab moer attention. Either way, though, it's well worth testing.


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This week, a team of developers called evasi0n released a tool that allows users to jailbreak the latest version of software for iPhones and iPads called iOS 6. It also marks the first time iPhone 5 and iPad Mini owners were able to jailbreak.
So far, the tool has been used to hack about 7 million devices, likely making evasi0n's tool the most popular jailbreak ever. That figure comes from a Forbes interview with Jay Freeman, who operates the alternative app store Cydia for jailbroken Apple devices.
Evasi0n's popularity shows that there are a ton of iPhone and iPad owners out there who want to do more with their device than Apple allows. For example, jailbreakers can customize their devices with better controls for managing Wi-Fi and other basic settings, add widgets to their lock screen, and install apps that make it easier to tether their phone to their computer.
It also points out the benefit of non-Apple devices like those based on Android, which offers a ton of customization options.


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Messina: What I learned this election
Jim Messina, fresh off running the victorious Obama reelection campaign, oversaw the most technology-heavy campaign in history. But he insists it wasn't just number-crunching that led to victory.
It was the convergence of 21st-century data and old-fashioned on-the-ground door-knocking that left Messina confident before Election Day that Barack Obama would be victorious over Mitt Romney.
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"It's about the candidate. It's about the message. It's about where they're going to lead this country with a vision," Messina said at POLITICO's Playbook Breakfast on Tuesday in his first on-camera interview since the election. "Because that's why millions of Americans went online and signed up for Obama for America. It wasn't because they got a sexy T-shirt…It wasn't because of the great bumper sticker. It was because they deeply believed in Barack Obama."
Here are 10 things about campaigning Messina learned along the way:
1. Public polls missed the mark
Public polls took a beating from Republicans this year, most of whom insisted they were inflating Obama's numbers to discourage GOP voters.
( VIDEO: Messina: Cell phones fouled polling)
But in the end, many of the public polls showed a very tight race nationally, although some of public surveys did show Romney leading in the final weeks of the campaign.
And Messina isn't letting the pollsters off easy.
"Most of the public polls you were seeing were completely ridiculous," Messina said. "A bunch of polling is broken in the country."
With the data-heavy operation, Messina said the campaign could consistently see where the public polls were going wrong. The campaign calculated the early vote split within 1 percentage point and the Florida results with .2 percentage points, Messina said.
He pointed most squarely to the lack of cellphone users included in most public polls.
Federal regulations prohibited using an automated dialer to contact cellphone users for polling. Instead, a live person must dial and talk to the potential voter being polled and that makes conducting polls with cellphone users more expensive.
As a result, many public polls leave cellphone users out of their samples.
Messina said the growing popularity of cellphones as the only point of contact for young voters and minorities left key constituencies for Obama out of the polls and skewed the numbers for Romney in some samples.
"Cellphone usage has changed the industry," Messina said.
Messina suggested that pollsters should look to actual state-generated voter registration rolls to identify voters and contact them instead of using their own samples.
"That's why some polls looked so difficult for the president, because they were under-polling the electorate for the president," Messina said.
2. Hire smart people
Messina got a piece of advice from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Hire smart people. And not necessarily political types.
"You want smart people, who you are going to draw what you want and they're going to build it. Messina said Schmidt, who served as a campaign adviser, told him.
So Messina set out to lure data-savvy campaign workers like chief technology officer Harper Reed, who had never worked on a campaign before. As a result, the 60-member tech team was able to build new tools such as Narwhal, which let it unify all kinds of information about voters and volunteers.
"It would start with hiring really smart people regardless of their age, [giving] them a budget and support and hold them accountable to deadline and they will build you some really great things," Messina said of the book he would write about running a technology-driven campaign.


