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Iverson wins MVP award
PHILADELPHIA -- Allen Iverson sat in a chair, smiled and invited his coach to sit in his lap.
With that, Larry Brown jumped into Iverson's arms and embraced the NBA's Most Valuable Player. It was a moment nobody could've predicted a year ago.
Iverson was honored by the league yesterday after leading the Philadelphia 76ers to the best record in the East and their best season in 16 years.
"It's special because of everything I went through last summer," Iverson said. "I had to look in the mirror and see things I didn't do right as a person or a player. I promised myself when I look in the mirror after this season, I'll know I did everything right."
Iverson got 1,121 points to beat out San Antonio's Tim Duncan (706 points) and Los Angeles' Shaquille O'Neal, last year's winner, who had 578 points from the panel of sportswriters and broadcasters in the United States and Canada.
The award caps an amazing turnaround for Iverson, who was nearly traded last summer because of his contentious relationship with Brown.
But Iverson promised to change his ways before training camp opened and lived up to it, taking over as team captain, playing unselfishly and becoming a leader on the court.
"It's one of the neatest things I've ever seen happen, when you think of the way he was thought of five years ago and the way this franchise was perceived and what he's done to put us where we are and the change in him," Brown said. "He's not only the best player on the team, he's become a great teammate. I'm like a proud father watching him develop and the way he plays and to recognize the heart he has."
At 6 feet and 165 pounds, Iverson is the shortest and lightest player to win the MVP award. He had 93 first-place votes out of a possible 124, to 18 for Duncan.
Iverson is the first Sixer to win the award since Moses Malone in 1982-83, the last year Philadelphia won a championship. Wilt Chamberlain and Julius Erving also won the award for the Sixers.
Joined by family, friends and several teammates at an afternoon news conference, Iverson said he wondered if he'd ever reach this point.
"I didn't know because of all the baggage I came here with," Iverson said. "I was 20 years old and people wanted me to be 30. I had no space for error. But I never stopped and worked on all the things people said I couldn't do and now I'm the MVP of the league. It's something I always wanted."
Iverson led the league in scoring for the second time in three years, with an average of 31.1 points per game; was first in steals (2.51); and tied for first in minutes (42.0).
He earned MVP honors in the All-Star game after his 25-point performance led the East back from a 21-point deficit, was NBA Player of the Month for January and was Player of the Week twice.
Iverson scored 40 or more points 17 times during the regular season, including a career-high 54 against Cleveland on Jan. 6. He matched that with a scintillating performance last week in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against Toronto.
"He's the same person, but a little more professional," Sixers guard Aaron McKie said.
Last year, Iverson was the only player other than O'Neal to get an MVP vote from 121 cast. O'Neal would've been the first unanimous MVP choice.
"I could hope and pray but I could never picture it happening," Sixers president Pat Croce said about Iverson's dramatic turnaround.
Team chairman Ed Snider, who also holds the same title with the Philadelphia Flyers, compared Iverson to former Flyers star Bobby Clarke, who is now the hockey team's general manager.
"This guy is probably the most special athlete I've seen since Bob Clarke," Snider said. "To stand here and talk about his shortcomings, he's quite a man."
In addition to Iverson, Sixers center Dikembe Mutombo won the league's Defensive Player of the Year award and McKie won the Sixth Man of the Year award.
Philadelphia is just the fifth team to get three awards in the same season. The Sixers would become the first team to win four awards if Brown gets Coach of the Year.
Before the season began, Iverson had to overcame controversy surrounding the pending release of his debut rap CD, which contains lyrics that NBA commissioner David Stern called "coarse, offensive and anti-social."
He was fined $5,000 by the NBA for shouting a derogatory remark about gays toward taunting fans in a game on Jan. 28.
"I'm still the same person, but I'm older, I'm wiser and I'm more mature," Iverson said, adding that he's focusing on winning a championship.
The Sixers and Toronto Raptors are tied 2-2 heading into Wednesday night's Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
"I think the student taught the teacher a lot about life and I'm grateful for that," Brown said. "I'm really grateful for the opportunity to coach Allen and I never thought I'd say that."


text: Royals Prince William and Kate's Conjugal Coat of Arms Revealed The ornate, combined emblem represents them in heraldic terms as a married couple By Wade Rouse Published on September 27, 2013 10:05 AM Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Kensington Palace/Landov; Inset: Landov Most newly married couples simply add their names to a checkbook, but in true Royal style, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a new "Conjugal Coat of Arms." This ornamental emblem, which represents them in heraldic terms as a married couple, was approved by the Queen earlier this year and shown publicly for the first time Friday. Designed by the College of Arms in London, the Conjugal Coat of Arms essentially combines the separate shields of William and Kate. And, as Katy Perry might sing, the united Coat of Arms certainly has a lot of "Roar." The Duke's shield, granted by the Queen on William's 18th birthday (he, like Kate, is now 31), is shown on the left and features the various Royal emblems of different parts of the United Kingdom: the three lions of England in the first and fourth quarters, the lion of Scotland in the second, and the harp of Ireland in the third. It is also surrounded by a blue garter bearing the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" ("Shame to those who think evil of it"), which symbolizes the Order of the Garter, of which the Duke is a Knight Companion. The Duchess's shield, from the Middleton Coat of Arms and granted to the family in 2011 ahead of Kate's marriage, is shown on the right. The technical heraldic description of the Middleton Coat of Arms, known as a "blazon," is "Per pale Azure and Gules a Chevron Or cotised Argent between three Acorns slipped and leaved Or." Will & Kate's Road to Parenthood "Per pale" means that the shield is divided vertically with one half blue (azure) and the other half red (gules). A "Chevron Or" indicates the gold chevron across the center of the shield. For its placement in the conjugal Arms, the Duchess of Cambridge's shield is surrounded by an oak wreath to balance out the Duke s garter, which is traditional for royal spouses who are not themselves entitled to surround their Arms with an order of chivalry. Both shields are supported by the Duke of Cambridge's Supporters of the Royal Lion and Unicorn wearing a three-pointed collar, which features a red escallop shell derived from the Spencer Coat of Arms that has been used by the Duke's ancestors on his mother's side for centuries. The Royal press release states that the Conjugal Arms will be the couple's forever, "however as their circumstances and roles alter, elements of the accouterments around the shields may change." Prince William and Kate Help the Queen Entertain at Balmoral Castle

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Do you have an easy method for altering a fitted sheet to accommodate the new deeper pillow-top mattresses?
-- LuAnn Zellmer, Waseca, MN
There is a way, though it's a bit of work. Measure your mattress, which -- depending on the cushiony pillow-top layer -- can range from 90 to 100 inches long and 18 to 20 inches deep. Then check the sheet to see if the elastic reinforces only the corners or runs around the entire sheet (if it goes all around, you won't be able to alter it). Measure how much additional fabric you'll need and cut a strip that size from a matching flat sheet. Then cut your fitted sheet down the middle from top to bottom and sew in the strip. But sheet manufacturers are finally catching up with mattress makers, and you can buy deep-pocket sheets at department or specialty stores or through catalogs.


