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I had a dentist appointment this morning to remove the best-fitting, most comfortable, hardly knew it was there, almost a shame to remove it temporary crown I've ever had (and I've had a few) and install its permanent replacement. It fit like a glove... um, er... like a TOOTH! No muckin' around with biting and removing and shaping and fitting and biting and removing and shaping. Heh. Have I mentioned that I love my new dentist? I think I have. And I do... everyone there... the whole office!
More spent clematis from the other day, and front yard spider web that was twinkling in last night's sunset.
My new bike may or may not be ready today; methinks it more likely tomorrow. We've had such a beautiful beginning to the week! Katie took her bike over to the lakeshore yesterday and rode 25-30 miles -- including a Rustic Road! She updated her FB status last night to say that she'd already rode 100 miles this week and one of her friends noted that it was only Tuesday!
Anyway, today I am going to get these trip photos of my mother's OFF OF MY LIST if it's the last thing I do! But it won't be the last, it'll be the first... I'm doing it RIGHT NOW! Woohoo!
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When Pleasanton software maker Workday goes public this week, it will mark more than the most anticipated tech-stock debut in months: It will represent a measure of vindication for co-CEO Dave Duffield.
Duffield was forced to sell his previous company, PeopleSoft, to Oracle's (ORCL) Larry Ellison in a bitter and highly unusual 2005 hostile takeover. Now, with enterprise software makers like Workday having revived an IPO market that fell into the doldrums after Facebook's flop, the 85 million shares Duffield owns would be worth more than $2 billion at the top of the company's proposed share price range.
It's enough to make a 72-year-old chief executive all warm and fuzzy inside.
Duffield, to be sure, wasn't hurting for money when he started Workday seven years ago. When Oracle finally wrestled PeopleSoft to the ground after a lengthy and uninvited courtship, Duffield — who had founded the human resources software maker and was its biggest shareholder — walked away with more than $600 million.
And Duffield was already a billionaire before that. Having started PeopleSoft on a shoestring in 1987 after two previous startups and a stint at IBM, he had retired to a palatial spread on Lake Tahoe before returning to the company's helm in the heat of the Oracle battle.
Duffield declined through a spokesman to comment for this report, citing federal "quiet period" rules for companies that are about to go public. Those who've tracked his career, though, say he's never been motivated by mere dollars.
"A fish has to swim, a developer has to develop," said Bruce Daley, a cloud computing consultant with Great Divide Research in Denver who previously edited the industry newsletter The PeopleSoft Observer. And Duffield, Daley said, throughout his career has been driven by a desire "to make the world a better place, to take the drudgery out of work."
Duffield has been called the tech industry's Jerry Garcia: An avuncular type prone to wearing Hawaiian shirts and signing corporate memos with his initials, DAD. He was known to join PeopleSoft employees at beer bashes and once jumped out of a cake at a trade show. He didn't just encourage folks to bring their dogs to work; he set up a $100 million foundation to spare stray animals from being euthanized.
After Oracle finally consummated its 18-month pursuit of PeopleSoft, Duffield put aside millions of dollars to grant laid-off employees $10,000 checks for medical bills or other expenses.
And within two months, he and Aneel Bhusri, who had been PeopleSoft's vice chairman during the Oracle drama, had founded Workday, backed by many of the same investors.
The idea, not surprisingly, was to sell human resources software, as PeopleSoft had done. But the delivery platform was entirely different: Renting the software over the remote server architecture known as the cloud, rather than making customers buy expensive licenses and suffer through lengthy installations.
The shotgun marriage to Oracle "was a bitter end of what was a fabulous company, and I think that — combined with this unique replatforming of the software industry — created this opportunity," said Byron Deeter, a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners who has done deals with Bhusri.
The bet has paid off handsomely. Cloud computing is now perhaps the hottest trend in enterprise software; Palo Alto Networks, Guidewire Software and Qualys are among Bay Area cloud companies that have gone public this year in soaring fashion.
The more than $500 million Workday seeks to raise, Deeter said, will be the biggest-ever stock offering by a cloud computing company, and the largest market debut by a tech company of any kind since Facebook's.
The company — which has yet to turn a profit — is expected to begin trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WDAY. It's putting nearly 23 million shares on the market.
"But there's no doubt in my mind that this isn't about money," said Daley, the analyst. "You build up something you think of as your legacy, and you're forced to leave it in someone else's care, and you can't save it — there's a lot of negative emotion tied up in that.
"You can almost see this," Daley added, "as good vs. evil: Larry Ellison, prince of darkness, vs. David Duffield, the white knight."
To which former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway says, nonsense.
"It's just not in his character" to be driven by revenge, said Conway, who since being forced out of PeopleSoft shortly before the sale to Oracle has served on the boards of Guidewire and cloud pioneer Salesforce.com.
And though Conway and Ellison's mutual dislike was one of the prominent undercurrents of the takeover drama, Conway said he "never heard Dave invoke Larry's name."
While he said he doesn't speak frequently with Duffield, Conway recalled an interview his former boss gave a few years back in which he said starting Workday wasn't an attempt to right past wrongs. "He said, 'I wanted my kids to see me leave in the morning and go work,' " Conway said.
Agreed former PeopleSoft board member Mike Maples Sr.: "I don't think it was hostility driven at all. I think it was opportunity driven; they didn't think Oracle got it." An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment for this report.
Ironically, PeopleSoft's forced acquisition may have freed Duffield and Bhusri to deliver software over the cloud. It would have been difficult, Conway and Daley said, to have switched PeopleSoft from its legacy revenue base to a cloud model, which relies on recurring subscriptions.
Both men also say an important lesson Duffield learned from the Oracle drama was to prevent others from controlling his destiny: According to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Duffield and Bhusri each take only $35,000 a year in salary but oversee more than 60 percent of Workday's voting stock.
It's the same reason Daley thinks Duffield won't hand over the reins and re-retire to Tahoe after the company goes public.
"He learned from his mistake," Daley said. "It's a labor of love, and he's not going to relinquish his beloved."
Contact Peter Delevett at 408-271-3638. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercwiretap.
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Announcement Planned On US-Mexico Water Agreement
Government officials from United States and Mexico have set a Tuesday date in San Diego to sign a landmark agreement to share Colorado River water during times of drought and surplus.
A time and place for the announcement weren't immediately made public. But International Boundary and Water Commission official Gustavo Ramirez on Friday confirmed the day and place.
The commission's U.S. section secretary, Sally Spener, said this week from El Paso, Texas, that there were still a number of reviews and approvals needed north and south of the border before the addendum to a 1944 U.S.-Mexico water treaty is signed.
On Thursday, the Southern Nevada Water Authority and Colorado River Commission of Nevada unanimously approved the pact, authority spokesman Scott Huntley said.
The two entities, along with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Central Arizona Project, are among the largest of the 15 agencies and state officials in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming whose approvals are needed, along with representatives of Mexico and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
New Mexico's Interstate Stream Commission unanimously approved the agreement Wednesday.
The Bureau of Reclamation manages Colorado River reservoirs in the U.S. including Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam and Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam near Page, Ariz. Lake Mead is the primary drinking water supply for Las Vegas.
The five-year agreement developed from talks begun before the seven Colorado River states signed a landmark agreement in 2007 to share the pain of shortages during drought and surpluses during wet years on the river running some 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Gulf of California.
The agreement calls for letting Mexico store water in Lake Mead, and for a pilot program of water releases from the U.S. to replenish wetlands in the Colorado River delta south of the border.
The water agencies in California, Arizona and Nevada would each buy water from Mexico over three years, and the agreement also clears the way for U.S. entities to invest in infrastructure improvements in Mexico in return for a share of the water such projects would save.


