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Recently I made the acquaintance of a business blogger on Twitter (@businessfit) who offers remarkable content related to business development, leadership, organizational development, and employee supervision. She shared a book with me that she had published called Business Fitness.
Business Fitness is written by Dawn Lennon, an expert in organizational development and business coaching. Lennon defines being "business fit" by "developing intellectual strength and steady nerves so that you are positioned to handle any circumstances at anytime, anywhere" (p. 7). The book is divided into four parts: Business Fitness, Private Moves, Public Moves, and Lifelong Success. Each chapter comes complete with thought-provoking "do-it-yourself" inventories to complete to help you on the way to better define personal and professional goals related to career moves and entrepreneurship.
Business Fitness is written in a format in the conversational style of a thoughtful coach. It captures the essence of John Maxwell's leadership and teamwork books. Although the book is is geared toward entrepreneurs, it is also appropriate for goal-minded achievers and leaders of all types. While the book does not illustrate how to incorporate a business or other operational means by which to run a business (i.e., taxes, insurance, etc.), it does coach the reader how to prepare to become a leader within your chosen career. The book is rife with inspirational quotes throughout each chapter and also includes stories of success and shortcomings of individuals to illustrate the ideas taught.
I recommend Business Fitness for all student affairs professionals and student leaders alike. The text would be appropriate to use for staff development activities, supervision meetings, and team conversations.
Lennon, D. G. (2007). Business fitness: The power to succeed – your way. Centennial, CO: Glenbridge.

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Australian PGA to consider revised offer from Clive Palmer to stay at Coolum
COOLUM, Australia – The Australian PGA golf tournament may not be moving from its home of the past 11 years after all.
The PGA of Australia says it will consider a revised offer from the owner of the Palmer Coolum Resort to keep the event on the Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane.
After wrangling with resort owner and billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer over signage and other sponsorship issues, the PGA of Australia chief executive Brian Thorburn said this week that the tournament would shift next year to another course in Queensland state.
But Thorburn said on Sunday that the board of directors would next week consider a new offer from Palmer that could see the event remain at the player-favored resort, which has a 26-foot robotic dinosaur outside the clubhouse.


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*The latest ruminations from LUPEC Boston, in case you missed them in The Weekly Dig.
by Pink Lady
A few nights ago, I suffered a truly awful anxiety dream—vicious even, because it twisted one of my very favorite activities—cocktailing with people I respect and experimenting with new flavors—into a nightmare.
The scene: a crowded auditorium packed to the gills with some of the brightest stars in the mixological galaxy. Dale "King Cocktail" DeGroff is there, as is Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh and Imbibe! author and my personal hero, David Wondrich, as well as bar superstars from both coasts and every city in between. They're here for a cocktail contest in which I am competing. I'm standing above them on a very high stage, flanked to my left by the late Jerry Thomas, and to my right by—who else?—Tom Cruise from the movie Cocktail, circa 1988.
The challenge: Invent a delectable cocktail in under five minutes using nothing more than the mysterious contents of a velvet drawstring bag that sat in the center of each bartender's station. A pistol is fired, signaling the start of the cocktail competition, and as Jerry Thomas and Tom Cruise tear into their velvet bags and start mixing … I freeze.
My heart pounds, my palms sweat, my ears start ringing. To my left, Jerry Thomas is tossing a stream of liquid between two glasses in an arc high above his head, somehow not spilling a drop. To my right, Tom Cruise is gyrating and flipping bottles in time with the music, which is of course "Hippy Hippy Shake." A smiling Katie Holmes looks on. The crowd roars, chanting "LU-PEC, LU-PEC." And I can't move.
I awoke from this terrible scene with a start, and an ocean of relief washed over me when I realized it was just a dream. The chances that I'll ever be mixing up drinks alongside a 1988 Tom Cruise from Cocktail and Jerry Thomas, who died in 1885, are slim. However, I can sleep soundly knowing if that situation ever did come to pass, I have several classic cocktail-making patterns up my sleeve that would help me rise to the occasion, such as this one, for a delightful aperitif cocktail. You may recognize it as the basic template (minus the barspoon of liqueur) for both the martini and the Manhattan, two drinks that have stood the test of time and are still popular among modern drinkers over a century after their birth. Fill in the blanks and give it a spin at home. After all, generations of drinkers can't be wrong.
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2 oz high-proof base spirit
1 oz low-proof aperitif (vermouth, Lillet, Aperol, etc.) or fortified wine (a light wine, such as dry sherry, works well with white spirits; heavier wines, such as port, work well with brown spirits)
1 bar spoon liqueur (for accent, a great way to play around with more pungent herbal liqueurs)
2 dashes bitters (use orange or fruit bitters for lighter drinks; angostura, Peychaud's or other aromatic bitters for heavier ones)
Stir ingredients over ice in a mixing glass; strain into the glass of your choice.


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A small step for interactivity
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It's a nice small-multiples setup with two tabs, one showing the states in order of descending spend and the other, alphabetical.
In the article itself, they excerpt the top of the chart containing the states that have suspiciously high per-patient spend.
Several types of comparisons are facilitated: comparison over time within each state, comparison of each state against the national average, comparison of trend across states, and comparison of state to state given the year.
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The second type of comparison is enabled by the orange line being replicated on every component. (I'd have removed the columns from the first component as it is both redundant and potentially confusing, although I suspect that the designer may need it for technical reasons.)
The third type of comparison is also relatively easy. Just look at the shape of the columns from one component to the next.
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Three years ago in August 2009 we ran the first ever Young Rewired State – a hack weekend aimed at the young developer community. I was determined to try to engage them with the exciting (sic) world of open government data, and firing on all four cylinders went out to go tell those kids all about it.
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It made no sense to me that there was a thriving adult developer community, many of them of my own peer group, but no-one under the age of 18? Where were the kids? Was there a corner of the Internet I had yet to discover?