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IMF/Survey volume 28, No. 23, January 1999
- Interview with IMF Survey: Camdessus discusses prospects for globalization, need to fight "patent injustice" of world poverty
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- Board receives report on Russian program; structural benchmarks remain to be met
- Seattle conference: IMF, World Bank, WTO leaders stress importance of increased trade for reducing poverty
- Financial Stability Forum creates two ad hoc working groups
- Monetary and trade conference: Participants debate benefits of globalization, durability of current economic recovery
- IMF Executive Board approves measures for financing of debt relief
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Great selection and variety in these John! Always nicely done!
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Thanks for the kind words, Mike.
They were done 'on the fly,' mostly at a local pub or on the subway.
Wishing you a great holiday, a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy 2011!
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WINNIPEG – After a weeklong selection camp the National Women's Volleyball Team is proud to announce the roster for the upcoming international season, ending with the Olympic Qualifier in January. Players selected for the 'Senior Team' will train throughout the summer with select players competing internationally at the following events:
• Pan-American Cup (July 1 – 9 in Chihuahua, Mexico)
• NORCECA Continental Championship (Sept 12 – 17 in Caguas, Puerto Rico)
• Pan-American Games (Oct 15 – 20 in Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Olympic Qualifier (Jan 6 – 9 in Mexico)
Starting in July, the developmental 'B Team' will be joined by select players from the Senior roster in order to train for and compete in the World Universiade Games (August 12 – 23 in Shenzhen, China).
"We are very excited for both the Senior and Developmental teams this year," said head coach Arnd Ludwig. "I am confident we have put together to best team to compete internationally this year and challenge for a spot at the Olympics."
The Senior Team will also be hosting Argentina for an International Series from June 23 – 28.
Full roster below:
Senior Team Nadine Alphonse (QC, Team Canada), Lisa Barclay (MB, University of British Columbia), Carla Bradstock (BC, Team Canada), Lucy Charuk (BC, University of Houston), Elizabeth Cordonier (BC, SWE Volleyball), Dana Cranston (BC, Colorado State University), Tiffany Dodds (SK, Ageo Medics), Jaclyn Ellis (ON, University of Alberta), Marisa Field (BC, SV Sinsheim), Janie Guimond (QC, Team Canada), Claire Hanna (AB, Team Canada), Jennifer Hinze (BC, University of British Columbia), Tasha Holness (AB, VC Wiesbaden), Tammy Mahon (MB, Panathinaikos), Tricia Mayba (MB, University of Manitoba), Colette Meek-Johnson (AB, MAV Elore SC), Marie-Pier Murray-Methot (QC, Team Canada), Tonya Mokelki (SK, Sinsheim), Lauren O'Reilly (BC, Trinity Western University), Brittney Page (BC, Paka), Sarah Pavan (ON, Korean Expressway), Kyla Richey (BC, University of British Columbia), Jaimie Thibeault (AB, University of Montana), Julie Young (AB, SEW Volleyteam)
Developmental 'B' Team Beth Clark (SK, Team Canada), Kelci French (AB, Team Canada), Kristi Hunter (MB, University of Manitoba), Alexandra Lojen (QC, University of Montreal), Shanice Marcelle (BC, University of British Columbia), Daphnee Andre-Morin (QC, McGill University), Marie-Sophie Nadeau (QC, University of Montreal), Alicia Perrin (BC, Trinity Western University), Michaela Ressor (ON, Samford University), Amy Toews (MB, University of Manitoba), Tesca Andrew-Wasylik (ON, Wilfrid Laurier University), Krista Zubick (AB, University of Alberta)
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You know those nights when you just can't quiet your mind, when there's no settling down? The thoughts are streaming through as if in fast forward, blasting the insides of your eyes like old-time flashbulbs popping and holding onto the whiteness, keeping you in the light, as if you never closed your eyes in the first place. Your heart is racing away from you, thumping like a dribbled basketball against your mattress or the hind leg of a doggie as it's being scratched behind its floppy ear. The prominent heartbeat thing forces you to squirm and tussle until you finally determine that there's no use, that you should just get up and do something other than try to sleep any longer. It's nothing but a losing battle and you've been beaten from all angles and directions. You're now there to enjoy the hours that everyone else will have no recollection of. These kinds of nights get to us sporadically, once a month, sometimes more, but they're nearly unpredictable, hitting us when the cup tips and there's just no holding onto the stresses any longer. Something has to and did give. All of these kinds of nights could be thrown into a drawer and closed shut, stuck in the dark, knocking against the captive wood like skittering and scared hallucinations, never to be returned to, if one were just to listen to Chicago's Desert Soap before lying one's head down to the pillow at night. You would have no trouble finding yourself with a light head, as if the smoke had been smoked for you or was in the process of burning right through you. You'd be at ease, able to tumble right off the edge of the table, falling headlong into that evening abyss that lasts for hours but never feels like more than minutes, a clear cut winner in defiance of perception. Desert Soap songs make you feel as if you're brushing up against the feathers of big, fat, bushy birds, ones that are capable of hugging you back, and ones that are willing to share their nests with you, if you need a place to stay. They're like sugar cubes melting in your hot mouths, or inside your warm ears. They give us a new version of Bread that we never completely realized we'd been hoping for for the longest time, bringing us to that new version of old AM radio rock and roll. They are songs for the lazy days and songs from the soggy ones, able to be listened to in all sorts of states, all of which feel as if they should be taken in while in the reclined position on a hammock, with a leafy green canopy arched overhead, a Long Island iced tea in hand and the puffy clouds above looking like ice cream cones that, if leaned just a little bit more toward the ground, could actually be eaten.