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It's the Carnival of Mathematics, here to brighten your weekend and chase any winter blues or summer sadness away. There are forty-nine eleven great posts, which we've interspersed with facts about the number 49.
Our very first post is Ethnicity, Religion, and War, courtesy of Fëanor at Jost a Mon, in which a statistical approach to history aims to show that if an Ottoman sultan's mother was of European origin, the likelihood of him attacking Europe dropped by several percent. Since "Religion" is part of the title, it might be worth mentioning that the period of "49 days" is significant in many religions: the Buddha, for example, meditated for 49 days and in Christianity the Pentecost is 49 days after Easter. [The 50 implied in the word Pentecost comes from inclusive counting.]
Next up, Rod Carvalho presents Distance between two words at Reasonable Deviations, which shows how to measure the distance between two words of the same length. He introduces a graphical approach to make things more intuitive, and includes Python source code so readers can generate word graphs. We can trust Rod to be truthful about his Python (code), unlike the people who spread the story five years ago that an almost-49 foot Python snake was captured in Indonesia. That would have been the largest snake ever found, but the python turned out to be only half that length.
It's now time for a reading break. If you were curious about the book Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio, you'll be delighted to know that Arj reviews it over at Science on Tap! Driving, like reading, is a leisurely activity and if you're ever in San Francisco (maybe for the Joint Mathematics Meetings next January!) you might use 49 Mile Drive, a scenic route that winds its way through the city.
Break's over! Rémy Oudompheng now treats us to a post on computer assisted computations in algebraic geometry with Experimental Algebraic Geometry I: the Grassmanian over at Embûches tissues. Speaking of computations, the fraction 1/49 can be written as 0.02+0.0004+0.000008+… . For that matter, the number 49 can be written as the geometric series 0.98+0.982+0.983+…
Next, David asks the question, "Is it possible to make a toroidal polyhedron in which all faces are equilateral triangles and all vertices have six incident edges?" The answer appears to be no, but in Flat equilateral tori? at 0xDE he shows a colorful model that comes close. These might look good in a motion picture — perhaps one put at by Dreamworks Animation, the company founded by the 49th richest American (David Geffen).
Mike Croucher now presents Quadraflakes, Pentaflakes, Hexaflakes and more from Walking Randomly, which shows lots of different fractal flakes. These flakes won't make you cold like the snowflakes that have been covering a lot of the northern hemisphere lately, including Alaska, the 49th state in the US.
The fractal flakes above aren't the only thing that blend the familiar with the unusual. The calculus of finite differences has remarkable similarities to ordinary calculus, but yields a few surprises itself, as illustrated by John Cook in Finite differences at The Endeavour. The number 49 is (4+3)2, a familiar fact, but it's also the 4th smallest number with 3 factors.
Le'ts move on to games! Burak Bilgin shows how game theory applies to economics, and how you can benefit from a simple rule derived from it, in The Simple Rule of the Economics Game from Distiller's Corner. A simple fact about 49 is that it is 23 base 23.
Next there's Math: A Different Perspective at Foxmaths! 2.0, in which Foxy derives some nice approximations for a complicated summation; these prove to be rather nice approximations indeed. The moral is to really stop and think about the math, do the math, rather than treating math as an abstract object. With sums in mind, it's pretty simple to verify that 49 can be written as 1/24+2/24+3/24+…+49/24.
Now we hit a snag: this next post was submitted by Dave Richeson, but it's on the blog bit-player that seems to be by Brian Hayes. Are secret identities being revealed? Whatever the case, the post Long division has lots of neat division. Not the "4 goes into 12" kind, but the kind that divides an entire continent — in this case, North America. There are pictures included that look like they were based on photos taken from out in space. Space is where the space shuttle Endeavor might be in mid-May; its first flight was STS-49.
Finally, we end with vlorbik's Section 5.5: A Manifesto, which he refers to as a "lengthy rant about pre-calc text" on Vlorbik on Math Ed. And we'll end the 49 trivia by noting that 49 has an interesting connection with the numbers π and e:
The sum of the first ten decimals of πe is 49.
The sum of the first ten decimals of ln(π) is 49.
With that, our Carnival comes to a close. Thanks to all who submitted!
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High Profile Law Firm Withdraws From John Edwards' Defense Team
Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, indicted for alleged campaign violations, is losing part of his trial team. The high profile Wall Street law firm that has led his defense is withdrawing.
Until now, Edwards has been represented by former White House Counsel Gregory Craig and former Associate White House Counsel Cliff Sloan from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. But apparently for both financial and tactical reasons, Edwards is switching lawyers.
Skadden, dubbed "Wall Street's most powerful law firm" by Forbes magazine, is also one of the nation's most expensive law firms, and Edwards, according to some of his friends, simply could not afford the tab.
Staying on to defend him will be two high profile and well known North Carolina lawyers, Wade Smith and James Cooney, and joining the team will be Washington, D.C. white collar criminal defense lawyer Abbe Lowell.
Edwards served one term in the U.S. Senate, was nominated as the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2004, and ran for president in the Democratic primaries in both 2004 and 2008.
In June, a federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted him on charges that he violated federal campaign finance charges by "secretly obtaining and using" contributions from wealthy patrons and using the money to conceal his extramarital affair with videographer Rielle Hunter, and the fact that he had fathered a child with her.
Edwards does not deny that he used the money to conceal the affair, but he contends that the two wealthy benefactors who gave him the money did not give it for campaign purposes, but to hide the affair from his wife. The Justice Department contends the money — nearly $1 million from just two donors — was instead, in each case, a campaign contribution and subject to federal campaign finance public reporting and limits. Federal law limited individual contributions at the time to $2,300 and Edwards did not disclose his receipt of the money.
Critics on the right and left have contended that the indictment is a stretch, a notion that Edwards lawyers will amplify this fall in motions seeking to have the indictment dismissed. But if that fails, Edwards, once a nationally known trial lawyer himself, will go on trial — not to preserve his good name, which has already been tarnished to black brass, but to preserve his liberty.
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Who are the real thugs?
Let's play a game. It's called: "Who's the Thug?"
It's the day after Thanksgiving 2012, and four teenagers are sitting in a Dodge Durango outside a convenience store in Jacksonville, Fla.
The Durango is red, which is unimportant. The teenagers are black, which is important.
The teenagers are planning to try to pick up some girls later in the evening and have stopped for some gum — "so our breath would smell good," one will later testify — and cigarettes. The teenagers are playing loud music in the Durango.
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A car pulls up next to the Durango, parking very close to it. Inside is Michael Dunn, 45, a software developer, and his fiancée. Both are white. Dunn's fiancée goes into the store while Dunn waits in the car.
The couple are coming from the wedding of Dunn's son. They have Dunn's 7-month-old dog with them. Dunn had two drinks at the wedding but is not "buzzed," he will later say. He describes his mood as happy.
But the loud, throbbing music from the Durango upsets him. It is rattling his rearview mirror, he will later claim. The music, he will say, is "ridiculously, obnoxiously loud thug music" and "rap crap."
Dunn does not change parking spaces or go inside the store to join his fiancée and escape the noise. Instead, he rolls down his window and asks the teenagers to turn down the music. "They shut it off, and I was like, 'Thank you,'" Dunn later tells police.
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But one of the teenagers in the Durango objects and tells the driver to turn the music back on. Dunn rolls down his window again and words are exchanged between him and one of the teenagers. Dunn will tell police the teenagers were "menacing."
"It got ugly," Dunn later says. "I heard 'something-something cracker.'"
The situation escalates. Dunn claims seeing one teenager pushing open the door of the Durango. (This is later denied by the teenagers.) Dunn also claims that he sees a weapon in the Durango. "I saw a barrel come up on the window, like a single-shot shotgun. … It was either a barrel or a stick," Dunn tells police. "I'm sh—-ing bricks, but that's when I reached in my glove box, unholstered my pistol … and so, quicker than a flash, I had a round chambered in it, and I shot." Dunn says he always keeps the pistol loaded.
Why, you might ask, had Dunn taken a loaded 9mm Taurus PT semiautomatic handgun to a wedding?
Hey, this is Florida. The Gunshine State.
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Dunn fires four shots into the Durango. The Durango pulls away. Dunn gets out of his car and aims again at the teenagers' vehicle. "I was still scared and so I shot four more times … trying to keep their heads down to not catch any return fire. And that was it," Dunn says later.
Police will find no shotgun or any other gun in the Durango or in the vicinity. No witness sees any shotgun or any other weapons in the Durango. When Dunn's fiancée returns to the car, Dunn mentions the shooting but does not mention any shotgun.
The couple drive 40 miles to a bed and breakfast and relax. They order a pizza, they drink some wine and Dunn walks his dog. He learns from a report on TV that one of the teenagers in the Durango has died. He does not call police.
The next day, he and his fiancée drive 130 miles to his home in South Patrick Shores. Dunn says he "was waiting till we get around people we know" and he wanted to ensure "our dog and everybody were where they needed to be." A witness to the shooting had called police with Dunn's license plate number, and Dunn is arrested.
Three of the bullets fired by Dunn had hit Jordan Davis, 17. One severed his aorta, killing him.
Davis, a high school junior, had just gotten a job at McDonald's to earn extra money. At Thanksgiving dinner, the day before he was shot, he thanked God for his family — especially his mom.
Dunn is charged with one count of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle.
He pleads not guilty, saying he shot in self-defense.
One of his lawyers will tell reporters that Dunn acted "as any responsible firearms owner would have."
Dunn's lawyer at trial, Cory Strolla, tells the jury: "God didn't make all men equal. Colt did. Colt is a firearm. [Dunn] had every right under the law to not be a victim, to be judged by 12 rather than carried by six."
On Saturday, the jury deadlocked on the charge of murder but found Dunn guilty of attempted murder and shooting into a car. His lawyer says he will appeal. The prosecutor says she will try Dunn again for murder.
There are some similarities between this case and the case of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin, in Sanford, Fla. In neither case was Florida's "stand your ground" law cited by defense lawyers, but in both trials the judges mentioned it to the juries.
Florida's "stand your ground" defense law states that people need not retreat from attackers and can use deadly force in their own defense if they reasonably believe they may be hurt or killed.
In both the Zimmerman case and the Dunn case, armed white men shot and killed unarmed black teenagers.
Strolla, Dunn's lawyer, said, however, the trial was not about race but about a "subculture thug issue."
But who are the real thugs? The unarmed black kids who play loud music or walk to stores to buy Skittles? Or the white guys who are armed to the teeth and quick on the trigger?
Roger Simon is POLITICO's chief political columnist.