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Since then, running Young Rewired State has become the most important thing I do.
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One of the Young Rewired Staters who attended that first event (and every event Rewired State has run since regardless of the challenge – until he was snaffled by San Francisco: aged 16) explained this for the Coding for Kids google group, and I asked him if I could share his story here. Here goes:
When I was in year 10 (or 11, I can't remember) we were given the brief to "design and create a multimedia product" for an assessment towards GCSE ICT.Most people opted to use powerpoint to create a sudo-multimedia product. I, however, decided to build a true multimedia product in Objective-C (a small game written for iPhone & iPod Touch which included a couple of videos, some story text, audio, it was an awesome little thing, it really was 🙂The Powerpoints passed with flying colors, my project failed.I asked the head of IT why he failed me, he told me he simply couldn't mark it. He had installed the app on his iPhone, as had the rest of the IT staff (Including the technicians who really loved it!), played it, but couldn't mark it because a)He didn't understand how it worked and b)It was leagues above anything else he'd ever seen from the class.I argued the case and managed to scrape a pass by teaching him the basics of Objective-C from scratch and by commenting every single line of code I wrote to explain exactly what it did and how it did it (all 3,400 lines, including standard libraries I used) which ended up being a huge time sink. Time, I was constantly aware, I could be relaxing or working on a project of my own.I understand that my case is a little different from the one involving Ruby, you can't expect every IT teacher to be versed in iPhone development, but there is no excuse for not having at least a basic understanding of Ruby/Python and absolutely no excuse for failing work because its difficult to mark.This NEEDS to be fixed, so many fantastic young devs are becoming disillusioned with education because of little things like this. The thought process, for me at least, follows:"Wait a second, my IT teacher can't mark this, so it fails? I don't really want to be part of a system that works like this".This is in stark contrast to events like YRS, where kids are encouraged to push the boundaries and explore how to do things differently to stunning effect. It was one of the major deciding factors for me to leave education and move to the US.The frightening thing is, after bringing it up at an event, almost every other young dev had a similar story.
I cannot tell you how sad I am that we have not been able to keep this YRSer in the UK, and this is one of the very many stories that drives me.
What can you do to help? Start by understanding this problem, then join groups like Coding for Kids and CAS of course – sign the petition.
There are a great many people trying to help solve this problem, and 2012 is certainly going to see a huge push towards solving this, but for now, just take some time to understand why this is such an important fight we have to win – for this generation and the next.
And as a PS, please read the introduction to Douglas Rushkoff's book: Program or be programmed – it is very good! (I so should be on commission from this guy).


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While it remains to be seen if Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter Seraphina will go into acting like her parents, the three-year-old has already been showing a penchant for singing pop tunes. Chief among them: Carly Rae Jepsen's colossal hit "Call Me Maybe."
Speaking to Anderson Cooper during an interview Friday on Anderson Live, the Argo actor-director, 40, revealed that his youngest daughter loves the song so much that she recently regaled him with it over the phone. Away from Garner, 40, and their daughters Violet and Seraphina, Affleck dialed up his family to check in during a break from Argo promotional duties in New York City.
"I said, 'Can I talk to my six-year-old' and she said, 'Yeah' and we chatted. I said, 'Can I talk to the younger one' and she just got on the phone and said, 'Hey Papa, I just met you. This is crazy, call me maybe,'" Affleck recalls of Seraphina's delivery of Jepsen's lyrics. "I was like, 'This is horrible, how is my three-year-old listening to the pop station?"
Also dad to son Samuel, 7 months, Affleck leans heavily on his wife when he's on the road promoting his latest projects. "[Fatherhood] is a lot of work. My wife is a saint and does so much of the work because I am inept and she's a genius," admits the actor of his wife of seven years. "I have these three amazing kids, but they fight and torture each other."
Frequently bonding with his daughters over girly childhood activities, Affleck isn't yet sure how he'll fare having more testosterone around the house.
"I participate in the tea parties and doll games until I feel like my insanity is truly at risk. I don't know yet [how Samuel will be older], but right now he is just a fat guy who looks like a 1930s slugger," jokes the actor. "We'll see — I'll let you know."
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For about 10 seconds on Saturday night, the light-heavyweight title bout at UFC 152 seemed competitive.
As Vitor Belfort locked up an armbar off his back and clung to it like a drowning man to a piece of driftwood, you could almost convince yourself that he belonged in a fight with UFC 205-pound champion Jon Jones. Maybe. If you squinted so the size difference wasn't so apparent. And if you didn't stick around to watch the next 15 or so minutes of the fight, which were all Jones, all the way.
Those 10 seconds, though, those were exciting.
Jones' arm bent a way it wasn't supposed to bend, his face grimaced a way we haven't seen it grimace. For the briefest of moments in Toronto's Air Canada Centre, it seemed that Belfort might pull off what would have been the biggest MMA upset in years. Then Jones pulled out his arm and went about the work of opening the Brazilian challenger's face with a series of slicing elbows, thus bringing an end to the interesting but unplanned interruption. We now return you to your regularly scheduled beatdown, already in progress.
Even if it had ended then, in the first round, Belfort already would have over-performed. He was a middleweight who wasn't even supposed to be there, let alone take such a convincing swipe at victory. But instead of folding after his early bid failed, he lasted until the fourth while choosing to spend much of the intervening time on his back, as if he hoped that the position itself were magical enough to save him.
It wasn't. He lost, first slowly and then all at once. He got beat up and then submitted. He proved more than he needed to about his own willingness to take a beating, but he never managed to threaten Jones very much after that initial armbar scare.
And Jones? Jones proved that he can get his elbow popped and still stay calm enough to do his usual fighting Mozart routine. He was in no hurry. He took his time and did his job with patient precision, and in the end the fans got just enough pain and suffering out of the deal to feel as though the matchup wasn't completely absurd. That's about all they got though, which was probably more than they had a right to expect.