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As anyone who has read my ramblings long enough knows, I am a big fan of the Enlightenment desktop. I've been enjoying this take on the Linux desktop since the early E16 days. For a while, however, I left E17 for GNOME simply because the combination of Ubuntu and GNOME made perfect sense. Not only was Ubuntu a very stable distribution, GNOME had come a long, long way.
You will also have more than likely read my recent trepidation regarding the changes coming to the Ubuntu desktop (Unity). Although Ubuntu 11.04 will offer a traditional GNOME desktop selection at log in, I realized that Ubuntu Unity is just not the desktop for me. So, I decided it was time to head back to the land of Enlightenment. But instead of going through the paces of installing E17 on top of Ubuntu, I decided to search out a distribution that would combine the two.
The old stand-byes were dead; so I posted in "10 Ubuntu re-spins I'd like to see" that I wanted an E17/Ubuntu combination. My request was answered in the form of Bodhi Linux.This take on the Linux distribution claims to be "a minimal, enlightened Linux desktop." And that is just what Bodhi is. But don't let the "minimal" moniker keep you from giving this a try. Although once installed, Bodhi does only include a minimal amount of user-space applications (one web browser, no email client, no office suite, no graphics applications, etc.), all of these apps are but a click away, thanks to the Synaptic package manager.
Once the installation was complete (typical installation from Live CD to installed desktop), I was met with a very minimal E17 desktop. It only took about 10 minutes to get from that to the desktop you see at right. That desktop included the addition of various software titles, configuring the compositor, and configuring the shelves to my liking (and the addition of the zombie wallpaper).
Answering the big questions
How does Bodhi Linux perform?
Bodhi Linux has the advantage of being lightweight. Because it is not taking advantage of the heavier weight desktops, Bodhi is fast. It boots fast and it performs faster than most Linux distributions (maybe not the likes of DSL or Puppy Linux.) This statement even holds true with the compositor running. How fast? A simple, real-world test had me opening up The GIMP on two different (but equally equipped) machines. Machine A was my Bodhi Linux machine and Machine B was a standard Ubuntu 10.10 machine. Here are the average start times for The GIMP:
- Machine A: 4.7 seconds
- Machine B: 11.1 seconds
Is Bodhi a worthwhile replacement for standard Ubuntu?
This is a tougher to answer. Is Bodhi Linux a good distribution for new users? Probably not. Because it requires a little post-installation work to be useful, I would say new users need not apply. But anyone wanting more performance from Linux, without GNOME or KDE, could find it to be the perfect replacement.
Generally speaking, I find users either love E17 or hate it. So whether or not Bodhi is a worthwhile replacement for you will depend on where you fall on the E17 continuum. That is not to say E17 has a tough learning curve;i's fairly easy to pick up, and you shouldn't let one of the best selling points of the distro turn you away (at least not from giving it a first try.)
Should Bodhi become a standard Ubuntu re-spin?
The answer to this question is simple: Yes! We already have the KDE spin, but many other re-spins fail to gain "official" status (Lubuntu can not seem to gain this). Although Bodhi is missing the catchy *buntu name, I believe it deserves "official" status. Why? With the change coming up to the official Ubuntu desktop, there will be users looking for alternatives. If Ubuntu wants to retain its user-base, it should certainly want to have as many official re-spins as it can. Not only will this go a long way to pleasing the users, it will also go an equally long way to appease the Linux community. Currently Ubuntu and GNOME are in the middle of a spat and who knows what the outcome of that will be. If this spat goes severely awry, Ubuntu could find itself in search of a new standard desktop. Although the chances of that happening are slim, if it were to happen the most likely replacement would be KDE. With KDE as the primary desktop a new "official" alternative would need to be put in place. I can't see any reason why Bodhi shouldn't be this "official" alternative.
Give Bodhi a try
If you are looking for a new Linux distribution to try, give Bodhi a chance. It's fast, it has a solid foundation, and offers one of the finest desktops available on a PC. Once you do try it, report back here and let us know your take.


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Where is Najib's "natural abhorrence" of corruption?
The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz invites national and international disbelief when in a written parliamentary reply to Batu MP Chua Tian Chan he said that investigation papers submitted to the Attorney-General by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) show that RM40 million a Sabah businessman was caught with in trying to smuggle into Malaysia from Hong Kong were political contributions to the state Umno and not for Chief Minister Musa Aman and that "no element of corruption was proven".
On August 22, 2008, Sabah DAP officials comprising DAP MP for Kota Kinabalu Hiew King Cheu, DAP Sabah State Assemblyman for Sri Tanjong Jimmy Wong Sze Phin and Sabah DAP leader Edward Mujie lodged a police report at the Dang Wangi police station in Kuala Lumpur to demand that the Anti-Corruption Agency (before its replacement by MACC) investigate the allegation which had appeared in the press and Internet about a Hong Kong seizure of S$16 million cash and arrest of Michael Chia, a confidante of Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman at the Hong Kong International Airport on August 14, 2008 for alleged money trafficking and laundering before boarding flight bound for Kuala Lumpur.
More than four years after the event, Sabahans and Malaysians are now asked to believe that the RM40 million was not meant for Musa's "personal use" as they were meant for Sabah UMNO – which contradicted media reports at the time that Chia had allegedly told the Hong Kong authorities that the money belonged to Musa.
It was only last week at the opening of the 6th conference and general meeting of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak preached to the international community about the crucial importance in the battle against corruption to instil "a natural abhorrence to corruption" into the conscience of society.
After taking the high moral ground stressing the critical role for people in positions of power and authority to exemplify and exhibit the "right values" to fight corruption at the IAACA conference last week, Najib has intensified the incredulity and disbelief felt by Sabahans and Malaysians, because all are asking one question:
Where is Najib's "natural abhorrence" of corruption when as PM he could be completely indifferent about MR40 million "black money" attempted to be smuggled into Malaysia – whether for Sabah Chief Minister or Sabah UMNO?


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Give your front door a face-lift
A front door is your home's chance to make a good first impression.
Help yours say "Welcome" with these ideas for giving your front entry a makeover for spring.
After a while, we all stop noticing the little flaws in our homes. So it's a good idea to start by taking a good, hard look at your front door's condition, said Sharon Kreighbaum, owner of Staged Makeovers, a home staging and interior design company in Hudson, Ohio.
Kreighbaum preaches the importance of curb appeal and puts a priority on keeping her own front door in good shape, so she was surprised recently when a feng shui consultant she was working with pointed out the sorry state of her door mat. Kreighbaum had just had the door and address numbers repainted and thought everything was looking spiffy, but she'd simply overlooked the mat.
"Oh, my gosh. It looks like it's 20 years old," she said. "It gives a bad vibe."
Be thorough, Kreighbaum said. Try to look at your doorway as a visitor would.
Make sure the paint or stain is in good condition. Clear away the cobwebs and sweep away debris. Check the condition of the lighting fixtures, the door hardware and anything else in the vicinity of the door and replace or improve them as needed.
House numbers can give a door personality, but they also have a function. If they're not visible from the street, visitors will have trouble finding your house, Kreighbaum pointed out.
She has large black numbers right on her red door, so they're hard to miss. You can just paint the numbers on if you like, perhaps using a template created on a computer or a vinyl stencil cut by a sign shop. You might even add the street name below the numbers, in a smaller font and different color, said Pamela Andrella, co-owner of the home decor shop Alter'd Relics in Barberton, Ohio.
If your door has a window, Andrella also likes the idea of cutting your house numbers out of a sheet of window film and applying it to the window. It's a simple, sophisticated look, she said.
House colors are usually fairly subdued, but your front door doesn't have to be. It's a place where you can inject a little personality, Andrella said. In fact, she repaints her door about every other year because "that's the one thing I can change."
Choose any color you love, she said, as long as it complements your home's exterior. She's partial to California Paints' Asparagus Fern, a soft yellow-green that works well with most flowers; Melted Butter, a sunny yellow; Geranium Red, a pinkish medium red; and Morning Calm, a pale aqua.
Can't choose a color? Take your cue from flowers you love or a favorite outfit, she said, or just browse a fabric store. Fabrics often combine colors in unexpected ways that work well together.
Skimpy moldings make even a beautiful door look insubstantial. Luckily, new materials make it fairly easy to swap your door surround for something with more presence.
Polyurethane moldings are available that are lightweight and easy to install using adhesive and noncorrosive nails or screws, said Kathy Ziprik, a spokeswoman for millwork manufacturer Fypon Ltd. They can be attached to any kind of exterior cladding and resist moisture and insects, she said.
The moldings often come in kits that include pilasters — vertical moldings resembling columns, which flank the door — and either a crosshead or pediment for on top. The pilasters may have to be cut to the correct length with a saw, Ziprik said, but the cut edge is hidden by a cap.
Fypon also sells a trellis system intended for garage doors that can be used over an entry door, she said.
A door with a flat front can be given the look of a paneled door by attaching rectangles made from narrow moldings, Andrella said. Use a miter saw or hand saw and miter box to cut the corners at 45-degree angles and attach the moldings with construction adhesive.
If you're nervous about using a saw, you could achieve the same effect using narrow picture frames, she said.
Paint the moldings and door the same color, she said, and perhaps accentuate the grooves and crevices with a second paint color or with aging or antiquing dust.
You don't have to be limited to copying a traditional door design. "Different shapes and sizes look really cool," Andrella said. Just adding a small frame around the doorknob might be fun, she said.
Unless you use exterior-grade moldings, she suggested coating them with urethane for extra protection from the elements.
Andrella likes the idea of painting a message on your door — perhaps "Hello" in a fun font (or "Go away," if you want to have a little wry fun with your visitors). You might position the message near the knob or on one of the rails, the wide, horizontal parts of a paneled door.
Or use a stencil to add one or more big, graphic designs, such as a damask print, she suggested. She said one design in an upper corner and another in the opposite, lower corner would be interesting.
You can easily paint over it if you tire of it, she said.
A wreath is a classic door decoration, but accenting your entry with something different gives it even more interest, said Jessica Paris of J. Paris Designs, a shop in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, that specializes in Paris' repurposed home furnishings.
How about an empty, ornate picture frame painted a bright color and hung with a cheery ribbon? Or a fabric remnant framed by an embroidery hoop?
A trip to an antique store and flea markets can turn up any number of possibilities — a ceiling medallion, maybe, or an interesting piece of metal.
Old watering cans or a pair of rain boots filled with flowers make a great door decoration for spring, Andrella said. So does a coiled garden hose accented with silk flowers, garden accessories and a pretty ribbon. Or hang a colorful vintage umbrella on the door, tie a ribbon around it about three-quarters of the way down to keep it from opening, and arrange flowers and perhaps a bird's nest in it.
Even a standard wreath is more interesting if it's in a different shape, such as a square, Paris said. "It's a little more outside the box."