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Blood Thinners Now Recommended for People With Irregular Heartbeat
People with an irregular heartbeat should take blood thinners to reduce their risk of stroke, an updated American Academy of Neurology (AAN) guideline recommends.
Taking these drugs is especially important for people with irregular heartbeat who have already had a stroke or mini-stroke, experts say.
Irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) is a major risk factor for stroke because it causes blood to remain in the heart's upper chambers, according to the AAN. The blood can then form clots that can escape the heart and travel to the brain and cause a stroke. About 5 percent of people with untreated atrial fibrillation are likely to suffer a stroke within the next year, the neurology group pointed out.
Blood thinners (anticoagulants) are highly effective in preventing strokes, but may cause bleeding and should be used only under close medical supervision, according to the guideline published Feb. 25 in the journal Neurology.
Several new blood thinners have been developed since the last AAN guideline on the topic was released in 1998. These new drugs — such as dabigatran (Pradaxa), rivaroxaban (Xarelto) and apixaban (Eliquis) — are at least or more effective than the established drug warfarin and are less likely to cause bleeding in the brain, the new guideline states.
In addition, patients taking the new drugs don't have to undergo the frequent blood tests required by those taking warfarin.
The guideline also says that new blood thinners may be used in many patients with atrial fibrillation who have typically been excluded because they are elderly, have mild dementia or have a moderate risk of falls.
"Of course, doctors will need to consider the individual patient's situation in making a decision whether or not to use anticoagulants, and which one to use, as the risks and benefits can vary for each person," guideline lead author Dr. Antonio Culebras, of SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, said in an AAN news release.
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Few of us really appreciate how hardworking and integral the rear derailleur is until it stops functioning perfectly. Then you're stuck with, at best, an imprecise and clattery ride. So the next time you climb with little—well, a little less—effort, give a nod to this marvel of engineering. Here's how it works—plus tips to keep it running like new.
1. The upper area on the derailleur is the b-knuckle.
2. On Shimano and SRAM derailleurs, the b-tension adjuster fine-tunes the height of the guide pulley. On Campagnolo derailleurs, the adjustment is done via a screw near the p-knuckle.
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3. To adjust cable tension, use the barrel adjuster.
4. The guide pulley keeps the chain in line as it moves from cog to cog during shifts.
5. The idler pulley helps hold tension on the chain regardless of gear choice.
6. The mounting bolt connects the derailleur to the frame.
7. The parallelogram linkage lets the chain move left and right and up and down the cassette while remaining parallel to the cogs.
8. High and low limit stops are usually found near the b-knuckle but sometimes on the front of the parallelogram. The low limit (often marked L) prevents shifts into the spokes; the high limit (marked H) prevents the chain from dropping off the smallest cog.
9. The p-knuckle holds both the guide pulley and a spring that keeps tension on the cage to hold the chain taut. Shimano's XTR Shadow Plus (for mountain bikes) has a switch that increases spring tension and activates a friction stabilizer to keep the chain from bouncing in rough terrain.
10. The cable bolt pinches the shift cable in place. On most derailleurs, when the shift lever pulls on the cable, the derailleur moves up the cassette to a lower gear. The exception: Shimano's low-normal derailleurs, on which it does the opposite.
11. The cage keeps the chain in line between the pulleys.
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Clean and Adjust
For the best performance, position the guide pulley (4) roughly 6 to 7mm away from the cogs. If your chain skips when you shift to a lower gear, give the barrel adjuster (3) a half-turn counterclockwise (Tip: Think L for lower and for left turn). A higher gear? Try a halfturn clockwise. After cleaning, add a few drops of lube to the pivot points (there are eight) of the parallelogram linkage (7), cycle through a few shifts, then wipe off any excess lube. When you clean your chain, clear the muck from the inner and outer surfaces of both pulleys (4 & 5)—it collects at the base of their teeth.