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Hello Everyone,
This will be my first post on the site and I'm looking for some advice.
Me and my current girlfriend are having a baby and have decided to do so without being married. We are happy and that's all that matters to us. I am an atheist and she is Catholic and comes from a family that is very involved in their religion. I love her very much and respect her choices in life as she respects mine. We are both very aware of each others beliefs, with that we have talked about getting married eventually.
She has looked down the road many times and explained to me what she has always wanted, a traditional catholic wedding. Now from my understandings that means I must be approved and accepted into their religion ( Accepting Christ and all that he is ) to be a part of this ceremony. Like I stated before, I love the girl and she is a huge part of my life. I want her to have everything that she desires, but this one causes some issues. It's a ways down the road but I figured i would start getting some input on it now.
When looking to my options I run across a few personal and moral dilemmas. ( What's that you say? Atheists have morals? Why yes.... They do. haha) Do I tell her she can't have the wedding she wants and cause a rift in our almost perfect (so far) relationship? Or, do i go along with it even though I don't believe, perform their ceremonies to make her happy and just put on the show for her and the rest of the family?
Now you may say, where is the dilemma? Well, being that i don't believe in a god but i do believe in being a good person, I don't want to outright deceive people. That's not who I am. I don't believe in what they believe in and I'm absolutely positive I will not have fire and brimstone rained upon me because I said i believed so that she can have the day of her dreams. Overall I know it's a decision I have to make but i just wanted to have some advice or see if there was anyone else out here that had faced a similar situation.
Thanks for reading and i look forward to the advice.
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In this thread I also see something else. I see many of us not being able to really embrace who we are. There still is a level of guilt and position of subservience to Theism. I in my life go to visit family and say nothing about my Atheism. I come from a evangelical family and we have very strong discussions in which I pose many questions and challenges yet never proclaiming my atheism. They think I am just doing an intellectual exercise. I say let them think it. I won't pray over dinner. I just say, "Let so and so do it." I do not bow my head or anything like that. I just stand in silence. I have never been directly questioned on my position and I leave it like that. I explain to my children why I do this. Having said this, I did not baptize my children into some church, I did not make them go to church. In fact their maternal grandmother wanted to have them baptized and I that I told her no.She also used to ask them to go and I told them they didn't have to if they didn't want to. Now they are both in their 20's and are atheists. I never taught them to be atheists.
I agree that atheists are limited in how vocal they can be about their beliefs. My own background, being brought up without any real reference to god, is a little different. I don't have any guilt or feeling of subservience (although the reality of the real life subservience is there).
What I do know is that I have had a knife (literally) at my throat for being an atheist. I also have many many verbal fights under my belt for letting anyone know my position. Eventually I learned that shutting up in public was the better part of valor as theists feel vindicated and even obligated to bring you to christ........dead or alive.


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Gov. Rick Perry slammed the looming federal budget cuts known as sequestration as a national "failure of leadership" Tuesday and said President Obama should "quit playing politics."
Perry, talking to reporters after a speech to a National Federation of Independent Business/Texas conference, suggested there's blame to go around but said Obama bears the brunt of it.
"Certainly I think both sides could stand in a circle and point to the left and get it right to say it's their fault," Perry said, "but Americans are begging for leadership."
Perry said states like Texas approach accountability in government correctly.
If Texas leaders "didn't get our work done," Perry said, the Legislature, lieutenant governor and House speaker all would "catch flak."
"But the governor would be the one who truly would be in the spotlight," Perry said.
The same is true at the federal level, he said.
"The president of the United States needs to sit down and work out a deal where we know that essential services are still going to be taken care of. I mean, come on, in a 3-point-however-many-trillion-dollar budget, you can't find $85 billion that's not going to shut down border security, or put our military men and women at jeopardy, or lose 1,000 teachers from the classroom?" Perry asked.
"Quite playing politics, Mr. President, and get to work," he said.
Obama, appearing in Virginia today, said too many Republicans who won't compromise. From Politico's report:
"There are too many Republicans in Congress right now who refuse to compromise even an inch when it comes to closing tax loopholes and special interest tax breaks," Obama said. "Keep in mind, nobody is asking them to raise income tax rates. All we're asking is for them to consider closing tax loopholes and deductions."
Perry, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, has left the door open to another White House race in 2016.