For Jones, who came into this bout as a 9-1 favorite (after opening as high as 13-to-1), exceeding expectations was nearly impossible. If he'd knocked out Belfort with a stern glare from across the cage, that might have done it. Anything else was only confirmation of what we already suspected. If anything, maybe getting himself briefly armbarred before resuming the inevitable march toward victory was the best thing he could have done. Jones is the rare fighter who's been so dominant thus far in his career that it actually helps him to prove that he can still win even when he doesn't start out that way. We've known for a few years that he's brilliant. When he takes a good punch or fights through a tight armbar, he also proves he's tough.
Belfort proved the same thing, in his own way. His toughness was a stubborn thing, even if it wasn't a particularly helpful one. At 35 years old, he volunteered for a short-notice fight against a bigger, better, younger champion in a weight class in which he hadn't competed in five years. If you wanted to know how long it had been since his heavyweight and light-heavyweight glory days in the UFC, all you had to do was take a look at how old most of UFC 152's pre-fight hype footage was. When they can't even find many clips of you cracking skulls in HD, it's not a great sign.
There were very few good reasons for Belfort to get this shot in this division except that the UFC needed a warm, promotable body for a title fight that had a date before it had a challenger. Belfort, ever game for a go at glory, stepped up and took his best shot. When that didn't work, he took his beating. Both are part of the job description, and he performed them with equal enthusiasm. This is what we knew would happen, even if we didn't know it would look quite like this. The fact that it took four rounds and resulted in one possibly injured arm for the champion makes it seem more competitive, but this wasn't a fight that made any sort of sense in the first place, so the result can only mean so much.
Did Jones show that he doesn't mind messing up his own arm if that's what it takes to beat up a bloated middleweight? Sure. Did Belfort show that he's willing to bleed for his money, even well after his best hope at victory had slipped from his grasp and resumed elbowing him in the face? Absolutely. What are we supposed to do with that information? I'm not sure.
What will probably happen now is that Belfort will return to middleweight, where he belongs, and Jones will go back to defending his title against people his own size – assuming that his arm isn't seriously injured. Because wouldn't that be just the right punishment for the UFC, which seems to have taken Jones and his talents for granted? The last thing it needs is to lose another champion to injury. To lose a great one because of a fight that literally no one was asking for would be some real "Twilight Zone"-type justice.
The takeaway lesson for the UFC in all this? Seeing as how they can be risky even for the unambiguous and unsurprising winner, maybe title fights are things that should happen for a reason. Maybe champions should defend their belts against those who have earned it – even when doing so requires a little extra patience. Maybe the schedule should match the talent – rather than the talent being stretched and kneaded and manipulated into matching the schedule.
Because while you can get away with this once or twice, and while you can point to the few moments where this fight looked close and use it as retroactive proof that it wasn't an arrangement of convenience, you'd better do it sparingly. The guys getting their elbows popped in triumph and faces slashed in bitter defiance would probably like to know that it actually means something. Both brands of toughness come at a price.
For more on UFC 152, check out the UFC Events section of the site.
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FBI recovers white hat, large 'pyrotechnic' and BBs from bombing suspect's UMass Dartmouth dorm room
FBI agents found a black jacket and white baseball hat inside Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth that matched those worn by one of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, according to court documents released Monday.
The agents found, among other things, "a large pyrotechnic" and BBs after executing a search warrant Sunday inside Tsarnaev's room at 7341 Pine Dale Hall, according to the criminal complaint released by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's office.
Holder announced Monday that 19-year-old Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen, resident of Cambridge and registered UMass Dartmouth student, is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property at the Boston Marathon on April 15, resulting in the death of three people and injuries to more than 200 people.
Tsarnaev — who was shot in the head, neck, legs and hand during shootouts with police last Friday — is still recovering from his wounds at Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital in Boston.
University officials said Tsarnaev's dormitory room is still closed off. He had a roommate, but officials did not say Monday if the roommate had been placed into a different room.
Witnesses reported seeing Tsarnaev, a UMass Dartmouth sophomore, on campus for several days after the marathon bombing. UMass Dartmouth closed its campus as state and federal law enforcement officials swarmed the area last Friday.
UMass Dartmouth Assistant Chancellor for Public Affairs John Hoey said Monday that authorities told the university that the campus was safe to reopen on Saturday, but Hoey added that university officials decided to reopen on Sunday to give the FBI more time for its investigation.
"We have been assured by federal authorities that the campus is absolutely secure and safe," Hoey said.
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Although African Americans endured abject racism and prejudice in the 18th Century, many businesses sprung forth in spite of the barriers ahead of them. With determined grit and sound practices, Black business leaders began to emerge and earned the right to engage in commerce like any other citizen. NewsOne takes a look at 20 Black business owners between the time period of 1800 and 1900, highlighting their significant contributions to American society.
Joseph Randolph, President of the African Insurance Company
In 1810, the African Insurance Company was opened in Philadelphia. Helmed by President Joseph Randolph, the company was formed to help support African Americans who did not want to join the mutual aid Free African Society but needed assistance and other benefits. Historians note this is the first African-American insurance company.
William Leidesdorff, America's first millionaire of African descent
William Leidesdorff was of mixed parentage but is largely identified as being of African descent. Raised in the Dutch West Indies, Leidesdorff was involved in the shipping trade initially. He was responsible for launching the first steamboat in the Bay Area of California and opened and operated San Francisco's first hotel. He also went on to become the city's school board president. After amassing large plots of land, his worth at the time of his passing was nearly a million and a half dollars.
David Ruggles, owner of first African-American bookstore
Abolitionist and journalist David Ruggles was instrumental in the liberation of slaves as part of the famous Underground Railroad. After learning Latin from a tutor who attended Yale University, Ruggles would go on to publish works as a printer. A contributing journalist to popular papers of the time, Ruggles most-notable achievement was opening the first Black-owned bookstore in New York City.