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Masters in entrepreneurship online programs are designed to meet the needs of students who have varied or limited backgrounds in entrepreneurial ventures, are part of family businesses, or are interested in starting or growing their own businesses when they graduate. You may have an idea for a product or service, and instead of learning in the "school of hard knocks" gaining a comprehensive education in the dynamics of start-up ventures may set you up for potential success in today's competitive marketplace. Or, you may have a Bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurship or business administration and seek a more in-depth education.
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Entrepreneurship is a diverse subject, covering the design process, risk assessment, marketing, management, resources, business planning, and financing. Some students come into the program with an idea or innovation; others may have the drive and ambition and may benefit from the skills and technical knowledge that will help them start-up a venture at a later date. Evaluate your unique needs, and make inquiries to determine whether entrepreneurship is the main focus of the degree, whether the faculty includes members who have experience in entrepreneurship, whether you will be mentored to help get your idea into production, and whether there is any practical component to the program.
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Ian Kaine MacGregor is the founder and CEO of Hitcher, a social media platform that allows users to build more targeted networks and have more control over their online privacy compared to the mainstream social networks.
During his time working in the design industry, Ian created tons of successful social media marketing campaigns for large enterprises. He had the idea to build a social media platform that was exclusive, and could eliminate unwanted social noise to create experiences with the people who really mattered in one's life. In this episode, Ian talked about how he validated his idea, how he found collaborators for his project, how to deal with setbacks and acquire users, and why idea and passion do matter in this day and age when execution is emphasized over anything.
"(while execution is important) Ideas do matter. You have to trust your ideas."
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Josie Alibrandi is an girl from Italian descent who is growing up in Sydney, Australia. Josie is on scholarship at a prestigious Catholic school where it matters what her father does. Josie doesn't know who her father is as she lives with her mum, Christina, all she knows was that her mother had her against her fathers wishes when she was in her late teens. Josie and her mother's lives are interfered with by Nonna Katia, Christina's mother. Josie's ...
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Francesca Spinelli is in year eleven at St Sebastians School for Boys which has only this year opened for girls. There are about thirty girls at the school and most of the boys are pigs. Francesca lives with her mother Mia, her father Robert, her brother Luca and their dog, Pinocchio. One morning Mia doesn't get out of bed. Everyone says it is just 'a bit of a breakdown' but Francesca knows it is more than that. She is used to Mia always butting int...


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Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that it will base its European racing operation in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom in preparation for participation in the FIA*1 Formula One (F1) World Championship from the 2015 season.
As announced on May 16, 2013, Honda will participate in F1, under a joint project with McLaren, as a supplier of the power unit including the engine and energy recovery system from the 2015 season.
The new facility will be the European frontline operation for Honda's F1 participation and will rebuild and maintain the power units developed at Honda R&D centre in Tochigi, Japan. Honda will also base its trackside support operations from this new European office.
This office will be located in the new engine research and development centre of MUGEN EURO Co., Ltd.*2, where Honda plans to start operations from June of 2014.
Whilst the development and manufacture of Honda's F1 power units will take place at the R&D centre in Tochigi, Japan, it was important for Honda to establish a European facility to support its racing operation. The U.K. is an ideal location; it is the home of McLaren, many F1 suppliers are U.K. based and with 7 of the 19 races taking place in Europe (2013), the U.K. acts as a global hub for the transportation of parts as well as team personnel.
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Yasuhisa Arai, Senior Managing Officer and Director, Chief Officer of Motorsports, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. said: "With the confirmation of a new F1 operation base in U.K., our preparation to join F1 has become more specific and concrete. To meet and exceed the expectations of our fans, we will accelerate our development to bring back the unique Honda engine sound onto the track."


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Mitt Romney, interview with Wolf Blitzer, March 26, 2012:
I'm saying in terms of a geopolitical opponent, the nation that lines up with the world's worst actors, of course the greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran, and nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough, but when these terrible actors pursue their course in the world and we go to the United Nations looking for ways to stop them, when [Syrian President] Assad, for instance, is murdering his own people, we go to the United Nations and who is it that always stands up for the world's worst actors? It is always Russia, typically with China alongside, and so in terms of a geopolitical foe, a nation that's on the Security Council, that has the heft of the Security Council, and is of course a massive security power — Russia is the geopolitical foe."
Mitt Romney, Republican National Convention acceptance speech, August 30, 2012:
President Obama … He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.
Mitt Romney, final presidential campaign debate, October 22, 2012:
"I'll respond to a couple of things that you mentioned. First of all, Russia I indicated is a geopolitical foe. Not … Excuse me. It's a geopolitical foe, and I said in the same — in the same paragraph I said, and Iran is the greatest national security threat we face. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election.
Matt Romney, as reported by Peter Baker in The New York Times, today, November 2, 2012:
…While in Moscow, Mr. Romney told a Russian known to be able to deliver messages to Mr. Putin that despite the campaign rhetoric, his father wants good relations if he becomes president, according to a person informed about the conversation.
The rest of this post, I think, writes itself.
Images: M. Minard, Chart depicting the change in size of Napoleon's army during the Russian campaign of 1812-13, 1869
Cecco de Caravaggio, Christ Expels the Money Changers from the Temple, 1610. (attribution fix per commenter Morzer)