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convection, mode of heat transfer in fluids (liquids and gases). Convection depends on the fact that, in general, fluids expand when heated and thus undergo a decrease in density (since a given volume of the fluid contains less matter at a higher temperature than at the original, lower temperature). As a result, the warmer, less dense portion of the fluid will tend to rise through the surrounding cooler fluid, in accordance with Archimedes' principle. If heat continues to be supplied, the cooler fluid that flows in to replace the rising warmer fluid will also become heated and also rise. Thus, a current, called a convection current, becomes established in the fluid, with warmer, less dense fluid continually rising from the point of application of heat and cooler, denser portions of the fluid flowing outward and downward to replace the warmer fluid. In this manner, heat eventually may be transferred to the entire fluid. Convection currents are widely observed in both liquids and gases. Many aspects of weather are connected with convection currents. For example, when a portion of the atmosphere becomes heated by contact with a warm area of land, it rises into the cooler, higher altitudes, with the result that some of the moisture carried with it may be condensed to form clouds and precipitation. Convection currents have been used for heating and ventilation since ancient times. Both hot-air and hot-water heating systems use convection to transfer heat through the entire structure being heated. Convection currents also assist in the ventilation of mines.
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Meet the Kaplan Experts: Ilonka (ilon) Rincon Portas, M.D., Associate Director of Facilitation and Clinical Skills
by ilon Rincon Portas, M.D. | June 23, 2020
The Kaplan Team is often cited as why schools stay with Kaplan, year after year. At Kaplan, there's an expert at the heart of everything we do, whether it's leading a class or developing innovative tools to help your students achieve their career goals. We stand behind our motto of, "For doctors by doctors." With our "Meet the Kaplan Experts" blog series, we introduce you to Kaplan's extensive network of faculty, medical, and educational experts and delve into their diverse areas of expertise so that you can learn even more about your Kaplan team. This week, we're pleased to introduce you to Ilonka (ilon) Rincon Portas, M.D., Associate Director of Facilitation and Clinical Skills, Kaplan Medical.
Tell Us About Yourself
I am from Venezuela and graduated as a physician from the Universidad Experimental Francisco de Miranda. I started thinking about my career choice from a very early age, and because I was surrounded by philosophers and intellectuals who always said that in order to be a conscious human you need to know yourself, I decided literally, what better way to know yourself than by studying medicine and figuring out how things really worked. Later on, as I grew, I had to witness many unfair and horrific experiences around me perpetrated by the regime in my country, and that cemented even further my commitment to act in fairness and kindness, and to help people whenever possible.
I practiced medicine in different regions of Venezuela, all reflecting different facets of the deep healthcare needs in my country: with indigenous tribes in the Amazon jungle, with people living in poverty in rural areas, and with people living in poverty in cities. I also began actively speaking out against the regime and its atrocities. As the political and economic situation in my country deteriorated, I began fearing for my life as a political activist and queer person, so I undertook the lengthy process of relocating to the US, both to escape the threat of physical harm and to complete my medical studies. I enrolled with Kaplan to take my Step exams and made it to NYC in January of 2009.
What is your particular area of expertise?
USMLE prep, Clinical Skills and Medical education, and passionate artist (primarily photography and painting.)
If you could spend an evening with anyone - living or deceased - who would it be and why?
Leonardo DaVinci: He was an incredibly curious and observant person who used both a scientific and artistic perspective to deeply study the world around him. I'm fascinated and inspired by his melding of science and art, and it has shaped my own approach to my life pursuits.
Tell Us About Your Experience As A Medical Educator
How long have you worked for Kaplan Test Prep and what drew you to your current role?
I have been working with Kaplan for 10 years. I was a student first and used all the resources Kaplan had to study for my board exams. I started doing part-time work helping students in the Midtown NYC center and soon after, one Med-Advisor at Kaplan suggested I join the curriculum team. I immediately started working on content development and through the years have had the good fortune of being part of a stellar group of individuals who work on Kaplan's medical content and create new ways to better engage medical students and doctors all over the world in their learning journeys, whatever and wherever they are.
I come from a family of educators, and I love that my Academics and Curriculum teams are always challenging and stimulating conversations so that we can integrate technology, learning science, and many other capabilities to create Medical content that will inspire the next generation of doctors to be the best they can be.
In the last 3-4 years I've had the opportunity to focus more on the clinical skills aspects of Medical Education, which is one of my passions, by attending workshops and participating in webinars to educate myself and then others about the training and utility of Standardized Patients, simulated cases, teaching and assessment, thus becoming an Academic Consultant for content creation for Step 2CS and supporting i-Human Patients by Kaplan by advising Medical Faculties in Latin America on ways to effectively use and integrate case simulation into their curriculums.
Share Your Thoughts About The Issues Medical Educators Are Facing Today
In your opinion, how can institutions best support students preparing for their exams?
I think Medical institution faculty are usually overburdened with administrative tasks, which makes it hard to identify at-risk students and opportunities for students to benefit from timely interventions. I believe a partnership with Kaplan provides tools to fill in those gaps, e.g. deploying i-Human Patients by Kaplan for use with students.
What is the most important issue that professionals in your industry should be talking about today?
I think this pandemic has shone a light in some of the healthcare system's most pressing issues, including lack of adequate healthcare for households living in poverty, especially ethnic and racial minorities, as well as ethnic and racial inequality in Medical education. All Medical institutions need to deeply examine how they provide education to students and faculty about these inequalities so that our next generations of Medical professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and sensitivities to provide quality healthcare to populations who are currently underserved or lacking access to culturally responsive healthcare. Medical institutions have a responsibility to incorporate innovative thinking in our classrooms so that our students and ourselves are better prepared to take on the changes necessary to achieve real equity in healthcare.
What innovations at Kaplan are you most excited about?
I am always excited about Kaplan's constant quest for innovation, and in that vein, i-Human Patients by Kaplan is one of those projects that brings together a lot of the qualities we strive for: good educational tools, quality content, and technology innovation, particularly considering how the world's learning needs are changing. i-Human Patients by Kaplan can provide students and faculty with the unique experience of applying knowledge in a safe environment while learning and identifying areas of opportunity for growth that will help students become better physicians.
Is there a quote or saying that you live by?
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"
- James Baldwin
Ilon Rincon Portas graduated as an MD in Venezuela in 2004, where they worked as an Emergency/Expedition Doctor until January 2009, working in different settings that included a year in the Amazon jungle. Moved to the United States; took the Steps and started working for Kaplan Medical in 2010 as an integral part of the Curriculum Development Team creating medical content for all USMLE steps, as well as teaching both students and medical faculty with a special interest in clinical skills.