Paul Cuffee, Quaker businessman
Paul Cuffee made his fortune in the shipping trade and went on to open Massachusetts' first integrated school. After being born to a former slave and Native American mother, Cuffee tended to his father's farm before taking to the seas. He was also an instrumental proponent in helping British efforts to give freed slaves a place to settle.
William Johnson, the "Barber Of Natchez"
Born in to slavery, William Johnson was freed as a young boy in 1820 and became a barber's apprentice in Natchez, Miss. After his brother-in-law sold him a barber shop, Johnson would own and operate the business while teaching freed young Black boys the art of barbering.
William Whipper, abolitionist and lumber businessman
William Whipper's path to success was rooted in a controversial idea known as "moral reform"; however, his contributions to antislavery are noteworthy as is his profitable lumber business with partner Stephen Smith in Pennsylvania.
James Forten, inventor and shipping businessman
James Forten, like many African-Americans in the North, made his fortune in the maritime industry. He was also an active political figure and used his Quaker education to advance his life and others who wished to stamp out slavery. Forten invented a device for ship sails during his time in the industry.
Joseph Cassey, Philadelphia wig business owner
Joseph Cassey lived in the city of brotherly love after arriving from the French West Indies in the early 1800s. He struck gold with a wig, perfume, and barbershop business and was also involved in real estate with other partners in the city.
Robert Purvis, wealthy abolitionist
Although Robert Purvis was three-quarters European Jewish, he and his siblings aligned themselves with the African-American community in Pennsylvania. After obtaining considerable wealth from his father's estate, Purvis would help form and fund abolitionist efforts across the North. He would later marry the daughter of James Forten.
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'Exhausted' Lady Sticks It to Obama
Barack Obama doesn't want businesses thinking he's anti-business. So he held a town hall today for CNBC, which literally all businesses watch. A common middle-class person posed a brutal first question, however, saying she's "exhausted of defending you."
Watch Obama give one of those nervous "oh shit" laughs when he sees where this is going:
I'm one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I'm exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I have been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I'm one of those people. And I'm waiting, sir. I'm waiting. I don't feel it yet... My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs and beans era of our lives, but, quite frankly, it's starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we're headed again, and, quite frankly, Mr. President, I need you to answer this honestly. Is this my new reality?
Obama answered, "Wow. Yeah sorry, you're fucked." No, he just said something about how we're moving in the right direction. Unfortunately, "moving in the right direction" won't save this lady's dinner plates from the twin poisons of hot dogs and beans.


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About a year ago I sold blood and police caution tape to the prop master for what was then called "the latest Coen brothers film"
It's great to see they really put the blood to good use!
This is an awesome movie. Part Western, part horror, part indie.
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A Connecticut man charged with hacking into more than 250 iCloud accounts, including many of Hollywood stars, has agreed to plead guilty.
Federal prosecutors say the charge against 26-year-old George Garofano, of Northford, stems from the investigation into the 2014 "celebgate" scandal in which the private photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton and others were made public.
Garofano was charged by the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and is expected to enter a guilty plea in the District of Connecticut on one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer. He faces five years in prison.
Prosecutors say Garofano sent phishing emails that appeared to be from Apple encouraging victims to reveal usernames and passwords, or to enter them on a website where he could retrieve them.
After obtaining the login information, Garofano stole sensitive and private photographs and videos. Prosecutors allege that Garofano traded usernames and passwords, as well as hacked material of some of the victims, with other individuals.
Garofano is the fourth suspect charged in the "Celebgate" case. Emilio Herrera, Edward Majerczyk and Ryan Collins also plead guilty to the phishing scheme. The three men were not charged in connection to the leaks.


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Watch "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" Tuesday at 5pm on CNN for more of Brian Todd's interview with space jumper Felix Baumgartner.
(CNN) - He has been dubbed "Fearless Felix," but the Austrian skydiver who broke the sound barrier last week was almost derailed by a fear he had never before encountered: claustrophobia.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Situation Room's Brian Todd, Felix Baumgartner said that as he did longer and longer test runs, wearing his restrictive skydiving suit, his anxieties got worse and worse.
"I was always playing it down. I never addressed that problem. Because if I tell the guys I can't maintain in that suit for five hours – it's over."
He managed to endure hour-long tests in his pressurized suit, but soon faced a point where he had to do a five-hour test, simulating the duration he would need to wear it if he wanted to execute a record-breaking jump.
The night before, he couldn't sleep, and in the morning, when he was due to meet his team and do the test, he couldn't do it.
"I wanted to escape," he said. "I didn't want to stand up in front of the whole team and tell them 'Hey, I can't do it.' "
So instead, Baumgartner bolted – he went to Los Angeles International Airport and booked a flight home to Austria, giving up on all his efforts to prepare for the jump.
"At that moment – I fell apart. I mean, I was crying like a baby at the airport. I thought, 'It's over.' "
But instead, Baumgartner got help from a performance coach and a psychiatrist. Over the course of three weeks, they helped him analyze his fears, and led him through steps he could take to counter them. He learned to keep himself busy by focusing on procedures and checklists. He also practiced getting his mind outside of the confines of the suit – thinking of objects outside the suit, to transport his mind out into the open.
The problem did not come back, he said, and he successfully made his death-defying jump earlier this month. After several hours waiting in his capsule, and then being lifted by a balloon to an altitude of 24 miles, he did a record-breaking skydive that made him the first person to surpass the sound barrier in free-fall – protected only by that suit he once dreaded.
"I think the message is, if you have a problem, you have to talk to the right people," he said. "You know, there's always somebody out there who knows more about that kind of problem than you – otherwise you would have been able to solve the problem. So find that guy, work with that guy, and make sure you get over it."
People think adrenaline junkies or extreme sporters are not afraid. That is not true. Our palms get sweaty. Our bowels loosen up. There is fear. But when you conquer that fear and you get back to safety, it is the best feeling you can have.