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The Susan G. Komen breast cancer fund reversed its Planned Parenthood action and the right wing anti-choice politician it hired has resigned. But the real lesson of this incident is broader than one decision or one person.
Our society is permeated with a culture of corporate greed, aggression, and power that reaches from the boardrooms of New York to the meeting rooms of Washington.
The Susan G. Komen foundation has raised millions to support vitally important work, but it has also reinforced some of the worst tendencies in our society. It has leveraged big-company resources so that it could dominate its "marketplace," usually by serving as a marketing arm for a client list that includes some very poorly-behaved corporate citizens. Then it has used its market dominance to bully other organizations, push its own political agenda, and try to reshape the course of U.S. cancer research in dangerous ways.
Just like its most prominent sponsor, the Susan G. Komen foundation has become too big to fail.
The Players
Karen Handel had some bitter words for her critics as she stepped down from her post as Komen's vice president for public policy. "I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it," Handel wrote.
But there was no "strategy," which Handel and others have defined as denying funding to any group that is under federal investigation. As we noted, and others reported as well, a number of other Komen grant recipients were under real federal investigation and were left untouched, while Planned Parenthood was to be cut for being the subject of a trumped-up, one-person investigation conducted by a right-wing member of Congress.
Nancy Brinker, Komen's founder and CEO, served in a number of positions under George W. Bush, while Handel was a Sarah Palin-endorsed gubernatorial candidate. Political affiliations shouldn't disqualify anyone from serving in a charitable role, of course. Like many people, I've often enjoyed working with ideological opponents on charitable issues of common interest. That kind of cause-based allegiance can help bind our society together.
But Brinker brings her ideology into her Komen work, and has done it so effectively that she's transformed the world of charitable giving ... for the worse. There isn't just the matter of her personal compensation, which the foundation reported as $531,924 as of 2010. Or the fact that she's the only employee who flies first class at the charity's expense, according to the fund's IRS financial filing. (See Komen's form 8453-EO for 2010.)
There's an argument to be made that highly effective fundraisers and executives should receive good, if not excessive, salaries and perks. We won't have that argument here. And for all we know, Ms. Brinker may donate her entire salary to charity. She did choose this career over corporate life, after all, which seems like an altruistic move.
Nor will we argue that Nancy Brinker hasn't been effective at her job. But how has she been effective?
Lids and Buckets
Brinker is a brilliant marketer. She didn't build her charity one donor at a time, but by channeling the power of the nation's ultra-large corporations. As we reported earlier, the foundation advertises itself to corporations this way: "Americans believe it's more important than ever for companies to be socially responsible ... In fact, 83 percent of Americans wish more of the products, services and retailers they use would support causes ..."
Corporate executives understand the power of idealism—and how to sell their products with it. The result means far less bang for your charity buck, but a lot more sales for Komen's corporate clients. Consider Yoplait. In 2005 it was able to move a lot more units of yogurt by attaching Komen's pink-ribbon logo, and by promising to donate ten cents for every Yoplait lid that buyers mailed in.
The problem? A stamp cost 37 cents in 2005, which means that the charity received slightly more than one-fourth of what people paid—and that's not including the cost of the yogurt itself. The charity only received ten cents. But Komen also received massive marketing visibility, with its logo on display in the dairy counter of almost every supermarket in the country.
Yoplait sold yogurt, Komen pushed its brand, and people spent dollars of their hard-earned money to donate ten cents—and to feel they'd done their good deed for the day. That crowds out other forms of giving that are more effective, and which don't build up a monopolistic charity. As the San Francisco Business Times reported, the range of products sporting Komen's pink ribbons soon included "golf balls, umbrellas, pencil sharpeners, grills, watches, wine, jewelry, paint, candy, soda, pens, iPod cases, shower gel, mixers and even pink-colored Tic-Tacs."
Observers noted the irony when Komen teamed with KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) to promote "Buckets for the Cure." Komen was able to raise more than $4 million by teaming with KFC to promote itself and unhealthy food at the same time.
Bank of America, which is currently the target of multiple state and federal investigations, is prominently featured on the Komen website. Although it was allowed to settle these multiple offenses while "neither admitting nor denying wrongdoing," the evidence—and the many millions it has spent to avoid being charged—form a compelling picture of a serial corporate fraudster.
There's nothing quite like the power of pink to fight a record like that.
The real question is: Do we really want our charities to be marketing arms for the country's largest corporations?
Never Enough
And do we want our charities behaving like our worst corporations? The Komen fund has been ruthless and relentless in its drive to dominate its brand. It hasn't hesitated to deploy flotillas of lawyers against anyone it sees as a threat.
The group has directed its firepower most aggressively against anyone who uses the words "for the cure" in their promotional materials. Komen seems to feel that this common phrase is now its own intellectual property, and by fighting this fight it's leading the charge to seize, monetize, and capitalize one of the last commons left in our society: language.
It hasn't directed its attacks against for-profit entities, either, but has pursued high-dollar litigation and intimidation tactics against other charities. Uniting Against Lung Cancer was targeted for the offense of holding a "Kites For the Cure" event. They've also attacked "Par for the Cure," "Surfing for a Cure," "Cupcakes for a Cure" and "Mush for the Cure."
Komen has even threatened other charities with legal action if they use the color pink in their materials. Pink is, as every Aerosmith fan knows, "like red but not quite." The band also describes the color as "not even a question," which seems to be Komen's view of their ownership of it.
Here's a thought: If Komen's going to sue people for using "for the cure" in their materials, then guess who should sue Komen? The Cure. The British band was formed in 1976, six years before Susan G. Komen for the Cure was formed. I think Robert Smith and company have a compelling case.
In the meantime, Komen marches on relentlessly, leveraging its corporate money and political firepower to crush anyone in its way. As the old Cure song says, "However big I feel, it's never enough."
Too Big to Fail
Komen has made itself the dominant player in private breast cancer funding. What does that mean? For one thing, major research institutes have to think twice before crossing it. When Komen announces that it will no longer fund stem-cell research, researchers all across the country have to rethink their priorities. And if a promising avenue is closed off, we may lose a tool that could save millions of lives.
It can apply the same forms of intimidation to other organizations in the charitable sphere. And it can use its visibility and financial resources to throw its weight around in the corridors of political power, both in Washington and in state capitols around the country.
In the wake of Ms. Handel's departure, it's worth asking why an organization like this needs a vice president of public policy. That title is usual reserved for researchers—or for lobbyists. Ms. Handel's biography and job description make it clear she's not a researcher.
What's more, the Komen foundation has been giving money to Ari Fleischer and other highly political consultants. How many Komen donors knew they were subsidizing right-wing political groups? And do we know whether Ms. Handel will continue to receive a salary from Komen? A review of that 2010 IRS documents suggests that two former executives were receiving six-figure annual salaries while dong no work. Are Komen donors funding right-wing ideologues?
The Cure for the Race
The solution for too-big-to-fail charities isn't all that different from the banking solution. But banks are more highly regulated than charities, which is appropriate. But the public can still decide whether, to paraphrase Alan Greenspan, "too big to fail is too big to exist" in the world of charitable giving. If it feels that way about the Susan G. Komen fund, then it can and should contribute elsewhere.
Brinker and her colleagues can't object to that, can they? That's just the free market at work.
People can even use the pink-ribbon as a reminder: When they see it they can remember to donate to another charity. That's thinking, not marketing, and no one—including Nancy Brinker—has figured out how to sue people for their thoughts.
At least, not yet.