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|R-optimization at mailbox.org
This CRAN task view contains a list of packages which offer facilities for solving optimization problems. Although every regression model in statistics solves an optimization problem they are not part of this view. If you are looking for regression methods, the following views will contain useful starting points: Multivariate, SocialSciences, Robust among others. The focus of this task view is on Optimization Infrastructure Packages , General Purpose Continuous Solvers , Mathematical Programming Solvers and Specific Applications in Optimization . Packages are categorized in these four sections.
Many packages provide functionality for more than one of the subjects listed at the end of this task view. E.g., mixed integer linear programming solvers typically offer standard linear programming routines like the simplex algorithm. Therefore following each package description a list of abbreviations describes the typical features of the optimizer (i.e., the problems which can be solved). The full names of the abbreviations given in square brackets can be found at the end of this task view under Classification According to Subject .
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Today's News: Our Take - Emma Watson Splits From Boyfriend of Two Years
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Emma Watson is back on the market.
The former Harry Potter star split from her boyfriend Will Adamowicz several months ago, People reports.
"Emma and Will separated last summer and are no longer in touch," her rep told the magazine.
Watson, 23, and Adamowicz met in 2011 while they were both studying at Oxford and were photographed together the following year at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where they were caught kissing.
The actress most recently appeared in The Bling Ring and This Is the End and will next star in Noah.
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Senior executives at JPMorgan Chase expressed serious doubts about the legitimacy of Bernard L. Madoff's investment business more than 18 months before his Ponzi schemecollapsed but continued to do business with him, according to internal bank documents made public in a lawsuit that was unsealed on Thursday.
On June 15, 2007, an obviously high-level risk management officer for Chase's investment bank sent a lunchtime e-mail to colleagues to report that another bank executive "just told me that there is a well-known cloud over the head of Madoff and that his returns are speculated to be part of a ponzi scheme."
Even before that, a top private banking executive had been consistently steering clients away from investments linked to Mr. Madoff because his "Oz-like signals" were "too difficult to ignore." And the first Chase risk analyst to look at a Madoff feeder fund, in February 2006, reported to his superiors that its returns did not make sense because it did far better than the securities that were supposedly in its portfolio.
Despite those suspicions and many more, the bank allowed Mr. Madoff to move billions of dollars of investors' cash in and out of his Chase bank accounts right up until the day of his arrest in December 2008 — although by then, the bank had withdrawn all but $35 million of the $276 million it had invested in Madoff-linked hedge funds , according to the litigation.
The lawsuit against the bank was filed under seal on Dec. 2 by Irving H. Picard, the bankruptcy trustee gathering assets for Mr. Madoff's victims. At that time, David J. Sheehan, the trustee's lawyer, bluntly asserted that Mr. Madoff "would not have been able to commit this massive Ponzi scheme without this bank."
But with the case under seal, there was no way to gauge the documentation on which the trustee based his $6.4 billion in claims against the bank — until now.
The bank and the trustee mutually agreed to unseal the complaint. The lawsuit is one of hundreds the trustee has filed to recover assets for the victims of the Ponzi scheme. To date, the trustee has collected about $10 billion through settlements and asset sales.
In a statement released Thursday, a Chase spokeswoman said the trustee's complaint was "based on distortions of both the relevant facts and the governing law. Contrary to the trustee's allegation, JPMorgan did not know about or in any way become a party to the fraud orchestrated by Bernard Madoff."
The statement continued: "Madoff's firm was not an important or significant customer in the context of JPMorgan's commercial banking business, and the revenues earned from Madoff's bank account were modest and entirely consistent with conventional market rates and fees." The trustee's claims that the bank earned extraordinary sums from its Madoff relationship "is demonstrably false," the statement continued.
"At all times, JPMorgan complied fully with all laws and regulations governing bank accounts, including the regulations invoked by the trustee," the statement concluded. "In arguing otherwise, the trustee has misstated both the facts that JPMorgan has presented to him and the requirements imposed by federal law." It added: "JPMorgan intends to defend itself vigorously against the unfounded claims brought by the trustee."
Although lawyers redacted the names and specific positions of bank executives involved the incidents described in the lawsuit, other information in the complaint makes it clear that many of them held prominent positions.
Deborah Renner, one of the Madoff trustee's lawyers with Baker & Hostetler, reinforced that impression in a statement released Thursday. Ms. Renner said, "Incredibly, the bank's top executives were warned in blunt terms about speculation that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme, yet the bank appears to have been concerned only with protecting its own investments." One discussion of the bank's "due diligence" on Mr. Madoff was aired on June 15, 2007, at a meeting of the bank's Hedge Fund Underwriting Committee. According to the complaint, that committee was "comprised of senior business heads and bankers, including individuals such as the chief risk officer and the heads of equities, syndicated leveraged finance, sales, and hedge funds."
News accounts identified the chief risk officer for Chase's investment bank in June 2007 as John R. Hogan, who is currently a member of the bank's executive committee.
According to the complaint, the purpose of the Hedge Fund Underwriting Committee "was to ensure all senior partners who dealt with hedge funds were comfortable with proposals relating to hedge funds."
The newly public material offers the clearest picture yet of the long and complex relationship between Mr. Madoff and the global institution that served as his primary bank since 1986.
What emerges is a sketch of an internal tug of war. One group of senior Chase bankers was pursuing profitable credit and derivatives deals with Mr. Madoff and his big feeder-fund investors, the hedge funds that invested their clients' money exclusively with him. Another group was arguing against doing any more big-ticket "trust me" deals with a man whose business was too opaque and whose investment returns were too implausible.
For much of 2007, the tide was with the Chase bankers designing and selling complex derivatives linked to various Madoff feeder funds. By June of that year, they already had sold at least $130 million worth of the notes to investors.
On June 15, 2007, they asked the Hedge Fund Underwriting Committee to approve proposals that would have pushed that total to $1.32 billion, the lawsuit asserted.
But the committee agreed to increase the bank's exposure to Mr. Madoff only to $250 million. And by 2008, the lawsuit asserted, the bank was giving more weight to the warnings from its risk management executives, who were increasingly concerned by reports from the "due diligence" teams visiting major Madoff feeder funds.
The feeder funds' managers seemed "very defensive and almost scared of Madoff," one risk analyst reported to his superiors. "They seem unwilling to ask him any difficult questions."
After Mr. Madoff's arrest, the complaint said, a bank employee referred to the underwriting committee's agenda for June 2007 in a later document, saying: "Perhaps best this never sees the light of day again!!"
On the sidelines in this shoving match between the derivatives sales force and the risk management unit, according to the lawsuit, were the retail bankers who were actually responsible for monitoring the daily activity in Mr. Madoff's bank accounts — activity that bore no resemblance to the normal patterns of a brokerage house or investment management firm, according to the trustee's claims.
Even after it had begun to act on its suspicions about Mr. Madoff, Chase did not freeze his bank accounts or alert his regulators — or its own — to the unusual patterns in those accounts, the trustee's complaint contended. As a result, investors continued to pour their money into Mr. Madoff's Ponzi scheme until the last moment.
The bank "had only to glance at the bizarre activity" in the Madoff accounts "to realize that Madoff was not operating a legitimate business," the trustee asserted in the litigation. The money coming in was not from the sale of securities, and the money going out was not for the purchase of securities — at a time when Mr. Madoff was supposedly making billions of dollars in trades as part of his investment strategy.
Indeed, the activity in the Madoff accounts was sharply at odds with his firm's regulatory filings, which his "relationship managers" at the bank kept in their files and supposedly examined. For example, the Madoff firm's financial reports listed just over $4.8 million in "cash on hand" in December 2006, although the ending balance in Mr. Madoff's account at Chase that month was actually $295.4 million.
The trustee's lawsuit against the bank says that the door to Chase was opened for Mr. Madoff by one of his longtime investors, a longtime Chase customer who is not identified in the complaint.
According to the trustee, the flow of money just between the Madoff accounts and this customers accounts should have set off warning bells at the bank.
The lawsuit asserts that the customers' accounts received almost $76 billion in payments from Mr. Madoff's accounts between 1998 and 2008. On a single day in 2002, Mr. Madoff initiated 318 separate payments of exactly $986,301 to the customer's account for no apparent reason. In December 2001, Mr. Madoff's account received a $90 million check from the customer's account "on a daily basis," the lawsuit asserted.
The trustee's complaint does not speculate about the purpose of the transactions. Mr. Madoff had considerable discretion over some of his clients' accounts, and may have been on both sides of those curious transfers.
The transfers should have caused the bank's money laundering software to start flashing, the trustee's complaint asserted, but that almost never happened and the bank never reported any suspicious behavior in the Madoff accounts to its regulators.
Mr. Madoff needed a bank that would allow him to move large sums of money through his account on a daily basis without "asking questions designed to uncover suspicious activity," the trustee asserted in the 114-page lawsuit. His requirements were met by Chase, the trustee claimed.
The bank has vowed to vigorously defend against the accusations.