I hope he made his life right with God before doing this, as he will end in the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20)instead of the Street of God
(Rev. 21) should it not succeed, but we all hope he will be OK – HAPPY LANDING
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Apple discovered underage workers, "involuntary labor," worker endangerment, and bribery at some of its supplier facilities over the course of 2010, the company revealed in its 2011 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report.
The updated report offered details on Apple's regular audits conducted on foreign manufacturers as well as Apple's response to the discoveries. In addition to terminating business with facilities with the most egregious violations, Apple also investigated the so-called Foxconn suicides, agreeing that Foxconn's actions to address worker unrest had "definitely saved lives."
Over the course of 2010, Apple found 37 "core violations" across 127 supplier facilities located across Asia—Apple defines a "core violation" as a serious breach of Apple's code of conduct, which prohibits worker abuse, the use of underage labor, intimidation of workers, and so on. According to the report, Apple discovered one facility that was exposing workers to toxic chemicals, four facilities that either presented false payroll records to Apple or gave misleading answers to Apple's audit team, one bribery attempt, one attempt to coach workers to give positive answers to Apple's audit team, and a total of 91 underage workers across 10 facilities.
Apple's responses to these violations largely involved the company telling the manufacturers to tighten up their practices—in the case of toxic chemicals, Apple required the companies to discontinue their use and improve their ventilation systems, for example. Some facilities with underage workers were found to have poor ID check systems, so they were told to send the kids back to school and improve management so that such a thing wouldn't happen again in the future. (Sending the kids back to school doesn't just mean kicking them out of the factory, either—Apple says that suppliers must pay for educational expenses and lost wages for six months or until the worker turns 16, whichever is longer.)
Facilities that were found to be underpaying workers were told to start paying the appropriate amount and to respect local law.
There were a handful of cases, however, where Apple decided the violations were too much and severed its connections with the firms in question. For example, one facility had apparently falsified its payroll records multiple times with Apple in the past and was found to be doing so yet again, resulting in the loss of Apple's business. The same happened to one facility whose manager attempted to bribe Apple's audit team into giving a good report.
Another facility that employed an unusually large number of underage workers (42) apparently had no interest in remedying the problem. "Based on the poor likelihood of improvement, we terminated business with the facility," Apple wrote in its report. Apple didn't name which specific manufacturers made which violations.
There's a special section of Apple's report that addresses the widely publicized suicides at Foxconn as well. The company sent COO Tim Cook, a team of executives, and suicide prevention specialists to visit Foxconn in June 2010 to discuss the phenomenon and evaluate Foxconn's response, but the company also commissioned an independent team of suicide prevention specialists to spend time at Foxconn.
"The team commended Foxconn for taking quick action on several fronts simultaneously, including hiring a large number of psychological counselors, establishing a 24-hour care center, and even attaching large nets to the factory buildings to prevent impulsive suicides," reads the report. "The independent team also found that Foxconn had worked openly with many outside experts and government officials in reacting to the crisis. Most important, the investigation found that Foxconn's response had definitely saved lives."
Apple's reaction to the Foxconn suicides has been scrutinized since the news broke last year, even though Foxconn supplies parts for a number of technology companies such as Nintendo, Dell, Nokia, and HP. A supposedly leaked report from October 2010 revealed that there were still numerous incidents of worker abuse going on at Foxconn, but Apple has made an effort to work closely with the manufacturer to ensure fair labor practices since at least 2006.
Clearly, Apple feels that Foxconn has made great strides in dealing with the latest round of tragedies and claims it will continue working with Foxconn to improve worker conditions.


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Chinese handset maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartwatch next year, making it the latest company to throw its hat into this emerging gadget segment.
ZTE said on Monday that it was preparing the device, and pointed to the first quarter as a probable date for its arrival. However, it gave no further details.
The company is better known in its home country of China as a low-price smartphone maker, but ZTE also has its eyes on the U.S. market, and wants to introduce more high-end phones while building up its brand recognition.
ZTE's development of a smartwatch is no surprise, considering that many tech vendors are also coming out with rival devices. Samsung and Sony both have smartwatches on the market, at prices of $299 and $199, respectively. Apple has also long been rumored to be working on a watch.
The gadgets, however, still have some way to go before they catch on among consumers. Over 30 smartwatches are in development, according to research firm Gartner's count, but the devices have yet to reach mass market appeal.
Current smartwatches are either priced too high, come in bulky designs, or don't offer enough battery life, Gartner said in an October report. Vendors still need to offer a clear message about the advantages of owning a smartwatch.
In the year-end holiday shopping season, Gartner expects consumers to buy tablets over smartwatches. But over time, demand for the devices will grow, especially from health conscious users, the research firm predicted.
In the fitness and health segment, the wearable devices market is projected to reach US$5 billion in revenue by 2016, according to Gartner, and smartwatches will continue to remain "companion" devices to smartphones at least until 2017.


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Fully Charged: Tekken 7 revealed, even cheaper Chromebooks now possible, and Razer's Atrox arcade stick for Xbox One
Begin the week by bashing through our quick-hit morning news roundup
Tekken 7 announced, runs on Unreal Engine 4
Last night at the Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bandai Namco announced the development of Tekken 7—the latest entry in the 3D fighting series that began 20 years ago in arcades and the original PlayStation.
The teaser trailer promises "The Final Battle," which seems questionable for a lengthy, numbered series with several spinoff releases, but restoring some sense of narrative cohesion would be nice. Also, it seems that Unreal Engine 4 will be used to power the action, although no platforms have been officially confirmed quite yet. An arcade release followed by PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports seems likely, at least.
We'll apparently hear more about the game at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in just a couple of weeks. However, there's no word yet on the status of Tekken X Street Fighter, Bandai Namco's end of the partnership that yielded Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken two years back.