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You come across a blog post you really want to comment on. You think out your comment, carefully type it in, check it for misspellings, and, when you are ready, you hit the submit button. The page reloads and…where's your comment? It's not there! Did it take it? What happened?
Some people understand that comments, especially any with links, may get moderated. This means a comment is "held" until the blog owner okays it and releases it "to the public", so to speak. So they just move on.
Others freak and rewrite their comment, often not making the same point as eloquently as they did the first time. They hit submit and…nothing again! Where did it go? In frustration, they often give up.
If you have comments turned on, I think it is important to let the commenter know that their comment has been received. It's a nice way of saying thank you for commenting, and to let them know it worked. There are several ways to do this.
The easiest method is to edit your WordPress Theme's
comments.php template file and add a bit of text in the comment area that says, "Comments may be moderated. Please do not post your comment a second time."

Leave a Reply

Comments may be moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. It may be posted soon. Do not post your comment a second time. Thank you.

The management.

The other method is to have a bit of code that lets your commenter know that their comment has been received and is awaiting moderation and approval.
Your WordPress blog may already have a built-in feature that checks to see if a comment is in moderation and posts a note about it. To test it, log out from your blog and post a comment that includes 5-10 links. That should trigger instant moderation of a comment. If you see an acknowledgment, then it works. If the comment disappears and you don't see any acknowledgment, then your blog needs a bit of code to make the acknowledgment work.
The code to add to your WordPress Theme
comments.php template file has a conditional statement that recognizes when a comment has been posted and let's the commenter know that the comment is being held for moderation.
The conditional PHP statement asks if the comment is approved. If not, it posts a statement. If it is, the comment appears. It looks like this:
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Your WordPress Theme's comment template file might have a different layout, but this is how the moderation code is used in the WordPress Default Theme (Kubrick):

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
<?php comment_author_link() ?> Says:
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<a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?> <?php edit_comment_link('e',","); ?>
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You can change the wording. I like:
Your comment has been received. Be patient and as soon as I approve the comment, it will appear here. Thank you.
Next time someone posts a comment on your WordPress blog, if it is moderated they won't worry about the comment disappearing. They can relax. You've just taken away some of the aggravating stress of commenting on blogs.
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At the expansive Oak Long Bar + Kitchen at the Fairmont Copley Plaza, a stylish crowd tucks into roast chicken as a fireplace flickers. Over at the Revere Hotel, scenesters check out street art at a weekly event called Assemble. And in an elegant ballroom above Boylston Street, a well-dressed crowd of power players mingle over sauvignon blanc while viewing art at the Mandarin Oriental.
Forget terrycloth robes and iPod docking stations, the hottest amenity for local hotels is buzz. From sleek restaurants to networking events to fashion shows that attract an eclectic crop of urbanites, Boston hoteliers are increasingly catering to customers who may never check in.
"Hotels have become much more than a place where someone drops off luggage and sleeps for a few hours and it's on to the next business trip," said Pat Moscaritolo, president of the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Hotels have become meeting points, collection points for locals or international travelers."
Boston is one of the most competitive hotel markets in the country, coming in third after New York and San Francisco, according to GBCVB. And now the push for heads in beds has combined with a pursuit for life in the lobby.
"If you can position yourself as a place with events that draw in the locals, it makes the hotel guests simply stay," said Rachel Moniz, general manager of the Liberty Hotel, where free events aimed at downtown denizens take place five days a week.
Cooking demos with chefs, yoga instruction, a dog-friendly happy hour, and regular fashion events has made the Liberty a neighborhood culture club since it opened in 2007.
"It would be a shame to have this beautifully built hotel and not have locals experience it," Moniz said.
Other hotel executives are discovering that a social calendar that attracts a crowd nets a valuable byproduct. Guests and staycationing suburbanites dropping into a stylish scene find there's no need to go — and spend money — elsewhere. And local scenesters may stick around to have dinner at the in-house restaurants.
On a recent Wednesday, the liveliest scene in the Theatre District may not have been at the Wang Theatre, but at Emerald Lounge at the Revere Hotel. Karmaloop, the locally based online clothing retailer, curated a show of edgy street art displayed throughout the hotel's thumping lounge.
In the corner, mobile boutique Sneakerbox displayed T-shirts, and hipsters worked the room at the weekly Assemble event.
"This is about bringing the art to the people," said Jamaal Eversley, a 24-year-old poet/painter/actor from Randolph, who was nodding to '90s hip-hop. "I'd never be here if it wasn't for this."
Hotel guest Jim Locascio, in town for a pharmaceutical supply show at the Revere Hotel, wandered into the welter of 20-somethings and found it "fabulous."
"It's cool stuff," said Locascio, of New Jersey, as he settled onto a couch with his co-workers.
Such cultural collisions have helped the year-old hotel stay hot and "avoid any sort of staleness or stigma that might be associated with being just another hotel bar," said Bryan Barbieri, the Revere's public relations director.
Making the boutique hotel a destination for young, creative types has been an effective strategy, he said.
It has "led to a ton of business leads from attendees, who want to book events at the hotel and the lounge," said Barbieri, who presents film premieres, launch parties, and started a new series that pairs food and film. "They have become some of our best brand leaders."
In Boston and Cambridge, where there are 98 hotels and up to 20 more being proposed, according to Moscaritolo, even the most storied locations can need a rebrand.
The regal but stuffy Oak Room at the Fairmont Copley Plaza, for example, was perfect if "you wanted to sit down in a cushy chair and pretend you were more rich than you were," said the hotel's general manager Paul Tormey.
But over the decades, it met the worst fate for a restaurant and lounge. "It was getting to be a special-occasion restaurant, which is death row for any facility," Tormey said. "If you are known for that, it's lights out."
When the new Oak Long Bar + Kitchen opened last summer, as part of the Fairmont Copley Plaza's $20 million renovation, the anchor of the 383-room hotel became a hot spot overnight. With quadruple the bar capacity, chic new fixtures and furnishings, and a contemporary menu, locals have made it their local.
"It's brought in a new and moneyed crowd from Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and the South End coupled with hotel guests, and we are thrilled," said Tormey.
So instead of a surge on weekends or holidays, it's busy seven days a week and has doubled the revenue of its predecessor in less than a year, Tormey said.
A few blocks away, the Mandarin Oriental is trying its own brand of reinvention, one that involves events aimed, once again, at city dwellers. This month, the hotel launched a pho pop-up lunch in the lobby, and one evening invited a who's who of business leaders to an exclusive art party.
"We want to introduce them to the space and integrate ourselves into the Boston community," said Mandarin Oriental spokeswoman Molly Kinsella.
The evening included a tour of a luxurious Mandarin Oriental residence filled with original art.
Darnell Williams, president of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, was impressed. "There was another level of lifestyle we were introduced to tonight," he said.
Although he knew the event was a deliberate move to connect with the business community and pave the way for functions at the hotel, he approved of the approach.
"You've got a lot of modern, new hotels in the city and more are coming. If they include you in their agenda, you are more likely to return," said Williams.
These public displays of affection are expected to grow as hotels welcome tastemakers into the fold, marketers say.
Geri Denterlein, of Boston communications company Denterlein, thinks hotels that "engage the streetscape" and explore different ways to generate business will come out on top.
"Gen Xers and Yers are coming of age and hotels can't just rely on the power breakfast to lure people in," she said. "They have to bring people of a younger generation into hotels in different ways."
The Langham hotel's Bond Restaurant and Lounge is attempting to do that with DJs and fashion shows that draw a younger crowd.
On weekends, celebrity DJs like Clinton Sparks turn the schmoozy after-work bar into a veritable club. On April 3, members of the New England Revolution are scheduled to walk the red carpet in Ted Baker London's spring collection.
"Today, the competition is so fierce, you have to make sure your product is as up to date as your newest competitor," said Serge Denis, managing director for the hotel, located in Post Office Square. "If you don't compete, you are left behind."
Last year the hotel spent $6 million on lobby renovations to make sure they weren't.
The result is the Reserve, a champagne bar that does traditional English tea in the afternoon. The hotel has tripled its lobby capacity and sent a message that all are welcome.
"When you spend $6 million, you have to make sure you have a return," said Denis. "I feel very, very encouraged, based on the response."
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Easter traditionsOn Easter morning, various processions made up by up to 200 male Sorbian Easter riders can be seen In the area between Bautzen, Kamenz and Hoyerswerda, where they spread the good news that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. At this time, the Sorbian women, who wear elaborate traditional costumes on many occasions, have already spent the Lenten season decorating Easter eggs with intricate patterns. Another highlight on Easter Sunday is an event in Bautzen, the "capital" of the Sorbs. The "Rolling of the Easter Eggs" has been a tradition since 1550. Originally the children from wealthy families rolled eggs and other goodies down the hill as a gift for poor children. Today, it is an event for the whole family and a major tourist attraction.
The Sorbian MuseumIt is ironic that the Sorbian Museum is today located in a building formerly used by the feared Gestapo secret police of the Nazi regime which tried to erase the Sorbian culture. But the building, which is part of Bautzen's Ortenburg Castle, had already been erected in 1782 as a warehouse for salt storage. The exhibition gives insights into all aspects of Sorbian life, such as the language, the traditions, and arts and crafts.
Sorbian cuisineMost traditional Sorbian dishes are simple and healthy, like boiled potatoes with linseed oil and curd. Most popular with tourists is the Sorbian Wedding Meal, a three-course affair consisting of soup, meat dish and dessert. Sorbian food can be sampled in restaurants throughout the Sorbian region. The best known place is the "Wjelbik" (= Little Vault) in Bautzen where Sorbian song and dance performances can also be organized.
Slavic block housesThe Sorbs used to live in an advanced variety of log cabins called the "Schrotholzhaus". Tree trunks were hewn into four-sided logs which were then piled up to form a seamless surface. German settlers later combined this way of construction with their expertise on half-timbered houses to create the "Umgebindehaus", typical for region south of Bautzen. "Schrotholz" houses were replaced by brick houses in the 19th century and many of the surviving examples disappeared through open pit mining. The Erlichthof in the village of Rietschen consists of relocated "Schrotholz" houses and offers displays of crafts, events and accommodation. The only surviving church of this type is in Sprey. In Krauschwitz, a new sauna village was constructed in this traditional style.