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Dish Up Whole Grains
Think about how many servings of whole grains you ate today. If you're like most Americans, you had just one, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). After nearly a decade of sounding the call to eat more fruits and vegetables, the government is now making a push to boost whole-grain consumption to at least three one-ounce servings daily (or half your total grain servings). Experts say it may be the smartest thing you can do for your heart, not to mention your waistline.
In a 2004 meta-analysis, which compiles data from several studies, researchers concluded that whole-grain consumption not only made heart disease less likely, but less serious if it does occur. Other research from Tufts University in Boston found that three or more servings of whole grains daily could significantly reduce the risk of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, two precursors to type 2 diabetes. They may also cut your risk of colon cancer by almost a third, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Also, consider the findings of Harvard's Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing research effort that tracks the health of thousands of nurses: Women who consume more whole grains weigh less than those who don't.
Just 10 percent of the population currently meets the new national guidelines, according to the USDA. If you think you're part of that group because you eat lots of wheat bread, pasta, and cereal, consider that while some of the products may claim they're made with whole-grain products, not all are made with 100% whole grains or may contain high amounts of sugar and fat.
Shopping Toward the Goal
Quick tips to keep in mind when reading labels to find products made with whole grains:
1. Watch the wording on packaging.
According to a research review published in the Journal of Nutrition, many people are unable to correctly identify whole-grain foods in the supermarket because terms like multigrain or nine-grain are so misleading. Knowing what to look for is key. If a product is made from a whole grain, it will say so explicitly in the ingredient list. For example, a true whole wheat bread will have 100 percent whole wheat flour as its first ingredient.
2. Scan for seals. Two new, easy-to-spot clues include a Food and Drug Administration-approved health claim linking the consumption of whole grains to a reduced risk of heart disease and certain cancers. The other is one of three yellow and black Whole Grain Stamps, which were developed by the Whole Grains Council, a subsidiary of the Oldways Preservation Trust, a nonprofit organization that advocates healthful eating.
Change Your Menu
The smartest way to boost your whole-grain intake is to cook them from scratch. "It's a really great way to be sure that you're getting all the fiber and disease-fighting nutrients that grains offer," Sass says.
Brown rice is the first whole grain most people add to round out a menu. Natural-foods stores and high-end supermarkets offer a wider variety of grains.


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So, we have eleven aircraft carrier groups. No other country in the world has more than one. Everyone who has looked at the issue has agreed that we could do with fewer than eleven while still achieving our national security goals: Bush/Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and think tanks on the left and the right.
But apparently we can't retire even one–even though we would save not just the annual operating costs, but most of the $4.7 billion it will cost to refurbish over the next five years. Instead, the Obama Administration has promised the Pentagon that it can simply have more money and not comply with the spending limits set in the 2011 debt ceiling agreement (and modified by Murray-Ryan).


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Today is the last day to enter the Mingthein.com black and white challenge. The prize is a Multispectral Sony NEX-5 (complete with kit lens and everything else a new one comes with, except the strap which I can't seem to find) that shoots in UV, IR and Visible light – modified by yours truly. It is an outstanding machine for B&W photography, and has no anti-aliasing filter to boot.
I've created a new group on Flickr here: The Mingthein.com B&W Challenge specifically for this purpose.
1. Like the site's Facebook page – title your submission with your Facebook username so I can check. Entries without Facebook usernames will be disqualified.
2. To submit an image, enter it in The Mingthein.com B&W Challenge Flickr group pool.
3. Your image must be in black and white; toning is NOT allowed.
4. Any subject, medium or cameras is fair game. You can shoot large format sheet film if you are so inclined.
5. Postprocessing is allowed, but anything overly done will almost certainly not win on aesthetic grounds.
6. Judging will be by me and the anonymous donor of the camera; our decision is final. The best image will win. And yes, it's subjective etc – but this is a photography contest, photography is art, and art is a matter of taste.
7. Images will have a better chance of winning if they meet most or all of the important factors; you can find a lengthy discourse here…
8. You must own the rights to the image you submit.
9. The competition will run until the end of January 2013; closing time is 00:00 1 Feb 2013, GMT+8 (i.e. the end of the 1st of Feb when it hits midnight in Kuala Lumpur; easier to give the people in odd timezones a fair chance)
10. Multiple entries are allowed, but I'm going to restrict the pool to one per person per week: think carefully before you submit. You can remove and replace if you shoot something better.
11. You will need a flickr account to post images to the pool, but it's free to sign up.
12. By entering, you give me and the mingthein.com site the right to re-post your image as part competition announcements and posts.
13. The winner will be announced in the first couple of weeks of February 2013 – depending on when I can meet up with our donor for the judging. We'll ship the camera to you by EMS shortly thereafter.
Shoot me an email if there are any questions. I think that's about it – good shooting, and good luck! MT


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- Huawei's proposed video MOS Umbrella WID project (G.vidmos) was adopted. The project will provide video MOS evaluation guidelines to the industry with consideration of different classification of related factors.
- Concurrently, the modification of ITU-T Rec. P.800.1 "Mean Opinion Score (MOS) terminology" with the inclusion of video MOS standardized definitions, suggested by Huawei delegates, was agreed in the meeting.
- During the meeting, Huawei made a proposal to differentiate the PC and Mobile scenarios based on extensive market analysis. It was also proposed to proceed with H. 265 and 4K resolution video MOS evaluation as soon as possible as one of the next phases of work priorities for video MOS.
See "Huawei's Proposed Video MOS Work Item Gains Approval by ITU-T" - here.