[Source: YouTube]
READ MORE: 10 of the best games in which you hit people
Cheaper, lower-powered Chromebooks now a possibility
Chromebooks are already exceedingly affordable laptops, and depending on which you buy, they can be quite good. But there are potential plans afoot to make them even cheaper with lower-powered hardware in tow—namely the same kind of ARM Cortex-A7 processor seen in many mobile phones.
This is according to Engadget, which reports that semiconductor manufacturer MediaTek added support for an ARM Cortex-A7 processor into the Chromium OS codebase that powers Chrome OS, opening up the possibility of seeing hardware with such low-end chips at some point.
Granted, the speed decrease is likely to be rather noticeable, and devices of the sort are more likely to be targeted at developing nations—but it's still interesting to see how as headline Chromebooks continue to get slightly more powerful, there's room on the lower end for expansion as well.
[Source: Engadget]
READ MORE: Google and Intel unveil more powerful and more frugal Chromebooks
Razer Atrox arcade stick for Xbox One unveiled
As part of the festivities at the Evo tournament, video game peripheral manufacturer Razer announced an Xbox One version of its premium Atrox arcade stick, which is very similar to the previous Xbox 360 version. Like that one, it's very customizable, both in terms of modding the wires inside and changing the image beneath the authentic Sanwa arcade stick and buttons.
Also, it's still £179.99 on Xbox One. Sadly, as with last year's Mad Catz offering, there isn't a lot of reason to invest in an Xbox One stick right now, as the only traditional, controller-based fighting game is Killer Instinct—though perhaps you could lump EA Sports UFC in there, as well. But at least Mortal Kombat X and surely several others (quite likely Tekken 7) are on the horizon.
[Source: Razer]
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As TechRadar reports, Microsoft has spent the summer on a Surface-related hiring spree. And while that indicates that the company is already moving ahead with its Surface 2 plans—which isn't remotely surprising—it could also tell us a decent amount about Surface itself.
It's easy to read too much into the hiring tea leaves; if anything, the fact that Microsoft is staffing up tips nothing more than its commitment to making its own hardware. Which, while still notable, isn't particularly new. But by looking at the kinds of people Microsoft is looking for, we can guess haphazardly about what Surface future and Surface present might hold.
Looking to the future, an expert in "finishing processes such as paint, plating and PVD" is sought; as TechRadar notes, PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) can be used to waterproof a device.
But then some job listings touch on potential areas of vulnerability for the current Surface. The search for an "alternative power sources" leader is vague, but could suggest that Microsoft's not totally content with its tablet's battery life. Similarly, the hunt for someone who can conquer "passive and active cooling thermal designs" tips that concerns about Surface Pro's fan living up to the task might be well-founded.
Or maybe—just maybe—the crew of the USS Surface is growing because Microsoft's ambitions are greater than just tablets. Maybe these good people are coming onboard to work on Surface phones and Surface laptops and Surface anything else that will make OEMs cry.
It comes down to this: Is Microsoft growing its team because it sees a greater potential for Surface than it did four months ago? Is it expanding beyond tablets and into, I don't know, phablets? Or has its tablet debut not quite delivered on all fronts? We should have a good sense come October. And we'll know for sure when a waterproof, battery-sipping, icebox-cool Surface 2 hits shelves just in time for the 2013 holiday season. [TechRadar]


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Can there be Life in the Environment of Europa?At first glance Europa may seem unfriendly to life as we know it on earth.
Like other icy moons, Europa is small, with no atmosphere to speak of, with direct exposure to space and the charged particle environment of Jupiter's magnetosphere. With no atmosphere there is no buffer between the surface and space itself, therefore the surface of Europa extremely cold.
Nevertheless, the interior of Europa may have been warm enough at one time to contain a liquid layer just under the surface. On Earth, we know that there are some creatures which can survive in an environment of very cold water, such as under the ice of the north pole.
This means that, if the conditions are just right, there may be living creatures on Europa under the icy surface!


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Liotard, Jean-Étienne
Liotard, Jean-Étienne zhäN ātyĕn´ lyôtär´ [key], 1702–89, Swiss painter. He is best known for his portraits and drawings in pastel, but he also made portraits in oil, paintings on glass and porcelain, and engravings and enamels. Internationally known in his time, he traveled throughout Europe and the Near East, working for various courts, aristocrats, and public figures. Among his many portraits are those of Marie Antoinette, Francis I, and Maria Theresa. His work is best seen in Amsterdam and Geneva.
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Winterhawks Statement on WHL Sanctions & Suspension
Today the Western Hockey League has announced disciplinary action against the Portland Winterhawks for violations related to player benefits. The WHL has forfeited the team from participating in the first five rounds of the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft and the forfeiture of the team's first round picks in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The WHL also announced the organization has been fined $200,000, and that General Manager & Head Coach Mike Johnston has been suspended for the remainder of the season, including the playoffs. Assistant General Manager & Assistant Coach Travis Green will assume Johnston's duties on an interim basis.
What follows is a summary of the league's findings, and a statement from Johnston:
The Winterhawks were found to have committed the following violations:
• A player contract signed in 2009, involving flights for the player's family and a summer training program
• Over the last five years, seven families were provided flights 2-4 times per season based on financial need and their distance from Portland
• Twice in the last five years the team paid for two players to each have a one-week summer training regimen
• The Winterhawks provided a cell phone for its team captain for a period of three seasons
The WHL's audit found no violations involving monetary payments made to players, their families or agents, or any violations related to the league's educational packages.
"After fully cooperating with the league's investigation, we were extremely surprised at the excessive nature of the sanctions, and we don't feel they are in line with the scope of the violations we were found to have committed," said Johnston.
"We believe that apart from recruiting trips and parents' weekend, there is no prohibition in the rules governing flights for players' parents, which were the majority of the infractions," continued Johnston. "We are currently exploring our options on how we will proceed. Despite our objections, the league has made its decision, and our players will continue to pursue the goal of winning a WHL championship."