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Washington (CNN) - Nearly two weeks into a government shutdown, cuts and furloughs are crippling much of America's scientific research.
The White House issued a statement Saturday detailing which programs were being hardest hit in an effort to drive home how damaging the shutdown has been.
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"The federal government's research agencies have been largely shuttered, with scientists sent home and projects shelved," it read. "There are five Nobel Prize-winning researchers currently working for the federal government, all of whom are world-renowned scientists and leaders in their field. Four of them are currently furloughed and unable to conduct their federal research on behalf of the American public due to the government shutdown."
Among the agencies mentioned, the National Science Foundation has had it the worst. Ninety-eight percent of its employees have been furloughed, and the organization has not issued any new scientific research grants. The NSF funds non-medical science and engineering research and education programs across the country.
The National Institutes of Health, the nation's top medical research facility, has lost almost three-quarters of its staff, forcing it to turn away most new patients from its studies. Funding for the NIH became a focal point of debate early in the shutdown when reports emerged that children with cancer were being denied entry into potentially life-saving studies.
The majority of Americans may feel the greatest impact, however, from the cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Two-thirds of its personnel have been sent home, and as flu season begins, influenza monitoring has been cut back, according to the White House.
Still, the CDC will continue its most important role in monitoring any imminent threats to the public's health, and most flu vaccines are produced by private companies.
Don't forget the USDA-ARS which is conducting the research on insect, weed, and disease control, developing crops that better resist drought and heat stress, working to improve our diets and improving the health of our meat sources. The also help develop new industrial products and even contribute to developing new medicines. All of that has been halted by this needless shut down.
Nobel Peace Prize Winners–has turned into a joke.
I'm trying to write a grant currently... can't even look at the RFP because the website is down. This is completely stupid.
Hey, if the shutdown negatively impacts federally-funded scientific research, conservatives will regard it as a "win-win".
After all, it's a moral sin for man to arrogantly presume to be able to solve many of society's and the planet's critical problems using the scientific process rather than relying upon prayer and divine intervention.
i thought most of the work was done by university's
Federal grants to University's ,
Whatever these people were working on will still be there next week.
You must have been in the same science class as Rick Perry at Texas A&M .
The problem is, the TPs will be the more glad to hear these news! They don't care about science. Actually they don't want scientific facts, they might get in the way of their ignorant propaganda. So this as the obstructionism in Congress is playing in their hands!
All this while the fed continues to buy 85 billion dollars in bonds every month. Do you know what the budget of the NIH is? Its 85 billion. The money that they are spending is not improving the economy, banks are sending it overseas to be shielded from tax liability. The amount of tax money evaded by the 'Double Irish' arrangement, is many times (35) the budget of the NIH. This was under President Obama's control, and he chose not to change it. With Citizen's United, the STOCK Act debacle, QE, and Jack Abramoff's book – One could make a good argument for revolution – at the very least term limits in congress.