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Bashar al-Assad's regime and the opposition fighters accuse each other of using chemical weapons in Syria. Fran Townsend and Bob Baer react to the news and discuss what the situation means for the United States.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said "we're going into some very dark times" when asked about the Syrian government possibly unleashing chemical warfare. If they did indeed use chemical weapons, that would be crossing the red line set by Pres. Obama to mark when the U.S. would take action.
Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, are still trying to verify what's happening on the ground in Syria.
Townsend says if the U.S. is going to get involved militarily, airstrikes will not suffice. She also explains the security training and measures in place for President Obama while he is in the Middle East this week visiting neighboring country Israel.
Baer tells Anderson Cooper that evidence will be examined and in a few days it should be evident if chemical weapons were employed. The more difficult challenge is knowing with certainty which side, the government or rebels, used chemicals to attack. "Either side can be to blame, but the point is that once the chemical weapons come out, that's the beginning of the chaos," he says.
For more on Syria, watch Losing a generation of Syrian children
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Just curious - where did the chemical weapons come from in Syria?
Might they have been brought in from Iraq before the war?
Oops, on my last comment, I meant that the Syrian Refugees may have to wait a very long time, before America comes to rescue them.
The situation in Syria is extremelly complex and extremelly confusing. This means, that Assad has been working extremelly hard to make it complex and confusing, so that Assad can stay in power. It is very difficult for us, americans, to distinguish between allies and enemies in Syria. So, the american cavalry may have to wait a very long time (probably years), before the american cavalry will come to the rescue
As we know 70K plus lost there life and it will be over 300k before the rest of the world can see the slaughter by Assad and has the "Balls" to help to get read of the BUTCHER.I hope Israel will finally give Obama the permission to provide lethal help to the Opposition. Yes there will be turmoil after Assad is gone but at last the Syrian Children may have a future. It made me sick to hear the whining of the Top USA General, take a stand and run with it and stop your whining.So there is a risk helping the Rebels? Yes, there are also risks crossing a street !
Doesn't this sound a little like the drum beat of the Bush era......weapons of mass destruction?
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Sean Jackman smelled of alcohol at fatal crash scene, authorities said
Sean Jackman was not responding to commands and smelled of alcohol when emergency crews arrived at a Canton car crash that killed 20-year-old Evan Bard, court documents show.
"I could smell an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from Jackman," Canton police officer Donald Stapleton wrote in his report, according to documents filed in Stoughton District Court on Monday.
Jackman, a 2007 graduate of Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton and a local baseball star, was sitting "barely" conscious in the driver's seat of the Toyota Corolla, a tree laying across the car's front hood and roof, court documents show.
Next to him, laying dead in the front passenger seat, was Bard, a Curry College student, her right hand still tightly gripping the right door handle on the passenger side, court documents show.
Bard, wearing a seat belt and suffering from a severe head injury, was pronounced dead at the scene after the crash near 230 Bolivar St. at about 11:51 p.m. Friday, court documents show.
On Monday, a judge ordered Jackman held on $500,000 cash bail after his arraignment at Boston Medical Center, where he remains hospitalized with head injuries, said Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.
Conley's office is prosecuting Jackman to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest, since Jackman had a summer internship in 2006 with the Norfolk County district attorney's office and his uncle had been employed there, officials said Monday.
Authorities arrested Jackman, 24, of 149 Howland Road, Stoughton, at his Boston hospital room on Saturday. Jackman was awake, able to speak, and wearing a neck brace during the arrest, court documents show.
Jackman is charged with drunken driving, vehicular homicide, speeding and marked lanes violation, authorities said. His next court date is June 10.
No one answered the door at Jackman's home in Stoughton Monday afternoon.
Attorney Daniel W. O'Malley of Quincy, who is representing Jackman, did not return a call for comment on Monday.
Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Melissa Brooks asked Stoughton District Court Judge Richard Savignano to set the bail amount at $500,000, Wark said. Brooks, who is assigned to Conley's Major Felony Bureau, will prosecute the case.
On Monday, the Registry of Motor Vehicles indefinitely revoked Jackman's driver's license under the immediate-threat provision, Registry spokeswoman Sara Lavoie said.
The RMV on Monday had initially suspended Jackman's license for 180 days after he refused to take a Breathalyzer test after the Canton crash, Lavoie said.
Jackman does not have a lengthy driving record. He was cited for speeding in Middleboro on July 4, 2010.
At about 11:51 p.m. Friday, Jackman was traveling west bound on Bolivar Street in Canton when the Toyota Corolla struck a wall and then a tree, authorities said.
Shortly after the fatal crash, Canton firefighters Doug Conner and Kelly Vinard, who transported Jackman to the hospital, "could both smell an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from Jackman," Stapleton, the Canton patrolman, wrote in his report.
At the crash scene on Monday, several bouquets of red, white and pink flowers and a card adorned a makeshift memorial at the crash site on Monday. In black marker, mourners wrote messages on the bark of a tree struck by the Corolla.
"RIP Evan. Your (sic) an amazing girl. I'll never forget you," one message read.
"Evan-A flower just lent, not given, to bloom on Earth and blossom in Heaven," read another.
According to WCVB-Channel 5, Jackman and Bard had attended a wedding shortly before the fatal crash. Jackman had served as best man. The pair, who met at Curry College and had dated, smiled for a photograph taken during the wedding reception.
Bard, who had been studying nursing at Curry College, was a member of the school's cheerleading team.
"Evan was a credit to the nursing division," a mourner wrote on the tree where Bard died in Canton. "We will miss you very much."
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On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, handed down its ruling in Snyder v. Phelps, upholding the right of the
While these papers pat themselves on the back for their fidelity to the First Amendment, let's keep something in mind: These same papers excoriated the Supreme Court when it held that Congress lacked the power to ban a political documentary produced with corporate money. What gives?
The answer is that the
So the New York Times and the Washington Post have it wrong. The beauty of the First Amendment is not that it leads us to tolerate the insignificant antics of the Fred Phelpses of the world. Rather, it is that the First Amendment permits us—and commits us—to resolve even our most consequential disagreements peacefully, with words, not force.
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Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, has been chosen to work alongside Black Hat to provide networking and security solutions and help support the infrastructure serving participants and staff during the 2016 U.S. Black Hat conference. Taking place in Las Vegas, July 30th through August 4th, Black Hat's team will lead a group of experts to build out the sophisticated networks needed to meet the evolving access, performance, and security requirements of the conference.
As the host of some of the largest and most technical information security conferences in the world, Black Hat engineers design a custom architecture to meet the demanding performance and security requirements for each of its global events annually. Continuously evolving to meet increasing demands and the expanding threat landscape, Black Hat will leverage the Fortinet Security Fabric, including enterprise firewalls, high-performance switches, and secure wireless access points to support the infrastructure at this year's conference.
Since its inception in 1997, Black Hat has grown into the most respected information security event series internationally, bringing together the best and brightest within the security community and providing a forum for security professionals to learn the very latest in information security risks, research, and trends.
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today i'm posting a tutorial for skirting the issue, a campaign by liz and elizabeth of simple simon & co. to donate at least 100 skirts to girls in foster care by the beginning of august. i'm so happy to join in the effort!
the simons asked a bunch of bloggers to create simple skirt tutorials to share and inspire others to sew for this great cause (or anytime, really). since my little gal is only 4, my first thought was little gal skirts. a skirt is the first thing i sewed for her when she was just 15 months old, and remains a favorite thing to sew. my tutorial today is pretty simple, but it's got some fun style. i'm also sharing a few general skirt making tips i've picked up over the past few years.
for the design, i was inspired by fruits – citrus, berries, and melons – the type of summertime fruit that my sisters and i sat outside and snacked on as kids, juice running everywhere, until we decided the best way to clean off was to run through the sprinkler. well…all but the lime, which was probably adding some flavor to mom 's icy cold beverage as she kept an eye on us.
i created an abstract color blocked skirt that gave me that summery feeling. i'm calling it the fruit stripe skirt!
we've got citrus in sizes 3T and 2T…
…and melon and a berry varieties in sizes 4T and 18 months!
the colors are interchangeable; once you know the method, you can make your skirts in whatever style you'd like. best of all, these take very little time and require no hemming! let's get sewing.
- three cuts of fabric – you can make them fruitlike, like mine, or just pick any fun color/print combo in your stash. depending on your size you'll need about 1/4 yd for the rind (green/yellow part), less than 1/4 yd for the pith (white part), and about 1/2 yd for the fruit (pink part). scraps work well here – use what you have!
- for the seedy skirts: fabric paint (i used black for the watermelon and metallic gold for the strawberry), regular pencil with intact eraser, x-acto knife
- 3/4″ elastic for the waistband
- safety pin, water soluble marker, and a clothespin
TUTORIAL – printing the seeds
i thought it'd be fun to add seeds to the strawberry and watermelon skirts for a little extra dimension, so i'll start with a quick how-to on those.
trim a teardrop shape out of your eraser with your x-acto knife. dip it in some fabric paint (i like to use a scrap of freezer paper as my paint palette – i dab off excess and practice on the paper before stamping the fabric). start stamping in a random pattern, with the point of the teardrop facing up. allow to dry, then heat-set with an iron.
TUTORIAL – sewing the skirt
seam allowances are 1/2″ unless otherwise specified
i prefer to cut toddler/preschooler skirts selvage to selvage and have just one seam in the back, but if you need to cut two pieces like i did on a couple of these, that works too – you'll just have side seams. just make sure all fabric widths are exactly the same – even if you cut the strips selvedge to selvedge they may differ slightly, so square them up and trim them all to match.
you'll lose about 2″ of the pink fruit stripe to waistband and seam allowance, so for a 13″ finished skirt (4T), cut a 12″ pink (fruit) strip. add or subtract an inch per size larger/smaller (so for the fruit strip, cut 11″ for a 3T or 14″ for a 5). no matter the skirt size, i cut all of my cream strips at 2″ and my rind strips at 5″ (aside from the two-color strawberry, where i cut just a 6″ rind piece). finished, the cream stripe will be 1″ + 2″ green rind + 10″ pink fruit = 13″ 4T skirt.
sew the short ends of each of the colors right sides together, so you have three tubes.
press the rind seam allowance open. for the pith and fruit, serge to finish the seam allowances or trim to 1/4″ and zigzag. if serging, feed each new strip right in after the last to save time. press finished seams to the side.
slide the pith tube over the bottom of the fruit, matching seams. here i like to "bisect and pin." pin at the side seams, then pull both layers taut. align edges and pin in the center. then hold at a side seam and the center pin taught, and put a pin in the middle. repeat for the other side, working around the skirt until you've pinned all the way. this distributes any extra fullness along the entire skirt rather than starting to pin on one side and finding out you were off somewhere along the other end (it also works great for knit neckline binding).
sew, then finish, then press toward the darker fabric (here it's the fruit).
fold your rind in half lengthwise wrong sides together, and press so your raw edges align.
slide the rind over the skirt, aligning the seams and pinning the raw edges as you did with the pith to the fruit. sew, then finish. press toward the rind.
this is what your skirt will look like from the right side and wrong side.
either serge the raw top edge or fold under 1/4″ then another 1 1/2." press and pin. i like to use a green and red pin along the center back to mark where to leave the gap for my elastic. sew at 1 1/4″ (just within the serge seam), leaving about a 1.5″ gap in the center for the elastic. i also like to stitch about 1/8″ all the way around the top waistband to prevent the elastic from twisting.
cut a length of elastic to size (child's waist measurement), then shape into a circle like it will sit in the skirt and mark arrows at each end with a water soluble pen. the parts at the edges of the arrows extend upward and will help you align them later. attach a safety pin to one end, and a clothespin to the other. feed the elastic through the gap using the safety pin – the clothespin will prevent you from losing the tail on the other end. when you get back to the gap, remove the pins and match up your arrows, making sure they haven't twisted. overlap the elastic about 3/4″ and sew a square in it to secure, then spread out the waistband so it retreats up in there.
insert a ribbon or size tag into the gap, then sew closed. distribute the fullness toward the back of the skirt.
you're DONE! fresh and fun and ready for summer! with no hemming, these really are very quick to make. if you make a skirt using this tutorial, please add it to the skirt as top flickr group!
if you make any skirts to donate to foster care, be sure to add them to the skirting the issue flickr group for your chance to win prizes (as well as the general "warm fuzzies" you get for doing a good deed)!
here are a few foster care agencies in the portland area for those looking to donate (thanks to kat for helping find these!):
please call first to make sure you've got the proper address before sending your skirts; i didn't verify them and we want our skirts going to the right place! some also have specific donation wishlists for you to consider.
happy sewing, all you do-gooders!