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Wisconsin Early Autism Project's Green Bay region joins us to share about a unique clinic event and what can be learned. Kerry shares details of sensory-friendly covid vaccine events that utilized assent-based practice to create a comfortable experience for children. As Kerry put it, "When it was time for the shot, that was determined by the child. We were very open and honest with the child and let them know it would only happen when they said it was ok."
BCI Holds Open House! Unveils New Services!
On August 13th, 2014 Behavioral Concepts Inc. hosted an open house to the Autism Community. During this event families and others associated with the Autism Community visited our facility, were informed of our services and were able to visit our newly finished center. With the opening of our center comes the unveiling of new services as well. These services are as follows: Center Based, After School and Weekend Social Skill Services.
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BCI is excited to announce the opening of Center Based ABA Services. Center Based Services provides Applied Behavioral Analysis(ABA) techniques and methodology to children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in a clinic-like environment. The skills taught will be delivered 1:1 by a specially trained ABA Therapist under the supervision of a BCBA.
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Social skills are those communication, problem-solving, decision making, self-management, and peer relations abilities that allow one to initiate and maintain positive social relationships with others. Deficits or excesses in social behavior interfere with learning, teaching, and adult/ peer relationships. Social competence is linked to peer acceptance, adult/ teacher acceptance, inclusion success, and post school success.
Children with autism have difficulty managing many of the life enhancing experiences enjoyed by their typically aged peers. Whether it's going to the playground, eating in a restaurant, or going to a highly stimulating children's activity center (e.g., Chuck E. Cheese) our trained staff will accompany the parent(s) to promote the generalization of skills taught in the isolation of the home. For example our staff will be with you when navigating the grocery store, getting a haircut, or visiting their physician or dentist. Our clinicians may create social stories, visuals and/ or reinforcement procedures to help your child to understand the expectations and the sequence of events that occur in each novel visit.
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Jerusalem, Why Did We Forget Thee?
In a few days we'll celebrate one of the emotional peaks in the Jewish calendar, the twice-yearly proclamation that ends the Yom Kippur fast and Passover feast: Next year in Jerusalem.
We won't mean it literally. For most it's a metaphorical prayer for a better world, expressing faith that history has direction and meaning, with heavenly Jerusalem its symbolic end-point. But it's also a literal affirmation of devotion to the earthly Jerusalem.
Speaking of the Democratic platform, let's pause to ponder the mysterious disappearance and resurrection of Jerusalem in that political document. How did it get left out? Conservatives said it reflected President Obama's supposed coolness toward Israel, coupled with declining sympathy in the Democratic base. Party spokesmen insist it was just an oversight.
Antipathy or oversight? Neither holds water. If the Democrats dislike Israel, what explains the rest of the platform? It pledges "unshakeable commitment to Israel's security" and "identity as a Jewish and democratic state," salutes America's and Israel's "shared values," vows "steadfast opposition to any attempt to delegitimize Israel on the world stage" and lots more. It's virtually identical to the GOP platform. If that's hostility, pour me a double.
On the other hand, "just an oversight"? As if. Are we supposed to believe nobody noticed the disappearance of three sentences from the 2008 platform about the world's holiest, most contested city — in a party umbilically tied to the world's largest Jewish community?
One platform committee member told me he heard two explanations from the document's drafters. First, they wanted to avoid "predetermining" issues that are supposed to be decided in peace negotiations. The 2008 platform said Jerusalem "is and will remain the capital of Israel" and "will remain an undivided city." But it also called the city "a matter for final-status negotiations." It doesn't make sense to leave it for negotiation and then dictate the outcome.
Second, it signaled "inclusiveness" toward Muslim and Arab-Americans. They totaled about 100 of the 5,551 delegates, but loomed larger as symbols of the party's message of tolerance and diversity. What about Jewish feelings? The drafters apparently figured that since the missing text hadn't made sense anyway, reasonable people wouldn't miss it.
They figured wrong. Why? It appears the drafters were neither advocates for the two sides nor experienced politicos, but policy wonks. Jewish and Arab activists saw the text only afterward. Each assumed it had been vetted. It hadn't. Once published, it was raw meat for Republicans. Democrats were then forced to restore the lost sentences in an embarrassing, dubious floor vote, infuriating their famously process-besotted base. Few dele gates objected to the amended wording. They had already approved a platform promising Israel far more. But they hated being told a 50-50 voice vote was a 2-to-1 majority. Dems hate bad arithmetic.
There are several lessons here. First, Jews still matter as a political constituency. Experts say Israel is mainly an evangelical Christian issue, that Jews are too few and divided to matter. Not so. The Christian right doesn't figure in Democratic planning, yet Democrats scramble for Jewish backing. It's simple math.
Second, Israel matters to Jewish voters. It's true that surveys show only a fraction of Jews ranking Israel their top concern. When you ask their top three concerns, though, Israel looms large.
Third, Arab and Muslim Americans are emerging as a political constituency. Until now, pro-Israel activists could press Israel's case without serious pushback. That's wearing thin. In the coming era, American Middle East policy will have to be negotiated. The Charlotte convention was a taste of what's ahead.
One more point, seldom discussed but critically important: American policy. The United States has never recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Neither have most other nations. Of 171 countries that ever had diplomatic relations with Israel, only 19 ever had embassies in Jerusalem. None do today.
The reason: Israel doesn't have a formal eastern border. The 1947 United Nations partition plan envisioned a tiny Israel and set Jerusalem aside as an international city. Arab states rejected it and invaded, forcing Israel to fight for independence. Most nations accept the 1949 armistice line as a de facto border. But most still pay lip service to the legal fiction of a separate Jerusalem, pending a peace agreement.
Congress has urged successive administrations to recognize Jerusalem and move the American embassy there, but no president has ever done so and none is likely to, regardless of campaign platforms, until Israel signs a treaty defining its eastern border.
Pro-Israel activists often ask why Israel is the only country that's not permitted to name its own capital. The answer: It's the only country that names a city that no other country recognizes as within its sovereign territory. It should be and will be, speedily and in our day. But we're not there yet.