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Do you know the source of the top five pet poisons found in your house? Your purse! That's right; your handbag is a reservoir for lots of things toxic to dogs and cats. In honor of Animal Poison Prevention week, petMD.com urges pet owners to hang up their purses! Or at the very least, keep a watchful eye on your dog or cat if you have the following items on you.
1. Sugarless Chewing Gum and Breath Mints: Xylitol and dogs don't mix. Have sugarless gum or mints in your purse? Most sugarless gums, including some Trident, Orbit, and Ice Breaker brands, contain xylitol, a sweetener that is toxic to dogs. Some sugarless mints, flavored multivitamins, toothpastes, and mouthwashes may also be made with xylitol. When ingested, even small amounts of xylitol can result in a life-threatening and rapid drop in blood sugar (hypoglycemia), and if large amounts are ingested, dogs can suffer from severe acute hepatic necrosis (i.e., liver failure). Signs of xylitol poisoning include vomiting, weakness, difficulty walking, collapse, tremors and seizures.
2. Human Medications: Admit it — most females keep a small bottle of ibuprofen in their purses. These pill vials are irresistible to some dogs — they are easy to chew through, rattle when chewed, and resemble a chew toy to our dogs! Common drugs ingested by pets include non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs like Advil, Aleve, and Motrin), acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol), and antidepressants (e.g., Effexor, Cymbalta, Prozac). All of these can cause serious harm to dogs and cats when ingested. NSAIDs cause stomach and intestinal ulcers as well as kidney failure, especially in cats. A single Tylenol tablet (containing acetaminophen) can be fatal to a cat, and a larger ingestion can lead to severe liver failure in dogs and dry eye (keratoconjunctivitis sicca). Antidepressants can cause neurological problems like sedation, incoordination, agitation, tremors, and seizures.
3. Asthma Inhalers (albuterol): Asthma inhalers are commonly stored in purses for emergency use. When accidentally chewed and punctured by dogs, asthma inhalers can cause acute poisoning. Asthma inhalers often contain concentrated doses of beta-agonist drugs (e.g., albuterol), and each inhaler often contains 200 doses in one vial. When dogs chew into them, they are exposed to massive amounts of the drugs all at once. This can lead to severe poisoning, resulting in life-threatening heart arrhythmias, agitation, vomiting, collapse, and death.
4. Cigarettes (nicotine): Not only are these bad for you, but they are equally bad for your pets! As few as three cigarettes can be fatal to a small dog, depending on the "strength" or "lightness" of the cigarettes. Cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and even smoking cessation gums contain nicotine, which is toxic to dogs and cats. Nicotine poisoning causes clinical signs rapidly — in as short as 15 minutes — and can be fatal if not treated. Signs of elevated heart and respiratory rates, neurological overstimulation, uncontrolled urination/defecation, tremors, seizures, paralysis, and death can be seen with accidental ingestion.
5. Hand Sanitizer (alcohol): In our germaphobic society, most of us now carry hand sanitizer in our purses. Many hand sanitizers contain high concentrations of alcohol (ethanol) — nearly 100 percent alcohol! When a dog chews and ingests a small bottle of hand sanitizer, it can have the same effect as a shot of hard liquor. Signs of alcohol poisoning include a severe drop in blood sugar (hypoglycemia in dogs), lack of coordination, a drop in body temperature, neurological depression, coma, and death.
Finally, if your pet should accidentally ingest one of these poisons, call the Pet Poison Helpline at 855-213-6680 immediately.


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Amy at Living Locurto made these easy and cute ice cream sandwiches on a stick.
Couldn't get much easier that this.
Take full size ice cream sandwiches straight out of the box.
Cut them in half, add a stick and dip them into sprinkles!
Use red, white and blue for July 4th or Labor Day.. or use whatever color combination matches your event! These would be especially cute at a tailgate. Cover them in sprinkles of your school's colors, keep them in a cooler until time to serve!


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Anyone else frustrated with T & C construction?
Original post made by Amy, Old Palo Alto, on Mar 23, 2007
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a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Mar 23, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I really don't like going to T&C anymore, its too hard to park and there is always construction going on.....This has really made it hard for the businesses and loyal shoppers! I'm very disappointed!!! No more shopping at T&C for me!
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 23, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I'm still going to T&C. It's a little inconvenient, but I like Spot Pizza and Sushi House too much to stay away. I'm not sure why they are putting so much work into the parking lot though--I don't remember it being in such bad shape beforehand. I do hope they finish soon though. And they are lucky they have all the Paly students to keep the lunch business going.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Mar 24, 2007 at 12:01 am
I am not frustrated by spending a few extra minutes to find parking. I appreciate that the owners of TC did not destroy the buildings and are investing a great deal in maintaining original structures. In these times people seem to complain when the old structures are replaced, this is the desirable situation when they are preserved. It is a time to support the store owners who have not left Palo Alto. Even if the TC owners made a few poor choices (Cookbook) it is still great to support our local merchants of Palo Alto.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Mar 24, 2007 at 1:29 pm
The new driving pattern completed and being constructed is a driver's nightmare - and
a walker's hazard. All those raised curbs in the parking lot surrounding spaces for trees and 'gathering spots' make it difficult to get in and out of cars especially for the disabled using walkers. Cars can barely pass each other in the recently constructed parking areas and driveways. There are raised curbs for no reason all over the place. The entrances and exits are very difficult. I've gotten used to not going to T&C although I love Douce France, and on occasion I have to go to the shoe store or Four-Eyes. Other than that, other shops I patronized are now gone. I wish Midtown would get more than hair and nail salons and
cleaners and drug stores. If the new owners try to turn T & C into a high priced boutique
type of place, I won't miss it either.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 25, 2007 at 4:24 pm
It would have been easier just to shut down the center during construction, but that would have been a disaster for the shops. They could have buldozed everything and built out to the max. Respect them for respecting the trademark.
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If you own or owned a home or other structure that contains a plumbing system with brass crimp (F1807) fittings/connectors sold by Zurn, you may qualify for benefits from a class action settlement.
A settlement has been reached with Zurn Pex, Inc. and Zurn Industries LLC ("Zurn") about brass crimp fittings/connectors made of certain yellow brass manufactured and/or sold by Zurn between 1996 and 2010 ("F1807 Fittings"). This settlement covers possible fitting leaks, occlusion (blockage that reduces water flow) and damage caused by alleged corrosion of the F1807 Fittings. This settlement does not cover systems installed with Zurn's poly alloy fittings, DZR fittings, ECO brass fittings, or anything other than an F1807 yellow brass fitting sold by Zurn.
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|System: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
|Dev: InXile
|Pub: InXile
|Release: January 10, 2012
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Alcohol Reference, Blood, Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence
There's also a Hardcore difficulty, which increases your enemies' hitpoints, and the Survival difficulty, which makes you guzzle fuel like a frat boy guzzles beer. Not only that, but you'll also only get one life to complete every mission you accept. One life! I know the developers were going for a retro difficulty feel, but come on!
I played both console and PC versions of Choplifter HD, and they are nearly identical in every way. That being said, I preferred keyboard and mouse controls. Every helicopter in the game is a little unwieldy, and being able to fine-tune my movement with the skills that I carried over from FPSes was a big help. Using an analog stick and bumper control scheme just made the game feel a little bit too loose to me. It's not the worst thing in the world if it is your only option, but I would prioritize the PC version if you could.
In this day and age of HD remakes, we don't always expect simple classic gameplay to carry over to modern versions of old games. However, Choplifter HD is an exception. Even though the game mixes up your missions quite a bit, even though you're fighting zombies and terrorists rather than nameless tanks, even though the game has stats, leaderboards, achievements, and all the facets of modern gameplay we know and love, you are still playing Choplifter at the end of the day. Your goal is to pick survivors up, put them down, and not die in the process.
If you are the type of gamer who loves this type of simplicity and all the difficulty that comes with it, Choplifter HD is the game for you. If not, well then Choplifter HD won't make you want to go out and try the Apple II version any time soon. As for the final value of the game, it's fifteen dollars, which is just a bit over what I would want to pay for it, but then again I was a total newbie to the Choplifter franchise. Veterans who remember the original will probably find that price more than acceptable.
Angelo M. D'Argenio
Contributing Writer
Date: January 16, 2012
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