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RIO DE JANEIRO – Jose Aldo was dominant once again on Saturday, but it may be a while before he's able to be again.
Aldo (23-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC), the UFC's featherweight champion, defended his title with a fourth-round TKO of Chan Sung Jung (13-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) in the main event of UFC 163, which took place at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janiero.
Aldo won the fight not long after Jung, "The Korean Zombie," appeared to separate his right shoulder throwing a combination. When Aldo saw the shoulder injury, he took advantage and got a fairly quick TKO in the fourth round.
But after the fight, Aldo said he was injured, too. The Brazilian fighter believes he may have broken his foot against Jung.
"He knew I'd be giving him low kicks, and I think the first combination I kicked straight at his knee," Aldo told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) at the event's post-fight news conference. "I don't know if I broke my foot, but I can hardly walk on it. So I had totally change my strategy. I had to do some boxing, use some wrestling and use some jiu-jitsu."
It was Aldo's fifth defense of his title in the UFC and seventh overall. He won the 145-pound belt while a member of the WEC, stopping Mike Brown in the second round. He was the first fighter from the WEC to officially be brought over to the UFC prior to the organizations' merger.
It also was the second time Aldo has defended his belt in Rio. At UFC 142 in January 2012, he stopped Chad Mendes with a first-round TKO.
But Aldo has taken some criticism of late, despite being a top five fighter in most pound-for-pound rankings. It's been said he fades late in fights and doesn't have a good gas tank. But he explained that away.
"I always try to fight in a very aggressive manner, so I have a lot more to lose than my opponent," he said. "I try to fight with some intelligence and not attack crazily. I knew I was winning the fight. I was going to keep things under control. People think on TV I'm tired because I have to cut weight, but I fight intelligently. I try to keep calm, and I know I'm going to win the fight."
Aldo originally was supposed to headline the card against Anthony Pettis, who was dropping down from lightweight for the first time. That fight fell apart when Pettis was injured, and Jung was tapped to take his place. Aldo was as high as a 9-to-1 favorite to win the fight.
His next title defense is not known, especially considering the potentially for a lengthy rehab if his foot is indeed broken. Waiting in the wings are Ricardo Lamas, who thought he would be picked over Jung when Pettis was ruled out, as well as Cub Swanson
For complete coverage of UFC 163, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.