Contact J.J. Goldberg at [email protected]


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Endeavour rose on a pillar of flame and quickly disappeared into Florida's cloudy morning skies. Two weeks earlier, an electronics glitch spoiled the previous launch attempt, but Monday's countdown was mostly trouble-free.
"Looks like a good day to launch Endeavour for a final time," launch director Mike Leinbach told the crew's commander, Mark Kelly, just before liftoff.
In response, Kelly thanked Leinbach and the rest of the launch team, and suggested that NASA's role in exploration should continue after the shuttle program's end. "It is in the DNA of our great country to reach for the stars and explore," he said. "We must not stop."
The shuttle is due to link up with the International Space Station on Wednesday. "Godspeed, Endeavour. We're ready for you," NASA astronaut Ron Garan said in a Twitter update from the International Space Station.
Endeavour's 16-day mission to the space station, known as STS-134, is notable for several reasons — including its status as the second-to-last scheduled flight for the 30-year-long space shuttle program as well as its planned delivery of a $2 billion particle-physics experiment.
But there's a big personal angle as well: Kelly's wife is U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who suffered a life-threatening head wound during a mass shooting in Tucson in January. The prospect of attending this launch served as a therapeutic goal for Giffords, who has spent much of the past four months at a Houston rehabilitation center.
Godspeed from Giffords
Giffords attended Endeavour's first launch attempt on April 29, and came back to the Cape for Monday's launch. Her staff reported that she said goodbye to her husband during a beach-house gathering on Sunday afternoon.
Giffords' chief of staff, Pia Carusone, told NBC's TODAY show that the congresswoman was "really excited" to see Kelly blast off and was "obviously happy she was able to make it."
"It's a good day for everyone here," Carusone said.
Giffords and Kelly traded their wedding rings for the mission, and all six of Endeavour's astronauts are carrying "Peace-Love-Gabby" bracelets in Giffords' honor.
The congresswoman did not appear in public or meet the press during her visit, due to her medical condition as well as the more general privacy concerns for the Endeavour crew's families. However, her staff did report her reaction to the launch.
"Good stuff, good stuff," Carusone quoted Giffords as saying.
Huge turnout ... with some no-shows
NASA expected up to 500,000 people to turn out for Monday's liftoff — which is more than the usual crowd for a shuttle launch, but less than the 750,000 that was projected two weeks ago for the initial attempt. Vehicles lined the roads surrounding the space center; however, traffic reports indicated that the Monday morning tie-up was not as bad as some had feared. Titusville Assistant Police Chief John Lau gave The Associated Press an estimate of 350,000 to 400,000 spectators.
One would-be spectator who didn't return is President Barack Obama. He and his family took a quick tour of Kennedy Space Center on April 29 but missed out on the big event. First Lady Michelle Obama said witnessing a launch in person was "a priority" — which means she has just one chance left.
Monday's smooth countdown came in contrast to last month's launch attempt, which was scrubbed due to a glitch that affected the heaters in one of the orbiter's auxiliary power units. The shuttle's three APUs provide hydraulic power for the aerodynamic flight control system, and all of them have to be in working order to proceed to launch.
Over the past two weeks, launch-pad workers traced the problem to a blown circuit in a switch box, replaced the entire box, and double-checked the electronics in the box as well as the wiring attached to the box. The problem did not reappear during Monday's countdown.
After the crew took their seats in the orbiter, the close-out crew reported minor damage to a tile area around the shuttle's crew hatch, but the ding was quickly patched.
During Endeavour's ascent to orbit, several pieces of foam were seen coming off the external fuel tank, which had been extensively repaired after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for spaceflight operations, told reporters that the flying foam did not appear to damage the orbiter. Nevertheless, Endeavour's protective skin will undergo a detailed examination on Tuesday.
Milestone mission for science and shuttle program
Endeavour's final spaceflight looms as one of the most important science missions of the 30-year space shuttle program.
The shuttle is loaded up with nearly 15 tons of supplies and equipment, highlighted by the 7.5-ton Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which will be attached to the space station's exterior during a robotic arm operation. Once it's installed, the $2 billion particle detector will almost immediately start sending down data about cosmic rays.
Physicists from 16 nations have worked for 17 years to build the AMS, and for a while it looked as if all that effort would be wasted. Fortunately, Congress and NASA worked together to get the van-sized device on this mission. Over the next decade or longer, physicists hope that findings from the AMS will shed light on the mysteries surrounding the nature of dark matter, and the balance of matter and antimatter in the universe.
Endeavour's payload also includes a platform loaded with spare parts for the station, as well as communication equipment and a wide range of scientific experiments.
Shuttle program's last spacewalks
Four spacewalks are to be conducted during the shuttle's visit, marking the last scheduled outings by shuttle astronauts at the space station. The spacewalkers are to install equipment, do electrical work and conduct maintenance on the station's cooling system and robotic arm.
In addition to Kelly, the all-male, all-veteran crew includes pilot Greg Johnson, spacewalkers Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff, and Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori.
This mission will feature the first-ever departure of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft while a shuttle is docked to the International Space Station. NASA's Cady Coleman, Russia's Dmitri Kondratyev and Italy's Paolo Nespoli are due to leave the station and head back down to Earth on May 23.
Mission planners shuffled the schedules of the station and shuttle astronauts to accommodate the trio's departure. As a result, the two crews will be working separate shifts.
After Endeavour's return to Earth, the shuttle will be prepared as a museum piece for the California Science Center in Los Angeles. NASA has scheduled only one more shuttle flight to the station, to be taken on by Atlantis no earlier than mid-July.
When the shuttles retire, NASA will have to depend on Russian, European and Japanese transports to get supplies to the space station — at least until next year, when U.S. commercial cargo flights are due to begin. NASA hopes that commercial crew transports will become available starting in the middle of this decade.
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