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Fla. school board upholds cheerleading coach's firing
Melissa Prochilo won't get her job back
The Broward County School Board heard hours of testimony from parents but in the end decided not to intervene in the firing of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School cheerleading coach.
The Miami Herald reported about 75 supporters of Melissa Prochilo attended the board meeting on Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale. Prochilo blamed school board politics for her ouster.
Critics of Prochilo said she bullied students and allowed the cheer captain to bully others on the team. They also said she pressured parents to contribute large amounts of money to the booster club and told cheerleaders to forge their parents' signatures on field trip forms.
The newspaper said Prochilo's supporters said the parents who complained are on a "witch hunt" because their daughters didn't have starring roles on the team.


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Tuesday's congressional grilling of Apple CEO Tim Cook offers irrefutable proof that the U.S. tax code is, as stated so eloquently by House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, "a mess."
For starters, let's admit that U.S. corporations don't pay the highest corporate tax rate in the world. They dodge the highest corporate tax rate in the world, largely by stashing profits offshore.
And the iPhone and iPad maker is the leader of the pack in terms of both profits and offshore maneuvering. All told, Apple had piled up more than $102 billion in overseas cash as of the end of March.
It's a system that both discourages companies from reinvesting profits in the United States and shortchanges federal tax coffers. The upshot is that, while firms such as Apple hire herds of lawyers to find ways to stash their cash, individual taxpayers assume a greater portion of the tax burden.
A fair and equitable overhaul of the entire tax system is needed. We wish that were imminent, but lawmakers can't even agree on whether revisions should be revenue neutral or should bring in additional dollars to reduce the deficit.
In fairness to the current Congress, policymakers who designed the tax code never dreamed so many firms would be conducting so much of their business in the global marketplace. The code was written for another time.
The logical approach to reform would be to pull together our global allies and draft corporate tax legislation that worked worldwide. But we are not Pollyanna enough to seriously suggest that.
A proposed one-time repatriation "tax holiday" didn't work particularly well in 2004, the last time it was tried. Congress allowed corporations to bring back an estimated $300 billion from offshore stashes with a one-time 5.25 percent corporate tax rate instead of the standard 35 percent. U.S. firms, including Silicon Valley's, promised to use the cash to reinvest in their companies and create jobs. Instead, about 90 percent went to shareholders and to executive bonuses.
Cook suggests that Washington institute a top corporate tax rate in the "mid-20s" and a repatriation rate in the "single digits." That has great appeal to Silicon Valley firms, but it's a nonstarter in Congress unless it's accompanied by elimination of some loopholes and tax breaks. President Barack Obama is moving in that direction, offering up a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 28 percent and closing dozens of loopholes.
The opposing views expressed by members of Congress at Tuesday's hearing make it clear that a grand bargain on tax reform is unlikely. Unless Cook's Cupertino wizards can concoct an app for that, the president's proposal may be the best incremental step in the offing.


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I have been a Kenai Peninsula resident for more than 10 years and have sport fished in Alaska for nearly 60 years. I was a member of the Kenai-Soldotna Department of Fish and Game Advisory Committee for 10 years and chairman in 2012. I accepted this assignment in hopes of working toward a fisheries management plan that would protect all species for all user groups; for a fair and reasonable plan that provides a proper balance for sport, subsistence, personal use, Native and commercial fishing so that the Upper Cook Inlet fishery remains sustainable and produces enough fish for all users.
At least that was my goal.
King salmon populations are all but gone on the Kenai Peninsula. In my opinion, commercial fishermen have been allowed to way overfish king salmon.
It will probably take years to restore the king population to "normal" levels; some say it may take as long as 10 years to bring them back in healthy numbers.
It's clear we need realistic restrictions upon sport, personal-use and commercial setnet fisheries so that all user groups share in the burden of conservation equitably in times of scarcity. Commercial setnet fishermen must share in the conservation of Kenai kings. Once bait and/or harvest restrictions occur in the sport fishery, commercial fishermen must be restricted to regular harvest periods only.
We are years past due doing anything to protect this sad decline. Now, we are managing in a crisis mode.
I am completely empathetic with all sides of this issue. Understandably, with so much passion from all quarters of the issue, no one wants to give an inch when it comes to their livelihood. But the pocketbook should not trump responsible conservation; hence, our situation today.
At current species depletion rates, king salmon sport fishing guides and commercial setnet fishermen may need to be looking for career changes.
Bill Tappan


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Statutes of the State of Nevada - Nineteenth Special Session, 2003
AN ACT relating to education; requiring the State Board of Education to define the measurement for determining whether this state, each school district and each public school has made adequate yearly progress in accordance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; requiring the State Board to prepare an annual report of accountability; requiring the State Board, each school district and each public school to develop a plan to improve the achievement of pupils; revising provisions governing the designations of public schools; requiring the Department of Education to designate school districts based upon the achievement of pupils enrolled in the school district; prescribing the consequences for public schools and school districts that are designated as demonstrating need for improvement; revising provisions governing accountability and reporting; revising provisions governing the examinations that are administered to pupils in public schools; revising provisions governing the qualifications required of certain teachers and paraprofessionals to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; revising provisions governing the regional training programs for the professional development of teachers and administrators and the Statewide Council for the Coordination of the Regional Training Programs; making appropriations; revising various other provisions governing education to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 1–Committee of the Whole. [Approved: June 6, 2003]


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IBM announced on Monday that it has teamed with ESB to implement a fully integrated smarter charging IT system that will help manage electric vehicle public charge-points, which are being rolled out across Ireland by ESB Networks.
Together the companies will add a layer of intelligence and convenience to the recharging process, allowing EV drivers to access, charge and pay, using an identification card. Additionally, this project will provide utilities with access to energy usage data that can help improve smart grid operations, reduce power strain during peak charging times, and ensure reliable energy distribution to customers.
With approximately 1,000 public charging-points currently available, ESB Networks is on track to deliver one of the largest integrated and operational electric vehicle infrastructures in Europe. ESB Networks will use IBM's Intelligent Electric Vehicle Enablement Platform to provide the services needed to operate and manage the charge-points installed throughout Ireland.
This project is bolstered by Ireland's energy policy to increase sustainable energy use in the transportation sector by 2020. Today, the goal is to produce 40 percent of the country's current electricity consumption from renewable energy and have electric vehicles represent every tenth car on Irish roads. Already on the renewable fast track, this integrated EV charging network will allow Ireland to also contribute to the European Union legislation to reduce greenhouse gas pollution levels by approximately nine million tones before 2020.
The platform will connect ESB Networks with the energy retailers and the charge-points, allowing all three to communicate energy usage and financial data directly. This will provide the analytics and intelligence needed to better forecast and balance the load on the power grid as well as help ESB Networks to monitor the health and status of the charge-points to ensure service reliability.
Additionally, the project will create a scalable payment transaction platform for utilities and consumers by combining financial, settlement, and management services. As the IBM Intelligent EV Enablement Platform is a cloud delivered service, it provides operators such as ESB Networks the flexibility and scalability to add charge-points, incorporate new functionality, and support more electric vehicles as the market grows.
ESB Networks will have the capabilities to securely maintain customer and charge point data such as energy consumption, charging location, and settlement data. This information can then be used to calculate and reconcile the energy market. With this level of financial insight, industry participants can manage regular and interruptible tariffs and calculate the appropriate billing costs.
The new system accommodates the needs of all EV owners. The IBM EV platform will enable EV drivers to select convenient payment options and access all charge-points using one ID card – a process that will aggregate usage costs and simplify billing. This smart charging capability allows consumers to charge anywhere at anytime, regardless of their electricity provider and without the need to carry multiple access cards. Additionally, drivers will also have the option to use a mobile device or browser to locate the nearest charge post, check its availability, and make a reservation if the post is available.
This initiative along with the recently announced Smarter Charging demonstration with American Honda Motor Co,. Inc. and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), as well as the EKZ Smartphone Application pilot, demonstrates IBM's ongoing focus to improve driver services, increase renewable generation, and intelligently manage electric vehicles.


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